Merry Christmas!

{Monroe helped lead the Christmas Eve Service}

{Why sit in separate chairs when you can all pile onto one?}

Advent: A Season of Waiting

While it can be hard to wait for Christmas, advent was full of so many fun activities. In addition to cookie decorating and puzzles, there were Christmas books, dance parties, Christmas word searches and mad libs, drives to look at lights, Christmas art, and giant gingerbread houses at the Sheraton to name a few...all of which made the waiting a little easier.

Santa!!

Piano Recital

Another December, another piano recital. Parker is sadly no longer taking piano lessons, so it was just the younger two who participated on a very wet Sunday. Monroe played Play with Fire by Nico Santos and Conway played Sonata in C Major by Mozart. Check them out as they tickle the ivories!

P.S. Piano Recital 2024 

Trinity Tree Farm

P.S. Goin' on a Tree Hunt 2024

Happy Thanksgiving

The day of thanks involved some of the crew doing the Run for the Hungry 5k, lots of playing basketball and watching football, kids putting themselves in the dog crate, delicious food, and wonderful time with family. Happy Thanksgiving!

P.S. A Totten Family Thanksgiving 2024, A Jackson-Dean Family Thanksgiving 2025

Fun At Grandma Dianna & Grandpa Terry's House

  Grandpa Terry got a new riding lawn mower, which was a big hit!

School Pictures

{Parker - Grade 9}

{Conway - Grade 6}

{Monroe - Grade 4}

P.S. School Pictures 2024

Ballard Protege Basketball

Conway has been playing basketball with Ballard Protege this fall and here's the scrappy sixth grade team at a recent game. 

Happy Halloween!

No pics of the three boys together this year unfortunately, as they all went off trick-or-treating with their own friends. Conway was a guy with a light-up mask that matched his friends (Conway is the one with the red and blue x's for eyes), Monroe was a scarecrow with a scary jack-o-lantern head, and Parker was a Chicago Bears football player. It was a wet night, but that didn't slow the kids down. They were still determined to collect their weight in candy - mission accomplished!  

P.S. Happy Halloween 2024 

Lincoln High School Golf

Parker was very excited to make the Lincoln High School golf team!

{LHS Golf Team Freshmen}

A Trip to the Pumpkin Patch

I thought we had maybe aged out of trips to the pumpkin patch, but the boys asked if we could go this year...so we did! We went back to Novelty Hill Farms (not to be confused with the winery) and had fun picking out pumpkins, running through the corn maze, climbing on farm equipment, and drinking hot chocolate.

P.S. Novelty Hill Farm for Pumpkins 2023

A Family Golf Outing

For our anniversary this year, David gave me my own set of golf clubs, and this was their first appearance on the course. The five of us golfed together for about six holes before we called it a day. It was a good first run for me and hopefully I can figure out how to properly swing the clubs at some point. Drinks on the patio afterwards were pretty nice too. 

A Little Nap in the Sun

First Day of School

First day of fourth, sixth, and ninth grade! Parker started high school, Conway started middle school, and Monroe feels like the big man on campus at Coe as the only Totten left there. And even though they were off to three different schools, they still got to have first day of school ice cream together after returning home.

P.S. First Day of School 2024

Lost Lake for Labor Day

P.S. Lost Lake for Labor Day 2024