December

We kicked off the Christmas season with our traditional sushi dinner at Blue Sushi followed by looking at the downtown Naperville light displays.

We drove around Naperville to see the light displays at our favorite houses. Made a stop at McDonalds for fries and milkshakes as usual, too.

Christmas Eve was church and dinner at our usual go to Little Italian! We also had to leave out milk and cookies for Santa! (Can you tell we like traditions) :)

Christmas morning was a lot of fun and both girls were happy with their gifts! :)

 We spent that afternoon and evening at Nate's Aunt Nancy's house! Lots of good food and family fun was had by all!

The next day we headed to my parents house for our Christmas celebration with my sister's family!

The next day we got to celebrate my dad's retirement with a fun lunch at Pilot Petes!

We kicked off our final Christmas celebration with go-karts and time with Nate's parents!

November

 November was a pretty quiet month for us, and I'm okay with that!

Jade wrapped up her fall soccer season with a tournament in St. Louis! While they didn't come away with the win, it was a great bonding weekend for the team!

They also had a fun serving event together at Feed My Starving Children.

Due to Thanksgiving being a little bit later this year, we put up our tree the weekend before! We had our traditional feast of snacks! As the girls have gotten older, the process seems to go much quicker!

We celebrated Thanksgiving in Crystal Lake at my parents house! It was so fun to have my Aunt Jill and Uncle Jim there from Minnesota in addition to my Grandma (GeeGee) and my Aunt Mar (my mom's sister). My mom, Aunt Mar, Jade and I had a fun time black Friday shopping the next morning!

We wrapped up the month seeing Moana 2 as a family!