Happy Birthday Diana!

Diana,

Best wishes for a fun and memorable birthday.  The coming year will certainly be memorable for you!

Love,

Connie and Charlie

Birthday pictures

Hey guys!  Thanks to all of you who sent cards and gifts, e-mails and phone calls for Marina's birthday today!  She had a great day!  She loved her horseback riding lesson and of course couldn't wait to dive into the gifts and cake! 

We can't wait to see many of you in a few weeks!  Vicki...enjoy your trip to Germany!  Please tell your family "hi" from us!

Love,
MKMAX

Announcing

Our newest member to the family:
Luke Forest Zarob  10lbs 1oz
proud parents Ang and Tom
proud grandparents Jeff and Cindy

Talked to Jeff this afternoon They were on the way to the hospital
They were so excited. He said they will send pictures soon

Deb

Happy Birthday Marina!!

Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you........


Enjoy your birthday, Big Girl, and especially your visit to the horse farm. We can't wait to hear about all the fun you have celebrating your 7th birthday. Wish we could be there to enjoy it with you, but we will have to wait until you visit us before Christmas and have a big party then.

We love you!!

Grandma and Grandpa

Proud

She's beautiful, she's talented and she did a GREAT job at her recital today!  Oh, and she makes us proud!  :O) 

Love,
Kristen

My Black Friday

I had decided that I wanted to have the experience of shopping on Black Friday at 5:00am with all of the other ‘bargain shoppers’ out there, so off I went. I was going to start at Target, but it was obvious that I wasn’t even going to be physically able to get to Target, so I crossed that one off my list. Next on my list was the local mall. There I got a parking spot right next to the door, picked out some items, and checked out quickly. It was 5:30am by now so I stopped for breakfast, and amused myself by listening to the stories about the brawls that broke out across the street at Walmart. I was feeling pretty confident by now so I decided to attempt a stop at Kohl’s. Found some things I absolutely had to have, so I stood in the check-out line for 35 minutes. All in all a good day, and by 7:30am I was home and ready to start the rest of my day.

We spent the rest of the day decorating the house and getting it ready to welcome some of you in a few weeks. Today we attended the Mannheim Steamroller concert and the two activities have put us in the Christmas spirit.

While we were in Iowa we helped Stephanie and Caitlin decorate their Christmas tree. Caitlin did a great job of distributing the ornaments evenly around the tree. She is just a little short to reach the top. We’ll be able to gauge her height each year by how far up she can decorate the tree.

Enjoy the Holiday Season.
Love to All,
Connie

Black Friday In Belmond

Happy Black Friday all!!!  We hope everyone had a safe day as they navigated their way to the stores.  I know we had the least amount of population and traffic to navigate of those who chose to shop today and we took full advantage of the situation.  We managed to work our way through Best Buy, Kohl's, Target, and even the Goodnature Store before returning home this afternoon.  Then we made our way to Belmond for the annual Thanksgiving Parade and opening of the Santa House.  We used our heads this year and procured a prime spot on the parade route right in front of the Santa House.  So, this year we only waited about 10 min for our turn in the house as opposed to over an hour last year. :)

We hope everyone is having a great weekend and we'll see everyone in 3 weeks!!  :O

Here are some pictures of our snuggle bun warming up to her favorite man in Red.

Happy Black Friday and we'll see you soon!!

Love, Bryan Stephanie and Caitlin!