The Meatball Party and Papa Grape's 85th Bday

December isn't complete without the annual "Meatball Party". We also celebrated Grandpa's 85th birthday. Dylan calls him "Papa Grape" (for Gpa Great). He was really into helping him blow out his candles and trying to get his hands into that frosting. Yum!


These tongs and garnish kept Dylan busy for quite awhile. Hey...whatever keeps him out of trouble and doesn't make a mess right!? :)

We always do a white elephant exchange. Jeff brought a live lobster for his. He was a pricey guy, but it was worth the laughs! We came home with that lovely manikin head that Jeff is holding and a elephant stuffed animal. We will add that stuffed animal to the collection that we have that Dylan refuses to touch. He hates stuffed animals! Hopefully Lucy girl likes them.


Great crowd, food, games, and laughs. Then unfortunately within 2 days of the party at least 10 people had the stomach flu....which then spread like wildfire through our family. That was not at all fun!

Annual Thanksgiving Point Trolley

I didn't do a great job of taking pictures at this event, but it was a good time as usual. Dylan was really into it this year. It was so fun to watch him. He just wanted to sit next to Grandpa and look out the one window. We tried to get him to look to the other side of the trolley, but he was happy right where he was! He thought the reindeer were pretty awesome as well, but he wouldn't really stand still long enough for a good picture with them (shocker!)

He didn't smile for any of the pictures, but don't let this fool you...He loved the lights!



Thanks Gma and Gpa Cutler!

Snoozing with Santa

Tree Decorating

I love putting up Christmas! Dylan had a good time checking out all of the ornaments, and did fairly well leaving the tree alone most of the month. He did golf a few glass balls that I'm still finding little pieces of in the carpet. Little stinker.

1st time Bowling

Dylan had been talking about bowling for awhile. He loves the Curious George episode about bowling and had been talking a lot about "gutter balls". So The beginning of December we headed to Jack and Jills and this little man was in heaven! Getting all ready. After about 2 frames I pulled a muscle in my belly...I realized that bowling while pregnant was probably not the greatest idea. Amy's little guy Sawyer only lasted a few frames as well, so Dylan got to bowl 3 frames in a row each time. He loved every second of it.



Drying his hands...he is taking this bowling experience seriously ;) I couldn't get enough of how stinkin cute he was in these shoes.
He did a crazy dance after each time he knocked over pins, but of course I can't get the video to load. Love him!

Belly Shot

This was me about a week ago at 23 weeks. Enormous...I know! It is hard to believe that my belly was smaller than this when I delivered Dylan. I'm actually getting to wear maternity clothes this time!