RIP Grandpa Dean / Road Trip

Well My Grandfather passed away after a Long battle with cancer and a year in Hospice on November 30th.  I Love you grandpa and will forever remember you and you will always be in my heart. 

On that note me and Emalee picked up and traveled to Independence Missouri!  It was Emalee's first real long car ride/road trip.  She got to meet a ton of great family and had a lot of attention!  Of course how can you not pay a bunch of attention to this adorable little girl! 

Happy Car ride

Sleepy/ not so happy car ride :-)

I thought Uncle John was gonna steel her away!

Cool Baby!

First Chicken Bone

Hanging with the guys

My dad, Uncle Donnie, and Uncle Rob

Nothing but cute cute smiles for mommy!

First Christmas tree hunt!

The Friday following Thanksgiving we went up to Laramie and headed out with the Bade's, Hannerhans, and Gasson's to get a Christmas tree in Fox park.  Baby girl loved riding around on mom and dad while we trucked through snow looking for our perfect Christmas tree.  We found one that turned out perfect in our little house!  I am so excited for when Emalee gets bigger and she can run around in the snow with the other kids and dogs :-) Also while we were up there we got to see a mama moose and two babies!  I truly do love Wyoming and our amazing wildlife :-)

Thanksgiving 2012

We spent Thanksgiving at my parents home this year!  It was amazing!  Thanksgiving eve we ate a ton of seafood and played fun games until hours in the night :-) We had a lot of fun with the Bade's.  Thanksgiving day we sat around and ate lots of food :-) It was Emalee's first Thanksgiving.  We look forward to many more to come.  I am very Thankful for our wonderful families that mean so much to us, and Thankful for my beautiful family, and Thankful for my healthy amazing little girl :-)