Tacky Sweater Christmas Party

Saturday Dec 10th, we went over to Allison and Patrick's for a Tacky Christmas Sweater Party with everybody from Lance's class and then some! We had a great time and Ansley had a blast!!!

Ansley in her 'tacky' Christmas sweater

some of the boys

Me, Allison, Ansley, Parker, and Emily

Ansley being silly

Emily and Chad

They are our new neighbors in the duplexes and they are from the SOUTH, Mississippi to be exact!

LOVE this picture....Ansley looks too cute, but we look like dorks! :)

Duluth Ski Trip

We spent Dec. 2-4 weekend in Duluth, MN. It was our second trip to Duluth, but this time there was snow! One of the guys Lance works with had a bunch of free hotel rooms so a lot of the boys from Lance's work went, I think around 15-20 people total. Saturday morning we got up and went to Spirit Mountain (http://www.spiritmt.com/) to ski and snowboard. I was a little skeptical cause MN isn't known to have 'mountains', but Duluth actually has some or one! :) There was one 'blue' run open and it was a beautiful view from the top!

Spirit Mountain

The view that overlooks Lake Superior

Lance and AJ boarding

Some of the group

Cole, Patrick and Lance

Allison and me

Me and Lance had thought about letting Ansley ski, but since Lance was snowboarding, I would have been the one that she would ski with and since I'm not that good, we decided to just take turns. So while one of us was skiing or boarding, the other was in the lodge hanging out. It actually worked out cause Allison and Patrick went with Parker, so they were in the same boat. We all kinda took turns watching the kids so we could all ski and board.

Bri, Ansley, Me and Parker

Allison, Parker, Ansley, and Kimmy

Some of the group

After a fun filled day of skiing we went back to the hotel, took a nap, got ready to go eat dinner and check out Bentleyville. Bentleyville (http://bentleyvilleusa.org/Home.aspx) is nearly 3 million lights illuminating Bayfront Festival Park located on the shores of Lake Superior. It is the largest holiday light show in the Midwest and has the tallest steel animated Christmas tree in the U.S.

After Bentleyville, we meet up with the rest of the group to eat dinner and have a 'white elephant' gift exchange. We ate at Old Chicago, a delicious pizza place! Lance ended up getting a nice knife/leatherman.

Ansley and Parker had a great time at dinner!

Thanksgiving in TN

We got to spend Thanksgiving back home in TN! We had a great time with all our family and love that we got to spend it with them!

Ans did great on the plane to TN (the way back to MN was not as fun)

she loves playing with the buckles

Unfortunately while were home, Ans got a bad ear infection.

sick baby

As soon as she started feeling a little better we went with the rest of the Freeman's to see the lights at Shadrack's in the Smokies Stadium. Ansley rode with Mimi, PJoe, Hannah, Leah, and Chloe while me and Lance rode with Travis and April.

They had a petting zoo and of course Ans had to check out the llamas!

She LOVES 'Llama Llama Red Pajamas'

Hannah, Ans, and Lance feeding the goats

Chloe, Leah, and Hannah riding the camel....Ans didn't wanna ride

Ansley and Lance going down the slide!

Sweet cousins!! They LOVED riding the train together!

Leah jumping and doing flips

Hannah jumping and doing flips!

Ansley cried because I wouldn't let her on the 'jumpy thingy'

While we were home we also got to help decorate Nana's Christmas tree!

We also stopped by to see Harley! (and Granny and Papa Chapman) :)

Giving Harley kisses...i think somebody misses him!

We had a great trip home for Thanksgiving even though Ansley got sick and we had to stay a couple extra days. :)

We CANNOT wait to go back and be home for CHRISTMAS!!!