Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas from our family to yours!

Congratulations Brandi!

Congratulations to Brandi for finishing her Masters Degree (M.A.) in Industrial/Organizational Psychology this past semester!!

She completed course work for the degree back in 2006 and unfortunately wasn't able to get the internship she had done during that time approved in order to write her final paper. Since so many other students ran into this problem they developed a Capstone class in order to finish the internship requirement first for those still not finished and now the class will be offered regularly for those students in the program that don't have internship opportunities.

Brandi's internship this time around had her working on the Competency Model for the Elmhurst College I/O Program.

Huge accomplishment for her, we are so proud of her!

Fall Fun

We raked our massive amounts of leafs a couple of weekends ago and the kids had fun playing in them of course!

Happy Turkey Day!

We hope you all had a wonderful, yummy Thanksgiving! We hosted our first Thanksgiving dinner at our house, everything turned out great, and it was probably the best turkey I have ever had! Hats off to Matt who did most of the dinner prep and cooking while I was busy working. He also gets all the credit for the outstanding turkey we had!

Happy Halloween!

Hope you had a spooky fun Halloween!


Batman

And the garden gnome who wouldn't wear her cute hat...

Happy Birthday Matt

Happy birthday to the best husband and father around! Enjoy your last year in your 20's, hope it's your best year yet! Love you Brandi Logan & Ava

Check-Up Time!

The kids had their check-ups last week at the doctor. They are both doing great, and growing like weeds!

The Stats:

Logan
47 lbs and 44 inches
Doing perfect developmentally and for the first time in his life we had no issues arise out of the check up! (last year it was possible lazy eye and every visit before that something was going on we had to follow up with)

Ava
35 lbs and 36 inches
Ava's estimated adult height is 5'9'' but we shall see, Brandi was always tall for her age until about 5th grade so she might slow down still.
Developmentally she is right on track or above where she should be for her age, but we knew that she is a smarty pants!

They go back in a year, although I am sure we won't make it through the year without a visit or two to our favorite pediatrician!

And I think we may have a future doctor on our hands!

Family Pictures!

A couple weekends ago we headed out with our favorite photographer and took new family pictures (out last professional one Ava was only 6 months old!) and got some shots of the kids to use as their birthday pictures. It was a beautiful fall day and as always our friend took some beautiful pictures for us. Here are some of our favorites!