Mr. and Mrs. Nick Laritz - The Reception

The reception was an absolute blast! We danced a lot, drank a lot, and had our pictures taken in the photo booth, A LOT! Yes, we not only had a martini bar offered to us at this party, but a photobooth! It was one of the best ideas for a reception! Congratulations to you both, Molly and Nick!

Macee Louise ready to celebrate...and eat probably!
Our wonderful parents/in-laws, Gary and Gloria.

Macee and Mommy, Rachel and Rylee dancing.

(looks like we were the only ones too...)

Our sweet girls, so pretty!

Marty and I

Rylee knows how to dance! She ROCKED the dance floor!

Nick and Marty - Groom and Best Man)

Mommy dancing with one of her princesses!

Macee's New Trick

Macee doesn't let anything stand in the way of something that she wants. She really needed some hand sanitizer I guess...climbed up and onto the toilet to get some.

(Don't we LOVE her cow print outfit?)

Our Laritz Thanksgiving

We were up in Michigan for Thanksgiving this year. Marty's brother, Nick, got married that Friday (blog to come soon). We had a low key Thanksgiving dinner at Marty's parents and rested up for the next day's big event. Gloria fixed a wonderful Thanksgiving meal, probably the first one she's cooked in years...usually her sister, Nancy, does the cooking ;).

Ry eating some yummy food!
Macee, shoveling the food in! She really did feast!

TLC Tree of Thanks

Each child at Rylee's preschool were sent home with different colored leaves. They were to write on the leaves what they were thankful for and the leaves were then added to this tree...a Tree of Thanks. Rylee had two leaves, each of which she wrote that she was thankful for her teachers on. We're thankful for her teachers also, they have been absolutely wonderful with Rylee!

A Thanksgiving Feast

The Tuesday before Thanksgiving was Rylee's preschool Thanksgiving feast! I was lucky to be able to go in and help with their party. (I usually wouldn't volunteer to help only because I dare not try to do something like that while trying to control Macee, this particular day Marty was at home though.) The kids had a vast Thanksgiving spread, sang songs about turkeys, pinned the gobbler on the turkey, and cut out different things to put into cornucopias (sp?).

The table set for a feast.

The placemats were laminated pictures the kids had painted and each helped in making their own choice of head piece (except Ry, she missed out because of the ear infection, but her friend, Mackenzie, helped to make Rylee's).
Rylee's class having their Thanksgiving feast!

Ry, a pilgrim, with Roxie and Ruby, two indians!

(Roxie and Ruby are twins and they were both dressed head to toe as indians!)

Miss Barb helping Rylee to pin the gobbler on the turkey!

Ry cutting out a pumpkin to put in her cornucopia.

Cutting out her cornucopia. She then pasted her veggies onto it.

Lying in Church

I volunteer in the nursery at our church every other Sunday. Usually when it's my 'nursery weekend' we all got to church on Saturday evening and Ry goes back with me on Sunday...she enjoys church so much. Yesterday was my Sunday in the nursery so Rylee and I went to church and then afterwards headed to Wal-Mart to pick up a few things for our trip to Michigan this week. At Wal-Mart they have posted their holiday picture greeting cards that you can have made at the check-outs. Yesterday as we were checking out Ry points to the card posted in front of her (it was of 2 boys) and says, "I told my teacher at church I have two brothers." My mouth seriously dropped in surprise. I asked her if she really said that, for verification, and she said yes! I told her that it wasn't very nice to tell her teacher at church that and that next time she saw her she needed to tell her she only has a sister. Of course, it was funny...I couldn't and still can't help but laugh about it. I Rylee that if she wants to see what it's like to have brothers I can send her to Mississippi to stay with the Ransier boys for while....

Grey Day

Rylee stayed home from preschool on Thursday because she had been running a temp. and complaining of her ears hurting. (Both her and Macee have double ear infections and are on antibiotics.) Unfortunately, she missed out on 'Grey Day' at school. So, we had our own 'Grey Day' at home. Ry mixed black and white paint to make grey and painted a picture for both Mommy and Daddy.

Mixing black and white together to make grey.
SEE! Grey!

Painting a picture with her grey paint!

The next day...painting with grey paint in her grey outfit :)