The Kepplinger Family: November!

November, you were busy, but FUN!

Gran and Gramps stayed the night after Halloween, so we went to Metro Diner for breakfast the next morning! Maddie had NO fun with her Gigi :)

I met up with a sweet, special lady, Miss Vick one afternoon. We just stood in Marshalls for hours and chatted away! LOVE her!

Room tree decorating! We decorated the kid's trees earlier than usual this year since we were going to be in Disney for a week! No one was upset about setting up their Christmas tree early!

actually laughing and having fun together!

those precious little hands decorating her darling little tree in her Halloween pjs, Elsa dress, and Mickey ears! LOVE HER TO PIECES!!

Reagan got a NEW tree this year! It's a beaut! Girlfriend has so many ornaments she needed a bigger tree :)

SO this boy got Reagan's other tree and it's a big guy too!

Daddy picked Maddie up from school and took her to lunch! Lucky girl :)

We escaped for a little date and saw an AWFUL play! I couldn't keep my eyes open...ha!

sweet love at school was feeling a little sad, missing mommy, so she got to hold her special picture that made her feel better :)

Donut time!!

Loving on her moose...you'll see several more of these pictures! She LOVED that thing!

just a couple cutie girls enjoying a beautiful day!

HERE WE GO!!! Disney or BUST! We left on Saturday, November 10th and came home Saturday, November 17th. On Friday the 16th when I picked Maddie up from school I could tell she was getting a cold. I was freaking out about her flying...I even looked up how long it would take us to drive! Thankfully she did great and between some ibuprofen and Benadryl she fell right asleep on the plane!

Day 1: Magic Kingdom or bust!

you'll notice a lot of "divide and conquering"...big kids wanted to do big kid things and Maddie did Maddie things :)

MICKEY!!

It was all decorated for Christmas and SO SO cute!

Our favorite dinner...GERMANY in Epcot. We had SO much fun!! The kids LOVE that there is not one thing at that restaurant that has peanuts, so they can help themselves to ANYTHING!

Day 2: Hollywood Studios!

Tower of Terror line waiting for an hour, then it was our turn to get in the elevator and Reagan decided she didn't want to do it. THANKFULLY I was able to convince her, but she did NOT love it!

Animal Kingdom for dinner

at Rainforest Café!

matching family pjs

Day 3: Magic Kingdom

you should see how many outtakes there are for this picture...it's hilarious! To try to get a little family selfie on It's a Small World and I have 100 of them :)

some one of one time with my little man

relaxing on People Mover

Maddie did her first roller coaster, yay!!!

Luau for dinner, fun but gross!

Day 4: Epcot

Maddie would NOT talk to Anna or Elsa, her favorite girls!

but had NO problem loving on these guys!

back to Magic Kingdom for dinner at Liberty Tree, one of our favorites!

the castle looked amazing

Day 5: Animal Kingdom

and a trip to Bibbity Bobbity Boo salon for this girl!

Day 6: Hollywood Studios

We got there early and got to ride on Slinky Dog, all of us. Holy is it FAST, Maddie did NOT love it so much, but bless her she was a trooper!

Back at Magic Kingdom to wrap up the trip!

There is nothing like Disney, we had a BLAST! Maddie was sick the whole time, bless her, but she was such a trooper. Thankful for her inhalers and a daddy that took her back, most days, for a nap!

home again, home again

back at the moose!

Thanksgiving Eve tradition of doing gingerbread houses with Gigi and Mop (or as Maddie called them Gigi houses)

reading some books with Gigi

Keith and Heinz ran a 5K on Thanksgiving morning, the Middletown race was cancelled because it was about 10* that morning, so they drove about 30 minutes away to do another race. CRAZY!

making her signature dessert

Thankful for this sweet boy!

Thankful for these 3 nuggets!

Gran on gravy patrol

Reagan worked so hard on turkeys and a note for everyone, it was very sweet

trivia time!

walkin' in Nana's red boots

phew...running a 5K and cooking a turkey is exhausting!

Happy Black Friday! We went shopping at 6am, just to Kohls, again. So fun with my big girl!

After shopping we came home and then went out to breakfast with everyone. Right after breakfast we decided to go get our tree, it was a COLD day, but we found a BEAUT!

I present you with the 2018 Kepplinger family Christmas tree

ran into the big guy :)

That afternoon we got all decorated for Christmas!

The big kids and I went to see the Grinch one day that weekend, it was so cute!

celebrating Opa's birthday a few days early with his requested dinner...little did he know we'd be seeing him a week later in Rochester for his surprise party