November 2025

 We love spending time together, so when November brought chilliness we just snuggled more :)

When we had to leave our warm cuddlely couch, we did some fun things too.

We all went to our first professional hockey game with some of my coworkers. Thanks to an inside connection we got really good parking too ;)

Our biggest adventure of the month (and maybe most spontaneous of the year) was flying out to detroit on a Saturday morning to bring home a new work truck for Justin :)

We made the most of our roadtrip with some fun stops of the drive home. 

We found a great brewery in Toledo

We then kept going until we reached the US's largest candy store in Cincinnati 

We also went to the Cincinnati Zoo to see their Christmas lights and saw a few animals too :)

After spending the night we drove home with a quick stop at the Fiestaware factory and one of our favorite breweries outside of Pittsburgh. 

We weren't done with surprises for the month though...we have been trying to find a good time to foster kittens again and decided now was good :) We brought home 5 cute little kittens to love over the holidays until they find their forever homes (spoiler, Rose is hoping that a couple of them call this their forever home!).

Thanksgiving was a nice quiet day with a yummy meal, these fun shirts :) AND

while most people saw the other movie, I was really excited at Zootopia 2 and my family humored me, by taking me to see it (but I think everyone enjoyed it!)

We spent the rest of the weekend getting ready for Christmas. 

We decorated, someone was not so helpful...

October 2025

 

I wait all year for October...and this October was worth the wait :)

We started the month off strong with family photos :)

Look at my beautiful girl and cute hubby!

Rose also participated in cheer this fall for the first time. 

She got to ride in the parade

And perform on the football field

Rose also joined the high school marching band for a football game

And this year the parents brought blankets and hot coffee :)

Justin took a guys road trip to Tennesse for his brother's move

So Rose and I had a girls weekend!

The next weekend we planned a family day trip out to the Pittsburgh area and visited some of our favorite spots from our August vacation.

We started with a fun brewery we found for the first time during our vacation

Found a new to us rail trail

And visited our other favorite brewery!

Mom had a birthday! And the family came through with a wonderful celebration :)

We also took a camping trip to Greenwood Furnace State Park to mark off another state park.

We took some pumpkins to carve 

with power tools

and they turned out amazing!!

Look how cute our little camper is all lit up :)

And we set a new family record for longest bike ride!

We spent the last weekend with a trip to Hershey Park for some fun

Including Troegs for the parents!

And we carved a few more pumpkins...because why not ;)

We had planned to finish off the month by having pizza with some cousins and passing out candy, but Justin and Rose were in a minor traffic accident and they are both ok, but had to rest for the weekend. So we watched Halloween movies, built legos, and played games at home instead :)