putting up the christmas tree and making hot chocolate

Singing Turkey

Even the turkey was in Thanksgiving spirit and broke out in song.... Happy Thanksgiving from the Shively's and turkey.

Sisters are the best!

Early Thanksgiving Dinner

Sherri and Brooke, Chelsea, Luke and Annika drove down from Iowa, Sonsee and Peyton also drove down from Iowa for the weekend for out early Thanksgiving. We also had our friends Gaia and Kevin and there 3 kids come over for Thanksgiving dinner. We had soooooo much fun, I have missed so much being close to family, so to have Sherri and family and Sonsee and Peyton come for the weekend just filled the void. Mom was going to come, but she got sick (the night before :-( ) that was sad. But we set a plate for her anyway and she was there in spirit. We love you Mom and missed you !

pumkin patch

we went to the pumkin patch, and had so much fun picking out our pumkins, taking hay rides, playing, and looking at animals.

Tynon so so cute

We went to a farm in Overland Park, KS it was so fun, we went with a playgroup from my church. This farm is so awsome, it is free, I don't know how they can afford to do it. It is huge, and so much to do, I can't wait to go again, with the whole family.


Tynon, loved the animals, he wasn't afraid at all.













This is our friend Gaia and her daugter Kate. I am so grateful to Gaia for befriending me, it is so nice
to have a friend in this new place.

Hello to you all

I just want to start by saying I am so sorry that I am not good at writing, the smallest task is hard with my little Ty, he is a handful. But I want to start blogging so that it will be easy access to our family updates. love you all.

family photo's

Hello all, here is my wonderful family. Yes we FINALLY got our pictures taken. I email alot of you, but I don't seem to have alot of email addresses. So here they are.