Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas from the Fanco kids!!

Decorated Christmas Tree

A Few Random Pictures

Chessie has decided she wants to feed herself now. Behold, the results...


Teddy at his first hockey game. Jeff and Teddy went to see a Grand Rapids Griffins game, and Teddy even caught a shirt from the Griffin Canon in between periods!


KISSES!

Finally standing up on her own.

"patting" the dog. Chessie is learning to be gentle (not quite there yet though...). Banjo puts up with a lot from her though!

Anna ready to go get her tree!

The hayride out to the field to cut down the tree. It was 23 degrees!

Teddy picking a tree he liked...

Chessie and Meg found a tree they liked too!

We had a great time (albeit a little cold), going on our annual family trip to the Red Flannel Tree Farm in Cedar Springs. We chose a nice Balsam Fir and cut it down for our family room :-). We got home right before the snow hit and the kids are looking forward to putting it up and getting lights on it!

More Pictures

So, it has been brought to my attention that I've been a little remiss in posting pictures lately, so here are a bunch from our summer. Enjoy!

Meg's first day of 5th grade!

Sisters (and yes, they're wearing matching outfits- I LOVE doing that!). Anna is intent on teaching Chessie to walk.

Anna with one of her "head scarves" on. We have her wear them to help remind her not to pull her hair (and hide the areas where she has)

A happy, chubby Chessie ready to go swimming in Petosky.

Chessie enjoying the view from up high :-)

Jeff and I celebrating the 5 year anniversary of the night we went out to dinner at La Senioritas in Petosky before we went to the beach and he proposed. We went back to the same restaurant :-)


A tradition when we go Up North- golfing at Pirates Cove.


Anna and Daddy snuggling by the campfire.


A chubby in the tubby :-)


Jeff and I celebrating our 5 year anniversary with a (kid free!) trip to Williamsburg, VA.

Sitting pretty.


Chessie still sleeps with that stuffed lamb on her head (and thinks it's hysterical!)


A trip to the locks at Sault St. Marie in the Upper Peninsula.


A cool action shot at the water balloon toss while camping.


A return to the spot where Jeff proposed exactly 5 years earlier. Oh the changes since then!! (like, the addition of 3 kids!)

Time for some new pictures

Our happy crawler :-)

Chessie's first trip on a plane. I'm not quite sure what's up with that facial expression though. I apparently caught her by surprise :-P


This year's softball team. Jeff was sick the day the picture was taken, so he's missing

Anna enjoying the indoor pool at Ponchos' Pond in Ludington where we went camping with our small group this summer.

I love this picture! Jeff took it of the kids after they climbed to the top of Sleeping Bear Dunes up in Manistee.

A few pictures

Sorry that I haven't updated with pictures in awhile, but our camera broke and I still need to get all the old pictures off of that card. In the meantime, here are a few off our really old camera that I used in between the other one breaking and us getting a new one...


Chessie Boo- Boo (as she has come to be known around here)

Anna STILL sucking her thumb

Our annual couples canoe trip on the Little Muskegon River

Teddy took this picture of Margaret- flattering, isn't it?...

Some Pictures

My friend Amy's dad is a retired photographer and did a photo session for us at a local park this past weekend. My parents joined us, so we were able to get some pictures for them too (in front of a covered bridge- b/c my mom really like them!).

My parents- Beth & Bill

The kids were sleeping in the car while we took this one- so those smiles are REAL! :-)

A very happy family! We should do this every year :-)