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| Entrance to Chinatown |
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| Visit to the K-Pop store |
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| Field Museum |
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| Sue, the T-Rex |
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| Cool fossils |
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| Lou Malnati's deep dish pizza |
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| Watching the Packers in our rental |
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| Beluga whales were a favorite |
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| Fireworks at Navy Pier |
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| No, we did not go on the ferris wheel |
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| She was brave and went on the ledge for a family pic |
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| Skydeck |
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| Family road trip |
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| Hamilton! |
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| Christmas Day |
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| Spoons with the grandparents |
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| Christmas with the grandparents |
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| Enoc and Lexi |
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| After her choir concert |
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| All of the WO choirs combined |
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| Anibal at 20 years old |
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| Snow day activity |
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| Indianapolis |
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| Band concert |
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| Isaac's soccer tournament weekend |
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| Caleb made profession of faith |
-Caleb made profession of faith and it was so moving to hear him talk about his relationship with Jesus and his faith journey.
-Isaac's USA travel team did a soccer tournament in Indianapolis. The first game they played outside and it was so frigid. The second game was indoors and the last game was outdoors, but the weather was warmer by that day. Nate and Isaac went down with two other boys and their Dads. They had some down time to explore Indianapolis and hang out.
-We had two snow days in December, yes!
-Lexi finished her volleyball season and Stephen finished his indoor soccer season. Unfortunately it's hard to get a good picture of indoor soccer.
-Caleb finished his semester and came home for break.
-Our former sponsored child, Anibal, found me on Facebook. He is 20 and Caleb and I visited him in Mexico ten years ago. We have enjoyed catching up with him.
-We had school dress up days the week before Christmas and we had different dress up calendars in our house. Every morning I would run thru with Stephen, Lexi and myself what we each had to wear that day.
-Julia had her WO Christmas choir concert
-Lexi had her last Sunday School Christmas program
-Lexi's class did a presentation about what they learned in their macroinvertebrates research
-We opened gifts with my parents on Christmas Eve. We had some rousing games of Majority Rules and Spoons.
-On Christmas Day we went to church and opened presents afterwards. Some of the highlights were Hamilton tickets for Julia, Stephen and Lexi. Nate, the boys and my Dad are going to the Detroit auto show in January. Our main gift to the kids was a trip to Chicago.
-We rented a house for 2 nights and did all the touristy things. We got the Citypass for 3 locations. We did the Willis Tower Skydeck, Shedd Aquarium and the Field Museum. We visited Navy Pier at night, shopped at Water Tower Place, had Chicago style pizza, and visited Chinatown. It was a really nice family vacation.
-For New Year's Eve we are having the Petersons over and a bunch of Caleb's friends are coming as well.
