We had a great Halloween, the weather was so nice! We took Cooper around to a couple of our neighbors houses and then he spent the night with Grandma and Grandpa Peterson so Rob and I could go out and have some Halloween fun.
At the beginning of November the Boie's, Peterson's and Duran's went up north to visit my grandma. It was so great to see her again! I hope we can make it up again soon. Cooper had his first bloody injury by hitting his mouth on the bedside table at the hotel. Needless to say all of us were pretty freaked out.
We spent Thanksgiving with my parents this year, it was fun to watch Cooper and Kaylin play. Friday Cooper and I spent a portion of the day at Rob's parents house since all of Donna's family was in town. After Rob got off work we went back to the Peterson's house for dinner to celebrate grandma turning 89! She is truly an amazing woman! I think she is in better shape than I am. She still shovels!
Once it started getting cold we bought Cooper a winter jacket, snowpants, hat and gloves. He hates them. We ended using another jacket and hat because it wasn't' worth the fight every morning. Still makes for a cute picture though..
We enjoyed watching the Vikings play this year. Cooper now does the sign for touchdown, super cute!
This Christmas we were really blessed. We saw a lot of our family and friends, continued our traditions going shopping Christmas Eve with my dad at 6 am, Oyster Stew on Christmas Eve and even snuck in a trip to Wisconsin to visit with Grandma Dittman. Now this is where the story gets interesting..
We had breakfast with Ron and Donna on Christmas morning and then jumped in the car and started south. About 20 miles south of Rochester our car died going 70 mph, it just stopped and wouldn't start again. Once we made it to the side of the road I called my dad and asked him if he had any ideas on what I could check. Nothing worked. We didn't know what to do, it's Christmas day and nothing is open. Then my dad called back with a plan. My brother in law was able to get a tow truck from work and they were going to tow my dad's car down so we could continue on to grandma's house. What a relief! But then we realized it would be at least 2 hours before we would see them. What to do? Thankfully we didn't have to think about it too long, a state trooper stopped and picked us up and dropped us off at a gas station. In case you are ever in this situation, they highly recommend you call 911, especially if you have kids with you. This was such a humbling experience! At the store we found a "home" in between some soda cases to sit and wait. We took turns chasing Cooper and preventing him from taking everything off every shelf. We even let him play with our cell phones for a while. Some how he managed to delete my contact information from Rob's phone and sign him up for ringback tones. The staff was so great to us, they kept offering us something to drink and gave us a free lunch. Dad and Adrian arrived a couple hours later, we switched cars and were on our way. We had a great visit with Grandma and the Petersons. Guess what happened on the way home? We had a flat tire on my dad's car in Rochester! Needless to say we were extremely glad when we finally made it home.
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