The Chronicles of the Hawes Kids : Catch Up Blog....

We're sorry we haven't had much time to blog as often as we would like, but we're dealing with a lot of organized chaos. :P It mainly has to do with Steven and I trying to balance family and work. We're finally coming into a nice routine...sort of.....November is my busiest month, work wise, with the UM vs OSU Blood Battle. Typically I am out of commission and comatose the entire month and work pretty long and wacky hours. Yea!.............I love the excitement of the whole event, but yet dread it at the same time...It's a love-hate relationship :) This year I have a really nice support system from my friends and co-workers who are chipping in to help. I'll still be working a ton, but it will leave me more time for my boys.

This past week we took Justin and had a long weekend visit to see Grammy & Grampy Hawes. Boy, did we have fun. Friday we all got together with Steven's high school friends for a little "party". I use the word party pretty loosely in that this party looked like an episode of Romper Room. Most of us have kids so we all brought them. Of a group of 18 people there was 1 pregnant couple, one couple with a week old baby girl, one couple with 3 toddlers and of course Justin. We had a great time and this was the first time I really got to know Steven's friends and their wives. I hope we all get together again real soon. Don't mind the date on the pictures, forgot to reset it when we reinstalled the battery.

***Here's a picture of Cole giving Justin a little love...so sweet!***

We spent a lot of time outdoors at the park. It was a beautiful weekend with peak colors!

We had intended to take Justin with us to the Ferris State University Homecoming Game (Steven's alma mater), but we decided it was pretty chilly, so Justin got to hang out with Grammy & Grampy as well as Maggie & Toni dogs while we went tailgating and watched the game.....