Snowman Time

So we finally got a decent amount of snow on friday so laura and I took andrew out to attempt to make a snowman since that is all he has wanted to do for a while. It was a fun time, Laura and I did most of the work while andrew was removing the snow from the trees with a stick.

After we built the larger snowman we played in the snow for a while, but andrew decided that we should build another snowman so we went back to the front yard and started to make another snowman, but it ended up as just a baby

Whirlwind

Well lets just say that holidays have been a whirlwind so far. Lots of stuff with my family and such. My sister and I are watching my nephew during the week since he doesn't have school. So he is keeping us both busy busy...so the craziness is still going on.

Anyway here are some pictures of our skating adventure this afternoon

Just thought I would post to wish everyone a very merry xmas!!

Xmas to me is one of the happiest times of year... I remember as a child I would listen to xmas carols for weeks before xmas and then on xmas eve after we had gone to my Grandparents and Church I would come home and lay in my bed to wait and see if I could hear santa coming in the house.....if I feel asleep I would wake up and wonder if I had missed the big guys visit.....so I would get up and sneak out of my room to check on the xmas tree....and I was always so excited when I went to the living room and saw all the piles for each of us that santa had left. I would go back to my room and wait until it was late enough to go get my parents...let me tell you some of the hardest hours of my life. Sometimes I would even wake my sister up to let her know that santa had come.

Well that is just a little memory of mine that I thought I would share with you. I want to wish everyone of you that reads this blog a merry xmas. Also I got a little lazy this year and didn't really send out xmas cards....so if I didn't send you one... I am sorry but I still love you.


So Have A Merry XMAS everyone!!

Xmas sweater

My sister is going to a xmas party this weekend (a guy I used to work with is having it), and it is one where you are supposed to wear a crazt sweater and well she asked a co-worker if she had any and this coworker got all excited and told laura about how she had a ton of them at home and well this is what she brought in. Best part of it was her co-worker was proud of all her sweaters...she didn't realize that the purpose of the party was to make fun of the sweaters.

Hopefully laura has fun and is still in one piece when she flies home on sunday

hmmm

not much is new with me. I am liking life not working. I have started going to the gym here in Hibbing again and I convinced my mom to join and come with me some of the time.

Well there area bunch more classes offered there now so I convinced my mom to go with me. Soo we went to a class tonight and it totally was not what I expected. The class schedule called it a CRT class (cardio resistance training) Iread the description and thought it would be fun...resistance training and cardio.....well well well little did i know that it was pretty much a step aerobics class...and those of you who know me well know that I am not a big fan of aerobics.... basically I am not coordinated and think I look funny doing it. But I survived it and I think my mom got a good workout so I will prob go again but we will see

we had xmas at my grandparents this weekend and it was crazy as always...this year was different than in the past and there were tons of girlfriends/boyfriends there so it was like I didn't know half the people at a family gathering.

Hopefully I finish my xmas shopping soon. I hate trying to find gifts for my dad. he is of no help and always says the same thing.... "Socks and Underwear" well today I looked in his draw and he does not need either he still has packages of ones we have gotten him in the past that haven't been opened. so now I am trying to come up with ideas anyone got any for me?

Charlie Brown Xmas tree

So every year around xmas my dad goes out into the backyard and finds a xmas tree for our house. Alot of the time I will go with him and help him pick one out...he only allows certain trees to be cut so this year he went while my mom and I weren't home.....and well we kind of ended up with a not so big tree. It looks much better now that Andrew has decorated it but at first it was a little weak looking. But now it is good just not as full of a tree as he normally gets...

I wanted a picture of andrew and the tree but he got bored with decorating after he caught me moving some of the ornaments that he had placed and told me he had better things to do than be in a picture

Last night we went out for my brother's birthday and while we were at the restuarant when the food came andrew says to the waitress. 'You know what you have the best fries in the whole world.' it was pretty funny at the time.

Vroom Vroom

After 12 hrs of driving yesterday I made it back to Hibbing. yipeee!!! It was a nice day for driving, so that was good. Then today I drove back down to Duluth with my mom to go xmas shopping. I was afraid that I wasn't going to survive that adventure...but I did. We got to the mall early and since it was sunday the mall wasn't packed yet because of all the church goers. But lets just say we went to target in the afternoon and it seemed to me that all the crazy zoo animals had escaped their cages and ran to target.yes it was packed and with all the loonies!! So I think I am just about done with all my shopping...but I am lucky and don't have to may people to shop for.

I must say I ma glad that I don't have to drive anywhere again for a while. I have done lots of traveling the last month and my car is pooped out.

Today is my brother's 24 birthday. So happy birthday Scott aka George!!!!
Guess I don't have a recent picture of him so this one from 2 years ago will have to do!

On my way home

Well my time here in Michigan has come to an end. I am headed back to MN tommorow morning. It was great to come and get a chance to see everyone all at once. Thanks for getting married when I could come, AJ. I am sad to leave:( Everytime I come and visit I have so much fun catching up with everyone, eventhough are lives are so much different than they were than when we were in school. Now intead of parties, random boys and such there are babies and husbands to hangout with. Plus new jobs and travels to talk about. Sitting on stephies couch sunday morning after the wedding kind of reminded me of sitting on the Alph gam couch after a night out in houghton. All in all it was great to see everyone.

Hopefully I will get a chance to come visit everyone again another time this winter. Or of you need a break you can all come visit me anytime you want in MN. I have no big plans as of yet this winter so everyone should come and visit me sometime

little piggies

well I am here at Laura's house and when we got here last night casey had some pigs to move....so I volunteered to go help him. It wasn't to bad.....the pig all behaved and well now they are off to a better place......dinner plates.

Anyway i am hanigning out with laura for a couple of days before I head back to MN. I am sure that G will keep me entertained.

Wedding Pictures

This past weekend was a blast. I am so glad that I drove over to MI for the wedding and the chance to see everyone. It was good to get the chance to catch up with everyone and hear about their busy lives



AJ and JR both looked wonderful and I think everyone had a blast at their reception

I got to stephie's friday night, where we had a wonderful dinner prepared by stephie and then we just chilled on the couch and watched G try to get hazel to leave her alone. Then while I was sleeping on the couch casey came home and let me know how potent he is and that if I needed his services to let him know. He was a very talkative drunk that night so it was quite amusing

Saturday morning we all wasted time on the couch and barely made it to the church on time. But we were there to see the very beautiful ceremony. Then with 3 and a half hours to waste before the reception we went to stephie and jay's and started the celebration. We may have started a bit early since we were all feeling pretty good by the time we got to the reception hall. But never fear we all made it through the night and had a blast. Thanks to Cat for driving us all home.

Of Course I didn't take as many pictures as I wanted to but here are a few of them. Enjoy

Carli Ann Henry

I have made it to Michigan and finally got to meet jen's little girl Carli.
She is super cute and just learned to smile so she likes to show off her new smile..but not for my camera.

Speaking of camera's. I took mine to the photo place that randi told me about and they toldd me what I thought.... the focus is stuck. So I have to send it in to canon and they should be able to fix it...the only thing about it was that I couldn't find my reciept and I was about ready to flip out when... I decided to go to best buy and see if they could look it up...... and well the guy got me a copy of my receipt. So camera problem solved.