swimming with dad!!

Unfortunetly we do not have any Bahama vacation pictures to post (though I wish we did)! Hotel swimming pools are more our stlye of vacation. Here are a couple a picts of Dustin and the girls having a great time at the Hotel in UT when we went to Krystal and Duwayne's wedding and I had to include a pic of them also.

My sweethearts

I have always loved valentines day!! I guess because I have always loved cards and card making from my mother and I of course love chocolate and candy. I remember saving my valentine cards from my classmates and looking at them all the time. I of course always read too much into the Heman cards from the boys that said be mine. LOL!! Here are my little school girls with their valentine day loot!!

marble run

This is Fritz's Science project for school. Everyone had to make a marble run. Hey it is not fancy and yes it is mostly toilet paper rolls but it has water bottles, egg cartons, funnels, and popcicle sticks and lots of hot gule and tape. We sure had fun and it is entertaining. I cant help but drop a few marbles everytime I walk by it.

HAY

Last sunday at church, Chesnee took off her coat and threw it on the floor and all this HAY fell out and I looked a little closer and there was HAY everywhere, in her hair on her clothes and there was a small bale in the hood of her coat!! Here is a picture why: my girls just love to climb and play on the Hay Bales all around our house!

ward christmas party

So Bugs got to play Mary for the nativity song the primary performed, and Fritz was supposed to be a stable animal. She said no way was she going to dress up as a cow or donkey, so she decided on a white kitty. Which actually turned out to look more like the easter bunny sitting in the nativity. Ha Ha Ha

thankful for thanksgiving

We had only been in our house for a couple of weeks when Thanksgiving rolled around and we were so excited that mom and dad and Josh and Andrea and family were able to come over. Andrea made yummy homemade rolls and pies and a cheeseball and mom baked the turkey and the mashed potatoes and gravy. I cut fruit and put crackers on a tray. ha ha. As you can tell, I am not in the kitchen very much I am just roaming around taking pictures. It was a little extra work but we used Grandma Ressie's china set. We had a kids table, adult table and Calli and Emma table.

After the dinner was finished the boys disappeared to go watch Football games-Broncos won!! and the girls watched the 8 kids run around on the haystacks outside. The next day the mommies and grandma wanted payback for having the guys gone all thanksgiving day so we went to town and shopped and ate out for lunch and went to New Moon at the Theater. So much fun
Saturday morning Josh and Andrea and family headed home and Grandpa, Chesnee and Dad headed to the horse sale in Billings.

I am thankful for thanksgiving, it is such a nice excuse to get together and eat lots of food!

It is not a joke we moved AGAIN

After 3 months in Arizona we knew that this was not going to work for our family. Having to move every 6 months between houses and having to drive our children to and from school everyday were very big factors. It was not a very good job fit for Dustin. So yes, no joke we moved AGAIN!!






Now this is the way to move! A semi trailer!! Thank you Merlin and Janet!

A huge thanks to my brother who came down with Dustin in the semi to help us load it all up and not only that but to drive it back and then help us unload it all.

A big thanks to dustins brother and his wife who also came to help us load and clean. You were a big help. and nothing broke!!

It went pretty smooth and we were mostly loaded before noon. We officially left Arizona at 2:00 p.m. Saturday Nov 7th and started our trek northward with Dustin driving the semi, Josh driving the pickup and horsetrailer and me in the van with little Lou. This time we did stop around midnite and got a hotel to sleep. We rolled back into montana Sunday Nov. 8th around 4:30p.m.

We then moved into our rental house in Twin on Monday!!! and a couple of days latter it snowed!

here is a few picts.