Weekend FUN!

So, my post is a little tardy but I wanted to blog about our fun weekend with Dave's cousin Wendy. She has 5 kids but left the youngest 2 at home with her mom and just brought the oldest 3 over. The kids have such a great time together & get along well. They played Wii...OK, who's kidding, we ALL played the Wii. It was so fun, we actually got into some more of the games, like Tennis. Dave took all the kids up to the local CPC gym and played some basketball. Dave really is just a big kid and will take any excuse to go play some "ball".
Not only did we have fun at they gym and playing the Wii but we also took a little trip to Fairmont Hot Springs. The new slide was up and runnin'...it was so fun. We went on Saturday night, so it was dark and kind of steamy! :-) I love that place, can't get enough of it.
Here are some pictures post hot springs. Dave gave all the kids a "Payback" t-shirt, so they are sportin' their new shirts.

Tennyson, Bridger & Jordan (in their Payback shirts)

Princess Jordan

Josh

Bridger

Tennyson

Dean, Wenday & Dave

Tennyson, Bridger, Jordan & Josh (It was very late & Emmy went to bed already)

I love weekends, especially with fun family & friends. I wonder at the end of such a fun one....why did it have to end!!!???????????

A few of my favorite things!

Besides my Dell laptop, which I love. Dave got me the rest of the Twilight Series. I'm not the fastest of readers, but I'm trudging along and LOVE love love them. I cannot wait to see the movie. We never go to movies, so I'll have to wait until I can get it on DVD or watch it on TV. Another highlight of our break was watching Momma Mia. I think the best part of it......watching it with Emmy. She has the whole thing memorized. I don't even know how many times she watched it at my mom's but she knows all the songs and dances along too. It is great!

Another favorite that I bought for the whole family is the Wii fit. I went right home after work and started on my New Year's work-out goal. I have got to hit the Wii Fit & the treadmill. The holidays were way too kind....to my waste-line! I enjoyed everything in site.So if you have set goals or resolutions, I hope you have the strength to keep them and can wade out the rainy days. That was our RS Lesson on Sunday, being able to carry on....despite our obstacles. Sometimes it is rain, but rain does not have to be a bad thing. Rain help us grow, sun only dries us out.
So if your get rain, enjoy it and grow!

Christmas & New Year's

I have totally been slacking on my blogging....does anyone even look at it?

We had a fabulous Christmas. We got the kids a Wii (and really the entire family). We have had so much fun with that! We have played it non-stop since we got it. Emmy was the 1st to Pro-bowling status and Tennyson was the first one to score the highest score! Grandpa had to let his butt muscle heal-up.....we've got form, let me tell ya!
Christmas morning the kids got up way too early but it was a fun day & we enjoyed it! Santa was very nice to all of us. I got a new green Dell laptop, I love it! It is so nice and will be so nice to use for my school work. Over the break, the kids & I have been having lots of fun playing games on it. Emmy is a mean on the solitaire. I have literally spent hours on it! Love, love, love it!

Look at that Laptop...oh ya, she's pretty cute too. Ha ha! :-)

OK, so we are a little crazy about our Wii games!

Dave and Tenny boxing.
This girls got some Wii bowling form.....she's known as Emmy (Pro)!

WE spent the week of Christmas at our house and then decided to head to Canada to celebrate New Year's with the Canada family. I haven't been home around this time of year for years! It was great fun, we spent lots of time with my mom, max, the kids, Julie & Max's granddaughter's. WE watched lots of movies, Transformers & Momma Mia topped the list! It was a great New Year's. We tried to head home on Friday, jan. 2nd but the roads were horrible. WE made to the border to find out that I-15 South to Great Falls was closed! So we turned around and headed back to Leth for one more night. It was a fun night though. We made homemade pizza, went to a movie & hung out! When we left on Saturday it was -30C, that is stinkin' cold. Plus, I cannot believe how much snow they have there. People were getting stuck on the road all over the place. The kids spent most days at the Sugar Bowl sledding. It was GREAT fun.

Emmy sledding at the Sugar Bowl in Leth.

Moolight sledding in Leth.

Dave & Emmy at the Sugar Bowl

Tenny struttin' his stuff!Tenny - in action!WE had a great New Year's. We spent the night inside, at my mom's. We hung out with the kids, mom, max & jules popped over too. It was a great fun.

Dave & Tenny on New Year's Eve

Miss Emmy

Ah! Dave & I on New Year's Eve

I hope you were able to spend the holidays with the ones you love. I hated to see it all come to an end. I was so upset when DAVE made up take down the TREE. I was not ready. I hope all have a GREAT and prosperous New Years!

School Christmas Concert

Here are some pictures of Emmy's Christmas Concert. It was a Yankee Doodle Christmas, it was really cute. She even had a speaking part.

The Weekend.....Christmas Sugar Cookies........Basketball

Picture of our tree, in the house & decorated. I'm not the best picture taker but I like my tree!

Wow! Minus 13 degrees today! Wow, that is cold.

This weekend we helped our friend move his cows home, it was cold cold cold, super cold! I didn't think I would ever get warm. But I did! Not only was it minus degrees but the wind was crazy, blowing & COLD.....again....COLD! The cows moved pretty good though, because it was so cold, so that was a plus!

On Sunday the kids finally rolled out the sugar cookies & we frosted & decorated them. It was great fun & I got some cute pictures of them in action. I love Christmas time for so many reasons but baking & making all kinds of treats is one of my favs! Love it!

Last week, on Thursday both of the kids had basketball games. Emmy did great & Tennyson had a double header, that is a long night of basketball. He is getting so good, I'm so proud of him! He is such a hussler! I have some pictures of them playing b-ball too.

I am excited for this week, Emmy has her Christmas program on Thursday & then we are out at 1pm on Friday for 2 weeks....yahoo! I'm so ready for a break! I love Christmas Break, I can spend the entire time with the kids and we can just hang out and be BUMS! I love being a bum!

Merry Christmas Everyone! I love this time of year. Enjoy the treats of the season and the music all around us.

Have the time of your life!

Candice

Oh Christmas Tree Oh Christmas Tree

...............or if you are from Canada! O Tannenbaum O Tannenbaum!
I always thought this was a French Origin but I just learned it is German?! Huh, since we learned it in school, I just assumed french!

We finally went & got our tree on Sunday. It was great fun, of course we cut down a huge tree & had to cut about half of it off! But we have some great boughs to use. I love having a tree! It is so pretty and it looks so festive. Emmy & I decorated it and put all the decorations. Dave cussed the lights, I make him put the lights on because he is way more patient than I am. ha ha!

Here are a few pictures of us getting the tree.

Emmy & Tenny sledding while we were getting a tree

Tenny & Emmy in a tree!

This is the TREE! Imagine it about 1/2 this size...in my house. I'll have to get a picture of it all decorated now.

Onto another SUBJECT.......................
I'm all finished with my classes this semester & keep your fingers crossed (or at least, I will be). I'm hoping for my first ever 4.0......i've gotten close before but stupid B+'s and A-'s keeping screwing up my chances! ha ha! It was a tough semester and was alot of work with projects. I am soooo looking forward to a break. I have a break until Jan. 14th. I'm going to love the month off! For work, we have 2 weeks off for Christmas Vacation, so the kids & I will have 2 weeks off together with NO school or work! I cannot wait.
This past weekend was the STROLL in Downtown Deer Lodge, I was busy finishing up a final but managed to make it just in time for the parade....of lights. It was cute. Tennyson was his 4-H float, those pictures did not turn out but Emmy's did from the Church Float.

I am looking forward to NO school work & baking cookies, wrapping presents and spending some quality time with the family!

Have the time of your life!

Candice

Emmy on the Church Float - Christmas Stroll 2008

It's beginning.....

Tenny & Emmy at the Wild Life Zoo in Phoenix...Feeding the Giraffe's

............................To FEEL Alot like Christmas.

We made it home safely from Phoenix. It was a LONG road trip but it was great fun. My kids are such great travelers, it wasn't even that painful. It was just hard sitting for so long and trying to sleep in the pick-up....NOT fun!

I have some pictures from our adventures while in Phoenix. Some road-trip scenery pictures that Tennyson took while on the way home. Some pictures while we were at the zoo and cabela's. I think of the highlights of the trip for me was jogging outside in the mornings with just shorts & a tank top! I could get used to that! There is no jogging at home, with tanks & shorts....too cold.

We finally got some white stuff on the ground, very little though!

But at least it's starting to look a little more like Christmas.

This week is finals week, so I have been burning the midnight oil, trying to get all my projects/papers/exams completed! I'm tired and can't wait until Wednesday of next week, all will be turned in and completed.

Because I have been so busy with school work, we don't have our tree yet. I think we'll get it on Sunday, after church. What a fun way to spend an afternoon..right? But I did manage to set out a few decorations on Sunday night before I went to bed. I wanted to wake up on Monday, December 1st and have it feel like Christmas. The stockings are hung, and a few decorations too. It's minimal but it will due until next week! I have been blasting the Christmas tunes since Monday! I love Christmas music....love love love it!

Well, here are some pictures from our Thanksgiving weekend in Phoenix. Enjoy.

Make today GREAT. Have the TIME of your life.

Candice

Tenny & Emmy in front of Cabela's in Phoenix

**More pictures on my facebook! Check them out, pictures even include Turtles Mating, who knew that could be so entertaining!