quick update

I haven't written for awhile, but my goodness how crazy Christmas has been. We went to Cut Bank on Sunday before Christmas and had a little Christmas with my family and then left for WA on Wed. and got here late that night. It was an awful trip and the roads were quite yucky and we were pulling our trailer besides. Well needless to say, WA has received TONS of snow and we were going to leave today (Mon the 29th, but we are still in WA waiting for the snow to stop. So when I get home I'll post pix of Christmas and all of our fun. Hope everyone had a great holiday season.

Chatty for the Natty!

Well, I'm excited to report that I get to leave for Chattanooga TN this afternoon to go watch my brother and the MT Grizzlies play for the nat'l football championship. I'm so excited to go and am going to be cheering hard!! Steve is actually going to stay home with the 2 kids, and I am hoping all goes well on that front. This will be my first time ever being away from both of my kids and I'm actually terrified and am going to miss them terribly. However, I will be home on Saturday morning sometime and then it's time for Christmas. So GOOD LUCK GRIZ and I'll be cheering loud!!! GO UNCLE JEFFREY AND GO MONTANA!!

Random Sampler

Our family Christmas tree

Well, I haven't done a post in awhile and we've had several fun things happen at our house since Thanksgiving. We split the kids up last weekend and had a mother/son father/daughter weekend. I took Gage to Missoula with me to watch Jeffrey in the quarterfinals of their national championship and am happy to report they won!! GO GRIZ!! So they now play in Virginia this Friday, which poses a problem for us because it is the same night at the church Christmas party. HMMMMM, what to do?? Steve had a great weekend with his daughter and when I got home, I could tell he had spoiled her rotten. I think little princess has a pretty tight hold on her daddy! Then on Tuesday night I had a church activity and daddy was watching the kids and Macy decided she wanted to test the burner out on the stove. YIKES!! It wasn't actually too bad and she's a tough little girl, but Steve felt horrible and I felt horrible I wasn't there. Oh well, accidents happen I guess. We also have all of our Christmas decorations up and the kids love them. WE are so excited for Christmas and hope you all have a great holiday season!

Gage trying on the old Griz throwbacks

Here's Gage with Jeff's roommate Tyler (Tigler) also a Griz player. We love Tigler!Here's Macy with her first ponytail with all of her hair pulled back (it was out by noon)

Gage-isms

Gage said a couple of funny things this weekend so I had to be sure and write them down.

**We got up Thanksgiving morning and turned on the Macy's parade and I said to Gage "Gage look it's Macy's Thanksgiving day parade. He started crying and sadly replied "Where's my parade." Bless his heart he thought it was his sister's parade.

**We were listening to Christmas music and Feliz Navidad came on and I was singing it to him and he got a puzzled and disgusted look on his face. Finally he said "Mom, I don't like this song. It keeps saying I have a naughty dad! Get it, navidad, naughty dad. Oh the things they think!

Turkey day

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with lots of food, fun, family, and of course shopping! I wasn't one of the crazies who got up at 3:30 am to go shopping but I decided to contain myself until at least 7:00 am. I actually got most of my Christmas shopping done which is so nice. Maybe now I can actually enjoy December. We went over to my aunt Pootsie's for Thanksgiving and had lots of fun with cousins, aunts, uncles, and grandparents. We ate lots and lots of food and the ladies even went to Michael's that night (hey cricut cartridges were on sale!) We had a great holiday weekend and it ended up even better with the Griz winning their first playoff game. Way to go Griz!! Now we're all looking forward to Christmas and I put all of my decorations up on Sunday, but haven't quite gotten all the ornaments on the tree yet. I think Macy may destroy them as fast as I put them up! So Happy Holidays to you all and may you enjoy this wonderful holiday season. We even have snow today!!!

Grandmas was popular after the whip cream was done. She had lots of helpers!

Popoe playing blocks with all the boys

Macy was tuckered out even before dinner. Mark sure enjoyed rocking with her

Fun with cousins