April Snows!

Monnie — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:55:51 +0000

Easter Kids 2009

Monnie — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 14:08:42 +0000

It’s Snowing

Monnie — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 08:33:32 +0000

Today, it's snowing really hard. We are sort of trapped in the house by the cold and the snow and the damp wetness outside. It's really windy outside as well, the snow is swirling about the house in giant huge flakes.

Today will be a day of cleaning house and baking a huge corned beef brisket in the oven. It's not a day to go outside, and it may be a day to break out the Wii Fit I've been hiding in my room. The kids will need something to do to keep them active.

So there you go, not much news but lots of snow.

The Life and Times of Brian!

Monnie — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:00:00 +0000

Happy Birthday Brian!

Monnie — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 05:03:34 +0000

Brian is turning six this week, or on Thursday more precisely. Since his birthday is during the week, we celebrated with his party on Sunday, March 22nd. It was great fun!

The place we picked is called "Big Time Bouncers" and it is here in Helena behind the all important "Walmart". Seriously, I put that on the invitation, "behind Walmart", I thought it was funny.

BTB is set up in a warehouse. It is very non-descript, but looks can fool you when it comes to 15 or so small children. We entered, and were met by the owner. He helped us get set up, and we were ready to go in a matter of minutes. He sat the kids down and told them all about the bouncers, most of which they already knew as they as most of the group had been there before. They were starting to bounce on their little seats with the want of getting on the toys to play.

All I can say is it was a great party! The kids had so much fun, and the parents were unstressed and chatty. The little kids (siblings of the big kids) were able to play and have fun as well.

About half way into it, we gathered the children for cake and the much awaited opening of the gifts.

We still have to have Brian's little party on Thursday. He has decided he want's grilled cheese sandwhiches for his birthday dinner (Can you tell he is my kid?).

I deleted the “End of an Error” post

Monnie — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 08:35:43 +0000

I deleted this post, because the graphic I posted expired and looked horrible. I also realized that by having that post my last post on here, people were thinking I was going to stop blogging. Not true. I just have been really lazy about it lately, work is super hectic, and I'm so burnt out at night, I can barely manage more than fish-sticks for kids for dinner.

So here is the official scoop. Blog is staying, I hope to get back to it soon, I have a ton of pictures I need to upload. If you are on Facebook, catch me there.

Monica

Brian and Leslie

Monnie — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:48:07 +0000

Chicken Anyone?

Monnie — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:51:14 +0000

I was playing with iMovie, and came up with this…it's silly, but I'm still giggling.

Snow Day at Home

Monnie — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 21:26:31 +0000

The kids and I had a great day outside today playing in the snow. After we got done actually rolling around in it, we got out the plow and plowed the driveway, it was too fun.

Christmas in 24 Hours

Monnie — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 00:41:51 +0000

I'm trying something new.
This is "Smilebox" and this is the free version. If I want to pay, I can get rid of the adds, but you know me, Ms. Cheapskate, I'm am not going to pay if I can get it for free and all I want to do is try it out.

Today was a really nice day. It snowed most of the day, and even though this is my 5th winter in MT, its my 1st White Christmas. The last time I looked out the window, it was still snowing. I'm hoping it stays warm (above 0) tomorrow so that I can take the kids out on their new saucers to sled down the driveway. It has a bit of a snow pack right now. I'm thinking it's going to be very very fun.

Back to Christmas. The kids, for once, didn't wake up until about 8AM this morning, which meant I got to sleep in longer than I had for a long time. Rick was up when I woke up and finally the kids got up. Brian came running in the bedroom, saying "Santa REALLY did come and he brought us a MILLION presents".

Leslie woke up ready for the candy she has been talking about for months.

The kids really loved everything that they got this year. Still in the end, the mongo set of Magnatiles are still the favorite. Grandma spoiled them this year buy buying them 3 new sets to go along with the ones they already had. You should have seen them, they were sooooo excited.
Leslie got baby dolls and a stroller, and swing set for them.

I was very surprised my little tom boy went girly on me this year by proclaiming that she wanted dollies to play with from Santa. Boy did she like them. She took them to bed, she took them to nap. She played with them ALL day long.

They both got laptop computer games, and really liked them.

After we opened everything this morning, We made a nice breakfast of steak, sourdough toast and fried eggs.
It was just a nice mellow day. After breakfast, and after I got our huge ham in the oven, I had a wonderful Tom and Jerry drink, and then snuggled down in my bed with my baby girl for a nap. How much better does it get than that?

Seriously though, I'm just not one that wants to do events and visiting on Christmas. I want to be home with my family, and it made me so happy to see my kids so excited and happy.
I am glad it's over now though, I guess we are now officially starting to get ready for Christmas in 2009.

Rick is going shopping for a new FAKE tree tomorrow. We both LOVE real tree's, but with subzero temps all the way through December every year, we have to run the fireplace almost constantly for weeks. That has dried our poor tree out for 3 years in a row. It starts out grand, beautiful, full and lush. By the time Christmas actually arrives, it's dried, shriveled and just plain fugly.

So we finally decided that the big leap to fake is in order and we are going to take advantage of the big after Xmas sales tomorrow and buy ourselves a new fake tree.

I truly hope your holiday was as nice as ours was.

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