Birthday Painting with the Barre Girls

Last September my Pure Barre workout turned into a part time job. I just love my job and the amazing staff I get to workout with. My boss treated the staff to a fun night of painting to celebrate the December and January Birthdays.

The Birthday Girls

The Team

The Finished Product

Our Class

Ice Fishing with Friends

We had a wonderful day ice fishing with our friends. They are from the south so this was a first for them. Todd treated us all to a relaxing day of ice fishing. Todd cooked us a hot dog lunch and we caught fish. It was the best tasting hot dog I had ever eaten. We had a blast and caught about 50 trout in total. 

setting up 

Chase with his fish

Refresher course - snow driving

Another Adventure!!

Todd picked me up from work and we were almost home driving on a very snowy/ icy morning. Todd stated that it was time for me to have a snow driving refresher course. So we switched seats so I could drive and we went down an icy road that had open corn fields on each sides. I proceeded to show off my correcting skills after I let the tires slide a little. I didn't want to make the truck spin out to practice more so Todd said that I needed to do it again.  I didn't want to so Todd improvised.  The next thing I know he had his hand on the pedal and we spun out into a small irrigation ditch. Oops! We switched spots not saying much, then when the silence broke and he said "See you needed some practice." "Not that kind," I said.  Todd then tried to get us out of the ditch while I called Jeff to come pull us out of the ditch. 

Jeff came and  pulled us out of the ditch. Poor Todd felt pretty bad about the whole thing, but he said it is more important that I learn how to save my life and the life of others when driving in the snow. I agree!

We had a good laugh after it was all over!

Jeep parts

Todd got all his new jeep parts in and now the buggy is off to get them all installed.

Christmas 2014

We had a wonderful and relaxing White Christmas. It started snowing when we woke up about 7am and it did not quit until we went to bed Christmas evening. This is the most snow we have had all winter so far. We ate a lot of food, opened gifts, watched the Christmas story, played tripoley and ate again. It was a fun filled day.

The Family

Uncle, Moose & Auntie

The Wilson Family

Opening gifts- Guns & Combines

Levi's New Monkey

Moose's tool set, just like his Daddy

Beth's new Hat

The gift of swords from Maxine

Levi's first Bible

Lots of loves

Todd's old man juice and his new replacement hat, because he lost the last one.

Maxine finally got her wagon

Enjoying the snow

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Christmas Eve

I spent the morning baking pumpkin pies and preparing our Christmas quiche for breakfast while Todd ran some last minute errands in town. In the evening we went to our church Christmas Eve service and then returned home for a Christmas tradition of Waffles and White Sauce served with sausage. It turned out great this year compared to last year when our waffle maker died, and we ended up eating pancake-waffles. We invited our friend back over who had enjoyed the pancake-waffle disaster to actually enjoy our tradition. She loved it. We all put comfy clothes and watched a movie. We stayed up way too late, but it was so much fun. Merry Christmas!

Yummy Pumpkin Pies

Christmas Morning Quiche 

Christmas Eve

Diana & Bethany

Getting ready for Christmas

We are getting ready for Christmas and enjoying all the fun things that go with it.

Moose & Auntie baking sugar cookies

He was such a big helper from rolling out the dough to putting on the sprinkles

Making gifts for friends

Decorating the tree and wrapping all the gifts.

Setting up the Nativity 

Enjoying all the Christmas Cards

We are ready for Christmas!