one TOUGH MUDDER!

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About 4 months ago we get a call from a guy Chad works with asking him ( I thought) to sign up for this mud race. We got online - looked- and I thought thats crazy yes you should do it and look I can get a spectator ticket. Chad said well aren't you going to do it with me? Its a husband and wife team! WHAT! Serious? 45 min later we signed up TOGETHER! And in no time here we were faced with 12 miles of MUD, BARBWIRE, 12ft WALLS, ICE FILLED TANKS, 15 ft JUMP into more COLD WATER, climbing through PIPES and over LOGS, running up a HALF PIPE and to finish it off ELECTRICAL SHOCK!.....And it was AWESOME! We were on a great team of 9 people and we are looking fwd doing another one in Las Vegas in October.












Chad wore a camera around his chest. That is how we got a few pictures through out it...the video is pretty great! Just to long to upload here.

SLEDDING!!!

A whole bunch of snow + Chad knowing a good sled hill = a fun couple of hours. Like watching a replay of last year Jessa wiped out hard on her first run. She shook it off and had a good rest of the time...just wouldn't go by her self again! Justin ruled the hill and Caleb slept in the car for most of it.




Caleb VERY unhappy that I have him....

and seriously 2 seconds later with his Dad! Stinker!




The kids always love that I pack hot chocolate and cookies and we love that they get cold after a good hour of sledding

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY

Some where in all of that we had our 9th Anniversary. And as I sit here tonight (exactly 1 month later) I can't even remember what we did or even if we did anything. But 9 yrs and 3 kids later I still know that we are exactly where we are suppose to be!

Christmas 2011

Our whole Christmas weekend was really great. Christmas Eve went went to a friends house for dinner, kids gift exchange, games and a funny white elephant exchange. I am so very grateful for them and their friendship! As a kid I always hated when Christmas fell on a Sunday. Now I think it is a great thing and helps my family remember why we celebrate Christmas in the first place. We had already told the kids that they could open 1 gift in the morning then we would get ready go to church and be able to open the rest when we got home. I still had my doubts that it would go smoothly but they opened one gift and got ready with out any tears. Once we got back the whole thing lasted about an hour and half! I was so glad to they didn't just rip and tear and that we could enjoy watching them.






I have always loved Christmas but there is nothing like watching my own kids excitement!

ALL ABOARD

We surprised our kids with a trip on the Polar Express. We went with our good friends the Sipes and had a really good time. Before we got on the train we went into the Polar Room where they had some arts and crafts, pictures with Mrs. Claus and a cool table top Christmas village that a little model train drove around.

On the train we had HUGE cookies, hot chocolate, reading of the Polar Express book, games, singing and of course once we got to the North Pole Santa came on the train and gave everyone a silver bell. When the train started moving Caleb got so excited and was laughing and bouncing up and down

Here are the kids plastered against the window trying to see the North Pole. It was this whole village all in Christmas lights out in the middle of now where.

I am so glad that we were able to go and that we could share the day with our friends.

Here Comes Santa Clause~Here Comes Santa Clause....

Justins very first Christmas he was only 6 weeks old so the next year when he had just turned 1 I took him to see Santa....what a great idea.........
5 years later he is still unsure. I stood in line with the kids and once we got to the front and it was our turn he didn't want to go. I guess at least now he smiles.
Jessa was very cute and made sure he knew she wanted anything princess
Caleb...Well I knew the only way for him to sit there was to not see me. So a friend was holding him walking around and when she saw it was our turn quickly came over and put him on Santas lap. I love his face! What the cuss is going on here!

UH-OH SPAGHETTI -O