A quick overview

Since Christmas here's whats been going on with us. Frazer and Amy came down to Spokane on their way to AZ so they spent the weekends before and after their trip with us. Wes and Frazer went shooting one day while Amy and I shopped till we dropped. Amy is usually pretty excited to shop when she comes down because her selection is pretty limited up in Cranbrook. I think the boys and girls separate time was much enjoyed by both parties. Its always fun to have company, and so far they are the only overnight guests we've had in our new house.

Frazer helped Wes install the awesome new wood stove that Wes bought off Criag's list for a third of the retail price. The stove is much more efficient than our old one, so our house has been nice and toasty and we haven't been using as much wood. And if that isn't enough reason to buy the new stove it also has a glass front that provides a nice romantic atmosphere to our living room. It makes our front room look so much better a little more modern than our old stove. (I'm pretty sure it was the original from when the house was built!)

The next change in our home is that we painted the kitchen, a light greenish-blue color. It looks really good with the white trim, but our ceiling is still that ugly yellow color that everying used to be, so after we paint the ceiling it will look better. Once everything is all cleaned up and looking nice, I'll post some pictures of the newly colored kitchen and stove. Our house is really coming along, Wes has been putting in a lot of hard work making things look nice and he's doing a really good job!

Over Valentines day weekend Wes went up to Canada to go winter camping with Frazer and one of his friends...I know, sounds bad, but I was all for it because I had to take call all weekend. I thought he was going to be gone through Sunday, but he came home exhausted Saturday night around 8:00, so that was a nice surprise. We had dinner then I asked if he wanted to watch a movie, but then we both fell asleep at about 9:30, so as you can tell we had a very exciting night!

We don't really have anything exciting going on right now, we just work a lot, trying not to eat as much and work out a little more, you know the regular new years type of stuff!! I'll post some pictures when I'm more organized.

Christmas pictures

Here's a few Christmas pictures as promised...Savvy, Russell, TJ and Benson in their matching pj's in front of the Christmas tree, aren't they adorable!!! Savvy wasn't realy into getting her picture taken, she wanted to get up and run around.

Spencer and Wes playing doubles "water pong" the object of the game is to try to get the ping pong ball into the cup.

Opening presents on Christmas morning.

Santa came to visit us on Christmas Eve this year!

Wes and I forgot our camera when we went to Olympia over Christmas break, so we are waiting for my sister Jena to send us a cd with all the pictures that she took over the break. So for now just an update on what we did over the holidays. My whole family was able to get together for Christmas!! We haven't all been together at one time since my wedding I think. And there's been a new addition sicne then. Chelsea's little boy, well not so much little as young, Benson, who is adorable. Wes and I were a little worried we wouldn't be able to make it over the pass to get to Olympia, but thanks to Fred and Coral we have a four wheel drive jeep that had no problems. We were able to spend 9 days there which was so fun and relaxing!! Christmas was wonderful, Wes bought me all 10 seasons of Friends, which I really wanted. He got an electric razor which he really needed!! We had our fiirst anual "Water Pong" tournament, which got pretty competitive, Jena and Christian went undefeated throughout the Tournament and beat Wes and I in the finals 3 games to 0!! I think we all knew they would take it when their names were drawn together. Anyway we had a wonderful time at home over the holidays! I'm so thankful for my family, and love them more than anythink in the world!! I'll post some pictures if I get them, or my siblings might have some on thier blogs!

Christmas Is Here!

Our first tree froze in a big trashcan it was sitting in so I had to use the chainsaw to cut it out. It looks pretty good since we had to use 600 lights. Beth put 20 candy canes on the tree but it's so big you can barely see them. Beth is cute wrapping gifts, she is so happy that we are going to her house for Christmas this year.

Winter Wonderland!

We finally had our first big snowstorm last week. The jeep is the only reason we were able to go anywhere. Two feet of snow in three days makes driving harrowing. I had to drive Beth to and from work, each way a 45 minute drive. I felt badly for the cars on the road since they were all stuck and the only vehicles moving anywhere were SUVs and trucks. After dropping Beth off at work I went to the store for essentials and picked up food for my mom and dropped it off at her house. She spent hours digging out her four-foot berms left by the plows. After a few more days of snow her driveway has three feet of snow in her 75 feet of driveway. Something tells me she won't be getting the car out of the garage until Spring (unless she calls me for help).

I got nothing, the picture says it all.

We broke down...

We finally decided to break down and get comcast...So now that our internet works great here are some pictures of the last post.

Wes strapping the huge tree to the top of the jeep.Getting the tree to the car after cutting it down.

Another one just show what a man my husband is...

Wes and I on Thanksgiving, we should have taken a picture before we dug into the Turkey, but we forgot.

I worked in the ER on the Thursday before my birthday from 3-11pm and when I got home Wes had painted the living room in our house sage green!! It was such a great surprise! Its a really good thing that Wes has an eye for what looks good or it could have had a little different outcome. The next night while I worked a 6-2am shift he painted the brick behind our wood stove. What an amazing husband I have!!! The only reason I haven't put pictures up of the living room yet is because its not quite clean enough!! So maybe some day in the near future I'll be organized enough to post some pictures of the house!!

A late update

So our Internet isn't working as well as it used to, so I haven't been keeping up to date with my posts. We had a great Thanksgiving. Wes made the best Turkey ever! We had his mom, Linda, over and we cozied up by the fire and watched a movie and had a great relaxing day! We got our first little snow, just like Wes said we would.
On Saturday Wes and I went with Jen and Joel to get a Christmas tree in the Colville National Forest. Wes says it has always been his dream to have a 14 foot Christmas tree, so we found a huge tree and we'll see how well it fits in our house! The tree did look pretty funny on top of the Jeep, and aparently people we were driving by thought so too! Wes had a blast driving the jeep around on the icy gravel roads. That night Wes and I went to dinner at Tomato Street for my birthday dinner and did some Christmas shopping at North Town. We had a soccer game at 10:40 that night which is the perfect way to finish off my birthday! Pictures to follow when we can get the internet working again!