A Blast from the Thanksgiving Past!

While I was home, my dad came across these photos and I am so grateful for him finding them. There were many great memories from dancing in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and looking back at these photos I remembered so much more!


Mom with the "Hello Deli" guy from David Letterman. She was tickled pink ;)

Yes, I was not thrilled about being a 'cheerleader'. They switch between cheer and dance routines. I happened to land on a cheer routine year. Boo...but I still had a BLAST!!!


Krista Holden in the center!

This one is for Vince. Legos!!! I am pretty sure that is real rope. What do you think, Vince?

Can't wait to go back -- not quite in our budget after hearing about the parent's trip to New York. eeek!!

Quick December

I had a few photos from some activities we did before the big trip to MONTANA for Christmas.

First, I decorated the house! This was kind of our first Christmas. Last year I was in Seattle for December and couldn't decorate :( It was great to see our "First Christmas" ornaments we received as gifts. I didn't put everything up, just the important stuff. The tree was beautiful and the more days that past the higher the ornaments moved up---Bridger. He would choose the real sparkly ornaments that were plastic and EAT THEM! Actually swallow! Nate was happy because he didn't even like the colors. They were pink and purple :)

Now that I look at these I notice the stockings are not hung! My mom made us stockings since we didn't have any. They were the perfect final touch. She even made to stockings for Bridger and Jeter in the shape of a dog bone :)


I also added to my Christmas decorations with a wreath I made. I will add some ribbon next year. I couldn't find exactly the right color and I got sick of going to the craft store!




Then we attended the annual "ugly sweater" party thrown by one of Nate's co-workers. It was a hoot! (picked that one up from mom's old timer language :) ) Believe it or not, there were not a lot of ugly sweaters at the Good Wills or the Value Village out here. I called my grandma to see if she could find one in the back of her closet. She said she threw those out a few years ago. Dang. Luckily, the reliable Attic in the dive and sweet mom came through for us!

Nate has GREAT co-workers and the get along so well :) Plus Mark who isn't a CN (ClarkNuber) employee.

Next Stop--Montana!!

Thanksgiving!

I know I have been bad at updating this wonderful blog, but I will give you a quick one right now. :)

Thanksgiving was celebrated in wonderful Texas visiting Jake. While down there we were able to see the Texas rivalry--Texas vs. Texas A&M. Not quite like a MT rivalry, but still fun! We started tailgating around noon, had a yummy Thanksgiving dinner (turkey and all!), watched the great game, and finally left the football field at midnight. I got my football fix for the year! Joan has the photos from the game. Too much maroon to show on here for me :)

We were fortunate to have another Thanksgiving dinner as Jake's friend's house as well as make a trip to Austin. Here are the only picture from our camera. Kind of sad.

First, is 6th Street in Austin and the rest are from the empty airport. We took the late flight to same some $$$

Paintin'

Since I am now unemployed I have had some awesome spare time to do house stuff. The last few weeks we have been scraping popcorn ceilings, spraying the ceilings, painting and getting NEW windows!! The new windows were installed today in a very cold house. We only got two hours to stare at the beauties before it turned dark. Now we will have to wait a whole week to see them again in daylight. I am hoping the house temperature is more stable with a cheaper bill :)

We leave for the airport tomorrow at 3:45 AM for College Station, TX. Going to spend Thanksgiving with Jake, Joan and Rick in the south. I can't wait--I've never been to TX! We get back at 1 AM on the 30th.

Here are a few pics of what has been keeping us busy! More to come later.


Bridger loves to cuddle. Whenever he sees one of us get comfy on the couch, he is right there making him self comfy as well.

Happy Thanksgiving!!! Gobble Gobble!

Tree Triming

We had a few dead trees and a really huge bush covering our front window. It was time to get rid of them. Here are the before and after shots.




The guard dogs


We then took our branches to the Bellevue Transfer Station. I assumed it was going to be a dump like Glendive, not exactly. Here is the "city" dump :)

These are the trailers you dump your stuff in.
The semis drive under the building in the middle. We unloaded on the upper left side.

It smelled so bad! Here is the hole we dumped in. The yellow cords were annoying to go around. I guess they are for safety!

AFTER!!!
Nate said he would do yard work more often since he could watch the game at the same time :)

Happy Halloween!!!

To start out our wonderful day, Nate surprised me with tickets to Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat. What a great husband :) The show was just o.k. Not what we expected, but the singing was amazing!!



This year I got to choose what Nate and I were going to dress up as. I also chose to make them---what was I thinking!?

Bridger helping by turning the costume gold :)


I guess Nate and I didn't take an actual photo together on our camera. Here are two photos to give you full body shots.

Check out the awesome spray job Nate did :) Since I have a TON of hair, I decided to style my own Wilma hair. It was soo puffy and once Nate sprayed the orange hair color it flattened and hardened a bit. One of our friends referred to it as a Cheeto-- must have been hungry :)

Here we are with our crazy friends we hang out with out here, minus Becky, the photographer. I do have to let you know, we made it home with our costumes in one piece!

Go Cats!

Nate and I met Joan and Rick in Spokane for the Cat game. It was a quick, fun weekend. Would have been better if the refs didn't loose the game for us. Terrible call!! We sure miss watching the Cats play. But don't worry, Nate makes sure we watch all the Seattle games we can to make up for them.

Yep, first time we pulled out the heavy winter coats! Good choice on my part since we had hail during the game. I did miss it, until I had to experience it during the game :)

Nate just called it a game of 5 different weathers: cold, windy, sunny, hail, rain....lovely!