I am back :)

I know its been FOREVER since my last post. We are all doing good. I am hoping to get back into the swing of posting more often. Today, I am not feeling the best, so I will hopefully post this week sometime with pictures of the kids. They are both growing up so fast :( I hope everyone has a wonderful day :)

Tough to deal with!

So this last weekend, I got a call that I don't want to repeat EVER again. My mom was on the other end crying and I couldn't understand her. I first thought something happen to Ryan, because he has problems with his heart. I was wrong... When I finally had my mom calm down.. she said its on FIRE... we LOST everything. The camper caught on fire that they were living in until they were able to move into the basement of their remodeled home. Everything that was important to them and all their personal belongings were GONE. Luckily nobody was hurt and the firemen rescued the dogs. The sad thing is they LOST everything. Everything that you would have in a home; they had in their camper. We did find her wedding rings and I did find some other diamonds. The other part that bothered me was they made the front page paper in the local newspaper. It pretty much gave their address away, so on Sunday we had a lookie lous.....spelling ?. We are thankful that they have family and friend support and prayers. There have been some people that have helped my mom and Ryan out. The part that is really making my mom sad is she lost all of the Christmas presents and some she said are not replaceable. I keep telling her that I am glad you two are still here with us. So now its time to rebuild and move on. We did get them in the basement, so they are living in the basement. Its not done, but its livable for now. I guess you never take anything for granted. I have never been this close to a person in a fire and I hope I won't experience it again. Well, I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend. Last weekend to shop for Christmas. I know I will be one of those last minute shoppers. Take care

BURR!!

Burrr! Its cold outside. Officially winter is here and its going to be here for a long time. We have a lot of snow and its cold outside. I wish the wind would go away. Plus, its so cold outside that my furnance doesn't stop running really. Oh the joys of winter. I guess those are not joys! :) I hope everyone has a wonderful day. Leaving on a good note its FRIDAY tomorrow! Yahoo..... Until next time..

Girls weekend!

This last weekend I went to the cities with a friend. We went shopping in albertville- the outlet stores. Then we went to the Mall of America to do some more shopping. Then Sunday we went to a play The Heights. It was pretty good. At times, you couldn't understand it because the music was louder then the person singing. Then there spanish speaking parts, which I didn't understand. Overall, it was a fun getaway weekend, which I haven't done before. The kids stayed with daddy on Friday and then Saturday my mom came and took care of them until Sunday night. Dan went to Huron to help Ryan with the house. I hope everyone is having a great day :) Try to stay warm, I think we are in for it for a blizzard.

Hunt for Zhu-Zhu pets!

Target, Wal-mart, Toys R us are the stores that sells these. You can find them online if you want to play A LOT of money for them. You can buy them from 8-10 dollars at the stores above, but amazon and other places are selling one hamster for 40 all the way up to 150.00. Which is sad, because there are a lot of kids that want these for Christmas from Santa or from others. Tyler wants them from Santa....I wish I could find at least one hamster and the car that is an accessory. They have many accessories that go with the hamsters. Its a cute toy and not expensive. There is a lot of things to buy to go with the hamsters. FUN! Well, let me know if anybody finds them. Have a great day.

Thanksgiving!

I forgot to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving. Dan and I decided to stay home for Thanksgiving. We have some big projects to finish, like our master bathroom and entry way. We accomplished a lot this weekend. Dan was going to go to my mom's and work on her house, but Dan's brother Bobby and girlfriend came to visit us. It was so nice to actually have visitors for once. Not to many people come and see us, sides my mom and dad, when he is back here from Rapid. We had a lot of fun this weekend. Thanksgiving dinner was not what you want to call the best, but we will never forget it. We made a ham in the crock pot, but I think the ham was old and then over cooked.. it was nasty. We just ended up having scalloped potatoes and then I ordered a pumpkin pie from Perkins. It was yummy! Thurs/Friday at 11:00 P.M. my mom and I headed to SF to do the black Friday shopping. Our first stop was Toys R Us, boy was there a crowd and it too FOREVER to get out of the store. Then we went on to the other stores. We got what we wanted, so that was nice. We lucked out on the toys r us thing for Tyler. Still on the hunt for Zhu-Zhu pets. He wants those so bad from Santa and us.... oh boy everybody is sold out online. Well, that is about it from here. Have a great week!

Weekend fun!

This past weekend we actually stayed home :) I took Tyler to the Playhouse disney live show. He loved it. Then dan had his uncle help him put an entry way on our house. I can't wait till its done. Its so nice. They got a lot done in two days. All we have to finish is the inside and a little decking. My mom was here to help me take care of Alexa while I was gone with Tyler. She also helped the guys. Here are some pictures from the weekend.

Tyler's favorite character and show Handy Manny!


Mostly everyone, but my camera died, so didn't get a picture of everyone.





Inside looking from living room door.