New Years

Happy New Years! I hope everyone had a wonderful New Year's Eve; whether it was eventful and full of parties, or simply a quiet evening in. Ours was an evening with friends and kids. Our 2010 is off to a morning of sleeping in--just a little, and running around in our pjs. Paige and I are the only ones running in our pjs as Cowboy just left to go tend cows for three days. He'll return home on Sunday. I hope he stays warm and has good luck with frozen equipment and snow which has been a problem. Paige and I will enjoy our day off as tomorrow we are headed to Dickinson to watch Dani play basketball. I could say I hope to get alot accomplished today, but that would be a lie! I think its a movie and nap day. . .

6 years

So I am going to wake up one of these mornings and be 80 years old, because that's how fast the past few years have flown by. Today celebrates 6 years ago that another blizzard covered our state, and that Cowboy and I became legally bound! I say that with a smile because we dated since high school so it wasn't a real shocker when we finally got married after college. Above is our beautiful bridal party who braved crappy conditions to come celebrate with us; most of our friends and family were able to attend and everyone made it home safely despite the horrible weather. I have heard stories years later of how horrible it was--they didn't want to tell me right after the wedding and make me feel bad!



So 6 fast years have flown by us. Wow. Cowboy doesn't really read the blog or I would tell him I loved him and I am still happy I married him. So I'll just have to tell him in person :)

Merry Christmas

As this Christmas Day nears an end, I thought I better post a few pictures. We had a nice Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. We departed from our normal holiday routine and stayed at our own house for Christmas Eve, something Cowboy and I haven't done as a married couple. We figured Paige was entitled to wake up in her own bed on Christmas morning once. My parents braved the weather and came over on Christmas Eve and we went to mass, and then had a wonderful shrimp supper. Then came the presents. It was a good thing Gramma came over, because the present level quadrupled when she came!

One of Paige's presents she was so excited about; a new princess dress!

Opening up presents from Santa; all smiles. I asked her later in the morning if Santa did a good job. She said, "Santa did a good job." We all slept in this morning which was needed after the late night. Paige slept until after 8:30 and I was walking around the house waiting for her to wake up. The funny thing about her and presents is she only wants to open a few and play with those; she doesn't care if there are a few more remaining. So this morning she played with some stuff; and then opened the remaing 2 an hour later. She also just likes to tear the paper off and look at the box--if its a generic box she thinks that's the present!

Our family gift was a Wii and it has been a lot of fun today keeping us enterained while we wait out the blizzard that is still raging outside. Cowboy got a big game hunting game, complete with gun, and has spent a good chunk of today attempting to master it.

Paige and I attempted some MarioKart this morning; and she did a pretty good job. Mom has to assist with some steering, but for her first attempts she did well. I image in a few years she will be better than Mom or Dad; all kids seem to be that way with video games. Note the big pink castle; that was from Santa and has been a big hit today.



We had a wonderful Christmas despite the blizzard that has shut down the state. We won't be able to go see some family tomorrow like our plan was; but hopefully we'll be able to catch up with them in a weekend or two.

On the 8th day of Christmas

On the 8th day of Christmas my true love gave to meeeee. . . .a bathroom where the toilet tank is emptyyyyyy. So. I come home after getting groceries, etc. and find out there is no water at all in our house because the handyman Cowboy has it shut off so he can fix the leaking messed up shower. Our old house does not have a separate bathroom shutoff valve. Its the whole house has water, or none of it has water. So there goes dishes, laundry, etc. tonight while he is working on the shower. Oh well. Bad side of this, Paige and I have to use the bathroom every 10 minutes! Think we are road tripping to Gramma's to use her tub tonight. . .

9th day of Christmas

On the ninth day of Christmas, my true love gave to meee. . .a movie date with his favorite little ladyyyyy. We are all going to the movie tonight--I don't want to do anything and want to rest; so why not at the theatre where the temptations of laundry and dusting aren't even there?

Paige quote of the day:

"Paige, look, Mom's owie (?) is gone on my lip (referring to my lovely cold sore)"

She scopes out my face and is happy to see its gone. She analyzes and saids, "How's your chicken pox?"

"I don't have chicken pox anymore." I had them about 2 months ago. As an adult. How fun.

Then I look in the mirror and see the huge zit she would think is a 'pox'. Wonderful.

3 year old wisdom

"So I heard you had a nap today at Kim's house (daycare)," I say as we are taking our coats off at home yesterday.

Big blue eyes turn and look at me.

"Mom, how do you hear me at Kim's house when you are at work?"

Note to self, use proper verbs when speaking to a 3 year old who takes everything literally.

On the 10th day of Christmas. . .

On the 10th day of Christmas, my true love gave to me. . .gift wrapped presents under the tree-eee. (If you sing it, it rhymes.)

The beauty being we had only 3 presents under the tree, and he came home disgusted that the massive pile of Target bags hadn't wrapped themselves. So he went through the stack and is in the living room right now wrapping presents. This is not a normal occurance at our home that he wraps the gifts. He secludes himself to wrap mine; and that's it. I just finished up Christmas cards; so we are officially in Christmas prep at our home.

The downside of Christmas fast approaching is our household is trying to get over some colds. I stayed home today with my head cold; and Paige is almost over hers. Cowboy, of course, is never sick. The good thing is since we are all feeling poorly this week, we'll be healthy in time for Christmas!