Monster Jam 2011

This past weekend we went to the Monster Jam at the Verizon Center and had a blast.  It was a day of firsts for my boys.  It was their first Monster Jam and their first time riding the Metro, which I am happy to say was uneventful.  We all had a blast.  I even got so carried away by the excitement that I embarrassed Kyle and he traded seats.



All the "Trucks" before the show.

Me and the boys!  The extra fella you see there is Allen.  He's as good as family and we love him like our own.

Some moments were pretty intense!



The Illuminator



 



Iron Man

Wish I could share more pictures with you, but that's a long story for another day!

Couple Cards!

There are so many other things I should be doing right now other than blogging, but I wanted to put up a couple cards.  One is a "Thank You" card I made for someone to give to someone else.  It makes me feel good when people ask me to make a card for them and know that they are giving it to someone else.  The others are Christmas cards that I never got to post.  Enjoy!

I love this card,

This was a card I made for a swap with the C2C ladies.  The theme was "Spring".

It is a "hinge" card and swivels open.

A little of the inside detail.

This is a favorite.  I got the idea from Wendy at: http://www.wickedlywonderfulcreations.blogspot.com/

Sorry about the glare.  Bad lighting.  yuck!

Aren't those boys adorable?  Yes, yes they are.

Birthday Sleepover

OMG!  Saturday night we let Kurt have his birthday sleepover.  Including my own two, we had 6 boys here 10 and under.  I thought I'd loose my mind around 10:30 pm.  I was so tired, and then finally Kevin took over.  He said they went to sleep around 2:30 am and they were up at 7 am this morning.  Yuck!  Who do you think had to get up for that?  That's right, it was not Dad :-)

Anyway they all had a good time and I am really happy about that, but I'm glad to have the house back.  Ha!

The crew!

                            Here is a quick video of them blowing candles out.



Snow!

Here is a picture I took of Kurt with our dog the morning after Christmas.....Love the snow!

Yes, Kurt is under all that gear. 

Christmas 2010

Christmas went by really fast this year.  The boys had such a good time and it snowed.  We had a white Christmas.  The next day the boys had a blast playing in the snow on their four wheelers...... Anyway, I wanted to share a picture or two from Christmas day.
I hope everyone had a great Christmas.

Here's Kyle opening his stocking.  That is favorite thing to do.  I can't really put pictures of them opening their gifts because everyone is in their underwear :-)



This is the boys on their new Raptors.  They love these things and ride them all the time.  This is first thing in the morning, so it hasn't started snowing yet!

 I did take a quick video of them riding, I'll see if I can get it on here...OK, I'll have to work on the video link later.  It didn't work on the first try and I'm ready for bed.  So, Goodnight all!

Kurt, Deer Hunting???

Doesn't that sound really odd?  Kurt is such a big hearted animal lover that I never thought he would want to go hunting.  Last Saturday, December 18th, Kyle didn't feel like going with Allan (I think he was really tired), so Kurt went instead.  I was really surprised.  To top it off they got a doe.  The bad part was she didn't die right away and made some noises before she did and the sound of her dying did him in.  Allan was disappointed that she didn't drop completely with the shot, knowing how Kurt feels about animals, he knew Kurt wouldn't want to go again.  When he got home and I asked how he liked it, he said "it scared me a little (meaning the gun) and I didn't like the sounds the deer made".  But he was a real trooper and still got his picture taken with Allan and the dear.

December 17, 2010 Snow!

Well, here it is December 17th and we have had our first accumulating snow of the season.  It snowed all day Thursday.  It was a nice dry, small snow.  Great for playing in. Yesterday, the boys (including Kevin) spent a lot of time playing on their 4-wheelers while I was at work.  That is so unfair.  I got up this morning and snapped just a couple pictures to share with you, for those who might actually miss the snow...



This is taken off of the deck.  Kyle and I both really liked the sky this morning.

This is the other side of the deck..

OK, this is the boys castle.  I thought Kyle did this all this morning, but I was informed that Kurt started this yesterday...and they are off to play again.....

Me on the other hand, I am going to add a log to the fire and bake some cookies for Shelly's cookie and Christmas night light exchange.  I know, I've never heard of a Christmas night light exchange before Shelly.  But you know what, there are tons of them in the stores, I guess I never looked at them before................They are cute....

I have been making some Christmas cards, but with everything going on lately I have just been busy, busy with hardly any time to sit and post anything....  I hope to catch up with that too!

Have a great day...........................