Surprise trip to Minnesota 2011

My last post was a bit of a spoof. I wrote it while we were in the middle of Montana, and I wrote it to make sure my Mom wasn't going to suspect anything...we were on our way to surprise her! And surprise her we did. Thanks to Rory, we were on the porch before she suspected a thing and in the house before she had a chance to process what she was seeing!

Rebekah was so excited to be in Minnesota, but she didn't grow up in cold weather. Apparently she's fairly numb because the next morning my Mom found her out on the porch and took a picture of her, and then a picture of the thermometer....

Really, bare feet?

So much to learn about Minnesota in the winter. The concept of ice fishing produced a rolling belly laugh from the back seat when I asked her if she knew what those little houses out on the ice were, and explained it to her. Then she thought she needed to take off her heavy coat to go into the store because she would look like a "dork". Also? Make sure you leave your regular pants on when you put snow pants on :) The education continues...

I have one picture for December in my picture file. Sad. I will try to fix that this week, I promise! I do have pictures on my phone, I just have to email them to myself and save them to files and get them uploaded here. Don't you think with technology there should be an easier way?

Everyone is so busy this time of year, us included. But Grant had a nice birthday on the 17th, Rebekah just had a Christmas party for gymnastics that she raved over (I have a couple of pics of that on my phone) and I've been busy with church stuff and getting packages sent to loved ones across the miles.

The house is never clean all at once these days but if you drop in you might find one room clean at a time...lol

Then along comes January with a birthday party for Rebekah and the February my Mom comes to visit and we take her with on our trip to Tucson to visit Ashley...I have a lot to look forward to! I better figure out a better system for the pictures! :)

Sick for a week...

Sunday night marked the first clue of my not feeling so well...we are now at Saturday morning and though I'm better, I'm not 100%. I very rarely get hit this hard with anything but man this week has been tough!

So, no pictures, no crafty wonderfulness, no recipes. Just crickets and tumbleweed.

Some things are going to HAVE to get done around here today. Like the bathrooms NEED to be cleaned! I NEED to wrap some gifts and get them in the mail. And some baking NEEDS to happen! I have way too much to do to be sick.

Last week Rebekah and I went to the church to help with Christmas decorating. Rebekah's job was to help put "snow" under the trees...this seemed like a perfect photo op :)