A Funny Thing Happened....

I was thinking about this today and wanted to write about it, because it's funny and brings back good holiday memories.  Over the Christmas/New Year's holidays we were all gathered at Kristen's house one night, and Ethan and Adam volunteered to make us smoothies.  Ethan is particularly famous for his smoothies and we all love for him to make them for us.  Ethan and Adam worked together and made all of us these wonderful  fruit smoothies.  We all had a good evening and everyone was up late playing games and visiting.  Even Adrian, who is sometimes getting pretty sleepy and ready for bed around 9pm, was up at 1am saying, "Let's watch a movie!"  Finally, Ethan and Adam let it slip that the reason everyone was still up partying at 1 in the morning was that they had spiked our fruit smoothies with energy drinks!  Haha!  We couldn't believe they had done that!  :)  They said they wanted us to have an evening where we all were up together instead of someone in the group falling asleep.  We all had a good laugh about it!  I think many of us were still up at around 2am or so!  A fun night!  :)

What boys think of to do....

There's nothing like a bonfire on a cold Friday night, a yard full of teenage boys, food, lots of energy, and an old microwave to create a fun and exciting evening!  Need I say more?!

Pioneer Woman

Okay, so maybe not a full-fledged pioneer woman, but I did feel a little like it this afternoon as Logan and I hauled firewood from the land behind our house.  It really wasn't bad, in fact, it was pretty okay and it brought back memories of when I used to help my Dad when he'd go cut firewood.  I used to help him load and then stack the firewood.  Logan worked hard and split the bigger wood and did most of the hauling.  I did take a couple of loads and one interesting thing I discovered was how fast a loaded wheelbarrow of firewood wants to go when you start down a steep hill!  :)

It's been quite a day altogether!  Up at about 5:15am, out the door by 6:30, off to the gym on campus then to work by 7:30am, and a full day at work - busy, busy, busy - then back to the gym, and off to pick up Logan, meet a friend to pick up notes he let her borrow, home and the myriad of chores - firewood, eggs (actually Logan gathered them and I washed them), laundry, dishes, sweeping, mopping, vacuuming, cleaning the bathrooms, cleaning up Chip's accidents (he was close to the puppy pad), supper (Adrian's working late, so just toasted cheese sandwhiches for Logan), and probably a few other things I can't remember...oh, and Logan and I trying to get the fire going...it had gone out and we tag-teamed trying to build it up again.  So, all in all, a good day's work!  Guess I'd better finish this up, so I can go get another load of clothes out of the dryer!  :)

Family Photo Op

Grammy, Papa, and Merry Grace

Kristen, Ethan, Adam, and Logan

The sib's again....

All of us

Bringing in the New Year

We all gathered at Kristen's and Cory's house on New Year's Eve and did our traditional writing on the tablecloth, writing in journals, and reading our predictions from last year and writing new ones for the year ahead. We played games, watched a movie, ate good food, laughed, toasted sparking grape juice, and brought in the new year together!


We had a dance party in Kristen and Cory's family room, with lots of music and dancing!

Here's Kristen and sweet baby Paige.

Merry Grace is a sweetheart!

Elise, Ian, Merry Grace, and Paige, - our wonderful grandchildren!