Girls night at Twlight

We went to the midnight showing of Twlight down at the Gateway. Before the show we went out to dinner at Applebee's. It was crazy busy with tons of would be Twlight viewers. We saw very interesting shirts as well. The only one I saw that I wanted said 'Sorry Edward, I am taken'

The girls starting at the left: Jen, Shannon, Christiann, Me, Camille and in the back are the Megans (though they are spelled different) We laughed at this picture because it looks like they were at the table behind us and just turned around to be in the picture. After ice cream and appetizers we got in line for popcorn and drinks. I am always good for more food! The movie was good too!

Best mommie moment

We were on our way home from Grandma's the other day and Kristian and I were singing in the car. This is something that we do all the time, Kristian gets to pick the songs we sing and we sing for all we are worth. Well on this day the sun was in Kristian's eyes and so he decided that he wanted to sing You Are My Sunshine. We sang it a couple of time and then he decided that he wanted to sing it by him self. This is how his version went.
'You are my sunshine, my Mommie sunshine. You make me happy when the skies are grayed. You'll never know Mommie how much I love you, please don't take my Mommie away'
I of course am having a hard time driving at this point. What ,with the tears in my eyes and a cheesy grin on my face. Moments like that take my breath away. I truly love being a mom!

The big reveal

Are you ready? Here she is!

Her name is Li'l Billie.

My grandpa that built the cabin used to call my grandma and my mom Li'l Billie. This is our tribute to those most amazing women in my life. I have included a picture of Li'l Billie and Echo Gillett together so that you can see that I did in fact carve a bear and not just post Brian's bear twice. On the bottom of the bears we have put that they were cut from the site of Grandpa Gillett's cabin and then the date that they were carved. I hope they will be in our family for a long time to come.

Slacker

I am a complete slacker! I can not believe that it has been 2 weeks since I posted anything and I still have nothing interesting to post. I did get MY bear done and finished sealing her last night so I will try and get a picture today and post it later. I am just an incredible boring person. Sorry to those of you that have to know me!

Halloween

Sorry the picture is a little blurry but they were running. This is Kristian and Ivy trick or treating. Yea I did say trick or treating! You may or may not know that as of 2 days before Halloween, Kristian was NOT going trick or treating, he was not dressing up, and he did not like candy.
So the story starts. . . . Kristian has decided that he is going to be a Blue Man for Halloween. One of the guys from the Blue Man Group. I understand that this is a adult music group, but Kristian does not. He loves them and there was no talking him out of being a Blue Man. (If you do not know who they are, you had better google them so that you understand the costume) I got a couple bald caps and some face paint. A couple days before Halloween I put the cap on him to see what I was going to have to do to make it work. I guess that kinda freaked him out, because from then on he was not going to dress up. He said that he just wanted to be 'nothing'. I took him to my moms school for the parade so he could see other kids dressed up and he thought that they were cool but he was still not interested. In fact them more people that asked him about it, and everyone did, the more he was not going. So when he got up from his nap on Friday I put him in his football jersey and we headed to my parents. My brother David came over with his kids to see if Kristian had changed his mind and he told them that he was still not going. The kids decided to start across the street and Kristian and I sat on the porch to watch them. They had just got across the street when he yelled 'hey wait guys, I'm coming too!'. He had a ton of fun and loved it. He even made sure that he got plenty of thank yous in. All in all we had fun, but I was not sure we were going to make it this year.