Another month gone by...

Wow...It's been over a month.  I think about updating quite often, but it requires me to get the camera & cord out of the closet and actually upload pics to the computer, so I kinda put it off.  I usually putz on the computer at naptime, and once I sit down for that peace and quiet time, I really don't feel like getting up! :) Today I must have a little extra ambition!

So, like a month ago we had the Wissota national banquet here in St. Cloud (which is super handy for us). We had a good time, but sort-of were crunched on time because Shane had shot a deer that evening before we went and he left it lay, so we had to go it because it was rather warm out.  I never knew looking for a dead deer at 1am, after a few cocktails could be so entertaining. Thanks Scott for being our sober cab!

The Midwest Mod Group (minus the champ).

 The superstock Group (minus the champ)

 

Shane and Terri

 The Guys

The Gals

 Sidenote: I really liked my dress for the banquet, but boy was my hair awful.  I'm working on the annoying, difficult, never ending easy task of growing my hair out, but it is just taking FOREVER.  I really like pics of me with short hair, and it was so fast to dry and style, but for some reason I just want to wear a stinkin pony tail! I also darkened it more to my natural color so it makes it seem to grow even slower cause you can't see the change in color at the roots! lol :)

The kids haven't been up to a whole of new things.  Mason went on his first snowmobile ride while we had that nice snowstorm a few weeks back.  And I would sure like another one like that before Christmas! :) He's still loving school (and the fact that Grandpa takes him to get a happy meal afterwards), but doesn't like to wake up in the am.  He is into cartoons alot, which is wierd because he used to hate TV (unless it was a shooting movie), and gosh, the commercials are so annoying during Christmas time.  It doesn't matter what I'm doing, or how loud our house is, about every 8 minutes, I hear him yelling "I WANT THAT! MOM, I WANT THAT!" I told him to write down everything he wants, and Santa will pick a few.  He even wants the "Slushy Magic".  And if something comes on that he doesn't want, he blames it on me....for instance, some kind of foam that you spray on showers and it changes from blue to white?? He says "mom, don't you want that? Put it on your list!"  No, son, I don't want scrubbing bubbles for Christmas!!

Braelyn had a visit to the ER one day because she was vomiting ALOT and not eating, and I called the doctor office to see if it pays to bring her in, and they said to take her to the ER.  She had fluids via IV and perked up, so we went home that night.  It was probably some viral bug, and thankfully it only lasted a day.

She just loves to be outside! She doesn't care how cold it is, she will sneak out the back door if the kids leave it cracked open; freezing cement and no shoes (or socks) and doesn't bother her a bit.  Drives me nuts that she won't leave a hat & mittens on (or leave her ponytail in, or leave her shoes on in the carseat, and that she opens drawers and sits in them, and won't go in her carseat without a fight (like a wrestling match type fight) or that she still won't sleep through the night, and that she STILL finds entertainment in digging in toilets, and that she sat on my printer and broke it, and takes my jewelry and loses it), but otherwise she is just as sweet as can be!! :)

Shane did some rifle hunting and is now muzzle loading, and has got 2 doe so far.  Mason hasn't been interested in going with this year, but he likes to go shining if Brae & I go with. I'm hoping him or his dad get at least one more deer so that we can have some more venison for sausage and jerky!

I'd say have a good week, but I'm gonna say "Have a good MONTH, just so that way I"ll have ya covered til next time!! :)