Merry Christmas 2008

Merry Christmas to everyone! We had a wonderful holiday with many presents and too much food!!!! The kids loved all of their presents and enjoyed opening Santa gifts this morning! The highlights for each were: Andrew - Xbox (of course), but he got the transmitter Christmas Eve so that he can play with others through the internet connection, so he has been very busy playing games. Felix-I think he liked the quilt that I made for him, but other than that he was really excited about his fleece sleeping pants, he said that they don't have them in Switzerland. Megan- her favorites were her Ed Hardie shoes, her blue hair extensions, the key chains from Felix's family (she collects key chains) and her DVD's. Christmas Eve we spent at our house with everyone: Grandpa & Grandma, Jan & Larry, Debbi & Michael, Kristi & Paul, plus the babies (who are now 2). Opening gifts was another 3 hour process, but it's always fun to see what everyone gets by going one by one. Felix was amazed at how many presents we had. (The Media Room was full of gifts).

Today for Christmas morning, Doug let the dogs out and then Panda sat in front of her stocking on the fireplace for the entire morning, just watching it and waiting to get into it. How this dog knew that Santa came is beyond us. Once she did get her stocking, her head disappeared inside until she came out with her bone. Bear was equally excited about the squeaky toys that he always enjoys getting and ripping apart until the stuffing is all over the floor. Felix got his first candy canes and a one touch can opener (he loves the one in our house, so we decided he should have one of his own). Andrew got the gum that he loves as well as a Manly Robe and a new hacky sack. Megan received her own blow dryer along with a couple of dog picture frames she can use.
Then, we went over at 10:00 to Grandpa and Grandma Langerud's house for Waffles and Santa presents from them. Each of the kids got candy and $50.00 to spend on what they want. We came back home full and ready for naps, which we all took.
Then, again it was time to go back to Grandpa and Grandma's house for Christmas Bingo and Christmas Dinner of turkey, ham and all of the trimmings. (I don't think any of us will eat for a few days). Doug was the big winner at bingo and won 9-lottery tickets (total worth $3.00). Felix won 2 lottery tickets (total worth $2.00) the rest of us, no winning tickets, but lots of fun playing bingo. Now, the boys are down stairs playing games on the X-box, Doug is watching t.v. and Megan is watching Momma Mia. Me, I'm going to do my Digi-scrapping of Christmas pictures. There are more pictures on Picasa from Christmas Eve! Enjoy!

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The pictures are of the front of the house. Doug left the snow so that I could get a picture of the kids. Right after taking the picture, Andrew pushed Felix into the snowpile and then Felix pushed Megan into the snowpile.
Blizzard is a strong word, but then again so was the wind with this storm. It was the perfect day to stay home and sew. The storm started on Saturday night as we were coming out of Texas Road House, the wind was unreal. Megan and I had run all of our errands during the afternoon. Coming out of Walmart we couldn't believe how much the temperature had dropped.
I woke up at 5:30am because of the wind and like a little kid I had to immediately go and see what the storm had to offer, which was just basically wind. I decided I would go downstairs and get started on my quilting, when I went to shut the door to the boy's room, so I wouldn't wake Felix. (Andrew was staying at a friends). I saw Felix wasn't there! I FREAKED!! Ran upstairs and woke up Doug. He informed me that he had talked to Felix last night after I fell asleep. That's the second time this has happened. Pretty soon, Doug is going to figure out that he needs to put a sign on our door letting me know.
By mid morning the storm was in full force and we couldn't see the houses across the lake. I took pictures, but you really can't see anything other than snow! Then, the temperature continued to drop. We got to -41 degree with the windchill. Doug went out and blew the snow so he could go get the boys. GUESS whose vehicle he took????? He always calls my hummer a toy truck, but when the weather and roads are bad...he takes the toy truck...Because it's a REAL truck!!!
School for the kids was canceled by 6:00 tonight, the kids aren't complaining!! But, it was a good night for chili and a game of UNO with Megan. The boys must have had a good time at their friends last night because they were in bed by 8:30 and since I am writing this they didn't get up until 1:30 p.m. today.
Stay Warm! It's a cold on here in North Dakota! Current Temperature -11 degree F.

Basketball - Lost by only one point!

Andrew had a basketball game today at South. He played the entire first half of the game and then the subs played the second half. They were up by 13 points at half, but lost by one point. It was a good game and Andrew scored lost of baskets!

We Survived 6 girls

Megan had her slumber party last night! Six giggly, silly, and full of energy girls. We took them to a hotel to swim for a couple of hours and then came home and had cake and ice cream before they decided to have a fashion show the rest of the night. They all got along beautifully and seemed to have a good time, although I was surprised at how early they got up this morning.

Andrew Made the Sophmore and JV Basketball Team!

Hurray! Not only is Andrew a starter for the Sophmore basketball team, but he will also be playing on the JV basketball team! He loves Basketball and we have hardly seen him because of practice or he goes to the gym and plays basketball.
Of course, there is his second love...music. His music teacher is working on trying to get him to do the spring musical "The 3 Musketeers" We hope that he will try out, but ultimately it is up to him.

Happy 12th Birthday Megan

Our baby is 12 years old already, Time goes by much too quickly. Megan is a fabulous daughter who loves presents.
She woke me up this morning, because she just had to open a present before she went to school.
Then when she came home from school, she had to open another present. (Her ipod touch). She was a little disappointed that the box was empty, but that was because she has been using the ipod touch for the past couple of months, I just told her it was my ipod touch. To say the least, she was thrilled that she had one.

I DID IT!

I am a rather stubborn person! When I decide to do something, I am going to figure out how to do it no matter how long it takes me. My latest project has taken me quite awhile and a large learning curve for html, xml, css style sheets (All techie stuff) I wanted to have my own header and create my own backgrounds for my blog. I finally after several hours and a pro subscription to photobucket have gotten it to work. So, now when I can create my own backgrounds in Photoshop and update my blog with the changing seasons.
I also got this great 3 column template from this site: http://webtalks.blogspot.com/2007/04/downlaod-three-column-new-blogger.html it is a great and easy to manipulate template.