The baby gender is.....

Just wanted to let everyone know that we found out what we are having. Our third and final baby is a GIRL!!  We are very excited to add a girl to our family and can't wait to meet her. The couple weeks before we went to find out what the gender was, Bredon kept telling us that he wanted a baby sister...so now he will have a sister. Tyler just isn't too sure yet about the baby, he just knows that there is a baby in mommy's tummy and that is the extent of his concern right now, but I have a feeling he is going to be the one who wants to try to help do everything once the baby is here.

Tree Lighting in Great Falls

We took the kids to the Great Falls Christmas parade and Tree Lighting...they seemed to have fun watching everything even though it was freezing :)

Santa and Gingerbread Houses

While my mom was here we made a mini gingerbread village. Although the kids only wanted to eat the candy the houses turned out pretty good! We also took the kids to the mall to visit Santa.

Decorating for Christmas

I was very lucky to have mom here to help me start my Christmas Decorating. So this year I decided it was time to retire the little tree I bought 7 years ago and get something a little bigger, so I found a tree at one store and it was nice but then I found a different one that was a Little bit bigger and already had the lights on it. Well when trying to put the pre lit tree up it would not go in its stand, so after trying for an hour I decided I didn't want to mess with the thing anymore and we took it back to the store. We went to another store and found a really nice tree that was also pre lit and on sale for a great price...well mom got it all together for me and we started decorating it and found it had a short in one of the sections of lights and the wires were coming out of it. Needless to say that tree went back to the store also....lets just say I ended up keeping the first tree I bought and we just put our own lights on it...well mymom put the lights on it for me. So now my tree is up and decorated and looks great!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Well, I haven't blogged in a month...the time just goes by so fast! I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! We had a great one...friends came over for turkey dinner and my mom flew in for a week to visit. The kids were so excited because they didn't know that Nana was coming for Thanksgiving until we picked her up at the airport. Some how I never managed to take any pictures that day though...I thought about it after everything was over. The next morning mom and I were out of the house by 330 am on our Black Friday adventure...although there was really nothing in particular we were going for, it was fun to just be able to go shopping since it had been probably 7 years or so since we had gone Black Friday shopping together. We did manage however to get a car load of good deals and most of the Christmas shopping done :)

Happy Halloween!!

I hope everyone had a great Halloween! I know we did, they boys seemed to have a lot of fun. After Darrell got home we had pizza for dinner and then got the kids dressed to go Trick or Treating. Bredon was Buzz Lightyear and Tyler was a Three Eyed Monster. We took them around our block and the next block and they loved it, even though you could definitely tell that the two blocks were plenty (even if half of the people weren't home). After trick or treating we came home to pass out candy, and I think they had just as much fun doing that as Trick or Treating. I didn't count how many trick or treaters we had but we went through 5 BIG bags of candy minus about 10 pieces that were left over.

Pumpkin Carving

So, since the squirrels out here like to eat pumpkin so much, we decided that we wouldn't carve our until the right before Halloween and that we wouldn't put them out until Halloween. So on Friday we carved our pumpkins, since Darrell went on alert Saturday (the day before Halloween). Darrell helped Bredon and I helped Tyler. Bredon wanted a scary mean face and Tyler said he wanted an Elmo Smile Face, so that is what we did. The boys seemed to have fun, although Tyler was more interested in carving the paper that was covering the table. So here are a couple pictures of the finished product. More pictures of Halloween to come after tonight!

Elmo and the Scary Mean Face

Pumpkin Trick or Treat Bag

So when I was little my Aunt Gale made us a cloth pumpkin trick or treat bag for Halloween. This is the only trick or treat bag I ever remember using and it worked great! So my mom gave me my old one for Bredon and he is so excited about using it. A few days ago I made a pattern from it and made Tyler his very own pumpkin treat bag too. I must admit, I think it turned out pretty good :)

So this is the Original Pumpkin that Bredon is using and Aunt Gale made

 This is the New Pumpkin and the one Tyler is going to use

This is them next to each other...Looks pretty much like the original doesn't it :)

Arriving In May 2011

In August we found out that we will have another addition to our family...our third child!! We are very excited and can't wait to meet him/her. Soon we will be able to find out what the sex of the baby is and i will definitely post when we find that out. As much as I would like a girl, I don't think another boy would be too bad either...as long as its healthy!

Happy 2nd Birthday Tyler!!!

October 3rd was Tyler's 2nd birthday! It doesn't seem like he should be 2 already. We had a few friends and their kids over for a birthday party and my dad was also able to come out and celebrate with us. Tyler's birthday was Thomas The Train...he seemed to love it and have sooo much fun! We had BBQ Hot dogs, Macaroni Salad, Chili Beans, and Fruit. After dinner we had a pinata for the kids to take a hit at to get the candy out. Since my mom wasn't able to come out to visit because it is the busy time of year for her at work, I made his birthday cake. Everyone seemed to have a great time. Thank you everyone who came to celebrate with us and to all who couldn't come, thank you for the birthday wishes sent to Tyler!

 The kids anxiously waiting for the pinata

 All the kids wanted to help open gifts :)

 Blowing out is candles

 Opening a couple gifts on the evening of his Birthday



Glacier Park #2

This is just another post with more picture of Glacier National Park. Enjoy!

Lake McDonald...when we told Bredon that it was lake McDonald, he said "McDonald is not a lake"

Glacier National Park

Finally, Darrell had a couple days off in a row that we could go explore some of Montana! We decided to take a trip to Glacier National Park. The park is beautiful, even when it rains. Our whole trip was three days long, the first day we drove through the park, but didn't get a chance to stop and enjoy it too much because it was raining ALL day. The second day we drove back through a bout half way to Logans Pass and then back to Kalispell where we stayed. The third day on our way home we drove down along the southern edge of the park and went to two medicine lake. Everything was so green and pretty. We did see a couple of wild animals, a deer and a bear. So I hope you enjoy the pictures!!

We entered on the East Side of the Park

Wild Turkey Island in St. Mary's Lake

Logans Pass