Free Range Family

Alan has his winter break from school until next Monday. With the snow finally falling in MT (after almost having a brown Christmas here, yuck) it makes planning activities to keep the kids from going crazy a bit more of a challenge. We have yet to be able to do a Snow Day, because temps have been just barely in the double digits at their highest. But I never said that I didn't like a challenge! :) So here are some things we have done to keep busy! Saturday we went to Chuck E Cheese to play some games. I had a few bucks leftover on a Mastercard gift card from Christmas and we thought that we would take a quick trip to burn off some energy. It was a bit busy, but still tons of fun! Alan and Anna played that snow mobile game probably a million times! Maybe my little snow puppies were hinting at something? ;) We had a great time though! Sunday brought even more snow! We wanted to go sledding with Grandpa and Uncle Kal but the weather got wild and blizzard-y so we couldn'...

Sunday evening, it snowed. Still leaves on the bush, with snow all around loll The residents of Billings were horribly upset, Alan and Anna were so excited, and I couldn't really care less lol. Born and raised in Montana, I am quite used to seeing snow in November. I was actually more surprised that we had a WARM Halloween instead of the usual snowy Halloween. Snow mid-November was nothing for me, it just meant that I needed to start looking harder for either a new car or new place to live. But surely nothing to get too upset or excited about lol. Yesterday, I took the kids outside to play for a few minutes. It was in the teens outside, but we Montanans are never afraid of cold weather! We just know how long to be out lol. :) The kids were in total hog heaven! They are complete snow puppies, the opposite of their mother and father. They must take after Aunt Natalie and Uncle Jake, that's it… :P Alan chased me around, trying to peg me with a snowball. Anna walked ...

My hip hop students performed Thriller last night. This was my fifth Thriller performance with the YMCA and the biggest performance thus far. We didn't end having every kid in class there, but we did have ELEVEN students that performed! They did so darn well, I am so proud of them! Only a few were nervous this time around but every single one of them did there best. They sure had one spooky show! I didn't get a video of the performance this time, the dance dad I asked to film for me somehow only filmed me talking at the beginning lol. Blahblah, you guys don't want to see THAT lol!! He did however, get a ton of really cool action shots for me! Thanks Dance Dad! You did great! :) Here are some of the photos from the performance. I did post some of my Instagram photos too (like I always do) because I really like how the filters looked with my monsters! Very cool indeed! Enjoy! The spooooooky beginning pose I did perform with them, as I usually do. I dressed in my ori...

Today is Karter's birthday! Happy birthday little man! We love you so much! We will be going to his party later today at his house. Alan is so excited and has been talking about it almost non-stop! He can't wait to see Kelton and to celebrate with everyone. I am also pretty excited to see all of our family friends. Yay! Its also my bestie Melissa's birthday today. She lives in California right now and is very close to having her baby girl! Love you Melly Mel! Happy birthday babe! Hope its the best yet! Still waiting to hear back from the landlord of that house. Hopefully she will get back to us by today! We are also talking about something WAY BIG for our family in the near future. I am quite excited about the whole situation and a little nervous. It will be a big step for Lon and I as adults, something we have never done before. I will let you know more details as more things are finalized. Just be on the lookout for our big news! And give us lots of good energy so that ...

We are getting record breaking snow here in Montana this week. It has been snowing non-stop since yesterday! Its really thick and wet but very pretty! Driving in all the snow is just awful, so we have been hunkering down at Lon's parent's house to keep warm and all together. But yesterday, we venutred outside for two things: Teagan's birthday party and a home viewing. It was definitely worth it, we applied for the house and will find out in the next few days if we are accepted! Its small and a lot less private then we had originally wanted, but it will definitely work for this family. Its a small two bedroom guest sized house behind the landlord's house. There's a apartment sized washer and dryer installed, plus an adorable cabinet for dishes in the dining room. No basement or garage and a small side yard, but its a house and its enough for us right now. We would be happy if we were accepted, it would still mean that we are back together. And at this point, that...

So I totally hate doing this, hate starting blog posts with something negative. But I just honestly want to get it out of the way lol! We didn't get the condo we so badly wanted. It was because of my horrible awful credit, blah. Oh well, moving on and back to square one. We saw a place that was small but decent enough for our situation right now. I hate "settling" for things but we applied for it this afternoon. I mean, I wouldn't hate living there. It just has very little privacy and is quite small. But if we get it, I will be happy. So everyone keep up the good work! We love all the positive energy and well wishes! We will be together once again! Be prepared for a long post and a photo dump. We had a busy weekend despite the fact that it snowed and practically blizzarded all weekend! It was cold again but that didn't stop my kids from having major cabin fever! That Anna is a wild, rambuncious child lately and I am now confident that she will have just as much ...

The remainder of our Thanksgiving weekend was fantastic! Aunt Natalie, Uncle Jake and Benton came into town and we spent all day with them. We even went to Seasame Street Live with them! It was a wonderful weekend for everyone. We were so glad that Uncle Jake and Aunt Natalie could make it into town! Seasame Street Live was so awesome too. It was a newly themed show this time, about a music teacher and making music with things around us. I just loved the whole concept, being a musician and music lover myself! Alan, Anna and Benton also enjoyed it very much. It was both Anna and Benton's first Seasame Street Live, I think Benton thought he was watching one big tv lol! Anna wouldn't sit down the whole time, she was up walking around the aisles and dancing everywhere. Silly girl! Benton, Aunt April, Anna, Aunt Natalie and Uncle Jake at the show Silly Benton fell asleep halfway through the performance too! He snuggled right into dad with his Elmo under his arm, sooooooo...