Free Range Family

Merry Christmas!!! I hope that everyone's past two days were just wonderful! Ours definitely were special, even despite receiving bad news about a potential house the day before Christmas Eve. There were still so many things to be thankful for and so many reasons to feel blessed. We did not do too much for Christmas, we stayed in town and visited Lon's family as well as mine. Christmas Eve was spent with Lon's family and Uncle Aaron! It was so great to see him! Uncle Cameron was also supposed to come down, but something came up unfortunately. Regardless, it was still a blessing seeing the kids with Uncle Aaron. Uncle Aaron is currently stationed in New York with the Army, the last time he saw Alan and Anna was at the Montana Fair in 2012. Anna literally was only a month old then! Uncle Aaron was in complete awe with how much older she was. Christmas Day started with Grandma Melanie, Grandpa Kevin, Uncle Kalvin and Aunt April. We opened our presents from them and had or...

It is snowing again! Alan loves it, although I think he's a little confused lol. He can't decide if today is Halloween, Thanksgiving or Christmas because of the snow! I told him I hope it isn't either of the last two, we so aren't prepared for Thanksgiving or Christmas here yet! Ah, I get panicky thinking about how we will do Christmas this year... Still trying to figure everything out. :) It is so beautiful out, but I do have to admit that it does make me very anxious because the last time it snowed here and we wrecked the car on the way to the ER. As long as we drive real slow and don't go out much (except to play in the snow lol), we will be good! After all, I've been a Montanan all me life, a little snow never scared or hurt anyone who knew what they were doing. ;) Oh! And speaking of which, we did get our car back on Friday. Just had to replace the wheel and the tires and repair the alignment some. Yay, I am so happy to have my little car back again! Hap...

Happy 24th birthday Uncle Aaron!   Alan and Anna love you so much! We all miss you, buddy! Hope you and Aunt Nikki can come home soon. Have a fantastic birthday! We will try to give you a phone call later so the kids can sing to you and owe you two dinner next time you're back in town. :) Love you dude! Uncle Aaron and Boba Fett It has been raining all day, since pretty early actually, like 3 or 4 in the morning. I only know this of course because Alan woke all three of us up this morning, throwing up everywhere in the bed we share. It was definitely not fun. Definitely a long night. But I remember laying down on the family room's couch after cleaning everything up and getting both kids back to bed and hearing light pattering all over the house. It was raining. Its still raining out and the radio said it was supposed to start snowing here at noon. But I have yet to see anything but rain out. A perfect setting for a sick day for the kiddos. This morning I subbed the...

Today is Uncle Aaron's 23rd birthday.       Uncle Aaron is Lon's little brother. They were born almost exactly two years apart from each other, only seperated by a day. Yes, Lon's birthday is tomorrow. :) I went to Senior High with Aaron but we did not know each other back then. In fact, I did not meet Uncle Aaron until I had moved into Lon's parent's house like November 2008. Uncle Aaron is a pretty cool guy, he and his wife Nikki love Alan and Anna. We have not seen them since the Montana Fair, when we had Uncle Aaron give us a tour of a military fire truck. We live in completely different parts of town and are always busy so we do not get to see them alot. But we hope that he has a great birthday! Alan even drew him a card that we will have to send them! It is too cute!   Happy birthday Uncle Aaron! We all love you so much! 

Today is a great day! I have dance class tonight and I am teaching them some BBoy moves and some freezes. Alan and Anna also have a doctor's appointment and we are going to play with Kelsie and Kelton hopefully at our house because it is trying to snow out lol! It is currently 34 degrees outside and COOOOOOOLD! Oh well, the current rain outside makes it very nice and cozy inside. :) I think I will enjoy this packing day. Speaking of packing, we are getting so close to finding out if that place is ours. Oh I just cannot wait, please keep praying for our family! We just need to wait for the application to be processed and then it should be ours! Let's put all the good energy we can into us getting this! I love this house so much, its perfect for my little family! Here is this week's What I'm Loving Wednesday! I'm loving that today is Uncle Aaron's birthday today! And that Lon's birthday is tomorrow! Yay for birthdays! I'm loving that Lon's...

Attention readers, I bid you warning, STAY AWAY FROM MY HOUSEHOLD!!!! We have caught the dreaded cold going around! And it is kicking ALL of our butts! I always know how a cold travels through our household, usually through my husband or Alan. This time, Lon passed it to Alan, then Alan gave it to me, and even though I tried SO HARD, after a few miserable days I gave it to Anna. :/ As of right now, just the kids and I still have it. Lon was pretty much over it after the weekend was over and Alan only really coughs at night now. But it is kicking my rear pretty badly. My nose is plugged, I'm congested, I have a horrid cough, I have sinus headaches and am soooooo miserably sore. Ugh!!! No fun! Anna thankfully only has a runny nose and is very grumpy. I hope she will get over it fast! Not much else is going on today. Tomorrow I have Alan and Anna's well child checkups (a whole month late lol). Pretty sure they will not be giving Anna her two month vaccines because of her cold so...