Stop, Drop, and Roll

Ryker's pre school class toured the Anacortes Fire Department and of course Ryker and Kya were front and center the whole time.

Ryker was the first to volunteer when they were demonstrating the EKG machine.

How many kids can this stretcher lift?

The Grand Finale:  A song for the fire fighters!

The little guy next to Kya is one of Ryker's best friend's (Larkin) and his little sister Mara is next to him who will be starting pre-school in January like Kya.  They are already friends and are pretty excited to see each other every day!

Celebrity Seating

Kara and Brian bought the kids tickets to Sesame Street Live for Christmas and our seats were in the second row!  They were excited to say the least!

On the drive there, Ryker and Kya were arguing and I said if they didn't stop we weren't going to go.  Then I continued by saying "Bert and Ernie don't like arguing."  The second it came out of my mouth I knew I had made a mistake.  Ryker immediately says "Actually Mom, Burt and Ernie argue all the time."  Kara and I both busted out laughing.  "Yes Ryker, that is true, but even so stop fighting or we aren't going!"  Of all the characters, why did I say Burt and Ernie?

They can't take their eyes off the action!

They asked the audience what their favorite letter was and Ryker screamed and I mean screamed out "R!"  The lady on stage pointed in our direction and said "I hear an R, what other letters."  He was pumped!

 

Some people left and now they are front row!

Catching the streamers being shot form the confetti cannons.

Super awesome(!!!!) (while jumping up and down) is how Kya described the show.

Baby Schlepp's Shower

Being in a different state and having my husband gone fishing a lot, I miss a lot of stuff I should probably be at....Kara's bachelorette party, Kara's bridal shower (not actually sure she had one), ect.  This summer while we were at Fort Peck camping, we discussed me throwing her a baby shower.  I asked my mom to reserve the fairgrounds hall for us.  Her response, "YOU'RE going to throw a baby shower?  Have you ever been to a baby shower?"  Haha, totally legit questions, but still funny.  I responded by saying someone was going to do it so it might as well be me.  Her next question:  "Is your sister going to show up?"  Again, knowing us, a very legit question!  I am good at throwing parties and it's just another party, right?  Anyway, despite my lack of baby shower experience and my Mom's lack of confidence in my baby shower prowess, I think it went well.

It was a children's book theme so the cake was stacked books with "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, New Fish on top.

Prize table....you can never blow a party if you give away a lot of prizes!

This is totally how I roll so I had to print this out for the prize table.

We signed a book for the guestbook.

We started a pool to guess the baby's stats when it is born.  $5 entry, the winner gets half the pot and the expecting parents get the other.

Playing bingo by crossing off the gift she opens if you have that item on your card.

 

It's a wrap!  Kara survived, I survived, and I think my Mom is proud that we are broadening our horizons, by doing more girlish things.....haha, probably not. 

Thanks to all who came!

After the baby shower we really got the party started by hosting a Fish Fry.  Kya and Josh partying it up!

 

Wibaux Fun

We stayed a night in Billings, loaded up the pregnant lady, and headed to Wibaux.  Of course, we met Grandma at the Gust Hauf before we rolled on to her house. 

Their new favorite game, Spot It.

Gingerbread houses

Showing off her sledding injury.  She went into the bathroom to look at it for the first time in the mirror and said "bloody awesome!"  We were a little confused because she sounded Australian, but none the less, she gets that it makes her look tough. 

Looking for phesants

Notice that our bird dog is taking the road.....haha.  He's retired.  In his defense he did scare one up.

Rough terrain for Kya's little legs.

Hunting is exhausting!

The shirtless wonders back at it.

It was freezing and Cosmos wanted to sleep outside under the deck.  I finally tricked him into coming into the garage with a steak strip and tucked him in for the night.

Now she wants me to do this.  Hmmmm.....can I tell her to go ask her Dad? 

Turkey Trot!  I would love to post the results, but they still haven't posted them.  Seth even won a sweet door prize (salon haircut)!  It was icy and snow packed but we did well and had fun.

  

And just look who we found there!

 

Kara kicked ass at the vegetable tray while we were gone!  The kids loved it.

Of course we had to get the paint ball guns out again.  I forgot the good one so they were mad at me, but it was freezing so at least it got me out of there faster.

Paint it up Kya.