Cookies

The little Baker

The "Cookie"

The finished product

I spent most of the day in the kitchen preparing for our Chirstmas dinner with Jeff and Becki, her parents and brother (Phil, Linda and John) and mom and dad. I don't think it's going to happen (the dinner) the roads are horriable here today and the pass is closed. So the 5 of us will have a real nice dinner tonight. wink* While I was busy in the kitchen Lucas wanted to help. So I put him to work making cookies. He did did a real nice job I must say.

Getting ready to watch the Hawks play this morning. Our church called last night and cancelled Sunday service. We are going to stay hunkered down and maybe go sledding later on.

Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow!

Lucas and Boone during the snowfall today

Mark and the Boys on Sunday - picture taken before the "big snow"

The Barbers came over on Saturday night

The 'Gamers' - I don't even think they knew I took their picture

Luke, Justin, William and Cody

Well. . . . I got a suddle, friendly, little reminder from Jen today that my last post was on Dec. 1st. Hahaha thanks - I've been introduced to Facebook and have been posting pictures and what not on that and have completely neglected my blog. Jesse and I are the only people from our class who I've been connected to on Facebook. Where in the hell are the rest of you '87 CHS Eagles???

Let's see it's been snowing and cold here the last couple of days. The kids had no school Wednesday, Thursday (today) and school is already cancelled for tomorrow. In other words we started our Christmas vacation 3 days early. The boys are thrilled (they won't be when we are still in school until June15). and played in the snow all day. They both had friends come over. I went and picked up the friends. Our hill is to hairly scare if you don't have 4 wheel drive I don't advise people to come down. Or you end up like every other dig bat in the ditch or smashed into the side rail who tried to make it up. . . . Mark actually parked the truck at the top (a lot of people do this) of the hill so we have at least one vehicle available. I should be able to get my Yukon up in the morning but it was a bit slippy sliddy coming home tonight after dropping off the friends.

I'm not ready for Christmas yet, at all, and now the kids are out of school. I would be happy just celebrating without gifts. I think that is why I love Thanksgiving so much. The family gets together eats, drinks and has a great time and no gift giving, no going out spending money we don't have on gifts I'm not sure if people will really like. I still have a hard time with why we buy gifts to celebrate the birth of Jesus. I just want to celebrate this most precious and special birth with out the gifts. Bah hum bug I'm the Christmas Scrooge.

Peace Out!

It's December 1st

Luke and Mark Hunting

Jeff and Auntie MJ

Mom, Dad, Jeff, Becki, Mark, I, Nate, Luke & Matt

Great Grandma and Grandpa with all 12 great grand-kids

Thusday

I don't know why my pictures and text were so spread out yesterday. I'm going to try it again.

Boise Trip

Alyssa Andrews (Nates Teammate) won the girls varsity race and broke the course record. She's headed to Nationals! Go Alyssa Go










































Matt, Luke and Olympic Gold Medalist Kristin Armstrong


































Nate, Conner, Nathan, & Jeff before their race






























Us at Boise State

















Matt at Boise State "Smurf Turf" - It's really that blue.

Thursday Already

The kids had no school on Monday (day for teachers to prepare for conferences). No school on Tuesday to honor our veterans. And now it's already Thursday. Yowza!! Well we decided last night to pack up and hit the road on Friday morning to go watch Nate run in the Nike Nationals Cross Country Meet in Boise, Idaho. That's what I said - Boise - 16 hours, 2 squirmy kids, a dog and a husband. What else could possibly be more fun??? We will be spending the night at cousin Brooke and Kevin Godwins house in Boise. Sounds like they have a lovely pad! Hoping to see 2 other sets of friends, and Matt really wants to see the "Smurf Terf" at Boise State! We'll see if we can cram it all into a weekend. Knowing my husband we will do it all!!!!! gotta love him!

The Weekend

Pictres:

High School Classmate Saul with his wife Neddy

Nate and his awesome XC team (7th at state)

Adrian - Cousin Stacy and his wife Olivia's daughter

Composting

The Funkhouser's envoronmetally friendly, eco-safe, clean, green composting bin.

It's TGIF

Having fun jumping off the mini tramopline onto the couch. Shhhhh don't tell mom, we might get in trouble for jumping on the couch.

Ran 3 miles with Vic this morning on the Buckley Trail. It wasn't raining- Wow. We have flood warnings b/c we've had so much rain lately. Headed to Eltopia tonight.

Just Practicing

Halloween 08 A MAGICIAN and FOOTBALL ZOMBIE

November 6th 2008

It's Thursday already. The school called this mornign to see if I could sub. Didn't even answer the phone. Have too much going on and getting ready to go to State X-Country meet this Saturday in Pasco.

November 5, 2008

This is for Grandma Jennifer