MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

Well again it has been way to long since I have written, but not much has changed other than the fact that we just got over a nasty strain of the flu :(

Reed and I had it for about 3-4 days!!! YUCK!

Well I thought I would post some pictures of our Christmas and such! Enjoy and Happy New Year!!!

Big Changes around here!!

Gavin is now a master Kung Fu Ninja!!!!

I can almost hear the sound effects that he was doing!!! :)

The Garage is coming down FINALLY!!!! Which means the Addition is going up in the SPRING!!!!!
Gavin w/ an attitude I guess!!!
Propping up the roof
Pulling it down!!!!!
Pull!!!!!!!
Pull harder!!!!

Gone!!!!

So hopefully if all goes well we will start the 2 bedroom 1 1/2 bath with a family room in the spring!! As soon as all the frost is out of the ground is when I will be pushing to get it started :) I am SOOOOOOO excited about it i can hardly stand it!!

Gavin's PRE-SCHOOL picture!!!

So I guess that they take pictures even in pre-school!! and I just cant get enough of this one! It is sooooo Gavin I can hardly believe it......Too funny!!!

Pictures of Couples Date Night!

The Girls : Michelle Stay, Reah Hedeen, Bekki Bakken, Katie Sjoblem, Jamie Sommer (blurry picture?!?! That's what you get for having your Husband take the picture! :) Love you Dear! but focus!!)


The Boys : Jamie Stay, Jeff Sjoblem, Rob Hedeen, Ben Bakken, Nate Sommer


He didn't make it!!!


The Boys into something? I wonder what it is?!?!?!


Oh wait there it is!!! Go figure :) Old school wrestling!!!


The Girls after a few :) (except Bekki!!)


All of us bowled :)



Jeff being very sexy :) I think this right after he also did the WHOLE Bye Bye Bye dance from N'Sync :) TOO FUNNY!!!

Bowling shoes now have Velcro!!!

Wanamingo Couples Date night

So we had a couples date night last night where we went up to Lakeville and ate at Rudy's Red Eye Grille which the food was not all bad, kinda on the more spendy side for the type of food but it was more the service that really bombed!! There were 5 couples that ended up going, Jeff & Katie Sjoblem, Ben & Bekki Bakken, Rob & Reah Hedeen, Jamie & Michelle Stay and Nate & I .
Ben stopped and picked up his Brother Chirs' 12 passenger van so we could all ride together!! So we got to the restaurant at about 7:30 and it took about 20-25 min to get our drinks then he took our appetizer order and that took another 20-25 min then he took our dinner order and that took another 25-30 min, then we ate and they brought our checks and that's when the fun began!! ALL of our checks were WRONG!!! some had half of other peoples orders on there tickets and others didn't get charged for things and then when they did kinda get it right then people went there credit cards with there bills and some got charged to other peoples bill and some got things added to there bills !!!!! at least it was all in our party not some other table also!!! ( That we know of anyways!!) and it wasn't even real busy in there and its not like 10 people is a HUGE party either.....bad day for the waiter I guess!! But it really gave us something to talk about when we got out of there! Which was around 10:30!!! Then we went Bowling at this new bowling alley in Lakeville which had a 45 min wait to get on a lane!!! yikes , so we played some pool and conversed and then we were summonsed to bowl at around 11:30 which we did for an hour and then we just chilled for another half hour and then we Laughed pretty much the WHOLE way home and were dropped off around 2:00AM!!! All in All it was a great evening, I will try to get some pictures posted from the bowling and pool play soon...just thought I would get the writing part out of the way :)

Ok so here are the Boy's in there Haloween costumes, Gavin was a Pirate and Reed was the cutest Skunk I have ever seen :)








Scurvy Pirate.......

Arrrrr Matey!!!!

My Little Stinker :)

My Nephew Jaedin as "The Incredible Hulk"!!!!

Best Buds!!!

Daddy and Reed

"What? I'm eating a bun" :)

The clan posing for a picture for the paper: News Record, Zumbrota the next week !!!!!

The leaves on our Maple in our back yard, I think it is Soooo beautiful!!!!

Ok so I suck at this Blogging business! I think I have a slight form of OCD in the sense that I need to post things in order that they happened, well that would be fine but I'm stuck in July! and time keeps going on and pictures keep getting taken! so I'm sucking it up and going to step out of my box and post about Halloween and some pictures that I took of my Sister and her family and whatever else I feel like posting! enjoy :)

"Oh I found a really cool one!!"

"Mom look at this cool lumpy one!!"

Gavin just had to get this smooth one?!?!?!

Reed found the perfect Pumpkin

ok Reed with his baby pumpkin that the lady gave to him

He had to scoop out his own guts....that was the deal!!

Gavin working on his carving

Gavin decided it was more fun to cut up the scraps with the big knife

Finished Product :)

So we had to build a retaining wall down by the garage to keep the drive way from washing away and this is Nate working on it, He did it all by himself (with the help of some of my brothers) I am so proud of him!!!!

Dr. Reed!
Who could resist a face like that?!?!?!?!