A Christmas round up

So in the last week...it's been very wintery!!

I've celebrated in many ways!!
I went sledding with Madison, Jeff, Jackie, Greg and Ian last Sunday. We ate cupcakes and hotchocolate after wards:

Then came 3 long days of work. They were like torture!
But in the end came fun Christmas Celebrations:
Christmas Flowers and Piano playing
Family Christmas Time! We just shifted hours due to the snow storm. Phil had to plow snow, so we opened presents Christmas Eve at like midnight!
There is the loot :) Good times had by all. We played our random game. This year Dad made us all pick a number from 1-7. I picked 6, Phil picked 4 and Jim picked 3. in the end dad said, that number was to guess how many Fruit snack packages were eaten during present opening. Phil won. Cause I ate a fruit snack, Jim ate 2 and Phil ate one. It was funny. Dad was like, I KNEW Jimmy would eat at least one. It couldn't be prevented!

Then Friday came and we went to grandma Ryans.
Madison was the star of the show, clearly. She even stripped right in the middle of present opening to try on new clothes!!!

Afterwards I came home and cleaned the deck off to prevent iciness. There was drifts taller than my knees and it was super wet and heavy. Ugh. I'm sick of snow!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's my Christmas Round up.

Tomorrow = Beauty and the Beast!
Tuesday = BWW with Jackie and Fam.
Thursday = NYE, no idea what I'm doing yet.

I'll update more frequently again.

Last update of the hideous neighbors

Here is the house next door...during the snowstorm.

yeah, this was fun to watch develop all december long!

What came in the mail? and more.

SOMETHING FROM :
YES a "DO NOT BEND" Package from Co-SPort.

We've got transportation maps, leisure activities to do in Vancouver.
Confirmation of our events and our hotel.




AND LUGGAGE TAGS WITH OLYMPIC LOGOS!!



PS I'm watching some new pixar movie. "Prep & Landing" It's good.

Over and out :)

It's snowing a lot. BINGO Was cancelled. I forgot to go to target for glee when i came home early. i'll get it tomorrow

IF YOU WANT A CHRISTMAS CARD, email (I hope you know my email address) your address and I'll hook you up.

Big plans for the rest of the week(WED-Fri):
CLEAN.
Laundry, kitchen and stairs(with vaccuming)
catch up on tivo.
write christmas cards

Getting a hair dye on Saturday!! woot.

A week of pictures(or just 2 days)

I can't get this to stop underlining!!!!

This is amy's tree :) With lights on in the room.

You'll see we're classic year.


and her manger scene :)



NOW for the reindeer run photos.
It's a fun run. A lot of people dressed up. So I bought a Santa Hat. BUT when we got out of the car, Bill didn't have a hat. So I wore my matching hat and sacrificed the fun to Bill. He looks better in it than I did!!

(PS I really liked the stucco on that house behind them)

Tecnavia Picture Pre-Race


Tecnavia picture AFTER the race.

It was a really good race I ran it in 40:50, in INCLEMENT Weather. Bill is a journalist, he's gonna write an article making it sound like an incredible feat.

Bill and Jim ran with me the whole time. That's it.

Those are the pictures from the week!

Sunday after Thanksgiving, christmas pukage

This is my aunt and uncle's house!

A section of lights out:
The mysterious ghost bush???



So, we're to the Sunday after Thanksgiving. And there have been a lot of decorations put up!!!

I drove to my brothers house today on the way to take kat to the airport. I saw something amazing...

Yes that is death of the blow up christmas decorations. Why would you want littering your yard??? oh people...

So this inspired me to do my best at hanging my own christmas lights. I wanted to do my best to make my own non-half ass lights. I marked the lights at the halfway points etc so they were evenly spread out. I think I did alright. Pretty close to even. I guess the 3rd swag is slightly short. BUT the lights are well dispersed.

It's hard to take pictures of lights. flash, no flash etc etc etc.




Supper - YES I cooked again!!! tasty. I put the pineapple in the picture, just for looks.



Pot Pie for supper. IT was sooo tasty. I have 2 more meals + in the fridge. It's good stuff.

More Random Pictures

More pictures of our neighbors...






So I ran by the New twins stadium during the turkey trot.

Black(and green and blue and red....etc) Friday!

Wow, it's Friday. and I have all sorts of info. None of it is black. BUT, it's good.

1. I went to the gym at 6:30 for a large group class. It was a ton of fun with more people :) Ok. The excitement of this ... RJ was there at 7:10. So i yelled at him from my treadmill, asking why he was there so early. He's like, i've been up since 3AM. I said "Why?". He said, "Cause I have a girlfriend!" I didn't get it at first, but yeah, he was shopping. Then after class I spoke with him, and yeah, he name dropped. Her name is Christi! (no idea how to spell that)

2. At home I got a text msg at 8:15! It as from Becky. Asking me the name of the irish pub that her kids went to before a swarm game. So i told her via text, "McGoverns". She promptly called to make sure she knew where it was. It was great to get to talk to her :)

3. ON my way to work, I saw the flashers near this sign that says "Snow being made if flashers are on"....YES Buck hill was making snow today.

4. At the end of the day, Becky called back. She thanked me for the directions and said they had a great game!

5. I went to dinner with my parents to the Farmington Steak House. NUMMY!

6. Christmas lights have sprouted EVERYWHERE here. You know that house that hadthe blow up crap at halloween? Look what they've done for Christmas.

I have still photos, and then I realized they didn't do this place justice. I took a video especially for all of you readers.

I don't do babies

So, Saturday...well, you skyped with me so you know pretty much.

We went to Rochester.

Here are the adorable pictures.

We played some Trivial Pursuit 90's edition. Then we ate really good TACO SOUP(Taco Chili kinda) A lot beans you woudn't have liked it, but it was good :)

Then we played Connect 4, battleship and cribbage. We had some apples with carmel and butterfingers. SOme of us had a whiskey night cap.

Here is the photo of the night though :) blackmail?

Sunday, I had church with the archbishop. It was nice.

Then I went out with Elissa. We drove around st. paul. I went to Trader Joe's for the first time Ever. Then I went to Half Price Books. I GOT BOOKS! I showed elissa, clearance. It was soo much fun. Yes of course, you can consider this stalking. BOTH houses.

We ate at st. Claire Broiler...This is where she had her first/only date with the CHAMP!

Nothing exciting happened.

Now I have to go to bed.

G'night
Jill

Thursday, September 17

Wow, I started to fail at Practice Blogging already.

Day 3 of Practice bloggin after a 2 day break.

Tuesday night we[]Jaime and I] took our Mom's to the Twins game. Scotty Baker pitched. Super slow. BUT they won! It was fun. We had Subway and treats(popcorn,M&Ms,starburst,gummy bears,pretzels,honey roasted peanuts).

Wednesday night we made individual fruit pizza. Jaime brought hers home for dinner with Troy, Jill brought hers for a treat at Bar Bingo. Jill won 2 times at Bar Bingo, Grandma won once and so did Mom. $47 for 5 of us. Not too bad.

Each night were super late/long nights. Thus no time to blog.

Thursday brought around my Metabolic and Cardio point testing. More Time with Todd. I passed my test in the morning. I also rocked the afternoon test and found out that Todd has a girlfriend and a Cat. Afterwards I went shopping to cub, just cause I had to and then Jaime and I ate dinner at Fongs! We also went to Viking Liquor for me to get Beer for Dozinky. IT was LADIES night in Prior Lake. Seems pretty cool. Free Stuff, Ladies Drinking.

Tomorrow is Friday. FINALLY. Dozinky Days! No Blogging til Sometime Saturday. We're going bowling and a family dinner on Sunday. THEN TEAM Weight Loss begins on Monday.



Jill out for a bit. catch you again later.