I have actually been thinking of doing something random like this and sending a few peops some presents sooooo... look what I found on my girlfriends blog! Alright peops heres how it works. The first 3 people to leave a comment on this post will receive a hand made gift from me during this year. When and what will be a surprise. BUT, in order for you to leave a comment on my blog, you have to post this on your blog first. (That means that sometime during this year you will send a gift to 3 people as well.) Get it? So, the first 3 people to comment on this post will be the lucky ones! Good Luck!

Alright so a new wave of blogging is about to begin! My sister as some of you know ahs left me. (sob sob) So here is a photo tribute to Allee:

Allee we love ya and we totally miss you and can't wait for you to come back and visit!

On a different note I have another sister who by the way I do not have a pictures of on this computer so you'll just have to use your imaginations! This is an Ode to Britt.......Ahem

Ode to Britt:

She was one of the very few people who was there for me nearly every day with my crazy pregnancy with Zoe despite the fact of having two kids and a busy husband she always found time to check in on me and see how I was doing! It meant a lot!

This is the sister who helped me develop a passion for playing cards! All inspired by our many late night escapades with Rummy 500.

She is the one who inspired me to explore my crafty side as she is one of the most talented crafty people I know!

This sister has four kids lives far from family and helps out many without complaining!

Britt gave me my true love for sleeping on the floor because there were many late nights as teenagers when she would say from her room to mine "Jenny are you awake, do you want to come sleep on my floor?" Truthfully this was because she did not like the dark but I always thought it was because I was super cool!

Happy Birthday Britt!!! To a sister who takes the cake on being one awesome woman, mom, sister and friend!

ATTENTION PRIVATE BLOGGERS!!

Okay so I don't know how else to fix this little dilemma other than this. Tenille and Jeff, Mandi and Sheldon and Melinda and Jason I missed the whole going private phase while my computer was out! I really do want to see your blogs and how you guys are doing so when you get around to checking mine again please send me the link to mcgeester88@hotmail.com. Greatly appreciated! If I missed anyone else please do the same. Thanks

I followed the trail to find the Perp!

So the other day I had some errands to run and left Mike home with the girls! He wanted to go outside to "work" on our snow situation so he bundled the girls up and took them out with him! It was our first day in quite a while where one would even consider doing this based on teh temp outside! This is what I found when I came home! One Frozen Snow Angel!!!

I Got A Big Treat!!!!

Okay so as a lot of you know we have been trying to potty train our beautiful little Zoe for quite some time now. She wasn't openly against potty training she just wouldn't do it. Number 2 was the hardest for us so that has been our hold up. I will have you all know that after many pleadings from me, Mike begging and Zoe saying "Oh man, sowy mom" We are officially on our way. We still have an accident here and there but I feel I can official say we are potty trained!! YIPPEE for me. Now I just need to figure out how to tell her she doesn't get a "BIG TREAT" every time she goes!
Isa's newest favorite thing is to put on sunglasses (actually any glasses her favorites have no lenses). She always pushes them up in the middle like a little old grandma.
Our sweet little Isa has finally decided that she would like to start walking. We have only had a sequence of about 4-6 steps so far but as we all know once that happens there is no stopping them. I am so excited for her to be able to play like her big sister which has really been the reason why she decided to start venturing out! She gets so excited everytime she takes steps and usually falls over due to her celebratory giggling and clapping! What a doll this little one has turned into!Okay so for all of you competitors in Utah who have had a lot of snow this year... check out the winter we have had. They haven't had this much snow since 1916 (literally we looked it up). There has been 51 inches of snow so far this winter with a promise of more to come. It may not sound like that much but when it never (and do I mean never) melts it creates quite the problem. Our roof isn't covered anymore because Mike climbed on top and shoveled it off. Just to let you know how bad it is even Wal-Mart closed for a full week for snow removal from the parking lot and their roof and in the process a man fell through the ceiling because the roof had been weakend by the snow. The K-mart roof collapsed as well as many homes here in good ol North Dakota. I never knew how hard it was to not have a Wal-Mart until last week. Haha embarassing I know but seriously this is non sense. Check out all the snow we have in our yard. I think we are going to hire someone to come move it away from our house because as you can see this is a job for more than just a snow blower and snow shovel. We need some seriously heavy duty equipment. On the up side we have finally had a week above 0 degrees so I would say we are making some progress
Zoe put on her own hat to go play in the snow. Umm excuse me Zoe I think its on backwards!

Dinosaur Museum!

When we were in Utah we went to Thanksgiving Point Dinosaur Museum with Josh, Michele and Savy. The girls had a blast looking at all the different exhibits and search for the bones.

I am certain though that the money was best spent on Josh and Mike who could have spent all day building sand castles in the sand pit (I believe this is for kids but hey what can I say). Just imagine the sand was a bug zapper and Mike and Josh were the bugs... it was kind of like that. I pretty much had to pry them away because the kids were ready to move on.

Isa was so cute crawling all over the place and exploring. She thought it was so much fun to sit on the big scale they had.

This was probably Zoe's favorite thing we did the whole time we were in Utah. She absolutely loves dirt and unfortunately the seasons are too short up here for her to enjoy it. Good thing she got her year supply there. I was seriously finding dirt on her for a few days after this excursion

Zoe and Savy were like long lost best friends they ran from one thing to the next together!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Alright so now we are finally on to the Halloween photos. We decided to plan our trip to utah over the halloween holiday so our girls would actually get to trick or treat outside this year. We first went to Mike's parents ward halloween party.

Zoe got to play musical chairs and though she didn't quite catch on she still had a lot of fun because she got to sit next to Bell!
We went trick or treating in my parents neighborhood and that was a lot of fun! We started at about 5:00 and ended at about 7:30. The girls were completely wasted but had a lot of fun. Zoe got to go as Tinkerbell and Nana got her some Tinkerbell boots to wear with her costume.
Isa went as a Tulip Fairy, check out her shoes!

While Zoe was running from door to door Isa munched on a sucker in the stroller. It was so funny because Zoe would go to the door and say trick or treat and then when they would give her candy she always said "I need some for Isa" then she would run back to isa to give her the loot!