It's official, we are moving again!!

Ok, I think it has been official for a while, but we have been dragging around hopeing something would change, but looks like it wont. We are moving to Seattle!! Its not the worse place in the world to live, in fact I loved it when I lived there when I was 20. That is where we met. All of Kjell's family is in the area. We have tons of old friends who are still around. There are alot of plus things about going there. The apsolute number one will be that we will be together all the time. Kjell has traveled the whole 4 years he has been with the company. I don't just mean minor travel here and there but usually a month at a time type thing and home for a few days. So we are soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ready to be together again.

The downs are all about leaving here. We are soooo sad to leave Great Falls. We LOVE IT HERE! We are already planning on retireing somewhere around here. We love the boys school, we love our ward, we love our nieghborhood, we love all our wonderful friends we have made here.

Ok, so I have to let those wonderful and awesome things go. And I do know that we will find new friends and wonderful things in addition to what we already know about the Seattle area. But it will definatly take some time to get over the loss.

12 years!!

My sweet husband! I was so surprised this morning. Unlike ever before. I don't know what it is about me, but I am not easily surprised about most anything. Our 12 year anniversary is today. Not a big surprise that he is still out of town. I think this will be the third year that he has been gone on the day of our anniversary. I know some women would freak about that, but really I don't mind. We always do something when he does get home. But this time, wow. I am so surprised. This morning, at 8:30 I was finishing up some prep work for my sharing time for Primary today, and Kjell called. I was chatting and had decided a few days ago, I wasn't going to say anything. I usually do say something but this year I didn't. I really thought he forgot. We chatted a bit, and he told me they were going to an early sacrament meeting because they had to help out with the clean up after the horrible flooding they have been having in the Seattle are. So I just said, that's to bad, you'll have to do that on your special day, he totally played it off, like what do you mean... and I finally said, you forgot huh? And, yes my husband truly scares me at how well he can still tell me untruths! He did the whole, oh, I am so sorry. I can't believe I forgot. I even said to him "you are so lucky you have me for a wife." Some women would really care. We just laughed, and looking back I am so glad that I wasn't like some of those women who would have thrown a tantrum or I would have been really embarrassed. Anyway, just then my doorbell rang, and there were the Huston family. A dozen roses in hand, a pretty box from Victoria Secret, and a beautiful gift bag. My first thought was "how sweet of them." I had surprised Kathiann with just a small treat the night before for her birthday. I figured she just felt sorry for me and decided to be a Sweet friend. But then she told me that Kjell had been planning it all week with her. It answered why she had called the other day to ask me if I had any ideas for her, she wanted to go buy some new perfume and wanted ideas. She is too tricky! I seriously had no idea. So after really quizzing her to be sure she didn't just orchestrate the whole thing, I was very surprised and very happy. I LOVE the perfume! The roses are beautiful. They are called Velvet roses. Because they have little lines that make them look velvety. The other gift bag, was two boxes of Life cereal. One Cinnamon, and original. That was so sweet. He knows that they are my favorite. He also wrote me a very sweet letter, with a poem like thing on top. It was so sweet. I love him. Twelve years have gone by, I know a sweet friend told me that was cute, because she has been married much longer, but it feels like a long time. And it also feels like it just flew by. We have both grown up together really. We have both changed so much since we got married. I am so grateful that he is who I get to spend this life with and through Eternity!

I love you honey! Happy Anniversary!

My new hobby, enjoyment, addiction, not sure...

I made my second set of baby doll dress and dress for Kjari. This is too much fun. I seriously think I could do this everyday! But, life went on of course, as I put everything aside and played, I mean sewed this yesterday. So I will be playing catch up on the house today, after I get back from the school later with Kjellsen. Ok, so here are the pictures. I know some of you are amazing seamstresses, so just remember this is my first dress that wasn't just a basic jumper style. I love it, I messed up on the zipper so that will be my next goal to get that down. But... i did my first sleeves on this baby doll dress, and it wasn't too bad!!

Another fun friend!

For Christmas this year, Kjari got a stroller from Santa. This was something that, all her friends had, and usually was a sorce of contention when ever she went play at there houses. The other thing she got was this adorible barbie backpack! Her aunt got this for her for Christmas and I am pretty sure had no idea how much she would love it. This little friend who we play with often has had this princess backpack whenever she comes. Kjari could never let it go, she loved it so much, that would usually cause some problems too. So yesterday when this little girl came to play she brought her stoller and back pack, and they played the whole time, pushing there babies, all over the house. They were talking to them like they were little mommies! I couldn't resist, snapping a few pictures of the fun day!

Kjari's friends

Kjari has so much fun with all her little girlfriends. I have fun with them too of course, perfect opportunity to dig out my camera! They are all too cute to resist! The stools are very poplular when these too come over, the funny things is they all established a long time ago, who gets what stool, and it stays that way everytime! They are watching, Barbie Diamond Castle, something. It's one of my favorites too! :)

Happy Birthday Kjellsen!!!

Our wonderful Kjellsen turned 6 on New Years Eve, we know you were all celebrateing with us, as does the whole world, he is that awesome!

I just wanted to tell Kjellsen how much we love him and what a wonderful kid he is. Kjellsen is such a wonderful big and little brother. He loves all of his siblings and would stand up for any of them, and has many times! hee hee

Kjellsen makes us laugh! Non stop! He is so funny for such a little guy, that is why we call him littleman Shooter.

Kjellsen is an artist, when he sits down and draws, amazing thoughts are communicated! I just love seeing him doing something that he enjoys!

Kjellsen we love you! Happy Birthday!

Love, Mom, Dad, Vance, Gjori, and Kjari

Little girls....

As most of you who know me know, I always wanted boys. If I could have had 12 boys, that is what I wanted. But, from the day I found out little Kjari was a girl, I thought to myself, it might be fun?! Then as wonderful caring friends and family began mailing me pink things, I thought, Oh no, I am definatly not one of those pink moms. Well... it didn't take long! Before she was a week or so old, I began LOVEING pink! I mean in all shades! I like it all. Purple too, and baby blue, all those fun cute girly colors! I just love them.

So I just wanted to post a few pictures of my adorible, wonderful, strong willed, amazing little girl. I love you Kjari!

Winter Blue's

A wonderful friend posted about what kinds of thing they do to keep the kiddies busy, when it is so cold out this time of year. Christmas is over, no more major things coming up, (yeah!). So for us too, this is a wonderful time, to just relax, but that also means keeping busy. So this was our idea today, I love making playdough, but just didn't really feel like it today, so I pulled out our huge box of coookie cutters a good freind gave us years ago. I have used these cookie cutters for a million different things, and very rairly use them for cookies!! :)

So, lately when Kjari even see's a crayon she wants me to trace her hand. Then she wants me to trace it again, and then again, then my hand, then her's again. Anyway, you get the point, so today I pulled the cutters out and let her learn to trace in them! She loved it! I was planning on letting her at it and having 10 or 15 minutes to get some things done, but I have to admit, I had fun doing it too!

So, any of my readers, who would like to post something on your blog about what you do to keep the kids happy and busy and learning, post on your blog and be sure to leave a comment here to let us know to check it out!

My New Vacuum

Ok, so I am sure I will never hear from Dyson, though I would still be up to it, I just simply couldn't wait! I needed a good vacuum now. So I continued my internet search and eventually ended up in Walmart. I really, wanted that Dyson.... but just simply didn't have $400 to spare. So... I bought my first hoover. It is the Hoover Mach 5. So far..... I am in love!! I love it. I had broken my decision making down to this one or a new one called the Infinity. I really like it and it looked great, but it came down to sticking to a brand I knew. And I have to admit, that the sticker on the box that read, "better then Dyson" sold me. Since it was at least half the cost. So... I brought it home. It is amazing. I have always had fairly cheap Vacuums, I just never realized sooo much why they are cheap. I emediatly opened it up and started Vacuuming! Seriously, I doubt many of you were Vacuuming your house at 7:00pm on New Years Eve... sad.. I know... Anyway, I vacuumed the area rugs on the main floor and the hallways and the family room! Oh my goodness, I could have been a vacuum sales person, gross, I can't believe I am showing you all this now, but I am! I am sold. So, now if Dyson were to want a real opinion on the earlier statement about weather or not the Hoover truly is better then the Dyson, I would still be very happy to give them a try, so for now, I will have to be a Hoover.... hmmm, nothing sounds very nice...... :) so we will see if I ever become a Dyson Diva!

I WANT TO BE A DYSON DIVA!

I have to tell you a funny (probably long) story. As most or all of you if you know me at all, know I am a tight wad. Some would say that that was an understatement, but I will go on anyway.

The two years in our new home have been a floor challenge. As you know we had issues with the floor laying but that is another subject. We now have laminate flooring on our whole main floor. And carpet on the downstairs floor and hallways, and hard wood in all the bedrooms. Ok, I have always been a Bissell fan. Looking back probably because the cost was so great, and really it was a great vacuum and I loved the tools. But... sadly to say, I have ended up buying 3, count them 3 Bissells in the last 5 years. Ok, in my mind I was thinking, well that's ok, I love new things. But....one day, one of those vacuum sales guys came knocking. I was too nice to say no, and honestly my rugs on the main floor did need vacuuming, so I said why not. Of course as set up, I was horrified at the dirt he got out of my area rugs. And then to see what came out of my mattresses. UGH! He left me in shock. But being who I am he left with out a sale too. I immediately got online and was determine to find a good deal on that Vacuum. He quoted me something in the range of $2000. Of course before he left and had called his superior I think at least 3 times, he had said he could bring it down to, I think around $1400, but of course he wouldn't be getting any commission at that price, blah blah blah, but he just wanted sales. He had promised his fiance he would sell a certain amount of vacuums before he would come home. They were apart........How sad......but your talking to me. So I wished him luck with that, but no sale. That was over a year ago, I think about him every once in a while, I hope he made it home.... :)
Anyway, I did find online the same vacuum amazingly at at last half the cost, but then I was just disgusted with that company to find that out, so that began my real search for a "great" vacuum.

I am cheap, but I am picky. This is what I wanted:

* I wanted one that could go from rug to hard floor.
* One that would never lose suction
* One with great attachments
* One that is light weight
* Has a long cord
* Easy to clean

Oh, and I didn't want to pay to much of course.......

So, after a lot of research online, I went to a Vacuum store. I really thought I was going to put some money into a good machine this time, and not go just for the price. After a long time in the store, hearing all about different brands, but really not one solid opinion. My two youngest were running all over, knocking things down, spraying air fresheners etc... I decided that maybe I was just getting the wrong type of Vacuum, and bought a canister instead. He sold me big time on the Eureka boss, and told me that even though it was cheap I would not be disappointed. Exactly the right words for me. Thinking back, he was probably thinking, get this lady and her kids out of here! So....at first I loved it. It has all the wonderful attachments that I had just recently discovered in that other vacuum, and the suction appeared to be wonderful. And it did transition great to the hard floors. And I loved the special attachment handle for the stairs! That went on good for about 6 months. I would lose suction, but that was usually easily remedied by taking it apart, and un clogging it. Now a year later, the bottom part just simply isn't sucking at all. In fact it blows out. With out that on, the suction still works fine, but vacuuming a 2200 square foot home, with a tube, just isn't realistic.
So, my husband has begged me now, to buy a vacuum that will last. Again I am on my search. He said to me the other day, what about one of those Dyson ones? I really didn't know much about Dyson. I remember seeing it with that funky ball and thinking it seemed really expensive and moving on. So today I finally went online to do some more research and found the Dyson Diva site. So, I want to be a Dyson Diva. I want to try it and let all of you know how it works. If it is worth the cost and if it will provide my wish list from a vacuum above. So I hope I hear from them. I will keep you all up to date! My only hold back, is now that I have seen the videos on the site, I have to decide if I want to wait to hear from them, or go buy one now.....

Merry Chirstmas Eve!!!

Kjell made it home safely yesterday just in time, for me to run out to a wonderful baptism of a new member of out ward. It was such a great reminder of why we are hear and what this life is all for. I saw Christmas different last night. As I get older (ugh) I feel like every year that "true meaning of Christmas" becomes so much more clear. Or maybe just different. I think as a child you know we are celebrating something very important. I know I was always taught that it was so much more then Santa Clause, Christmas tree's and presents. I have always known that. But last night. Having the opportunity to see what the true purpose of His birth was for, was such a wonderful, experience. To see another daughter of God, receive through the power of the Priesthood the blessings of baptism. That same power of the Priesthood that was restored on this earth and given to the Prophet Joseph Smith, through John the Baptist, and Peter, James, and John, who had directly received that power and that authority through Jesus Christ Himself. To receive the blessings that come with that, and to begin a new life, was exactly what the season is for. That is the reason that our Heavenly Father sent his son Jesus Christ to be born hear. To live a life that we can follow and learn from, to be baptized. I am so grateful for Him. I am grateful for his gift of the atonement. That He died for us and that He rose again. As imperfect as I am, I need Him. I need that Gift, and so does everyone. No other gift matters.

Thoughts for today.

Yeah!! Daddy is coming home today!! We are all so excited. Its like Christmas break and vacation won't really even start until he gets here. That might be party because I have been a drill sargent trying to get everyone to help get the house in order, so we can ALL relax and enjoy our Christmas time with Daddy!
The weather has made it a long drive for him, he stayed in Spokane last night, and is going over the Idaho passes right now. He says it is pretty bad.
I am off, to make some more treats! I swear the first of the year.......................

I have a new hobby!

Ok, I use to look at all those cute blogs out there, of women who serious post the pictures with instructions on how they have done there daughters hair, and think.....well it really wouldn't be nice to say, since now I loves these ladies!! One night I just decided that I wanted to do her hair in a way that we could wake up an go. I thought, I could try braids. I seriously and not very good at this sort of thing usually. I have never been able to figure out how to french braid. Even when I was little, my older sister would french braid my hair, she has always been good at it, even when we were both very young.
Anyway, I am now hooked! And Kjari loves it! Besides making her look like a "princess" which she loves, I have been doing her hair at night after her bath, and seriously, she has fallen asleep while I am doing it every time! She loves it.
So, I will not be posting my daily pics like all those wonderful talented women do, but I thought I would share a few. The great thing about alot of these looks is, I seriously put her to bed and in the morning just a little sprits and comb and she looks beautiful. Many times too, when I take the brades or twists out, her hair looks so pretty and full!
It is just too fun! Being the girly girl, I personally am, I really never thought I would enjoy this sort of thing as much as I do.

Easy Peasy!!

A friend has ask me a few times now to post my new found favorite, easy recipes and a few other new ones I threw together for the bake sale. I LOVE LOVE LOVE things that do not require, crazy exotic ingredients, major amounts of waiting and sitting, and rising. I love things that I can throw together in a few minutes, and look and taste like I slaved over it with a perfect candy thermometer until it hits that just right ball (whatever the heck that is) stage. I simply don't have the desire or time. But... I love sweets, especially around this time of year, and I LOVE to make them to give away to friends. Personally I love to explore wonderful yummy healthy options too, but not to easy to find in this catagory!!
Here is my first favorite.
I am going to call this one:
EASY PEASY Peanut butter pleasy, (ok whatever!)
I found this recipe for the peanut butter fudge, and I added the chocolate, to make it peanut butter chocolate heaven! I am really not a peanut butter fudge fan and all! It is my least favorite of all holiday treats. But this..... I LOVE.
You simply take, two cubes of butter (a cup), and a cup of peanut butter and put it in a microwave safe bowl. Then put it in the microwave for 3 minutes. Take it out, and stir it until the butter and peanut butter blend and are creamy smooth. Return to the microwave for an additional 3 minutes, It does boil, so make sure your bowl is big enough to take that. When you get it out, (it will be hot!) add a teaspoon of vanilla, it kind of bubbles it all, just stir it in. Then pour it into a bowl of a half bag of powdered sugar and stir. It will get thick pretty fast, so just keep stirring with a wooden spoon until it blends. Then you pour it into a 8X8 pan that you have lined with wax paper that you greased with butter. I take another piece of wax paper and lay it across the top and push it all down so that it fills the pan evenly. Then I pour chocolate chips on top, and let is sit for a few seconds, it should still be pretty hot, and then spread out on top. Put the whole thing in the fridge to cool. Then just pop it out of the pan and cut! Sooooo good!

Saltine Toffee

This is a classic recipe I am sure everyone has there own version of, but I just made it for the first time and fell in love. It took 15 minutes tops!

You melt in a pan two cubes of butter and one cup brown sugar, ( I think I might try two cups brown sugar next time). You lay out in a jelly roll pan......

(I just learned the other day that someone didn't know what a jelly roll sheet was. I guess growing up in Mormon home with big eaters, I might not of known those little pans that others know as cookie sheets actually existed! So anyway, in case you didn't know, to me it is just the larger Cookie sheet!)

Anyway....you lay out a sheet of foil on a your pan and butter it. Then you lay out 40 saltine crackers, (sounds funny, but so yummy!). When your sugar and butter get boil and get frothy, (see no dumb "ball" stage stuff" this should take about 3 minutes, then you pour that over your crackers and completely cover. You then put it in a 350 degree oven for 10 minutes.

As soon as you take it out, pour a whole bag of chocolate chips on top, and let melt and then spread out. Cool in the fridge to harden. Then just break and enjoy!

From what I hear, if you are not going to eat them right away, store in a a zip lock bag in the fridge or they will lose there crunch! Enjoy!!

Baskets For Bake Sale

These are the baskets I threw together the night before the bake sale. I love this idea, of putting together something that is homemade and thought out, but won't break the budget. I made each of these basket including the basket themselves and grass, and covers etc... (not including the treats) for $5 to $6 a piece. We sold most of them for $15 to $20!! The mugs I put together for $1.75, and sold them for $5.

I love this sort of thing, and I love receiving this sort of thing too! I hope those who bought them enjoyed them.

Salty and Sweet

Ok, these I found on a bake sale site, and loved the idea that you could make so many in such a short time. They tasted wonderful so I made my own variations.

There recipe said to take pretzels and line them on a cookie sheet, add a Hershey kiss to the top of each one, (i was making so many and being the cheap skate I am, I bought the huge Hershey candy bars, they have for a dollar and broke them in to little squares, worked great).

You put them like this in the oven at around 400 for 4 minutes. When you take them off you immediately put a peanut m&m on top of each one. SOOOO yummy, salty and sweet!

The variations I did, was to use mint m&m. I also used mint patties and but they melted and didn't look as pretty, but tasted wonderful. I would do them again, just not for the sale.

Ok, the other one I found I loved too. They were called "poor man turtles"

You lay your pretzels out, and put Rollo's on each one. (I used dollar store Carmel chocolate bells) You bake them the same and push one pecan on top when they come out, they ooze out, but cool nicely. OH these were so good, better then turtles!!

Marshmallow Treats

These I found online somewhere, wish I could remember. But they really are cute, and surprisingly taste really good.

You simply melt what ever chips you want, I did chocolate here, and then put a pretzel stick into a large marshmallow and dip, then roll in your favorite topping. I did toffee bits!

I was thinking you could do, chocolate, and mini m&m's, you could do butter scotch chips with coconut flakes? not sure on that one, how about chocolate chips and candy sprinkles. White chocolate chips and candy sprinkles.

The ideas are endless, but it is late, and my creative mind already went to sleep!!

Montana is cold!!

Now when I grew up in Idaho, we had much longer winters then they do now, but nothing, and I mean nothing can compare to the cold we feel here in Montana! (Ok maybe Alaska or whatever, but for me, it is Montana)

It has been so cold, I mean freezing here this weekend. Church was cancelled Sunday, because of the weather. The high yesterday was -12. Ok, and since we are one of the windiest cities in the nation, the wind chill factor added on that, they say, makes it feel like -45!!

It is truly insane. It got alot colder too, remember that was the high for the day!!!

This morning, I was sure school would be cancelled, frost bite sets in in this weather within 10 minutes!! But no, no cancellation! My car would not start, (I forgot to plug it in last night, too cold to go out, and kept putting it off) So a sweet nieghbor had to give the boys a ride to school. My plan was to get the last few things I need to mail out to the post office today, to make it by Christmas, so I hope my car decides to start soon!

Saturday, when it wasn't as cold, (closer to -7 hee hee) they big boys bundled up with a grand plan to make a slideing area off the deck by building up snow. Well, it only lasted about 6 minutes until it was just too cold! They each took turns once in a while running out and jumping on the trampoline for a few seconds (with out coats mind you) and running back in! Can you tell who these boys are related too?????

Anyway, it has been a cold and long weekend, and it doesn't show much signs of warming up!

But guess what...... I STILL LOVE MONTANA!!!! :)

Here are each of the boys at the Christmas program duing the bake sale. Vance couldn't be in more pain I think! He hates this sort of thing! I loved watching them all!

Vance Scout play

Vance was in Christmas play with his webelo troup at pack meeting this week. He was an angel. They did a really good job.

Need my links back!

Ok, while making my blog cute for the season, I somehow deleted all of my links! AUGH, so if I know you and you want me to see your blog, since that is how I check up on everyone else, could you please send me your link again!! Oops!

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Twas the month before Christmas**When all through our land,**Not a Christian was praying**Nor taking a stand.**Why the PC Police had taken away,**The reason for Christmas - no one could say.**The children were told by their schools not to sing,**About Shepherds and Wise Men and Angels and things.**It might hurt people's feelings, the teachers would say** December 25th is just a 'Holiday'.**Yet the shoppers were ready with cash, checks and credit**Pushing folks down to the floor just to get it!**CDs from Madonna, an X BOX, an I-pod**Something was changing, something quite odd! **Retailers promoted Ramadan and Kwanzaa**In hopes to sell books by Franken & Fonda.**As Targets were hanging their trees upside down** At Lowe's the word Christmas - was no where to be found.**At K-Mart and Staples and Penny's and Sears**You won't hear the word Christmas; it won't touch your ears.**Inclusive, sensitive, Di-ver-si-ty**Are words that were used to intimidate me.**Now Daschle, Now Darden, Now Sharpton, Wolf Blitzen**On Boxer, on Rather, on Kerry, on Clinton!**At the top of the Senate, there arose such a clatter**To eliminate Jesus, in all public matter.**And we spoke not a word, as they took away our faith** Forbidden to speak of salvation and grace**The true Gift of Christmas was exchanged and discarded**The reason for the season, stopped before it started.**So as you celebrate 'Winter Break' under your 'Dream Tree'**Sipping your Starbucks, listen to me.**Choose your words carefully, choose what you say**Shout MERRY CHRISTMAS , not Happ y Holiday!*Please, all join together and wish everyone you meet during the holidays a MERRY CHRISTMAS. Christ is 'The Reason' for the
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Its all over!!! YEAH!

The bake sale is over!! Yeah, it was a wonderful success. I was nervous having a smaller committee this year but we have a great school, and such wonderful supportive families, tons of people brought things whom I hadn't even been contacted!

It was alot of work. A lot of work. But...it was really worth it, we raised
du du du dum......(ok, suppose to be a drum roll, but I am tired being up till 3:30 baking and working the sale all day, cut me some slack!!)
Just under...

$1400!!!!

I am very happy with the success of it all, and so ready to crash in bed!! If I didn't have to go back to the school tomorrow I would just keep them all home and sleep in. But.... on to another day!

Questoins for kids! Tag your it if you read this!

Interview one of your children, asking them the following 20 questions.
I thought this was fun so I am going to all three boys:

Here is Kjellsen who will be six in a few weeks:

What is something that Dad always says to you? "I love you"

What makes Dad happy? "playing and hunting with him"

What makes Dad sad? "when I hurt him."

How does your Dad make you laugh? "doing jokes"

What was your Dad like as a child? "he liked going with his dad hunting"

How old is your Dad? "I don't know"

How tall is your Dad? "ten inches"

What is his favorite thing to do with you? "go hunting"
What does your Dad do when you're not around? "has to go on trips with out us"

If your Dad becomes famous what would it be for? "for doing a job and being so good"

What is your Dad really good at? "hunting"

What is your Dad not very good at? "nothing"

What does your Dad do for his job? "fixes the roofs"

What is Dad's favorite food? “deer"

What makes you proud of Dad? "because he plays with me"

If your Dad was a cartoon character who would he be? "superman"

What do you and your Dad do together? "go to the storage unit, and hunting"

How are you and your Dad the same? "we have the same skin"

How are you and your Dad different? "cause he is big and I am little"

How do you know your Dad loves you? "cause moms and dads love there sons"

Here is Vance who is ten and a half:

What is something that Dad always says to you? “love you pumpkin"

What makes Dad happy? “getting a deer when hunting"

What makes Dad sad? "I never see him cry"

How does your Dad make you laugh? “he tickles me"

What was your Dad like as a child? “crazy"

How old is your Dad? “33"

How tall is your Dad? “6 foot 5"

What is his favorite thing to do with you? “going on trips with me"
What does your Dad do when you're not around? “eat.....works"

If your Dad becomes famous what would it be for? “nothing”

What is your Dad really good at? “roofing"

What is your Dad not very good at? “video games"

What does your Dad do for his job? “sit on roofs"

What is Dad's favorite food? “mexican"

What makes you proud of Dad? “That he is strong”

If your Dad was a cartoon character who would he be? “a loony toon”

What do you and your Dad do together? “hunt”

How are you and your Dad the same? “we're both tall”

How are you and your Dad different? “He has a gun and I don't”

How do you know your Dad loves you? “he says pumpkin alot”
(as you can see Vance is a jokster)

Here is Gjori who is 9:

What is something that Dad always says to you? “I love you”

What makes Dad happy? “having time with us"

What makes Dad sad? “When he has to go away”

How does your Dad make you laugh? “jokes”

What was your Dad like as a child? “nice”

How old is your Dad? “33”

How tall is your Dad? “seven foot, maybe eight”

What is his favorite thing to do with you? “hunting"
What does your Dad do when you're not around? “do work”

If your Dad becomes famous what would it be for? “helping sick people”

What is your Dad really good at? “listening to jokes”

What is your Dad not very good at? “stoping doing paper work”

What does your Dad do for his job? “roof inspector”

What is Dad's favorite food? “I would guess turkey, no, no deer"”

What makes you proud of Dad? “having fun with me, playing games, lots of things”

If your Dad was a cartoon character who would he be? “whoever the top star is”

What do you and your Dad do together? “have fun”

How are you and your Dad the same? “both nice”

How are you and your Dad different? “different height"

How do you know your Dad loves you? “I don't know”

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

My Mom!

Happy Birthday Mom! I love you! You are an amazing women. I know it is normal to be able to see more and more how much we appreciate our parents as we get older, but you truly are amazing. You are a women that I admire. I hope you know that and how much you are loved. I wish I could have been there for your birthday! I miss you like crazy.

I love you mom!