My parents hosted the annual Train Club Christmas Party at their house this year. She had her friends, Bonnie and Jerry, come to help as well as all of us. It was a potluck style dinner which they had after a short club meeting. After the meeting and dinner, everyone …

Both of the boys like to go out and help daddy and grandp. Josh is getting to the age where he is a BIG help to them. I try to not pay attention to everything he does when helping daddy, but the other day I did sneak out to get …

APPLES TO APPLES From the box: The Game of Hilarious Comparisons where EVERYONE’s opinion counts! It’s as easy as comparing apples to apples (LOL). Basically, there are red apple noun cards and green apple adjective cards. Each person is dealt 7 red apple cards from which you select the card …

TWENTY-ONE YEARS!Today, October 19th we celebrated our 21st anniversary. I’m not sure where 21 years have gone because it sure doesn’t seem like we should be this old. We should have had the girls come around the table to get in the picture with us. We went out to eat …

OUR SECOND SNOW DAY!It’s hard to believe that we’ve already had a couple of snow days and it’s not even the end of October yet. Normally we get our first snow right around the end of October. Tim was home since it was too wet to work. He helped Josh …

MOVING CHURCH! A Lutheran Church in town asked us to move a church from Box Elder to Billings. It was quite an endeavor which took several weeks. When it was close enough to town, Grandma Jan picked up the boys and took them in so they could be a part …

THE BOYS AND GRANDPA WORK ON THEIR HOBBY!TRAINS:Every spare minute the boys are asking to go to grandpa’s house to work on their train hobby. Josh is in charge of working on the Christmas table. Here is the start. It looks like he has a long way to go. I’ll …

TONGUE RIVER CAMPING was our spot of choice this year. We ended up getting to go there THREE times which is a lot for us for one summer. Josh had a BLAST catching fish… we were catching so many that he very quickly learned to take his own fish off …

EASTER: We had Easter Dinner at Tim’s parents this year. Here are some pictures from the Easter Egg Hunt. Looks like Amanda is ready to go home. Nathan is trying to share his sucker with GG.

1st Quarter 2006 – SKIING:A word from Amanda: This year I wanted to try snowboarding, so I had my friend Libby help me with that one day. It was alot harder than skiing in my opinion, but I still had a lot of fun.I don’t know if I will try …