Christmas party

We had a Christmas party with some of our friends from dental school who have all settled in Colorado. We did a white elephant gift exchange and played some charades. It was so fun to get together!

Emily got another pair of one-piece jammies to add to her collection.

Traver and Emily
The kiddos! Well, most of them.
Daegan got a snuggie for his gift. Leopard print.
It. was. awesome.
Chris & Kendra with whoppers & audio tapes.
Jason & Crystal the game Twister, thong, and........ a ski mask???
I'm sure they can find something interesting to do with these.

I think I got the best gift of all.
Large super-hero underwear.
Daegan and his mad acting skills. I am sad to say the guys beat us. Only because we gave them easy ones to guess. They gave us ones like "Gleaming the Cube."

It's that time of year again......

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

1 year older and wiser too

Happy Birthday Camden! I can't believe my little princess is 5. I love this girl. Her and I have so much fun together. She is my favorite shopping partner. She tells me things that looks cute and she gets so excited about new clothes. She is honest too. The other day she told me that I don't look cute in the morning because I have black underneath of my eyes. So sometimes I don't wash my face. Okay, most the time.
She wanted a pedicure for her present. Okay, I guess if I have to drag myself to get one I will......for you. But ONLY because it's your birthday.

Daddy made her pink eggs for breakfast. And then of course we went to McDonald's for dinner. I would be lying if I said I didn't enjoy it a little. They have the best fries.

Date night

Last weekend Daegan and I finally had a date night. We went and saw WICKED. I saw it in NY but this was his first time. Yep, WICKED virgin. I loved it and wanted him to see it. We ate at Hard Rock Cafe before the show. Daegan had a burger and I had a chicken sandwich. The food wasn't that great.For those of you who know my husband he doesn't get excited about hardly anything. If it doens't have to do with guns, flashlights, knives, or fishing you will most likely get the shoulder shrug answer to alot of questions. Yeah, it's hard to know what he really wants.
So after it was over and I asked him if he liked it he shrugged and said "it was okay."

Well, I am going to interpret that as "I loved it. Really. I feel like I can't admit it becasue I'm a guy and it's a broadway play. Thanks for taking me babe. Oh, and did you see that Mary Poppins is coming in March? We should go."

Okay already!

Okay, okay. I do have a lot to catch up on. Deagan moved to Colorado the end of August and I moved to Idaho to kick it with my sis. Before all that I had a b-day. The big 30. I know, I know, it's crazy but true. We celebrated with some Leatherby's.
Daegan job is better here. It's fun being by some friends that we went to school with too.
We are renting a house in Aurora. Here are some pics upon request. I am slowing trying to decorate.
View from kitchen

Yes, there new and I love them.
And this

took the place of this

Camden is in pre-school two days a week and havin a good time. Mason is doing awesome considering he had to change schools....again. I do not like that Mason catches the bus at 6:50. That's a.m. folks.

I miss my friends in MT. Daegan just misses MT.

I also miss all my friends who met up this weekend in Utah. You know who you are and I know you missed me too.

Hats

My friend just started selling these hats on etsy and they are SUPER cute. Check em out.
www.janehenry.etsy.com

Because moving is just that fun

For those of you that haven't heard we are moving.........again. We moved to Bozeman last July and now we are moving to Denver.
Yep, because we make no $$$ here. And you kinda need some to live.
Daegan starts his new job on Sep. 1. I will be staying in Idaho Falls with my sister for a month or so until we can save up enough money to move out there with him. No, we are not having marital problems. Just $ problems. But who isn't these days?
This will be a good thing for us and we are excited. I am SO sad to leave all of my peeps here in Bozeman.

Happy 4th

In loving memory of...

My Grandpa Bateman passed away yesterday due to internal bleeding from a tractor accident.
Harold J Bateman
1931-2009
You will be missed.

Summa time

This is a worm that the kids found this morning in the driveway. They made it their pet and put it in Camden's bike and rode around with it. So nice.

Daegan and I celebrated 9 years yesterday. He gave me some perfume (Super Model....Victoria secret) and I got him some ammo for his shot gun. I think. Some gun.

That just shows how different we are. But it works!

I wanted to get him something to organize his dresser with but then I realized we already own a garbage.

The Dresser

The dresser.....now, it's not anything like "the chair" from this movie.
NO room.

This dresser has been driving me crazy for quite sometime. In school Daegan's excuse was not having anywhere to put all his things. So I told myself just to deal with it until we had a bigger place. Now we have a garage. The perfect place for his "collectibles." I call it clutter.
So let's take a look at what he so desperately can't have one story below him.

batteries

money (just coins, otherwise it wouldn't be there)

paper (that has been cut by some sort of knife)

knives

knife handles

bullets

shells

cologne

headlamp

flashlights

tools

receipts

pager

gum wrappers (trident)

battery charger

CD's

books

GPS (hey, just ask me where the garage is)

His stuff even takes over part of the window seal.

And my favorite is how he uses the edge of the dresser to test the sharpness of his knives. Look closely.

I want my bedroom to be my sanctuary. Not feel like I'm sleeping in a shop. On the floor by the dresser is a pile of dirty clothes. Yep, we do own a laundry basket. But his defense is that it's on my side of the room. Serioulsy? I wash your clothes AND put them away. All you have to do is put them in the basket. You SO have the better end of the deal. If I had it my way he would have cologne and a picture of me.

Anyways, love you babe, just not your dresser. Not one little bit.

Nice Grill

Gosh people, it's been a long time.
So we purchased our first barbecue. Daegan wanted a charcoal one. The food does taste better but it takes so much longer. But since he is the one who will be doing the grilling it doesn't matter to me. As long as I get my meat done medium-well.
Plus this one cost $40 compared to $250. We could have got one off the side of road but who knows what people put on barbecues.
We had Daegan's assistant Kim and her husband Brock over to break it in. Menu.......tri -tip and barbecue chicken. We know how to do it.


After the excitement of the barbecue died down I made some flowers. It was a good weekend. My mother-in-law gave Mason an old CD-player. Along with Alvin and The Chipmunks soundtrack. He thinks it's so cool. I can't wait for him to take it for show and tell and then have his friend bring a 8GB nano. He has no idea what he's missing and I love it.
ELi found it and was listening to music all by himself.

ON another note.......

This is Amanda. She is in my ward. She is also "special." She has no family that live here or even try to contact her. She was called to help me out with the music in Relief Society. She likes me.........a lot. She is always rubbing my back in church and trying to lay on my lap. It can get awkward but whatta ya do.

She was in the special Olympics a few weeks ago. My friend Julie and I went to support. She did great. She is such a sweetheart.

It was 7:30 A.M.

Best job in the world

I love Mother's Day.
"Babe, Eli needs his diaper changed............It's Mother's Day." (or I would be all over it)
"My love, the kids need a bath............it's Mothers day."
"D, my back is sore..............come on, it's Mother's Day."

Saturday night I made a comment about it being Mother's Day tomorrow. "Oh shoot, I need to take the kids to get you something." It's alright. I mean, you have only known about it for a year.
I hinted, no actually flat out told him that I wanted flowers.


Who needs McDonalds when you can have homemade sausage and egg mcmuffin.

Love this picture of Camden.

Love my kids. Tons.

Time Out for Women

Last weekend I attended TOFW in Billings. It was my first time. I went with some fun girls from my ward. We stayed in a hotel, ate at Olive Garden, and learned a lot about each other.
All the speakers were so good and hilarious. Which is important.

Chelsea and I at Kohls trying on some vibrant lipstick. Yes, we were like high schoolers. (not scholars)

Chelsea, me, Missy, Julie, Missy, Heather, Marissa, Darcie. not pictured...Alicia, Erica, Meagan.

Good. Times.

Easter Excitement

I thought I better put up some pictures from Easter just to prove that we do celebrate it. I LOVED Camden's dress this year. Eli just woke up and wasn't to great with the idea of pictures. By the way. He hates nursery. Not sure what to do.

Easter Egg hunt action.......