More March

I'm not much for designing these postings. I just add the photos so I can bring them up at work whenever I want to look at the family!!! Chuck has been working from 4am to 4pm for the last two weeks--plus 8 more hours on Saturdays--note the common nap in the chair while pretending to watch The Wild, Hell's Kitchen, Timberwolves, or the Gophers.

March 2009

It's been a long and busy winter. We enjoy seeing Chris around as he is now working back at Epiphany full time and looking for some theatre gigs. He is looking into an internship at the Children's Theatre--it's a non paid internship, but it would be nice to get in somewhere. After the little ones went to sleep we enjoyed some ice cream and brownies--we conserved water by not using dishes!



I figure we won't get many more of these photos of the kids cuddling together!




Our recent snowfall and snow day was spent playing in the snow around the house. Mitchell helped me shovel and Maria snuck around to the back yard to swing! It was so bright with the white snow and the sun shining that afternoon.









Mama and Maria are T-I-R-E-D!










"I'm Batman...I have a cape," says Maria.
"Mitchell, who are you?" I ask. He responds,
"I'm SuperMan!"
"What are you doing?"
"Saaaaviiing Aaaanimals!"

February 2009

I just tried to down load some new photos and realized I haven't added them to the computer from my camera yet. Good news about that is that it either means we were so busy I didn't have time to download them, OR nothing new was happening--either one works for me! Hopefully soon I'll get on that.

Lake Park in Winter

Mitchell has been fighting a tough virus the past few days...he still wanted to spend a few minutes at the Lake Park! The kids rode on the snowmobile with their dad and then they rode home in the car with me!

Grandma Helen's Birthday Party

Happy Birthday, MOM! She is as beautiful as ever!
These photos are for Dad. Just in case he happens to check our blog--it just wasn't the same without you here, Dad! We had your photo up on the computer though, so you were here in spirit! We talked about the postcards Grandpa sent and all the reading and walking and museum trips he and Uncle John have been doing. Uncle John fishes for dinner, but Grandpa makes his famous chili to supplement just in case he's not catching anything, or the weather is bad. The postcards he sent said 78 degrees on them. A mere 100 degree difference from us that day as we were at 20 below zero here!

Chris visits!

Chris came over for dinner with his friend Allie. She is awesome! The kids loved her right away--it was almost as nice as having Grandma come over! They left our house to head over to Brent and Wendy's for conversation--and because we were ready for bed, and Brent and Wendy are night owls! It works out great for Chris! Chris also helped us move a nice hand me down desk downstairs--Chuck set up an office and Mitchell has his very own desk and computer on the end of the big desk! Mitchell helped Mom clean for Grandma Helen's birthday party and Maria was busy painting her nails for the big fancy dinner! Maria took the photo of me with the weight ball...

Unedited Christmas

The kids got scooters at Grandma and Grandpa Sigmeth's house! Santa dropped off a councer too-it makes music and counts and animal noises and jumping games...that Santa sure knows his stuff! I'm sure Mrs. Claus helps out an awful lot with her woman's intuition. Mitchell is very cautious getting on the scooter, Maria takes off doing the one legged trick-stunts! Sounds familiar, eh Brother Brent?!
The holidays were great fun--we got to see Brother Chris and the kids sure loved having him here! We all did.
Now we get the colds and the snow while Grandpa is staying warm down in Rockport, Texas!