Ok - ALMOST February - Jan. 31st - Margaritaville Baby Shower for Jon & Gen
Feb. 8th - Freakin' Freezin' trip to the Zoo with the Jerome/Olesens
Feb. 13th - Pizza & Movie with Alice Mae (so Jaime & Lon can go out)
Feb. 14th - Scrapbooking, Fondue, & Bingo at Jaymie & Joel's
Feb. 20 - 22 - Hanging out in Lancaster - celebrating Grandma's 80th Bday
Feb. 25th - New haircut 
Feb. 28th - Birthday dinner @ Red Lobster - and back to my place for Cake and Rock Band!
Jaymie and I looked forward to spending a girls' weekend up in Alex - for the 50th Anniversary Celebration - but settled for a quick road trip with her 17 year old daughter and her friend. :) When I found out this event was happening - and then that Alex was hosting Moorhead and Anoka! - I was excited to plan a whole weekend with Amy and Jaymie! Amy - still in the hospital - so now instead of just cheering for Alex - we also cheered for Joey!
Joey ended up losing both of his matches - but Anoka did well overall! (except that the highlight of the night was Alex's #2 ranked heavyweight beating Anoka's #1 ranked heavyweight. Yeah - it was sort of a big deal.
After the wrestling - there was a program/reception thing in the cafeteria. Jaymie and I stayed for that - which was cool - but really, we were disappointed that more of our generation of wrestlers/cheerleaders weren't there. In fact - the only other classmate was Randy Olson - and I'm pretty sure he was there because his dad is a coach. Maybe next time they do this - there will be more buzz - and we'll see more of our peeps! (hope so, anyway!)
Good time - lots of fun! :)
Well, Amy missed it - but hey - that's just an excuse to do this all again! Lonny threw an awesome LOST-themed party - including fish biscuits and Oceanic water! The premiere did not disappoint either - this should be a great season of our favorite show!
What a fun night - going to the Target Center with Lon/Jaime/Alice and Josh/Joanna/Zach! I really could have sat and watched Alice the whole night - she was in awe. She was yelling to the characters on stage - and waving at them! Can you tell she's spoiled tho?? Lonny got her the light-up-spinney Elmo toy, I got her a T-shirt, she had popcorn, juice, and a blue slushy. . .and she even got the $8 Elmo "buy-oon" that she just HAD to have. To be fair - I do agree with Lonny that $8 is a small price to pay for peace and quiet on the way to the car! :)
Well - it's crazy how life has changed in just a week and a half. Pretty much, I've spent every night since Jan. 4th at Unity Hospital - with Amy (from Anoka)'s family. The story is long - check out her CaringBridge site - but pretty much - she had a blockage in her intestine - and has been in a medical coma in the ICU since Jan. 4th. Please keep her in your thoughts. I'm ready to be done with this - and have my friend back!
Ok - I'm totally stealing Heidi's title - but I like the ring of it. Yesterday started out at Bob and Sue's. I went up there to put Grandma's hair in rollers. She and Grandpa came back to my place while I prepared for NYE guests. Grandpa kept himself busy with dishes, shoveling (Bella helped), and cleaning things I didn't even know needed cleaning!
I combed Grandma's hair out (I think I did a pretty good job) :) - and then our guests started arriving. 
Between the Nordins and the Olesens, we had a good bunch of friends to share our Chinese NYE dinner. (yes, those are Chinese Cabbage Rolls you see there!)
After kissin' at midnight . . . 
(Heidi - what can I say - love you dearly - but I hope there aren't too many more NYE parties where we have to kiss each other!)
. . . we continued our Rock Band game until we couldn't stay awake any longer! :)
Happy New Year Everyone!!
Yeah, I'm really likin' this vacation thing. Not sure I really want to go back on Monday! Went to another movie today - this time, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with Andrea and Becky. Then I went to get a haircut - I think it's adorable. :) And finally, Spaghetti dinner with Grandma and Grandpa - Matt/Sarah/girls/& Sarah's sister and Lonny/Alice joined us! Good times! :)
Today was a fun day of running around. I was actually up in Blaine by 9:30am to pick up my dates for the 10:10AM! showing of Marley & Me. Grandma, Grandpa, and I enjoyed the movie - but yes - the tears flowed freely - and I did cuddle with my own babies when I got home!
I spent some time with Amy (in Anoka) for a bit - and then met Ann for dinner at Flame. The food was fine - but the cool part was our dessert of S'mores!
It's been really cold - but today was nice enough to get outside. Alice and Lonny came out to play with the pups . .and then Lonny took Alice to the front yard to teach her how to make Snow Angels in the fresh snow. (Baxter and Bella watched from the front step ... as close to the front yard they could get without being "corrected")
The evening brought us out to Bob and Sue's again - this time for Grandma's request. . a re-run of the Rice Krispie Chicken dinner she was too crummy feeling to enjoy the last time.
What a weird Christmas Day! We really did just lie around in PJs. The biggest event was Alice coming down to Santa's presents - and then getting to play with her new dollhouse.
And. . .to illustrate how weird this was - here's our menu from today:
Breakfast
eggs
bacon
biscuits
cinnamon twists
Lunch?
Didn't really have one - but snacked on meat, cheese, crackers
Christmas Dinner??
Fishsticks
Tater Tots
Corn
Next year. . still PJs .. but maybe we'll plan for a meal or two! :)
