Weekend with the Frecker Family

This past weekend we got to hang out with the Frecker Family. We surprised them by pretty much just showing up with all our snow gear. I wanted Justin to take me skiing and it ended up being a really sunny weekend.

We played in the snow for 3 straight days and games every night.

Friday we tackled the snow hill and turned it into a sled shoot.

Then we built a snowman.

Daisy and Grandma Pam gave our snowman a family. They worked on it until dark.

Saturday we went to Kelly Canyon to go skiing. We decided to take Daisy with us. This was her first time skiing. She did so good. I should have video taped it.

Justin and I on the ski lift.

It was a great day for skiing and it was supper fun!

Sunday we went to church and as soon as we got home the kids were back in their snow stuff playing on the hill along with Justin.

Look what they built! An awesome tunnel right through the snow hill!

To top off the weekend we had a party with my parents and brother, Tyler, and his family. We played games and watched the Super Bowl.

I love being able to spend time with my family. It is great to be home!

We are still here

It has been so long since I have added anything to this blog. We are all still here and doing great! We have been busy busy with everything--work, play, school and home stuff. But we finally got a good Internet connection with my computer so perhaps I can do better, shall we say a new years resolution.

We are loving Montana. It is so beautiful. The sunsets, the rainbows, the open skies and the mountains.

We moved out of our little rental and found a bigger rental. We love it so much. Has lots of space and privacy. It is located up on a hill and our driveway is close to half a mile from the main road. I can hardly wait until spring to see what grows around our new home.

Here is what we see from our house and yard.

Following are some of the things we have been doing:

Daisy started Kindergarten and she gets to ride the school bus everyday.

Labor Day weekend is a big deal here in Dillon. There is a fair all week long and rodeos followed by a parade on Monday. It was so much fun to be involved with something we like so much.

Daisy got to do Muttin' Bustin' during one of the rodeos (That is riding a full grown sheep)

Halloween was fun. We had a great Halloween Party with my family and went pumpkin picking.

Here is the other set of Halloween costumes. Warm ones for a chilly night.

Daisy lost her first tooth. She was so proud!

Christmas this year, this was as close as the girls wanted to get to Santa.

Violet was scared taking one look and turning in a screaming run. Lily said she wanted to sit on Santa's lap, but stood there frozen to the ground. Daisy looked that Santa up and down and said I don't want to talk to that Santa he is fake. SILLY GIRLS.

The Girls are in Dance again and they are loving the costumes and dance shoes.

They take ballet and tap. They do a great job!

We love to spend time out in the mountains and snow playing around on the snowmobiles and sleds.

We also love that we can have horses at our house and can ride when ever we please.

Violet is not afraid of the horses at all!

Good or bad?

Our end in Ohio and onto Montana

Hope you have time because this post has lots of pictures!

Well the end began with the famous Salsa contest with our PSIO fraternity group. Yummy!

The kids got to hit the pinata many times.

Daisy was the first to smack it!

Lily was a fierce hitter. It was really funny.

Yes! finally it broke and they got CANDY!

Lily was so funny. she wouldn't just grab the candy and stick it in her bag like all the others. She picked through it all and only picked her favorites.

Our next event was the Dental Formal. This was the first year we went and it was a lot of fun. We went with some of our best friends Rochelle and Jeremy Wilde.

It was fun hanging out with so many of our friends we have made in school.

(Justin and Anna Rhodes, Jonathan and Caprice Walker, Jeremy and Rochelle Wilde, Chauncy and Melany West, Bryce and Krystal White, Brandon and Brittany Arnow)

We met up with Justin at the zoo after he had a field trip at the Zoo's hospital.

The Girls and I. we sure have loved coming to the zoo.

Justin and Anna at the PSIO-nora. Our senior send off. The had some funny videos and stories. we had a great laugh!

Here is the PSio group. We made a lot of friends and had a ton of fun being involved with this fraternity.

Here we are all dressed up and ready for our Princess Birthday Party

Daisy and the birthday girl Grace Wilde

Daisy at another birthday party with Mayson Kalke

Easter Sunday the girls got new dresses. They are so cute!

We had our good friend Bill come over and have dinner with us before we moved. I will sure miss all his phone calls checking up on me.

We also had a huge yard sale. we just didn't have room for all our stuff in the horse trailer. We got rid of EVERYTHING! Unbelievable.

Our last Dental event was the Senior Dinner. It was good to get together with all of the classmates of that year and say good bye. We really did make a lot of friends here in Ohio.

(Justin, Joel and Bridgett Johnson)

Justin and I. Don't we look good together.

Jeremiah and Diane Hawkins

Me and Rochelle

This is my sewing buddies. I loved getting together and sewing all of our different projects. Our last get together we had fun playing games together.

My brother Tyler and his wife Anna came out to see us. To vacation and to help us move. It was so GREAT!

We took them to some of our favorite places. #1 the zoo.

Our last picture with our favorite monkey.

We had a fun Mary Kay party-Thanks Anna-

The Kirtland Temple

Our cute family

Here we are packing up the trailer

It was a very tight fight, but we made it.

Before we left town the girls had a dance recital. they are adorable and very good dancers.

We said our last good byes to some of our favorite friends.

Grace Wilde

Lincoln Wilde

Aubrey Mack and Kathryn Ellingson

Graham Wilde

We will really miss our friends!

One last family shot with our cute Cleveland home.

Eating at red Lobster. Happy Birthday Anna-

The girls loved playing with the crab claws. They were picking stuff up with them and eating it.

Along our way to Montana we had a fun road trip. We decided we anted to stop at alot of the church history sites.

Here we are at Nauvho on the wagon ride.

we got to see alot of historic Nauvoh from the wagon

Our wagon driver was a good friend of our Grandpa Merrill

The temple was very gorgeous

Played in the Mississipi river at the end of the Nauvhoo lane

The girls loved dressing up as pioneers and playing with the toys and games.

We also stayed to watch the Nauvhoo play the couple missionaries put on. It was fun!

We went to Carthage Jail

Next stop was Adam-ondi-Ahman

Liberty jail

As we drove through South Dakota we say the Bad Lands

Lily

Daisy

There were some really cool formations

I think this trip completely wore out the girls (Me included), but we had fun and are glad we got to see and do so much.

We made it here to Dillon, MT