Baby Rissa

This looks like Sophie from the back, but it is Rissa, she was naughty.

Sleeping

She got some new shades.

This is so cute.

Deer

Here are pictures of the nine deer that were right outside the window this afternoon. We all went over to the window and stood there gandering at them. They were not affected by us being five feet away from them. They just dug in the snow trying to find food. They stayed there till even after we got bored of them and walked away. The bigger ones were not nice to the little ones, whenever they would get to close the big one would kick at it. Meanies!!

Kaylie

I just loved these pictures that I took of Kaylie. She is growing up so fast. She is 7 and will be 8 in April. She loves life, she loves school and her friends. She is a very social person. She loves to spend time in the mountians with brett, so far they have been able to take Brownie out to the go sledding.

She is a great helper, she really does like to help out. She washes the dishes. One time she stayed home while Brett and I had gone somewhere, when we came back, she had cleaned the house, set the table and had dinner ready. It was so sweet. She was so excited to do this for us.
What a joy she brings to my life. I am so gratful to have such wa wonderful daughter.

Some pictures of our snow

This first picture is of the mountains around town

This is also the mountains

The rest of these are the snow in our yard.

This is the walkway to our back door

This is the backyard

here is the hot tub with some snow on it, it has been cleaned off numerous times since the snow started.

This is from the back porch into the backyard




This is the fron walk way, we always go in the back door cause there is a mud room to take off our boots, so the is the snow piled up.

This is our street full of snow.





Brett;s car, the one we have been driving, I haven't driven my car, cause it doesn't have all wheel drive. You can see some animal tracks, and the sidewalk is completely covered, I just shoveled it a few days ago.

Some deer tracks in our yard.

I don't know if you can tell how deep this spot of snow is.

This is the road to Helena as you are entering the canyon.

This is also the highway to Helena, it is so beautiful through the canyon.

Just a pretty sunset.

The wind blows so much here, that there are huge snow drifts everywhere. In some spots there will be two feet of snow, in others there will be only inches. So here are some pictures.

It's A Boy!

No I'm not having a baby, we got a puppy. It is a chocolate lab, he is 10 weeks old and his name is Brownie.

Winter Storm Warning

OVER NORTH CENTRAL MONTANA...TOTALSNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 7 TO 10 INCHES ARE EXPECTED BY SATURDAYEVENING WITH UP TO 18 INCHES IN THE MOUNTAINS. OVER SOUTHWESTMONTANA...TOTAL SNOW ACCUMULATION OF 3 TO 6 INCHES ARE EXPECTEDBY SATURDAY EVENING WITH UP TO 12 INCHES IN THE MOUNTAINS. INADDITION...GUSTY NORTH WINDS WILL COMBINE WITH THE FALLINGTEMPERATURES TO PRODUCE DANGEROUSLY LOW WIND CHILL VALUESSATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. VERY COLD AIR WILL CONTINUE TOFILTER INTO THE REGION WITH TEMPERATURES NEAR 20 BELOW ZEROSUNDAY MORNING AND 30 BELOW ZERO BY MONDAY MORNING ACROSS NORTHCENTRAL MONTANA AND NEAR 15 BELOW ZERO SUNDAY MORNING AND20 BELOW ZERO MONDAY MORNING ACROSS SOUTHWEST MONTANA.

I guess this means we wont be going to Utah today.

Today: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 39. Southwest wind between 8 and 11 mph.
Tonight: Snow likely and areas of blowing snow, mainly after 11pm. Cloudy, with a low around 21. Southwest wind around 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches possible.
Saturday: Snow and areas of blowing snow. Temperature falling to around 1 by 5pm. Wind chill values as low as -21. Blustery, with a light wind becoming north northwest between 23 and 26 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 3 to 5 inches possible. Saturday Night: A 50 percent chance of snow. Cloudy, with a low around -17. Wind chill values as low as -38. Northwest wind between 11 and 15 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph.
Sunday: A 30 percent chance of snow. Mostly cloudy and cold, with a high near -7. North northwest wind between 7 and 9 mph.
Sunday Night: A 30 percent chance of snow. Mostly cloudy, with a low around -26.
Monday: A 20 percent chance of snow. Partly sunny and cold, with a high near -6.
Monday Night: A slight chance of snow. Mostly cloudy, with a low around -19. Tuesday: Mostly sunny and cold, with a high near 4.
Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around -10.
Wednesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 14.
Wednesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around -3.
Thursday: A slight chance of snow. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 15.

The Tree

:)

I just wanted to post cause I was so excited. This last month I lost 9 pounds. Yeah for me.
Last night we had our branch Christmas party and Kaylie sang, she did so good and was so cute. It helps her not being so nervous when she knows everyone very well and there are not to many people. I wish I would have recorded it but I was in charge of the program and the dinner and didn't have a whole lot of extra time. Plus Brett didn't make it cause he didn't get off work till 8:30. He has had an extremely busy week. He said he always knows it is going to be a long day when he only has one patient scheduled. Then he gets all the walk ins. Like an old couple who came in at 3:30 and said that they don't think they can take care of themselves anymore. Then there is lots to do after that. Brett wan't me to start doing some home health care a few hours a week for some of his patients. SO maybe I will be starting that, I can bring Marissa with me even.

Sophie

Sophie is such a funny little girl. She is so shy and will not say a word to someone that she doesn't know. I love her to death she sometimes gets in these moods where she talks and talks and talks, for ever. A month ago she was in one of those moods so I sat there listening to her go on and on, and I didn't say a word, I would just nod. She wold finish talking about one thing and think for a second, realize that there was nothing else she could say about that subject and then would go on about something else. It was so funny it went on for 10 minutes this way.
Yesterday we had to run to Helena to get Arthur some food cause he was completely out, she napped on the way there so on the way home she was in a very talkative mood. She was watching Happy Feet, so was asking me and telling me about Penguins. All of a sudden, she saw one on the side of the road, it was great. Penguins now live in Montana, isn't that great:)

Marissa is short

When we were in Oregon my grandparents wanted some pictures to show how small Rissa really is so here are a few.

This first picture is Marissa with Colton who turned one in August.

The next picture is Marissa with Austin who is two months younger than Marissa.

Hope this gives you an idea about how small she is.
She is wearing 18 month clothes, and most of the jeans fall off of her, thank goodness for suspenders. She is finally starting to outgrow her size three shoes. And my Mom had to make her panties cause the smallest size in the store are very saggy.

BRRRR

I just wante to let everyone know that this morning when I woke up it was -10 out. It was cold getting out of the hot tub with frozen hair.

our trip to Oregon

We got back from Medford on Saturday, we had such a great time. We left on Monday and drove straight through to Medford. 16 hours in the car. The girls were so good, we only stopped four times, we let the girls out to eat and pee. Even Rissa did so good with her pottying, she went when we stopped and had no accidents.

On Tuesday I got to see Kendra which was awesome. She looks so good she has lost a lot of weight and cut her hair. I am so proud of her, she is working and starting school next month. We went to dinner and then to see Twilight, I even brought Brett and he liked the movie. We also took Sophie to the mall and got her ears pierced, she has been wanting to get it done for a long time, she was so brave and loves her earrings. She shows them to everyone.

Wednesday Mom, Heidi and I hung out. We did a little shopping and got some great deals at Old Navy. Thursday we went to Brett's parents and spent the day with them. We had dinner there and the girls had a blast playing with all their cousins. Friday my grandparents came from Salem. It was so nice to see them. Marissa and my grandpa got along really well and had fun playing together. Heidi also cut me and Kalyie's hair, I will get a picture and post it.

Saturday we had to leave, once again we drove straight through only stopping three times.

We had such a great time and are sad that we didn't have more time to see more people. Our Next trip will be in June.