Blaeske Wedding October 2014

This fall Ryan was the officiant for Rachel and Toby's wedding. He did AWESOME! It was quick, to the point, and perfectly what this couple needed. After we hung out and celebrated with them!

Current Favorite Worship Songs

You can hear these full blast at my house right now. The best part is the kids know the words to 2 of the 3 and they belt it out with us!

New Tree

Ryan and I have never bought a tree in the 7 years we have been married. We were given 2 trees when we got married, that we lost in the flood. We were then given a pre-lit tree from a lady at mom time when they asked what we need after the flood. That lasted us 3 Christmases. Well the lights started to go and Ryan really wanted to get a new tree. So, we got 2. We got this white one and then a green one and are going to alternate the trees between the years. We were able to get both trees for $87!

St. Nick 12-6-11

St. Nick brought the kids Jammies, Winter Hats, and Slippers. He brought Mommy some pens and Daddy some baseball cards.

Cars 2

Dash was quite excited this morning when he woke up! He knew that today was the release of Cars 2! We went to the 7:45 showing. I have heard mixed reviews; there is a murder, might be too scary for the kids, Cars 1 is waaay better, this one tops Cars 1. So as you can see with the whirlwind of reviews, I didn't fully know what to expect. However, here is the attitude I went into the show with, "I have yet to be let down by Pixar!" So the four of us piled into the car and headed out to the theater.
I do not want to give away the movie! So I will be brief:
murder? yes. Did the kids get it? no
Which is better 1 or 2? If you are going and expecting the film to be about McQueen and his racing, you will be disappointed. Unlike the first, that is not the main plot here. If you go in after watching some of the trailers, you will expect it to be more of a spy movie and therefore be very satisfied.
The Cohan family loved the movie! I will be out purchasing the DVD on it's release date and will hopefully see it again in theaters!

funny

2011 Blizard

The snow over here was soooo deep that even I got stuck. The drifts over here were up to my waist at points.

Sammie in the driveway.

He is wearing his lucky packer hat, the team hasn't lost since he got it!

Sammie buried herself in the front yard. Thankfully at this point, the plows hadn't been down our street, so I wasn't worried them coming down and burying her. So we had some fun!

She was having a blast! Playing in it like it was a bath.

Now we are all burried! Ryan helped shovel us in.

Ryan gave us a pillow of snow! The pile next to Sammie is her dinosaur. It is currently on our front porch.

Dash left and we hung out together until my butt was cold.

hanging out in the snow :)

Dash went to shoveling like Daddy.

He is only getting half way down the pile, no where near the ground!

AFter some time our neighbor came out to help with his snowblower. Ironically, we as Wisconsinites do not have a snowblower. We have the BEST neighbor ever. He enjoys "playing" in the snow, so he likes to do our sidewalk and driveway. It works out perfect, the snow gets taken care of and the kids have a fun watching him. This year Sammie was scared a bit by him in his "orange costume" but when I explained it like that she thinks it is fun.

trying to get a show of just how deep the snow is!

Sammie didn't want Dash touching her.

thats our snow!

This is just from this week!

Our neighbor Bert snowblowing the driveway. It was interesting to watch at sometimes during the day, I felt bad for the guy, the wind would blow it right back at him while he was blowing it other ways.

this was taken from inside the house. It was so cool to see the snow blowing!

Today was the best snow day ever! The city pretty much shut down until noonish. As a matter of fact, I had no desire to go anywhere~which is a big deal since whenever there is a major snow storm I am ready to go out and tackle it. We measured in at 22.5 inches from the two storms this week. Each bringing in about half of it! Thankfully Ryan was off today and he was able to leasurly take care of the snow and not worry about getting it done to get to work. He did later go in to shovel at the bookstore, but it was not until later in the afternoon. Him and Rick tackled it and it took a few hours.