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Christmas 2010

It's been such a busy couple days, short naps, being hopped up on chocolate and presents, many Christmas celebrations to attend, we are ready for a break to get back into our routine. Christmas this year was such fun with Audrey, she is at a really fun age. She loved the little things. We will never forget her comment when she found her hair barrettes in her stocking, "Wow, these are sooooo special!" She was so funny opening presents. She has been busy, busy, busy all weekend long. We truely had a great holiday spending time with all of our family.

Leave it up to Aunt Christine to get Audrey her very own camera.

Audrey and Sebastian were perfectly content playing with Grandpa's drill box.

My grandma came over to enjoy Christmas with us at my parents house.


Brent enjoying his incredibly tall lego tower.

My dad dressing up his new Dora doll, he couldn't be happier:)

Ugly Sweater

It's impossible to get a picture close up of Brent with his eyes open, so don't mind the eyes. This was his sweater that he created for the ugly sweater contest at work. He hand sewed the penguin onto the shirt and the sparkly balls. Funny quote from his coworker Heather when she was taking his picture at work: "I can't see your green balls very well on the camera."

Shout out to my Dad!

My dad is awesome, he saved me this week when I got a flat tire on a really bad street in Mankato, bad meaning, a road you cannot just pull over on. I called him and he came rushing over to help me get the tire changed since Brent had bowling (in which Brent's parents had to rush over and watch Audrey while I was out taking care of new tires). A couple weeks ago when our van wouldn't start we needed a new battery, my dad came over to our house on his day off and took care of it for us. I think my dad pretty much knows when I call him I am in need of some assistance with my vehicles.

I just want to say thanks dad for always helping me when I call, you are the best!

Pink Tubby

Last year for Christmas Santa brought Audrey some colored tub capsules, but I realized you can't use them if your child drinks tub water. We finally got to start using them recently. She loves pink tubs.

Blizzard fun!

It was a nice weekend, even if we did have a blizzard. Sometimes it's nice to just stay home and know that we cannot go anywhere. Since we only live a couple blocks from Grandpa and Grandma Wood, we did make it over on Saturday to learn how to make lefse. Audrey had spent the night with them Friday night, so it was fun to go over and see how her night was and enjoy some fresh soup for lunch.

Here I am flipping the lefse on the grill.


Audrey took her job very seriously, she put flour on the rolling pad for us.

Here is Brent rolling out some lefse, definately the toughest part of making lefse.

Audrey enjoying some hot chocolate "kid coffee".

Reading my favorite childhood book, "But No Elephants."

It's always great to know we are staying in for the day when Audrey picks out her own outfit for the day.

Hanging out in the toy box with some serious static electricity.

Christmas Baking

Thursday my mom and I both had the day off and we baked for most of the day. Every year we spend a day baking in December. We made plenty of cut outs, which are my favorite, we also made turtles, kringla, covered pretzels, and peanut blossoms. Brent and I are trying to cut back on the snacks, so I took a lot of the treats to work and sent them home with my coworker Jennifer.

What is so funny?

Jumping on bubble wrap, that is what is so funny!

Long Weekend

It was so nice to have had the last four days off of work. Thanksgiving was nice to spend time with my dad's family and get to see Brent's family also. We ate plenty of turkey. Friday morning I braved the mall with my mom at 5 a.m., I wasn't really set out to get anything specific, I just think it's fun! After shopping we went with Brent's parents to pick our their Christmas tree. We don't get a real tree since our cats have been known to knock the tree down, so it was great for Audrey to experience chopping down the tree, it was great for me too, since I don't remember doing that when I was younger. Friday night we enjoyed pizza with my parents.

Saturday we had the salsa party here and then got to head out to Meadowbrook Stables where my friend Bonnie boards her horse Rocky. Audrey was a little scared of the horse, but felt a little braver touching him after Lucy did. It was fun too see all of the horses and especially when Dolly the llama spit in Bonnie's face, it was classic.

Today we got the house all decked out for the holidays. It was great to see Audrey's face when she woke up from her nap and their was a tree in the living room all lit up. I saved the decorating for her to help when she got up, she absolutely had a blast. I will never forget when she saw the stocking hanging up and said, "What are those socks doing?" Brent and I enjoyed a date night tonight and had supper at the Olive Garden and then shopped at Home Depot for new outdoor lights, our dates are incredibly romantic.


Bonnie and Rocky, he is super cute, check out that tongue!

Lucy getting Bonnie's helmet on ready for her ride on Rocky.

Can you beleive this was Heidi and Lucy's first ever ride on a horse, so cool!

Audrey getting ready to box it out with Tina and Thor's stockings.

Wood Salsa Competition 2010

Today we had our annual Salsa Competition, it was a success. Lots of tasty salsa's to sample and lots of good friends and family to hang out with. We had some newcomers this year and Chris won with his famous pico de gallo.

Lucy and Audrey enjoying some lunch.

Chris and Doug heading through the salsa line.

The 2010 Salsa Champ!

As Promised

I know you have all been waiting to see our new dishwasher, okay, maybe nobody else is as excited as we are, but this is our outdated dishwasher that broke.




Here is our new dishwasher, ha!

We are huge dorks, we all had to take a shot at getting our picture in the empty space.

The new dishwasher, it's so pretty and quiet, love it!

Big Doings!

Does this look like a girl who finally accomplished something like pooping on the potty?
That is right, after a few months of potty training, Audrey finally pooped on the potty and was so excited. She got to pick out a fun prize and chose a Barney video which Brent is about ready to throw out the window. But, she did earn that fine Barney video and the ring pop that made her mouth look this scary:) Let's hope we can keep this up!

My Wish List

When I was in Batesville, IN, I used this coffee pot every day and fell in love!


An endless scarf, is that what this is called? Not sure, but they are so fun.

Backless Slippers

Brent thinks I need to be a little safer out on the slopes with a helmet.

Inside Activity

We enjoyed lots of playdo time during the snowstorm on Saturday and lots of coloring. Audrey was incredibly interested in the snow falling outside, but did not want to go out and play in it at all, bummer. Hopefully at some point this winter she will want to put on her boots and snowpants.

Saturday night Brent and I went out to the new Hibachi/Sushi place in town, it was great! Such a fun place to have dinner.

New Vacume

You know this blog needs help when I start posting pictures of my vacume. Seriously though, we got a new vacume a couple weeks ago and I can't believe how excited I am about it. It's amazing, we have a pet hair problem and this vacume does wonders. It even sucked up my phone charger today and ripped it apart. This thing has some serious power. If you find this interesting, wait until I can blog next week about our new dishwasher. Things are exciting at the Wood house!

Fall Weekend

We had a nice weekend here even if I was working this weekend. The weather was perfect. We went on a date last night, just the three of us, to Applebees. Today Audrey and I hung out with Heidi and Lucy this morning while Brent worked. After nap we got the leaves raked in the backyard and then had our parents over for chili. It was a great fall weekend.

Layers are so in! Audrey is sporting two dresses in this picture, she just loves them both.


Taking a break from the raking.