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!