Laura's house

So Sat we showed up at Laura's house and invaded! It was wet and cold is all i can say! Much warmer down here in the cities! This is her house and the green house. You can see it is drizzling out and it did that the whole time. Of course we spent time outside though and took a awalk with the kids. But they deserve theri own post!

Thur and Friday

So thur and Friday I did laundry and what did I do while I waited bewteen loads? I sewed. Mom and I did the Spring one on Thur and I did the summer one on friday. They were gifts for the baby shower games on Sunday. I do love me this set of washer and dryer! All of our things from the weekend fit in 1 load! Count it 1 load! SO guess what I am done with laundry for the day as soon as the dryer finsihes this morning!

So what am I doing while I do laundry this morning? Sewing of course I am finishing the last pig sweatshirt for Nancy and Larry. I have 23 minutes to go on this sweatshirt and then I am done with the pigs!

home

we are home and so very tired! I have some neat pictures so i will upload them tomorrow morning and post then. I am off to bed to sleep sleep and sleep some more!

Busy weekend

Our weekend will be a busy one here as always. Tomorrow the kids bowl and then we head to Duluth to visit Laura and on Sunday I have a baby shower up there for the twins and then home Sunday evening as the kids have school monday and I go pick up my sister lisa!

To say that that excites me is an understatment! I miss her so very much and that she will be here when Mom has surgery means a lot to me. This trip was planned before all this came to be but it came at the perfect time. As next Friday gets closer I am sure her and I can find things to get into to keep up busy and not thinking too much.

I talked to her today and she has projects for us to do on my machine and I have some to do for her to. And just in general catching up.

So I will have to bring pictures back from our little weekend getaway once more. So have a good weekend and if I can I will blog from up there!

Bowling fun

Here are the girls form Wed we had a lot of fun this week. We won 5 of the 7 points and this will move us up in ranks once more. We are in a solid 6th before Wed so we think we will be in 4th or 5th after this last wed. Not that even 1st gets you a trophy even but it is something we work at not too hard! LOL Wed night is about fun and working to beat our own personal best.

And I am still trying to do that. But I have a few weeks to go!

My new toys

Ok so not toys really but they are nice! On wed the guys from teh Home Depot brought me my new washer and dryer! And Wed nigesday night while I bowled Kent and Dennis set up the dryer for me. As we have a gas dryer the Home depot does not set them up!

Anyway they look beautiful and I love the white and they are shiny clean and run so very quiet! So I had laundry from Sat til Wed to do on Thur and my Mom came to visit and she was amazed at how much we had. I think she forgot how much she did on a weekly basis when we were all home! SO we did laundry and embroidered all day thur. but today I have no dirty laundry can you believe it?! And it did take a lot less loads then on my top loader!

Mini too loves her the washer and dryer as she loves to start them for me when we load them all up. As long as she does not run them without me I am fine with the help!

She did help switch the laundry from washer to dryer and when she was putting Dennis wet socks and boxers in the dryer she told Mom that her Daddy peed on them that is why they were wet! I about fell over and Mom was laughing hard to! And each time we switched the load over after that we laughed as we kept thinking of it!

the wild

Well with a score of 3-2 we lost game 5. We need to win game 6 to stay in the playoffs! Game 6 is Sat night in Colo. My boys need to get it together and win this one though they do play really well under pressure. Go Wild!!

bowling

Well with only 2 weeks left I did not break my 175 game. I got 2 150 games but no 175! But I have 2 more weeks to break that 175! I have picture from tonight though as we had a lot of fun!

Not a good night for the Wild

It was not pretty and it was not good. We lost 5-1. We had 119 minutes of penaltys to their 43 minutes. Boo got kicked out after his second 10 minute penalty. Thank goodness they will be on home ice on Thur and I am sure they will get better refs. I am not saying some of those penaltys were not called for but they do seems to call more for us then for Colo!

So the series is tied 2-2 and we have game 5 here and game 6 will be back in Colo and if needed game 7 is back in MN. It would be nice to win the series here at home but I hope we wipe the ice with them the next 2 games. And to win against them on their ice in front of their fans would be sweet to!

wild game

Game 4 is in progress right now and to say the first period did not go well is an understatment!! It is 3-0 right now! YIKES!!! But the boys seem to do bad the first period and pick up after that. And in the first three games we only scored in the third period and overtime but we won 2 of the 3 games so I have faith that the boys will pull it together soon!

I am sure these 20 minutes of locker room talk is not a fun one for them! I hope the talk works and they get out there and kick some 2nd period butt!

No boredom here

least you all think I will be bored soon as I must be running out of projects no worries! I have 50 yes 50 dish towels still bundled that need to be sewed. 25 will be for when Lisa comes next Monday to do her towels. And 25 I will do to give as gifts and such. So those will get done as I have time.

I also just finished my wedding scrapbook. Worrying has made some late nights for me and early morningsso I work on scrapbooks. So one more done and put away now. 56 pages later and I have all my proofs from our wedding day all put in a book and looking good. It is strange for me to look back at us almost 12 years ago. When I said I do I never thought about 12 years in the fututre but I doubt I could have seen this life we have! We are very blessed!

I also have 2 hockey blankets to do and 2 pig sweatshirts to do and a dora blanket to. I also have 2 dance outfits to do tomorrow. Though I may do one dora blanket and 2 hockey sweatshirts it all depends on how much time I have as they are to be donated for the Elk River hockey team and to the school for a silent auction. The ELK River blankets I had made last fall seem to have made a hit with Mom's out there. So I may try a sweatshirt for them or I will do another blanket. We will see. So no worries there will be plenty of projects to post about.

I finsihed 3 bowling towels I did for our banquet here today. And so between yesterday and today I got 12 projects done so far. So my list is getting smaller and I am sure more will come in.

Dennis and Dad work

Yes there is proof people they do work when they come to my house. Poor Dad planned to drop off the platform he built me and leave. Well then they had supper and Dennis got home and put him to work! I paid to have my old washer and dryer taken away tomorrow when new ones should show up on my doorstep. but Dennis and wrestled them up the steps and into Dad's truck! Then Dennis screwed the top on the platform with I am sure 2 dozen screws! I was thinking 12 would be good but hey he was having a good time who am I to stop him. My job was to watch and give my opinon! Which I must say I did a good job of I should get a raise!

So tomorrow is the day new washer and dryer to come!! I will post pictures and they are white no color here. I could not believe they wanted $100 for color! And I do not go look at them ever except to do laundry so white it is. The platform is so I di dnot have to pay $400 for pedistals either. It is a good thing I have my Dad who can come build me anything I need. Thanks for the time and wood Dad!!

towels for twins

Tia's brother had twins on 17 March and I made them each 2 towels for their baby shower that is this weekend. I also made them a wall hanging with each of their birth weights but I forgot to get a picture. I will get one at the shower if I can remember and post as they turned out really nice!

A wild blanket

I made Matthew a wild blanket as he is in love with them too. And then I made one for Tia's husband Kent. I think I am jealous though. So i may have to make me one too. I finished them both last night. Though I still need to tie them to the other fleece side. Though I will wait so I have something to do while we wait at the hospital next weekend. As I know it will be a lot of sitting around doing nothing but waiting.

Minnesota Wild

Just because I know you are all just sitting on the edge of your seats wanting to know how the game went tonight, the boys won it 3-2 in OT!! It was a great game to watch. though I had to watch on TV! So we are up 2 games to 1. This is the 3rd game straight of overtime. The 5th time straight when you go back to regular season that the Wild and the Avalanche have met that they went to OT.

It is such a close match up. But the boys are doing great and we get to go into tomorrow nights game one gameup. If we can win this next game we are sitting well for game 5 here in Minnesota on Thur! Go WILD!!!

long night

Ok so I mentioned our long night. Yesterday was our two week mark of the girls getting lice so I washed all bedding again and to be sure rewashed hair and had to recomb it all out. I washed the blankets to. The made all the beds back up again.

Well of course Matthew felt the need to be up at 5am! I do not know what part of 7:30 he does not get but man I wish he slept in more! Mini came in this morning to. And she was up 3 times last night after falling out of bed! Once on the floor 2 times intothe wall! How yo accomplish this I am not sure as she is still in the bunk bed so she was stuck! So then she was up for a bit each time calming down since she was stuck and mad about it too yet. SO just up and down a lot after a day of washing.

And I stayed up late sewing. Tia came yesterday we sewed 2 towels hoods with designs and then I did a birth announcment for one of the twins and now I only have one left to do. So just no sleep really and it makes us all drag along but good news is I am thinking we are done with the lice now and we should not have to do anything else.

And being the great Mom I am (Matthew's words not mine) I bought them frozen waffles yesterday so they are sitting eating those instead of wanting lunch as frozen waffles hold special powers that I know nothing of.

Costco

I figured it was time for a costco post. Most people who know us know we are the biggest of fans for Costco! But what you may not know is the fans they have in my family. When Kristie comes we go to Costoco and when Mom and Dad come we go to costco to eat hotdogs.

I go once a week even if I can think of nothing we need. But I always forget something. Even though we spent over $100 there yesterday on groceries and things I forgot to get Dennis his drinkable yogurt! But I will not be repeating the trip down there till later in the week.

Today is sewing towels and embroydering things. I will have to take pictures as I have been busy with things again.

Wed will be a good day to post more pictures! So look for some more then!

getting home from the wild's game

We seen the trolley and I had to have a picture of it. I love the trolleys that drive around and then we seen Mickey's dinner. Which I guess is a huge landmark and they have great food too yet! We did not stop the snow was falling and we were headed home.

Snow and 19000 people trying to get home after a game was some slow driving at first but once we got out of the cities we got to drive just fine.

working out

The little ones really like the new work out things in the livingroom. They will go sit down and get a work out in to! Funny as all get out! And mini wanted to be comfortable while she did it so she brought her backpack chair to get that way!

After a long night last night they are both looking a bit comotose at the moment so I would say early luncha nd naps today!

we won!!

Yes!! My boys did not let me down! We won 3 to 2 in OT. Why did we have to go to over time well the refs were stupid and gave us a penalty! Whatever I will keep my opinon to myself but I have no voice left and I am sure it will be rough tomorrow yet but it was the best game! And we tied the series 1 game all. The 3rd and 4th game are in Colo and then 5th game back here.

So I will be yelling at my TV come Monday and Tuesday and I am sure Matthew will be staying up late to watch to. No I do not swear at refs in front of him. Though like me he loves him a good fight. Though tonight the refs broke up three fights and did not let us hit them to the ground. Kind of cheap if you ask me!

So I have kept my record perfect with a win again tonight. I love to go see them play and playoffs are soo much more fun. We seen 2 pucks go over the glass and a stick! I forgot my camera in the car so the only shots I have are on my phone and I am thinking they do not come off of there. So no pictures for you!

More tomorrow as I need to go to bed. Dennis need to get up tomorrow and fix my computer upstairs as the hard drive broke. Not just a little but it only went beep beep beep today and black screened. Not good is the word he used.

so excited

I can not explain how excited I am that in 3 short hours I leave to go see the Wild play!! I can not wait to go see this game. though one of my favorites will not play tonight as he got hit hard in the first game wed and is pulled from tonights game. My gabby will still be out there. As will Burns and Boo!

They have never lost when I went to see them play and i do not plan for tonight to be the start of that! 3 hours so I am off to shower and get all ready to go see my boys play hockey and beat up on those Colo Avalanche boys!

Mom

Here is the e-mail from Dad on Mom.
Mom goes in for preop on the 15th and has her utures
and other asorted parts removed on the 25th 3 or 4
days in hospital going to Paynesville .
still think could be cancer but wont realy no for sure
till after the operation ????


Joe and Rose Mae Nistler

waiting

waiting for Dad to call. I know their appointment was not till 3pm so I know it will be awhile yet. But just hanging out waiting to hear how it went. And what they plan to do.

Kids did really well at prebowling. Now they are set to have a fun day playingi n this cold wet weather. Yuck!

oh I am sure

I am sure you are all dying to hear how I did! And since Dennis is still off at work I am up typing waiting for him to call to say he is leaving the place sometime tonight. I bowled a 140, 132, 142 for my games so not my 175 but I had 3 games well over my average of 120. So I am pleased. We took all three games and got the 7 points for the night. Considering we had been in first place 2 months ago and now we are tied for 6th these 7 point will helps us a lot! And we bowled such a great team tonight to! So it was just a great night all together.

The poor babysitter had my 4 and Tia's 2 and I guess it was a busy night with them as there were a few fights since the 5 kids do not have school tomorrow and Tia's oldest does. So he was not a happy camper.

Tomorrow morning I will take the 2 oldest to prebowl for their Sat league as they have their last religion class Sat.

Tomorrow night I am going out with my friend Lisa and Friday night I am going to the Wild playoff game! 3 nights in a row of going out what will I ever do with myself!? And oh the playoff game is something I am really looking forward to. They are so much fun!

bowling tonight

So tonight is my second night of bowling with my new ball. I am really hoping to have a 500 series which would require 2 160 games and a 180 I would love to hit it tonight. We will have to see. I am feeling today like tonight just maybe it. I really hope to get another turkey tonight and prove to myself that last week was not a total accident!

Good update

Dad just called and let me know the doctor called and Mom's results show it is not cancer!! Thank you God!! We will know what the next plan is on thur still. I will update as I get word. As she is still bleeding so something will have to be done but it is fixable as Dad said and that is what counts!

This has been the longest week here and I am so glad to get good news out of it! I want to thank everyone for all the prayers they worked!

Pigs

Oh you know we went to see the pigs. Not as often as the kids would have liked but time was short. I got to help Nancy at the other farm where they raise the gilts and on Sunday morning someone was sick so I got to go to the barn at 5:30 with her. I had a blast and love being in the barns. The kids came down later and found us. Dennis was suprised to see me givng shots to babies but then he watched with the kids till we were done then they all got to feed the Mommy pigs.

Oh the slower life down there does me good the 2 days away was so nice. I love that the days do not have something planend every second of everyday. That the thought of going to the bent and dent is a big outing. We enjoyed our stay and now I am back here and I got to say I love Chipolte being here by me to!

Dance with me

Mini asked Larry to dance with her and he put on music and danced with her. I told you there is love there! She loves music and she loves to dance. Any dress she puts on is her dancing dress. And she will twrill around and dance. But oh she loves when you dance with her.

out for dinner

Larry and Nancy took us out to dinner and it was good food and we had a blast! Larry you owe me a beer I am pretty sure!

It got to be past bedtimes so I had 4 kids trying to fall asleep into their food but they had a good time. Mini has fallen in love with public restrooms so will ask to go 500 times while out but hey she stayed dry. I did put her in pull ups while we were down there and except for one poopy pull up she stayed dry. She did poop on the way home too but it is a long drive. But as soon as we got home she asked for her regular undies again. And has been doing good here once more. But while out and about I think pullups will be used as when she does have an accident it is not a major event then.

Mini and Larry hanging out

Oh Mini loves Larry! She copys anything the man does! They were hanging out in the recliners just chilling watching some basketball!

Christmas in April?

Yep that is what we did! I had all Nancy and Larry's gifts at my house and this is the first time we have seen them since Christmas so we opened gifts!

Larry loved his blanket and Nancy got a webkinz pig!! Got to love it! Mini and Matthew had to help her open her pig as Dennis wrapped it in ductape. Such a nice brother in law! And I am talking a lot of tape he used!

Something else to make me happy

Yes sleeping children. Which is why the morning had been so hard on us all! Tired crabby children. One had a sleepover the night before. I am sure they went to bed on time but he passed out for a few hours of the trip.
Mini was so dang tired I finally had left her in her room to cry and shut the door and walked away. But she slept for a huge portion of the trip down and woke in a really good mood! Matthew well the car just wipes him out! The 3 sleeping ones never seen past the freeway and by time they woke up a good chunk of the trip was done.

We got to Dennis' work picked him up and no one knew the difference at all. He had just appeared when they woke up.

on the way to Iowa

We saw a military helicopter. Which the kids loved and we very excited it stayed by us for a bit. And the carlson buildings. I do not know anything about the buildings just that i love them. They are beautiful to look at. Dennis has had a few meetings in there. But the coloring is awsome and they just are nice to drive by anytime I am on the freeway. And it meant we were on our way for our little trip. That alone makes me a happier Mom. And considering how the whole day went till that point a happier Mom is what I needed and my kids needed.

working out

People often wonder how I get a work out in ever. Most times it is with a little girl by me. Dennis does with a little boya nd a littl girl on him. But I must say for how much I hate the look of the livingroom with all the workout things in it I really do like that it makes it easy to get 5 -10 minutes at a time in and I can sneak in some alone even sometimes this way. And with it staring at me all day everyday it is hard to miss a day of using it.

Making a surprise for Larry

So Kristie came to visit me on Tuesday and we had a good time and we made a surprise for Larry. (he loved it by the way) Though he tells me if his pig was that color he would give it drugs as it is sick. Here I though he looked good! LOL

Thanks for the visit Kristie we love when you come hang out! And trips to costco are always fun to do!

How to make a dress

Yea so everyone knows I love to make quilts, I love to sew them I love to embroider. I love making things but one thing I never do is make anything in any form of clothes, EVER! Well they had a material all I had to do was put the seam down the back and the dress is done except for straps. Of course I just had to try it. And I must say not hard at all! Of course I had Mini try it on and of course now she will not let me get it off her long enough to put a second sleeve on it. But she loves her new dancing dress!

Short weekend

Driving to Iowa and back in a few days makes for a short weekend! But it was a good one and we are home and unpacked and I got my room all back together so I will go take a picture of it and then download photos from this weekend and last week and then sit and blog for an hour I am sure by the time I am done.

done!

Yes Yes Yes!! I am done done done with the painting of my bedroom!! I am so excited. Now all I need to do is put things back in order an dpull the tape! But the painting itself is all done. 2 coats of green three coats of red and 2 coats of cream with the help of 6 kids but I am done now! I will take pictures of it later. I need to finsihing a sewing project here quick and then I am off to do that packing that needs done. As we leave in a few short hours!

packing

We are packing to go on a little road trip today. We are headed to the pig farm. I wanted a weekend with my sister and I really need to get all of her junk out of my house! I still have her Christmas gifts sitting here. And now she needs beer since Larry drank all hers!

I will blog from there though and hope to get some good pictures while there again of pigs!

Road trip with Lisa

Yep Lisa C and I went on a road trip. But what should happen? We had 4 little kids in the back my 2 youngest and her 2 youngest and her tire blew out. Not just a little but the side wall blew out!

So we did what any good Mom would do we called Lisa's husband to come change our tire. As Lisa did not know how to get the spare down from under the truck! So we waited on the side of the road for 40 minutes for him to come. Of course 2 minutes after he arrived a state trooper stopped to see if he would like some help!

Anyway trying to keep a newborn and two 2 year olds and a 4 1/2 year old busy and not crying is hard work! But we laughed and had a good visit which was the point of the day anyway we just did not get anythng else done!

Bowling tonight

I had bowling tonight. I threw my new ball for the first time and after the first game where I was trying to get used to it I threw a 158 and a 160! 40 pins over m average and tonight for the first time in m,y life I threw a turkey!! 3 Stikes in a row followed by a 9 and a spare! It seems the new ball is doing good things for me. I hope it keeps up as my goal for the year was to throw a 175 yet and I have 4 weeks to do it.

update on Mom

Hey all here is the update on Mom. There is not much of one. She had surgery and is resting at home now. Her and Dad have to go and meet with the Doctor next Thur to get the results. Please pray for her and Dad. I know it will be a hard appointment.

We visited with mom and Dad today and had lunch with them. I fixed the printer then I came home with my 2 little ones who slept the whole way home. Mom and Dad were going to nap too as they were tired to. Mom was asleep before I left already.

Mom and her surgery

Just to let everyone know Mom's surgery got moved up this afternoon and she has to be at the hospital at 5:15am tomorrow morning. I will update when she is out and I have some news. I will not be going now as I have to get my kids on the bus from here. I still plan on going to visit though later if she is feeling up to it. I will talk to Dad though and get updates.