Good friends, good times

With Matt and Cassie in town for Thanksgiving we got some friends together and headed up to the cabin to hang out. We had a lot of fun and it was a good excuse to get everyone together. Matt, Cassie and Brynlie, Matt and Anne, Trevor, Andi and Evaleigh and us all spent the night. Once the kids were all in bed we played games, watched a movie and stayed up way to late.

They boys played with the kids while the girls made dinner.

In the morning we had Todd, Rachel and Greyer, Scott, Karis and Mack come up. I'm a slacker and didn't get any pictures of them but we ate, put most of the kids down for a nap and then sat around the fire talking while they guys watched sports.

Later that weekend we got the rest of the group together and went to good ole Pizza Factory.
The guys have all been good friends since high school, some even before that. Us as wives over the years have become really good friends.
It was great to get together and should do it more often!!

Holidays 2011

I am so over blogging. But since I don't really scrapbook anymore I need to blog so that my pictures and memories are all in one place. Since I am way behind lets start with Thanksgiving. We went up to the cabin. There has been hardly any snow this year so we couldn't go snowmobiling but the kids were still able to play in what little snow we did get. My dad built this swing that is a lot of fun, more for the adults. I think the kids are scared of it.

I have such good parents who are always willing to get down and play with the kids!

Hudson LOVES any kind of fruit. Notice the bag of cut up watermelon next to him yet he decided he would dig it out of the actual watermelon! Such a cute little stinker!!

Mom and Dad with all 4 grandchildren, and Kyle and Katelyn's dog, Sophie who has become part of the family!

We have recently been given some devastating news. Lane's Dad has been diagnosed with stage 3 Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma as well as Thyroid cancer. The thyroid cancer is easily treating by removing his thyroid, which they did and he will be on medication the rest of his life. He his writing a journal through out this process and is very inspiring to us. The website is

www.caringbridge.com/visit/timpont for those that wish to read his journey. He is an amazing man and I believe he can fight this!

So the holidays this year were a little different for us. It made us look at life differently and to appreciate what we have.

Looks like I will have to break up these posts so it doesn't go on forever. . .

Family Pictures 2011

Its that time of year again. . .family pictures! I personally like to have family pictures taken, it will give me something to look back on each year and see how our family has grown. Lane, on the other hand HATES them. Don't ask me why, but ever year I get the same reaction when I tell him we're taking pictures. So we made these short and sweet, 20 minutes in and out!!! Hudson is at such a hard age to contain so we had to be fast. Once again, Laci took them and she does a fabulous job!!!

October 2011

Brooklyn, 5 years

Hudson, 20 months

This is what I get from Lane. . . I still love him though!!

And this is what I get from Brookie. . .

So much attitude and personality! But I love it, it truly shows her true colors!!

We didn't get a whole lot of Hudson because like I said he doesn't want to sit still. My 2 handsome boys!!

He sure loves his Daddy!!

Nutcracker 2011

I would have to say that doing the Nutcracker is Brookie's favorite part of the year. She loves to dance on the stage and she does such a great job!! This is her 3rd year doing it!! She had to do 4 performances this year, 2 matinees and 2 night ones. I was a little worried with her having to do it that many times, but she did fantastic and said she wanted to do it "twenty hundred times!"

Hudson did so good, there were plenty of people for him to be passed back and forth to.

Love this girl!! I couldn't be more proud that she is taking after me and loving dance all ready!

Random

I have been terrible about updating this so these are just a bunch of random pictures.

Hudson is obsessed with our kitty, Millie. Poor thing, he completely mauls her yet she doesn't run away.

Thanksgiving night we came home from the cabin and Brookie wrote her first letter to santa. Laci has a mailbox that her girls mail them out in so we went to her house and mailed it out with Mia and Eva's letters.

Her and Eva were playing dress-up, hence the clothes she is wearing. Hudson just ate rolls all night long!
When Santa came to get their letters he left them their Christmas pajamas. Brookie thought it was so cool.