We knew this Christmas was going to be an exciting once since it would be Blake's first one, but we didn't know we would have to fight a snowstorm just to celebrate. Fortunately we were able to get out to Buffalo on Thursday morning and celebrate with the Quady/Soholt/Lotti families. But today we started out to Blue Earth and turned around, the roads were just too bad and we were going to have to turn around and come back tomorrow. Brian' s stress level was high driving, so we decided we should be safe and stay home. So we are snowed in so I'm going to upload some pictures to share with everyone we haven't been able to see yet...hope everyone had a great Christmas!
until next time...[gallery]
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Friday, December 18, 2009
a little Christmas Tree...and a little football
With crawling only around the corner, we decided that a tabletop tree would be a smarter idea this year. So we made the trip out to my uncle Bob's tree farm and cut down a little tree. It's the smallest tree I've ever had, but it's so cute. 
Since we got rid of our pre-lit artificial tree, we were on the hunt for lights. Didn't know that would be the worst part of the day! I can't believe that EVERYWHERE is out of lights already. Brian really wanted red lights, you know Husker colors :) And there were none to be found until I got to good ol' Menards. After already being at two Targets and Wal-Mart, I pretty much took the lights and ran before anyone could get them! Our tree is so little it only took two strings, so that was nice. The new LED lights are pretty nice, it definitely brightened up everything. Since we have always had a full size tree, our ornaments fill up the tree...no problem. But it's cute and makes the house look all ready for the holiday season.
After setting up the tree all of us got settled in for the big Nebraska game. Although they lost it was a very close game. Husker got a little scared of Brian cheering and decided we all needed to be on the couch together!
Speaking of football; each year Brian starts up the College Bowl Pick' Em Tournament. I think he is still disappointed that I've beaten him a few times already, but he keeps trying. This year he wanted to make sure Blake got involved. He wanted to make it extremely fair, being the accountant t
hat he is, so he set up a very scientific way of choosing the game. Take a look. He associated each team with a block, and then squeeked each block equally and which ever one he touched first. YES, he did this for 32 teams. He didn't get a choice for the Nebraska or Minnesota games, Brian gave those to him automatically. Of course Brian would never let Blake pick against the Big Red, and although he's not a Gopher fan, a certain Grandma REALLY is, and it was in kind gesture.
And as always closing with some bonus pictures--
[caption id="attachment_130" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Husker "watching" Blake sleep on the way home from the tree farm."]
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[caption id="attachment_131" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="More choosing of teams..."]
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[caption id="attachment_132" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Our morning breakfast together..."]
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Since we got rid of our pre-lit artificial tree, we were on the hunt for lights. Didn't know that would be the worst part of the day! I can't believe that EVERYWHERE is out of lights already. Brian really wanted red lights, you know Husker colors :) And there were none to be found until I got to good ol' Menards. After already being at two Targets and Wal-Mart, I pretty much took the lights and ran before anyone could get them! Our tree is so little it only took two strings, so that was nice. The new LED lights are pretty nice, it definitely brightened up everything. Since we have always had a full size tree, our ornaments fill up the tree...no problem. But it's cute and makes the house look all ready for the holiday season.
After setting up the tree all of us got settled in for the big Nebraska game. Although they lost it was a very close game. Husker got a little scared of Brian cheering and decided we all needed to be on the couch together!Speaking of football; each year Brian starts up the College Bowl Pick' Em Tournament. I think he is still disappointed that I've beaten him a few times already, but he keeps trying. This year he wanted to make sure Blake got involved. He wanted to make it extremely fair, being the accountant t
hat he is, so he set up a very scientific way of choosing the game. Take a look. He associated each team with a block, and then squeeked each block equally and which ever one he touched first. YES, he did this for 32 teams. He didn't get a choice for the Nebraska or Minnesota games, Brian gave those to him automatically. Of course Brian would never let Blake pick against the Big Red, and although he's not a Gopher fan, a certain Grandma REALLY is, and it was in kind gesture.And as always closing with some bonus pictures--
Until next time...
[caption id="attachment_130" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Husker "watching" Blake sleep on the way home from the tree farm."]
[/caption][caption id="attachment_131" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="More choosing of teams..."]
[/caption][caption id="attachment_132" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Our morning breakfast together..."]
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