North Dakota Sunsets

Our North Dakota sunsets are so beautiful! I love to look at them! And with our nice weather this fall we have been able to see a lot of them! The colors are so beautiful!

Cousins

All the cousins

Joshua~10, Viktoria~9, Jacob~7,

Alek~5, David~3 and Alyssah~3

Jacob won a math award!

Jake got a math award! We are so proud of him! He is doing so great this year and I couldn't be more proud of him.

Accepting the award

Jacob and his award

The whole group of kids, students of the month for September

So it seems

Winter might be here now. It has been snowing on and off all morning, and it is sooooo cold compared to yesterday and the rest of November. I don't mind snow, I mean we live in North Dakota, we have to take it, but I wished we would have had a better summer, then it wouldn't seem so cold.

I can't believe that it is almost Christmas. We put up our tree last night, without ornaments, it was getting late, and the kids really wanted to put them up, so I said we would when everyone leaves today. So we will be finishing the tree today. Then we will have all our christmas decor up. I am not sure why, but putting up the tree is not a fun time for me. I don't look forward to it, even though the kids TOTALLY LOVE putting it up. So I tolorate it, but I don't like it. I don't think I like change. And plus, every year, I have some one who is little weather it is my own or not. So this year is no different.

So I am going to have to continue to update my blog, and have a bunch of picture posts!

Winter in October???

We had 2 inches of snow in early october. We didn't even have snow boots for the kids yet. They wore rain boots to school! But they were so excited for the snow! I was worried it was going to be here to stay! But it wasn't thank God!! The kids loved it, and by noon the snow was all gone.

On our deck

Alyssah's Dance costume

Alyssah is so excited about dance! She loves to perform for us. I just hope she will when she is performing in front of an audience. She is a cute little dancer!

Alyssah proudly showing her dance outfit.
Twirling around

Showing off her dress

And her pretty pony!

My beautiful girl!

My Perfect Kids

Does it get any better than this? They are the most awesomest (not a word, unless it comes to my kids) kids ever!!

Grandma and Grandpa Tietgens

Grandpa and Grandma came up to visit us and to go to the hosk fest in Minot. It was a really nice visit, and the kids loved seeing them again.

A nice pic with the kids

A really goofy pic of the kids and grandma and grandpa. You guys knew this pic was going to make it on here didn't ya???

Dad and Alyssah watching Toy Story and Toy Story 2. They both loved it! And Alyssah loves to spend time with Grandpa. It is always nice to have them visit us!

Josh's Birthday Celebrations

Josh had several birthday celebrations for his 10th birthday! I can't believe he is 10. TEN! Where on earth has the time gone? I love him so much! And I am so glad he is growing up to be such a young man!

Grandma Kathy and Grandpa Dave came up and helped celebrate his birthday, and they brought an awesome donut cake. They gave Josh 30 dollars (I think) and he was thrilled!!

Josh blowing out his candles!

Josh enjoying his first peice!

We met Skyla and her family at Planet Pizza and had so much fun playing games and getting a ton of prizes. They loved playing games, and so did the moms!!

Josh's Birthday gift from Dad and mom. This car actually ended up not working so we had to get another car. But until then, this one was awesome!

My handsome boy. I love him so much! I can't believe he is ten!!

Josh's chocolate cake!

Josh, Jake and Dad trying to figure out the electric car.

His awesome cake. He loved it!!

One candle, one girl friend!! He is so cute!

The cake is so good!

Jake loved it!

And so did Alyssah!

Josh and Dad, 10 years later.

Mom and Josh. I love him so much!

So much to catch up on

Wow, it has been so long, my computer crashed AGAIN. So now it is ok, and for now I will be doing some blog posts. We had a very good Thanksgiving. It was so nice to see my parents and grandparents. I miss them so much other times, so I really like the holidays so I can see my family. I am looking forward to christmas as well. So her I go, on with all my picture posts. There are a lot of them, look out!!

Cub Scouts

Josh and Jake like to help out with cub scouts. They take there jobs very seriously. This day they helped out the town, by doing some clean up jobs. A lot of the scouts showed up to help. They took the stuff to the dump and then they raked leaves too.

Jake (in green) helping out
Working hard

Jake and Isaac working hard!

Raking leaves for some town people

He was an older gentleman who was in cub scouts as a boy and he told about what he did back when he was young. Josh was really interested.

Looking through the old cub scout book

They made bird houses too later in the week.