HI ALL!!!! Chris surprised me for my 30! birthday by going horseback riding!!! We had a good time! I'm feeling it in my butt and thighs this morning that's for sure.

My horse "Sundance" kept stopping and eating the grass. I had to keep kicking her and trying to pull her head up. Man those are strong animals. We got to trot for awhile, that is fun - and painful. I think Chris had a good time too. His horse was going down this hill and started going pretty fast and at the end of the hill the trail turned and if you didn't turn you ran into a tree. I saw fear in his eyes for a few seconds there trying to get his horse to slow down. He says he had it under control and there was no fear- ya right.

Afterwards we went home, got cleaned up and Chris took me to dinner where all my friends were there to surprise me!!!! I couldn't believe how many people came. I think there was 10 couples plus us. We took up one whole corner of the restaurant! I felt so loved!!! I had an awesome birthday. I got lots of phones calls and cards. Thank you so much everyone.

We got more snow two days later. The kids have been hoping and praying for snow all winter. They were so excited to be able to go out and play in the snow! I only got a couple pictures because it was frigid cold out there and little Mason was quite sick and very upset that he could not go out.

Next time its going to be twice that size.

It snowed here!!! The kids were so excited.
I wish I had gotten more pictures, but of course
the battery went dead in my camera.

Here's a picture of what I did with Julie's
sign! I loved all my gifts, but I had talked to
a couple of my sisters specifically about
my cute windows and how I dressed them up
for Christmas.

Christmas Eve- acted out the Christmas Story.
It was really cute. Macey and McCade looked so sweet
up there being Mary and Joseph.

Cathleen was the angel.