Happy 2008

Wishing all my dear blog readers a very happy 2008!

Opening Soon!

Here's the Open/Closed sign that I made for the Bargain Bazaar.  January 15 is the day the store will open.  There's still a LOT of work to do but there are a lot of hands pitching in so I know everything will work out.  Thanks to Mom, Pam, Shari & Jen for the items you have donated and to those of you have told me you will be donating.  We still have a  big need for children's and teen clothing.  So if you are doing some January cleaning please keep our store in mind.  I plan to work on my closets tomorrow and my kitchen cupboards too!  

Fun with our nieces

We got to have Courtney & Kelsey last Thursday while Jen & Eric celebrated their 10th anniversary.  Dan took the girls to a matinee-Alvin & the Chipmunks while Sarah and I shopped at the mall.  We had pizza at Sarah's house with Ann and then went back home to set up their bed in front of the TV so we could have a slumber party/pillow fight (short!) while watching Ratatouille.  C fell asleep halfway through but K made it through the end.  Dan and I loved the movie and discovered that we could tape off of pay per view with our CDR.  Very cool!  Friday the girls had fun helping me feed the birds and then making tents inside the house and making a puppet show.  Before we knew it their parents were back to pick them up!  They were lots of fun!!

 Saturday we headed for Shakopee for the Smith Christmas and I have lots of photos that I will download in the next couple of days plus a few more movies too.

Ski videos

Christmas Pictures Cyrus

Lynn & Gracie

Royce & Gracie

Ellen & Gracie

Ski Bunnies

Sophie & Dan play Guitar Hero and ....

Sophie wins!

Joey's song

Carly's Christmas Song

Ellen's Titanic

Sophie's Nutmeg Song

This video shows Sophie singing her solo from her Christmas Program.

Larson Christmas Pictures

Cousin Ryan with Samantha Larson

Ellen plays piano at Ande's Tower Hills and gets a $tip.

Carly poses

Dad and Nancy

Mom and Carly

Larson Christmas Pictures

Gracie's 1st Christmas!

Christmas Eve Skiing

Ellen's first Ski Day!

On the Quad chair lift

David and Dan jammin' it up!

Last day of school

On the last day of school before Christmas break, we brought the 4th -6th graders to Andes Tower and Hills to ski and snowboard.  Tami is on break and joined us there as a chaperone.  It was fun to have her there!  The students had a great time and there were no injuries in 4th grade..yeah!!!!

Sunday

We attended Courtney and Kelsey's Christmas program this morning and had brunch afterwards. Jim, Darlene, Warren, Ann, Andrew and Sarah were all there too.  The girls did a great job with their parts.  Courtney had 2 speaking parts at the podium and looked very grown up standing up there.  

It was our first time to see Skittles.  He's a nice friendly cat.  He lets Kelsey haul him around and submitted quite well to his role as a doll.  He's a nice addition to their family.

Hospital Christmas Party

Shirley, Mary and I are all on the thrift store committee and thus belong to the Hospital Auxiliary as well.  This year the hospital invited the Auxiliary to attend their party so we went and had a good time.  They had a good country band and we remembered how to do the 2 step from dance class years ago.  Here's a nice picture of Dan & Kurt too. Kurt is the one who you saw earlier in my blog picking Dan up in his plane on the lake.

Humane Society

I brought two of my students to the  Humane Society after school last week and they enjoyed playing with the cats.  This is the cat room as you can probably tell!   In the bottom pictures the girls are playing with the cats on the new climbing posts.  They're set up right in front of the picture window and almost reach the ceiling.