First Griz game fun!

First of all, Happy Birthday to the Vetter boys! Hawkins turned 1 on the 17th and Landon turned 9 on the 21st! We hope they had wonderful days!
Here is a little Teagie Pie passed out on Grandma. She was reading to him, and he just couldn't keep his eyes open. I like how his belly is hanging out too.

We got some snow a couple weeks ago! The kids loved it. I can handle the snow. I barely have any pictures from this week because we had arctic freezing wind. It was terrible!

Ave and I made a lovely snowman together.

Papa's alien mask scares Teague. It's even scarier if he wears night vision goggles underneath it! Ave loves aliens though. They are pals.

Ave wanted to say hi to Lincoln. This is the picture she had me send to him!

Callie got us some sweet tickets for the Griz game last Saturday. We had a blast visiting her, and the Griz killed Eastern Washington. It was a lot of fun to watch! These two are always buddies.

After Teague had some nachos, he started to perk up. Here's the start of a little dancing.

Oh yeah! He's raising the roof!

Carter and Kyle enjoyed some caramel corn together. Carter really loved watching the game. He had a great view of the action. Thanks again Callie!

Carter loves to sleep in Callie's overstuffed chair. Lane loves to cuddle with him.

This is a tired, contortionist girl on the way home. Going to a Griz game, Target, Coldstone, McDonalds, Kohl's, and the most delicious noodle place will do that! We hadn't been to Missoula a long time. It was fun!

The Emerson PTO asked if I would order bags and balls for Emerson since I know about sports. I borrowed an electric pump from Butte High, and this is what my living room looked like on Sunday night! It will be great for the teams.

Teague likes to write his thoughts down before he goes to sleep. Apparently he is thinking about poop. Imagine that!

Callie came over this weekend. We were going to go to the Tech game, but it was a high of 9 degrees. We just hung out and laughed. We did go for a nice walk on the trail today though. Teague had fun watching the ducks slide on the ice to get some bread.

All the ducks were swimming in that one little spot. Poor things.

We fattened them up though! I hope it stays this nice tomorrow. Everyone travel safe for Thanksgiving!

Jordan's Birthday and Snow

My little buddy Jordan turned 17! I can't believe that. I was trying to find some good pictures to put up of her on Facebook. I like this one of us singing some karaoke!

I love this one also! Her year of figure skating!

We had her birthday dinner tonight when Terri was off. We had cake for her on the 2nd though. Carter, Avery, and Teague always like to sing "Happy Birthday!"

One with the lights on! Teague had a weird rash last week, luckily it's gone now. He looks quite rosy here. They all love Jordo.

Avery looks like one of the kids from Lord of the Flies! She was having a good time in the tub though. 

Carterman just loves his puppy dog. She has been quite snuggly with him lately.

We went right from fall to winter after Halloween. This is what we woke up to on Tuesday morning. 6 inches of heavy, wet snow!

Carter was pretty happy about it. He loves to play outside in the snow. He's definitely more of a winter kid than a summer kid.

By the next day, the snow was a little melty and perfect for making a snowman.

This Tonka truck Mom and Dad got Carter for his first birthday has held up well!

See!

We went on a little adventure walk. We all had a good time on the snowy trail with sunshine on our heads.

Carter couldn't put his hat all the way on...it would mess up his hair!

Teague found a stick and a chunk of ice, what could be better?

Ave and Teague brought over a bunch of stuffed animals to play school on Saturday. Laney apparently wanted to join the class as well.

Bumble was the math teacher!

Ave had each animal do some art. She's just a slightly better than Clara Hartz was...right Kelsie?

Abbey and her boyfriend bought a puppy together. It is super cute. It's an Australian Shepherd/Terrier/Pit cross. They need to think of a name for it, but it's really sweet and playful. Carter loved it.

Halloween and visits

These two are best friends 60% of the time. Teague just finds her hilarious. I love just listening to him giggle at whatever she is doing.

The old scary mask finally bit the dust. Luckily Papa ordered this new alien gray mask. The craftsmanship is quite impressive really! Teague screamed when he saw it, so it worked!

Erica, Kelsie, and their kids were able to come in for three days because they had MEA weekend. Sean and Joe both had to work. We had lots of fun sitting around and visiting. Lincoln was thrilled to see Laney. He is an animal lover.

Hawkins is a little goofball and such a good baby. I think he knew he was being pretty funny here.

Grandma bought this beautiful headband for Avery, but everyone tried it on. Hawkins "made it work" as Tim Gunn would say.

Teague wore a jacket very similar to mine for our last home game. I told him that meant he could coach with me. We got a picture together afterwards at Silver Bow.

Jordan carried Mr. Hawkins all over Silver Bow. In turn, he gave her some nice loves. They are buddies.

Carter wanted to hold him too. Hawkins thought Carter's nose was quite interesting. He got a good grip on it right after this picture was taken!

They brought their costumes so we could get a picture all together. Hawkins passed out though, and this lighting was awful. Fail! The kids look cute though! We have Buzz Lightyear, AntMan, Hawkeye, Hero Brian from Minecraft, and Maleficent.

Our brother always wanted a Headframe tattoo. Now we have one for him with his signature from his driver's license down the side. I am not a big tattoo person, but this really means something. I love looking at it, even when I get a little sad.

Goodbye for now our North Dakota family. We miss you already!

On Sunday we made it out to Brooklyn Zahler's 5th Birthday party. She's a cutie. All the kids had a blast. Even Avery who threw up twice while we were out there. We had a weird stomach bug go through the house that day.

School pictures this year! I will try to disperse them to everyone. I love them all, even Carter's half smile. We have some cute kids!

Avers passed out under her One Direction book. She is so my daughter.

Halloween! We found some Maleficent horns down at Hastings, Abb brought some lipstick, and I made her staff longer with some black duct tape. She looked amazing! She loved it too. She just said Maleficent doesn't smile very much!

Hawkeye was looking good. He was happy he could wear sunglasses to school!

I love it. They are both so in character!

Had to get a photo outside too. The wind was chilly, but it could have been a lot worse.

AntMan was in the process of shrinking here. He is so silly!

Teagie at his parade. He loved waving to me, Kyle, Grandma, and Auntie Terri.

He and his buddy Brooklyn

Waiting for Carter and Avery's parade to start. Callie made it over too! We were glad she got to hang out with us for the holiday.

Avery and her buddy Korin coming around the block.

Carter and his friend Will. He looks so happy to see us!

He's a good boy. He's not too cool for us yet luckily.

One more from a different view.

You could sign them out of school right after the parade, so we got a nice smiling picture in the classroom. Korin's family actually found us on Halloween, and we trick-or-treated together. They always have a blast together!

Action photo in front of the tree in Grandma and Papa's yard.

My new favorite picture. 3 wonderful and big smiles! I had to leave for Billings right after this, and Kyle had to go back to work. Thankfully Grandma, Callie, and Terri carted these guys around. They are some lucky kids! Thanks everybody!

We went down to the Stodden's house for their annual Halloween hay ride party. Avery found her friend Paige there. They are cute!

Some of the 3rd graders on the hay ride: Carter, Nathan, Piper, and Sam. They are all good kids.

Kyle and his buddy AntMan enjoyed the ride too.

They are back! We always have fun down there.

Time to start trick or treating. The wind died down a bit, and we were out for an hour and a half!

The sky was pretty cool looking actually!

Some people's houses were really decorated!

Teague thought this one was pretty spooky!

They had so much candy by the end of the night that we had to carry their bags!

We love this inflatable black cat decoration. I know you can't really tell, but its tail goes up as high as a house!

Finally a picture of Callie. After eating way too much Buffalo Wild Wings and candy the day before, we needed a walk. Avery came with us of course. She loves walking. They are cute together, and I love this picture. Thanks again Cal! Hope everyone enjoyed Halloween!