Merry Christmas to all!

We have been in Ellensburg now since early Wednesday morning. We made the all night drive after work Tuesday and rolled in at 2:30 a.m.. We were able to sleep in and have Grandma and Grandpa watch the G. Thank you!

Christmas has been fun. We are here with all of Kristi's brother and sisters. Lots of laughs and good times. Greta is having a great time with all the craziness as well as the tons of family to entertain.

We took Greta to the Mall to see Santa Clause. Unfortunately, he wasn't scheduled to arrive for 3 hours. We tried to wait it out, but failed. G did get her letter written to Santa though.

Picture of Greta's cousin Seth. We have teased him about being a little girl since he was little and it just doesn't get old. Jim wrapped one of G's presents for him to open. His Mom Theresa is to his right. G looking at her big cousin Seth. She loves being around kids of all ages.

Greta and her Aunt Pam. She LOVES Pam.
Mike celebrating his gift. Nice belt buckle from the National Finals Rodeo in Vegas.
Pam, Greta, Kristi, Shelby, Grandma Angie and Jodi
Kelsey and her Mom Sandi.
Kristi and G
Jodi and Kristi playing a little Wii. It got a little out of hand. Jodi wanted me to be sure to blog that she won...
Jodi and her friend Johnny.
Jodi and baby G
Jodi with her kids Shelby and Jeremy. Jeremy is a Sophomore at Washington State University and Shelby is a Junior at Ellensburg High School.
We went to the Iron Horse Brewery here in Eburg. We were there with Jodi, John and Coral Greer. Nice hangover on Thursday...

Uncle Jim playing with Greta.

Greta on Christmas morning. She was excited to get her little Giraffe toy.
The light of my life.

Aunt Jodi, Greta and Aunt Pam

Kristi and Greta opening gifts.

Jodi and Jim.

Uncle Jim with Greta.

G

Rolling the dice, mid-roll.

G playing with the cards.

I don't remember the white elephant gift, but I am sure it was good.

G the reindeer.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

2 weeks till Christmas....party, party, party

Kristi and I have been quite the socialites the last few weeks. My company party at Chico Hot Springs a week ago Friday, Kristi's party this past Friday and many functions for work during the week. We also had a 40th Birthday party for Mike Jarrett on Thursday night. I think I am going to have to go to dry-out and weight watchers when the season is over.

Kristi and I at her Christmas party at Looie's downunder in Bozeman.

Kristi and Joe Deason at my party.Joe, Josh and I having a shot with the "Cops". We have 3 husbands of employees who are in law enforcement. 2 with the Sheriffs office and 1 with the Bozeman City Police.
Me having a little too much fun at Kristi's party. Yikes.

Greta messing around in the dog's bed in front of the fire. She is so much fun right now. She doesn't slow down for a second.

We were outside taking some pictures for our Christmas card. It was really cold, but the G didn't seem to mind. She did have a nose plant in the snow which didn't make her very happy.

Greta playing around.

We put her in her Christmas dress while we (Kristi) decorated the tree.

G in black and white.

For some reason she loves to get behind our chair. I think it is because we don't want her back there. She is starting to learn how to push my buttons.

Christmas G

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Hello everyone. It has been a month since my last post. We had some very busy weeks followed by a computer virus which have caused the blog to take a back seat. I am putting in many pictures from Halloween to last night here at Jim and Pam Grover's in Garrison. I will upload some more pictures from this weekend in the next few days. I hope you enjoy watching G grow up. She is certainly a joy to spend time with and changes each and every day.

My halloween costume dressed like the Grizzly coach......

Aunt Sandi with G last night. We all arrived at the Grover's home with big surprise from Aunt Jodi and cousin Shelby. Greta loves spending time with family and seems to recognize everyone immediately. She is quite the social bug.

Aunt Pam dancing with Greta. She loves the movement and starts kicking her legs for more when you stop dancing.

Greta giving or trying to give Elvis some "love". He wanted no part of her.

Uncle Mike and G. She was getting passed around like a hot potato.

Sandi, G and Kristi

Greta lounging in the Grover's "new" cabin. They fixed up an old cabin on their place and it turned out very nice. I will get some pictures for the blog.

Greta riding her Giraffe.

Grandpa Fred showing Greta how to play "hand and foot". She has big shoes to fill as her cousin Seth starting playing when he was around 9.

Grandma Angie and G

My lovely Mom at the Cat-Griz game. Sadly, we were unable to get a win which ended a very exciting and emotional season. We had a bit too much fun at the game and then of course the big let down with the loss.

The Bobcat family before the game.

Mom, Greta and Mom's twin sister Candy. Thanks for coming to check out Greta Candy and for all the great gifts. Candy is famous for gifts that make a lot of noise.

Greta wearing her "Cat" sticker. She was not very happy about getting it put on.

G and Grandma Carol

Greta being a Bobcat......Grrrrrr!

Giggling G...

Greta at the Sacramento State game. She was with the babysitter for the Cat Griz game.

I love this picture. What a kid. You can see one of Candy's gifts to the left. An elf which giggles and kids its legs. G thought that was pretty cool. After the 100th time, we are thinking it is not.

Kristi at the ball game.

Ash Lee Schumacher...what a cutie.

K and me.

Ryan and Janya Ballenger rooting on our Cats.

We had a huge snow storm a couple of weeks ago. It snowed 24 inches at our house.

G sipping on a little wine in her bath.....no, not really. It was her Mom's. Call off child protective services.

Super G, need I say more.

Greta at her "movement class". For the month of November, Kristi took G to a movement class at Lone Mountain Gymnastics followed by a swimming class at the same place. Needless to say, she was exhausted after the 2 hours of activity.

Hmmm. G having a glass of wine in the cabin last night..... Are you starting to see a pattern?

G dancing last night. She was really going to town. Watch out boys!