Thanksgiving and Christmas 2010

Just a few pictures of our Thanksgiving and Christmas this year. It was a lot of fun.



Mike, Kristi, me and Sandi at Thanksgiving. Lots of cooking, eating and wine consumption. Thanks to all of you who were able to make it out to cold Montana.


Kristi set up a beautiful table for Thanksgiving dinner. Thanks to the Zantos for letting us borrow some chairs.


Uncle Mike and Greta enjoying each others company. I sure wish all you guys lived closer and so does G.


Greta with her oldest cousin Kelsey from Olympia, Washington.


These 2 again.....


Grandpa Fred and Grandma Angie with G at Thanksgiving.

No love here...

the girls. Angie, Sandi, Greta, Kelsey and Kristi


Food...mmmm good.

Drinks and family. We had a lot of each...

Me trying to get a picture for the Christmas card. Looks like it is going to be a New Years card.


G and her cousins on my side. Greta, Brenan, Madison, Michaela, Kade and Ty.

Just the girls...


My brother Scott with Wrigley in Cut Bank.


G in her Christmas dress.


Cousins again.


family photo


G and her Mom.


G and her Dad.


Cousins again.


Greta at her Christmas party at school. Echo is holding her and is one of two gals who adore Greta in the toddler room. It is so nice to know she is loved at school.


More photo ops for the card.


another...


Greta wanted us to wear her hair thing (I am a guy, I have no idea what this thing is and for what purpose) and Kristi in the reindeer antlers.


Cute G.


Greta and her friend Madeline eating popcorn and watching a movie. We sometimes get the girls together for fun and mahem. They are 3 weeks apart and live 2 blocks from one another.


The girls in the tub. Nice horns ladies!


Christmas decorations. We don't have the heart to take it down yet. Thank goodness for a fake tree!


Kristi and Kris Harriman squaring off at my Christmas party. Kristi went 0-2 and got slammed several times. We had a ball and laughed harder than I have in a while.


close up, before getting her butt handed to her...


before my party.

New post before it is next summer...

I owe all of you faithful blog readers an apology. I haven't blogged since last June, which means I have some catching up to do. I am putting in a wide aray of pictures in the last 7 months. The good news is we are doing well. We had a very busy but great summer. We haven't done too much as far as vacationing. The economy continues to make things very interesting and challenging in the business world. Supposedly, the bottom is behind us and we are on the mend. I pray that they are right.

Greta has grown and changed at an amazing rate. She is talking a lot and smiling even more. She is the light of our lives and we are very blessed to be her parents. Day care is going well and she is learning things each and every day.

Our new home is definately "home" now and we are really enjoying living here and raising Greta. We were very lucky to have most of Kristi's family here for Thanksgiving. We had a very good time, but, as usual, it was way too short. The Washington folks did get to experience subzero temperatures for days on end. It was VERY cold the whole time so we just hunkered down and enjoyed each other's company.

We went to Cut Bank for Christmas this year. We are very lucky to be able to alternate Christmas with Kristi's family and my family. My brother and step brother and step sister were home as well. Greta got to spend time with her cousins and had a ball.


Greta on her 2nd birthday on September 29

Greta pushing here stroller with her best buddy Woody. She really loves Woody and sleeps with him most nights.


Funny picture of G to show how long her hair has gotten. She still hasn't had a hair cut.

Uncle Mike and Aunt Sandi Skyping on G's birthday. Greta is so luck to have so many people who show her so much love in her family. I love this picture and the joy on these faces. Thanks for all you.


Greta doing some cooking. Cutie.


Little G at the Dinasaur Park. She went there a few times this summer.

G and her Mom at the park.

Grandma Angie and Kristi


Oh, the Bobcats had a GREAT football season. This is my cousin Brian and I enjoying a frosty treat one fine fall morning. The Bobcats are really looking good. The Eastern Washington Eagles won the National Championship last night and the Cats beat them during the season. Maybe next year, we go all the way.


Mom, me and G in the back yard. You can see in the upper left hand corner of the picture, the farmers are getting their crop in. Our back yard borders a field of grain.


Greta with her pumpkin she picked out at the Pumpkin Patch. They pull a trailor behind a tractor and take kids to the patch to pick out their own pumpkin. Greta really had fun and so did her Mom and Dad.

Greta looking cute as ever.

Me and Greta right before the big pumpkin carvnig. Thanks Greta for teaching me how to do all these great things I would never get to do without you in my life.


Another picture of Greta on her birthday. She had a Dora the Explorer cake.


Family photo.

I promise I will be better and posting this year. It was a hectic 2010 and I am ready to get on to 2011.

Summer is on it's way!!!

We spent the weekend in Olympia, Washington celebrating our nephew Trent's High School graduation. We flew in early Thursday and returned on Sunday morning. It was Greta's 2nd flight and she did great. It sure beats a 12 hour drive. We went to the Zoo in Tacoma on Thursday and Greta was able to see all those animals we see in her books. The weather was a bit overcast but very comfortable.

Trent Haberland, Class of 2010

Greta and her Aunt TheresaAunti Jodi having BIG fun!

Kristi's college friend Katie met us at the rental car place to let us borrow a car seat for G. We went to her house and spent some time with her and her girls. This is her middle daughter Josi. The girls had a lot of fun with Greta. Many thanks to them for helping us out.
Greta at the Zoo feeding the birds. She was pretty excited to have them land on her stick. She was trying to grab them which apparently is against the rules.
Greta sitting in front of the monkey cage. She wasn't nearly as excited as I expected her to be.

All the crazy girls at the kid play land at the end of the Zoo tour.

The monkeys goofing around. Pictured are Reese, Josi, Ashlie, Greta and Hannah. Reese, Josi and Hannah are Katie's daughters and Ashlie is Johnny's daughter (sister Jodi's boyfriend).

G and her Mom.

G playing with Mom's cell phone.Family photo in front of the elephants. Those things are huge!

Of course Greta needed a stuffed toy at the Zoo.

Kristi's sister Sandi on her porch during the festivities. Sandi's son Trent graduated high school in Olympia over the weekend.

Sandi and her husband Mike hamming it up with G.

Mike and his daughter Tawny at the campfire.

Big Mike.

The view from their house on Summit Lake. It was beautiful for the party.

Kristi and Sandi

Kristi, Johnny and Jodi

Super G.

My bride

Johnny, Jodi, Ashlie, Jeremy and Shelbie. Jeremy and Shelbie are sister Jodi's kids and Ashlie is Johnny's daughter.

Picture of the new house. We moved in about a month ago. It seems like we have been here for a week. I cannot wait to have it feel like home. The garage is still pretty full of stuff for a garage sale.

The back yard. We had a fence put in for the dogs the day we moved in. It is so nice not to deal with leashes all the time.

Another picture of the back yard. We are adjacent to farm land. It is very peaceful. I bought a bridge at Costco to cross the irrigation ditch.

G in the yard tonight.

Greta helping me pull weeds out of the rock bed. She is a great helper.

G sporting PJ's and white tennis shoes. She wasn't ready for bed quite yet.