Dr. Seuss' Birthday

I have the greatest job! I love working at my kids school and seeing them throughout their day. I'm always the first one to try to talk the office staff into dressing up and being silly for special holidays! For Dr. Seuss' birthday celebration we had a ton of fun coming up with some fun costumes!

Mrs. Nickle (the Grinch), Mrs. Monson (Thing 2), Mrs. Halliday (Thing 3), Mrs. Gibson, (Thing 1), Mr. Stone (Dr. Seuss)

My office girls~ LOVE them!

Autumn, DeAnne, and Holly

Ice Fishing

We have the best neighbors! The Evans' took Easton ice fishing. Even though we sunscreened him like crazy he still got burned from the glare off of the snow!

They caught tons or fish and had a great time!!

Easton and Angie

Reeling it in!

Catch of the day!

Ang and East getting ready to throw the big buy back

Look at this one!

And another!

East holding Brayden's pole while he has a quick lunch.

Davy and Easton. The mighty fishermen.

Northern Family Photos

All the grandkids

Nemi, Colby, Sage, Grams, Gramps, Camry, Bryan, Autumn, Jace, and Easton

Northern Family

Mom and Dad

The Hallidays

Colby's gorgeous family

Now that is one good lookin family! :)

Photos by Noelle DeGroot Photography

I Am Determined

to catch my blog up. Ideas on how to do that are welcomed. I am not sure whether to go back to JULY and start where I left off or....post everything in one gigantic post. Oh I am SO overwhelmed...but determined at the same time. Posts soon to follow.

Healing the Wounded

Bryan has had knee issues for a long time from his years of church basketball. Right before Christmas he was playing basketball again and really injured it badly. He limped around until the first of the year when we decided it just wasn't going to get better on it's own this time. He went in for an MRI and found out he had a ton of scar tissue, a torn meniscus, and torn ACL. Surgery was scheduled. He went in on a Thursday and I took 2 days off to take care of him. We were prepared for a long recovery....but because Bryan is Superman himself he was up and trying to walk on it in about 4 days! His first post op appointment the Doctor was amazed at his recovery and only warned him not to overdo it and re injure it.

The knee

We were given this awesome contraption. It's an ice machine. It pumps ice cold water to this wrap around his knee. It was so cool...way better than a bag of frozen peas!!

My favorite patient

THEN....

On Friday Jace was playing TOUCH football with the neighbor boy and was TACKLED. He complained all day until I finally decided to leave my other patient alone for a bit and take him to the ER.

Verdict:

broken collar bone

Touch guy number 2

It Helps

It helps to live in below freezing degree weather when your refrigerator breaks. Where's the milk? Oh..it's outside.

Santa's Visit

Twas the night before Christmas at Jeffrey's house....

Grandpa read the Christmas story to us while we waited for our special visitor

Maddie and Camry working on a Christmas puzzle

She couldn't wait for Santa!

Maddie asked for a barbie and a pony

Kaleb wanted a Ripstick

Garet asked for a motorized scooter

Jace wanted an ipad...since we told him that probably wasn't an option he asked Santa for "Super Mario Galaxy"

Easton asked for Scribblenauts for his D.S.

Camry wanted to be surprised