Santa has Arrived...and so has Snomobiling Season!

So Jed thinks it's pretty funny to put obnoxious Christmas decorations up outside of our house just to bug me. The scary part is he hasn't even got to the reindeer and santa's sleigh on top of our roof with another santa that looks like he's fallen out of the sleigh and is hanging from the raingutter. He thinks it's funny.....I think it's white trash. Jen and Chris Cameron were kind enough to give us the inflatable Santa in the picture above last year (thanks jerks!). The next picture is of Jed this morning leaving for the first day of snowmobiling for the year......he was soooo excited! You might notice I had to secretly take the picture out of my window because first of all Jed hates getting his picture taken for the blog and secondly I had the flu so I wasn't dressed yet but I had a good chuckle to myself thinking what he would do if I had gone outside in my fuzzy blue robe, no make-up, scary hair and said in a fun mom voice "ok boys! Everyone scooch together so I can get you all in this fun picture!!"

Random Update

So here's a few random pictures from Thanksgiving weekend. I figured I wouldn't give all the details of Thanksgiving Day since you've probably already read about what I did on Thanksgiving on Carrie or Cody's blog. So here's a few of MY favorite pictures from the week. First of all my parents & Kami came to town which was super fun! Of course we all had to go to lunch with just the girls one day (ok, we actually did it several days but here's just one picture). The next picture is of my BFF Rylee. I got to babysit her one night and it was super fun--she thought putting olives on ALL of her fingers was about the coolest thing ever! See, I'm a fun babysitter like that---the Rylee gets to do whatever she wants --we usually play princess and paint our nails and play games or color. Needless to say Thanksgiving was pretty much a week long party at the Oram and Baadsgaard homes.

Roommate Reunion

Ok, fine----the picture above is not of our roommate reunion but it pretty much sums up my Ricks College Days...........the biggest excitement in my life was Wednesday night when 90210 came on!!!! (and the the first season did just come out on DVD so could someone please tell Jed that getting it for Christmas would be the highlight of my year!) Anyway....Natalie, Carrie and I -along with our husbands did have a little reunion on Friday night. Natalie and Ian were in town from Michigan so we got together for some good grub and good conversation....way fun! I was so bummed though because I had found my 90210 barbie dolls in my garage a few days before our reunion and I was planning on having the waitor bring them out on a silver platter for us for dinner as a joke and I totally forget them on my kitchen table back home!!! Wouldn't that have seriously been so funny!!! Oh well, maybe next time. Oh and just in case anyone is interested in trying out their 90210 knowledge I've included a link to a 90210 trivia game---enjoy!
http://www.helicon7.com/90210/

While Jed Was Out

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So as most of you know Jed has started traveling again for work. Well, this week he was gone for the entire week so needless to say I felt the need to keep myself busy. Soooooo I decided I would paint my bathroom! Now I'll be honest.....if Jed was home I'm not sure that he would have agreed with me on the paint choice but oh well, it's done now. I just need to find a few accessories to complete the project but at least you get the general idea.

Brocston has an owie on his Heart

My little nephew Brocston (Jed's sister Shay's little boy) had to have open heart surgery. He's doing great and we hope he has a speedy recovery. We went to visit him in Primary Childrens Hospital and even though he's doing great it was so sad to see all those wires and tubes hooked up to him. One cool thing though was that my friend Little Julie is a nurse on the floor he's on so she made sure that he was well taken care of.....she's a great friend and nurse like that. Hopefully Broc will get to come home soon.

Surprise--Sharon is Sixty!

It was pretty much one surprise after another for my mom this last weekend. It was her 60th Birthday so we all flew up to Seattle to surprise her. The first picture is when she turned around and saw Cody, Karena, Jed and I all just sitting on the couch. The next picture is when she walked downstairs for the big party we were having on Saturday night and was surprised by Uncle Paul, Uncle Phil, Uncle Carl and Aunt Pat. She had NO CLUE!!! I wish I would have got a picture of her being surprised by Kami and Ben and Friday afternoon and then Maile and Nate on Saturday. It was SO FUN! I love the picture of Jed and Cody having a fight with wet kitchen towels.... who do you think won??? And last but not least is my favorite picture. After a couple of days of partying we finally accomplished the impossible..........we wore Quinn out!!!!