1st Big Snowfall!

The kid are very excited, it's starting to snow!
Here is Benji and Emily watching the
1st few flakes coming down.




These were taken at about 9am




These were taken at 11am

I will post more tomorrow.
They say we will get about 9 inches today,
two over night and maybe 1 or 2 tomorrow.


Peace.

No school again!

I think I would be better off doing home school!
It seems they are home more than even I was.

Anyway it's a nice cold sunny day here in Chanhassen.
The old "calm before the storm" We could get a foot of snow
tomorrow and I hope we do! I love the big snow storms,
I hate the cold but a bunch of snow is fun. If it has to be cold
at least we should have some snow on the ground.

Benji wants to go snowboarding so bad. And the girls want
to take lessons. I am not sure I want to take them to lessons
so I'll have to look into Saturdays for Pete to take them.
Ya, that sounds good and I'll stay home all by myself
and sit by the fire with a hot chocolate and read a book!
I think thats the ticket! Enjoy your day. TGIF!

Peace.

Monday again...

The weekends go way to fast! I just love the weekends!
I know I have said that before I just like no alarm clocks
and no home work. We kept busy with some last minute
yard stuff, putting up our Boy Scout wreath and swags,
tossing moldy pumpkins. The weather was yucky so we
did not put up any lights. I hope it does not get worse
next weekend or I'll never get Pete to hang them.

I also did some sewing on a borrowed machine. I made some
lounge pants for the kids out of fleece. It was fun and they think it's
cool that I made them. I am not a sewer AT ALL so this was a big
deal for me to do. I even asked Pete to get me a sewing machine for
Christmas. I think it will be fun to have one here and do
little projects with the kids. Even Benji was getting in to it.

Well, I gotta go get Amanda from her Brownie meeting now.
Have a great week and a Happy Thanksgiving if I don't blog
again by then. (Which I most likely will not since I will be hosting
25 or so people for Turkey day.)

What are you thankful for?
Peace!

TGIF

It has been a while I guess.
I am back on my own time zone and on my own computer!
It is VERY nice to be home. I came home to clean kids and
a clean house. Can't ask for more than that! Thanks again Susan!!!

Halloween was fun.
Here is Amanda and Emily




And here they are with some friends.



Amanda got her ears pierced, its so cute!
She is so happy and proud of her new earring's.
I'll have to take a picture and post it this week end.

Some of my neighborhood friends and I are going out
for a girls night out at Floyd's in Victoria. It should be
a good time. I am looking forward to it. And, now that
there is no smoking in Minnesota it will be smoke free inside.
I am so happy to not be smoking!

I was at the gym today and met with a new trainer (mine quit)
and we did a body age test on me and it said I was only 33!!!!
6 months ago I did the test and was 34 so at least I am
going in the right direction with something in my life.

Gotta go do more laundry and picking up around here
before the week end officially starts.

Love to all.
Peace.

Photos from weekend

Notre Dame



Sacre-Coeur (Church)







Pete Thinking...



The Winged Victory


Mona Lisa



Saturday night dinner (nummy!)



Benji's painting


Peace.

Weekend in Paris

Lets start out with Friday night.
We went on a dinner cruise on the Seine River.
It was nice, relaxing and very expensive! 275.00
Euros! So, over $300.00 dollars. The food was good,
but not $300.00 good.

Saturday we got a little bit of a late start but
managed to pack in a full day of sight seeing,
eating, shopping and walking. We started at the
Louvre and saw the Winged Victory and
the Mona Lisa. We had a nice lunch in a cute
cafe there at the Louvre. Boy, did I need food
and a coke bad! After I ate things were much
better. What I did not know untill later as I sat
in bed reading Carole's Paris book is that the
Last Supper painting is at the Louvre. I would have
liked to have seen that in person. We left the Louvre
and walked down some fun streets. We bought
some really cool paintings from an artist on the street.
Then we walked to Saint Chapelle a really cool
church Pete wanted to see. You had to walk up this really
narrow, sprial stair case. Not easy. The stained glass was
awesome and I hope the pictures do it some justice.

From there we walked and walked. I was well
medicated and did fine as far as my back went.
We had dinner in a little Italian place on one of the
funnest street I have ever been on. We bought Benji
one of those spray paint prints like he got in Mexico.
I hope he likes it. We then stopped by Notre Dame
and took some night photos. Pete told me Notre Dame is
his favorite place in the whole world. You learn something
new about your husband all the time I guess. We were going
to bike back but we were told it was a good 20 minute ride
so we took a cab and came back to the hotel and rented a movie.
I'll post photos later. We are ready to go out again today.
I want to go up in the Eiffel Tower, not sure Pete wants to do that.

Peace.

Happy Birthday to Me!

I awoke to the phone ringing at 10 am.

Pete was not in the room so I thought it was him.

Nope, I was wrong it was Jen. She said Happy Birthday,

How are you? I have some real bad news. She sounded bad.

She told me they had to go back home to Holland right away

this morning. Her knee down to her toes are three times

the size they should be. It started a few days before I

got here and she almost did'nt come down at all.

She has been walking all over Paris and not

complaining a bit. We are quite the pair, her with her

leg and me with my back. I tell ya. We really should buy

some stock in Alive. Anyway, this morning it just really got

to be way to much for her, she is in pain and just needs to go see

her doctor. They came over to our hotel and said good bye.

We hugged and cried. I miss them so much.

They will be home in the states on December 22nd for 2 weeks.

Get better Jen!

As I hung up with Jen, Pete walked in with some beautiful

flowers for me. He had been runing all over Paris trying to find

a florest that was open. He was all hot and sweaty and out of breath.

How sweet is he huh?

Right now he is out with some work
friends having lunch and will be back soon and we will

have the rest of today and the weekend on our own.

Not sure what we will do. Maybe dinner up in the Eiffel

Tower tonight.

Yesterday, Pete and I had breakfast together and then

he worked all day and I spent the day with the Wilsons.

I was walking down to meet them at their hotel. I was about

half way there when I hear someone yell "Hey, Anne!" from

across the street. It was Jen, Matt and Olivia coming to meet me.

It was very strange to be alone on the streets of Paris and

have someone yell your name out. We laughed about it all

day long. It would have been very easy to have missed eachother.

We all bought tickets to ride a bus all over. The tour
had 4 routes and like 50 stops. We saw Notre Dame,

The Arc De Triomphe, walked the Champs Elissas,

(not sure how to spell that, it's where Dad got his comb.)

had some awesome "French" onion soup lunch,

which the just call "onion soup" by the way. It was a full day.

Jam packed with Ibuprofen, food, friends and fun!

$orry Je$$ica, No birthday pur$e from this place.

This was the 1st night together.

These guards are all over in groups of three

around the Eiffel Tower.

Gotta go get some lunch now.

Love to all.

Peace.