Surrrrprisssse!!!!

We flew to Duluth Minnesota to surprise Matt's mom on her birthday. Tom has been planning this party for a about a year and we were invited to come in February. ohhh how hard it has been to keep this a secret! We had so much fun visiting and shopping, and trying to stay warm! it was -20 with the wind chill on a few days we were there. much different then what we are used too! It was not that bad really it just limited the time you could be outside. Happy Birthday Mom/Ann! We had a blast surprising you!

Jenny, Wendy & Kirk. Matt's step sisters and brother in law

The whole gang who surprised her.

Christmas Tree Hunt

We went to Butte Meadows for annual Christmas tree hunt. Matt LOVES searching and cutting down our Christmas tree every year. He does not want to ever go to a "farm" or parking lot to pick our tree. I love his desire to make it a fun and memorable experience every year. I missed last year because Sadie had her surgery a few days before the trip and I needed to stay at home to take care of her. This year we took her and Toby. They really enjoyed the snow. It was freezing up there but we found the perfect tree. It is much smaller then what we normally get, but so much easier to decorate and to fit in our living room. And we picked it out much faster too, i think the cold weather had a lot to do with that! It was a great day!

Warm and cozy in the back seat. All pooped out from the hiking in the woods.

Toby's first snow experience and he LOVED it! Looks like we will be making a few trips to the snow this year.

The intensity in Matt's face shows it all. He takes this job very serious!

Me, I am just happy we found a tree and that is not 15 feet tall!

Starting the search out right with a ice cold beer and saw. Look at the selection we had in the back ground!

Christmas Party 2009

Our annual Christmas Party with our friends was Saturday Dec 5th. Jen hosted this year, again....thanks Mike and Jen! As usual we had a great time with all of our friends. The group keeps getting bigger and bigger each year with more kiddos and more friends. It is like going to a class reunion each year. What a great way to reconnect with high school friends! I think facebook has helped with the reconnecting :) Jen always incorporates lots of fun games and everyone got to walk away with some pretty cool gifts, and some not so cool gifts, but LOTS of laughter along the way. We look forward to this party every year and much thanks to Jen and Mike for hosting again this year. I must say you are the best hosts ever! Merry Christmas to all our friends and family. We are so excited for Christmas this year and can't wait to celebrate with our family.

Mikey and Jessica are more then thrilled with there white elephant gift.... a red nighty and spicy bloody mary mix! Mikey is "modeling the itty bitty underware here, a classic picture of him!

Susan and Jen. Susan just had a little baby girl 3 weeks ago. I got to snuggle baby Kendall and get my baby fix. What a cutie!

Jordyn won a gift in one of the games. She was thrilled to be able to play all of the games that the adults played. So what if we are teaching a 7 year old how to gamble! It's all about fun this time of year.

Jessica demonstrating well how the mitten game is played. You must place hat, mittens and scarf on before you can unwrap the gift. So much fun to play with a whole bunch of people.

Heidi and Kellen watching and waiting for there turn to unwrap the gift!

miss Josie!

couldn't resist putting these cute pictures up! she is getting so big!

San Fransisco 49er's

Jerry's Bday was in Sept and to celebrate we planned a trip to see the 49ers. we all thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and even got some shirts to show our niner pride! they had a great game and we won 35-0 against the Rams! Happy Birthday Jerry!


Jerry was wiped out after a very long day of fun fun fun!
Sporting our niner gear!

Game Day!

Kick Off!

sacramento train ride

Back in aug we went to old town sac with our niece josie, jerry and barb. we went on the train ride and had a great lunch on the river. josie really enjoyed the balloon hat that was made for her.
riding on the train with her favorite uncle!

the finished product.... a pink swan with an egg in the nest. (cant see the egg but it was in the yellow balloon)

almost done (these are out of order)

Love this picture, she is in ahhh watching the man create her swan hat!

We had such a fun day and cant wait to do it again.

Introducing Mr. Toby Ensworth......

Isn't he cute! We adopted him from Paw Prints rescue. He was abandoned at veterinary clinic in Davis after he was neutered, along with his siblings and never was picked back up :( We are having Fun with him and he has been doing great. He was already crate trained by his foster home and so that battle was already done for us! Sadie is taking to him pretty well and i watched them run around the house this morning playing for about 15 min. The potty training is going and he has done fairly well, i expected some accidents and he hasn't disappointed me, Hahahaha! But we think he is going to be a great companion to us and Sadie. He can't wait to meet you!

He took all these out one-by-one from the doggy toy box, soooo cute!