Christmas

My husband is known for really picking me out the unique gifts, and boy this year he really had out done him self! I woke up to this blown up in my living room :)

How did he know I have always wanted one of these! We have had a fun Christmas a little sad it's over, but yet glad that it is. Now we move on to New Years. Tuesday Mom and Dad came to stay with us,they got here about 7:30 we visited until about 11:00 and hit the hey. Christmas Eve day, the family all met at the Country Inn and Suites. Our first year trying something new. Kids loved to be able to swim, we played some fun games, ate Ton's and Ton's of food.. mom always goes over board! Ended the day back at home cleaning up the house for Santa's arrival. Christmas day kids were up by 7:00 a.m. ready to tackle the day! The kids were very happy with their gifts, I heard atleast a dozen times from Nicholas that this was the best Christmas ever. We had bought him a electric guitar now he has to figure out how to use it. :) maybe we'll get him some lessons. Erica loves her Ipod, and Mike loves her new out fit that she has wore almost ever day since. Brooke is happy with her magna doodle... Now it's sunday and we are looking at a whole week of being home together. Rick and I had taken vacation and the kids have winter break... Not sure what we will do, we are thinking of going to the movie Bedtime Stories with Adam Sandlers. Would love for all of us to go ice fishing, but Rick says he doesn't have all the stuff ready... Kids have been out on the ice rink a few times, maybe I will get out there my self. well, getting tired... so gonna read some Yada Yada

SUPER DAD!

Here is the Family out shoveling off the Ice Rink. Rick spends alot of time working on the ice rink for the kids, they better appreciate it. They have not been able to use it yet.. Hopefully by Christmas... Thank you Rick for all the great things you do for our kids. We love you.

WHAT A BUNCH OF CHICKENS!!!

O.k. so maybe their not a bunch of chickens.. but they sure acted like it! Michlyn looked out the window this afternoon and she says Mom, there's a turkey coming to our door! I didn't think one would be that close , so I grabbed my camera, by the time I sneaked out the door and got my camera adjusted and waiting for a flash, they ran off... I could have had my family a turkey dinner for tonight! naa, well, just wanted to post this, here is another reason why I love this place... when we first moved here the man said he even seen bear! wouldn't that be sweet!

well, gobble gobble!

Weekend of Hockey

Nicholas has a hockey tournament at Breezy point. The whole family went, and we had our selves a mini vacation. Friday we went right to the arena for the hockey game, the boys played a good game but ended up losing.. they played the next day at 8:15 so the boys had to up and out the door by 6:30 a.m. me and the girls ended up staying back and sleeping in... We missed the wrong game because they ended up winning on a shoot out! Wish I was there! Boys were back and we had pot luck dinner, swam, and kids played RockStarBand. then headed back out for another game which they ended up losing, and it was a nail biter! came back to the hotel and swam some more, visited and hit they hey for another morning to wake up by 6:30 for another hockey game. weather was awful driving there and then heading back home was even worse! it was almost a white out! you couldn't see the car that was in front of you! It was pretty scary...

O.k. so that was our weekend... full of HOCKEY! I love to watch Nicholas play, sometimes he can be so into the game and blows my mind with his little moves and speed, but then there is times he just putts... haven't figured it out yet... Hopefully now that Rick has the ice rink up, he can do alot more practicing... Here is a pict. of my cutie! Love you Nicki!!!

It's been a while since I have blogged... Not a whole lot of interesting things happen at the Fyten home but we certainly stay busy! Erica had her first band/choir concert last night. it was great.. I was more proud of how beautiful she is becoming , in her nice black slacks! and white nice shirt... and HER HAIRD DOWN!!! she usually wears blah clothes and her hair is always up in a snarly pony! drives me nuts. so I was pretty proud of her! :) Nicholas had a Hockey tournament last weekend in Princeton, I always love to watch him play... the first night he didn't to do well, didn't even seem like he wanted to be there... we had a talk with him and we found out that he is scared to get to aggressive because he might get a penalty! we told him to not worry about that! just don't trip or hit anyway! get in there and get that puck! it's yours! and the next day's game he was like a whole new kid! he was great! This weekend we have to go to Breezy point for the whole weekend for another tournament. I am not to happy about it, I have so much stuff to do around here... but I am going to try and enjoy it and think of it as a mini vacation... Kids will get to swim on free time... it's always nice to go someplace else cause I don't have to worry about cleaning and cooking... I plan to bring my Bible and do lot's of reading... Yesterday I was feeling real grouchy! un appreciated, tired, over whelmed, mad at how much I have to do around here! I hate feel like that! so what do I do? I write to my sister Stacy and tell her how I am feeling and tell her to send me a list of verses I need to read in the bible to snap me out of this funk! She knows the bible pretty good... I was a little scared to ask her figuring she would send me something that would maybe make me feel bad, like THE LORD YOUR GOD SAYS TO GET OFF YOUR BUTT AND QUIT WALLOPING IN SELF PITY! But thank you Lord she didn't... When I was reading it, I was like, JEEZE how did she know this is exactly what I needed to hear! But I guess, really she didn't... God did! He works thru people, so he knew what I needed to hear! sorry Stacy you don't get the credit! :) Anyway, if your feeling overwhelmed, under appreciated, feeling maybe a little sorry for your self... Look up
Romans chapter 12, Phillipians Chapter 2... and she did send me another I haven't looked up yet, but James 1:22-25.
so now what I need to do is either carry around my pocket bible, or memorize, cause I can feel like that several times a day!
Well, only two more weeks until Christmas. I have most presents wrapped a couple more to buy, I haven't bought Rick any so far.. not sure if we will this year, He bought him self a pretty nice tool chest so, I asked him if he could just buy me a family membership to YMCA for a few months... I need to lose some serious lbs. either that or put a horn on my butt cause I am draggin a dang caboose around... so yep that is my New Years Resolution! surprise! I have this stupid idea in my head, well, if I have to start on a diet I may as well enjoy the now... I can't start now???!! Christmas and new years is coming! well, with that attitude now I can't even fit into my fat pants! serious! I should at least start choosing better foods right now, and lose a little and so what have some eatin fun at Christmas and new years and then start the serious stuff after! But my mind can't think that way! I act like I am on my death bed... so I have to get in everything so yummy and delicious now because I won't be able to have anything once my diet starts... that's just setting my self up for failure, isn't it? or at least setting my self up for more weight to have to lose! why can't we just all be skinny huh?!!
O.k. I better get going here. got to feed some kids...