Bits and pieces of January @ Deb's house

Cheering on the Badgers New Years Day

Fast asleep after a late night partying new years eve with his favorites - Cooper, legos and mythbusters on tv.

Practicing his speech on Abraham Lincoln

Jacob Wilkes Booth waits in the shadows to pelt Mr. Lincoln with the nerf gun.

St. Johns Green vs. St. Johns White...thanks goodness we won!

Emily comes prepared to games.

Pinewood Derby





New office

This picture was taken this morning from the balcony of the new office we move into in a couple weeks. It was super foggy and the two towers you see poking out of the fog on the left are the top of the really tall bridge I bike across over the river everyday. When biking across this bridge this morning., I couldn't see two feet in front of me (normally you can see all of downtown, the river, etc.). Just thought it was a cool picture :)

Lucky loggers and Go Packers!

So that really old, huge azalea I was so excited about blooming and posted a picture of in my last post is now in the plant hospital... Ashley and I finished pruning our three out of control plum trees in the front yard this weekend. There was a HUGE branch in the middle of the third one, and the tree is surrounded by power lines, phone lines, a street busy with people and bikes, ours and our neighbor’s houses, etc. We definitely had an audience of neighbors with noses pressed against their windows. This is what our conversation probably looked like to them: “Um, Ashley, are you sure this is a good idea? That branch is HUGE.” “Yep, its fine. Just pull that rope really hard when it starts to fall.” “But then won’t it fall the wrong way?” "Nope, it'll be fine." "I'm not so sure about this....." At this point, three men walk by. “Whoa, you’re not going to.... Wow, we gotta see this.”

Ashley saws at the branch for ages, it finally cracks, I stop directing traffic to pull the rope, the branches catch the phone line to the house, it hangs there for a bit but doesn't pull it down. But, it lands on the 70 year old azalea with a huge CRACK. It broke off some good branches, and a big one is cracked. As you can see in the picture, Ashley constructed a bandage and sling. We’re hoping for a full recovery. : ) One of the three guys says, “Wow, that took some serious balls” before they keep walking down the sidewalk.

That night we had a neighborhood potluck across the street and everyone who was watching us got to tell us about their similar “lucky logging” incidents as they called them. So at least they hopefully don't think we are entirely crazy for trying to get the branch down ourselves. Hopefully the azalea still blooms this spring! Now we just have a ton of branches to cut up and take to the yard waste place. If only we actually had a yard to burn or just let the branches be...

Hopefully it makes it! Its looking pretty rough...

We also made it on Saturday to a Packer bar just a few blocks from our house to watch the game. It was packed with fans. Ashley got a laugh out of how hard core the Packer fans were - still cheering like crazy for a field goal at the end of the game when they were 20+ points ahead. We got (another) not so good picture with the phone at the bar. :)

Go Packers!

We got the kitchen painted and finalized this weekend too... Pictures to come. Can't wait!

Go Packers!

Hi sisters.  Here is an update from our week.  A pretty ordinary week at the price household - other than Powderhorn burning down and not having a bathroom!  I wanted to post a picture of the fire but haven't downloaded an pics yet from the internet.  I'll wait to post the pics of the bathroom until it's all done.  Everyone was pretty excited about the Packer win last night - Super Bowl Bound??

Morgan's Packer-themed birthday party.
 Don't you love the G and B sausage and cheese platter?!

While it looks like an empty bathroom vanity box on the outside...

It's the perfect picnic spot for Saturday lunch.
Remember those days when a cardboard box could entertain you for a whole day?

I love this picture for a couple reasons:
First, the lighting makes me happy - a little bright sunshine during the gray days of winter.
Second, some quality sister time - in the nude:) 

Macy's new favorite book - Curious George.
 She falls asleep reading every it every nap and bedtime.

Recognize anyone?

The kids and I were recently at the Waunakee senior center and a certain face jumped out at me.  Do you see her?

A few small but exciting things this week...

We had a few cold, clear days this week and caught our first view of Mt. Hood from our bedroom window in the mornings. Now that the leaves are off the tree in front of that window, we sometimes get a peek at it when the sun is coming up (not the best picture but you can just see it...).

Deb - the birds have LOVED our feeder - I already need to refill it with seed (and its not empty from squirrels - its actually birds :)

And we have a really old, big azalea bush in our front yard that is already starting to pop some pink buds! Can't wait to see it this spring.

Middle Sister

Happy 2011!

I love these pictures! Such pretty Christmas houses and the kids look so pretty all dressed up and excited. I didn't take any pictures on New Years, but on New Year's eve, we went to our friends Val and Geoff's house for a pot luck and we all headed out around 11 to a nearby bar for a midnight toast. Its the first year in ages I actually went out to a bar on New Year's. Luckily we had a big group and the bar wasn't packed. They had great music and so we got in some dancing and made it home by 12:30. We meant to get up really early on New Year's Day to go XC skiing before the Rose Bowl, but we were a bit fuzzy so didn't make it out the door till later. We still got in a good ski up at Mt. Hood - TONS of snow and Carmen went crazy. She must have ran 10 times further than we skied. We stopped at this awesome little road side bar on the way home - it had a HUGE fire in the fireplace, really good food and the Rose Bowl on. So we got to watch the Badgers lose, booo. We just hung out next to the fire last night reading - we were exhausted. And today we're supposedly going to finish painting the kitchen. I'll post before and after pictures when its done! Cross your fingers - we're painting it a bright red.... I really really hope we like it!

Happy New Year

Hi Sisters.  Deb, I love the picture of the outside of your home - just beautiful and Beth, your home looks so cozy - can't wait to see it in person.  Look at those 3 honeys on the bench looking at the Christmas tree.  Kids just make the holidays so magical.  We're home from up north...what a fun week.  It went by so fast.  It felt like we were only there for a couple days.  And...Macy skied for the first time!  I took a gazillion pictures but have tried to limit it of course to a few of my holiday favorites.

On our way to Christmas Eve Mass

Baby doll addiction

Thanks for the Kit PJs Aunt Debbie - I wore them ALL week!

Ballerina Brooke

Happy New Year!  Waiting for the fireworks to start...

Christmas in Waunakee