Snow!

I'm watching the snow fall as I type this afternoon. It's not even December yet! All the boys are alseep so I have a little break! We just got Carter's 3 year pictures back. He's getting so big! Brandon has been fighting ear infections so we've been getting less sleep than usual. He did decide yesterday that he's ready to walk! So now he takes 10-12 steps before he falls. Crawling is still the fast way, but walking is getting better. We didn't have too busy of a weekend. We went to my parents and my grandma's, but that's about it. A nice break before the craziness of Christmas!!! Carter is really excited this year. He is bugging Adam to put up lights on our house like all the neighbors! Here's his latest pic....

Welcome to the party, Megan!

Well, Thanksgiving weekend is almost over. We arrived in Pella late Wednesday night. Both Brian and I couldn't seem to get off work on time so it was a little later than we had hoped for. Thurday am I helped Mom with some cooking. Brian's grandma and aunt from Minnapolis joined us, and we had a great time. Mom cooked an incredible amount of food, and we didn't eat the rest of the day.

Friday Brian and I spent most of the day going through Stan's garage. We took pictures and wrote down model numbers of a lot of the power tools. Wow. We have our work cut out for us! Stan had so much stuff. I think Donna is ready for us to start selling some things, so we will be back in Pella to work on that after the first of the year. I'm sure it will take us multiple trips so I will try to be in touch when that is so we can get together sometime.

Now it's Saturday, and as I am typing this Brian is returning from pheasant hunting. (Can't live a week without doing some type of hunting!) We'll see how he did. I think he just has fun taking the dog out. Mom and I spent the morning decorating for Christmas. It was kind of nice because I won't do hardly any decorating myself. Soon we will head into town to do a little shopping, then Brian and I will have supper with his aunt and grandma. She's making her famous fried chicken!!! I usually don't eat fried chicken, but her's is amazing. She doesn't make it too often anymore. She's almost 91, and has a hard time cooking that big a meal. So when she does make it we are pretty excited. (Brian just poked his head in and said he got one bird. Brutus was a very good dog too, so Brian is proud papa).

We are heading out first thing Sunday am. We have to pick up Donna at the airport tomorrow evening, and we want a few hours at home before the work week starts.

I hope eveyone had a great Thanksgiving!!!

Wow I finally figured this out!

Megan has finally entered the world of blogging  (with a little help from Brad).  

We just finished preparing our first turkey.  I had compiled a lot of information about turkeys from all of the Moms of patients at the clinic.  I settled on using butter, mustard, and seasoning salt in a turkey bag.  Hopefully everything will turn out!  We are having Brad's family over for Thanksgiving tomorrow.  Hope everyone has a fun Thanksgiving with family!

What a weekend!

Hi there! I read today that the Hawks beat the Gophers 55-0 and I thought to myself "Hmm...I wonder if Donna decided to cheer for the Hawkeyes" =)

Today was the first day that I was of the living. Last Wednesday Emma got the flu so I was home with her all day and again on Thursday until 12 when Jamie took over. Then about 2:30 on Friday morning I got the flu and it knocked me flat for 24 hours. I slept for 20 hours..no joke. I had water and about 3 crackers on Friday. Saturday I finally was able to eat a little more and actually stayed awake to watch movies, but was asleep by 8 and in bed at 9 on Saturday night. Today I left the house and feel so much better. What a crappy flu.

That was all I was up to this weekend. Hopefully this coming week and weekend are better...of course it is Thanksgiving so I can make up for that lack of food I got the last couple of days. I hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving!!

Go Hawks!!!

Wow! What a game. The Hawks beat the Gophers 55-0. Brian's mom, aunt(Donna's sister, can you tell?), and uncle came up for the game. Marla and Gary live just outside of Iowa City, and are HUGE Hawk fans. Thank goodness the Gophers were still playing in the Metrodome. It would have been way too cold to sit outside and watch it. I wish the pic of the football field was a little closer so you could see all the cute football guys' tight ends:)

Donna is staying with us until Monday, and then she will fly out to Seattle to spend Thanksgiving with Amy, her boyfriend, and his family who are from the Boston area. Brian and I plan to be in Pella with my parents and Brian's grandma and aunt from Minneapolis. We will be back the next weekend too for deer opener. Lots of stuff going on, but it should be lots of fun! What are all you up to for the holiday?!?

Catch up

Hey there. I have no pics either. The past week I have done nothing but work 12 to 15 hour days. I was so glad when Friday came. Saturday morning I headed up to our friends' cabin. Brian had headed up there on Friday, and was doing a little deer hunting. And yes, he got another one. He has gotten 2 antelope, an elk, and 2 deer so far this year. He still has a deer tag for Iowa too. We might make an attempt to make our own brats this year. Some friends of ours tried it, and said it wasn't too hard. So we took off from the cabin around 1pm so we had some of the evening left. I worked all last weekend so the housework that I normally do on the weekends still needs to be done before Brian's mom, aunt, and uncle come this Friday. It wouldn't be so bad, but I have something every night this week except for Tuesday. I think we are going to eat out more than originally planned. Saturday we are tailgating with some friends before the Iowa vs. MN game which should be a lot of fun. Hmmmm... who should I cheer for. I'm from Iowa, but work for the university hospital. Brian's aunt said I have no choice but root for the Hawks. What do you guys think? :)

Hope everyone has a good week.

Here I Am!

Don't worry Sandy! You're not the only one. I have no pictures this time. My kids and Adam have had the most horrible stomach flu ever and then all the boys got horrible colds and Brandon now is refusing to sleep. So I have no pictures right now! I'm the only one who has been healthy! Carter just turned 3 and Brandon will be 1 in less than a month. I can't believe how time has flown! Other than that, nothing too exciting over here....

Here are the other animals..I couldn't get them all on the last post.

Hmm..are you guys using this blog because this is starting to look like the Sandy blog instead of the 4 of us =) So, I decided to post a few pictures of a few of the animals we call family. We have Sugar, our yellow lab mix that we adopted from the pound last summer. She is with Lucy, the cat we all adored and I ran over...yeah, not a good day at the Tyrrel house. Buster is our newest addition, a sheperd/lab mix that we adopted from a friend. He is very lovable and very ornery! Pepper is our inside kitty...affectionately known as Big Fat Pepper. Oreo and Garfield are on the lawn mower. Oreo was inside until he drove me insane now he is an outside/garage kitty. Garfield is the stud of our farm...he hasn't been doing so hot lately! The goats are supposed to be getting pregnant so we can sell the babies to those that like goat meat. The ram isn't doing so hot on that front yet. I am seeing a pattern here with the males on the farm =) Teddy is our Paint and Trigger is our good old horse that just wants to eat and not have to work anymore. He used to be a ranch horse and I do believe he is used up. We also have a bull calf, 2 rabbits-male and female (gee can you say great Easter gift for your kids...what is better than baby bunny =), and numerous other cats that are around to keep our farm mouse free.

That is all of our animals. Now someone else needs to be adding something so I am not the only one blogging. I don't want to read about myself anymore...LOL!

Halloween part 4

Oops...forgot to post the last time! Jamie and I went to our first costume party at the new Bar and Grill in New Sharon. I found out 1 hour before we were to leave to take the kids trick/treating that this was a costume party. So I dug deep in my closet and found this getup...ok so I actually dug deep in Walmart's closet, but all in all I didn't think we did too bad for pulling getups together in 1 hour.

Halloween part 3

Halloween part 2

Emma decided she wants to be a cheerleader in high school...so we found her a rah rah costume and off she went to spread joy to others =)

Halloween

Here are my precious children awaiting the time to come when they can go door to door and get candy from strangers....oh isn't Halloween just grand! Braden decided he didn't want to be anything gruesome this year and went as Darth Vader.

Great pics Sandy! Oh, the memories. Here are my little guys for Halloween. Carter is going through a huge Thomas the Train stage. Brandon had fun riding in his stroller.

Look at us!

So I decided that we needed some oldie buy goody pictures of us in our youth. I went searching for some pictures and found these. I think they sum us up pretty good =)

Look for a new post from me tomorrow..hopefully. Jamie and I attended our first Costume party last night. Oh yeah...me in costume. I didn't think I would ever say that!