A Thomas Celebration!

Well, today, December 6th, is Owens 3rd birthday! I can not believe that he is already three. God has truly blessed Andy and I with this adorable, loving, calm, fun,pleasant little boy, Owen. O loves Thomas the train and has been talking about having a Thomas Birthday for months now. So I had to deliver. It all started on Friday when I made the cake. I have to say that I am very pleased with the cake. I am not a baker, but I gave it a try. I am now thinking that I would like to get into decorating cakes! I really enjoyed it. Then today Owen came into bed with Andy and I to cuddle and I told him the story of the day that he was born. He thought that I was just so silly! It was nice for me to remember back to that day and what joy it was to have Owen join our family. Then we all headed to church and O got to move up from the nursery to the pre-k class. He is now officially part of the Sunday school program, and he thinks that he is such a big kid now, even though he cried. After church we headed home for lunch. My family all came over to eat at our house, we usually eat at my parents on Sunday's, after lunch everyone else joined us for O's Thomas celebration. He had quite the turn out. Both sets of grandparts came, aunt Lissa and the boys, uncle Mitch, Sara and Maya Kane, anut Jean, and Teresa and Josh Beck. It was a wonderful day to Celebrate Owen!

A new first!

Owen had a great new first today. He went skiing with his dad! We headed up to Red Lodge today and Andy and Owen went to the ski hill for opening day. Andy taught Owen the two basic fundamentals to skiing, french fries and pizza. What do french fries and pizza have to do with skiing? Well French fries is what you tell them to point their skies down hill to go and pizza is for slowing down and stopping. When they got back Owen was so proud of himself and told me all about how to do french fries and pizza and how he rode on the chair lift! Andy is glad that he has a new ski partner, even if it means that he does not get a good day of skiing in. I am thinking that I will have to pick it up again so that we can all go as a family!

long over due

Well we have been very busy, so I have not been very good at blogging. In the month and a half, since my last blog, we have taken out our old patio and had a new one put in, I have been doing some design work at the church and for a friend, Beau has started cruising and we had Halloween. I will share a few picture to share for now. Be watching for blogs with my design work and the patio in the future. Oh I have also lost more weight and gotten a new hair cute.


So lets start with Beau, he will be nine months on the 11th and we still do not have any teeth. He is such a mommies boy. I lights up when I walk in the room. It just melts a mom's heart. Now it is not so nice the times that I am trying to get laundry, cooking, cleaning and just need a break and all he does in cry because he only wants mom. He is also a wiggle worm. This kid never sits still. He crawls all over everything. He loves his independence and being able to get around.

Owen has a great imagination and loves to play like he is a super hero. He is always pretending to be something and it usually involves bad guys or monsters that he has to kill or hide from.

For Halloween we went to "Boo at the Zoo" with my sister Melissa , her boys and my father-in-law Duncan. We all had a great time. Then we took Owen to a few neighbors and friends ending at Andy's parents house. The boys stayed with Vicki and Duncan while Andy and I went to a friends house for a party. The 30th Down Town Billing s had trick-or-treating and participating businesses so my mo m and I took all 4 boys down. It was a lot of fun!

A day at the zoo!

In August my parents took the three older boys to the zoo. They lucked out and were able to see all the animals really well and as you can see the bear came right up to the window. The boys thought that is was fun to have the bear so close to them. Owen liked seeing the tiger the best. Brayden liked watching the otters swim and play the best and Tay liked the bear the most.

God does!

Every night Andy and I pray with Owen before he goes to bed and tell him that we love him. Lately we have been telling him that we love him very much but that God loves him even more then we do and that he sent his son to die on the cross to take away our sins. So now when we tell him that we love him he says yes and God too. Then we ask him why and he tells us because Jesus died on the cross. It is so cute to see him growing up and learning that God loves him! Our prayer is that our boys would come to know Jesus as there forever friend at a young age.

Pictures of Owen sleeping over the past two years. He sure is a cutie.

Family Reunion

So this is a long past due post, but I guess that late is better then never. The end of July we had a Preuit family reunion up by Lillie Lake. We had a blast even though we were missing a lot of the family. We did some fishing, hiking( we were told that the lake was a short walk around this bend and it ended up being two miles. And Andy had to carry Beau in the car seat instead of the Maya wrap), eat some good food and sat around talking.

We stayed for two night and both boys did really well. Andy and Owen sleep in the tent while Beau and I stayed with my parents in the camper.

We had five little boys around. They all had so much fun playing out side together. If my grandparents were still alive they would have five great grandsons with the first girl on the way. They would have loved to been able to see all of these great grandkids.

Of my moms three siblings her brother Ron and his family, with the exception of Kyle, were all their. Then my moms sister and her husband came for the day on Saterday, we missed their girls and thir husbands. Then we were missing all of Kelly's family.Maybe next year we will get the rest of the family to join us.

Red Lodge trips

In July we were able to take two trips to Red Lodge. One was with some of our good friends and the other was with some of Andy's family.

Our first trip was July 10-12th with Steve, Judy, Sienna, Taylor, Jason, Katie and Kelsey. This was such a fun trip. Steve and Judy moved to Florida last summer along with their daughter Sienna. Judy was pregnant with Taylor so this was our first time to meet him, and he is so cute. Taylor and Beau are only a month or two apart in age so it was fun to see the interact with each other. We all hung out at the house, celebrated Andy's birthday with a big bbq rib dinner, went fishing and 4wheeling, played games and hung out at the Maehl's camping spot. It was a great weekend in all.

Our second trip was with Andy's parents his aunt's, Margret, Jean and Terri and Uncle Paul. It was so nice to see all of them as they all live out of state, with the exception on Jean, so we do not get to see them very often at all. We all enjoyed many great meals, including a picnic at a lake just out side of town, played games and caught up on each others lives. We had to cut our time short by one night as Andy was not feeling well, but we loved every minute that we were able to spend with the family.