Category Archives: Holidays

Wow I have really neglected this blog over the last year. Will need to step it up this year! So many things have happened, that I’m going to have to make some retroactive posts to catch everyone up.


Merry Christmas to everyone!  This year was fast and furious!  The boys are growing like weeds and getting into many different activities.


Another Christmas has come and gone.  For us this means that Ashten and Ryan are also another year older. We went to Chula Vista in Wisconsin Dells this year and were joined by my father, my sister Vanessa, and her boyfriend Jeff.  Then Brad’s father’s family, had their annual Christmas there as well, so we [...]


For Christmas this year we are heading out of town to Chula Vista in Wisconsin Dells, so we had our gift exchange with Brad’s brother’s family early.  The kids got a lot of cool stuff,  you can tell we’re turning into a family of gamers (shock!). Ashten and Ryan also received their birthday presents since [...]


This year the two elementary schools in town did their Christmas program together.  Because it was so large it was held in the high school gym, which coincidentally use Orion Energy Systems’ lighting fixtures.  For those that don’t know, I work for Orion as their web developer. The program was really cute and the boys [...]


Ryan really enjoys helping out in the kitchen, so this weekend he and I made Christmas cookies. Definitely lots of fun. View the rest of our Christmas cookie photos We used the following recipe to make the cookies Mary’s Sugar Cookies Mary’s Sugar Cookies Rated: Submitted By: Pat Photo By: What a Dish! Prep Time: [...]


This year was a ton of fun. Ashten was a “Scary Jester”, Ryan was “Yoda”, and Tanner was a “S.W.A.T” team member. Elke used Selene from “Underworld” as inspiration and was a gothic vampire, winning the contest at work for the best group costume. Slideshow


For the 4th of July this year we decided to head to Wisconsin Dells.  We stayed at the Wilderness on the Lake Resort which is on Lake Delton (it has water again!).  Was a ton of fun, we spent the weekend with my mother, sister Vanessa, and her boyfriend Jeff. Slideshow


So Halloween this year has come and gone. I happen to LOVE Halloween, which gets shared with my boys. This year we went trick-or-treating with some of our good friends and their children. Tanner wasn’t feeling so hot so we didn’t go for very long, but the kids had an awesome time regardless. Tanner was [...]


We went off to the pumpkin patch today in search of the best pumpkin. Check out Wilfert’s Farms Ashten was off with a friend so it was just the two younger boys, Brad, and I. Lots of fun! Slideshow