Aundra&Joel

Happy Halloween

2010-10-31T20:11:00.001-07:00

Here we are carving some pumpkins. Cindy Grandma is visiting from California and the kids are loving it!

Tay's my little witch, Lauren is her black cat and Austin is my little stinky skunk.

Had a wonderful time. Kids got lots and lots of candy. The girls are already planning their costumes for next year!

Pumpkin Patch

2010-10-25T20:50:00.001-07:00

I absolutely love fall. I love the colors, the fun holidays coming up, all the fun fall clothes. Uhh.. love it all. I can't believe how insanely fast this year has gone. This weekend is Halloween!! Lauren can't stop talking about it. I'll post some pics of them all dressed up. And next week the big craft fair that I am doing again. Uhh... it's all good though. We made a fun trip just a little ways out of town to pick some pumpkins for the kids.

Here's trouble! Here's the clan. These are the little girls that I watch. They all have so much fun together. Aren't they so cute!?

Oh my gosh..these pigs smelled horrible! I have the worst gag reflux and I couldn't handle it. They are ginormous! We really eat these things?

Daddy and his little man. They truly are buds. It's so cute! Looking mighty fine Joey!

Here we are at the pumpkin patch in Billings. We meet some of our really good friends there. The kids had such a great time! Gotta love the hay rides and corn maze.

Tays and Brooklyn. These two are so adorable!

Enjoying the hay ride!

Trying to find our way through the corn maze!

I love this pic of Austin and Chris. Love Bubba's little squishy face!!

Vegas

2010-10-25T09:25:00.000-07:00

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The Latest

2010-07-27T21:51:00.000-07:00

Just thought I'd give a quick blurb of we have kinda been up to. I added picks from newest to oldest. Its been a crazy, great summer. We finally moved into our new house, which we love more and more everyday. Taken a few trips, and tried to enjoy the nice weather as much as possible. It's amazing how fast summer goes. Not sure I am ready for this cold weather again.
First pic is Shell Falls, near Shell WY.
We were there last weekend for a camping trip, not so fun when it's 40 degrees and raining nonstop. Oh well we still had fun.

Joe and the kids did a little fishing. Nice fish babe!

Our new place. Keeping us busy with painting, painting and more painting. It's a great house and the kids love it. Lots of space to run and play hide and go seek.

Tay's is 7! She wanted to have a tea party. They had lots of fun.
Wish she would stop growing.

So here we are at the aquarium in Denver. Denver is awesome! We had a ball! Did lots of walking, not by choice, and site seeing. We will go back for sure here soon. Lauren and Taylor's fav was feeding the sting rays. Really cool, they bite though. Had no idea until one took a chunk out of my finger.

Kinda random to have a tiger at the aquarium, oh well.

Taylor and Bobby. Enjoying roasting some marshmallows at Cindy Grandma's house in California. Too much fun. We were there for Jessie's graduation and Bobby's baptism.

Austin and daddy at hmm..ahhh I can't remember which beach. Maybe Bodega Bay? The kids actually swam in the water. It was way chilly.

Love this pic, crazy boys. This is following Bobby's baptism.

I'll enclose some more pics soon. Once I getting a little bit more time.

I'm 1!

2010-05-25T18:42:00.000-07:00

Happy Birthday "Bubba"
I can't believe he is 1. He is so much fun! So happy that he is here with us. We had a quiet evening celebrating his birthday.

I think it's safe to say he enjoyed his cake. I think about half of it ended up on the floor.

Yeah random, sorry earlier that day I took these pics. These are the bunnies living under our porch. They are so stinking cute. Gosh our girls and their friends keep pestering the poor things.

Field day at Taylor's school. I had a blast watching the kids play all the games and races. Here's Austin just hanging with mom.

Lauren, Taylor and Brooklyn (Tay's best friend). Love how they all have braids.

2010-05-15T20:55:00.000-07:00

I give up on trying to stay on top of my blog. I just have too much going on lately. These are not the most recent photos, but I will post more later. So what's new with us...? Hmm..not a whole lot. Joe has been working graveyard shifts these last 2 weeks straight. I am going out of my mind. I hate when he works nights. Tonight is his last night, yahoo! Tay's is almost done with school. So excited about that, summer is coming. And oh were under contract to buy a house, finally! Were way excited and praying all goes threw.
Here we are out and about at the local lake doing some fishing.
We had fun, just a little windy!
And just behind you, a great view of the plant! It's huge

Love my girls, so cute. Taylor loves to pose for pic's. Lauren
not so much, she'd rather pick flowers.

It was a little windy!!!! Guess they were trying to keep warm?

Here they are not luck fishing!!

Here's Tay's and her cousin Olivia. We had such a wonderful time visiting my family in Missoula. My brother Scott and his wife Laura were up visiting from Vegas. This was our first time meeting Olivia. She is such a doll. So sweet, amazing baby. We had a great trip. Can't wait to see them again in July.

Maybe a little bit too much excitement for Austin. It's hard traveling and keeping your kids on schedule. While we were there Austin took his first steps. So fun to have my family see the whole thing take place. He is such a fun little man. I love the stage he is in now. His personality is really coming out. He's a total goof, loves to play and mess around with the girls. Now he is walking around like crazy.

Two weeks ago he said his first word, "uh oh". He drops everything just so he can say "uh oh". And last week he started saying "momma". So fun, how do you stop them from growing?

Why?

2010-03-17T16:31:00.001-07:00

Can't you just see the excitement on Joel's face? So I ask myself why we do this to ourselves! So last weekend we took the kids to Chuck E Cheese. Uhh..What a zoo that place is. Joe and I joked about how they need to set one of these up in Gitmo, total torture! Kid's everywhere, the games don't even work, the music was annoying. Call me a bad mom, but jike's! Instant headache. The kid's really did have a good time. Scored some fun little prizes. So I think we were ranking pretty high on their lists. Oh the things we do for our children.

So since it was so gorgeous outside, we decided to stop at this park and let the kids get more of their energy out. They had a great time. Felt great to relax and let the Excedrin kick in, you need it after a Chuck E Cheese experience!!

Jack and the Beanstalk

2010-01-19T18:05:00.000-08:00

I have been horrible keeping up with this darn blog! Sorry! So
a like a month ago Missoula Children's Theater came and
Taylor was in the skit Jack and the Beanstalk. Reason why it took me so long to post a few pick is because I kept on trying to add a video of their little "mexican jumping bean" dance.
Way cute! In this pic Taylor is smack dab in the middle.
She did a great job and had so much fun with it. They rehearsed every night for a week straight. I promise I will get better at posting pics. Now that we no longer have tennis going
on it frees up a few night a week for us.

As you can tell Taylor had a great time doing the play.
Such a cute little bean!

Here is the whole cast!

December to remeber

2010-01-01T14:57:00.001-08:00

Christmas morning! Love that pic of little man. We had a
wonderful Christmas. Taylor and Lauren were totally spoiled by
Santa! Tay's favorite gift was her Eazy Bake Oven. Lauren's was all her
Littlest Pet Shop and horsey stuff. And Joe spoiled me with a amazing
new camera for my b-day. And a fantastic sewing machine and purse for Christmas. What a good man! We had fun spending time with
the family. This has a been a great year and we feel very blessed!

Thankfully the girls helped mommy blow out her candles
not sure I could have done it without them!

Another year old. Ugghh...

Ready and on our way to Missoula for Christmas!

Daddy and Austin opening a Christmas gift. We opened a few
with Joe's fam before they had to leave.

Gotta luv the Christmas dresses. Joe's mom and 2 sisters were
up visiting. We had a great time with them.

Santa even came to the kiddos Christmas program. Lookin cute Tays

Taylor's Christmas program. Super cute! Taylor is in the back row of course under the "D"

I'm 4!

2009-12-14T12:17:00.000-08:00

Happy Birthday Lauren, and Uncle Scott! I felt so bad that Lauren didn't get the cake with all the fun stuff on top, but she can't have all that nummy stuff. So here's just the cake with no frosting, it's so moist and delicious I always eat it without the frosting. Happy B-day baby girl!

I can't believe Lauren is already 4! Seems just like yesterday she was turning 1. She was so excited and couldn't wait to open presents. Her fav present was this stuffed unicorn.

Catch up

2009-12-14T12:05:00.001-08:00

Lately I have been horrible about updating the blog. So I'll just give you a quick run down of all that has happened in the last 2 months. Joe got his cow elk and was super excited about that. I am excited to have some meat. We went over to Missoula for Thanksgiving. Had a good time with the family. Had a lot of fun shopping. Me and a friend discovered our new favorite place to salvage some crafty stuff! So much fun. Finished another craft fair. That went great! Here's a pic of one of my fav things I did!

Tag Filled

2009-11-04T20:33:00.000-08:00

Monday Joe got his buck. This is his first eastern Montana
mule deer. The next 3 weekends he will be hunting western Montana.
With elk on the brain. Hoping for a big one! Good luck Joe!

Halloween!

2009-11-04T19:07:00.001-08:00

Taylor our drama queen. Gotta love that face!
Just carving some pumpkins!

Mean while Austin is just hanging out! So cute!

Finished product. They turned out great girls, good job!
Joe and I joke every year, why do we do this to ourselves!
Usually it's just us sitting at the table carving away, while they
run around. Oh well!

Halloween party at Taylor's school. Here is one of her best
buds Brooklyn. Those two I tell you, were in trouble!
I was lucky to help out and decorate for the party. Following
they had a Halloween Concert.

Lauren you look so stinking cute. You can just
tell she is excited. Look at that smile!

My 50's girl. Looking adorable as ever.

My little cow, got milk?

Here the kids are at the church doing the "Trunk or Treat"
They had a great time.

Daddy and his girls!

Trick or Treat

Done!!!

2009-11-04T18:50:00.000-08:00

Love, love, love this. Just a great example
of all the fun stuff you can put in these frames. Special
thanks to my wonderful hubby who did such a great job cutting all
the wood. Couldn't have done it without yah babe!
So here it is, the last of the crafts. So happy to be done!
I promise I won't post anymore of this crap on here.

Plexi frames. The Cream one I am going to hang.

Check out the recipe card holders! Snazzy right?

Super fun Christmas countdown

Fun boards

Here are some Halloween crafts. I finished them a while ago, but...

Faux Stone

2009-11-03T11:58:00.000-08:00

Here is a house I did with the faux stone. My friend requested
I put this on here for reference. So here you go, hope this helps.
If you want to know how to make it look like the wall is cracking
and the stone is showing through just call. Hope this is enough.

My Insanity

2009-10-22T13:20:00.001-07:00

This is some stuff I've been busy working on. If you guys see
anything you like, let me know. Remember Christmas is
coming up! This is probably just 1/3 of the finished stuff. I'll
post more as I go along. Craft fair is in 2 weeks. Also busy
making little baby and girl bracelets. Super fun. Did not
think I would enjoy making jewelery, but it's a new hobby that
is super addictive!
So here I have magnetic photo boards, super fun right? I love
them! And the live, laugh, love frames are thick enough that way you
can stack them on top of one another.

Some fun little Thanksgiving decor. You can't see the plate
on the plate stand very well. The message board comes with magnets
& you can write on it with a dry erase pen too. It has a hook to hang
on the wall if you like.

Not the best pic sorry. The pink sign say's "the princess is in"
The plaque with the flower is my personal fav.

Here is a magnetic board. I hope this doesn't sell
cuz I want it for my place.

Here you go Angie, I finished them. I kept on forgetting to
send you a pic of the finished product.

My Pumpkin's

2009-10-20T11:40:00.000-07:00

So here we are at a local pumpkin patch yesterday. It wasn't exactly what we had expected. The pumpkins were not in a patch. Due to the cold weather they had lost a lot of pumpkins, so they just laid out what was left. The girls still had a lot of fun picking them out. We will be carving our pumpkins on Monday. Super excited. For Halloween Taylor will be a 50's girl, Lauren will be Snow White and Austin will be a cow. I love Halloween, it's so fun!
While we were at the pumpkin patch we got this bizarre looking pumpkin. I guess it's the kind you use for pumpkin pie. So Joe was thrilled, we went home cooked it up and it made the most delicious pie ever! He was so excited we made two. A lot easier than I thought it would be.

Whats that u say?

2009-10-15T17:40:00.000-07:00

So Daddy insisted that we put this video up
of little man. Not the best video and yes
dad is on the phone in the background.
Austin has been doing this cute noise for
a while now. But lately it's louder! He's so
cute. Joey wants the family in California to
see this, since they haven't met him yet.

Our Piggy Bank

2009-10-08T09:26:00.000-07:00

So I am sure most of you have heard of Lauren swallowing the
quarter. I have the x ray but my computer does not have the
program to open it. I will continue to try to figure it out.
She is doing good. She is so sweet, she keeps on apologizing
for swallowing the money. It was super funny when we rushed
to the doctor is Billings. The doctor asked her if she swallowed
money and she said, "Yes, I've had a bad day". It was cute.
Poor thing is making progress with doctors. She doesn't scream
when one comes into the room now. So were very proud of her
for that. I'll keep you all posted on how things come out. Lol!

She's Here

2009-10-08T09:05:00.001-07:00

Little Olivia Marie is here! My brother Scott
& sister in law Laura had her September 30th. 7 lbs 8 oz. Congrats to the both of them. Can't wait to meet her. So crazy my brother is a dad now. She looks a lot like her daddy.

Huntin'

2009-10-01T19:51:00.000-07:00

Taylor, Lauren & Daddy. We
saw a few nice doe's
but just couldn't get
close enough. This is our
"FHE"

Game On

2009-10-01T19:34:00.001-07:00

Grandma and Papa came over to help watch the kids
while I had a few doctor appts. We had a good time.
Getting a little Wii action.

Look at that action shot. There's
papa getting into it.
I believe they are bowling?
They had fun playing
together.

SOLD!

2009-09-12T20:46:00.000-07:00

I haven't had the chance to post much. My parents came into town to help out with the kids, while I had a doctor appt. So excited to say as of 9/9/09 at 9 am our house has officially been sold! We keep talking on how its going to take a while for it actually to sink in. We are super excited! I have to say Taylor made a really cute comment the other day. We were just hanging out in our lovely town house. She looks at me and says,"Mom do you ever get the feeling that this is not home?" I said, "all the time." It made me happy knowing that she knows what "home" feels like. I think we all will miss our "white house" (as Lauren calls it), but we will find a new "home" here soon. We hope. Other than that not a whole lot is going on with us. Taylor is enjoying schools. I think Lauren and I will do a home school preschool, here in a few months. Austin is just a happy little guy, such a joy! Joe is working a lot. Like now he's working 16 hours straight. Do not know how he does it. And as for me, just getting crafts ready for a craft fair. Me and a friend have some really cute stuff! I'll post a picture of our display table. So were all just trying to stay busy!

New Family Pic's

2009-09-04T21:03:00.000-07:00

Here we are at Greenough Park. It is so pretty there. Thanks to my mom for taking these pic's! The girls had a great time. I think the girls favorite part was throwing the rocks into the river. One of my favorite pictures is of the girls holding hands walking.

Austin's Photo Shoot

2009-09-04T20:38:00.000-07:00

Here are some more pic's that my
friend Deserae took. She is such
a wonderful photographer. Just
posting these pics so my fam. can see
this chunky little guy. It is so amazing how fast they grow!

First Day of School

2009-09-04T20:24:00.000-07:00

Taylor was so excited to get back to school. She is a big first grader now.
Mrs. Myers is her teacher, and
Taylor loves her. I have to admit that I too was excited for school to
start. I guess it's a annual thing here, moms get together for a
celebratory breakfast. We had some
wonderful crepes. Lauren is a little sad about Taylor being gone during
the day. But I think it's a good break for those two. Watching Taylor walk away I got a little chocked up!

Catch up time!

2009-08-17T16:52:00.000-07:00

Here is a run down of a bunch of our pic's. I haven't exactly been the best at keeping up with all this blogging stuff. And why in the world can I not get this to stop being underlined! Oh well! Just been so busy enjoying this great warm weather and learning how to adjust to 3 kids. We've had a great summer and sorry family I haven't kept up on the pics!

Here he is just from the other night. Almost captured
him smiling. He's such a happy baby! So much fun!

The girls caught "Mr. Toad". He's been living outside our door
until recently. (I think he had enough of them) They fed
him cereal and grass. Don't think he was too crazy bout that.
They sure had fun with him.

So here we are at a waterslide park in Billings!
We had such a great time! If you look real close you can see
little Taylor getting ready to go down the slide. What a stud!
Maybe I am too much of a chicken. She loved this slide. Ahh!
Look how high up that thing is. I couldn't do it!

Lauren isn't a big fan of the slides on the other hand
she sat and picked flowers and grass instead.

Taylor's 6Th Birthday. Oh my gosh I seriously can not believe
I have a 6 yr old. She couldn't wait to open her presents
so that was the first thing we did once we all got up. She
was ecstatic to have gotten the Wii.

About 2 months old here. Trying to keep those sunrays off him.
Yes Angie we are at the pool!

Under Contract!!

2009-07-06T18:37:00.000-07:00

Finally after a year of trying to sell our home in Lolo, we have a serious buyer. It's bittersweet in a way. We have had some really good memories in this house. Joe keeps laughing about me smashing a baseball through our baywindow. We are super excited to just move on, and stop throwing our money away each month. Were looking here in Colstrip and we think we found a house we like. I will miss how updated it is though. We will keep you posted. Pray it all goes through!

So tired!

2009-06-29T11:34:00.000-07:00

I laid Austin on his tummy to
get some cute pic's. But he's
like his daddy, he loves to sleep
on his belly. (I don't let him though)

Colstrip Days

2009-06-29T11:00:00.000-07:00

Off to the races!
They had fun games for the kids.
Once the kids finished the races they
each got a quarter. They had a blast!

Tug of war! Go Lauren!

The parade was the girls favorite part.
I think they got more candy here
than they did Halloween!

Taylor hanging with Brooklynn

Lauren holding her big
bag of candy

Old Colstrip Fire Truck

2009-06-29T10:23:00.000-07:00

My Friend Deserae took these picture's of the girls!

They turned out great! It was hard to get pic's of

Lauren since she loves picking flowers so much!

Family pics

2009-06-17T20:35:00.001-07:00

Uncle Scott and Aunt Laura
They are expecting a little girl
October 5th!
We are super excited

Taylor & Lauren
were so excited to
hold their new
baby brother

Our newest addition

2009-06-17T16:48:00.000-07:00

Austin Matthew Skinner

May 23rd, 2009

6:11 pm

8 Lbs 7 Oz

20 1/2"