Well the holidays are just about over now we just have the new year's to come!! I actually get New Year's off this year. Yeah!!! Poor Matt has to work but he had Thanksgiving off. We had a good thanksgiving and christmas this year. My parent's and brother still have not got their gifts, so I hope they get them soon. We are ready to bring in the new year!!! That is about all the new things happening at our house. We are pretty boring and kind of home bodies. Matt finished the semester and passed all his classes except one he will take again in the Fall.

Well fall is coming to an end. Good thing cause this fall was very rough for our household. 1st Matt dropped a car at work and ruined the oil pan. Then Matt Sprained his foot at work. All the same work week. Then Matt and his friend Geoff went to go hunting. When they left the house it was already dark and it was snowing. I warned the boys that it was going to be cold and a lot more snowier in the moutains. But they went along anyway. Then about 1 in the morning I got a call from Matt saying that 1. he slipped of the road a little and his car got a good scratch on it from a post and 2. he was cold and last but not least 3. that he had slipped while digging a hole for a fire and he had lost his wedding ring. All he wanted to do was come home and that they did very fast. Matt felt so bad about losing his ring he went back to look for his ring 3 times with a metal detector in hand. We have had a very interesting fall. Maybe the winter will be better.

Well HALLOWEEN came and gone already I can't believe the year has gone by so fast. Matt and I both had to work but I did dress up. I was not the 50's girl again, I was a nurse. I bend down to much at work and so the 50's girl was not really a good costume to wear to work. After work I went home and handed out halloween candy all night it was ineresting to everyone's costume's. Some people are very inventive.

Karly's 6th Birthday

Well Matt and I were able to go down to Karly's

6th birthday party. We had to dress up for the party cause it was

a halloween party. Matt wanted to be a gorrilla but I said no

cause it was to hairy. So we found a monkey for him,

Matt loves monkey's they are his favorite animals.

I was a 50's girl. I wanted to be an 80's girl but I could not get the look down.

We had so much fun and it was good to see family.

What a crazy week and half it has been especially for Matt. First at work he was getting ready to jack someone's car up to change his tires and he was jacking up the car something shifted and the jack went through the guys oil pan.

Then a couple of days later Matt slipped on the ladder that they have in the pit and he sprained his foot. He just got off his crutches today thank goodness he only was out for a couple of days and only on the crutches for a week.

Now I must add what happened to FALL!!!! It went from short sleeve to coat weather overnight we already got snow. There was no Fall. It is cold and they say it is going to snow again tomarrow.

Homebound Montana!!!!

Besides Montana and Illinois we drove through 3 other states before we made it home.

We drove through Wisconson, Minnesota, and North Dakota.

We had so much fun coming back as well. There is so much to see and do.

Matt and I decided that some of these place we are going to have to revisit because we did not have enough time to see everything.

Wisconson there is so much to do there. We stopped at the Wisconson Dells which is just a big amusemnet and water park. It is just massive and it is the size of town like Bozeman, MT. I definaltly want to go back we did get to see the Top Secret place. Also Wisconson was one of the hardest places to find a state shot glass. For those of you who don't know I collect state shot glasses. I do collect random cute ones as well but I mostly collect the state ones. We finally did find a state shot glass at the last gas station in the state.

We finally got to Minnesota and we decided to stay in Minnapolis so we could go see the Mall of America the next day. What a neat city there was so much to do there we did not get to see. The Mall of America is huge when we thought we had cleared one level we moved to the next floor but when we looked outside there were all these other shops we did not see. They also have a Nickalodeon Universe with a ton of rides in it. There is really something for everyone to do there. May I advise you as well dress comfy and where tennis shoes cause your feet will be dying before you get done. After the mall we were back on the road again to North Dakota.

When we got to North Dakota we stayed in Fargo. There was tons of things to do in Fargo. We didn't get a chance to see everything there as well. We did see the Fargo Air Museum, Walk of Fame, and Bonanzaville. After we got done in Fargo we headed for home.

Next came great old Montana. I have deicede this was the longest part of our trip. Not the whole state but between Miles City and Billings there is absolutly nothing for like 140 miles. It is the boringest stretch of road I really ever been on so far. When we got to Billings it felt like we had been driving for like 5 hours on that stretch of road but we only drove for like 2. We eventually decided to stay the night in Billings even though we were only like an hour and half away from home.

We saw an in North Dakota and we also saw a tiny town called

"Home on the Range."

Bonanzaville is an old time town that has all this old stuff from the past from telephones, guns, books, automobiles, a church, school and houses. It makes you feel like you are in the western days or your like on that show Bonanzaville.

Walk of Fame

Barney's foot prints.

I am a huge Vikings fan and here is a store of just Viking stuff

this place was awsome and Matt was daring and wore a Bear's jersey in the store with me.

We met Dora the Explorer

Matt getting off the Fairly Odd Parents ride

at he Nickelodeon Universe

Matt with Lego's in the Mall of America

They even had a Target furniture store across the street.

Huge 2 story Target in Minnapolis

Matt age "21" with a plane numbered "21" at

the Fargo Air Museum

The LUCKY gas station in Wisconson where I got my shot glass.

Top Secret!!!!

The white house blown up and flipped upside down.

So as I was reading our blog to Matt last night I was wrong about the location of the Mississippi River. It is on the border of Iowa and Illinois.