Happy Valentine's Day!

Someone reminded me that we are behind on blogging, so here I am. What's happening with us?

Micah has been counting down, for weeks now, for tomorrow morning when he leaves for Snow Blast in Remer WI. This is an annual trip for The Well, his junior high youth group. He says the bus ride is the best part - the part that sounds like the worst part to me. Last year he lost a pair of shoes, temporarily, and some randon clothing items. He's going to bring an alarm clock (evidentially this is a unique idea) so after they stay up to all hours of the morning, they can get up early to hang out, not shower or anything, just hang out. I just hope he gets some sleep and learns something, preferrably about God.

Grace is so excited for Valentines Day. Yesterday she had a party at Gramma Wilson's and brought cupcakes with red frosting that doesn't wash off easily at all. Today we brought valentines for her whole class at UMD and she brought 'Smoochy Poochy,' her valentines gift from us, to sleep with during nap time. It may be a loud, long nap time as Smoochy Poochie actually makes smoochy kissing noises.

I don't know what we are doing tonight, something as a family, maybe grab an early meal to beat the crowds, and besides - we would be in a family friendly restaurant, not a fancy schmancy place. Micheal is taking me to the Celtic Women for Valentine's Day. I don't even know what day that is, but he has arranged for a babysitter and everything! What a fun gift, and something I wouldn't have sprung for myself, or asked him to go along! (Love you, honey! You're so thoughtful!)

And this Sunday is the Daytona 500, which means we will be having the annual Daytona party at the Wilson's Soothing Beverage Center. Prerace stuff (whatever that is) and the race starts at 2-something. Come on over and bring something to share!

Remember to kiss your sweetie today! :O)

1st Haircut!

Grace had her first real haircut last week.
She wasn't very happy about it,
but Micheal & I got sick of the fight each morning.
She ended up sitting on Micheal's lap,

each with their own purple cape.

Grace kept feeling her hair
and wanted to know if it was growing yet!

Micah was the photographer,
and made sure we told him how much we like
his haircut, too!

cold, weather

I had -21 and a wind chill of -45 at 7:30 this morning. Linus doesn't even want to go outside, sounds warmer tonight and tomorrow.

C,C,C,C,Colllllllllllldddddd!

Happy Birthday Daniel!!!! FFFFFrecckkinnnn 1111111999999 bbebbebloooooowww, IIIIIII haaaavvvve, ffffffffffffooortttttty bebbbbbbeeeellllooooowww wwwwiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnddd ccccccchhhhhilllllll, Micah went to bed happy as a little girl, because they all ready canceled school for tomorrow, Kathy is pissed because so far UMD is still open but I think that might change in the morning, I'll update my temperature readings in the morning, going to spend all day sitting in front of the tv watching my dvd of a fireplace stay warm, 17 days till daytona. micheal

Ethen A Wilson Library Grand Opening

Yesterday we we all went to the grand opening of
the Ethen A Wilson Library.

A couple months ago, Ethen started inviting people to his library - before his parents knew what he was up to! He is really a reader and wanted his own library so Deb & Dan decided to go with it. Deb collected all kinds of books from Freecycle and family, her dad made huge wood bookshelves to be used in other places in the house later, and Ethen spent time coming up with his own reference system. Over 75 invitations went out and Deb put on quite a spread of food!
It was great!

Here's a picture of Ethen (with his 'librarian' nametag on) checking out books.

And a couple shots of the crowd...

And Grace examining her book in the middle of the floor...

Lots of fun for all! And now I have more to read!

Hump Day

Happy Hump Day!!! Just some random things going on at the Wilson's. We've been fighting the cold that everyone has, we spent all weekend sleeping and coughing. We skipped church on Sunday and Micah and I went in the tub, he came out with the camera and took a pic of my new rock star look(see pic). Grace asked last night if we could go in the hot tub, but its been to cold or to busy, I think tonight we'll try it sounds like the last decent night before we get into the deep freeze predicting -25 below this weekend. We went to Veggie Tales the pirates who don't do anything on Friday, I think Grace was more impressed with the candy than the movie, she didn't like the chair , she thought it might fold up on her. Micah is busy with his stuff, he came home from a friends and now wants guitar heroes III for his Wii, but its as popular as the Wii and can't find it anywhere, the kid is really starting to turn into a little metal head with the music he listens to. Only 31 days till the Daytona 500, ya all can come up to the Soothing Beverage Entertainment Center and watch, food, racing, and making fun of old DW, everyone is welcome. I've been putzing around the house doing some plumbing and fixing little stuff so I can cross it off my list. Kathy is busy, had her cooking coop last night and has a medical clinic at church she is helping with this weekend hope the weather won't discourage people from attending. My nephew Ethan (Dan & Deb's) is opening a library on Saturday, he has been passing out invites for 2 months, and has come up with his own dewey decimal system, has got a bunch of books on free cycle, its a semi casual event with appetizers and everything, I'll post some pictures afterwards. Well that's all I got, remember pray for Dale Jr to win @ Daytona and don't forget to eat at Tejas and Baja Billy's, take care

Micah, the Horn Player

Did you know that the French Horn is not really the French Horn? It's just 'the horn' and you will be corrected if you call it by it's incorrect name! Just a warning! Micah started playing the horn last year in 6th grade at Lincoln Middle School and he's continued this year at Hermantown Jr. High. We got to go to his first band concert in December, had to buy him black pants and a white dress shirt (we don't usually dress that way!) and sit on hard school bleachers, but the concert was great! It may have been the best rendition of 'Eye of the Tiger' ever. And I've heard (& played) lots of different versions! :O)