I've Been Tagged!

So, my friend Lisa tagged me from her blog.


Rules: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose someone else to be tagged. If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you.

1. I love Chocolate!
2. I love Ice cream!
3. I never used to like/eat broccoli, but now I love it!
4. Even though the Detroit Lions lost every game they played this season, they are still my favorite football team.
5. I enjoy playing fantasy football.
6. I played tennis in high school all 4 years. I won conference championships with my doubles partner, my junior at #2 doubles and senior year at #1 doubles.
7. I know the exact ripeness that Hannah will eat her bananas at.
8. I like this quote that I haven't heard from anyone, but I would be surprised if I made it up...."marriage is hard work, so work hard at it!"
9. I love to watch professional tennis.
10. I hope to some day going to NY and watch the U.S. open for tennis.
11. I also hope to go down hill skiing in Colorado someday.
12. I am thankful for my Husband Bill.
13. I am also thankful for my two lovely daughter's Hannah and Lillian.
14. My relationship with the Lord is important to me.
15. My check book is always balanced to the exact penny.
16. I have enjoyed my membership to the YMCA.
17. I try and work out three days a week, and love doing kick boxing with Bill on Monday nights.
18. I don't love cooking nearly as much as I love to bake!
19. I have decorated all the cakes for my girls birthday's.
20. I love to watch it snow.
21. Hmmm...I'm thinking that trying to think of 25 random things to say is tougher than I thought!
22. I got to see the Detroit Redwings play this year against the Wild at the Excel center, and that was awesome!
23. I don't like dogs, but there was one dog I did like, at that was my great Grandma Lillian's dog, and his name was Mo.
24. My favorite color is blue.
25. And, someday Bill and I hope to make it to Italy.

Now, first off, I tag Bill!!!

And then, because I read their blogs, if they are up for it, I also tag Andrea. And, my good friend from high school, Heather. And Celia, Lori, and Stacie, but no worries if you don't do it!
I would also like to tag Missy, but I'm not sure how that would work, cause she doesn't have a blog, but her husband Caleb does!

A Cool Thing we got to See

This morning we were driving to a brunch at our church, and as we were coming down 35E in Eagan, we got to see a really pretty rainbow. Bill said that it must have been an ice rainbow, since of course it was not raining, and it was really cold out! It was fun, cause some other people at the brunch said they saw it too. And, we found out that it is actually called a Sun dog. I wish we would have been able to take a picture, but a friend looked it up on Wikipedia, so here's the link if you wanted to check out what one was in the scientific terms. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_dog

Uncle Dave's Christmas Gift

So, my brother went kind of crazy with his gift for the girls this year and bought them a Dora Ball pit! They love it, and convinced my brother to blow it up for them while they were at my parents house. They were sad when we had to pack it up. It is away for now, cause we only have a little room for it in the basement! And now it is way too cold to play down there! So they will have to wait until spring to play with it again. Thanks Uncle Dave!

A first for Lillian!

On Saturday afternoon we got to take Lillian to her first movie at a movie theater! We all went at saw The Tale of Despereaux. It was a pretty good movie! I'm not usually big on movies about mice and rats, but this was OK. It was all about heroism and truth and being noble. And both girls enjoyed it. It was fun to see Lillian sit in her booster seat eating popcorn and watching the huge screen! She is growing up!

Princess nightgowns!

Here are the girls in their pretty princess nightgowns that they got for Christmas!

Hair cut and a bang trim

Hannah said she wanted her hair cut, so I said OK! She said she wanted quite a bit off, and I wasn't so sure, but after asking her a couple of times, she said, "just do it!" So I did!


This is both of the girls before their hair cuts.
This is Hannah after! I took off at least two inches!

Lillian just needed a bang trim. She hasn't gotten her hair cut yet. I am trying to hold out until she is three, which is what we did for Hannah

This is Lillian after her bang trim:)

Nice shirts!

My sister is attending NMU this year, and she did a cool thing for us! On Christmas Eve she bought us all shirts from her school! We were all very excited to get them and put them on! Bill's matches Hannah's, and Lillian's matches mine. Thanks Kristi!!

Checking it off my list!

I, as I am sure that many other people do, have a list of stuff that I would like to do in my lifetime. I so far have been to a couple of Detroit Lions games, a couple of Detroit Tiger's games, and a Detroit Piston's game. Going to a Detroit Red Wings game was still on the list!
For Christmas we asked Bill's parents for Wild tickets, so they graciously gave us the money to buy tickets for when we wanted. We were looking online, and the Red Wings were going to come to town to play the Wild this past Saturday or in February, so we decided that we would try and go in February when they came. But then cool things started happening, like someone calling and saying they wanted to take the girls over night. Then we had to try and find tickets, which online they seemed really high priced. So, we randomly tried Craig's list. We found someone selling their two season tickets at face value. And they were willing to drive to West St. Paul to drop them off! And, they were 8 rows up from the ice! And, we avoided all those ticket fees! So, we very excitedly went to the game on Saturday night. It was a fun game! It went into over time, and then into a shoot out! The Detroit Red Wings won by one goal! Couldn't of asked for a much better game! It was so much fun to see Detroit too, and now I am able to check it off my list!

More Christmas

Bill's parent's were here from Florida when we got back from MI. We also had a fun time with them! We got to go to the annual Buca get together, and play the annual Christmas present dice game. We got to go to Grand Slam and play laser tag, ride on the bumper cars, and play skee ball. We opened presents with them. Had a game night with his siblings. Had Savoy's pizza, which I know it's hard to believe, but I like the sauage and sour kraut pizza! And we had people over to play our wii. It was a busy holiday season for sure! But we had a great time with family!

Christmas in Michigan

We traveled over some very snowy rivers and through some very snowy woods to get to Grandma's house this year! We left the Saturday that there was that big snow storm, and the snow pretty much followed us the whole way! We had a fun time though! Bill and Hannah got to snow mobile, and one time my dad put a sled on the back of the snow mobile, put Hannah and Lillian in the sled, and then drove the snow mobile to pull them! We got to see family. Do church on Christmas eve, and then a get together with my mom's side of the family. Then Christmas morning was just my family, and then we went to my other Grandma's after that. I got to visit with a friend from high school too, and go shopping at Shopko! It snowed almost everyday we were there. It was a good Christmas!


Hannah's Christmas dress
Lillian's Christmas dress
Bill and Cara on Christmas eve.

The family on Christmas eve.


My parents Christmas tree Christmas morning.

Our own Little Family Christmas

We do our own family Christmas gift opening every year. It's always a lot of fun to see them open their gifts! This year they seemed like everything we gave them! And they were very thankful, which is always nice!

Hannah and her princess tea set.

Lillian and her giant carebear!
Tearing into the presents

The girls in front of the tree after it was all over!

Bill got me a panini sandwich maker, which I was really excited to get, and which we already tried out! Yum!
And Bill really enjoyed the Bobby Flay cookbook I got him, "Boy Meets Grill". Hopefully he can put that to good use this summer:)