Snow Day

The kids are out for the Thanksgiving break. Today it snowed ALOT! It was a perfect SNOW DAY! Justice made a Snow Chair (recliner style). LOL The girls helped Liberty for a bit to make a pretty cool Snowman!

P.S. It warmed up Thanksgiving Day (the next day). By Friday- the snow was completely gone. Crazy! But then it snowed again Saturday night. Silly, Montana!

Thrilling Third Grade Thanksgiving Play

Victoria's teacher, Mrs. Melanie Sharbano is amazing! She is so positive, loving and super fun! Every year, she does scrapbooks with the kids, sings them fun songs, teaches them positive sayings and puts on an amazing Thanksgiving Play. It's put on by only her class for the year. All the kids get parts, costumes and practice like crazy. They put it on for parents, family and several other classes.

They did an amazing job!!! Victoria first wanted to be Squanto because it was a big part. But she ended up doing lots of little things that were way impressive. My kids always blow me away with how hiddenly talented they are. She was amazing! We are way proud of her.
One of the moms played the harp as prelude music while everyone filed in. It was beautiful!

Mrs. Sharbano narrated the play sharing lots of fun facts about the first Thanksgiving story. They made it light-hearted by making a few jokes, throwing fake snow at each other, spraying each other with water and just being silly. There was some superb acting skills here, people!

They also sang lots of songs as they told the story. They used a few VeggieTale songs and some impressive patriotic songs. Lost of kids sang some solos and seriously sounded great!

Victoria did a fabulous job. She threw a bucket of glitter at the audience (it was supposed to be water). LOL She was a pilgrim that got dragged away by the Indians. She sang a solo for a verse in the song, America the Beautiful. It was so sweet. AND she recited the preamble to the Constitution (She had memorized the whole thing BY HEART) Wow! Who is this kid?! Great job, Sis. You were amazing!

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Glory's Turkey Feast

The 1st grade & Kindergarten classes had a Turkey Feast today. They spent the last couple days making bread, decorations, placemats, oreo turkeys, etc. Today, they put it all together to enjoy.

Happy Thanksgiving!

1st Official MT Pie Night

Technically, we had a pie night last year with the Lay Family. They invited us to enjoy some pie with them after all the Thanksgiving festivities. But this year was our 1st Official party throwing of our famous Seamons Pie Night here in Montana!! We had a fabulous time! Thanks to the Lays, the Coils, the Izatts, the Schoenfelds, and the Stovalls for joining us in our fun tradition. We are grateful for you in our lives!

Driver in Training

In Montana, the age for getting your drivers permit is 14. Believe it or not, (cuz I can't!!) within 4 1/2 months, we will have a 14 year old under our roof. So Brett did a little driving lesson this afternoon. Holy Moly! Heaven help us if this girl gets that much freedom! ;)

Beauty of this Yard

We are seriously in love with where we live! We are constantly amazed at the beauty that surrounds us. We love our house, the chance to have lots of people over, room to play, the mountain view, the sunrises and the sunsets and the wildlife. So gorgeous!!!

Our buck friend in the back yard:

Double Rainbows (We see them a lot in our front yard):

Fog Mountain off my back porch:

Snowy Mountain to the left of our backyard:

Sunrise shining on other clouds with deer in the left hand corner:

Sun peeking over the mountain:

Gorgeous colors from my front porch:

A Snowy Day (in December):

Happy Monday!

Back from our vacation, unpacked and cleaned up, kids all in school- this should be a day of relaxing and blogging BUT instead...
Two phone calls from the school nurse for 2 different kids for 2 different things. Including a day full of dealing with this....

Oh man! Happy Monday!

Scones, at Last!!!

We have tried several times to get together with the Genger and Weaver Families.
We met the Gengers through football this past season. {Noah, Jenny, Jake, Clara, Cici and James} Noah was one of Justice's coaches and their son, Jake was the quarterback. I also became friends with Jenny through Crossroads (my gym). We have become quite the Zumba buddies! My three younger kids got to participate in the Wilderness Escape hosted by their church group back in October. The Genger girls do ballet with the Fife family. [small world] The two older Genger kids go to school at Montana City with our kids as well. [just not in same classes] I also had talked to Jenny about the Mama Rave and she got a huge group of friends to come. They are this amazing family!!! We just adore all of them. We've talked several times about getting together but it hasn't ever worked until now.
The Weavers [Jonathan, Emily, Makenna, Clara, Tyler and Lyric} are our neighbors across the street. We have met them a couple of times by taking treats over. They were actualy the very first people to bring us a treat and welcome us to the neighborhood.  They weren't able to come to our Block Party we had back in September. So we have been meaning to have them over forever. Such a beautiful family!
It also turns out that Jenny & Emily know each other.
We are so excited it finally worked out to get us all together. We had a fabulous time! I'm so happy to keep meeting such amazing people here in Helena!

Fairmont Vacation

We spent a week at our Fairmont Time share. I finally posted details. See our fun- a few posts back....

Fairmont Vacation: Polar Plunge

The temps dropped so badly this week but it didn't stop us from completely enjoying our Hot Spring Swim Fun! We actually swam in -4 degree weather! We are CRAZY!!! The girls and I also enjoyed the steam room each day before we got dressed.

Brett and the kids even rolled in the snow before hoping back in the pool. Silly family!

One night, we took turns trying to get the biggest icicles in each others hair. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

One of our favorite parts is the slide. During the winter season- it's only open in the evening but we had a blast. Because it was soooo cold- the steam made it nearly impossible to see anything once you made it up a couple flights of stairs. It was hilarious!

They actually cleaned the indoor pool at the beginning of the week (closed, drained and painted it) so we had to use the outdoor pool. However by the end of the week, it was back open. We had fun jumping, sitting in the hot tub, and of course, eating Tropical Sno! Our favorite!

Fun Family memories @ Fairmont!

Fairmont Vacation: Condo Fun

Soon  after we married, we got roped into one of those Timeshare presentations and ended up buying one. We paid way more than we should have but with joining the exchange program, we have definitely done some fun things and shared it with others. So not a total loss. However, after we moved here, we used our exchange to visit Fairmont Hot Springs. It's only a little over an hour from our home. After one visit, we were hooked. We even bought a week from them so we can go ever year. We hope to sell our other one and just enjoy time here instead.
We really like to visit when it's cold and possibly snowy. That way we take full advantage of the HOT Springs part of it. Our family loves it there!
Check out this shot of the resort one morning we were there. That's steam coming from the pool.

We bought a week with a two room condo. We enjoyed hanging out together- playing games, watching movies, making yummy food, popping popcorn, sipping hot cocoa, climbing trees and being together. We also LOVED swimming! But that's another post. ;)

The day we left- it snowed ALOT!!! We took advantage and played in it. Snow much fun!

Our whole family LOVES pretzels so we treated ourselves to some before we left. Poolside as well. Luv it!

Surprise Party for Bri

Allie set up a surprise dinner for Bri's birthday. (It was yesterday) Five couples met at the restaurant early to be seated before they got there. I think at first, he thought we all had gone out together & not invited them. His face was priceless. Allie made him this awesome chocolate cake and the restaurant let her bring it early so he wouldn't know. It was fun to be together and celebrate with him. Happy Birthday Brian!

10 Mile Bike Ride

For Scouts, Justice had to do a 10 mile bike ride. Brett said he would do it with Justice. We are running out of days that will be warm enough and not snowy so...
This morning, I drove Justice out to the Tubbs' house the way we thought they would do their ride. We clocked where the ten mile mark was. Then this afternoon, Brett and I loaded the bikes in the van and drove out to pick up Justice. I dropped them off at the 10 mile destination and off they went. It took them a little over and hour but they made it home. Way to go guys!

The Boys:

 Off they go:

I love this shot of the haybales on the side of the road. There's just something gorgeous about them to me!

Justice in Contacts

Brett & Justice did eye exams last month. Brett came home and informed me that he got contacts for Justice. After the fiasco we went through in teaching Liberty to put hers in- I was less than excited about our 11 year old beginning that task. But... after less than a week of practice- he's got it down. AND he loves them!!!

MBI Youth Days

Liberty had the opportunity to attend a MBI (Montana Behavioral Initiative) Youth Day in Bozeman with the SRO from her school. It's like the Student Body Officers but with a lot more students. "The purpose of MBI Youth Days is to strength communities, schools and provide opportunities to develop current and future leaders." Kris F. & I took a load of kids down after Church on Sunday. Liberty got to stay over night with some friends in a hotel. She said the two days were a little long and at times boring (they did a lot of lecturing). But they all enjoyed getting out of school for a day, doing a service project, hanging out at the hotel and enjoying a coversation with Mikal while she sleep-talked. LOL

Liberty, Aimee & Mikal

Mama Rave '14

At the end of September, my darling friend, Kris, shot out a text inviting a bunch of women to join her for a GNO opportunity- a Mama Rave. She was hoping to get a group of her "high-on-life" friends to join her for a night of dancing and fun.


Hot mamas, mama mamas and grandma mamas -- in fact, some aren’t mamas at all. These ladies just love dancing at Mama Raves. Mama Rave is a ladies-only, pop-up night club that will pop up Saturday, Nov. 1, from 8 p.m. to midnight at ExplorationWorks. Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door. 
Come escape with your friends and party like you're in Vegas. We provide a no-host bar, the hottest dance beats, complimentary red carpet photos and AWESOME door prizes. A great opportunity to dust off your high heels and meet your friends for a night on the town. All ladies welcome, over 21!

In preparation for the night, Kris thought it'd be fun if we had a theme for our group to feel like we belonged together. (See! Kris & I are destined to be friends. LOL) We decided on red & black with Zebra accents. So fun! I did a little searching and I came up with some awesome outfit choices. It was so fun to find things zebra-ish. Luv it!

We all met for dinner at Applebee's first. It took soooooo long to get our food and get out of there but we sure had a great time visiting with all these beautiful ladies!

Dinner made us super late but we finally made it over to Exploration Works to join the Rave. We took time to get our red carpet pictures taken. Everyone was so darling!!!

 We danced the night away! Oh we've got moves, baby! LOL It's all about the bass! ;)

Downstairs they had bean bag chairs & water for us "high-on-life" friends. What a fun night!!!!

Thanks Kris for all you did to get us all together. You are the BOMB!!! Luv ya!