Moana- Merry Christmas Glory!

For one of Glory's Christmas presents, she wanted to see the new movie Moana. So our whole family braved the -23° weather to take her to the theater. Merry Christmas baby!

Neighborhood/Friend Date Night

mtseamonsfam A little Christmas hangout with some super cute kiddos. Love our neighbors @weavclan & @hseedall friends! Hope you both enjoyed your Christmas date. Sorry Walters that the sick 🐜 ruined your plans. P.s. Happy anniversary @hseedall Merry Christmas friends!

weavclan Thank you Seamon family. We are so blessed by your friendship. What a wonderful, fun Christmas gift you blessed us (and our girls) with! Merry Christmas!🎁🎄

hseedall I agree with @weavclan the Seamon's are a huge blessing in our lives! Best gift you couldn't given us! Love you guys! Don't think my kids will want to come home

1st Annual MT Ornament Party

1st Annual Montana Ornament Party! Inspired by one of my best friends, Amber @amberhoffman23 - I braved my first Ornament party since my move from Fargo. I tweaked things from years past. I made it very simple/ Everyone brought treats to share & we made an ornament together. I did a Montana-inspired Ornament that I think turned out pretty fun. Thanks ladies for braving the blizzard to join me. See you next year!

mtseamonsfam Thanks gorgeous, brave ladies for hanging out with me tonight! You're awesome! #annualornamentparty #blizzarddrivers
Special note- @hseedall is on the front row! 1st time for everything, my friend! Lol ❤️
hseedall Haha!! I have to admit I really liked the front row! Such a fun night with amazing women!

Dollar Store Christmas

Braving the Snow Storm to do our Annual Dollar store shopping. Everyone gets $5 to shop for the others in our family. We were pretty much the only ones there & the parking lot wasn't plowed at all!!! I think we got like 6-8 inches. Welcome Winter!

Concert Band Concert

Liberty had her Concert Band Performance tonight. They sounded great! Plus Liberty had quite some snazzy moves while she boogied to the Jazz Band music afterwards. Silly girl!

Smørrebrød Party 2016

We signed up to feed the Sister Missionaries this weekend so we decided to make it into our annual Smørrebrød Party with a few other friends.

A little Christmas Name-that-Tune with the sister Missionaries! So fun! My kids blew them out of the frozen water!

• mtseamonsfamAnnual Smorbord Party! (Extra memorable since Bestemor passed away this year) Thanks to the Sisters, the Tubbs, the Coils, and some of the Nielsons for coming & sharing in our Norwegian tradition. Next year Justin's bringing lutefisk! Lol

• jbnielsonIt's a Smrdbra party! That's what the text invite I received from Brett said, "Smrdbra". That's what I couldn't pronounce it. But I can say "loot-a-fisk"!
• jbnielsonPS everything was awesome, especially the flat round ginger bread Carmel cookie things. Thanks for having us over.
• crumra53I have missed those parties over the years. I'm glad you've kept it going

"Homeless, Homeless, But there is hope because..." burning styrofoam cups in the snow is Awesome!!! Lol Teenagers.... what?? Where do they come up with these things?

Teenage Noodle Feast

Teenage Noodle Party! Liberty & Shannon got together for a late night movie night while they cooked up a zillion types of noodles. All while staying warm in their cosplay snuggies. Good times!

Ward Christmas Party Bethlethem

• mtseamonsfamHelena 3rd Ward Christmas Party! Yummy dinner. Musical numbers from all auxiliaries. Justice sang "Do you want to build a ⛄️ ?" with the YM. Liberty sang a song with the YW. Victoria played "The First Noel" on her violin. They also had a 'Build a snowman' table set up for the kids. Fun times!

• demerryMy girls said Victoria did a beautiful job on her violin! Sorry we missed it all 😞

Here's a clip of Victoria playing. She was super nervous and actually skipped her turn 3 times before she gained enough composer to perform. The whole room went quiet when she started playing. It was really beautiful and then the audience roared with applause after. Way proud of her!

mtseamonsfamTo end the evening – the primary participated in a live nativity. Cooper Lynch read some scripture and the kids sang some songs. Then we had a special visit from the wisemen that brought gifts to share. What a fun way to end the night!

mtseamonsfamCute Victoria came home from our Ward Party & set up her own Nativity in her room. So cute!!! Come, Let us adore Him!

50th Wedding Anniversary

Happy 50th Wedding Anniversary to these 2 amazing people!! (Lana & Garold Seamons) Wish we could have been there to celebrate with all of you. Thanks for your love & example to all of us! Congrats!!! Xo

O Christmas Tree!

• mtseamonsfamTree- check! Lights-check! Snow-check! Fire- check! Decorations- check! Ornaments from 8 Ornament Exchange parties on the tree-check! (Man- I ❤️ the memories!) Let the Christmas season begin!

• hseedallLooks awesome! Tired mama check!
• hillsabigailYour fire place looks really pretty
• dandelionlace23So ture! I love putting all my ornament exchange ornaments on the tree! So many memories!
• crumra53Very At~ Homeish I love it

Basketball Season 2016

Justice finished up his 1st Basketball season. We're way proud of him for being brave & trying out new things. It was lots of hard work 4-5 days a week. And his knees paid a little bit of a price but good job, kid! Xo

Favorite Scripture #lighttheworld

Matthew 14:27-31 has been one of my favorite scriptures for a long time. I think that part of it is that Jesus encourages us to Be of good cheer and to not be afraid- To simply trust Him and walk on water. How awesome does that sound!? That's what I want! But so often (at least in my life)- real life gets in the way & I lose sight of Him and I begin to sink. It's scary and lonely. But this scripture reminds me – it's very simple. All I have to do is to say "Lord save me" & He will IMMEDIATELY! #lighttheworld

Crazy Day with Pocahontas

Very eventful day!!! Glory did an amazing job presenting her biography on Pocahontas. She is one cute Indian! We also had another little girlie pass out during school & a nighttime basketball game all in the 4 degree weather with no daddy at home. Whew! Who wants a nap?

Glory did an amazing job with her Pocahontas presentation. Let's see if I can get a little video loaded:
Can't guarantee the quality because I had to squeeze it down so much to get it on. But here it is anyways!

P.S. Victoria passed out at school today while she was watching a presentation. She's passed out one other time last year when she was giving a presentation. Maybe she's allergic to presentations? LOL. We think she locked her knees and had some low blood sugar but an extra prayer in her direction would be appreciated.

Parenting a Teenager...

• mtseamonsfamReality Check. Half a foot of snow, freezing temps, hubby out of town, a procrastinated school project, and a night filled with teenagers wishing they lived somewhere else. Quote for the day- "My kids call it 'yelling' when I raise my voice... But I call it 'motivational speaking' for the selective hearing!"

• crumra53I can't imagine that happening with you and your teenagers, great quote though.
• mcfeilzerThe struggle is real
• sealib7Whatever mom 😜

Arctic Freeze

Cold days in Montana. 7 degrees this morning! Kids made their 1st snowman and a couple adorable Snow Angels. Cute stuff!

My Teenage Boy plus the Seedalls

mtseamonsfam Wanted to post a picture of my handsome teenage boy but he never sits still for very long (unless it's iPod related or his nose in a book. Lol) Every fast Sunday, he amazes me with his sweet testimony. He gets up in front of our congregation & shares what God has taught him. He is an great example of "Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house." #lighttheworld (plus these Seedall boys of ours love a good tackle from their Justice friend)
seedall  My kids love going to Nana's house and love your children. There's always a sweet spirit in your home. I am so thankful you are so dependable and help me out of all my jams!! Love you my friend so much.

Here's the other kiddos when they came to play with "Nana" one day. So cute!