busy, busy, busy!!!

My goodness it was a busy weekend! Bill and I took the kids up to Holter Lake just before the snow started! Thankfully we made it back home before the roads got bad! Then I spent the afternoon baking Christmas cookies with my sisters and my Mom and friend Tracy. It was a blast! We made Trilbies, Snickerdoodles, Peanut Butter Fudge, and Orange Snowball Cookies! YUM! I think I gained 10lbs. just thinking about baking them! I am taking most of mine to a cookie exchange tomorrow night. Next I raced home to get ready for an evening out with my hubby. My Aunt Sherry and Uncle Kim took Bill and I out for dinner at On Broadway. First they presented Bill with a plaque that they had made for him to put on their porch as a way to honor his amazing work. He rebuilt most of the front of their home and yard last summer! My husband is an amazing builder! We ate and visited for about 4 hours! What a nice time! Then we decided to head to Wal-Mart to do some Christmas shopping for the boys that are spending the night up at Holter Lake with Grandma Lila and Papa John! It was soooooooooo nice to be able to start and finish a whole conversation! Anyway we ended the night around 11:00 when Hastings closed! Today was fun too! Lila and the boys made it safely into town from Holter Lake for church and then Lila and I stayed and wrapped presents for the Angel Tree at church. Then we did a little shopping and went home! Lila made it back up to Holter Lake safe and sound and all is well with the Fields Family tonight! Made God richly bless your week! Love you all!

Sing unto the Lord a new song!

Well, after the death of our Grandma Nancy, my children have made me realize that I still have much to be happy about! We spent last Friday evening at my Aunt & Uncle's home to reminisce and just enjoy that fact that Grandma is in heaven now! I am so thankful! This is a picture of Drew enjoying the fire place at my Aunt Sherry & Uncle Kim's home!

Andrew & Jacksen sharing a big snuggle in front of the fire place! They really do love each other! We also went to the Festival of Trees last Saturday afternoon to watch Will sing in the choir for his school. Cousin Sean Patrick was here from Chicago to enjoy the festivities and enjoyed a moment with his sweet little Andrew! Sean and his wife Hope are expecting another baby in March! I think Sean was missing his sweet little boy Finn! I know I was!

If you look front and center you will see my handsome boy Will getting ready to sing! What a total cutie! He did a wonderful job! He is such a joy! Watch out guys he is gonna be a chick magnet when he gets older! :)

Thanks for all the well wishes and prayers during the past few weeks! Love to all!

Katy

Giving is Living!

I think this should be my new motto for 2010! I am so thankful today that my sister recreated my blog site yesterday for me! I am also thankful for my many friends, family and the people that God puts in my path at just the right moments. I am so very thankful that I know my Grandparents are in heaven! My prayer today is that those of you who don't know Jesus will ask him to come into your heart today and save your soul! He is the way the truth and life! No one can come to the Father except by Him! I love you all, Happy Thanksgiving!

Good Bye Grandma Nancy

This beautiful little Gramma of ours went to be with the Lord yesterday. I am so sad for me today but I am rejoicing with God that one of his daughters went home to be with Him yesterday! She was a truly amazing woman. This beautiful lady never said an unkind word about anybody! I know that is hard to believe but that is how she lived her life. She had an unwavering strength about her in everything that she faced. She was a mother of 3 boys and a grandmother to 4 girls and one boy. Then much to her delight she was the great grandmother to 8 boys and 4 girls. She was just the best. I will miss her so much but I am very happy today that she is back with my Grandpa and all her sisters and parents that died before her. Love and miss you Grandma Nanny!

Christmas Tree Decorating & a date!

We broke down and got a fake Christmas Tree this year! We are heading to Portland the day after Christmas to see Bill's brother and sister-in-law so we figured a fake tree would be best! I have to admit, it sure was easy and it looks nice. We decided on a white, silver, and gold theme. Will and I spent about an hour decorating. On another note, Drew had his first lunch date with Carla today! Jen and I took them to Pizza Hut and it was so fun! They talked and played and Carla gave him a high five and nucks! We can't wait to get together again! Thankful today for all the many blessings we have been given! Praise the Lord!

Braces

Here is Dano right after they put the braces on! We had this done two days after we got back from Alaska.

Cute huh! He has blue and orange bands, the Chicago Bears colors! Go Bears!

ALASKA!!!!

This is the historic part of Ketchikan. We stayed at the Gilmore Hotel which is the 3rd building to the right in this picture. The tall mountain in the back is called Deer Mountain. That is the only snow we saw.

This our cute littel nephew Wylie! He is 5 months old in this picture. He is such a smiley baby!

And this is Wyatt! He is 1 and 1/2 and is super cute! He really likes to play outside!

This is a picture of Bill and I standing on the pier in the evening. It was so beautiful!

This is a picture of Bill thumbing an eagle butt! LOL!!!

This is fun but I'm not touching that!

Wow Those are scary! Drew's, Will's, and Dano's!

Drew helping Daddy carve his pumpkin! He liked taking the pieces out but did not like to touch the inside!

This is great! Look how hard Daddy is working for me!

Good Bye Barn!

Good Bye Big Green Barn!

Well, it's been a very unusual few weeks for the Fields Boys! First there was the dreaded H1N1 that struck our boys. Will was severely sick from this bad bug. Then it was Dano turn and he just could not quite kick it for 3 weeks! We have missed church for 6 weeks straight now from the bugs!

Next came the big move! We moved out of our big green barn under the assumption that it was sold and we would be signing papers on Friday, October 16th. We found out Tuesday the 13th that the people who we had the buy/sell agreement with might be getting deployed to Iraq instead of Montana! And so our worst fear with this selling and moving came true. They are not buying our EMPTY big green barn and we are living in Bill's parents house in their trailer court until further notice! We have so many decisions to make as to what our next plan is now! Just a tad overwhelming! Please keep the Fields Family in your prayers each moment so that we might have God's clear direction. We definitely need it!

God Bless this beautiful Fall!

Moving Day!

Hi All,
Well sorry I haven't posted anything for so long! A whole month!! What's up with that you may be wondering. Well, we all got some seriously yucky colds and now we are moving! That's right, we close on the sale of our big green barn on Friday, October 16th! Whew! I am very relieved to be moving on to a new chapter of our lives! We are moving into Bill's parents house at 234 Bonner Rd. #10 and then as soon as Bill is finished building his parents home at Holter Lake he will start on our next house! If anyone knows of, or finds any cool moose stuff for houses let me know! I love Moose! I am looking for everything from knick knacks to a light fixtures! Bring it on! So this weekend we are moving out of our house and it just happens to be so far a very cold weekend here in Helena! Typical for a move! I will post some pics of the new digs as soon as we get everything over there and can sit in front of the computer again! As always here comes another prayer request! Please pray for everyone that is sick right now. There is so much sickness here in Helena, it is almost unbelievable! Both of my sisters families are now sick! Hopefully not from us! :) Lots of Love TTFN

Baptism!

River & Alpine my God-Daughters!

Roxy & Aaron the babies parents and our good friends!

Will looking very frightful at the baseball game.

Dano looking like a roofer with rebar stuck in his head? Wha roofers don't use rebar?

Andrew and his cousin Kellan at the park last weekend!

What an event filled weekend! First I want to say how thankful I am that Dano is finally feeling better after struggling for two weeks with a cold and asthma. Praise God! Bill and his folks and myself took the boys to a baseball game on Thursday night and had a great time! The Brewers beat the Missoula Osprey! Andrew had a ball running around the stadium with Grandma Lila! Saturday had Cody & Morgan and Ami over for a little play time. I had fun visiting with my oldest sister while she did my hair and make-up for my date night with Bill!

Ok now I will tell you about date night! Bill and I went out for dinner at the Brewhouse and shared a pizza and then we went down to the fairgrounds to meet up with one of my bestest friends ever, Jen and her husband Bobby for a benefit concert. Bobby plays bass in a band called Flathead 45. They were awesome! Then Roxslyde played and they were ok but during this whole event Bill was a having a couple of drinks, I wasn't really paying attention to how many and before we knew it Bill was feeling no pain! Then the band Cold Hard Cash played and they were incredible! I really like Johnny Cash music though! Bill wasn't enjoying it all by this time and was ready to go crawl into bed. NOT for that though! He really wasn't feeling very good today at all!

This morning we got up and got ready for church, not at our church but at our neighbor/friends church to witness the baptism of my God-Daughters River May & Alpine Emma Meury. They are such beautiful little ladies and I am so blessed to have been chosen to be their God-Mother! All in all it was a wonderful weekend!

Fishing Fun!

Three very dead fish!

Will and his large rainbow trout!

Dano with his medium size rainbow trout!

Here we are hanging out at Holter Lake fishin' the day away!

This is the progress on John & Lila's new home at Holter Lake! My husband is quite the builder!

Labor day weekend started out well for the Fields Boys! Up to Holter Lake we went. This was the first time we have been out in the boat since early spring and it was really a great day! We decided it was a day for fishing and Dano was the first one to reel in a fish. He caught a medium sized rainbow trout and he was so happy he decided to pray that Will would also catch a fish and God heard his prayers! Will caught a nice little Walleye! None of us have ever caught a Walleye before so this was an exciting catch! He put his line back in and just a few minutes later he caught a rather large rainbow trout! We dedided to head home as the weather was heading our way. Dano says I smell smoke and the next thing we know the engine of the boat was seriously smoking! I was very thankful that it was raining but I was also feeling a little nervous because we were right out in the middle of the lake and most everybody had already gone to shore. Bill to the rescue! The engine cooled down and we were able to get the boat home! Sounds like the boat needs some repairs however! We had quite a feast of beer battered fish for dinner! We also got to eat some delicious halibut that Jeff & Lori Straw brought us from Alaska! YUMMY!

Nice quiet weekend

We had a really nice quiet weekend! We spent most of the weekend thinking about moving and building our new house! The boys got to ride their dirtbikes some and just be relaxed a lot! I hope and pray that everyone can have a relaxing day in their lives very soon also!

Monster Truck Rally!

Bill and the big boys are at the Monster Truck Rally tonight! And I am at home with the real monster's! Andrew and Jacksen that is! They are having a great time together! I think they are going to know how to throw punches better than the big boys before long! You should see them when they get mad at each other!

We are the baby monster truck drivers!

Dano is so strong! RAAAAR!

OH NO They are getting rund over! EEEK!

Building project!

This is the new house that Bill and his dad John are building at Holter Lake for his parents. The house looks big but the deck is bigger! The deck goes around 2 1/2 sides of the house and is really big!

My most talented son balancing his BB gun on his head. WOW!

Andrew making fun of his older brother and looking really cute!

Dano and Will really love to fish at Holter Lake. Apparently this was a combination hunting and fishing trip!

Bill is really enjoying working up at Holter Lake on this house. They are putting an elevator in the middle of this house. Bill's parents are preparing for old age. WIERD!

Home and Happy!

Andrew riding his dirtbike with Daddy's boots on!

Will perfecting his fishing skills on Holter Lake!

Dano turning into a mighty fine looking boy!

Dano came home from camp day before yesterday and he had a blast! He got a little home sick but overall it was a huge blessing! We have all had a great time reconnecting with each other and now it's right back to the boys bickering and fighting! Good Times!! Anyway, here are some cute pics of my 3 sons! I guess I haven't figured out how to put my words above my pics! Sorry!

Missing my Dano :(

Dano left on Monday for the Kootenia Christian Camp up near Ronan and will be home tomorrow. I am missing him terribly! I think Will and Andrew are having fun getting all the attention! I realized how much attention Dano gets and how little Will gets. Guess we will have to work on that! We have decided that Andrew is going to get potty trained come hell or high water! He is way to smart to not get it anymore. I think he has had his mom buffaloed. Not anymore! LOL! I will post some pics after Dano gets home!

Morrison Family get together!

What beautiful weekend! We played with our cousins and their kids at our Aunt Sherry and Uncle Kim's home. We had a wonderful time watching all the kids swim and be silly! Then it was off to the Carousel. Andrew and Jacksen had the most fun riding the horses together!

Lots of summer fun!

Andrew and Maggie Dean at the new splash park! Drew thinks this is the bomb! He screams like crazy when we leave.

This is Jacksen's way of riding shot gun! They are the funniest 2 year olds ever!

Will took 1st place in the 7-12 yr. old barrel racing at the stick horse rodeo! He is very proud of himself!

Will had fun bull riding but his cousin Megan beat him out. Little backwards don't ya think?

Back from Glacier National Park!

Our five minutes into Glacier Park we saw these twin cubs and their Momma crossing the road right in front of us! It was an awesome start to our day!

This is a picture of Bill and our boys at Lake McDonald.

Papa John and his five awesome grandkids at John's Lake! Aren't Drew's climbing skills amazing!

This is a really cool waterfall that has water coming down this middle part and on the top. It is called Trick Falls.

This is a really great picture of our family enjoying Trick Falls!

I am not sure what mountain this is but it sure made a nice picture!

And last but not least another unrotated picture of Andrew at Two Medicine Lake in East Glacier!