Who knew I married MacGyver?

Honestly, I did have the biggest crush on MacGyver when I was little. Who didn't? I think it was the mullet that did me in.

Question: What happens when you marry a genius and big sports fan who desperately wants to watch the super bowl but you don't have an antenna to hook up to your TV so you don't even get the BASIC TV channels?

Answer: He goes into the garage and finds some simple scraps of household junk and makes one himself and proceeds for the next hour to try to get a crystal clear picture by fastening the cable to the cord of our mini-blinds. Maybe he can figure out how to rig free cable next? Duh, doesn't everyone do stuff like this??? At least I know that Ashley can relate...Ezra probably does stuff like this all the time! Those Lee boys are loco.

Happy Birthday, Luke---the BIG 4 year old!

Yep, there's another man around the house. In fact, right now, he's in the garage helping Dad build a computer desk. I always envisioned our kids working with and learning from Jesse so it's very very fun for me to see how our kids idolize their Dad. Luke is always saying stuff like, "When I'm a man, I'm going to have whiskers just like Dad." (good luck with that one, Luke...I mean have you seen that kid's hair color? he'll be lucky if he can grow peach fuzz.) and stuff like, "When I'm a man, I'm going to be one of Dad's work friends."

The night of Luke's big party (so big that we invited my parents and the girl that lives across the street.....and that's all) we had quite a bit of DRAMA! My parents just happened to be visiting us from Butte for the big day and as we were finishing up with the pinata we got a call from our bishop saying one of our really good friends in the ward was in the hospital and we needed to go right away. I was so GRATEFUL that my parents were there. I felt so comfortable leaving the kids and rushing out the door knowing that they would have an awesome birthday party and eat plenty of sugar. (what are grandmas for?)

So, we missed Luke's party but my Mom is soooo great and took some sweet pics...thanks for everything Mom. I love you more than you can every know!

Guess whose coming to dinner??

Well, we've got Baby Lee #4 baking in the oven! Our family is so thrilled...especially Mia and Luke. They are already asking if they can sing songs to the baby in my tummy. It is making me a little nervous because Mia is sure asking a lot of questions about how the baby gets in there and where it comes out. ANY SUGGESTIONS?? The last time she asked me I told her "Well, honey, I just push the baby out!" I'm not quite ready to explain any details...or maybe I should to make sure she doesn't try any hanky-panky until she's married! HA! I'm 11 weeks along and had an ultrasound today. My doctor seems really nice and I get to deliver in the BRAND NEW hospital in Whitefish. Yippee! Here are a couple of little funny looking ultrasound pics...sorry they look so weird. I will post more as the baby develops. YEAH BABIES!!!!!

Future Rockstar

Careful when this dude hits the slopes...he's his Daddy's boy!

Oh, the weather outside is frightful...and that's pretty much it.

OK, OK, the weather isn't that bad anymore but the last two weeks, I've seen more snow than I ever have in my LIFE! That's not saying much since I was raised in the desert of El Paso but let's just say that I've never seen a snow storm like this in all my 10 years in Montana. It snowed and snowed and snowed some more. The plows didn't even try to keep up...they just waited until the weekend was over and we had a clear day. The pictures I'm posting don't do it justice...you just had to see it. We had over 2 feet in one storm, then the next week had another 2 feet in just a couple of days. It was hard when the kids asked me if they could play outside and I had to say no because the snow was too deep. They would have been up to their necks in it! I'm not even exaggerating! Jesse and I did take advantage of the amazing snow by taking a date night up to Big Mtn for night skiing...sweeet.
This pic was taken on my walk one day after the plows had finally come through. It was actually pretty outside and it was sooooo great to get some fresh air.

This is Jacob standing by our back door. This is no optical illusion...the snow is piled up against the back door and is as tall as Jake's shoulders! Good thing we don't use that door. Also, we have a deck off our back door that's at least 2 feet off the ground and the snow is 2 feet tall on top of that.

This is the tunnel I created while I was shoveling my front walkway and steps. Let's just say my back got an awesome workout baby!

Here is the snow piling up higher than our front deck. If you didn't know anything about our house you would just think we had a front porch that was level with the ground.

Here is the snow touching the bottom of our Remax sign...crazy, huh?

I left my heart in St George

As many of you know, we went to St George to visit the Lee's for the Christmas Holiday. IT WAS AMAZING!! Rozannah, Chris and Lorenzo were visiting and it was great to see them and crazy to see how big Lorenzo has become. He talks so well! It snowed the first couple of days we were there and there was a lovely snowfall on Christmas Eve...it was magical. (actually, I wasn't too excited about the snow as you can see in the previous post.)

The only bad thing about the holiday was the fact that I only took about 4 pictures. WHAT AN IDIOT!! I'm so upset with myself. Rozannah, will you email any that you took? The pics I took are of us and the kids hiking around the gorgeous red rocks in my in-laws backyard.

Christmas eve was spent playing games and reading the Christmas Story from the scriptures. Christmas day was so much fun for everyone. We had a delicious turkey dinner with all the yummy trimmings and of course some of Dona's scruptious pies. Thanks to the Lee's for always making us so comfortable and being sooo much fun!! We love you guys!

H-E-double hockey sticks Froze Over

Oh yeah, I'm good at keeping my blog clean...if only I could control my language around the children. Like when I've found that Luke has had yet another bout of diarreah or that Mia has used her play make-up to paint Jacob's face and there isn't one inch of flesh color showing or Jacob throws random things in the garbage because it's fun (cereal bowls/spoons, toys, bills etc.)

Anyway, enough about that. The REAL reason I'm posting right now is that I'm very upset. It is about -30 degrees outside and I'm really wondering what I was thinking leaving the nice warm desert for the winter in MT. I hope Jesse knows how much I love him to sacrifice like this! -30??? What the CRAP???

Whew, I feel better now...thanks for letting me vent. Needless to say, I can't wait to go to St George and soak it all in! Who knows, maybe we'll stay down there FOR-E-VER. (say "forever" like on the movie Sandlot...go ahead...you know you want to.)