A week of Awesome.

Papa and his baby fire birds

a few of us took the babes to the fire hall for a meet and greet

Fireman Heath Gerber and his daughter Autumn showed us the ropes

Lane and Autumn checking out the gear

Two Autumns and a Fireman

time to check out the truck and all its buttons!

fire truck with flashing lights, just too big for Baby girl

big wheel, big boy!

our little troopers!

Dommie gets his badge, even though he slept through the presentation;)

Mere gets her badge!

Evan and Lane become helpers too!

on our way to the Christmas train!

standing in line...burr!!!

keeping our girl warm!

coloring the time away while waiting for Santa

Mrs. Claus had just jangle jingled by

SANTA!

Hurry! Finish your list Autumn!

Commenting A on her pretty robe and giving her the magic coin:)

Guess the coin was better than Santa

tired girl

tired girls?

That way Daddy. To the snow!

Dang I wish I could go!

um gas in my face and a big 4-wheeler...nah, I'm out

look at those crazies Daddy

going to find Julie, she's safer;)

watching from here is even better

Dom made his friend Evan cry, soon after they were both crying

singing girls

make me cry again Dom, I dare you.

Well here is just a taste of what we have been up to. If it didn't take so long I would download more photos. I'm absolutely addicted to taking pictures and videos of our babes. Today I tried with all my might to take tons of video of Dominic since he is walking across the house without any help as far as his little heart desires.It's quite different then the 4 and 5 steps he has been up to. We knew it would be soon but I wasn't expecting him to let go of the toddle and scamper across the living room to the couch, let go of that and come wiggle shake shake to me. This afternoon I came around the kitchen counter and here comes Dom right at me. He saw me, looked up with an amazing grin, threw his head and arms back and walked the rest of the way to me. I'm glad I had nothing planned today because all he wanted to do was walk! Autumn took her own new step today and took on the entire day with out a nap. I'm praying it was only because she was with Grammie and was too excited baking to sleep. I'm praying and praying our precious isn't saying farewell to at least one nap a day.
We had friends in town this weekend so the time went by extra fast! It cracks me up every time that I stress about a clean house for the entry and care less the rest of the time. I need to get to that care less first.;) I think Dana would like that too. I have a great husband in case I haven't mentioned that in a while. He's just an oddity to me. He's calm (all the time) he helps around the house, he gets up with Dom, he tells me I should go on a 4 day trip with girlfriends (wait, does that mean he wants a break from me;) ) he plays with the Babes right when he comes in the door and his favorite place to be is home. Hmmm. Weird. Anyway, he has introduced me to a whole new way of life. Peace and quiet and appreciation for just being together. He also has a lot of friends that he has grown up with and stayed in touch with without facebook, myspace or all that. They all just keep in touch. Really weird. So, Wes and his wife Heather and their two girls came from Bozeman and rode the Christmas train with us and played in the snow. I think it will become something we do more often and should be a riot to watch our kids grow up together.
Tonight, I had a brilliant idea. Most of my ideas are brilliant. I said to my mother "why don't you come home with me on Thursday and I will take you home Friday, it will be fun, we can bake and visit and just hang out". Her response?  "Uh, let's see what do I have going on? Oh, my mother is calling me". Wha wha who? Um, is this an episode? Is this left over chemo in the brain? My Grandma Tommy has been gone for 7 years. I stalled a minute. Then I couldn't help myself and I swear I heard her snicker "You shit head". Yes, I said it to my mother. Well. She is coming however so I guess I should take it back. It's nice that she's coming. I almost feel like the big C never happened, almost.  Still another blog. Not quite ready to go there. Ah, the good life.