What Happened to Half of January?

Wow we have been going through some changes.  We made the full move to Billings, Montana.  In fact today we just switched over our plates on our Nissan Frontier to Montana plates.

We also bought a second vehicle, a 2007 Toyota Yaris.  

I started work just after the first of the year at the Billings Family YMCA.  I'm working fitness floor, rock wall, and personal training.  Belay on!

We have been taking Grace swimming at the YMCA and she loves it.  

 My lens was fogging up in there.  Too humid for the camera!  But you can see that Grace's hair is not as dark as her dad's.

We are living with Tuff's cousin Donnie and wife Kassia.  They have a three bedroom house so Grace gets her own room!  

First time we pulled all of her stuff out of the cargo trailer.

Tuff had a few more speaking engagements, one of which was a sermon at Life's Journey Christian Fellowship in Colstrip.  You can go on their website which I linked and listen to the message he titled, Identity Theft and the Wicked Truth.

We also joined a small group at church; it just started last Thursday.  It was great but made me miss our dear friends from Pittsburgh.  Can you believe we left seven months ago?  

Grace has been cute as usual.  Check out the video of her giving open mouth kisses and giggling at me being silly.  

Here she is saying dad no matter what we tell her to say!  She prefers dad to dada or daddy.  

Grace just got over an ear infection so we have been nursing her through that, poor thing.  I feel I can partially blame the business and sick baby on my slacking on blog updates.  I will update shortly on Tuff's 30th birthday.  That's right, his 30th is on the 23rd of the month.  

Also look for the senior pic remake edition next blog update!  I got some awesome pics in from a lot of you.  Here is a sneak preview:

Brittany (my college golf teammate) in Germany!

Its not too late to send us your picture, email or text!  Miss you all.

Christmas Time 2012

CHRISTMAS HAPPENINGS

It was a white Christmas this year in Montana.  We were blessed to spend it with our family in Colstrip, The Greens, and Tuff's parents, The Harris'.  We also made a few trips to see other family around eastern Montana.

Little Miss Claus.

Dale, Tuff's cousin who hosted us at his family's house for the past month and a half, and Grace getting ready for Christmas festivities.

The Green Family Christmas Eve.

Goofy photo with the Greens.

We scooted over to the Harris household in Colstrip (Tuff's parents) for some more Christmas Eve festivities.

Harris Family.

Senior Pic!  Haha.

Classic monkey family picture, taken every time this family gets together for a photo.

Pointing at each other.  We ran out of silly things to do I think.

Grace's first gift opening experience.

This is also her new smile.  Scrunch face.

Again with the scrunch face.

Grandma Merle Jean's family gathering in Hardin, Montana.  She was sick so wasn't present.

And of course the outtakes photo.

Grandma Merle Jeans lemon meringue pie.

Grace and mommy.  Where did she get those dark eyes from?

COLLEGE FRIEND REUNIONS

While in Billing we met up with a great college friend Richie.  He was on the track team with Tuff at the University of Montana.  We will get to see more of him as he will be around Billings.



We also met up with college friends Greg and Kelly Burfeind as they were visiting family and drove up from Denver.  Greg was also on the track team.

On the 28th we journeyed to Columbus, Montana to visit my dear friend/college golf teammate Jasi at her parents house.  She lives down in Phoenix now and was up visiting family for Christmas.  I spent just about everyday with this girl for the four years I was in college, at practice, in the dorms, etc.  It was so good to see her again.

GRACE UPDATE

Since the last update Grace now drinks from straws.

She also crawls everywhere.  And pulls herself up on everything and scoots around that way.

MAKING OF CHRISTMAS CARDS 2012

This year we went with the footsie pajama theme, as you can imagine we have a few of those around for Grace.  I found adult sized pajamas for Tuff and me at Target.

Some of the possible card candidates:  Tossing Grace your way for 2013.

Awkward family photo.

New Years yay!

I liked this one below but it didn't bring the comedy aspect as much as the finalist.

And here is the finalist!  We had a great time, as usual, putting them together.

We made the partial move to Billings and will be staying with Tuff's cousin Donnie and wife Kassia.  You will get to see more on this in the future and how our move is going.

Until next time...

Montana Continued

Still in Colstrip enjoying family and making some future connections and decisions.

Sunday Tuff traveled to Glasgow, Montana and spoke on adversity at their annual sports banquet.  He enjoyed the journey to Glasgow and the opportunity to speak.  He will have more similar speeches around Montana in the future.

A picture of his journey to Glasgow.  Looking out at Fort Peck Reservoir, Montana's largest body of water.

Grace Goodie is learning to move around.  Just about crawling and grabbing on everything to stand.  I'm not ready for her to go places.  I like her just sitting in one place!  Watch the video below.



Also as you saw in the video she's talking a lot more.  Words in her vocabulary (some clearer than others):

Daddy
Momma
Hi
Bye Bye
More
All Done

Some cute Grace photos.  She enjoys reading but doesn't realize the book is upside down.

Always a Griz fan.  Normally we'd be watching the Griz in the playoffs this time of year, however this year they had their first losing season since 1985, so no gold there.  NCAA FCS Semi Final Game is this Friday.  Its my little sister's college, NDSU vs. Georgia Southern.  Go Bison!

Loves dogs!

Tuff entered the social media world this last week.  We are both learning a lot from it, like hash tags and @ symbols.  Wow a whole new language.  He started a twitter account, @Tuffharris, and a facebook fan page, https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tuff-Harris/303340916451822?fref=ts.  If you are on either of these social medias check him out.  Follow him and like him.  There is another Tuff Harris fan page out there on facebook and we are not sure who started it.  Tuff's official page has a profile picture and albums.  Enjoy.

Tuff is posting some old school videos from high school and some great photo albums on his fan page.  Here is an example of his latest post.  Tuff is a sophomore at Lodge Grass High School and is a wiry 175 pounds:



Totally missed a senior pic remake opportunity with the photo of Tuff below.  He's modeling a knit hat at Colstrip's annual Christmas craft sale by local artist Genevieve Red Shirt of Naked Sheep Boutique.

Submit your senior pic remake if you want to join in on the fun blog post I'm working on for the new year.  I only have about 8 participants so far.  Tuff suggested taking the pic at your place of work.  For example, if you are a pharmacist, take the remake in your uniform jacket and by the pills.  Need a reminder of the senior pic?