Happy Easter!!

Hello Everyone!
It is that time of year to post about Easter!! Hopefully everyone had as good of an Easter as we did!! Our day couldn't have been any better! It was absolutely a gorgeous spring day!! Warm, sunny and just beautiful!! Andy and I spent all day on Saturday preparing for the big day! Andy smoked a turkey in our smoker while I spent the day in the kitchen cooking. Sunday morning we all went to church and then came home, let the kids discover their Easter baskets and prepared dinner. The kids got binoculars (they love the outdoors!!) and Garrett got 101 Dalmatians and Emily got Tangled! We have already watched them both...a few times!! For dinner we made ham, turkey, potatoes, and marmalade glazed carrots. We also had, fruit and veggie trays, deviled eggs, and a candy bar salad. For dessert (the best part), I made a blueberry bread pudding that was DELISH! We also had a variety of cupcakes and....CANDY! After dinner we headed out for an Easter Egg hunt in our backyard and enjoyed some of this beautiful spring weather!! We enjoyed the day as a family and we loved every minute of it!! It is always so nice to get together with everyone!! And the kids were loving being spoiled by both sets of grandparents and their uncle, aunt and cousins!! We had a fabulous Easter and are truly blessed to have such a great family! Please enjoy the pictures of our best Easter yet!!

~Happy Spring!!~

Spring has been busy at the Plaggemeyer  house!! We've been busy buying everything we need to fence off our land. After we bought all that we ordered a few loads of rock for our yard. We now have a mud-free walk from our back door to our car and shed!! And it is SUPER nice!! And the best thing we've done, so far, is put up a swing set for the kiddos. For Christmas Santa and Grandpa and Grandma Plaggemeyer went in together and bought the kids a swing set. So when the nicer weather rolled around we bought one and then Andy's dad stayed for his three days off and helped Andy put the thing up!! We love love LOVE it!! (Just don't mention the assembly or instructions to either Andy or his dad!!! Hahaha!!). The kids have enjoyed it so much already and it's barely been up for 24 hours!! I am certain they've already tried everything out on it, and so far Garrett's favorite thing is the Captain's Ship glider!! He loves to go FAST!! And Emily is in love with going down the slide!! Well, that about sums up our spring so far. We will be doing our fence soon and getting ready for Easter!! Hope everyone is enjoying their spring and enjoying this BEAUTIFUL weather!! Will blog again soon! Until then, Happy Spring!!
Just click on the pics to see them larger!! I had to make them a little smaller this time!

 Fun with Daddy!!

 Playing in the rock!

Mommies little pirates!

 





 

Happy Birthday, Dad!!

~*~ At the heart of a family's happiness is a dad's love ~*~

We celebrated Dad's birthday, a day early, on Sunday, March 20 at our house!! We all had a lot of fun, as always!! Brian and Shanda and the kids came over, along with Mom and Dad and, of course, the 4 of us! I just love that we can all get together and celebrate these occasions when they come up, especially when the weather is nice enough that the kids can all go out an play! For his birthday, Dad had some birthday apple pies!! And they were delicious. In fact, I'm ready for another party just so I can have some more of the pie! LOL :)! We ate pie, opened presents, drank coffee and had a nice time visiting!! We all hope that Dad had a very happy birthday this year! He is the best dad in the world and we are so lucky to have him for ourselves!! We love him more than he'll ever know. He is always there for us, to lend a hand, lend an ear, give encouragement or advice or sometimes just to keep us company. He is the best example of what a dad should be and he is truly my hero. Thanks for always being such a great dad, Dad!! We love you!!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

I hope that everyone had a happy St. Patrick's Day this year!!! We celebrated allll day long and the kids loved every minute!! We had corned beef and cabbage for dinner and it was sooooo delicious! I look forward to that meal every year! Although Andy had to go into work Thursday night, we still enjoyed our day and evening!! The kids even had green bath water followed by some awesome green shamrock glow sticks!! They had a wonderful St. Patrick's Day!! The next day we took advantage of our leftovers and made rubens...another meal that I look forward to every year! What's not to love about St. Patrick's Day?!?!  Below are some pictures of our day!! Hope you enjoy!!

Making some rice krispies with the kiddos!

The finished product!

St. Paddy's Day crafts!!

Family Photo Fun!!

Happy St. Patrick's Day from the Plaggemeyer's



Top 'O the mornin' to ya!

Green bath water!



Glow Sticks!!

So much fun!!

Happy Birthday, Mom!!

Last weekend we all got together to celebrate my mom's birthday! We had so much fun!! We celebrated at our house, along with Brian, Shanda, Cole, Tyler, Cody, Heidi and Dad and Mom! The kids always love each other's company and it's always nice spending time with the adults! Having Mom's birthday party at our house is one of the things I look forward to the most each year. It is always so nice! I love doing her cake, decorating the house and having a nice time with the family. I would say that this year was another success! We hope that mom had a very Happy Birthday!! She is the best mother that anyone could ever ever ask for. She is my mom, my friend, a great roll model and so much more! I love her so much and wish her all the happiness in the world, on her birthday and every other day of the year!!



Happy Birthday, Mom!!



 




 









Super Bowl Champs!!

Now I wouldn't be a true Packer fan if I didn't post the exciting news! I know, I'm a little late, but hey...better late then never, right?! On February 6 the Green Bay Packers went to Super Bowl XLV and played the Pittsburgh Steelers....and THEY WON!!!!!! Very exciting event in our family! So in honor of their victory, I took a moment and made this picture!

I am also posting a few other pictures that I've been working on as well. Hoping that everyone had a fabulous Valentine's Day! We sure did!! Andy had the day off and we spent the day as a family. We took the kids to the park in the morning and then went to Gillette....We bought a riding lawn mower and we went to pick it up!! Very exciting for us!! We then came home and spent the evening watching movies and ate a Delicious steak dinner that Andy made for us. Mmmmmm, it was sooo delish! Anywhoo, that's all for now. Enjoy the pictures and we hope everyone is doing well!! 

Garrett with the cookies!

Our beautiful baby girl!





Staying Busy, Loving Life!

Well there is not a whole lot of news to post for January, mostly pictures!

We spent a few days at the end of January in South Dakota visiting Andy's side of the family. It was so nice to see everyone again. Many of them haven't met Emily yet, so that was nice as well! We stayed with Andy's parents, had a wonderful get-together, with a DELICIOUS elk roast that his parents made! Good food, good company, great time!! We also got to do some shopping and we even got to visit with a few friends for a short time too! It was so nice to get over there and see everyone. We were even able to get a few 4 generation photos with the kids!! We will definitely have to do it again sometime soon....perhaps when the weather warms up!

                                                    4 Generations 

It has been frigidly cold here the past few days. We had temps that were 50 BELOW Zero with windchill. And one of the nights that it was so cold, we lost power for about 6 hours. It went out around 11 p.m. and we didn't have power again until 5 a.m. Our house, by that time, was a chilly 53 degrees...we were talking about calling my parents and heading over there to get the kids warm, but wouldn't you know it?!...the power was back! So then, we had to figure out how to reset our furnace. And just about the time we were starting to think we needed help, our wonderful neighbor called us to off his help!! Ten minutes later our house was back to warming up again.....I am pretty sure that our furnace ran for a solid 3 hours before it shut off after the power outage! (Not looking forward to the next bill!! LOL)!! So the power company worked on the power lines, in arctic temps, and we were able to enjoy the rest of our freezing cold nights in our home, toasty warm!!! PTL! It looks as if we're in for another frigid spell again at the beginning of next week!! Hope everyone else is staying warm!! And to finish off my post, I have just a few more pictures of our lives! Please enjoy...we certainly have!!







Mommy and Daddy's Valentines!