Past few months

I know I was MIA on my blog for a few months..... So here is a time line of what Justin and I have been up to this year.

January: Justin fed cattle and I had morning sickness. Yep that pretty much sums up Jan. not a very exciting month for us.

February: I got a job working at Butler's Vet. Clinic and also went back to work out at the Prairie Club. I only worked at Butler's for a month because the Prairie Club needed me, BAD! Also I went down and helped my mom with her Valentine's Day fundraiser at school, which was really fun I love doing that every year. As for Justin he fed cows, haha and we finally told everyone that we were pregnant! It took a couple days, big families but it was so exciting I think even he had fun.

March: I love March, because of March Madness so Justin and I both made brackets and we both did really good until a certain Kentucky game....boo. Molly had her bridal shower and I got to help out with that, it was really cute shower. The coolest one I've ever been to, ooohh now I really want those hot dog things, yumm. She had a carnival themed bridal shower, it was awesome and very brightly decorated which was nice since it had snowed like 5" the night before. Marshall came home for spring break and we got to spend time with him and that was really fun. Frostys opened for the season, that's pretty sad when the highlight of someone's month is when a restaurant opens up. Also we went to our 20 week ultrasound, and that was pretty gross. I might post the pictures on here, maybe. But seriously their bad, you can't tell what anything is and the baby looks lumpy, our 16 week picture is a million times better. Justin was a little bit busier at work this month, haha. This was the start of calving season for them, as far as I know they didn't lose any. But they did have at least one set of twins. But probably the most exciting thing we did this month was go down to Lincoln for a few days and we got his ears fixed. Sure he complained everyday when I had to give him his medicine but now there is no more complaining at all, not that they hurt, not about the medicine, nothing it's great!

April: So far for April all we've done is Prom, Post Prom and Molly's Bachelorette party oh and worked. Justin is still calving and getting ready to start the busy season of ranching. I'm trying to get the Prairie Club ready for opening, I still have to; hire a front desk staff, get them trained, train my new boss on our software, establish policies and how we want the front desk to run this year while taking at least a dozen new reservations a day and I have a week to do it. But I love it, in fact both Justin and I are happy with our jobs, which makes life so much sweeter. All of us including Georgie and Kaedo can't wait for spring! I'm so excited for Easter, my parents are coming to visit and I get to be the Easter bunny this year. I've made lots of cool things, but you'll have to wait till after Easter to see what I did. Also at the end of the month it's my parent's 25th wedding anniversary and we are all going to a concert in Omaha. I should probably make them something for that too......


Well that in a nut shell is what Justin and I have been up to these past few months. Hopefully I will stay up to date and won't have to do this again, but sometimes we get so busy and time seems to slip away from us.

Prom

This year Justin and I volunteered to help with post prom, well actually what really happened was this. I volunteered us and also promised Molly that I would be her PD for her bachelorette party. At the time I didn't know that both events were for the same night, whoops. So Justin was a little mad at me because he didn't want to help with post prom in the first place and now he was stuck doing it alone. But between you and me I think he had fun, haha.

Anyways so the Friday before prom we helped set up the 4H building, Justin carried in all the heavy games, tables and things like that. And I put up decorations and helped make the prizes look good, so technically I did help. Unfortunately we didn't get any pictures of post prom or the decorations but the theme was "Night of the living dead" or something like that. It pretty much looked like a Halloween party. While the prom's theme was "A red carpet affair", don't see how those two go together but whatever. Justin did however manage to get some good pictures of the "promenade". Here are some of our favorites:

Marshall and his girlfriend Chelsea

James and his date Ashley

Marshall sporting a "stylist" hair-do

Looking tough

Rex the ladies man

Cousins!

They switched dates

Shoot em' up!!

What did you do this year for spring break?
Did you go some where warm, or to a beach maybe? Or did you go on a Man vs. Food tour, like my little brother did. Well whatever you did I hope it was fun and I invite you to take a look at what our spring break looked like this year.

That's right boys and girls we went shootin!!

Because you know there is an over population of glass bottles. We are just doing our part to help population control.

I don't know who's shooting is better, Marshall's or mine, hehe.

5 months pregnant but I could still be an international spy, right?

Oh I just wanted to add that the baby loves to be awake all night, but slept the whole time we were out shooting.

I don't know what was going on here, Justin just really likes this picture.

Kaedo also went along for the fun! We found out that he isn't gun shy, which is good, don't think he'll ever be a hunting dog though. He'd be more likely to be friend the deer, not a whole lot of bite in this dog.

And now, my favorite "shot"!

 They weren't really trying to rob James, it only looks that way.

Poor James, big brothers always got your back.....just not in a good way.

We also went prairie dog hunting, because they are over populated as well, and I killed 2!!

I was so excited because I shot one of them in the neck so he looked perfect, you'd of thought he was a fake prairie dog he was so well intact. Not Justin's though.....there was prairie dog guts everywhere.

Happy New Year

Justin and I had lots of fun this last year and I'm really excited to try and top it this year!!! Before I start talking about plans for this upcoming year I want to look back on 2010.

We started off the New year as Newlyweds, how cute haha. We moved into an incredible house and both had fairly new jobs.  

In March I went down to visit my Grandma in Fort Meyers Beach, FL

Mid April was when we got Kaedo and what an adventure that has turned out to be.

A few weeks later we moved to Valentine, and that's exactly how it happened. We went back to Valentine for Easter or something and Rex asked Justin to work for him and then the next week were living in Valentine.

In May Marshall graduated from High School and I started working at the Prairie Club.

 

Then in June Marshall and I had a kick butt Birthday bash out at the ranch.

(THESE PICTURES ARE MISSING, IF YOU'VE SEEN THEM LET ME KNOW!! BECAUSE I CAN'T FIND THEM ANYWHERE!!)








And for Justin's birthday we were on our honeymoon down in Orlando, FL.

 

August was when we finally got to move into our new house in Valentine.

 

Labor Day weekend is when we had our housewarming party and my parents came out for a visit too.

In October we celebrated our 5 year anniversary by dinning out at the Prairie club.

November was when my job at the Prairie club ended (not for good, just for the season) and I went to visit my family in Ohio. Also it was my first time cooking Thanksgiving for my family and it turned out great.

December we got to spend time with pretty much all of our family and had a magical anniversary.

So that pretty much wraps up the year for us and so far 2011 is just as exciting and fun (but you'll have to wait for those stories, what fun would that be if I told you everything in one blog).


Plans for 2011
I asked Justin if he had a New Years resolution and he said it was to get in shape, yeah you and the rest of the world. Haha I know that's mean I just thought it was boring so then he told me his new one was to beat all of his video games. I laughed even harder because I told him he didn't have that much time in one year to do that. So I guess he is going to "tone up" and eat less candy this next year. But as for me my resolution is to take pictures with my new camera every day and keep my blog updated. Sometimes in my life I get so busy or I'm having so much fun that I forget to document it so that's why I made this my resolution. Other than that he is still loving working on the ranch and I'm looking forward to going back to the Prairie Club in the spring.

Hope everyone had a great Holiday Season,
Love Justin and Janelle


(apparently both Justin and I suck a resolutions, he still eats just as much candy and I've taken lots of pictures but no blogging)

Welcome Back

Sorry it has been so long since my last post, I've had a lot going on in my life to either A) distract me or B) prevent me from blogging. But a couple weeks ago Grandpa told me how much he liked reading my blog and then I remembered why I started this blog in the first place, to keep my family up to date in our busy crazy life. Sorry I was being selfish and lazy, it may not be everyday but maybe once a week I will post something.

I will start with some of my posts that I had made in Jan. before the computer stopped working. That is how this whole thing started in the first place, the computer was broken for a couple weeks and by the time Justin fixed it I had lost my routine.

So once again sorry, and hold on tight because Justin and I have a pretty exciting life these past few months!

Wedding Anniversary

Most of you that know Justin wouldn't think that he is very creative or romantic with dates and maybe that's what he wants you think. But I'm going to destroy that rumor because he did the most romantic thing this year for our wedding anniversary. First some back story, last year on the 26th of December we were stuck in Valentine and we were supposed to be in our honeymoon cabin but the power kept going out and we had no heat. So we drove into town around 11pm and got the honeymoon suite at the Dunes.

So flash forward to this year (Dec. 26th), before we left for Lincoln Justin turned off our heat in our house. As you can imagine our house was freezing!! At first I was ready to spend the night in our house because we have a heat mattress pad but when Justin suggested the honeymoon suite at the Dunes I had our bags packed before Justin could unload the car.
We did all of our anniversary stuff there at the hotel, we ate our cake and looked at wedding photos.

 Thank you Justin for a wonderful first year, I love you and I look forward to many more anniversaries to come.

A Very Merry Christmas

Justin and I had wonderful Christmas's this year, we got lots and lots of presents!!! I guess that's expected when you have 4 Christmas, haha. But seriously we had fun and relaxing holiday.




First we had a Christmas party with some of our friends here in Valentine.

 We had a White Elephant gift exchange, Justin got a giant Husker bear and I got sratch tickets and a giant Hershey kiss. We also got Red vs. Blue Season 1-5, Thanks Kris!!!!!!




 The next Christmas was down in Lincoln with mi familia. It was really fun, food was great and we went ice skating. We got lots of great presents as well!! My parents gave me a frog tea pot and this awesome hand painted picture of the Wizard of Oz. Justin got a Star Wars book, Black Opps and a giant Pez dispenser. Then I gave Justin 2 new shirts, another giant Pez dispenser and a new XBOX 360. Justin gave me a brand new awesome camera, I think it's a Canon rebel but I haven't read the instructions yet. I've been too excited!! Then we gave my parents tickets to the OSU vs. Huskers football game here in Lincoln, and hopefully we get to go with them!!!

 After Christmas in Lincoln we drove back to Valentine to have Christmas with Justin's parents. We played Family Feud on the Wii and that was a blast! That might be one to add to our collection, it is a great party game. We got way too many presents to list so I'll list our favorites. Mine was a step stool and Pier 1 gift card and Justin's was a Shield and tools.

Then last but not least we Christmas at Grandma's house, it was awesome because we got to see everyone, well except for Layne. I hope he shows up next year because Justin picked his name for presents. I got this super cool vest that T.J was extremely proud to pick out for me and I got a long sleeved shirt to go underneath of it. A whole new outfit, pretty exciting!!! Justin got a new movie, The Last Airbender and the game Boxers or Briefs. I've heard of the game but have never played it before it should be pretty funny.