Krause house...Mouse house!

Mason and Emily with their mouse traps with the mice they caught in our garage! Pretty gross huh!

One more reason why I needed to be home at night!

This just illustrates why I needed to be home at night. Kelsey and the kids were so busy that Emily wouldn't start her homework until around 10:00PM!!! Poor thing fell asleep at the table!

Happy Valentines Day Everyone!!!

SLEEPOVER!!!

Emily and her friends love doing each other's make up! They had so much fun Friday night that I finally had to make them go to bed about 2:00am! (No, I'm not a party pooper but Emily had a soccer game at 9:30am and you know how we are about soccer!)

New job for Randi!!!!

Yippeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!! Sorry guys there's no picture to go with this one... since I hate pictures of myself and this about me! Well, many of you know that in order for me to transfer to Phoenix that I had to go full time at my job. I have been waiting and waiting and waiting to be able to go part time because really...it's way to much to work full time, commute for 2 1/2 hours daily, make dinner, clean the house, soccer, scouts, activitiy days, homework, taxi cab driver...you all know what I'm talking about! Anyway, we decided to fast for something to become available and what would you know but the next day on the web site a part time position came up at the Central Baggage Resolution Office (CBRO). I applied...interviewed...and got the job. I am so excited! I am a little sad because I won't be working at the airport anymore and I will really miss the hustle and bustle but honestly I don't think I'll miss the being yelled at by angry or crazy passengers anymore. Oh, by the way...one funny story on that...the other day I was trying to explain to a guy that his plane came in late and he missed his connection so he couldn't fly out until the next day because of the deicing line in Chicago. And also that we wouldn't be paying for his hotel room either because when it's weather it's not our fault. He started yelling at me that I didn't know anything about deicing, weather, etc...and his final insult was that ...are you ready... I didn't know how to fly planes! Um...really, never knew that, that's why I'm working here for $9.00 an hour! (for those of you surprised by the 9 dollars an hour, yes I did just get a raise!) Anyway, he is correct. I don't know how to fly planes! OK so back to my new job. It's still for US Airways but it's at a different location that the airport. I will be dealing with claims for lost bags. Here's the good part...closed on SUNDAYS!!! And only open 5am to 6:30pm and I only have to work 3 days a week! Yayyyyyyy!!!! Here's the funny part...I was talking to my supervisor over there asking her about any training or anything. She said no, just come in on Monday the 18 around 6:30am and they'll give me a 1 new task a week to learn. I started to wonder what could these tasks be that take a whole week to learn? I bet your wondering to. Well, my first task is going to be learning how to time, date stamp incoming faxes, before you start laughing wait until you hear the next weeks task...I will learn how to open mail!
WOW. But hey I can do anything to be home more often with my family. So in other words, I will be needing a list of everyone's favorite books so in my spare time at work I have something to do! After I start I will give an update on my progress weekly!

Circus Tryouts

Sorry guys...I don't know how to rotate pictures in this thing.

He was lookin kinda dumb with his finger and his thumb in the shape of an L on his forehead

This was from talent night with the cousins up at our condo in McCall! The kids love doing Karoke

I tried to make the picture bigger...

Awesome Stars

Who can find me? This is my softball team. And yes, that handsome man in the back is my dad! He was the coach of the Awesome Stars. We had so much fun together!

Kyle getting ready for 8th Grade Dance

It was so fun watching Kyle get ready for his dance. He was so excited to be wearing a tux for the first time! Oh, and by the way...talk about feeling old...Kyle will be dating next year!!!

What's going on here??? This is Kelsey cutting up some poor fellow's head in the name of science. Ok, here's the thing, basically this makes me sick to look at! What I really couldn't believe when I saw this picture is that Kelsey doesn't see the need to wear a mask. YUCK! You know that dead people stink. Well, I guess when people that come to his office with hallitosis that won't bother him either! Anyway, for all those who were wondering, Kelsey is loving school!

Mason with Grandma and Grandpa

We lucked out that Mason had a soccer game on the day my parents were here. He was so excited for them to get to watch him play!

Kyle with Grandma and Grandpa

Kyle was excited to be able to spend a few minutes with my parents before they had to fly back!

Emily & Grandpa

Here's Emily asking Grandpa to take her to the book fair. Who ever thought of having a book fair on Grandparents day was a genius. The place was packed with grandparents buying all their grandkids whatever books they wanted!

Grandparents Day

It was so fun for my parents to be able to fly down for Grandparents Day at Emily's school. Everyone was supposed to bring some homemade food to share with the class that was from their heritage. Well, last year Kyle was in a Spanish class at school and had to take Empanadas for a pot luck. Why am I telling you this you ask? Well Emily decided that we should take empanadas to her school. I had to explain to her that we were not mexican and that mexican food is not in our heritage. I think maybe she got confused because mexican food is my favorite and we eat it as often as they all tolerate me making it! So anyway, back to what to take from our heritage...the other thought was a German Chocolate cake, since Krause is German. I wasn't sure how well that would go over with a group of kids since most kids don't like coconut. So we decided last minute that she would take in Better Crocker Brownies. Ok, before you laugh let me explain...my grandma's name was Betty and so was Kelseys! So really Betty Crocker is kinda from our heritage! Ok, so I'm not the mother of the year!

Kelsey and I have a little problem...

Ok, I'll start at the beginning...Emily entered a walk a thon for her school fund raiser. Of course on the day of Kelsey and I went to cheer her on. Now for those of you who know Kelsey and I know that we are not all that competitive (just kidding) really we are kinda outa control. We (as in me and Kelsey, Emily had no choice in the matter) decided that even though most of the kids were just walking that Emily should try and run the furthest. So Kelsey took post on one side of the field and me on the other. He would run her around his side to keep her going and the when she got to me I would run with her for a little ways to keep her motivated. This actually worked quite well for Kelsey and I because we were only running with her for about 20 feet or so and then she would run and meet up with the next one. Emily on the other hand was becoming more exhausted by the minute. Her dark red cheek, heavy panting and crying to stop were not going to deter me and Kelsey. No sir, she was going to go the furthest. Needless to say, she almost passed out of heat exhaustion so we let her walk a little. Anyway, she ended up running 5 1/4 miles in 45 minutes!!! Pretty impressive for a 10 year old. As for Kelsey and I, we decided that it was time for us to lose some weight and become more active since we barely ran and we were exhausted!

Once there was a snow man...

It was so wierd being in Phoenix for Christmas and it being 70 degrees! It took going to Boise where it was snowy and cold to really feel like it was the holidays! The kids loved being outside and building snowman! Here is the Krause Snow Family!

Skiing in Boise

Kelsey and the kids flew up to Boise the day after Christmas to do some skiing. They had such a great time! Here they are with Kelsey's dad and sister.