Doggie training class !

Because the weather has turned to winter wonderland, Lilja has not been riding horses this month. So she signed up for a dog training class with PIP. It is actually surprising how well she’s doing with him, and is signing up for the next one because she’s doing so good. Really fun to see her work with Pip like this

Minnesota for Xmas !!

This is the first time in about 14 years that Aran has been back to Minnesota and his family for Christmas. It was his parents his 50th anniversary and we thought that was the most special time to go this year. Usually Aaron is working for the tribe and is hunting elk for the elder and single families. Luckily he had all the hunting done before we left. We were very lucky that the lake that they live on was completely frozen over so we ended up Ice-skating every day. It was so fun to have to have everybody together. And Lilja and her cousin Tae were just two peas in a pod. Just FYI this blog is letting me only write captions for the first two pictures and then my phone does not let me do that anymore this happened before with my iPhone. So it’s a lot harder to do these blogs now so I apologize but will try and make a little story at the top and then you can see the photos when you scroll down. The photos with all the lights are at the botanical gardens in Albuquerque. It was one of the most amazing experiences. The only downfall was the thousands of people that were with us shoulder to shoulder bum to bum nose to nose trying to see exactly the same thing that we wanted to see. But for once in a lifetime that was really amazing

San Diego !!

For Lilja’s birthday, her and I went to San Diego to go to sea world. This was her big present from her daddy and I. When we arrived at the hotel, they had put a balloon and stuffed animals in the room, because I told them it was going to be her birthday. We ended up having a great time swimming in the swimming pool and the next day we ended up at sea world. What an amazing time that was. There weren’t very many people so we were very lucky. The highlight of the day was lunch with the orcas a big yummy spread and then a informational show about the orcas . They were right there 2 feet away from us. Lilja would see her favorite part was touching the tiger sharks she literally was there for 30 minutes until this day she still talks about that. I think we definitely have to go back to see world and this time bring Aran.

Mission beach !! The best weather ever !!

She is such a great traveler .. and loves it too !!