Life in Montana: General Post

Poker, Movies, and More

Mon, 06 Mar 2006 04:24:38 GMT

Well it has been couple of weeks since we wrote in so here is an update...

Last weekend on Saturday night we had our monthly poker game out at Leitgeb's house. We had it out in his shop again like we did last time. It was nice having it out there for a couple of reasons. First of all it is an old horse stable turned into a car shop so while it is nice in there and we take care of it and all it is not that big of a deal if something spills. Second since it is out in a shop the smokers can smoke and not hold up the game. The last two games we have had there have taken half the time that the other two before it took. I'll admit that since we have started playing out there I like to have a cigar while we are playing. Third and definatly not least is that it is heated which is very nice especailly since it has been cold lately. Before the game last weekend Mike, Cory and I built a poker table to play at. We orignally we trying to make two of them, but that was a little more then we could get done. We got both of them cut out but only one finished with a padded rail. The one we got finished was 7'x4' oval and the one we have cut outready to be padded at a later date is a 4' round. There are a couple of pictures that I put in the photo albums. The playing surface that we used is a roll up one that I got on sale at Target, so I can just roll it up and bring it whereever play. Another highlight of the night was that I won the tournment, $130.00...so that was nice. Angie and everyone elses signifgant others got together and watched some scary movies that same night. Maybe she will get on here and tell you about that.

So here I am...we had all the ladies over to our place and they brought tons of snack food and I made Marasaritas :) So tasty. Jamie brought over the little baby (Kendal) and needless to say she was never put down...what a little princess :) There are more pics in the photo album of her getting bigger everyday. The movies we watched were Saw and Saw Two. Great scary movies...I only had a few nightmares. I was surprised to see Chris home at midnight. Guess he took everyones money by nine so they just played for fun until then :) I hope he keeps that one up!!!

(Chris again) More on the poker front my friend and groomsmen Pete opened up a his poker room on Thurday. So I went down and played on his table opening night. I ended up coming out ahead $20 which I turned around and lost when a group of us went down again on Satuday night. They play a $2-$5 game which is basically a limit game with a little room to play around. So if you are ever in Helena, MT head downtown to the Western/Gold Bar and sit down at Poker Pete's. Well that not techincally the name...he is still working what to call it.

Other than that we have been staying busy with wedding plans and everyday life.

Chris (&Angie)

It's freezing

Sat, 18 Feb 2006 06:15:41 GMT

It was so cold today! I was surprised that Angie's cat started. When I left for work @ 7:15 this morning it was -15 with a -30 wind chill. The news just said that the high for today was 3. I was just getting use to the 30 degree weather we have had lately. There was quite a few people calling in at work because their vehicles wouldn't start. We were thinking about going snowboarding this weekend but not unless it warms up a lot. Speaking of snowboarding we went for the first time this season last weekend. We didn't take any pictures though. Let's just say that we were just trying to get down the hill. We have decided that we are a little out of shape. But they had pretty good snow up at Great Divide which is surprising since there isn't any snow here in town.

When we took pictures of Jamie and Kendal we realized that we had a ton of pictures sitting on our camera and we have also been getting some crap about not updating this enough. So we are going to try and be more active with this site.

Chris

Holidays have started

Mon, 05 Dec 2005 01:34:14 GMT

Well Thanksgiving has come and gone and the holidays have official begun. We celebrated Thanksgiving at the Bill Sampson house. My family has been close friends with the Sampsons for a very long time and we have been going over to their house for Thanksgiving dinner since I can remember. Bill and his wife Kathy put on a great spread as usual and we definiatly ate our fill, or well at least I did.

I also got to play on the new Xbox 360. Curtus, Bill and Kathy's son, camped out in front of Target and was lucky enough to get one. Some people might say that is a little nuts, but it was fun to play with. Even if Curt beat me three times playing football.

Friday after Thanks giving we decorated for Christmas. We put up our new tree that we got dirt cheap at the end of last year. It is pre-lit, sooooo nice. We also got our Christmas village, wreath, and other lights around the house up. I have put some pictures of everything on to the site.

Angie has been organizing what everyone wants for Christmas. So I guess shopping is on the agenda for a little while. We have gotten quite a bit done already though and when I say 'we' I mean Angie.

Well that's all I got for now. We hope to see everyone soon. If we don't I hope you all have a happy holidays.

Chris

Engagement Pictures

Wed, 26 Oct 2005 03:04:14 GMT

Saturday before all the fun and games began we had my mom take some engagement pictures of the two of us. We found a couple of good spots around town. We managed to keep my mom to one roll of flim. She is a liitle bit of shutter bug. We have picked out some of our favorite for everyone to look at.

Here is the one that we are going to put into our announcements. It took a liitle editing but it is our favorite.

Chris

New Layout

Fri, 07 Oct 2005 17:13:57 GMT

We have made some changes to the page.

You can now sign up to be notified automatically when ever we update this page. Which will in turn keep you updated on our latest happenings and cut down on the massive e-mailing from us.

I have also moved the pictures over to right side of the screen. With all of the blog entries the photo album was getting really far from the new posts. I thought this looked better. You can still see a larger view of the pictures by clicking on the button to the far right. It looks like this:

An additional bonus is when you do this you can see the title/captions we have entered for each picture.

Chris

Halloween

Fri, 07 Oct 2005 17:13:37 GMT

While we were in Billings we found a huge Halloween store, Spirt Halloween. Which was an old car dealership turned halloween store. 5,000 square feet of Halloween costumes and decorations. Which got us thinking about what we were going to go as this year. We have been kicking around a few ideas but haven't been able to nail it down yet. Gomez and Morticia Adams is topping the list right now. So how about leaving some comments on some creative couple costumes that Angie and I could go as. If we get enough ideas I might try and setup a poll so everyone can vote on a few of our favorties.

Little background two years ago I was a pimp and Angie was my, uhm, well, employee and last year we went as the Spartan Cheerleaders. We have kind of gotten a rep as the ones who go all out so let the ideas come.

Chris

P.S. I am not into to using Halloween as an excuse for cross dressing so don't waste your time.

Lazy Weekend

Sat, 01 Oct 2005 02:29:11 GMT

Last weekend we just sat at home and did nothing and it was everything that we dreamed it could be. Well we didn't do excatly nothing but we were pretty laid back. Angie had to work Saturday for a few hours and after that we went to the grocery store. After that we didn't leave the apartment until late Sunday afternoon. That might not sound like that a very big feat but we can't remember the last time that we sat at home for that long. On Sunday Angie decide to make a cake and if you know her it is no surprise that it was chocolate with chocolate frosting. We took it over to my parents for desert with dinner. My dad made a prime rib roast....yummy.

It was such a nice day on Sunday that we drove around town and took some pictures of our apartmetn, places of work, places that we like to hang out, and other scenic places around town. The pictures that we took will be in an album below.

Chris