Happy Anniversary!!!

One Year Today!

Merry Christmas

A clip from It's a Wonderful Life, which is such a great reminder that Christmas isn't about "things", but about the ultimate gift we have received....our life and the people we love. May your Christmas be blessed with many friends and family as we celebrate God's gift of Jesus who died for us on the cross. Merry Christmas!!!

Delf and Lelf

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This was just WAY too much fun! This isn't permanent like Yearbook Yourself, so watch it while you can! I just love Dan's feminine dance move towards the end! This video will expire January, 15th of 09.

Easy Egg Bake That I've Only Messed Up Once!

The first time I made this I didn't let the ingredient's stand overnight and it was very flat. Apparently that's a no-brainer when it comes to egg bakes, but when it comes to cooking there's "no brain" up there for me! I've made it two other times now for work and for the Anderson's and since Lacee actually asked for the recipe I thought I'd share.............share because it might never happen again where someone will ask ME for a recipe;)

Ingredients:
6 eggs
1 cup milk
1 tsp. ground mustard
1/2 tsp. pepper
cubed ham
frozen brocoli w/cheese
half bag of colby jack cheese
6 pieces of bread

Mix eggs, milk, ground mustard, pepper, ham, and cheese together. Pour over 6 pieces of bread in pan. Sprinkle brocoli w/cheese over the top. Let stand in refridgerator overnight. Bake at 375 or 400 (depending on your oven) for 30 minutes.

Our Cyber Christmas Card/Key Moments From Our Year

January-Happy Honeymoon to us. We spent a week nesting at our house for a week after our wedding. Seven whole days of sleeping in....yes!

February-We chaperoned the annual Good Shepherd Ski Trip, perfect powder and awesome students!

March-I don't remember even seeing Dan this month...my Grandma got sick and I spent 4 weekends in a row in the ICU at Merit Care in Fargo. I did however get the chance to see my Aunt Carol from Denver and my Uncle Jeff from New York. It was nice to see my Grandpa as well so much. He cracks me up! Even though we were there for unhappy circumstances we somehow always have a great time. My Grandma is now on the mend and is back at home.

April-We went on a quick trip to the cities to visit Matt, Lacee, and Laila and stopped in Fargo for a Bon Jovi concert and to visit my Grandma in the hospitol. The concert was great!

May-I finished up teaching for the year not realizing I wouldn't be there the next:(

June-Riviera Maya, Mexico for our real honeymoon and then on to Wisconsin for a visit. We had a blast on both honeymoons! The favorite part for both of us was for sure snorkeling right off the beach.

July-Mission trip to Daytona Beach with Good Shepherd Youth

August-Last full month in North Dakota so I/we spent as many afternoons on the river with the Carter's and other friends as much as possible.

September-Leigh moved to Minnesota and started a new teaching job. Dan finished up at Good Shepherd and was then able to spend a week out in Wisconsin with his family.

October-We moved into our new house on the 10th. The furnace went out on the 14th. The cat pee began to show on the 20th. The other cat starts getting sick on the 31st....this was not our luckiest month.

November-Celebrated my birthday and Thanksgiving all on the same day with Dean and Kathy, and my Mom and Ron.

December-We finally feel somewhat at home. We have decorated for Christmas, the cats are on the mend, I miss my old job, Dan's been sick, but we are still trying to stay positive that this is where God is leading us. We have a few couple friends, the people at our church are so great, and the girls that I work with are heaven sent.

Random Thoughts From the Dornfeld's

-we recently discovered a small tree in our yard is fake. Our clue, after the weather had dropped to the single digits.....its leaves were not falling off. It's so weird.

-whoever tells you moving isn't stressful, or hard is LYING, a lot!

-in Paynesville you might not only SEE lots of Christmas lights, but also HEAR Christmas music piping from your neighbors front deck.

-we definetly need internet at our house, it's like living without your brain!

-I can tell we live in a higher humidity region. My joints ache in my knees for the first time in my life....yikes!

-Riker's new dog food now requires he go #2 three times a day instead of two, or else we find presents in the hall each morning. He also flatuates at decibles that can be heard for long periods of time, which is really quite disturbing.

-the cats are (saying this cautiously with fingers and toes crossed, lots of prayer, and luck) SLOWLY getting back to a clean bill of health

-we love our new house.....but let's knock on wood for that one that nothing else major goes out, quits, or has to be replaced!

-Even with all of the ups and downs of the last 6 months, with our move, we are so very thankful for so many things. This transition has been very hard, but with each week something else happens, we meet young people, feel more at "home", etc.....then we feel just a little bit more settled. Merry Christmas everyone!

Tropic Thunder

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Pretty much sums it up!

Thank you to our Bismarck Friends

This is a long time coming and something that I've wanted to do a long time ago, however, my camera broke and I haven't been able to get this out......until now. I got a new camera from my Mom and Ron for my birthday! This is a picture of SOME of our Bismarck friends that all got together, drove out to the University of Mary, and took this awesome picture (I believe Sam took the picture) for us. There's a few people missing, but at our going away gathering, at Josh and Tara's house, I was going through Tara's pictures for some reason. I came across all of these pictures of our group of friends and my heart sank because there it was right smack in front of my face that we were no longer going to be an intricate part of this group and that made me want to cry. Lo and behold about 20 minutes later they all come out and presented us with a going away gift and here it is..... THIS pictures. I started crying....wow...even though I am still sad that we won't be able to spend as much quality time with all of these amazing people, it made me feel better knowing that they took that time and energy to take that picture for us. For that and MANY more reasons we will forever be grateful and thankful for our friends that we made, have, and hopefully will forever have from Bismarck. We love you guys and why the heck have you only visited once.....c'mon! Just kidding.....we'll visit too:) Your picture sits behind our bar downstairs, which hopefully we'll be able to entertain from and tell new friends about our wonderful far away friends:)