Happy 26th Birthday to Garret

I have been so excited for Garret's birthday this year.  I finished his denim quilt a couple of months ago and have been waiting for his birthday to give it to him.  I think he knew it was coming after Jeff got his in October.  Unfortunately Jeff found THREE thumb tacks inside the finished quilt, at that point Cortnie and especially Tayler were terrified of his sweet birthday present :) so.....heads up Garret.  Apparently I'm not the world's greatest seamstress.
Jami was not in any of the group photos, acting as designated photographer and kinda backing up Garret's theory that he's the favorite child.  For sure favorite middle child :)
Thanks for the fun party and Happy, Happy Birthday!

Merry Christmas

This is the gorgeous Salt Lake Temple picture that the kids gave us at the Christmas party.  It's huge, you can't really tell.  We were so touched by this generous, beautiful gift.  It's where this wonderful, crazy, fun, never a dull moment family began 31 years ago!

I know, Dustin, I told him to wear the black coat :)                                   My 4 little princesses.

 Check Shelli, Jenna and Jami's blogs for complete details and pictures of the fun party.  I forgot my camera! But I did get a few pictures with my phone.

Jill's 40th (oh, no...) Birthday!

We celebrated Jill's birthday with lunch at our favorite place, Hamiltons.

I'm sure the only difference this birthday will make in her life is her category at the Summer Games.  I pity her arm wrestling, 100 yard dash, shot put etc..... opponents.  She is amazing!

This was the birthday party, Jill and me, our parents and Jay and his mom. It was fun to visit and relax and hear about the good ole days. :)  My little sister Jill has always been the sweetest, nicest, most thoughtful person anyone knows.  She can also do a standing back tuck, and you will never beat her in a foot race.

Happy Birthday Jill! 

Love you!

Kennedy's Christmas Performance

Another quick trip to Rexburg to watch Kennedy's cute Christmas dance performance.  It was Lori's Dance Tech fund raiser for the Idaho Falls Food Bank.  

After the performance we had these huge sundaes at Leatherby's.   

Saturday morning we went to another fund raiser at the Sugar Salem High School.  It was breakfast with Santa!  Hudson was pretty serious but apparently thought it was worth it to be brave and ask Santa for a yellow Luigi.

Me, Kennedy and Preslie by Shelli's cute Christmas tree.

Kennedy's Thanksgiving Feast

Happy 9th Wedding anniversary to Shelli and Dustin.  

We helped celebrate by babysitting so they could go to the midnight screening of Twilight. See her blog for complete critique. 

We felt like royalty in the guest bedroom with sweet new extremely high thread count sheets. Thanks!!!

You always show us a good time.

Kennedy called every couple of days for the last few weeks asking Grandpa if his knee would feel good so we could come to her school for the Thanksgiving feast.  He decided at the last minute it did feel good enough for the drive.

If you look close  you can see that the only turkey is in the gravy...typical school lunch I guess. But the home made rolls were great.

Shelli pointed out it was a Thanksgiving feast, not a turkey dinner

Kennedy in her class room.

Her cute "thankful turkey"

Preslie and Will

We met Jeff and Jill's family in Orem on the way home from Las Vegas at Pizza Factory.  It's just so fun whenever we get any of the one-year-olds together, we work hard to get them to sit still for a picture.

Jami, Jay, me, Jill, Preslie, Jeff, Will, Cortnie, Tayler, Jenna.

Jami got her LETTER!

Tonight at the year end Weber volleyball banquet Jami received her letter, she's pretty excited about it.  She thinks she will wear a lettermans jacket a lot :) I told her it will be a good Halloween costume for her kids.  Club try outs are next week sooo more volleyball in our future.  It's almost year 'round with outdoor vball all summer.  Dustin, fyi: she has employment applications in all over town as of last night and no response yet. She thinks its meant to be that she remain unemployed :) Thanks to Jenna and Preslie for going to every game with me.