Birthday Party week end for Kennedy and Hudson

Happy 7th Birthday Kennedy!

Shelli planned a fun filled weekend to celebrate Kennedy and Hudson's birthdays. We sure appreciate them bringing the party to us! We took the Front Runner to Gateway. It was the first time we have had a good excuse to ride the train. And we have a train stop right here in Pleasant View. It was really nice and relaxing, especially on the way down, we had the train to ourselves. It was a little busier on the way home, due to Saturday conference. Yes, I am a little behind on the blogging.

Cristin, Marcia, Trina, Hudson, Dustin. Hudson and Preslie loved running from one end of the train to the other.

Jami took advantage of the little train table to put acrylic nails on Jenna. Kennedy even got some for her bday.

Everybody built a bear at build a bear at Gateway. Hudson got a biker bear, including the bike! Kennedy, of course, chose a horse and dressed her to the nines.

Birthday girl

Jami had to have one too. Ariel, with a red wig.

Tayler,Kennedy, McKenna, Hudson. Outside build a bear, what a cute store.

Other activities: Frightmares, Chuck E Cheese, cake and ice cream and the bouncy house. Where does this birthday party overkill come from? I have no idea......

but good job! It was so fun! Up next, Paris!

Jeff's 30th

30!?! Really!

For Jeff's 30th birthday he planned a harley ride with his dad. It is their most favorite thing to do ever. They went south.....St. George and some canyons.....call them if you want the details they would love to tell you all about the adventure.

Trace Workman, Jay Stocking, some other biker dude.....what a bunch!

I still haven't heard the end of how much fun this was!

Manti Temple

Happy Birthday Jeff! Love you!

Happy Birthday Jay!

Happy Birthday to Jeff and Jay!

We had fun planning a surprise party for Jay this year. We heard the gondola ride at Snow Basin is great and so is the food. And the best part of a "surprise" party is that planner gets to decide where to go and what to do and not tell how much it cost....

Surprise, Grandpa!!!

Everyone was waiting to surprise Jay when we pulled into Snow Basin. Cortnie, Tayler and Kennedy came running with hugs and surprises and happy birthdays. It was so cute!

The gondola ride to the top was beautiful, you can see Pine View Lake when you get up the mountain this far. We also watched some crazy mountain bikers on the ride up.

The jazzy on the gondola.....and Grandma is afraid of heights.....you had to be there :) She was a really good sport and we were happy she could make the trip. Thank you so much Shelli and Dustin.

Trulie and Tayler. Missed you, Garret!

Jenna, Preslie, Nate and Cort.

Hudson and Shelli

Happy, happy birthday to my real BFF! Love you!

Hudson enjoying the view

Jace just kept running to this window to watch the gondola. We all loved the gondola ride so much that we made an extra round on the way down the mountain. With our tummies full, some of us fell sound asleep.

The dessert table....mmmm. The best I've had at a buffet, for sure.

Keep eating girls.

Jami and Jace

Tayler

Jay's latest cowboy hat. It's this artsy barbed wire creation from Jeff and Jill. Another favorite of mine was the gift cards, I've been enjoying them right along with Jay, thanks! Shelli out did herself again this year with an awesome grandkids scrapbook for Jay. He's looks at it pretty much every day!

Yippee for 53!

Sisters Trip

Sisters Trip 2009!

me, Janie, Julie, Jill

Ok, just refer to Janie's blog....she told it so well! I will just add my favorites. We probably wouldn't have chosen Michigan for our travel destination if Janie didn't live there. I'm so glad we went because this is probably the last year for them in Michigan. Ann Arbor is just the cutest little-ish college town with the most loyal football fans I have ever seen....well I don't really follow loyal football fans but I'm just saying I didn't see anyone anywhere without a yellow (maize) Michigan t shirt on game day.

The Ward home is on a quiet, nice, tree lined street only a few blocks from the famous University of Michigan stadium. (That's a big deal in these parts)

Mackinac Island was the best, I wanted to stay a week! Nothing motorized is allowed on the island, so no traffic. It was so quiet, just bikes and horses and pedestrians. The 8 mile ride around the island was perfect, 75 degrees, wooded, shady, flat, easy riding!

Arch Rock

Janie, mom, Jill, me on our cute basket cruiser bikes

This is the island where the movie "Somewhere in Time" was filmed. (Mackinac trivia)

Charming! That is the word that best describes Mackinac Island.

Lunch on the waterfront.

Mom, Janie, Abby, Julie, Jill

I loved our walking tour through the University of Michigan campus. No wonder the fans are crazy loyal, it is very impressive.

We dropped Julie off at the airport early on her bday morning and we had a couple of hours until our flight so we took a quick tour of downtown Detroit. Janie and Dan took us to this fabulous pastry shop, sorry you missed it Julie! But, Happy Birthday! Sorry you spent it all in airports!

(some famous Detroit landmark)

Thank you Janie for planning a fun sisters trip for us! And thank you Dan for babysitting and sharing your work with us!! Thanks to Andy, Abby, Jake and Estee for sharing your mom with her sisters for a few days! Love you!

Swiss Days and Birthday Parties

Happy Birthday to Cortnie!

Helping Cortnie open her presents: Preslie, Tayler, Jami and Kennedy. I can't believe my sweet little first born grandchild is 11 years old! She is so cute and fun and talented and smart and helpful and athletic! Love you, Cort!

We sure had a fun Heber labor day weekend. We went to Swiss Days and watched the parade and shopped, garage saled and ate yummy sweet pork burritos (thanks, Jill) and the highlight was the nighttime soccer game in Jeff and Jill's big back yard. With Jeff being an electrician, the backyard is very, very well lit.

Little Will turned 2! It was all about the cars!

Will is always sooo happy to see everyone. He runs and hugs and cuddles, what a sweety! It was really a sacrifice for Hudson to actually give Will his "cars" present.

Kennedy and Tayler all Hannah Montana-ed up, thanks to Jami.

Jeff has added on to the play land in the backyard. The latest addition is the 8 foot tall platform with the curvy slide. It's still in the works with future plans for monkey bars and a fire pole.

The kids kept asking me to go for a ride on the "mule". I thought they meant the 4 legged kind and I wasn't all that enthusiastic. But when I saw Jeff's latest acquisition I was excited to go for a ride :)

We took it up the street to Jill's friends house who makes jewelry and we all bought way too much. It's just too cute!

Webb family fun weekend of family fun-Rexburg edition

Nate, Dustin, Hudson, Cortnie and Jeff.

The guys (and Cortnie) went to the dunes on the first morning of fun, which are very close to Shelli and Dustin's place.

Then on the first afternoon of fun the boys went 4 wheeling in the mountains.

Eating wild huckleberries all along the way :)

Hudson, Tayler, Jay and Preslie.

I took some practice pictures of those willing to pose while everyone was getting ready for family photo shoot. Cuties!

I wish I had taken a picture of every wonderful delicious delight that Dustin whipped up for us while we were partying at their house. This was a baked ham with pineapple infused with whole cloves. Yum!

Shelli and Dustins garden and scarecrow at sunset.

This was sure a hit with the kids on dutch oven night. Around and around the yard all together in the 4 wheeler trailer.

Eli and Hannah driving Kennedy's mustang. Don't sing "Eli's Coming" to Eli, he does NOT like that song. :)

Beach Day!

Pretty cool to have a lake in the back yard! We canoed , we paddle boated, we met the goats on the island, we ate yummy treats until we were sick.

Nate, Preslie and Cortnie

ahhhhh, 82 degrees

Porter Park

Tayler and Kennedy hanging out

Shelli, Jenna, Jill, me, Hudson

The carousel at Porter Park

Preslie loved it, Will not so much.

Sunny and Kennedy. Sunny is now a resident of Rexburg, with a view of the lake and the Tetons from her pasture. Kennedy tells me barrel racing is in her future.

We took in a soccer game while we were in town. Sugar City soccer. Good stuff!

Hudson kicked this football back and forth the entire soccer game.

She shoots, she scores!

We all had such a fun long weekend at the Chambers estate! The highlight for me was all things huckleberry. Shelli and Dustin's neighbors graciously shared their highly secretive special wild growing huckleberry picking spot. Somewhere in the surrounding mountains that they can hopefully locate again next year. They picked enough to share with us and we had huckleberry muffins, huckleberry pancakes, huckleberry shakes and my personal favorite, huckleberry cheesecake!