Just the Beginning of Twenty-Eleven

There's a teenager in the house!

Tessa's birthday party was split between bowling one night with Miranda and Carolyn S and G&G Smith coming for a kabob dinner.

Meat, meat, and more meat. Tessa's favorite!

Up close and personal with the birthday girl and the presents.

A big step for Kaylee - a presentation in front of the class. It was FINALLY her week to be Student Explorer and she was so excited. She's come SO far in just 4 months!!! From too shy to make eye contact to excited about being the center of attention for a whole week!

Mommy's birthday - does a person ever grow out of wanting to lick off the candles?!

Too good to wait to eat. Light, fluffy, foo-foo tiramisu!

My new camera can actually take a sunset shot and capture the beauty! The view from my desk one evening.

Christmas 2010

H is for Holidays...

happy kids

homemade breakfasts

handfulls of cards and games

hunting for goodies

heart-melting gifts

heavy metal

houses

hard puzzles

huge bubbles

holding new babies
hilarious moments

happy endings

Halloween 2010....already?!!

Trevon the Quarterback

Tessa the Tessa

(no costumes in middle school, and I didn't feel like going t-or-t-ing this year so I just bought a bag of candy and let them choose one everytime they do something nice for each other. Then they get their candy bags on Halloween. It's all about the candy anyway!)

Kaylee was a cat again this year and refused a picture...so just look two posts back!

Do I get the award??!!!

I'm here to claim my prize for "Longest time between posts"!

It has been a year, just about, since my last post so this ought to get you all updated.

As of last weekend...

My family celebrated our parents' 60th anniversary

We filled the hole in the deck



Kaylee started Kindergarten and is doing very well after a roller coaster start the first month

August brought us another wonderful convention and Kaylee's 6th b-day. Here are the kiddos at our annual Ice Cream Social after Milltown 1

July was taken up with a road trip down the OR coast

June was filled with deck construction

We started the summer off by playing tourists in Seattle for a day

Trevon turned 10 and then ended the school year with a tonsilectomy

April showers brought May showers and long grass

Tessa turned 12 in January

We enjoyed a trip to AZ and CA over the holidays in December.

I kissed this cute fella!

Thanksgiving was in Chelan while the mighty hunters enjoyed some bonding time.

And that, my friends, takes us back to Halloween 2009!

Halloween 09