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Forgot to post back to school photos....Sorry about that mom. Here they are ready for third grade. It 's been another new school. So far they have been doing great. Fingers crossed :)

Radioactive...

I'm radioactive. Yesterday I took my radioactive iodine pill. It's the main treatment for graves disease. So while no one is allowed to get to close to me, share my glass or use my bathroom, for a week I will start feeling better. I think if you have to be radioactive you should at least glow a bit when you turn off the lights.
I don't know..maybe superhero powers for a week. It would be a lot more fun for the kids.

The Rest...

I finally downloaded the last of summer photos. So, here is the rest of summer....

Red Rock Loop

Craw hunting with cousins

Fishing with Grandpa

 

My parents came to visit for a couple weeks.

Tia and cutie Zane came for a visit.

Well, most of summer anyway. Way too many pictures.

Hello....

I've been gone for awhile. I don't know if I should blame it on the fried graphics card in my MAC, graves disease, busy schedules...
So, Greg moved my photo program to another computer gave it some extra memory and we are good to go. I decided that if I had blogged this summer I would give a highlight of what it would of been.
Summer started off with a three day cub scout day camp at the Air force academy. Boys loved it!

Then continued with a family reunion. My sister in law was sweet enough to hold it at her house. This entailed having up to 40ish people sleeping at her house. The unfinished basement was filled with tents, some slept in the yard.  It was a bit crazy but it is always good to see family.

Caught up with MaryAnn one of my missionary comps.

Hiking up to the waterfall.

silk worms

Melinda & Monica- two of Greg's 7 sisters

Ashleigh the hostess and sweet Sariah

The boys

Spring

Spring took a strange turn this weekend.  What was supposed to be rain turned into one of those blizzards everyone says only happen every 5 to 10 years. Of course my husband is working, power is out for most of the day and huge pine trees are snapping in half in our back yard. The neighbors  tree actually found a resting spot on the side of our house.  At least the view from my kitchen window was beautiful.

Here a few of the trees that fell from the weight of the snow. One hit our gutter and barely missed the house. It is so sad to see them fall.

Ok, so the tree that landed on our house...no major damage, just a dent in our wallets when the guy comes to take it down. Notice the orange tie down? That would be Greg's attempt to pull the tree down himself. Between me screaming at him while he climbed it that our insurance deductible is alot more than it will cost to have a guy come and do it and then  him realizing it was a very  heavy tree... disaster was avoided.

PS This post is from the end of April. When I loaded photos it changed the date on me.

Packing, again

I just packed up a house in June of last year and I'm doing it again. Of course during one of the busiest months of the year for me as well. Isn't that how it always is? So , I should be packing but here I am catching up on February..someday I will be caught up. This year is a big birthday year, kids turned 8. This means, cub scouts, activity days, 3 birthday parties, and too many cupcakes to count. I have survived and am still sane. We still have the baptisms coming up in March but will head back to Az for that. This is why packing has not been a priority and now I am way behind. That and after all this fun the stomach flu has invaded our house and I have the worst cold ever! Here are a few photos of our fun filled Feb.

 

Isa's party was first, games, food, crafts!

Then came the actual birthday which also fell on the Blue and Gold Banquet. The boys loved it, and the birthday theme with magician included made it even better.

 Happy Birthday!                                                       









        The Blue and Gold Cake

Spaghetti anyone?

 Two more birthday parties the following Saturday.....

It was a space theme and the initial planet cake become a fighting space alien one. :)

After the 10-12 party came the 1-3 party. The boys had a great time...lot's of wrestling, flag football in  the basement and of course, flying UFO's and making space blubber.

Then the following Friday Isa went to her first Daddy daughter and it was a Sock Hop. She says it was the most fun she has ever had. 

 

Did You See That?

Oh, that was the month of January and guess what? February is going by even faster. I've decided it's going to be one of those years. We have years where we look ahead and it seems nothing to new is going to happen so we set resolutions and find ways to grow blah, blah. And then there are the years where you are looking ahead and see that many changes are on the horizon and resolutions aren't needed for growth. You are going to get plenty, you just need to smile and strap in because it's going to be a fast ride. This is my year. I need to be better about blogging, living away from family and so on. So here are a few highlight of the past few weeks....well month.
January:

A new year, 13 years of marriage! Love my man. School programs, forgot my camera:(. Illness, oh and  finding a house. We decided to expand our boundaries a bit and found a little house in the woods. We were going to have to find a house by May and came across one a bit early. We close March 10th if all continues to go well. It will be more of a change then we had planned on but we are excited. I am browsing many a home decorating blog as this house  was built in '78  and is still hanging out there . Check out the drive way....the mini van does not like it with snow. Should be interesting.

 

hmm...with this photo you can't tell but it's a horse shoe and it's steep.