My 20 year HS reunion

At the end of July, I went down to Layton, UT for my 20 year high school reunion. It was SOOO much fun seeing everyone after 10 or more years.



HS BFF's Kris, Staci, Me

More BFF's Tammy, Tobie, Brooke, Jill
The whole bunch of us...
Quinn, Me, Jill, Pat
Me & Tammy
Tobie, Angie, Jill, Tammy, Me

The Puppies are here!!

We headed up to Coeur d'Alene to visit with my sister and her kids who came in from Nebraska for 3 weeks. They had planned on coming down to Moscow for a week but Nicole ended up with pneumonia and was down for the count for the week. Who gets pneumonia in the summer? I guess it was God's way of slowing us down for a week. When we got up to Cd'A, we went to see Chukar's new puppies... 4 girls and 2 boys. They are 8 days old in these pics... eyes still closed and everything.

Chukar and Abbie sittin' in a tree... K I S S I N G...

In May, we had a guest puppy at our house, her name is Abbie and she was staying with us with the intention of welcoming puppies into the world within 8 weeks. The date week was successful... although very funny and informative - who knew that dogs get stuck together sometimes for almost 20-30 minutes - I sure didn't. Abbie became a quick member of our family - if only for the week and was soon cuddling with Chukar on Ashley's bed.

Nicole's birthday

Nicole decided this year to have a few friends over for a sleepover and games. Her friends, Berlyn and Tiffany and Matthew joined us for lots of fun and Ashley got to invite Grace over for the sleepover and festivities.

We borrowed a few ideas from our good friend Kecia (thanks!!) and they did a "blind-folded lipstick" game and "find the chocolate chip in the whip cream" game. We also did a scavenger hunt which was fun but WAY TOO SHORT. They could have gone on for an hour with that.

Wrapping up the evening were, make your own pizza, sundae bar and finally a "bawl fest" with the movie "Marley and Me". Paul and I unfortunately couldn't stay up late enough to see the movie.

Nicole is the first victim of the lipstick


the start of the scavenger hunt

Matthew dives into his whip cream
Nicole and Tiffany find their chocolate chip
the oh-so-fancy fruit kabobs that I saw on the food network the day before Nicole's party and decided to duplicate. I'm all for duplicating other people's good ideas, can you tell?






Bapa and Gada with the girls
Nana with the grandkids

Grampa B with the grandkids

FUN AND SUN IN HAWAII with the girls and Nana

For the first week of February, we took the girls and Paul's mom to Hawaii for a week. We stayed on Maui and it was the first time for the girls and Paul's mom. It was so fun watching the girls get comfortable in the water with their snorkels and fins and seeing the fish. I really thought once they saw the whales out in the ocean, they might think twice about swimming in it but they didn't seem to have any fear of that. We also had to spend some time shopping, what would a vacation be without it !!
Here we are getting ready for Paul's mom to take a picture of us and....

WHAM !!! big wave comes and almost knocks us over. Funny how the girls don't seem affected by it... could it be that they're already used to the temperature?



Just waking up...
whale watching off the deck of our condo.

The famous "Black Rock" where we went snorkeling.The girls and Nana head back to Idaho... gonna miss them.

Happy Birthday Ashley

For Ashley's 8th birthday, she wanted her friend Grace to spend the night so we bought a couple of craft kits and the girls had a blast "creating their masterpieces"

Nicole and her friend, Berlyn.


Ashley and Grace dancing with their glow bracelets... who knew you could have so much fun for $1 ??

Welcome Baby Mason!!!

We welcomed our newest nephew into the world on January 14th. He's a beautiful little boy and already surrounded by love.






We celebrated Ashley's birthday with Muffin, Keith, Miles, Nana and Mimi while we were visiting baby Mason.