Ashlyn's Birthday

Ashlyn had a pool party for her 11th birthday. She invited alot of girls from school and they were all so sweet!

It is hard to believe she is 11 now and will be in 6th grade soon. Time goes by so quickly, I am missing my baby Ashlyn! She is still sweet and amazing and hopefully the teen years won't change that :)

This is Devon with Sarg. He is such a good dog! He used to be Julie and Abe's dog then my brother Mike adopted him and his brother. They now live happily and lazily with Mike and Liz in Arizona - so we can visit.

This is Brandon and his friend Colton and their Kindergarten teacher (and another classmate) on Dr. Suess's Birthday . I thought the boys would make a perfect Thing 1 and Thing 2 !

Unfortunately minutes after school started I was asked to wash their hair because it was just too radical for our school. I was bummed but I guess that is how it goes when you are attending a very conservative school. I like the education but the rules are a bit much for me!!!!

I have to wonder what a free thinking person like Dr. Suess would have thought?

Christmas so far........

We had a nice visit with my nephew James and his family. They drove out from Kansas!

We thought it would be fun to take some pictures after we decorated the tree. Baby Anna is adorable and sooo sweet...we were happy to help her celebrate her first Christmas!

Halloween Time

Roxy was introduced to Halloween this year by dressing up as a Pirate Wench! She actually really didn't mind the costume.

We found a Pumpkin Patch in Arizona! It is a farm that has all kinds of activities including carnival type rides and a corn maze. We had a lot of fun and it was even a bit cool this day (rare) so it felt kinda like Fall.

This is a look at some of the candy loot the kids collected trick or treating. A friend in the neighborhood drove the kids around in this flatbed all decked out for Halloween. They loved it!

The kids love dressing up for halloween. Here they are dressed up as a vampire(Ashlyn), Mario(Devon), and an Astronaut (Brandon...do astronauts wear flip flops? in Arizona they do!) and oh ya thats me as a ...a...farm girl(?)

This is my Bunco group on our annual Halloween Bunco night. I know I look ridiculous...I was supposed to! We had alot of laughs and alot of "red punch". I look forward to this party again next year.

It's Coming!!

Family Photos

These photos were taken by a friend of mine, DK Brittain. She is training to be a photographer so we posed for her at a nearby neighborhood waterfall. I think they turned out very nice. But as I told her, it is like herding cats getting everyone to pose right at the same time.

Black Widow!

Brian found this Black Widow in the garage the other day!!!

I guess it is to be expected here in the desert, but this is the first one we have seen.

He killed it right after this photo was taken.

I guess it could have been worse.....it could have been a scorpion.