Thanksgiving: Bowling

My sweet Nate! He did so good this year. He got his own bowl out of the ball return each time. He would bowl both right and left handed. It's fun having my boys be old enough to enjoy bowling!

Okay, I took this picture of Mike. I think I did a good job. He looks like a pro, and handsome at the same time....

....and here is the picture Mike took of me! Okay, Okay...he took other pictures of me, but they didn't turn out very well. So you get a picture of my bum...and me bowling one of my many strikes to kick Mike's butt! HA HA!

Here is the actual winner of our bowling day. Brian, Heidi's boyfriend, who beat me by only a mere 10 points and he had his own fancy bowling shoes and his little fancy spin he learned by taking classes. Me..pure talent!

Heidi with her broken (stress fracture) foot..what grace too! Mind you, she didn't miss day after Thanksgiving shopping..she found herself a crutch. Funny!!

Jared did pretty darn good! He could almost go without the bumpers next year!

Joshua literally throws the ball down the alley! It bounces off one bumper to the other side and so on and so on. He's fun to watch!

I just can't get over how big my baby has gotten. Bowling all on his own and actually beating Mike...yep...beat Mike!

Thanksgiving: Turkey Trot

Turkey Trot 2009

Mike actually came this year with the boys and cheered me on. His boss was running the 10K. I wonder if that influenced his desire to come. He's got a great boss! We all stayed after I was done and cheered on him and Heidi.

Go Heidi!

It was just Heidi and me running the turkey trot this year! Heidi did the 10K again and beat her time from last year...yea for Heidi. But she did something weird to her foot. She's always breaking herself at the Turkey Trot.
I did the 2 mile again and my goal was not to walk and I didn't! I did it in about 26 1/2 minutes. I want to do the 10K next year. I am grateful that this year I don't have all my joints and muscles hurting like last year, so I better have 10K results on here next year!

Rag Chenille Blankets...

Yes, I did sew these blankets. Good thing I can hide the mistakes for the pictures. Actually, I am pretty proud of myself and even better, Mike is amazed that I sewed these. These take a lot of sewing, but it was worth it! Thanks Kim for teaching me....over the phone...long distance. You are awesome!

I really like the brown and green! It's fun to sew something that you like!

Red Rocks Anyone?

Hiking up the road from my Grandpa's house! We had lots of fun and Leah's girls were so excited to be out of the car! I didn't have my boys with me, so it was fun to play in the red dirt. Believe me, it's a pain to get out of white boy socks!

I took this picture! I just looked up and it was so beautiful! Mike was quite proud of my photography skills...sometimes I even take better pictures than him!

My brother Paul came to the funeral from Kansas! I had fun with him, but missed seeing Kim and the kiddos! Paul is being a show off! I would have done it to if I had any muscles!

Leah was taking pictures of her girls here, so I thought I would be silly and have a picture of me taken there too! I even did a smize pose, but that picture is only reserved for the people who know what I am talking about...hmmm!

My siblings and me! From oldest to youngest: Left to Right: Dale, me, Jenelle, Cheryl, Paul, Leah and Heidi! I think Paul took all the tall and didn't leave any tall for Leah or Heidi!

Us, being silly...I showed some class..haha! We always get at least one of these pictures in when we are all together.

Grandpa's Funeral

You will be greatly missed Grandpa!!

My brother Dale as one of the Casket Bearers. There were so many grandsons that they took turns. What a neat experience.
Here is my other brother Paul. We were very glad to have all of us siblings there at the funeral!

My Grandpa served in WWII. The ceremony provided by the military.

These men were all grandpa types. I thought that was fun!
They did a 21 gun salute and scared not only me ( I didn't see them there until after the 21 gun salute), but many babies! How would you like to live in the apartments behind the cemetery?

Here are most of the casket bearers!
All the flowers from the casket bearers!

October - Halloween

My three handsome boys! Nate is Cookie Monster. My mom made that costume for Josh when he was that age. Jared is Optimus Prime for those of you out there that either have all girls or who are are not up on Transformers. Josh is "Mr. Smartie Pants." That's what he has taped all over his pants. He doesn't hurt that Josh loves Smarties candies too!

Next sport..soccer

End of July begins soccer season around here. We are kept busy with both boys and this year Mike is coaching Jared's team. It's been fun for both of them...much better coaching than last year if I do say so myself!

We really have to get Josh to go "play soccer." He likes to go and run around. He has met some friends and they like to laugh and play together. Josh is a really good runner!

My lean mean Joshie machine...
Here is soccerfest. All the coaches did a sack race...or whatever its called. Mike is in the green and looks like he is about to fall over...which would have been funny, but he didn't...darn!

The two little ones holding hands are Aulaire and Nate...cousins. She was going over there to help Nate win some prizes. She had a wristband which allowed her to play all the games she wanted and win tons of prizes.

The many faces of Savannah in 15 seconds

I love having my nieces living soo close! Savannah is hilarious! One minute happy, next crying and we don't know why! Of course, I like having Leah living close too 8-)!

It's A Miracle!

I am putting in a couple of pictures of things we have done for the past 5 months. It's been a long time since I've updated my blog. I am going to try and be better about it!

Here is a picture of Josh with a little bit too small of clothes. He couldn't watch TV until he got dressed. He didn't care whose clothes he put on, I guess!

These are the 2 cars that Mike and Josh worked on for the pinewood derby. Josh's car was Lightening McQueen. Josh did help, but I think Mike had the most fun! Mike also made a truck to race against the other dads. It was a fun night! Josh took 2nd..go Josh!

We went to the Sacramento Zoo. I remember it being bigger when I was 10 years old, but I guess after going to the San Diego Zoo, not many zoos can compete! We were done with the zoo after about 2 hours and that was with us going through it twice to make sure that we didn't miss anything or to see if more animals would show their faces!

My four boys! Well, I guess we can call Mike a man 8-)

Here we are at Fairytale Town. It's across the street from the Zoo. The boys had a blast running around here. Lots of slides and the crooked mile to run around on!

Josh, Jared and Nate
(and some other cute boy we don't know)

Jared and Nate at one of the cement slides!

Nate's new look!

Nate has been doing this a lot lately. When there is something he wants, he closes one eye and points. You should give it a try and maybe you can understand why he does it. It really does focus better on what you want. I wondered where he got this from and realized that I do it!

I have more pics, but they are in my new video camera/camera and I don't know how to get it from there to the computer. Our other camera died on us...so I will learn soon how to get pics out of the other one soon...boys back on track tomorrow. I think I might miss them a little.

Family Fun in Kansas!

Kim is the cutest mom! I love this picture of her and Bronson.

My handsome brother, Paul with Kim and Bronson.

Grandma Moss and Tenley making all the yummy food for dinner!

Kim is trying to read to the girls to get them to sleep. Tenley was in a whole other world, but she did NOT want to close her eyes and miss anything, thus the glossy-eyed look. Kim did manage to lull Paul and Bronson to sleep.

Heidi with Taylor and Tenley and myself also. Although Heidi is much cuter and I'm just miss curly Q with my hair..not much you can do with the humidity compared to Nevada.