Sam!!!

I went to Seattle this last week and saw my long lost brother Sam. It was so good to see him. He was so kind to me -- he rented a car 4 times just to shuttle me back and forth to the hotel so I could spend some time with him. He walked me around downtown Seattle and took me on a ferry ride. I miss him so much. I had such a good time with him, we laughed and smiled a lot!!

This is a view from his apartment. Very cool!

Me-n-my baby Bro!

School Pictures

This year's school pictures

Tucker

Mariah

Keagan

Ranch Pictures

I have recently been going through the pictures I took back in 2006 at the Stott Ranch in Montana. These are just a few of my very favorites. These are all pictures of Travis's family. The one where all the people are lined up on horses is a family picture with him, his parents, and all is siblings. The other ones I just liked.

(L-R) Spencer, Marc, Shaunee, Dad, Travis, Shelby

(L-R) Shelby, Shaunee, Marc, Mom, Dad, Travis, Spencer, Matt

Stoneridge

We spent about every night last week at StoneRidge resort with the Moss family. We had fun swimming, playing raquetball and pool, and soaking in the hot tub! AHH! Good times. Rhiannon (center) had her baby the next day. He is so fabulously adorable.


Kayd Moss, Rhiannon Moss, Mariah Stott

Mariah Stott and Kayd Moss

Sophia and Keagan

Winter

This is Sophie's 3rd birthday party. Yah! she's not wearin' pants. It's all we can do to keep the clothes on that girl.
Christmas Eve!! Their new jammies for the year. The first night since last year at this time that they were anxious to go to bed.


The snow here is crazy!! Well, it WAS!! The rain and warm weather has melted a lot of it (still a couple feet on the ground though) and made a mess. That's Soph at the bottom of the hill and the other three at the top!
This year has been the best one so far for icicles. This is one of the better pictures. It's a county building - figures.
This is the neighbors house. Pretty impressive!! Icicles are gone now, but they were cool while they were here.

Thanksgiving

We had a rare treat this Thanksgiving. My sister Lindi and her family came to visit. This is their first visit to Newport and what a great time we are having. Thanksgiving was incredibly entertaining -- watching me struggle through making my first Thanksgiving dinner. YES!! my first! I have never claimed to be domestic -- it is one of my many flaws that I am not proud of. I have been married for 14 years and have only made one other turkey, but not a whole dinner. Cooking is definately not my forte'!!

Lindi is amazingly patient as is her husband Jared. We have had such a great time with their family. On Friday we took the family to Priest Lake and checked out a couple of camp grounds. It was snowing and cold, but we toughed it out. The lake was beautiful and the company was great!! We had a tailgate picnic and took lotsa pictures.

Lindi has more pictures on her camera that I am going to have to steal before she leaves tomorrow.

Trip to See Grandma Glennis

Well, it was a short week for the kids because of parent-teacher conferences so I took the opportunity while I could to take the kids to see Great Grandma Glennis. She is such an amazing, wonderful lady -- her name should say it all! Here are some pictures that we took while we were down there. She is so beautiful! Can you tell I love that woman? The first picture is of all Lindi's, Annie's and my kids, then a group of just Annie's kids and then my kids. I tried to get Don to bring his, but they couldn't make it.

This is probably my favorite picture of them all. I just love it! Of course, I dearly love both of the people in this picture. Annie -- you workin' on that will yet?

I just think this picture is wonderful! Audrey couldn't take a bad picture if she tried -- she is so beautiful! Two beautiful ladies together. AHHH!
I had such a wonderful visit with my grandma. She made me laugh and cry all in the same visit. She is amazing and has a spirit about her that I greatly admire. She is exactly who I strive to be like. I hope that I can carry her name with honor. I love you Grandma!!!





Funny Boys!! That's Ephriam in the back with the funny hat and Keagan and Soph wrestling next to him. Tommy and Jacob are quite the friends. They are very fun to watch interact with one another. They love wrestling together!