Saturday, December 27, 2008

My December.....and November

Our very own Rudolf inherited by Joey's parents...I told him there was no way in this life I would let him hang this thing up.....NO.....NO.....NO........No!!!!!!!

Ok then I changed my mind.....I figured it would be like Chuck E. Cheese in our own home, and If I wanted to make memories for my kids.....well they sure wouldn't forget this one. He sings and talks and you can plug him into your tv and ipods and he sings and talks along.

Joey earned his Wood Badge....beat my dad to it, but still working on beating him at darts.....and golf.





















































One of my most favorite pictures










Another fav











WHAT THE HECK IS THIS??????NOT VERY ABSORBANT IS IT.


























Had a fun day together on Joey's day off


Ok, it's been a long time but seriously...it feels like yesterday. Even my kids said that December went super fast. All the Holidays came and went and even though I know they will, it still amazes me how fast they do. So we are doing great. We had a great Thanksgiving at my parents with Grandma, Sid, Jeff and Michelle and their kids. Everyone looked great! We had a great Christmas visiting my family beforehand, and just hanging out doing nothing after. We now have Jennie and Daniel Baxter here in Tucson with us and are loving it. They are so much fun. And even though we are a noisy bunch and our little levi is a brat to Aaron, we have had bunches of fun. We sure wish we could spend time with all of you during these special holidays but hope you all had a memorable time.

Our special Christmas traditions are

Keeping a Christmas Journal, which includes recording Thanksgiving and Halloween events. The kids get to write in it also. We keep track of the Who What Where When and Why's of Christmas. I love it. If I forget, I know where to find it. The kids will never wonder..."What year was that?"

Christmas Eve Pj's of course...from Grandma Bainbridge

Christmas Eve ornaments...The kids get a special ornament every Christmas eve and so they will have their own stache to take with them when they start their own families. They love to pull their own out every year and put them up themselves. We keep track of who got what in our Journal.

Individual gingerbread houses for them to decorate however they want.

Reading "The Best Christmas Pagent Ever"

Reading out of the Bible

And among others...eating tons of complete junk, and making ourselves sick.

And my own tradition of throwing the junk away when Joey's not looking................just kidding Joey! Hahahaha....ha.....that was funny right?

Merry Christmas!!! And happy New Years!!!

Thursday, October 30, 2008

My October

So, October is my favorite month...I love Halloween. Joey has been gone since the beginning of the month and except for the first week, which I call the week of Hell (Gideon broke his arm, everybody got sick, car broke down, doctor appts, hmmm i'm sure there was something else), we have been having fun. Renting Halloween kids movies and decorating and listening to fun Halloween music and stories. Staying up late on Saturday to watch "the very bad movie" movie...and then falling asleep and not watching it, only to try again next week and falling asleep again...next time we will do it. I'm sad it has to end, and that dad didn't get to have fun with us. I wish we could all be together on this heathen holiday...wouldn't that be bliss!

Halloween... so far....

Gideon look at my kitty face!
Levi likes kitties

Everytime I turned around...scarlett was eating.


party, party!



Um...I want a.....um......a......um.....butterfly....no a star.....um...no a .......um......a......um.......heart....no a ......pumpkin....wait no a .......um........um........
The story of my life




Halloween... so far....



uh.....scar...face..man? hehe

Sweet ninja girl


What a great looking group of kids...cutest bunch of worms I ever saw!




  • Gideon's first pumpkin carving...he did awesome. designed his own

pumpkin face and cut it out...didn't cut himself once! It was so nice only having to worry

about the girls...Big kids are awesome.


Tuesday, August 12, 2008


This is Joey's favorite toy, he's had it for a little over two months now. This pic is the day after he bought it. It's a Honda VTX 1300 and he loves riding it. Though he's had it for two months it's not his first motorcycle experience. He's ridden dirtbikes, infrequently, since he was a teenager, and this is actually an upgrade from the Honda Rebel, 234 CCs, he rode around for eight months, he looked silly on it, he looks good on this one.

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Hope all is well with everyone. Love to you all.
Carrots for breakfast

Swimming in apples.

Summer fun



Levi after eating cookies and playing in the water...not a care in the world.

Barney, when we found him scared to death at the Barneys gas station...he came right to me, slept the whole way home and is a good kitty.

My big party


Joey's awesome




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