My Loves!

Here are my loves!  I am so in love with my husband and absolutely ADORE my children.  What a blessing it is to have people to love.  Happy Valentines Day (2 days late)!

Sledding in Idaho!

Here are a couple pictures of the kids sledding in Idaho.  It was just in front of Chris's parents front yard, but that was enough for Kinsley.  She wasn't so sure with all the snow.  I know these are from December, but hopefully in 2009 I will be better at blogging.  We'll see! :) 

Friendships

Do any of you sometimes get so overwhelmed by love and thankfulness for something that it almost makes you cry?  I get like that when I am thinking about my husband, my kids or our families.  And I do it a lot when I am thinking about our friends!  The Lord has so graciously given us the most amazing friends two people could ever ask for.  When Chris and I pray we ALWAYS thank the Lord for our friends and what blessings they are in our lives.  What a treasure to have the like-minded friendships we have.  Whether it is new friends, old friends, friends we see all the time or friends that we don't get to see as much, we cherish each of you the same and are so grateful for you all!  I wish I had pictures of all of you to put on here and please don't think because your picture may not be here that we love you any less.  But here are a few of our most treasured friends!  We love you all!

Friends Forever!  I adore you two!  Words cannot describe the love I have for you girls!  
My dear friend Kate Otto celebrated her birthday in California and we all went to the beach. What joy to spend time with old friends.  It is a weekend to remember forever!
Two of my dearest friends from high school.  Lara (left) I met in high school and everyone called us the "Twin Towers" because she is 6 feet as well.  And Tiffany (middle) and I have been friends since 6th grade.  What a joy to have both these girls in my life still!
A group of us got together to watch Gabe at the Olympic trials.  We are attempting to have goggles.  I am not as flexible as I once was. :) But it was so fun to get together with friends to support another friend during an exciting time in his life!
Some of my dearest friends from Legacy!  Nancy Um, Melinda Cassol and Jodi Mackey!  I love you girls and miss seeing your sweet faces everyday!
We all know who this is Sean and Sara Parsons!  What a joy it was to see them and catch up.  Chris and Sean talked forever and we both walked away wishing Sara and Sean lived closer so we could see them more often!
I love these girls, we tend to celebrate all our birthdays together and get to see all of these girls relatively often.  What a blessing it is to have friends that have children around the same age as your own.  
This is Doug Bierman, Chris's oldest friend from Idaho.  Doug was the best man in our wedding and he is gem of a guy.  We just absolutely love him and his family.
Erin and I when we went to New York to see Grease!  How cool is it that we got to go to the Big Apple together!  What a joyous and memorable time that was!  I will never forget it!!
Chris's dearest friends, Kurt and Joey.  It is pure entertainment and pure joy to watch these three hang out.  They will make you laugh till you cry!

The girls and I when we went to Palm Springs together!  It was so nice to go without the kids.  Erin and I got pregnant with Drake and Cooper about a month after this trip and Becky got pregnant about three months later with Katie Jo!

Oh how I miss these times together.  Now with children and the Penberthy's moving to Indiana these times are few and far between but we are all wanting to plan a trip to Hawaii.  Let's hope that we can do in the next few years!! :)
My baseball girlfriends, Abby, Alicia and Corinn!  How fun it is to spend time with these dear friends!
AWWW, the baseball boys.  Andy, Aaron, Luke, Chris, Mike and Kurt.  I love the alumni games when they all get together!  It is like college all over again!
Every year a group of us celebrate Thanksgiving and Christmas together.  The group started super small, then got bigger and now is getting smaller again with everyone moving.  But it is always a sweet time with dear friends!  The boy shot!

The girl shot!

We love all of you and wish we could have a picture of all of you!  Thank the Lord for friends!

Christmas in Idaho

I know, I know, I know it is about time.:)  Well, here are a few pictures from our trip to Idaho.  It was quite the adventure.  From missing our flight in Salt Lake and having the spend the night there, to Kinsley getting strep throat, to running through the airport having our name called over the intercom telling us our seats were about to be given away, to getting trapped in an elevator.  It honestly felt like we were getting "punked" a few times because so many things went wrong.  But the Lord is so gracious and even with all the bumps along the way, we had a incredible Christmas (and white I might add).  It was so wonderful being with Chris's family and getting to see old friends.  Here are a couple pictures of the kids that my sister in law Amber took.  Hopefully I will get some more off my camera and post them!!  Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas celebrating the birth of our Lord and Savior.    

Always a month behind...

Alrighty folks, I tend to obviously be a little behind on the blogging thing.   So here is our October.  It was such a fun month from the pumpkin patch to making cookies, Indiana and Halloween.  I am going to post my Indiana pictures on my next post with our November.  :)  This is just a picture of my family before church one day.  Kinsley's auntie Erin gave her that outfit (can't see the skirt which is the cutest part) and Cooper is looking mighty handsome in his sweater vest.  And I of course think that man in the red looks hot.  :) 
My little man.  He is growing up so fast.  He is crawling soooo fast and cruising.  He kind of skipped the baby phase and is wanting to do all the big boy things already.  He is truly the happiest baby, just wish he slept better.  You would think when a boy doesn't ever stop moving when he is awake that he would just crash when he fell asleep.  Not Cooper!

Kinsley loved the "punkins".  She couldn't believe how many there were!

One morning while Cooper was taking his morning nap, Kinsley and I decided to make Halloween cookies.  I think she did more eating then making them.  But isn't that the best part, eating it all? :)
I don't know if you can tell what they are.  There is pumpkin, a cat, and a bat.  I left out the ghost cookie cutter.  I don't need her knowing about those!

The final product.
Here is our Halloween.  My little Tinkerbell and Froggy.  This is for you Aimee!  Thank you for the costume.
Kinsley is obsessed with Tinkerbell now that she was dressed up for her at Halloween.  Everything is "Bell".  Still working on getting her to say the "Tinker" part.  
My little man with his "boppy" in his mouth.  We are starting to get Kinsley not so attached to hers.  I hope he doesn't love his as much as she loves hers!  
Obviously the end of the night.  The kids were spent.  But I wanted to get a family picture.  It was a really fun night of spending time with friends and watching Kinsley go "Twick or tweeting" (at least that is how Kinsley put it).  More to come later!

GO Boise State!

Kinsley is actually wearing Coopers Boise State uniform.  As you can  tell it is a little small.
Oh how do I love these kiddos!



Yes, we are a family that loves Boise State because Chris is from that beautiful potato state!  We all have the shirts to support them and love to watch them play on the T.V.  Chris has taught Kinsley to say "Go Boise State" and she walks around saying it.  I got her out of the car the other day and she told some man "Go Boise State".  It was hilarious!  Hoping to get better at updating, but as I have said before, no promises!