Happy Anniversary - 33 years

A testament to a strong happy marriage.

Thanks for your strength and encouragement!

Grandma's Flowers

Grandpa's Garden

Picking veggies in the garden.

Owen, Claire and Hunter's Pumpkins

A Nice Day for a WHITE Wedding

Mrs. White

Cute Kiddos - Ring Barer and Flower GirlDancing, Dancing, Dancing
Uncle Ricky, Hunter and Kenzie (Matron of Honor)

Cheers to you Josh and Tonya!

The kids rocked the rehersal, but where a little shy during the ceremony. Kenzie ended up walking them down the isle, but they were as cute as can be. I will post more pictures of the happy couple and of the kids in the wedding when I can. We all had so much fun dancing, visiting, and eating. The wedding was beautiful.

Congratulations Mr. and Mrs. White.

Potty Training Progress

Owen is doing GREAT! He uses the "frog" potty at every request and just in the last few days is letting us know consistently when he needs to use it. He really has no preference between Pull Ups or diapers (we are sticking with diapers for now..they are WAY cheaper). He still has no desire to wear "big boy unders" and we are not pushing it yet. We have several days during the week were he gets a new diaper in the morning, uses it all day and then goes to bed with it! BIG progress, we are so proud of the little guy!

So this is my new plan....

Claire Jean is now 20 months old. I can't very well say "I've just had a baby" anymore! I started a Zumba class two weeks ago and I LOVE it. I have 20 lbs to lose and this is hopefully one of the tools that is going to help me succeed. Wish me luck...and if you like dancing and music and want to try a super fun workout check out a Zumba class, I HIGHLY recommend it! It's a total butt kicker!

Tid Bits - Claire Jean

20 months old today...

Nick Names: Sissy, Sissy boo, Claire Bear, Crazy and Beauty!

*So many words: (all of her old ones-mama, dada, baby, up, ball, book etc..) and she has added, Parker, monkey, please, yesssss, no, stinky, poo poo and pee pee, night night, bed, shoes, and every animal sound you can think of.

*She understands EVERYTHING: You can tell her to go upstairs next to brothers bed and bring down the book with a puppy on it and she will. She understands different colors, and difference between big and small. If i ask her to give me the big red block or the small green block she can usually choose the correct ones.

*She runs, climbs, loves dancing, and spinning in circles. Her favorite thing right now is ring around the rosy with brother.

*Her hair is getting so long. My sister gave her a little pony tail in Bend the other weekend. We have been practicing wearing hair bows everyday for the wedding she's in next weekend.

She loves: bubbles, baby dolls, books, fruit of any kind, her baby cousins, brushing her teeth, and going to bed. She asks us around 7 or so every night.

*She doesn't like: swimming, the windows down in the car, PB & J's, or the sun in her eyes.

*She is the happiest little girl ever....unless she's upset, then it's all over!

Bend, Birthday, Museum, Family, Fun

A little party for my 3 year old. Thanks everyone, Owen felt like a KING!
We have been wanting to take the kids to the museum for a while. They had so much fun and were so interested in everything. They LOVE stuff like this (I think Claire and Owen are going to be nerds like their parents)! There was so much to see. They have animals, fish and reptiles, a Native American exhibit, and a Spirit of the West exhibit. The kids had so much fun walking through the old western towns, mining cave, and Saloon (dry).
This is a real Lynx. We were lucky to have it sitting right at the window. Claire was screaming MEOW so loud, it was great!

Then we headed outside.
This is the Settlers Cottage. They have people "living" in the times in all the exhibits and this one was Owen's favorite, he called him the "Wood Chopping Guy". The Wood Chopping Guy liked Owen too he let him pump a water his garden.

My Gramps spent a lot of his life in Bend at this museum in the Saw Mill. They have a picture of him in the mill and here Owen is looking through the window at his Great Gramps. This was obviously a difficult part of the trip for me but I'm so happy with this picture. I don't have any pictures of my Gramps and Owen together and now I kind of do. Miss you Gramps, I know you saw how much fun my kids had that day.