November 23rd 2017 Thanksgiving!!

Thanksgiving was at the Websters. They are such fantastic hosts not many people would tolerate a  household takeover. As always the cousins had a blast and we ate like kings.

 I brought rolls these are them proofing, 60 plus homemade rolls. Yum!

  Holman posing by the rolls.

 This is the kitchen after math of rolls, two different kinds of candied yams and a store bought caramel apple pie.

 Kicking my feet up with Luke on my lap.

 On our way to Thanksgiving dinner.

 The Websters pony that they board.

Little Norman and Bella.

Calvin, Olivia and Noah photo bombing in the back

Joshua, Collin, Parkin and Desmond

Teens teening it up.

Lindsey made Hillary and John a cow quilt in honor of there cow they bought. Lindsey designed this herself. It really needs to be in a County Fair contest!

 Each cow has different accessories.

 Lindsey also made these turkey hats years ago. Who is this talented?!

 Teens and dads playing volleyball while the women are slaving away in the kitchen ( I slaved at home so I got to just help not slave).

Moms adorable place settings with Julia homemaking each place setting!

 

Sarah Potter had her baby today!! It was a super fast delivery! Congrats Potters!

October 31 2017 Halloween

October 2017 Fall break in California!

We love California! It's so close and is a great quick break to the beach. We rented a Church camp campground with Scott and Suzie, Barbara and Ron, and Pet and Dan. It was amazing. Scott found the place, I didn't realize you could rent campgrounds outside the city/state you lived in.We had use of a huge pool with slide all we had to do was provide a lifeguard, and lucky for us Bella is a certified lifeguard. There was a rock wall, shooting range, hatchet throw and a bunch of playgrounds. The best part was it was so affordable! We rented a cabin for the adults and the kids stayed in two yurts. Renting the cabin, yurt and use of all facilities was $125 a night!! All the activities at the campground were included too!

Do you see the bird shadow on Bella , that same bird saw that her big toe was sticking our of the sand and swooped down and bit it, Bella is deathly afraid of birds. This was a worst case scenario for her and you see her two photos down covered in sand and crouching and crying, it was so very sad and amusing...

 

Holman is the very far kid in the photo above, didn't get much photos of him because he loves cold water and he was in the waves all day long.

September 19th 2017, 19 years and counting!

I was in charge of our anniversary this year. We want to have a big 20th year celebration so we were trying to keep this celebration on the frugal. I wanted it to be inexpensive but sentimental. Since we met and dated in in Tucson and have basically lived here our whole adult life I thought it would be fun to visit a lot of the significant spots of our life with a fun scavenger hunt. Benjamin was a good sport.

Fist kiss

Favorite breakfast joint, we researched this for months (for real)

First house! The property manger droe up as we were looking in the windows. Luckily he wasn't put of by it and he let us go inside for a tour. Man that place was small!

 One of our first dates. Went' went bowling with his dad, my  mom and his brothers, equally yoked with our attachment to our families.

 Neighborhood park of our second home in Tucson, right next door to our kids swim team. Many nights at this place.

 Were we got our best dog! We had four others dogs before Luke. Benjamins dad asked him to go home teaching with him, we were living in Benson at the time. It was a close friend of the Howe family (the Gardners) and they offered Benjamin their puppy. What a blessing Luke has been. A good dog is hard to find but worth their weight in gold! 

 Location of our first date in High school back in 1995!

We went to the movies cause we love a good movie (this particular movie was alright).

 First apartment, what a hole in the wall!

 Golf n Stuff, we love to take our kids to this eastside Tucson treasure.

Visiting a park that we got kicked out of...

Since we got married so young we are almost at that age that we have been married longer than we were single. I love you babe. What an adventure we have had. Should have driven down to Mescal to visit were we lived without running water and electricity. That chapter in our life was pretty big. % kids later, a dream home and too many memories to even remember I am so grateful to be by your side. My love forever and a day.