Family of Five

I really wanted to get a family picture of us taken while we were still a family of five but before I start to look like a whale, so on the last Sunday in August we made a half-hearted attempt at getting a picture. Here are a few more pictures of the kids we took for fun...








Now we are looking forward to being a family of six! We are all excited for the ultrasound on Friday that will tell us if we are going to have a sister or brother! We'll let YOU ALL know too!

We had a wonderful day today and feel ready to tackle a new week! Hope all are well!

Memory Lane Monday: Newport, Oregon

When Uncle Ryan and Aunt Jeannie lived in Oregon, we got to visit them their a couple times. Here is a quick trip we took over the weekend of the 4th in 2005. Wouldn't it be fun to go back again someday?











The Memories this week will just have to be in pictures. And what great memories they bring back.


What's around the next corner on Memory Lane?
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Together

See my little brother in the back of the picture? He was born 30 years ago on March 5, 1980 in Missoula, Montana. So, here we are 30 years later meeting in Missoula to celebrate his big 3-0! The funny thing is, we didn't plan it because of that, or even realize the coincidence until we got together and started reminiscing. Missoula was just a perfect in-between place for us all to meet! I love it when life happens that way...

Have a great week everyone!


P.S. We missed you Uncle Keith. :(

40 of 52: Only Deere Here

Here is another fun picture we took in December when we were trying to get a family picture taken. This is a great old John Deere tractor we found in the entrance of an undeveloped subdivision called Harvest View. This old tractor has been around a few years. It probably was manufactured around 1927. You see a lot of old tractor bone piles in this country-sadly deserted relics that speak of the years and years of hard labor that went into making this country what it is today.

It's interesting that this tractor would have likely been built right before the days of The Great Depression. I wonder if a farmer bought this shiny new revolutionary tool with high hopes one day, and then shattered dreams the next as the world's economic structure crumbled. Maybe he lost it to the bank and then eventually it was restored to it's useful purpose. I don't know, but when I hear the stories of my own grandparents and great-grandparents, I just wonder...

Now, it sits in the entrance to this new subdivision. The subdivision was put in quite some time ago but remains largely unoccupied. With the worlds recent economic downturn, our real estate and building markets have been hard hit here in our area, and there are many subdivisions and homes in this same condition. To me, it's ironic that this old shiny tractor sits there in the middle of the evidence of loss... loss of better times. Loss of hopes and dreams. And like times past, this old tractor may be hoping for better times... just like we are.

And then there's John Deere. It's been here through it all...

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52 Weeks is a year long challenge for YOU to be in a picture once a week for 52 weeks. We are always the ones behind the camera, this is YOUR chance to get out in front and be in the pictures with our family. We are glad you are joining this challenge. More importantly your family will really enjoy having you in the picture. Thanks for playing along! Oh, you can just jump in now with 1 of 52, you're not getting off that easy! Now go take a picture!

38 of 52: Heading into the New Year!

All the best to you in 2010!

from,

and family

Hosted by Forever In Blue Jeans

52 Weeks is a year long challenge for YOU to be in a picture once a week for 52 weeks. We are always the ones behind the camera, this is YOUR chance to get out in front and be in the pictures with our family. We are glad you are joining this challenge. More importantly your family will really enjoy having you in the picture. Thanks for playing along! Oh, you can just jump in now with 1 of 52, you're not getting off that easy! Now go take a picture!

Family Photo Flashback-December 2005

This was an impromptu family picture we took 4 years ago when we were spending Christmas in Jackson Hole with Keith and Melinda.

We have been trying for several weeks now to get it together to take family portraits. Yesterday was finally supposed to be the day. We had the place, the clothes, the moment all picked out. Then we woke up to rain. So we still don't have our family picture but we're gonna keep trying. If we try and don't succeed, we'll end up getting our pictures with a prof. photographer on the 9th.

Yeah, we could just back up to a wall and take another impromptu picture but... there comes a time in every mother's life when SHE JUST WANTS AN UP-TO-DATE, GOOD, EVERYONE SMILING AND LOOKING AT THE CAMERA, NO FINGER SUCKING OR NOSE PICKING, STAGED PICTURE.

It this to much to ask for?...

Good, I didn't think so...

Just a mother moment by,

Family Picture

This was a family picture we took recently when were together. It's amazing how we have gone from 5 to 13 in under 10 years!