CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS

Time with family(even if some were sick), fun gifts and toys spread through out the living room, and Christmas lights in Locomotive Park in Lewiston-

many blessings to be thankful for

Merry Christmas to you all!

more December

Kolby was part of the Winter Concert for the 5th-12th graders in Troy.

He got to play the bongo drums during the 5th graders rendition of "Carol of the Bells" called

"Carol of the Boomwhackers"

Then to end the night ALL the kids sang "Christmas Canon"

They all did a great job on their performances 

 

The snow is finally here...and the kids have been sledding any chance they get ..even during the dark sometimes!!

Derrick and Clara

Clara - keeping up with the kids

Kolby the cool dude

Kassidy building a fort (on our side hill)  we told her to move it to another spot in the yard though :)

December 2012

December....whooosh....started with Tom and I taking a trip to the "North Pole" on a dinner cruise on Couer d'Alene Lake sponsored by BASF for the salesmen and thier spouses of Primeland ;) 

the Cub Scouts went caroling around Troy and also sang the "12 days of Christmas" while waiting for the cocoa to heat up.

We then had our annual Christmas Tree hunt with some friends. 

All that in just the first half of December!!

November 2012

November came and went.  We started the month with a trip to Boise w/a cake in tow for a wedding.  I took Kassidy's Girl Scouts to Disney on Ice in Spokane....that was Amazing...way more than just ice skating princesses!!  We had a enough snow to make huge snow balls but it soon melted away...we all wondered if we'd have a white Christmas.  We spent Thanksgiving in Richlad with Tom's family and his Grandma...what a special time....we also helped rake and haul off their leaves with the help of their new "Gator."

October 2012

The fall flew by WAY TOO FAST....so here I am trying to catch up !

October started with many sunny days...kids were in "summer" clothes playing outside!

Clara helped to rake some leaves,  Heather helped with the first "official" Run for the Angels a 5k run put on by the Inland NorthWest SIDS Foundation.  Then we got a lovely little snow storm at the end of October and also saw another beautiful full moon!  Halloween we carved pumpkins and decided at the last minute to dress up and head to the U of I's trick or treating with the athletes night ;)

September happenings

So, It's taken all day to load these three pictures.....ugh!!  I'll try some more later...cause I'm way behind!October is almost done--yikes!

She's in the third grade and Kassidy finally lost an upper front tooth.....yeah my kids are slow with their teeth....

Derrick giving a kitten a ride

combine driving girls -- it's our bus stop ;)

Latah County Fair

So....when living in Troy....you get a day off of school because of the fair!!

We invited Grandma Nana to come down and check out the fair with us and eat elephant ears ;)

Clara having fun flying her helicopter

Kassidy and Kolby having fun on the flying machine ;)

On the BIG slide....she was just a bit too small to go on her own...so I got to go with her
putting your feet in the sack thing was almost difficult while trying to juggle a little girl ;)

The Octapus!!  Kassidy SO wanted to go on this ride...she just kinda made the height cut off!!  I think it would of depended on the operator...and they said she could...so....LOOK REAL CLOSE....do you see a head popping up...well that is her friend....you could hardly even see Kassidy during the ride...and she's so tiny...she was smooshed into her friend the whole time.

Again...LOOK CLOSE...you can see Kolby in the yellow shirt.

They all really wanted to play the duck game and win a stuffed animal...which has already been misplaced I'm sure...gotta love those carnival games ;)

Kolby's lego creations there on the corner ;)

Derrick and Kassidy's lego creations

And always gotta check out the trains!!  They have 2 rooms of trains set up...pretty neat to watch them all ;)

More of Spring Creek Celebration

Taking down the band stage dad built.....now the wood is ready to go to the building of thier garage

Last  Float Trip of the weekend thanks to the Mehrens!
Clara riding with them and also my Aunt Jeannette and Kelly

Kolby with Gina in the Kayak
Shawn Derrick and Tom in the canoe

Kassidy and Faith with Mark in the Kayak

tiniest frog EVER!

Grace, Kassidy, Owen and Derrick the frog finders

Palouse Empire Fair

We headed over to the Palouse Empire Fair (near Colfax), Tom had to go to the

animal sale for Primeland.  So the kids and I got to enjoy the fair exhibits ;)

Kolby helping Clara to see the ducks

getting to pet a bunny

 There was a free face/arm painting booth

So the kids all picked out a picture from their book to have painted

One of my preschool students brought his calf to preschool on the way to the fair...and so we got to see Pickles the calf at the fair!

Cooling off with some snow cones and a little shade....it was a hot day!!

Checking out all the tractors

Waiting for dad to be done with the sale....kids just played and played in the sand

Spring Creek 25th Anniversary

Getting set up

some gathered around the campfire ring Saturday morning

Friends Long Time
Ken, Steve, Dad

cousin Shawn with his kids and mine and Aunt Becky too
at upper beach

Kassidy and Grace
don't need a river to have fun in the tubes

Aunt Lindsey and Derrick floating

Kolby floating and paddling

The Boyd's at Spring Creek
25 years sure went by fast!!

1st of many conga lines for the night

Clara hula hoopn' to the music ;)

Great Band!!

They even had dogs doing tricks during intermission!
Jump Polly Jump

Uncle Gary checking out -The famous UPSIDE DOWN campfire....
dad was building them where ever he thought we needed one...
and we needed one by the band Saturday night ;)

What a busy and fun weekend that was way too short of course!

Lots of visiting with our "Spring Creek Family"!!

There were 85+ people throughout the weekend...

which = tons of food, stories shared and fun times!