Happy Birthday Jesus!

What a wonderful day this is! I am so happy to be celebrating this day with my daughter and my husband. We have growns so much over the last year and I am so amazed how far we have come. Josh and I have grown so much spiritually and it has been so awsome to see how much Kaiden knows now because of it. You can ask her what Christmas is and she will tell you "its Jesus' birthday! I love it. Of course we are still talking about Santa but Kaiden so did not want anything to do him. We drove all the way to bend on these not so good roads just so we could get a picture of Kaiden with Santa and then she wouldn't even get close!!! It was wonderful!! Anyway Kaiden is excited for tomorrow and the gifts that she will be getting but she is just as excited to eat birthday cake for Jesus which is a tradition that we are starting. Every year we will be singing happy birthday on Christmas as well as opening gifts...... Well I wish you all a great night and hope that you all sleep well... I will post pictures of our day soon.

Christmas Tree Run!

Well Saturda was our annual Christmas Tree run. This year we went to Grizzly instead of Green Ridge and we went up to Travis' memorial and put us a Christmas tree for him. There was not a lot of snow but it was cold. There was a good group of people and we had a good time. Travis' tree turned out ver nice. We were happy to see the turn out of people. We went through Grizzly down Trout Creek and then to Ashwood. From Ashwood we went through Hay Creek. There was a few mishaps and I am thankful to God that everyone is okay! Then Stetson, Shellie, Lanisha, Tyler, Josh, Kaiden and I all went to Charlies for dinner. That was very fun; good company and good food!

Then sunday we went to Church and what a wonderful service that was. It was the Christmas Service and it was beautiful. Then we all went to Lanisha and Tylers and had lunch and made cookies. Afterwards Josh, Kaiden and I took Buster his Travis sweatshirt and visited with him for a little bit. It was in the low teens outside and he was standing around his campfire just smiling arounds. It was very funny. Then we went to a members meeting at the Church. I have wanted to join our church as memebers but they only do a members class twice a year and that was this sunday. What a great meeting I learned so much!! After that we went to he Keegans for dinner and Kaiden and Cole played. Then home we went. We let our dogs sleep inside since it's so cold out there; man they loved it. They have been inside ever since.

Monday Kaiden and spend making cookies and cooking a roast for dinner. We had my parents and Josh parents over for dinner and we put together an agenda for our Alaska trip in June. Decided on what people wanted to do and then arranged when we would do them. It was a nice time together.

Well here are some pictures of the run.

Thanksgiving

We had a great Thanksgiving here. I got off work at 0600 and went home to sleep for a little while. At ten I was up and cooking and ready for the day. At noon people started showing up and we ate at 1430. The day was wonderful; the food was good, the company was wonderful and to be all together was certainly something to be Thankful for on! My grandma was able to be here which was wonderful since I never get to see her. We then played Cranium all together which was very funny and lasted way to long. Then Saturday we went and had family pictures taked at the river. They turned out good. Here are a few for you to see. I will be getting my Christmas card started tomorrow and I am very excited about that :)

Another day of .........

Well Kaiden has always been an early bird but today she was ready to be up and playing at 5:45 am. She wanted to go watch cartoons and have breakfast. I so wanted to sleep but as we can all see that did not happen. She even went to sleep later than normal last night so I was for sure I was going to get to sleep in....... that's what I get for thinking I guess. Kaiden and I are going to scrapbook with my dear Spoon :) and then we are going to go to Bend for a dentist appointment that Kaiden is so not looking forward to! She has been saying she does not want to go for two days now, this will be OH SO MUCH FUN I can tell already:) After that we have a few quick stops to make in redmond and then its home to work the night for me........ I can't believe it's almost Thanksgiving...... Wow that year has really flew by!
Hope you all have a great day.

Just Another Day.

So last night at work was uneventful but I got to work with Spoon and Spork :) Which was fun as always. We are starting to get ready for Thanksgiving which we are having at our house this year! We will have about 20 people there so that will be fun. Then we are going to do the whole day after Thanksgiving day shopping thing! This is only the second time that we have done this so it will be exciting....... or scary not sure which at this time.... Okay well I don't have much else to say but hope you all have a great day.

What a wonderful Weekend~

This weekend was a family filled event and it was so nice. Thursday we had Kody, Becca and Baby Baylee over for dinner; it was sure nice to get to catch up and see baby. Kaiden is going to be a wonderful big sister someday. The baby's seem to keep her busy for hours. She is always wanting to help them; if Baylee was crying she would help her with her binki or cover her up.... It was cute. Friday my spoon, her hubby Mark, Shellie and Stetson all came over for dinner and we played Battle of the Sexes and let Kaiden once again play with "Maddie" She was so good with her too. It was so much fun to just spend time with other couples and kids. We hope to get to do this again soon. Saturday we woke up and had breakfast with Lanisha and Tyler and Josh helped Kody with his pickup. Then we went to the pool for Kinzi and Cole's birthday party. We took Kaiden, Kacey, and Kinley and they had a great time all playing together. After the pool Kaiden went to her Nams' house and spent the night, while Josh and I went to dinner with my Friend Liz and her boyfriend Dilly and Lanisha and Tyler. Then we joined a large group of friend and went and watched the PRCA Circuit Finals in Redmond. We had nice seats and it was very fun. After that we went and sang some Karaoke at the RBI and then called it a night and went home. Sunday we got up a little late :( and missed church so we went and picked Kaiden up and went to Madagascar 2 and a little shopping. We finished the night with a good home maid pizza dinner and ice cream watching the new National Treasure the Secret Book. and then went to bed. All in all it was a wonderful weekend. I hope to have more family time like this more often. I hope everyone had as great of a weekend as we did~

Halloween!

Okay so I am a little behind but here are a few photo's of Kaiden's at Halloween. She had a lot of fun being "Harmony Bear" I hope that everyone else had a great Halloween; this was one of the funnest we have had because Kaiden was a more exctied and actually did the door to door thing almost on her own. We went with the Keegan family which made it more fun to because we got to visit and Kaiden got to run around with Kody and Cole.... Hope you enjoy the picture's!