The Weekend!

Well it's Monday already..... Josh and I had a great weekend. We had won a gift raffle from him work for a weekend getaway in Central Oregon. So we spent the weekend in Bend and stayed at the RiverHouse! It was a very nice room and had a great view of the river. We went up there onm Friday night and had dinner at our favorite resturant Shoji's and then went to the room and just relaxed and visited which we don't get to do anymore because with a two year old they do all the talking! Then Saturday we went and had breakfast at the hotel and then went and just walked around bend to different stores and just looked around. We then went to the Sun Mountain Fun Center and played 18 holes of Put Put Golf! That was fun. Then we went to dinner at the Outback and that was so so good! After that we went to the movies and say Marley and Me....... It was so good but you better take your kelix box with you. The movie theater was crying! When we got done there we went to the lounge at the hotel and listened to the live band and visited. What a great atmospher now that there is no SMOKE! I love that we can go out and listent to music and visit with friends and not have to deal with that awful smell!! Then we turned in for the night. It is funny that when we just want to run over to Bend and get one thing and get home we can spend all day over there but when we have all day we couldn't thing of much to do and all we did think of we wanted to have Kaiden with us. I thought really hard all day on Saturday about coming and getting her and keeping her with up for the night! But it was a great time for just Josh and I! Sunday we made it home in time to go get Kaiden and go to Church then spend the afternoon with our good friends the Underwoods for lunch and then joined my large family for my Lil Sis' 24th Birthday party! It was good food and good company but what a busy weekend! Now we are just going to clean house; do laundry; and do some scrapbooking with Spoon! I am so excited

Marley!

Here is the newest member of our happy little family! This is Josh's new hunting dog: Marley....

A Few Christmas Pictures!

Here are some Christmas Pictures!

Kaiden's new .22 Gun

Our Christmas Tree

Kaiden's new pink Jeep!

Kaiden sure loves her Dora bike and all the noises it makes!! Thanks Icheacha and Amuma!

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.