a fish out of water...

...i have been sicker that i have ever been in a super long time, so i apologize for not returning any phone calls this week. i came down with a cold on sunday on the way home from medford and it seemed to progressively get worse throughout the week. to top it all off my asthma has been acting up, so i'm a little short of breath which makes it hard to chit chat on the phone with my lady friends! :) thanks for all the phone calls this week and i will try and return them as soon as i'm back in the water breathing normal!

3 boys + 1 girl = Douglas family!!!

We had a great weekend visiting the Douglas family over the weekend and welcoming the newest addition "Easton" at the baby boy bash! The boys were able to squeeze in some hunting while Kat and I had fun catching up and hanging with Mr. Tanner...who is getting so big. I couldn't believe how much that little guy has changed since I'd seen him last.

Thanks again for the great weekend, I wish we would quit moving farther away from you guys!

kat and malia...

malia is expecting in january!

grandma douglas and baby easton...
the ladies....
the one and only brooke shade!
aunt rachel and baby easton...

charity and kat...
(charity taught first grade with kat last year)
opening presents...

what a bunch of cutie?!!
mama and bebe... i couldn't believe how much easton looks like tanner, you couldn't even tell their baby pictures apart!

the hunters stumbled home just in time for a cute pic...i love boys in camo!

we took tanner to a festival on saturday and their was motorcycles jumping and doing tricks, he thought it was awesome!

cute, cute douglas boy!
playing swords with uncle brian....

as always the weekend went way to fast...hope to see you guys again soon!

vacation part 2 - Utah

I rode tripped it with the MacDonald clan from Idaho to Park City, Utah. Park City was awesome, the weather was super nice and sunny. I had a ton of fun checking out all Park City has to offer...there was so many amazing resorts that aren't that popular in the summer, but in the winter I don't think I could even afford to stay there. I checked out my brothers project that he has been working on which was great to see. We also made time to visit the the Olympic Park. I think my favorite part of the trip was getting to share a bedroom with one of my favorites...Miss Gwynn and watching Payton smile!

downtown Park City....

smiley boy...
what a sweetheart he is!
getting into aunt libbers treasures....

Deer Valley Resort...
Miss Gwynn was my photo prop most of the trip! :)


The cute MacDonald Family...
another resort and chair lift (everywhere you looked there was ski lifts!)
what where's penny???
tiffany, gwynn and me riding the chair lift up to the alpine slide...
this is the slide, you ride all the way to the top on the chair lift and then slide down in a sled that you can control how fast it goes....it was super fun, gwynn loved it!


gwynn found her a friend at our favorite coffee shop (notice the dogs mohawk!)

the hill sides were covered with signs of fall...
taking a break and eating a treat...you scream, we scream, we all scream for ice cream!


Olympic Park

the Olympics were held here in 2002,

this is the free style training pool...the skiers climb up the stairs to the ramp and then ski down and land in the water. it was amazing to watch!

notice the guy in red flying through the air...they can reach heights of more than 50 feet!

more of the olympic park...

this is what it looked like looked like in the winter for the olympics

bobsled track - they reach speeds of up to 90mph!
mini sled...
great view from the olympic park...
ready for the bobsled race!!!
Thanks Charlie and Tiffany for letting me tag along on your family vacation, I had so much fun!

here is my attempt of a downloading a video of a freestyle skier...i couldn't figure out how to rotate it. maybe you can rotate you monitor to view it! :)

vacation part 1 - Idaho

I had an incredible time visiting Wendi and her super cute boys last weekend! Wendi's picked me up from the airport and we then headed to downtown Boise for dinner and drinks before our massages that Wendi had arranged for us. Over the weekend we ventured out to the farmer's market, the water park (which her dare devil kiddoes loved), and drank lots of good coffee at my favorite coffee shop in Nampa..The Flying M!

Thanks Wends for such an amazing weekend...I had so much fun seeing you all!

I wish we could do it more often!

getty up cowboy....

acting silly in the wolf hat...i made him put it on :)
turtle wrist balloon with a frog in its belly from the farmers market..super random, he loved it!
the water park...i think wendi and i had as much fun as the kids did!
dedrick is such a daring little guy...he is not afraid of anything
wheee....wendi & teagon
what a cute family...i swear teagon never stops smiling, he is such a happy little guy!
my cuties!

love this picture of those big brown eyes!
the happiest baby ever!
lovin the sunshine!
so the story about this picture...so wendi and i thought it would be a good idea to take the boys down this slide (the black one in the pic), they make these special rafts, so small kids can sit in their own spot, so you can't really hold onto them. awesome we thought lets try it...so we did and i think everyone thought we were totally insane. i hope we didn't traumatize them for life...dedrick said he thought it was scary and dark...whoops!
wendi and i with the boys (teagon, payton, & dedrick)

love you sweetie, thanks for everything!
it was so refreshing to hang with you and the boys for the weekend!!!!