6th Grade

CJ finished up 6th grade exactly like he started...with happiness, great grades, full of excitement and ready for the summer.  He thought it was fun because "it just was", "it was the first year of middle school".  This kid really knows how to express himself.  His best buddy Stevie was there as the locker partner and classmate...they had almost every class together.  I am so very proud of him and his 4.0 GPA, his excitement for learning, his ability to laugh quickly and his interest in sports and art and reading and...and... well, I just think he is a great kid, person, human! 

Because it is DANCE time!

Cousins

One of my all time favorite pictures of the cousins. 
CJ at one month...maybe.
Cole at 4 months.
Taylor 3 years.

Oh.  My.  Goodness.  That is about too cute!

Easter 2012

In Mimi's Magical Garden hunting for eggs!

Daddy helping out!

CJ found lots of eggs too!

"The" picture we make them take every year.  I think they will not all fit next year!

Cousins...the best sitter and her little cousin!

Oldies but Goodies

So this winter it was time to rearrange my 3-year old's bedroom, sooooo....that means the rest of the house gets looked over with a very critical eye.  What can move?  What needs to go?  Where do I need to shop next?  How is this all going to fit? 

Well, after many hours, lots of time, energy and the removal of a mirror off the back of the wedding-gift-turned-baby-changing-table-for-both-my-kids-8-years-apart-and-now-houses-toys...it is in our bedroom and looks awesome!  So where did all this lead?  To rearranging pictures in picture frames, looking at wedding pictures and then taking pictures of wedding pictures with my phone.  Here are two that I love and now are the picture id's for my brother and sister.  Love my siblings!

My sister at age 17!  So sweet...and what she would say about this picture is that her hand looks overly large. 

My brother....just two weeks before the birth of his daughter.  I think he was realizing that his life was about to change forever.  This also happened to be on my wedding day. 

Mile and CJ whilst visiting Cara and Tommy in E. OR in March of 2002(?).  Those boys were about as cute as could be and loved living life on the ranch for a few days!

Wicked Weekend

We five have been getting to getting together for about 21 years!  From the day we all met that August in 1990, in the OSU dorms...some were friends before...some met that day.  It has been the most fun ride.  It has been filled with laughs, men, marriages, homes, babies, carreers and most of all family, friendships and love.

Audrey, Beth, Cara, Heather, Paige

Maddy and Jonwyn

OSU 1990-1995

Feb and March 2012

Happy Birthday Bethany!

Bethany, Heather and I at the Toni Braxton concert...front row!

She came down and shook all our hands...since we were in the front row!  Did I mention that we were in the front row.

We were busy doing the regular stuff; family, friends, work, play, making dinner, laundry, cleaning the house, more laundry, birthdays and some fun nights out.