Family Reunion 2010

Every February we head to Shaver with tall the Coleman's for a fun weekend of family, food and snow. This year was no exception. Tons of food, tons of fun and tons of snow (and rain). Scott and his brother Mike built a huge sled run...it was the highlight of the weekend.

We even got Scott to go down...

My beautiful snow bunny!

For the record, I am not upside down when I took this picture Scott's dad was!

Our family...they get so big so fast.

My neice Kiernan going down the run...she is such a happy child. She even let me pull one of her teeth. It was very loose and she seemed to be very happy it was out.

My sweet boy. He loved throwing snowballs at everyone this year. It was all about snowball fighting.

My baby boy. He ate the snow...that pretty nuch describes his weekend. Tongue on gloves eating snow.

No Floaties, Baby!!!!!!!!!

He is doing it....Nic is swimming without floaties. I was pretty confident he would swim on his own before summer was over, but I never would have dreamed he would be swimming before the 4th of July. Here's proof!

Mommy is very proud! Happy Summer!

Road Trip

The kids and I went on a road trip last week. First we stayed the night at my cousin Starla's house. We got there at 10:30 and left at 10 the next morning. We then headed more north to a little town called Chester where our very sweet friends Sean and Cynthia live with their two cherubs Bianca and Alex. We stayed there for a couple of days, went to the lake and to a town BBQ, had great milkshakes and even better company, then headed to Redding to spend the day with Jerry (Scott's little brother) and his wife Tina and their angels Lindsay, Emma and Nathan and sweet little baby Logan. They took us to the lake and to see the Sundial Bridge. It was a great day. Then we left their house at 8:30 and drove about 3 hours to my sister Val's and her husband Kip's house (in the middle of nowhere). I am telling you when I thought I could get no further into nowhere we kept on going. We spent a couple days there and then we went into Sac and went to the train museum and then stopped in Atwater to visit my cousin Amber and her husband Tommy (who doesn't say much...I totally understand I have one of those too). Her mom (my Aunt) Shelly stopped by and we spent a few hours with them and their 2 sweeties Dominic and Elizabeth (baby #3 on the way). Then after all that made it back in time to go to our very dear friend Logan's birthday party in town. Of course then fun did not stop there. We brought my niece Kamryn home with us for a few days and had tons of fun! Here are some pictures!
BTW...thanks everyone for your hospitality, our door is always open when you fell like a visit!

Alex, Nic, Hunter and Lanais in Lake Almanor.

Nathan enjoying Uncle Scott's brownies

The kids and I at Sundial Bridge in Redding (it really tells time)

Hunter riding Cody with my sister.

Now Nic's turn.

Kamryn and Lanais and Cody

Kamryn and the boys

At the train museum

Kindergarten Year End Activities

The kids all finished school last week. We are looking forward to a fun and relaxing summer. Lanais is entering 3rd grade and Hunter is starting all day school in 1st grade. The kids were fortunate enough to get the teachers I wanted them to have. So to end another great year at Mickey Cox the kids had a week of fun. On Wednesday before the last day of school Hunter's class had their party. They had water play and snow cones and we bought bouncy balls for the kids so they could sign each others ball. What a great idea! It was really fun. Then the next day we were off ot the zoo. Finally on the last day of school Hunter had a program, then we rushed him over to the talent show, ran back to the Kinder building to get some pictures with his friends then it was over, he is now a first grader. He had a great year. He is an awesome kid! Here are some pictures.





This is Hunter's teacher Mrs. Ervine, she had that baby the day after school got out. She said she was going to make it to the end and she did, she is pretty amazing.

Hunter and his buddy Mick They are together again next year, Hunter was thrilled.

Kitchen Remodel

Sorry, it has taken so long to post these pictures. To be completely honest, the kitchen has not been clean enough for any length of time to post before and afters...but finally here they are!

New Moon

Yes!! I am a big nerd. I put a New Moon countdown on the blog. After seeing the trailer on TV yestersay I just got very excited!

Memories

Going through old pictures always brings me to tears. I struggle between being glad my kids are getting older to wanting them to stay small. I have many memories of them as littler kids than they are now. I often forget what they used to look like. The new picture above melts my heart, I can not believe she is about to be a 3rd grader and almost 9 years old!