Stock Show

WE LOVE GOING TO THE NATIONAL WESTERN STOCK SHOW! IT WAS SO MUCH FUN! WE WENT TO THE RODEO AND ALSO WATCHED THE HITCH-TEAMS! THE DOG TRIALS...PRETTY MUCH AWESOME! CAN'T WAIT TIL' NEXT YEARS STOCK SHOW! BLAST!

Christmas

ZOO Lights

ZOO LIGHTS

Kids say the darndest things

Kids crack me up...Just a few!

Tylie Praying: "Heavenly father please bless that Santa will bring me a New Knife/Gun Set. And Please Bless Jesus that He will be safe in Heaven."

Tylie Watching 'Sandlot': "Mom...did you just hear that? They just said 'O $#*@ " (When the dog jumps over the fence) I never realized their were so many naughty words in that movie.

Tylie Cut her hair with the clippers. She full on has White-walls on one side: "Mom...yep I cut my hair. BUT you left them out" (All my fault-once again)

Slade pooped in the bath tub (NAST): "Daddy-Dog Shiz...Dog Shiz...Daddy"

Slade-After the Black Hawk show from Uncle JT: "HELLA COPTER- LOUD-SWOOSH-JER---MEE!"

Just a little update

Has it really been that long ago that I actually posted. Holy cow. So much has happened since then...

December

Surgery on my ACL

Christmas

Lots of Birthdays

January

National Western Stock Show (AWESOME)

April

Utah Trip

We have been so busy-And I have tons of pics but it takes to long to upload.

Softball starts today! Then we also play on Monday nights! Two different leagues but we are pumped to play!

Garrett loves his job! He is still working on Rueter Hess~Should finish that project in September. Then who knows what!!! He is doing really good...Just super tired.

Tylie turned 4 in December. She is still in Pre-School. She loves it! She loves her teacher~Ms. Terri! Ty is too big for her britches...but she is a good helper!

Slade is almost 2. I can't believe it. My mater is no longer a baby. UGH where does time go. He talks so much and he is such a loving little bug!

I have not been playing as much ball as I want...But after the surg it really wiped me out. It was amazing how weak I was. My muscle was...Well their was no muscle. I am doing much better. I also have been doing hair! I love it! And a huge Thanks to all of my awesome Clients!

We decided to go sledding. We had a blast!

Believe it or not...This is Slade man on his stomach going down head first. He was laughing the whole way!!!! He loved it!

Me and the kids. Attempting to start the sledding track!!

Garrett and Slade!!!

Slade and I on one and Tylie on the other! 1...2...3...GO! Tylie had a blast!

Patty the Snowman

I must say that my kids have the best Dad in the whole entire world. Garrett is so good to spend the majority of his time (when he's not at work) with our kids. I love this Quality he has. He isn't on his lap top, watching ESPN, or picking his nose. He litterally spends his time with our kids. I love this about him. On Halloween day...him and Tylie went out to play in the snow. And to my surprise "Patty" was born!!!

Halloween Party for Koen!

I decided to throw a Halloween Party for our friends little boy. Here is the Story: We met the Slaveks when we lived in our Oakwood home. They were driving by-looking for a park and just happened to stop and asked me. They said they were From CA and were looking for places to live. (Rent/Buy) Of course, being the salesman that I am I invited them in (hoping to make the sale). We visited for a while and exchanged numbers. We were hoping to have our kids go to the same pre-school. I never really heard from the Slavek's for months. When we were moving I came across Lindsey's Phone number and I decided to call and make small talk when she broke the news about Koen (3 years old) and his new Trial with Cancer. She told me some of the story and I hope I get it right but it all started like this:
The Slaveks started their move from CA when Lindsey felt prompted to stop in Elko Nevada and have Koen looked at. He had a High Fever and was just really sick. Luckily there happened to be a Pediatric Doctor from New York who specialized in something like this. They ended up life-flighting Koen to SLC to Primary Childrens Hospital and then Flying him to Denver to Childrens Hospital. (Sorry Linds if I get some of this wrong.) Being between jobs...they of course did not have insurace coverage. His tumor was so large that it was pushing so hard on all of his other organs almost causing his heart to stop beating. Koen has been undergoing treatment ever since the Slaveks moved to Colorado in July.
Garrett and I ran into the Slavek Family one night at Target. Of course, we were all looking for Halloween costumes and came to conclude that Koen wouldn't be in the hospital on Halloween. Well that all changed when Koen's health was doing so well that the Doctors wanted to proceed with Surgery on October 30th. With this new and knowing that now Koen would miss it-I decided to throw a Kid Halloween party at my house with a bunch of different families! THANKS TO ALL OF THOSE WHO CAME TO THE PARTY TO SUPPORT ME IN PROVIDING A FUN PARTY FOR THE KIDS!



Karli was a huge help with pulling off the party. She came and helped me get games together-Prizes together-and help me get my crap together!!! I love Karli! Thanks Kar!

The Ravsten Family!

Melinda and Jason Rhees! Isn't she a babe!

Slade and Easton!

Kaitin and Tylie

The Whole Gang: Top Row: Koen, Reagan, Kaitin, Tylie, Alexa, Gavin

Bottom Row: Slade, Easton, Cole, Annika

Playing Musical Pumpkins
Koen The Bear!
Koen and Gavin
Tylie and Alexa
Reagan and Cole!

UPDATE on KOEN: He had his Surgery on Friday. The tumor was the size of a Tennis Ball. (Which was a lot smaller now than before he had Chemo) He is doing well and is being very strong. Keep this family in your thoughts and prayers.

HOME SWEET HOME

Many have asked for pictures of our new home. Here they are...I'm not a very good photographer but you get the jist. We are very happy in our new home! Thanks to all who have helped us through these past few months.

SNOW DAY

WHILE SLADE WAS DOING THIS...

TY WAS DOING THIS!!!!

AND THIS.

AND IT CONTINUED TO DO THIS! SNOW! SNOW! AND MORE SNOW!