Birthday Golf Catchup!

Way back in August we celebrated the birthdays of Chris, Dad, Andy and Loren....with our 2nd annual birthday golf tourney. It was a ton of fun! Here is dad and his brood...Brian, Jenny and Josh! We had a golf attire contest as well. It was fun to dress up!

Happy Birthday Chris!
A friend of Chris' friend Jordan, Aunt Mary, Chris and Charlie!

Josh and Jenny had matching goofy socks.

Josh, Jon, Beth and Uncle David!

Betsy, Jordan, Evan and Andy.

Don't they look like pros?

Jenny, Jim, Brent and Arvid.

Brian, Carolynne, Loren and Pat.

The matching dads...matching hats and fun shirts.

Tee it up dad!

Wedding

This past Saturday, we celebrated with our friends, the marriage of Carolynne and Ryan Ladd! They are a great couple and we wish them all the best!



The wedding party looked great!


And of course, the bride and groom!


The flowers were beautiful at the reception.

Table 12 was where the party was at!


The happy couple!



Beth and Jesse.


Nicole, Beth and Jenny. Yes...we are always normal.

And, this week, we said goodbye to our wonderful Copper. She is now living with Jenny's cousin, Corinne. We are happy that she has been able to take her in. Muggles and Copper just didn't really get along very well...so, we thought we would try to find her a good home. Thanks Corinne!

Copper absolutely LOVED Chris' new hiking boots. She couldn't keep her face out of them!

We got a new couch this past month, and Muggles adores it! She loves to nestle into her favorite little spot and sit on her "throne".


This is the box that Copper liked to hide out in. Here, Muggles jumped on in, and Copper snuck up on the top to see what she was doing. Suprisingly, there was no attack here!

Happy Lost Birthday Jenny!

I celebrated my big 3-1 with a LOST-themed birthday bash. It was lots of fun. I dressed up as Claire, and Chris dressed up as John Locke.

Here I am as Claire, Josh as Charlie, and Brian as Hurley. It was fun to dress up!


Amy as Juliet.


Here is a Dharma "drop".

Dynamite from the Black Rock.

Some Dharma Beer and Hurley's Connect 4.

We had Dharma everything...beer, soda, chops, chocolate!

Here is my Lost "Crash Island" birthday cake.

Brian, I mean Hurley, and his lucky lotto ticket. Funny enough, he won 2 lottos tickets with our costume contest and random game.

Amy and Josh (Juliet and Charlie).

We loved Brian's shirt reading..."I'm just one big freaking ray of sunshine, aren't I?". It was quite funny.

Sawyer's Dharma biscuits.

Andy as Jack. Nice tatoos!

Merry Christmas 2008!

Merry Christmas 2008! Can it be another year has already gone by? Here is our tree this year...Christmas gifts at all. It's always such a wonderful thing to sit and relax by the tree on a cold winter's night.



Muggles Chillaxin'.

We loved how Copper was using the little camera case as a pillow. The cats are getting a little more adjusted to each other, which is nice.


This year was pretty interesting trying to wrap presents with 2 kitties trying to get wrapped, eat ribbon and attack paper. This was mainly true of Copper, although Muggles tried to hide in the wrapping a few times. And boxes or baskets....that's their place to try to be, for sure. Presents under the tree...Copper was there. It looks like Copper wanted to come along to mom & dad's.



As I was playing with the camera, Muggles just happened to stick out her tongue...I thought it was kind of funny.



A few years ago, I painted some ornaments...the peach one is inspired by Van Gogh's Sunflower paintings.

Chris gets a skiing hippo to go along with his skiing gift card!

And yes, he looks a little scarey...a face mask to wear while he skis. He is not a terrorist, I promise!Amy and I and our quasi-matching outfits...not coordinated. We tend to do this sometimes.

Dad, showing off his Homer Simpson slippers.And here is dad with the Gopher pillows and blanket that I made for him.

Josh loves his soft pillow!

On Christmas Eve, we headed over to Jenny's parents' house. Here are the boys playing a little Mario Kart for Wii...even dad got into the game.

We got a cake like the one we had on our wedding for our 5 year anniversary...we shared a little of it on Christmas Eve. TASTY!!

5 years!

Josh, Amy, Brian, Jenny & Chris. Actually all together in one place. Crazy!

Grant, headless!

Grandma, viewing her family tree quilt.
Another grandma viewing her photo memory quilt.