Friday, February 20, 2009

Heading to the park for some fun

We’ve been pretty busy the past three weeks or so going to high school basketball games. Not much to post about, but today was nice enough that we headed to the park with some friends so the boys and Jaina could get some pent up energy taken care of.

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It was a fun day with friends. Thanks for setting it up Elli.

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Family basketball

When we all get together, it never fails that we spend a day at the school playing basketball. The guys generally play for awhile trying to show off their skills and the rest of us hang out and chat and watch the smaller kids play. The quality of the pictures aren’t that great because the camera was on the wrong settings.

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Kennedy and Lily

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Ryan guarding Josh with David in the background

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Chris, Michael, Josh and Ryan

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David going up

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Dyllan shooting

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Carter playing with his Air Hog helicopter that he got for Christmas

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Carter playing dress-up in the boys old basketball uniform.

Back to Christmas

I just have to share a few more memories and photos from Christmas day and the rest of our time up at my parents. Christmas day was a lot of fun. We had my parents, all of my siblings and their kids and my Grandma Green who is in her 90’s, there. About 22 people in all were there. Very crowded, but lots of fun for everyone.

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There were an obscene amount of presents there.

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My brother Kaleb and his daughter Lily.

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My dad and mom.

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My Grandma Green

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Carter and Kennedy

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Kaleb, Jennie and Lily. Lily is wearing the sweater that my sister Jenny knitted for her.

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Carter with Guitar Hero World Tour, he’s still a little upset with me that they didn’t get the game with the drums and microphone.

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Ryan

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Rachel, David and my nephew Dyllan.

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Kim and Michael

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My brother-in-law Tim with the cool wall hangings that Jenny gave to him. One is from up at Grand Targhee and the other is of Palisades Reservoir.

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Skiing

We spent most of Monday up at Bogus Basin skiing. Well, the hubby and kids did, I spent the day working on stuff in the lodge and taking care of whoever was in there at the moment too tired or cold to be on the slopes. We got quite a few good pictures of the kids. We have an inversion here Boise right now. So, down here, you can't se the sun. And it's so cold. But, at about 5000 feet on the drive up you have blue sky and it's sooooo nice.

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Don't they all look so excited to be leaving at 8 am on a day off from school.

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Looking up from the bottom of Bogus Basin Road.

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Once we hit the fog, everything was frozen like this.

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And this was about as far ahead as we could see.

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Once we broke through the fog, blue sky, all the way.

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Kennedy

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Carter

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Ryan

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Chris and Bill (my friend Tresa's husband)

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Carter and Derek (Bill's son)

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And on the way home, everyone was ready to drop.

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Last picture, I promise. On the way down, you can't see it very well, but where the horizon ends, down below is all white clouds again. Here's hoping we get a storm in the next few days so we can get rid of this dirty air.

Sunday, January 18, 2009

More Christmas

We left for my parents on Christmas Eve. I was really excited to go to my parents for Christmas because all of my brothers and my sister and their families were going to be there. My dad's family always has a big Christmas Eve party with a great dinner, gift exchanges and the nativity being acted out. It was a full house.

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Carter dressed up as a shepherd.

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Kennedy in her angel costume.

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Dyllan so excited to be in his wise man crown.

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My dad getting ready to read the Nativity story.

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Sid, Slade and Tracey playing Joseph, baby Jesus and Mary.

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Opening presents from the cousins.

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He got a Magic 8 Ball from his cousin.

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Kennedy got a lot of cooking stuff from her cousin.

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Tim, Michael, Bret and Shon chatting after the festivities. 

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Ryan and my niece Lily in their little lamb ears. So cute.

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Ryan got a new pocketknife from his cousin.