February already - highlights of the past 6 months

It's hard to believe that I haven't put anything on this blog since Kayla and Jordon got married. Wow! How time flies! That was 6 months ago today! They are still happy newlyweds and the rest of the family is doing great! Since August we have had some vacations, birthdays and holidays so I'll try to catch up a little. The first event that took place was Wyatt's birthday on September 1st! We weren't able to go to Arizona to celebrate with them but really enjoyed the pictures of his 1st birthday! He is so adorable and its fun to see what a happy family they are! (And by the way, in case you didn't know, Jason and Rachel are expecting their second baby on August 28th - they'll be two years apart)! We can't wait to see what they are having, but no matter whether its a boy or girl I'm sure this baby will be so so cute! :)

Here are some of the pictures of Wyatt's 1st birthday . . .


The second 'event' that took place was Kayla and Jordon's trip to Disneyland with his family which was also in September. They had a great time! It was Kayla's first experience at Disneyland and she loved it so I thought I would post a few of those pictures on here too.

On October 9th Jon had a birthday and on November 7th Jordon had a birthday. I didn't get pictures (so sad . . . . since I love pictures so much)! But we celebrated with them and loved it! The next event was Tyler's 3rd birthday on October 24th - they are in Idaho Falls and we didn't get to go there either but I loved these pictures! Jenny gave him a 'Halloween' theme party.

So the next event was Halloween - here are the pictures of our family on Halloween. It was so much fun to see all of the costumes! They were all great! (I didn't used to like Halloween that much but now I'm having tons of fun seeing all the 'grown-ups' dress up with their kids and spouses. Its great)!

Here are Jenny's boys - Braden was 'Hulk' for school and 'Walle' for trick-or-treating on Halloween. Tyler was 'Flash' from the Incredibles.

Here is Amy's family: She was a witch, Jon was a 'Knight', Nathan was a Dinosaur and Matthew a Lion. Darling family!

Jason and Rachel's family costumes were so fun to see because they used the same theme for all of them. And the fact that Wyatt was so little and still fit the part! It was adorable! Jason was Batman; Rachel, Batwoman; and Wyatt was Robin! So Batman and Robin (and Batman's wife! :) ! They all look so good in their costumes!!!! SO CUTE!!

Kayla and Jordon dressed up as zombie monks and it was fun because they matched. Here are a few pictures of them - and one with Amy's youngest, Matthew.


Next came Thanksgiving - we celebrated about 10 days early with all of the family that could be here. We were only missing Jason's family but decided it was worth the sacrifice so we could have them here with us for Christmas. Grandma Warren and Fred came too. We didn't have much in the way of pictures, but Jenny and Kayla decorated the table which looked beautiful and Amy did a lot to help me with dinner (so we weren't in any pictures). . . . :) but it was a nice dinner and we really enjoyed sharing it with everyone that could be with us.

On the actual Thanksgiving Day all of our children spent the day with their spouse's families and Steve and I went to dinner at Little America. It was beautiful. He bought me a bracelet and a CD of piano music that we heard live. The pianist was amazing so he bought me the CD. It was a fun day! Just a really fun 'date' together!


The next event of the season was Matthew's 1st birthday on December 14th. The following are some pictures of the day. He was cute and we enjoyed watching him dig into the cake and open gifts.

This is a cute picture of Kayla and Jordon when they went with Jordon's family to find the 'perfect Christmas tree'. As you all know, there's no such thing as a perfect tree but they took one home and had lots of fun picking out their first tree as a married couple! (This is Jordon's grandparents, his brotherBrady, and Kayla and Jordon)


Jason, Rachel & Wyatt came for Christmas so that was a lot of fun to have them here and to get to know our darling little grandson a little better. It's so hard to not be able to be closer to them and to create a closer relationship with a grandchild. We hope someday we can live a little closer but for now we just have to hang on to every precious moment we can with him and enjoy the love and companionship of Jason and Rachel when we have a chance to get together. Jason and Rachel had to leave to go home on Christmas morning. It was sad but Kayla and Jordon took us to the movie on Christmas Day to see Sherlock Holmes. It was a good movie and we really enjoyed the day. Afterwards we went to their house to visit for a little bit. We also went to see Amy & Jon's on Christmas morning to see what Santa Claus brought to the boys.



These pictures were taken at the movie theater - went to see Sherlock Holmes

This was the end of the day on Christmas at Kayla and Jordon's apartment.

So I guess that's it! Wow! Way too much to catch up on, but it was fun to reminisc while I did it! I'll try to be a little better about keeping up from now on.