Happy Birthday Hon!

Happy Birthday Hon! Hope you have a great day! I am soo lucky/blessed to have the greatest husband! He is kind, thoughtful, handsome, and a hard worker! It is fun having our bdays close together, then we get to do bday activities. Last night we went to the monster truck jam for our bdays. I'll post that later. Sadly, I don't have as many pics of Ray... and they are not scanned, maybe I'll get some more when we visit PA this summer.

One of our first "formal" dances at Ricks College - 1991

What a cutie!

mid 1980s, the 2nd one getting ready for his prom date.

Birthday

Monday was my bday and it was a great day for an adult bday! I got to go out to lunch, dinner, and breakfast the week before. I have wonderful friends and family and got lots of well wishes! The dishes waited for me, too, until Tuesday (how nice of them) So I thought I would share some of my cuter years in pictures. (You can tell I am the oldest child, I actually got quite a few pictures taken of me when I was young)

Here I am 3 months old.

Here is Eric and me (I'm prob. 3 or 4)
Another one of Eric and me

me, 20 months

Here I am at 2 yrs old- look at how red my hair was!

2.5?

3 years old

4 years old

Kindergarten - I loved my fancy dress!

Kindergarten or 1st grade, my mom wanted a picture of us in our play clothes. I'm glad she got this one, it is one of my favorites. I'm wearing my CTR ring! And I loved those pants, I cried when they didn't fit anymore. Bell bottoms and patch work... all in one! lol! Don't you love Eric's, too!!

2009 calendar pictures

Here are the "picture" pages of my 2009 calendar that made for the family. This year I used smilebox.com (Thanks Pam) Smilebox was so fun and easy to use. (I didn't even have to pay for it, I got it done before the 2 week trial period ended.) This year since I have started blogging I had waaayy to many pictures to chose from, it was hard to narrow it down... and then we had 300+ disney pictures, so most of pages are from that... they were just too cute.

Here is our cover

Some of the group pics at Disney - our Jan. page
Feb. page

March page

April page- I had to give Keagan his own page w/ all of the Melissa pictures! He is pretty adorable! I know I'm a little biased!

May page

June page, Melissa was appalled that I would put the picture of Ray with the dirt on his bum, I thought it was too funny to not put it on there. He got soo dirty whenever he worked on the yard. It was pretty funny!

July page - our trip to Moses Lake

August page - We have been blessed w/ Melissa having soo many good friends. We miss you Lauren!

Sept. page- I had Melissa & Keagan & Jadyn & Aurora for the first day of school. Fun!

October page - These pictures crack me up of Melissa w/ the witch. This is one of our "photo spots" every Halloween. This year Melissa said, I have tights that match the witch, so we had her pose w/ the witch. Too cute!

November page- soo many pictures to choose from when I did this. I love Fall pictures at the Pumpkin Patch. I like this one because it shows the kids heights. My neice, Aurora (age 5) came w/ us and she took our family picture.

December page - Family that we saw this year -(Next year we should have lots of PA pages!)Ray & I, Melissa, Keagan, Aurora, my mom, Thom, my siblings - Eric, Adam, Cindy, & me, my dad, and Judy.

The back cover- Melissa's dance group at Disneyland!

Christmas and Christmas eve

We had a wonderful Christmas and Christmas eve. (Sorry the pictures are a little out of order) We have a family tradition of gathering whoever can together for my siblings w/ my mom on Christmas eve. My mom was worried that we wouldn't be able to make it because of the snow. We almost didn't. The sad thing was with that much snow no one, but our family could stay very long, they didn't want to get stuck. We missed you Adam!

This is Christmas Day.

After we had presents and breakfast we headed out to the hilly road that leads to my mom's house, they had just paved the road... but it was still icey enough in places to slide. There is a video at the end of Keagan sledding down the road. The saucers didn't work well, they worked better as shields from Grandpa's snowballs.

Christmas morning, we made the kids sleep in until 8... and they did!

The kids getting into their stocking. One funny thing that happened was that Ray & I slept on the air mattress in front of the gas fireplace where the stocking were hung and in the early morning we were freezing so we turned the fireplace on not thinking.... and the stockings had some melted chocolate in them. :)

This is one of my favorite pics of Ray!

Christmas Eve, Aurora

My mom loves fun socks and frogs, so we got her these, it was soo funny because she couldn't get all her toes into the toe holes and ended up with an empty toe spot. Pretty funky mom! :)

ward christmas picture

I know this is late, but I just found this picture that was given to us at our ward (church)Christmas party.

This year for our party they took pictures of families and children and played them on a power point presentation while they read the story from the bible. It was really nice.

I wish I would of had this picture earlier, I would of made it our Christmas card picture.