The Relatives Came

I hadn't seen Uncle Roger and Aunt Marcy

in almost 10 years and

Valerie had never met her Great-Grandma Cook...

until this last weekend!

Aunt Marcy fulfilled a life-long wish and jumped out of an airplane with Chuck on Friday!

She's my hero.

We all spent Memorial Day at the cabin.

I love these people and am so thankful for the heritage that this family has!

Our Wedding Album

It was 13 years ago today ...

Cupcake Jump

Apparently someone named "Renee" challenged my brother that he couldn't eat a cupcake while free falling from 10,000 feet. Here is proof that it can, in fact, be done!



If you were driving on I-84 and had a cupcake wrapper land on your windshield, you now know where it came from!

Party Animals

Today we celebrated Annie and Valerie's birthdays at the zoo! It was the perfect day. We walked around the zoo for about an hour and a half and then went out to the picnic area by the Rose Garden for lunch. I think that both the kids and adults had a good time, so I would call the party a roaring success.

She's a...

thumb sucking * hair twirling * Coke guzzling * veggie eating * bed wrestling * sister loving * dolly toting * nonsense singing * table climbing * shoe obsessive

TWO YEAR OLD

We had a fun day celebrating Valerie's birthday as a family: gifts after breakfast, Settler's Park while Sierra was at school, pizza and Kiddie Cove for dinner and sno-cones to top it all off. Marc had saved up his personal days at work and used them all this week to celebrate some special days at home.

Happy Birthday, Val-Val!

Let's get this party started!

During the next two months Marc will be spending lots of time, money and creativity celebrating the women in his life. Here's the May/June line-up: Mother's Day (May 8), my birthday (May 9), Valerie's birthday (May 11), our anniversary (May 23), Ally's birthday (June 17) and Sierra's birthday (June 25). Are you feeling sorry for him?! You should. He likes to make sure that we all feel well loved and goes out of his way to do or buy special things. I have seen him scribbling his lists on scraps of paper lately: gift ideas, activities, cake choices, etc. So, over the next few weeks, if you see him wandering through our local shopping venues looking a little overwhelmed, will you please just send him home. Thanks!

"Marc's Girls"

(* I couldn't resist posting my favorite picture just one more time! *)

Weekend A-B-C's

Aunts & Uncles

Bird feeders filled and hung

Cozy cabin

Trip to the Dump (as in the place where you take trash)

Eating

Fire wood stacked

Grandpa and Grandma

Hot-dog roast (Hebrew Nationals, of course!)

Ally's fear of Insects

Jokes (plastic cockroaches)

Kids

Laughter

Motorcycle rides

Nieces and nephew

Outdoorsy smells: pine trees, smoke, rain

Payette River

Quality time

Raking pine needles

S'mores

Tangled

Upper 50's and beautiful sunshine

Valerie falling down the stairs

Wheelbarrow rides

X-tra fun

Yard work

Zzzzzz's (good naps!)