The Big Birthday

My Son is One! Time Flies

Kendall wanted to play with his new toys more than he did!

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This is good dad, try some!!!

It's October!!

Every year we look forward for the time to come to carve pumpkins. This year we invited Kadrie, Brooklyn and Rylie. It was a blast. I'm not sure if the girls did that much carving, but Jason and Gregg had fun!?! It's great to hang out with such great friends and our kids!

On Sunday, Jason graduated from Officer Candidate School and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Army National Guard. I'm mad because my pictures all turned out dark so I'm waiting to get better ones (hopefully) from other people. This was a big deal for Jason and he has been working so hard to get this honor. We are so proud of him! We love you daddy! And now we only have 8 years left in the Army! The other neat part was that Jason's battle buddy (Casey Seckel) was the one that got to pin him at the ceremony. We love you Uncle Seckel!

Kindergarten, here we come! I can hardly believe that my little girl has now started kindergarten. She is so grown up! We went school shopping for clothes and shoes and she actually enjoyed it! She says she wants to own 30 pairs of shoes! Just like her mom! We also went and got her a perm. It turned out really good and is a lot easier to do. Here are pics of her first day and the first day that she got to ride the bus. And yes, she is in a jacket in August because Idaho weather sucks and it was soooooo cold that day.

American baby came out with a contest that asked you to take pictures of your child discoverying something new, so here is the pics that we sent in of Quinn. Winners get a paid trip to New York! or the cover of the December issue!

Scott and Tina's Wedding

On the 4th of July, Jason's lifelong friend Scott finally got married. He and his wife Tina are the greatest! We had a great time with them the last 10 days getting ready for the wedding and just hanging out and catching up on life. They live in North Carolina and he is in the Army so we don't get to see them very often. The wedding was amazing. The place they chose was right on the Snake River and you could not have asked for a more beautiful place. Jason was a groomsman and Kendall was the flower girl. It was so nice to see my family dressed up! Kendall was definately ready to get out of her dress after about an hour because she wanted to go play with the boys! She'll always be my little tomboy! We wish Scott and Tina the very best and all the happiness in the world!

So, here we go again today for another type of X-ray for Quinten. My poor baby has gone through more in 6 months then most people do their whole lives. When Quinn was 8 weeks old he caught the RSV virus which immediately hospitalized him. Then he started developing some junk in his lungs and the Dr.'s just kept saying that it was a cold and it would pass. Well, after 4 different steroid prescriptions and 3 months of breathing treatments, they finally were convinced that this "cold" wasn't going away. Quinten has really bad reflux so a couple weeks ago they did a test to see if his trachea and esophagus were connected and maybe his formula was leaking into his lungs, but after that exam they decided everything was in tact and that was not the problem. So today we are testing his swallowing mechanism to see if something might be wrong there! Good thing that Quinn is such a good and happy baby. He just smiles at all the doctors and flirts with all the nurses. He's a good little boy and we are very lucky that there's nothing more seriously wrong with him. Well, wish us luck and we'll keep you all posted!!!

While we were in Mexico my mom and dad got the great opportunity to babysit our kids plus my sister's son Hazen! They had a great time. We weren't expecting snow while we were gone but they got a bunch of it, so grandpa improvised by putting grocery sacks on the kids feet and duck taping them around their ankles so they could go outside and build a snowman! They even got Kendall to ride a horse! Aren't grandparents the best!

For our 10th wedding anniversay, Jason and I went to Puerto Vallarta to renew our vows with 4 of our dearest friends. It was the best time of our lives. You're suppose to go on vacation to relax but all we did was go, go, go, to make sure that we saw and did everything! We went to the zoo and got to hold a baby panther! We went zip lining through the jungle! Went deep sea fishing and some of the braver ones (not me) went pairasailing! Here are some pictures of the most wonderful friends, sunsets, and adventures.