Star Student!

Tanner received the Star Student Award for Friendship and Caring at school!


Here he is with his teacher Mrs. Bilkiss. We L.O.V.E. her!!! 4th Grade has been a great year! (No, she doesn't always dress like this...but doesn't she look groovy! The Sock Hop was that evening and she was ready to roll!)

So proud of you T!!!!

Dance

Here Chase is...ready for the Valentine dance. He is getting older and would barely even let me take this picture. I thought he might want to come home early, but he wanted to stay till the very end. I also thought that he would probably only dance the fast dances with his buddies, but I was wrong again. He prefers the slow dances and he later told me that he danced with around 8 different girls...some were even in High School! My boy is growing up!!! He is so much like his dad... Love ya bug!

A Double Digit Day

Our "baby" is 10 ... where does the time go???

He found his first gift when he woke up .... Rock Band 2 for XBox 360.


Tanner enjoying his traditional waffel loaded with whip cream and sprinkles!

Opening a few gifts... a basketball from Oma and Poppa.

A 3 month membership on RuneScape from Auntie, Uncle and Lani...


Fun with friends.

We took the boys to see The Lightning Thief... what a great movie!

Bryce, Hayden, Tanner and Cody


We love you T!!! Happy Birthday!
You are growing up to be quite the man...we are proud of you and love you so very much.

Officially a Weebelo

Tanner is now an official Weebelo! At the Blue and Gold Banquet he received his Bear Rank, 3 red beads, 1 gold and 2 silver arrow points.

The theme of the banquet was a birthday party to celebrate the Boy Scouts of America's 100th Birthday! They boys played games and we even enjoyed birthday cake and ice cream for dessert.

Cute balloon animals...


We are proud of you T!

Mc Call, ID ~ Winter Carnival

We decided to drive up to McCall for the Winter Carnival after Tanner's basketball game. We've lived here for 3+ years now and still haven't made it up there to check out all the ice sculptures they display each year. We weren't disappointed! However I think we'll try to make it up there a week earlier next year. Many of the sculptures were beginning to melt, but still quite impressive!






Chase broke off a HUGE icecicle he found on the side of a building!


Troy and the boys standing in front of Lake Payette...


everyone was out there standing and kids playing on the frozen lake. This is where the boats are usually docked...

can't believe this is the same lake we were skiing on last summer!



Our favorite place to grab a burger...

Tommy came for dinner...

So, I was in the laundry room doing yet another load of laundry when the phone rang. I ignored it figuring it was just another sales call. When to my surprise I heard the answering machine click on and I heard a familiar voice. "Um, this is Tommy, your brother, Troy's brother-in-law. Uh, yea, I was wondering...what's for dinner tonight?" I hightailed it out of that laundry room so fast I almost slid into the kitchen counter. I fumbled around trying to pick up the phone before he hung up! Yep, Tommy was finally coming to town! We have lived here in Idaho for 3 years now, and this would be the first time he's been to our home! He is a truck driver and has the kind of schedule that he never knows where in the country he will be. We haven't seen him since last summer and we really miss him. So it was a WONDERFUL surprise to have him stop by for a few hours to have dinner with us. And of course to do a load of laundry and fill up his coffee thermos!

Love ya little bro...can't wait for you to swing through town again!

From one extreme to the other...

From this...



To this...








Well, Saturday we had the S.C.U.B.A lessons and on Sunday morning we woke up to snow! Very light snow, but snow none the less. So after church we headed up to the hills to do a little sledding. After such a warm, relaxing experience at the S.C.U.B.A lesson the cold was a little off putting. I'm telling ya...all I needed during that lesson was a little sand to dig my toes into and a drink with an umbrella! As nice as it was to warm our winter weary bones on Saturday, we bundled up, (goodbye swim suits!) and headed out...

Good Times!

We had fun with our little friends, Tori, Maddie and Chelsea on Saturday night. Their mom and dad, our dear friends Todd and Marie, went to a company party. So we got to hang out, play games and eat pizza. Ha! That beats a company party anyday! I do believe that we were the ones that had more fun!!!





Tanner was a little outnumbered by all the girls in the house, so he made sure that his buddy Chase was there too!