Snow!

This is a picture of the front of our house after the snow storm the other day. The snow was so beautiful! It warmed up yesterday and today and the snow is almost completely gone from our yard. Maybe it will snow again and keep us out on Christmas break longer...I can hope, right??

Christmas with Emily

We didn't get Emily for Christmas this year, so she got to open her presents when she came home on Dec. 26th. I think that she is pretty spoiled...don't you think?

Oscar's Christmas treat

Kevin woke me up Christmas morning with some hot cocoa. I drank about 2/3 of the cup and set it down to open a gift. Oscar decided that he wanted some as well! He licked the mug clean!

Nana and Papa's house

Nana and Papa's house in Washington has had a ton of snow this December! Here are some pics from my dad.

(Notice Missy is staying warm next to the fire...smart dog!)

Christmas pictures

Here are our 2008 family pics.

(These were taken after the children's program at church last week.)

Decorating the trees-2008

Bridging ceremony

Emily (finally!!) had her Girl Scout ceremony from Brownies to Juniors in December. These are some photos from the ceremony (the big picture is with her troop leader Karen).

Emily's Drama Performance

Emily was in the "Elphant Child" for her

challange drama program this year.
She was a ham! (Can you tell?)

School Pictures

These were our school pics from this fall. Isn't Emily cute???

Thanksgiving

Nana and Papa came the weekend before Thanksgiving to have an early feast with us! We had a great meal and then celebrated on the real Thanksgiving day with Kevin's family at his parent's house.

More Trunk or Treat

While Kevin and Cassy passed out
candy to the kiddos, Emily went
trick or treating with her step-siblings.
(Clockwise from Emily are: Justin,
Kaitlyn, Kelsey, and Preston.)

Trunk or Treat

Emily decided to be a "Car Hop" for Halloween this year.

May I take your order???

Halloween

Emily and Cassy carved pumpkins at school and then used them to decorate our trunk for "Trunk or Treat" at church.

(Emily came up with the designs.)

Pumpkin shirts

Cassy, Emily, and Riley made tie-dye pumpkin shirts for all the Boise cousins for Halloween.

Here are Emily and Riley putting the finishing touches on their own shirts at Grandma and Tada's house.

Fall

Some fall family pics from Kevin's parents backyard.

Back to School

Emily and I were ready to head back to school and start 4th grade! (School started this year on Aug. 25th.) Emily is in Mr. Partin's class this year and they have 32 kiddos! I have only 31 as of now and am teaching in the room next to Emily.
This should be a great year!

Birds of Prey

Emily and her buddy Natalie headed out to the Birds of Prey center south of Boise to check out some awesome birds.

This is what they would look like if they had eyes as big as a bird!

Oregon Trail Museum

On our way home from Nana and Papa's house in July, we stopped in Baker City, OR to check out the Oregon Trail Museum. Emily will be studying and Cassy will be teaching this information in the upcoming school year. It was really interesting and we hope that we can come back when we have time to hike down and see the wheel ruts.

Anniversary trip

Here we are at the top of the lift at Tamarack getting ready to head

down to the first of eight zip lines.

This is Kevin ending zip line #2 and Cassy coming to the end of #3.

We paused at after #6 and took this picture with

Lake Cascade in the background.

Kevin's favorite of the day was #6 from the "Tree House," a platform 105 feet up in the air.

As Cassy is deathly afraid of heights, this was not the favorite for her!

She liked line #7 where you ran off a platform and launched yourself over the forest.

Girl Scout Camp-Drama Queens I

Emily headed off to Girl Scout camp in McCall.

She had a great week singing, funyaking, making crafts, and meeting lots of new friends!

She came home with tons of mosquito bites!

Now she is off to church camp in another week-

busy girl!

The slumber party

Before bed the girls did some dancing and then watched movies

in the livingroom. I think that they crashed sometime after 1am...

Kevin and I didn't make it that long!

In the morning we had pancakes and then the crew packed up

and headed home.