Chris & Tosha's Wedding...

Some of my favorites of the 'formal pictures'

Fun pics from the wedding...

Here are some of the 'less formal' pictures from Chris and Tosha's wedding.

Tosha Dancing with Kaden

Brycen playing
Faith Marie

I happened upon Brycen twirling himself around this pole...Tosha...you'd better watch out!

Mason climbed up this tree three or four times just so he could jump out of it

Tim dancing with Grandma Geri...Probably reminded her of dancing with Grandpa Don when they were young!

Chris and all of the groomsmen gathered around Linda (Chris' mom) for a group hug

Tim and I

Sneak Peak of the Wedding...

Brycen helping his mommy get her garter on. What a big help!!

Chris with Tosha's bridesmaids; Cassie, Jen, Janelle, & Jackie
The Bride and Groom

No post is complete without a picture of Tim and Faith

More pictures to come...

More Fun in CDA...

Nap time...For some reason this picture won't post correctly...I do have it saved the right direction...

After nap time we headed to down town Coeur d'Alene to walk through the shops. Faith got her first try of a huckleberry milk shake.

Tonight was the rehearsal dinner and BBQ up at the wedding location.

Jen and Faith

Cassie...right before...

this...some sibling love!!

Linda and Brycen walking back down to the car

Mason and Kaden in their super hero towels

Jenny and Faith

Coeur d'Alene...

Last night mom and I flew to Spokane for my cousin Chris' wedding on Saturday. Grandma Geri rented a house for us to all stay in together for the week. So we've been hanging out around the house today while everyone else is stressing out about the things that need to get done before tomorrow. Here are the morning's highlights.

Here's the house...

Tim and Faith hanging out

Faith right before she fell backward on the rug

Snuggle time watching Sponge Bob

While the Wife's away....

.....the Husband will play!!

Ok, I wouldn't really call it playing, but our little home has been driving me crazy lately. Jamie went to Coeur d 'Alene ID for the weekend. Last night she flew to Spokane to be picked up by an aunt for her cousin's wedding on Saturday, so I figured it was the perfect opportunity for me to get things done around the house while she was gone.

The whole goal I have right now is to make it "feel" like there is more space in this house. I feel like we have cluter everywhere, and it is time to get rid of stuff. Now, when I say stuff I am talking some junk and some good. I just can't stand having something up against every wall in the house.

I started by putting up these shelves so we can get rid of a bookcase.

This bookcase will now be will be sold!!

I put shelves up in the office closet to hold my music so we can get rid of a smaller bookcase. I also moved the piano into the closet.

Now on to the pantries!

Yes, I said pantries because at one time we felt we needed a second pantry more than a linen closet. We moved all of the linens into a bedroom closet and moved the chips, crackers, popcorn, jello, pudding, and cake mixes into the linen closet to be known as pantry #2. Pantry #2 was really a junk food closet, and it is time to consolidate. I am ready to have the linen closet back.

Here is pantry #1 with all of the stuff from both pantries. I added the consolidator for the cans as an early birthday present Jamie. I am glad I got it all to fit.
Now there is space in the closet for the linens!! I will be moving those soon. Hope you enjoyed my little update. Hopefully I can continue getting stuff done around this place. Who knows.....if I have time and you are lucky enough....you may even get another update!!

Abby's Friend, Max...

Last Thursday afternoon our neighbor, Mindy, came up to our door dragging a slightly overweight beagle. I had the unfortunate job of telling her, he wasn't ours. But we put him in the backyard with Abby and Lexie and waited for someone to come looking for him. Justin posted on Craigs List that he'd been found and Friday morning we called the shelter and let them know we had a new dog. Friday afternoon Max went home, and as well-mannered as he was, it was nice to only have two dogs in our yard. Saturday afternoon Justin was on his way to Ridleys, and found Max, again, walking down the street. Saturday evening his owners picked him up, again, and Justin went over to their house and helped them work with Max on staying in the house...hopefully, Max won't be coming back!

Max and Abby

Labor Day...

I'm a little behind in my posts. I had completely forgotten about these pictures from Labor Day weekend when Jesse and Teagen were down until I was cleaning out my memory card today...so here they are...better late than never!

This is Teagens "Mean Guy" face

Maddie and Teagen love to give hugs!

Justin showing Teagen his "Mean Guy" face!
Maddie gets moving pretty fast when her dad chases her, and she giggles like crazy!