New York 2010

My Aunt Annette and I went to New York to visit my cousin Jackie (her daughter) and her family!! I was counting down to this trip for about 8 months.. so i was VERY excited when the time to leave FINALLY arrived!!

Aunt Annette and I at PDX @ 5:00 in the a.m.

(I was up and ready to go by 2:00 a.m.)

Me with Lake Ontario in the background.. this was one of the nicer days!!

On our way into Canada to go see Niagara Falls (My first time out of the U.S.)

Tom, Jackie, Tommy and I in front of the falls!!

Me, Aunt Annette & Jackie

The Scanlon Family

The American Falls

Niagara Falls -- Truly Amazing!!
(check out the video I posted at the bottom)

The top of the falls....Seriously, someone went over this in barrel... REALLY!! Insane!!

Lake Ontario

Lake Ontario

THOUSAND ISLAND -- ALEXANDRIA BAY, NY

We took a tour of the 1000 Islands and we then went and toured Boldt Castle on Heart Island.

Boldt Castle

The Island on the left is in Canada.. and the Island on the right is in the U.S. -- They are connected by the little bridge... Pretty cool!!

On Heart Island

Jackie and I at Boldt Castle

This trip was Awesome!! Tom and Jackie were the best hosts ever and my Aunt Annette was SO much fun.. and seriously the BEST person to travel with!!!! WE were gone for 9 days.. my boys were definately missing me when I got back!!

Here is a little video i took at Niagara Falls

Luke Lost his First Tooth!!

Here is a picture of Luke missing his first tooth!! It fell out while he was eating Pizza!! He swallowed his second tooth a week later while he was eating lunch at school. I can't beleive my baby is old enough to be losing teeth!! CRAZY!!

Christmas 2009

Here is a picture of my grandparents with all of their GREAT Grandkiddo's (There have been a couple more born since then... and a couple more in the oven!!

Luke, Logan and my cousin, Jackies little boy Tommy

Luke at his Christmas Program at school!!

Luke and Mahayley after their Program

Luke with his Advent Calendar Verena brought for him!!

Santa was Here!!

My boys and their cheezy grins!!

Luke, Logan and cousin Josie

Logan with Mommy Christmas morning.. Yum!!

Hayley, Luke, Jake, Logan, Emily and Erika at my mom and dad's house

Our work Christmas Party
Tom, Ken, Me, Lonnie, Greg, Chuck, Brian, Betty & Dustin

Halloween 2009

Luke the "Batman" and Logan the "Monkey"

Halloween was fun.. Logan wasn't sure about wearing a costume.. but he totally dug that idea that people gave him candy and told him how cute he was!! :-)

Verena

Ok.. so it has only been 8 short months since my last post... not that there are many people reading this... but anyways..........

Back in 1994/1995 we had an exchange student.... anyways this past November she came back to do some student teaching at SHHS. She was here for about a month and we got to spend a lot of time with her. I can't wait to see her again!! She is SO fun to be around!!

Me and Verena

Verena, Leslie, I and Sara

My mom kept all of our kids for us and we went off to Sisters for a night and stayed at the Armstrongs Cabin... it was SO much fun!! :-) WE got a lot of shopping done (probably too much on my part) But that was back in November so it's all good now!! ;-)

Pumpkin Patch

My sisters and I took the kids to the pumpkin patch. It was a BEAUTIFUL day!!! The kids had fun.. and we got some great pumpkins!!

Roseola...

Well.. my baby got Roseola.... Not fun!!! It wasn't horrible... just not fun. We spent a LOT of time at home so that we wouldn't spread it to other little kids.... You can kind of see the rash on his chest and tummy. He took it like a champ though!! Kids are TOUGH!!