Garner Gang

Tri-ing Times....

2009-09-03T12:33:00.000-07:00

I had to post this picture first because this is my #1 fan! I could not have thought about doing this triathlon without the help and support I got from Eric. He watched kids so I could train, put up with me being unbearably grouchy from nerves, got us a hotel room so I would have a quiet place to rest, helped me at every transition, and stood out in the heat on a heat advisory day to cheer me on. At first I was going to travel to Safford by myself for the triathlon, but Eric rearranged schedules so that he and our kids could be there cheering me on. The week of the race I knew I would not have been able to do it without the support of Eric and our wonderful kids! I am grateful to have a husband who holds the priesthood and who was able to give me a blessing the night before the race. About halfway through the race, I realized my body would not have been able to do the things it did without a priesthood blessing. Thanks Eric!!!!!

This is the only picture I got of Sonda (left), Laura (middle), and I. It may not be perfect but it shows our honest emotion of the day. Laura was the one who suggested we do a triathlon. I always thought it would be cool to do one but did not think I had the athletic ability to do so. Over the last couple of months Sonda and Laura have pushed me to do things that I thought my body could not physically do. Not only that, they have both pushed me to be better spiritually, I am so lucky to have these to women as friends and examples. A week before the race we were really nervous, Laura suggested we go to the temple together. It was such a great feeling to be in the temple with Laura and Sonda doing something that I needed more than anything at that point. As the race approached we all became so nervous again that we were feeling sick and grouchy! Laura and Sonda decided we needed to focus on something other than us and suggested we become "Carter's Angels". Carter is a little boy in our ward who has great struggles but alway has a smile on his sweet face. His mom, Lacee was amazing and got us "Carter's Angels" shirts overnight! I will post pics of them later -they totally rock! With a new focus and great friends at my side this was one of the best experiances of my life!

I actually don't know the correct way to swim so I am glad Eric got at least one picture of my face in the water so it looks like I know what I am doing. Mad props to Sheree who tried to show me how to swim the week before the tri!

We had incredable support from all of our families and friends. Probably one of the best things about that day was the way our cheer section cheered not just for each one of us but for the others. Our families and friends had not met before the day of the race yet they all hung out together and cheered us on. During the bike portion they would jump in their cars, park on the side of the road and cheer for us. When we passed them they would get back in their cars, head a few miles up the road and do it again. There was no greater feeling than seeing our cheer section waiting for us! This is a great picture of Sonda's friend affectionatly called "Mama Aj", she was giving me tips on how to beat Sonda at the first transition. Of course, as soon as I was gone she was probably telling Sonda how to beat me. I had only met her one other time but I know why the Bryces love this family so much!

Eric was so helpful at the transitions and at different points during the bike portion. He was quick to help me with anything I needed, especially things I wasn't even thinking about. As usual he was not only helping me but anyone else who needed an extra hand. At one point a boy started taking the wrong path on the run and Eric got him turned around headed in the right direction. He is truly my knight in shining armor!

Sorry to throw you under the bus Sonda, but I love this picture. She is yelling "Brooke is kicking my butt" o.k. so she didn't say butt, I'm just trying to keep it clean. This is great motivation for me. Actually she totally caught up to me in the run!

2nd transition, I couldn't get my legs to work, Eric was taking my bike so I could start running. I didn't have enough breath to tell him I was using the bike as a crutch. Eventually I started moving on my own, just not very fast!

The FINSH LINE!!!!! No words can explain what I felt so I will leave it at that!

One of the happiest moments of my life! I had shade, water, I was sitting, and I had just accomplished a major goal.....true satisfaction right there! Another example of the outrageus support we had, Garett Bryce stood by his "favorite mom" until Sonda crossed the finish line!

The best parents ever! My mom and dad came all the way to Safford, got a hotel room, woke up super early on a Saturday morning and stood in the heat for over two hours just to cheer me on. Who knew I would be 32, have a husband, 5 kids, and still need my dad and mom!

Why you shouldn't get drunk......

2009-07-29T15:03:00.000-07:00

This is my parent's neighbors Raymond (Raymee) and Jeannie. What else can I say....mmmmm. Jeannie had recently become unemployed and decided to celebrate by drinking a bottle of Jack Daniels. So glad I happend to be at my parents house so I could see the show! Really, they are the best neighbors anyone could ask for. For all my homegirls, here is the proof all of the stories are true!

Charlies Angels

2009-02-12T22:03:00.000-08:00

This is a month late but I had to post about the lunch date I had with my good friends Jenny and Velvet. The three of us have not been together in way too long, it was great to meet up with these girls and do some catching up! Back in the day we had more fun with squirt guns than anyone should have and probably broke a couple of laws but whatever, we had a blast and alway had a good laugh! We met at Joe's Farm Grill, I had never been there. The food was really good, the weather was great and it was so fun to be with Jenny and Velvet again. Alright girls, it has been a month, time to get together again!

Background Misery

2009-02-12T21:49:00.000-08:00

O.K., so anyone who knows me knows how computer illiterate I am and that I just don't have time to sit at the computer and figure most things out. By now I hope you noticed my fall background is FINALLY GONE!!!!! Thank goodness for my sister in law Lindsey who pretty much take care of my blog. I had her help me chang the background and could not believe how absolutly easy it was. I can't believe I procrastinated this long!

Run Forest, Run!

2009-02-05T16:08:00.000-08:00

On January 31st I ran my first 10k (6.2 miles) at Londons Run! I enjoy doing the 2 mile fun run and trying to beat my time but this year I decided to try the 10k, it pretty much kicked my butt! I trained with my friend Sonda and could not have done this without her encouraging words, her training schedule, and most important the awesome playlist her hubby put together for us for our little music players. It was fun to run with someone listening to the same music! Last minute Eric decided to come run with us. I was sooooooo proud of him! 6 miles is a LONG way when you have hardly trained! It was such a feel good day, we ran for an excellent cause, my love machine was there to support me and run with me, I got to hang with my sister Lacey, my brother Reggie and his freakn' cute family, and I accomplished my goal for time. We are running another 10k on Valentines Day because theres just nothing like spending that romantic day feeling like your going to puke all day! :)

This is at the finish line, if it were a close up you could totally see the pain on my face!

It felt good to accomplish a goal and show of my sweaty pits!

Grady Man

2009-01-11T20:36:00.000-08:00

Our little Grady man turned 1 on the 10th! This year has gone by too fast and he is growing way too fast for me! We celebrated his birthday on Friday night with our families and some friends, the Bryces and Hursts. Unfortunately, Grady was a little under the weather this weekend. He was not himself on Friday night and was pretty sick on Saturday, the advantage of this is Saturday he wanted to be held all day and wanted to cuddle-who could pass that up?! We sure love this little boy and couldn't imagine our family without him!

Grandpa Garner held the birthday boy while we sang to him, probably a good thing since grandpa actually has a good singing voice! :)

Poor little Grady was FREEZING while he ate his cake! He was already cold before we stripped him down, then it didn't help that the cake was also fresh out of the fridge. Obviously it did not stop him from chowing!

I love this picture, luckily he is too young to know any better. His sisters and cousins couldn't help opening presents for him since he was so slow and really had no clue what he was doing. Thanks everyone for the noisy, obnoxious toys, just remember payback is coming!

Baby News!

2009-01-09T22:21:00.000-08:00

This is my brand new neice, Ellie May Asburry. She was born on January 8th to my brother, Riley and his wife Annette. I am so excited I just had to show her off! She looks so much like her big (kind of) sister Ava who is only 12 months old! They are definatly going to have their hands full but we are so happy Ellie is here! This is going to be a great year, I am happy to annoucne that I am NOT pregnant! Even though we love babies at our house, it is nice to take a break and enjoy all of our little neices and nephews who will come into our family this year. So far we know we are getting 4 (including Ellie) unless anyone else wants to announce! :) I love that I can enjoy these babies and not be soar and not stay up all night feeding! Good luck Riley and Annette!

Ahhhhhh.....Vacation

2009-01-06T14:03:00.000-08:00

Eric and I both had time off while the kids were home from school, we had many great and wonderful projects planned to accomplish around the house, but instead we enjoyed sleeping in, playing games, watching movies, and a couple of trips to the zoo. Our zoo pass has been one of our best investments! We went to the Phoenix zoo and then found we could use our pass at the Tucson Zoo, I'll post pictures of that later.....maybe!

This poor boy can't go too long without a snack, I can't wait until he's a teenager!

Poser!

Who can resist Grady-man?!

5 years old!

2008-12-16T21:37:00.000-08:00

Alyssa turned 5 on November 23rd, she had such a fun, simple birthday party with her friends. The kids all got to make their own pizza, then I sent them outside to play while I cleaned up the kitchen and baked the pizza. After a game of duck, duck, goose on the trampoline, the kids ate their pizza and some birthday cake. It was the cheapest, easiest and most fun party we have done for our kids! She had sooooo much fun playing with her friends!

fantastic pizzas!

Rockn' game of duck, duck, goose

Our big 5 year old girl blowing out her candles (Eric was in charge of "making" her cake)

Eric spied something unusual that night in the laundry room.

Our poor little birthday girl partied too hard on her birthday, she fell asleep in the laundry basket when she went to put her shoes away in the laundry room!

2008-12-10T20:49:00.000-08:00

Alright, so maybe I am not really going to keep up on my blog as well as I had hoped! :) So, tonight I attended my first school board meeting. They are building a new high school that will open in time for the 2009-10 school year out here by our house. There are 4 options for boundries that will be voted on next month, 2 of these options do not include my neighborhood which means kids from my neighborhood would attend Florence High when they have a new school practically in their backyard- down right rediculous! Anyway, as I was explaining to my girls tonight why I was leaving and my purpose in attending this meeting I got thinking about how absolutly thankful I am to live in a free country where I can express my feeling and opinions and they are heard! (Actually, Sonda was heard and I am glad she let us throw her under the bus and was willing to speak and represent our group tonight because I was too nervous). I know, it's not 4th of July or Thanksgiving, I am just feeling quite thankful and a great sense of pride for my country tonight! I think it might also have something to do with the fact that my trip tonight started at Chevron with a 64oz. Diet Coke and ended at the good ole' Florence McDonald's with some chocolate chip cookies, not to mention the great women who attended with me and turned my mini van into a party van!

"Granny and Papa"

2008-11-06T11:25:00.000-08:00

I found out that my cute little hillbilly grandma and grandpa Asburry in Georgia who I love more than life itself, have been looking at my blog. That gives me good reason to update my blog! Hope you enjoy the pictures of Grady. You need to have Christina show you how to make a comment! :) Grady now has 6 teeth, 4 on top and 2 on the bottom. He had a heck of a time teething but even when he is crying we still think he is soooo cute!

This is when our little Grady man started crawling, he is 7 months old in these pictures! Now he knows how to go up the stairs. We are still working on teaching him to go down the stairs without getting any new bruises!

SERIOUSLY?!

2008-11-04T11:04:00.000-08:00

I'm on the PTO board at Cambree and Hailey's school. The past two years we have put on a fall festival that requires TONS of hours of hard work and preperation but is rewarding in the end. The week before the festival, I have a plan to accomplish everything that needs to be done. Everyone one has to cooperate with my plan for it to go smoothly, this year my kids (and my immune system) did not get this memo. Here is how this fantastic week went:
Alyssa and Braden came inside very proud to announce to me that they made a river in the backyard. They weren't kidding, and yes, that is my lawnmower that I did not put away sitting in water! Another PTO member came over with her daughter so she and I could work on stuff for the festival. Of course Alyssa and Braden took her daughter Georgia staight to the "river" to play in the mud! Since that day Georgia has been asking her mom to take her to the "water house"!
I started to loose my voice and didn't feel so hot but put that on the back burner because things for the festival were falling apart left and right. Thank goodness for Eric who was such a HUGE help last week! Saturday, Braden woke up with a fever, we druged him and somehow made it through the day. I don't know how, but we managed to pull off a successful fall festival that night! By Sunday that poor little Braden was really sick. I took him to an urgent care by our house and they sent us on to the ER. I had strep and pneumonia, poor little Braden had tonsillitis, a throat infection (not strep), and Mono of all things! After an I.V., some sprite and a popsicle, he was ready to come home!
A BIG THANKS to friends who have helped with my house and kids (you know who you are)!

Happy Birthday Hailey!

2008-09-03T14:15:00.000-07:00

August 29th was Haileys 7th birthday. When she came downstairs the living room was decorated with hot pink streamers and "happy birthday" balloons! She chose to have french toast for breakfast. Eric takes the kids to breakfast for their birthdays but they decided to wait until Saturday to have their breakfast date. On Saturday she chose McDonalds for breakfast and I think she ordered one of everything on the breakfast menu! Nothing like getting spoiled on your birthday!
All Hailey asked for was a "my e pet" she was thrilled to get a pink poodle!

Haileys birthday was on a Friday, that night we went to a family dance at her school. She had lots of fun at the dance and after it was over, grandpa and grandma Asburry came over for cake and ice cream! Saturday, we had a birthday party for her cousin Kallie, and finally on Sunday we had a big family party at our house. She ended the party weekend with Kallie and some of Erics brothers spending the night at our house so they could go dove hunting Monday morning!

Happy Birthday Hailey!

We Love You!!!

WARNING....

2008-09-03T13:47:00.000-07:00

If you leave your kids at my house, I will not actually "watch" them!
Alyssa, Braden, Blaise, and Emily plastered themselves and my wall in the time it took me to take a quick phone call. O.K., so maybe there is no such thing as a quick phone call at my house, I should have known something was wrong because the kids were so quiet outside. It was not until Emily came into my house and stood on my CARPET that I found out what they were up to! With the words that followed when I saw her standing on the carpet, it's a good thing Sonda was the one on the phone!:) I thought it would be punishment to spray them down with the hose, however, with this rowdy crowd I should have known better, they thought it was the most fun they had all day!

It's about time!

2008-07-23T00:07:00.000-07:00

While most people are posting their first day of school, I am just getting around to the 4th of July! Maybe by Halloween I will post the first day of school. We had a blast (as usual) with ALL of Erics family in Heber for the 4th. This year his cousins that live in Heber took on the HUGE job of getting shirts made for all of us. It was so much fun to have matching shirts and be recognized as part of the family. These are pictures of us waiting for the parade, the sun was soooo bright until after the parade, then the clouds moved in and the temp. dropped to the mid 60's! What a great day! Thank to the Baums, and Halls for putting up with us!

The sun was killing this poor girls eyes, the things she does to make mom happy! Lately Cambree looks so grown up, it's killn' me!

SUPER STAR!!!!

So lately Alyssa feels the need to pose for every picture, usually this is her choice....don't know why. I'm just glad it's her index finger that is alway sticking up!

Braden is like his mama....this is how he looks if he has to wake up before 9 a.m.!

Love this baby boy....he is always happy!

I'm Frikn' Freezn'......

2008-07-16T13:30:00.000-07:00

Every 4th of July we go to Heber, AZ with all of Eric's family, we love spending the 4th in the cool country! This year it was literally cool every afternoon. Eric's Uncle Ed got this cool water slide for all of the cousins to play on, when I took this picture it was 62 degrees outside, in July, in Arizona!!! Amazing!!!! Poor Hailey was purple for the rest of the day but the kids had a blast with all of their cousins on the slide!

The Big One Got Away!

2008-07-16T12:29:00.000-07:00

As usual I am running behind on the posts! The last weekend in June Eric went deep sea fishing in Mexico with his brother Jason and his friend Brian. Obviously he was a little successful! This is a 70 pound Grouper that he caught and let me tell you.... it is delicious!

Mid-Life Crisis?

2008-06-27T11:59:00.000-07:00

So, I think this is part of my mid life crisis. It made me feel pretty good that being 30 and haveing birthed 5 kids I could still do a back flip on the trampoline! I know this will not last much longer so I had Eric capture a kodak moment so I can look back and say, "see what I used to be able to do?" However, after looking back at the pics, I realized it's not really a back flip but a back hand spring with no hands! Oh well, it still makes me feel like a kid!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABE

2008-06-20T23:46:00.000-07:00

June 6th was Eric's birthday, he got to spend that day with his scouts at scout camp. They went golfing in Snowflake so it's not like he was roughing it too much on his big day. He returned home the next day and needless to say we were very happy to see him! The kids had all made him cards and his awesome wife found camouflage wrapping paper for his gifts. Another day older and wiser too, love ya babe!

Brotherly Love

2008-06-20T23:37:00.000-07:00

Braden loves to hold Grady, usually Grady is good to go along with whatever the other kids do. He usually will let the kids pack him around, and he even won't cry when Braden wrestles him! However, sometimes enough is enough. We just love these little boys!

More bragging on my girls

2008-06-20T23:24:00.000-07:00

So one night Eric was out of town and I was extremely busy holding down the fort by myself. I was making dinner and Hailey said she wanted cornbread with the chili I was making. I told her I did not have enough time to make it, she and Cambree said they would do it. I gave them the cookbook, they followed the recipe, and made cornbread from scratch all by themselves! My goal is life is this: I have 3 daughters, hopefully one will love cooking, one will love sewing, and one will love cleaning so that one day I will not have to do any of it! :)

YOU GO GIRLS

2008-06-13T23:06:00.000-07:00

We are very proud of Hailey and Cambree. Both girls worked very hard in school this year! At the end of the year each teacher got to choose only 5 or 6 students to recieve awards for accomplishments made during the school year. Both of our girls were chosen to recieve awards. Now it's on to 2nd grade for Hailey and 4th grade for Cambree! WAY TO GO GIRLS!!!! By the way, love the typical big sister pose! :)
A big thanks to Great-Grandma Carpenter and Grandma Garner for attending the awards ceremony!

Rocky Point

2008-06-03T14:24:00.000-07:00

Theres nothing like shopping in Mexico!

BFF's ;)

Handsome Boy!

Staying busy in the sand

Ryan, Cambree, and Sydney-Snorkeling fools!

The BOYZ chillin' in the shade on the beach

Our family LOVES to go to Rocky Point!!! It dawned on me our last trip that we never have taken a family picture on the beach. This year we attempted it! Thanks to Jessica Ball for taking pictures and her assistant Nathan who worked like crazy to try and get everyone to look at the camera at the same time (what a concept)! In the kids defense the sun was right in our eyes. Some of our favorite things about Rocky Point:

1. Chicken Hut, need I say more?!!!!

2. Snorkeling, Eric is teaching Cambree and Hailey to snorkel and they love it!

3. the sand is the babysitter

4. catching little sea creatures in the tide pools

5. Hangn' out with friends and family, doing a whole lot of nothing

6. Venders on the beach- this year we discovered Mangos on a stick!

7. Just relaxing with my little family! :)

Chug! Chug! Chug!

2008-03-31T21:13:00.000-07:00

Alright, so this is the result of spending an evening with the Garner family! We had some friends (the Smiths, the Albrechtsens, and the Roches) over the other night, these fine Hoochies are all in the RS presidency. Since we did more socializing than anything else at our last meeting I thought it would be a good idea to get the socializing out of the way before our next meeting. The night ended with Becky (the big bad president) chugging the Dr. Pepper! Good times, good times. I'll probably be released after this post!;)

SWEET BABIES!

2008-03-31T20:59:00.000-07:00

My sister-in-law came out to make bread with me last week. Her baby Ava is 3 weeks older than Grady. I love that my kids are finally getting cousins their same age, it was so fun to watch the babies on the blanket together. Pretty much they just poked each other in the eye but it was still dang cute! By the way, even though Ava is older and weighed more at birth, Grady has passed her up in weight already! What a little chunk!

Not to be left out, Alyssa had to get in on the action and pose with the babies! Cute girl!

2008-03-31T20:40:00.000-07:00

Our 10th wedding anniversary was March 6th, it was very romantic...Eric had round table, I had a Presidency meeting and then a PTO meeting. Actually, the PTO meeting was at Big Daddy's so I brought home some onion rings and fried zucchini and we sat on the couch that night watching t.v. and eating fried food....it was awesome! It's nice that we don't feel like we have to stress about fancy gifts or dinner, after 10 years our favorite thing to do is just chill! Anyway, Eric did give me a zoo pass which I thought was way cool, so on St. Patricks day we took the kids to the zoo. It was the first time we have gone as a family and we had a blast! Above is the cool sting ray exhibit they have, the shadow by our hands in one of the sting rays.

ERIC'S PRIDE AND JOY

2008-03-16T21:44:00.000-07:00

Eric is a little more studly to me since he got his elk back from the taxidermist. When I saw how massive his elk is and then remembered he took it archery I was thinkn' he is quite the man! His elk is so big, he and Audie had to take a screen off the window of the 2nd story of the house and bring it through the window because it would not fit up the hallway where the stairs are. I'm thinking it's a pretty good security system for me, if someone tries to come up the stairs at night they are going to get the crap scared out of them!

2008-03-16T21:35:00.000-07:00

This is what happens when I baby-sit your kids! The girls disappeared into the bathroom for quite a while, when I finally decided to get off my butt and see what they were doing I found them covered in beautiful make-up. Charly had brought a purse full of make-up over and it made for great entertainment all night!

GIRLS DAY OUT!

2008-03-16T21:24:00.000-07:00

So I missed going to see Penelope with Laura but I thought it was such a good idea, so I took my girls to see it. It was a blast to go to the movies with just my girls (and Grady) Eric's mom also came! I thought the movie had a good message for girls, we had a nice little chat in the car on the way home about how Penelope had to learn to love herself no matter what she looked like!

Farmboy

2008-03-16T21:17:00.000-07:00

Braden loves to be on the farm!!! As soon as we stop the car, he jumps out and runs to the barn to help grandpa. He and Blaise love looking at grandpas cows. The beautiful trailer in the background is where we started out....good times! Eric's dad just bought the tractor in the back, Braden got to ride it the other day and thought he was hot snot!

2008-03-16T21:05:00.000-07:00

COWGIRLS?! I think not, Uncle Kevin tried to persuade the girls to ride some of the calfs on the farm. Hailey was terrified, Cambree had fun as long as Kevin did not let go of her. I had fun just standing back trying to get some good pictures!

Grady blessing

2008-03-16T20:58:00.000-07:00

Grady was blessed on March 2, what a happy boy! He is such a good baby!

2008-03-04T21:18:00.000-08:00

For her 9th birthday I took Cambree and some of her friends to get their nails painted in a salon. Needless to say, they all thought they were pretty hot stuff! I usually paint my girls nails and put flower stickers on their nails from wal-mart. When Cambree was showing me her nails after she was done, she said, "look mom, I got flowers with real paint, they're not even stickers!" Cambree had a blast that night with Megan, Savannah, and Rachel. Savannah gave her a little nail kit for her birthday which she hides under her comforter so Hailey and Alyssa won't find it. The other night when I thought everyone was asleep I found Cambree in her closet with the light on filing her nails! What a grown up girl she is!

2008-03-04T21:12:00.000-08:00

O.k., so it is more fun than you can imagine trying to get a picture of all the kids together! It was not until later that I realized Braden was wearing his oatmeal on his shirt! Oh well, I am just glad they were all looking at the camera and smiling! I sure love these kids!!!

2008-03-04T21:03:00.000-08:00

One morning we woke up with a nice layer of frost on everything, the kids thought it was snow at first. They all ate it off the trampoline and then jumped on the slippery trampoline. So they are pretty easy to amuse, they played that morning in a thin layer of frost just like it was real snow!

2008-03-04T20:47:00.000-08:00

Alyssa was playing tackle with Braden and Eric's brothers during the super bowl. Some how she hit her chin on the corner of our ottoman (which is padded) and ended up with four stitches in her chin! All of Eric's family was at our house for dinner, he took Alyssa to urgent care, when she was done she called home and said, "hi mom, I got 4 titches, can I talk to grandma and grandpa?" I was feelin' the love! The nurses at urgent care spoiled her rotten with all these beautiful stickers, she thought her little trip to get stitches was awesome!

2008-01-26T21:09:00.000-08:00

Here is the updated version of the Asburry cousins! It was a miracle to get all of the kids to hold still for a picture, my kids always listen and hold still but I can't say the same for Riley or Reggies kids! :) It is pretty obvious what baby belongs to what family! They are all little clones of their parents! It will be fun to see how these babies act in about 2 years, my parents think it is chaos now when we all get together, I can't wait to see what it will be like when they are all mobile, especially when they have Alyssa, Braden, and Kallie to set the example!

2008-01-21T16:16:00.000-08:00

One of these days I will get a handle on this blogging thing! I posted the pictures in the wrong order but at least I am FINALLY updating my blog!

2008-01-21T15:54:00.000-08:00

Our sweet boys! Braden loves to hold Grady, and when he is done he says, "here mom, take this." At first Braden kept calling Grady "baby Ava" (Riley and Annettes baby) I think it was a little confusing to him to have more than one new baby in the family!
HERE HE IS!!! Grady Eric Garner was born January 10, he was 10 days early! I have never gone into labor early on my own so he caught us a little off gaurd, but we are so glad he is here! He weighed 7lbs. 9oz. and is the runt of our family.

2007-12-08T22:18:00.000-08:00

We had a great Thanksgiving day this year! Eric took Alyssa and Braden to a park in our neighborhood and played football with some of the men in our ward. Cambree, Hailey, and I ran the 1 mile fun run at Red Mountain Park. This was Hailey's first year to run, I was so proud of her, she did great and was anxious to get her t-shirt afterward! Cambree of course left us in the dust, she is a good runner with those long legs! I am happy to report that 7 months pregnant I still passed a few other runners and did not finish last. I had a great time with the girls that morning, our family sure worked up big appetites for all of the yummy food that day!

2007-12-08T22:04:00.000-08:00

This is typical Alyssa and Braden. They are the best of friends, always wrestling and laughing. This was the first day we had rain in a long time so of course they had to make the best of it. They loved jumping in the rain and getting all wet. I don't know what we did for entertainment before these two naughty kids were part of our family, we love them so much!

2007-12-08T21:57:00.000-08:00

This was taken before attending a party for all of the people in our ward who turned 30 this last year! We had a blast at the Heaths house that night and it was fun to dress from our era again. I forgot how long it takes to get my hair curled and ratted just right! Eric's mullet is becoming a weekend event at our house, I had to pack it away after the party, I am a little bit afraid he will get attached to it and try to wear it to work.

RED NECK FAMILY

2007-12-08T15:54:00.001-08:00

2007-12-08T14:52:00.000-08:00

In October, Lacey and I got to visit the Asburry side of our family in Georgia and Florida. We had a blast hanging out with grandpa, grandma, Norma, Donny, Sherry and her family! Lacey got brave and ate alligator for the first time (YUM!) This is a little resturaunt in St. Augustine, FL where grandpa used to cook!
Sharing the truth with Donnie and Sherry! We were lucky that the missionaries were having lunch at the same time we were. I am sure Donny and Sherry will never take me to lunch again!