More field trip photos!

Best Buds!

These two are crazy. The other day I heard them talking and Jayce said to Justin, "Yeah, we are going to the dentist." Justin responded, "I know! It's cause I have diarrhea!" They finish each other's sentences...weird!

Grandma Tanner's Mission

Amazing!

Hey, I can't believe it...I'm actually getting better at blogging. Music! Can you hear it? I figured it out all by my lonesome, no help from hubby. Dang I'm good!

Mini-Vikes Soccer Cousins

Ethan (Vaughn's son), Benson (Todd's son), Emily (Valerie's daughter), Justin and Jaxson all play on the Mini-Vikes Middleton Soccer Team. It is fun to go watch them play...and when I say play, I mean play. Every now and then one of them will actually play soccer. Actually, Benson and Jaxson are pretty good. Jaxson usually scores during the games. Valerie is just happy that Emily now chases the ball instead of stand there and cry. It has been fun. Their favorite part is the snack after the game!

Grandpa Tanner and the boys!

Mike's dad and his wife just sold their home in Meridian and moved permantly to California. We miss having them around. Before the house sold, Grandpa would have to come up to take care of things so we got to see him every now and then. Lynda has been in California for quite a while. Now I guess we'll have to make a trip to go visit them in sunny California.

Grandma Tanner and the kids

Grandma likes to come and watch the kids play their basketball, soccer and softball games. This time she had come to watch Mallary play basketball. Mallary is on the 3rd grade Select team. She made 13 points at her last game!

Annual Christmas Pajamas!

Grandma Tanner makes the kids pajamas every year. She has been doing it for 15 years and the kids (and parents) LOVE it. She is so nice to pick out the great prints and make all twelve of her grandkids pajamas. Steve and Karla didn't come for Christmas so their three kids are missing from this picture. We had a great Christmas Eve with Mike's mom and his brother Gary and his family. We had yummy food, played Christmas music with chimes and had a little Christmas program. It was a lot of fun and for the first time ever, we did it at our house. Too fun!

Waltman Family Gift & Goodie Night

All of the grandkids draw names for gifts. It is quite an ordeal because their are over 50 grandkids. We all gathered at my parent's home and had a great party.

Christmas Lights

Mike did a GREAT job putting up Christmas lights. He went ALL out and we loved it...but not the power bill. We decided we are switching to LED lights from now on.

Christmas Tree Hunting!

Our tradition of 12+ years is going with Mike's family to find our Christmas Tree. We love spending time with Grandma Tanner, Gary & Holly, Steve & Karla and all their kids (Steve & Karla had to go back to Utah). Usually we go major sledding but there was just enough snow to have a giant snowball fight and build small snowmen. We found our tree and had tons of fun!

Fun Finding a Tree

We went up to Idaho City to find our tree. We ended up going over Mores Creek Summit and just on the other side. We did find a little bit of snow. We had rolls and hot chocolate and lots of fun.

Just me and the kids!

While we were waiting for Mike, who was helping Gary and Holly get their extra tall tree, we posed for this picture.

Thanksgiving

We had a great Thanksgiving. We went to Gary & Holly's for dinner, which was way too good. It was good to see Steve and Karla and their kids. Then that night we went for dessert to my parent's house. It was wild and crazy with everyone there except Lance and Becky but we had a great time.

HALLOWEEN

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We went trick or treating with Gary & Holly and had a great time. Holly's house is always the best decorated in the subdivision. Justin and Jayce were supposed to dress up as cowboys but Mike decided to let them pick what they wanted to wear. Justin went for comfort and Jayce didn't want to dress up. So...after a bunch of kicking, screaming and bribing with the duck call, he decided to be a hunter.

HUNTING!

We had a fun time hunting with my family this year. We went to Snowbank Mountain for 3 days. The weather wasn't too bad and even though we didn't see many bucks, we still had a lot of fun. Mike surprised a bear that was only 10 yards away and it stood up on it's hind legs so he shot and tagged it. Preston was the only other hunter that was successful. Oh yeah, Jadan got a badger!

JAYCE

Jayce is two years old now and is pretty cute and fun. He LOVES Justin and for some reason he calls him "Momma". Don't ask me, I have no idea why. He can and will say everyone elses name but when it comes to saying Justin, he says "Momma". It is fun to hear him talk. He tries so hard to put sentences together. We can usually understand what he wants but it's more like broken english. He's fun!

MARENA & MALLARY

This picture was taken on our trip to Seattle and to the Flake Family Reunion this past summer. We had a great time and had never taken our kids to the west coast before. Marena just started Driver's Ed (scary that we are old enough to have a kid driving soon) and Mallary is so excited about Halloween. The other day Mallary asked me when she was going to get braces because she said her teeth are the only thing that's not good on her whole body. That made me smile...she's pretty funny.

JUSTIN

Justin is 3 years old and loves to pose for the camera. He is our funny kid. He does crazy things and can't seem to keep his hands off of the kittens. He and Jayce can get into quite a bit of trouble when they want to.