Happy 17th Birthday Alex!

Al is 17! It was couple of fun days of celebration for our family. What a blessing our Alex has been in our lives. He has turned in to the most fun teenager. He was surprised to go out to move "Miles" early on his birthday morning, and find a new stereo installed! Now we can hear him as he comes rockin' up the road!

Alex and his Birthday-Buddy, Jan! We have pictures of them together, every year since Al was a tiny little feller. What fun to share a birthday with one of our favorite ladies in the whole world! Al also shares the day with my Grandma, Edith Wells, and my dear Aunt Lorna.

What a perfect day to be born!

The Birthday Chair.

Steffi gave Al a fun decal for the back of his car of a Rooster. Very cool idea, Steff!

Happy Birthday to You!

Happy Birthday to You!

Happy Birthday, Dear Alex!

Happy Birthday to you!

Happy Birthday Steff!

It was Steffi's 22nd birthday! 22 in '11 sounds like a lucky year to me!

Dev and I hopped in the car and drove to Cedar City to help her celebrate. We made a plan with her cute roommate, and met her at Dairy Queen, where she thought she was being treated to ice cream.we surprised her and it was a very good time! Zane and Kelsey joined us for the fun, too. Surprise, Steff!

We celebrated the day with a new porcelain 'Mulan' doll for her collection,

and a giant chocolate cupcake.

The gang's all here! Kaylee, Kelsey, Zane, Dev, Steff, Kenzie, and Diana

BEST NEWS EVER!!!!!

We got the best news we ever heard! Kyle and Heather are going to have a baby! We expect the new arrival around August 15th. They will have been married almost exactly 2 years when it is time for the big event! They gave us this really fun puzzle to put together while we were out to dinner at Christmas time. We all got a piece to fit together. I am so very excited, and truly feel overjoyed at the news. Here's the announcement:

Mark and I are gonna be grandparents! How funny is that? I am SO not that old! Mark is......

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

We had our first "Snow Day" ever! It was a crazy storm on December 22. We woke up to an amazing 'Winter Wonderland". School was cancelled! It seemed like the snowfall I remember from when I was a kid in Bear Lake! It was so beautiful and got us all into the Christmas Spirit!

The view from our front door, across the park.

Can we get to the front door?

Mighty Shovelers!

Yay! Presents!

Christmas Eve

Can we finally come upstairs? Did Santa come?

The boys passing time on Christmas Eve with a hot game of Monopoly.

Dev was the big winner!

Happy Christmas Eve, Mark and Keri. :~)


New Christmas Jammers.

And boy jammers.

Christmas Morning

Steff got her annual porcelain doll. A vintage Strawberry Shortcake this year.

So cute!

Al got a Kindle!


Kyle and Heather stopped by to spread some Christmas cheer!

Dev got a big bean bag, and a razor and shaving creme... He's a man, now!

Yay! A Wii!

More Christmas...

My Downstairs tree is a Teddy Bear Tree. We have gotten a new teddy bear ornament each year since we got married. So, we have a lot of fun memories on this tree!

New elf' outfits for our 'build-a-bear' bears.


Hooray! Steffi is home!

Cute "Marie Cole" statues from Marie herself!

Fun lights in our bedroom.