2 birthdays, visit from 2 Grandma's, and eggs!!!!

Abby eyeing her larger-than-life balloon...her only gift from her cheap-skate parents. C'mon...she's 2!!! And she got wonderful presents from her Grandmas!!!

She really took to her new baby from Grandma Lambourne! Here she is feeding it...

Her Doggie cake! (her current obsession)

Supervising me putting an outfit on her baby (she's a bit of an overbearing mother....)

Great-Grandma Gubler and Lizzie. Liz is wearing her new dress from Grandma Crowley! Liz is our talker, she never stops! Grandma's lack of hearing wasn't even a deterrent to her constant stream of conversation!

We drove to Overton, where Grandma & Grandpa lived as newlyweds. There was a Gubler Bridge!

At the Lost City Muesum in Overton. Pretty fascinating. They rebuilt this Pueblo house on top of the originial foundation. Kids can run inside and check out all the rooms. It's pretty impressive. Inside were a lot of neat Indian items, and even a guy there evaluating people's found artifacts. Think Antiques Roadshow. He was sitting, analyzing things people brought in. It was really interesting to hear him.

We stopped at Valley of Fire before Overton. We camp here sometimes, and so did the Gublers when first married.

Lizzie's birthday! What a card!

Her cake. She's 5!!

Also, we're getting eggs! All shapes and sizes, too!

Going out and checking for eggs is a highlight of the girls' day.

We Love Kate!

Can't let the day go without saying
Happy Birthday to Kate. So she isn't
so good at flying Dad's new helicopter!
(It got caught in her hair) We love
her strong, sweet, goodness.

Grandma's 87th Birthday in Vegas!

I took mom to Vegas for her birthday!

We enjoyed visiting the Lambournes

and seeing the sites!

We went to the Valley of Fire, and Overton, where mom and dad first

lived after they got married.
We went to the Bellagio for a birthday

lunch. It was great fun.

Mom kept looking for a 25 cent slot

machine, but couldn't find one.

SPOKANE

Right after Christmas we loaded up, dogs and all, and headed for Spokane. The day we got there was Grandpa Whittle's 100th birthday. Glenn and Cheryl put together a nice evening celebrating grandpa. Everyone was there except for Tani's oldest boys, Kyle and Carson who are serving missions. Grandpa is still going strong and has always had a funny sense of humor. He doesn't remember everyone's name, but he can still recall a lot of memories of his life. And 100 years worth of memories is a lot!

All the Whittle grandkids and great-grands.

I love this picture. The Whittle siblings are always quick to pull pranks-here they told Glenn this was going to be a 'make a weird face' picture and at the last minute they put on their normal faces while Glenn continued on with the weird face. :) I think this is frame worthy!

Oh, these girls. They are always up to something. It usually involves dance moves, hair flips and lots of giggling. I'm so glad Audrey has these girls to grow up with. She just loves them!

Alex and Addy (Tyler's daughter) are the same age. Although Addy's vocabulary puts mine to shame! She and Alex were have a piano competition. They kept telling each other they were playing the wrong keys and would point to the sheet music as if they knew what they were talking about. Well, maybe Addy really did.

Nathan brought their popcorn machine and treated everyone to yummy popcorn.

We were treated to an awesome snow storm while we were there. It was so beautiful! Alex and Cody loved stompin around outside til their hands were too cold.

Sasquatch and Duke (Glenn's dog) got to be good buddies.

Snow Football!!

Nice catch Troy! See below for post catch:

And here's another:

I think his words after this were "When did I get to be so old?"

Troy and Nathan were so proud of the deal they found on Seahawks Jerseys.

Anyway, we had a fun time. It's amazing how so many people can fit under one roof at Glenn and Cheryl's. And I think everyone got along too!

I am only a month behind.....These are out of order, so deal with it :)

Mmm...mom's sausage casserole. Amazingly, my whole family loves it!

I love these pictures of Audrey because she is HAPPY! I found this jewlery box at DI and repainted it and added some cheap jewlery inside. She was very pleased!

She loves the bathrobe mom got for her. She wears it to bed almost every night.

Waiting to come up the stairs. We told them they couldn't wake us up before 6:30am. To wake us up Devon played his trumpet, which is a tradition in Troys family. Troy told me they would get their intruments and play them super loud VERY early in the morning.

Santa came!

Here's some pre-Christmas shots of playing in the backyard. It was fun to have a little snow to play in.

The snowman has a sad story. They worked on it so hard. After much trial and error with what to use as the mouth, they decided dog food worked best. Cameron had just put the last piece in and we all backed up to get a picture. And it collapsed in a heap. And the dogs started eating the dog food off the face. It was a sad moment. Cameron ran away in tears claiming it was all his fault. They couldn't see the humor in it like I did.

Go Cougars! Everyone donned their BYU attire for the bowl game that BYU won.

I'm going to try to get caught up on posting! Here is Devon's band concert. He did a great job!