i wish somebody would have told me...

not to leave home looking like this.

(2 days before my due date)

thanks everyone.

jellystone part II

i don't know what your family does when you get together, but we take pictures....

lots of them.

manly love.
(bunc (justice) and isaac)
mia wanted her own family pic with just max and ike. she tugs at my heartstrings a little bit.

i love my man.

bunc and paige loving our max. he's going to miss his aunts and cousins once they're all gone. i know he's still young, but he really does love them already.

everybody keeps commenting on max's hair, but i can't believe they haven't noticed his mustache yet. it's coming in red, just like his dads.

until next year west yellowstone. we'll miss you.

jellystone...part 1

so every year my family goes to west yellowstone for the fourth of july. it's one of my favorite times of the year. it's pretty amazing when we can all get together in one place seeing how there are 7 brothers and sisters and we are scattered across the country, from coast to coast. the only one that didn't come was my brother luke, and his two kids. but they had a pretty good excuse, and believe me i checked into it. here are all of the guys except isaac. they are all gung ho on the mcdonald's fillet-0-fish. and of course, as much as isaac loves mickey d's, he doesn't love the fillet-o-fish.

so they decided to try and break isaac into loving them, but after a fishy fight, their evil plot didn't work. but it sure was funny.

we do a lot of celebrating every 4th while we are in yellowstone, too. it's georgia's birthday, and this year was her 2nd. i know i'm partial to thinking this, but i think she found her new favorite cousin

happy 2nd birthday georgie, we are so glad we get to celebrate it with you every year.

we also celebrate something else on georgia's birthday. our anniversary. our marriage is as old as she is. 2 years, can you believe it? and i love him more everyday.

there aren't many places to have a romantic dinner in west yellowstone, but when we saw this cute old couple, the bistro made it well worth our while. i hope one day, we'll be sitting here for our 50th anniversary. and we'll probably look something like this...

more to come.