Getting in the spirit for Turkey Day!!

Hannah started drawing "people" a few weeks ago. Wanted to share these with you!!


Aunties!!Shanny's new do! So cute!!


All the girls feetsies....left from middle bottom: Mama, Hannah, Aunt Jeanners, Aunt Shanny, Grandma Sunnie.

Balloon Fiesta 2008

We apologize........the blog has not been updated for 2 months. After we complete all the postings, you will see why. We have been having a wonderfully busy time!!!

These will be out of date order, but oh well. All I can say is...........BALLOON FIESTA!! The kids loved it, and the big kids were pretty giddy as well.

Hayden's 1st Birthday!

Hayden's Walking (and crawling)

Yes, Hayden is walking on his own!! He has taken quite a few steps with Mommy and Daddy, but that's all for now.




Also, he is crawling finally!! He can now pull himself up. This was the first time I saw him do it and of course, it was for food.

Some new & some overdue

Yes, apparently you can get a princess in a box.


Darling ballerina dancing, as Hannah says she's "doing ballerina."

Hannah started this one all by herself, I promise.


Hannah bolts when Hayden and his walker come around!




I'm sure we all did this when we were younger...





Hayden cracks up about learning to say, "Bye-bye."





Hannah walking her favorite kitty, Sachi Neptune (Aunt Shanny's). I have never heard giggling like this come out of Hannah...so funny.




Now let's see runway models do this!! Shoes 8 sizes too big for you, get attacked by a walker, and keep going! Hannah has made herself a little runway across the kitchen so she can enjoy the clacking of the shoes and watching herself in the reflection of the oven and dishwasher. You go girl!







We also had a wonderful dual birthday celebration for Shanny's 21st and Grandma Sunnie's undisclosed age at Andrew's house. Does anyone have pictures???????

Splashground with Walsh/Noce cousins

Little Lucy is getting big!!

Hayden and Joseph (Nicholas and Juli's son). Joseph is 7 months but is as big as Hayden and as you can see here, crawling and climbing!!

Hannah, Kate and Lucy. As you can see, only Kate was interested in getting wet at this point. It took Hannah and Lucy some time to get in the splashing water.


But, Lucy and Hannah had fun doing laps around the park!



Hannah with a cup and bucket, pouring water, still wasn't into getting wet.



Hayden, however, loved it!! I couldn't get pictures of him because he was pulling me through all the showers, walking while Mommy held his hands. We were soaked!!

Colorado in July

The kids did great on the 5 hour drive up to Salida, Co. Hannah sings and wears her sunglasses on top of her head, "Like Mama does."

On our drive northwest to the cabin we stayed in from Salida.

The first time Kirk has been able to feed a deer. Hannah said at the beginning of the trip, after seeing a few deers, "Daddy I wanna feed a deer." We didn't think it would happen!!

Everything is green and beautiful around the Arkansas river valley. So many deer everywhere!

The view from our cabin. Funny, the youth camp I attended in high school is right in center of this photo. Who knew??

Daddy and Hayden in the cabin. Hayden was very curious and had a blast!!

What's that???????

Hayden and Grandma Julia hanging out at the cabin that she arranged for us from one of the doctors in town. Thank you Julia and thank you Mr. and Mrs. Sandell for a great place to stay!!

Since we've been back, Hannah keeps "looking for deers" every time we get in the car.

We also visited great Grandma Flossie's resting place, which is adorned with a new gravestone. We miss you Grandma!!
Hannah had fun running around the cemetery chasing deers that were grazing.

Hannah trying to escape again from the cabin to go see deers.

Such a cute, traditional cabin. The ski's and everything in the place were VERY OLD. Kirk found a book titled, "Traveling rules for Chaffee county" that instructed, "if your stagecoach is attacked by Indians, do not get out because you will get scalped."


There was an old piano there that Hannah and Hayden really enjoyed playing at 6am everyday when they woke up!!

We also enjoyed a beautiful and accomplishing game of golf in Buena Vista with Aunt Ave & Ruby, Uncle Dan, and Derek, but we have no pictures!

Hannah and Hayden enjoyed riding the 4 wheelers around Ave and Dan's house. Hannah also went down her first water slide, over 200 feet long!! She rode with Mommy and had such a blast, saying "Weeeeeee!" all the way down.