Happy Birthday

Kyndra Michelle

The big 10

Grandma Teresa took Kyndra out for her birthday. They first went to Applebee's for lunch and shared a salad. Then went to the mall to put out a outfit. They also came home with earrings and make-up. When they went to check out the cashier said " Double digits" I guess it's the thing to do when you turn 10. Go shopping.
They great a wonderful time . Thanks mom.
Some of the family came for cake and ice cream. We had two of the most yummy cakes. German chocolate and chocolate cake with cream cheese and chocolate chips. Our family favorite cakes yum, yum.
Soooooo cute
Happy birthday Kyndra

We love you

K- Kind at heart.

Y- You are our best helper especially when mom and dad are gone.

N- Nice or naughty. Nice of course. She's always nice to everyone.

D- Daddys girl. She loves to go on dates with her dad.

R- red or pink. Pink. Her favorite color since she was little.

A- Always willing to help. She trys really hard to help mom keep the house clean. She is a

happy girl. Always willing to please. And trying to fast to grow up to fast.

Memorial Day

Grand Coulee

Our annual 4th of July trip. My parents and my sister came this year. We also had some friends come too. We had a great time. This the weather so good but a little chilly on the 4th. but we still had our popicles and fudge bars. The kids were still able to sit on top of the car.
Micheal, Gabe and caleb playing in the sand. They all have become good buds. They get along very well. We were glad that they came this year. Kristie and her family only came up for the day.
They are having fun making sand cookies. yum. The water was little cold that day. So the kids played up on the sand most of day.
Micheal found a baby worm. Oh how cute. We found a sticke to put it on and took it everywhere. He had a great time.
Katelyn and Grandpa Jack just hanging out by the water. She is so adorable in her pink sun hat. She's the baby of the family so she is always being held. And there's Dad looking good as ever. He is now 59. We love you both.

Pioneer Children Sang as they walked and walked

June 11th -14th

Our sweet Melissa.

Mellissa was always next to us.

I got a good picture of her looking at us. She had a great time. She had wonderful time too. We just finishedthe womens pull.

Still treking

We has bacon and beans, cornbread. Yum, yum. We must of all been hungry. Our Sweet Jessica. I got an awesome picture of Jes. She looks too cute. She was also in a great family. (The Coxs. Dusty & Kim). On the last day her family was in front of us and Melissa in back. We were so blessed. We were able to see them all the time. Well, Jamin wasn't so lucky. We didn't see much of him. He was always far away and he had to stay with his family. He had a good time too. How could you not. What an experience this was. We love you all.




One of our boys caught a horny toad. It was a pretty size.







This was the hill for the womens pull.

On wednesday we had a women pull. It was harder than I that. We had a strong girl in our family Kama Griffits. She a basketball players for chs. The hill was constant with switch backs. I that I was in good shape. I guess not. When we all made it up all the women sang Sisters in Zion. It was the most spiritual experince on the trip. We had many of the girls in tears and myself. I still get teary just thinking about it. It was hard.

Some of the boys could any watch without tears rolling down. And then boys who have cared less.

It was nice to see the boys be in that situation.

We had two boys in our family in tears and just wanted to help and just couldn't, they just had to watch. Of course David was in tears too. It was very hard for him to just sit back in watch.










Oh David.. He looks SOOOO cute. He was an awsome cook. We had to cook in the dutch ovens. We brought dad Westovers oven . They worked well. He made cornbread. It looked awesome. Golden brown and was also cooked all the way through. It tasted great. His Dad would be proud. Dave has always watch his dad since he was little but never did it on his own. I was so proud of him. He was the cutest pioneer there.

When we got home our kids all thought he looked like Indiana Jones.






Andy and Melissa. Melissa was always behind us. Her family and ours became close friends (Justin and Shannon Pluid). So we saw her quite often. She sure surprised us all. She was always up in front pulling the handcart. And won the stick pull for the girls in our group. Way to go Melissa. It was fun to have Andy there as well.

Trek

June 11th-14th our stake went to the tri-cities for a trek. It was great experience. Wed. 5:00am we meet at the stake center to catch the buses. We then recieved our families. We has 8 kids. Surprisely most of the 18 ma's and ma 's didn't know anyone on their list. The stake leaders did a great job putting the kids into the families. This is a picture of our Family. On the first day we got sun, rain, high winds and it even helled. We were all pretty wet and cold. We made it to camp and had dinner then was told we had to move about 500ft. away. We were so close to the crops . The farmers were spraying cemicals on the fields. So we all had to pick and move. Everyone was in good spirits. We walked about 4 to 5 miles a day. We walked in brushes, weeds, dirt, mud, and more dirt. We were all very dirty.

Later on Wed. We had three people on horseback bring the youth letters from home. Most of the kids cried.
























This in our family walking to Zion.

Oh, Don't we look GREAT. Me in my funny looking Bounet. It was tooo big. So I got burned. Later I decided to use someone elses. I didn't care what I looked like towards to end. I was burned, Hot, and dirty. We had a great time. David looked handsome the whole time. We are so greatly for this wonderful experience. We feel very blessed.

Preschool Graduation

Kindergarten here I come.

Gabe had fun with his teacher Miss Cinda. Thats what we all called her. Her named is Cindy Porter. She is a member of the church. I helped out one day a week so he could go for free. During the year I had to help her help for about 8 weeks. She had 4 employers leave in a months time. I taught 11 pre-preschool kids which were 3 years old. I didn't have anyone to help me out and I had to figure out what I was going to teach each day. The kids were monsters at first I did get them to all obey me by my 4th week. Figures. I had to remember to love them. Some of the kids didn't have parents. They were in foster care beacuse they were in drugs or were not kind to their kids. I was sad somedays just because their were kids that just needed to be loved and to be huged. I had a blast. I learned alot from this experience. I really learned to love each one of our Heavenly Father Children.

Gabe and his cousin Caleb had a lot of fun together at school. They went three days a week. They really became great friends. My sister and her family leave in postfalls were we went to preschool. She also worked there too. She's still working through half of the summer. We all enjoyed the school. It felt good to be there and to know you were with Lds friends.

The school put on a program for the parents. They sang songs and had a BBQ. About half of the songs they sang were primany songs. Popcorn poping, spring time, Birds in the tree, Because it spring , and wise man foolish man. So the boys knew the songs. It was a great year for Gabe.

Happy Birthday Jen

JEN'S ABCs

June 3rd

IT'S ALL ABOUT ME

A- ATTACHED - Very attached and madly in love with my handsome prince.

B-BEST FRIEND-My best friend is David but I always have 5 little friends too.

C- CAKE OR PIE- Most definitely cake (choc. cake)

D- DAY OF CHOICE- Friday. It's the beginning of the weekend and also I get to go on a date with my loving hushand.

E- EVERY MOMENT COUNTS- I love to take each moment at a time . Our time here on earth is to short.

F- FAVORITE COLOR- purple

G- GAINTS OR DODGERS- Gaints because Josh's team for basball is the Gaints, and I love to watch him play. His team is raked #1 in his league.

H-HAIR STYLISTS OR NURSE- I've been a hair stylist since 1995. I work out of my home. I truely enjoy making people feel good.

I- INDULGENCE- Chocolate. I love anything chocolate especially chocolate covered strawberries (Thank you Denise, you make the best and the biggest.)

J- JANUARY OR JULY- July. January is way to cold for me. I love the sun.

K- KIDS- I have five. They are all angles.

L- LIFE LESSONS- We need to learn from our trials and learn from them . To become more like Christ.

M- MARRIAGE DATE- June 28th 1996

N- NUMBER OF SIBLINGS- I have only one sister who is 2yrs younger. She lives in Post Falls.

O- ORANGES OR APPLES- Oranges.

P- PANSIES OR DAISIES- Daisies, they are my favorite flower.

Q- QUOTE- I want to live my life so those who know me, but don't know christ will want to know christ, because they know me.

R- REASON TO SMILE- When the kids do or say something that is sweet.

S- STEAK OR FISH-Well thats a toss up. A good steak from wolf lodge is the best. But fish is always good .

U- UNKNOWN FACT ABOUT ME- Many people dont' know that I like to hunt. I love the outdoors.

V- VERY FAVORITE PLACE TO VISIT- I like to visit mexico. It's hot, and the beaches are incredible and I enjoy learning about different cultures. Also I love to listen to David speak spanish.

W- WORST HABIT-I bite my finger nails.

X- X-RAY, ULTRASOUND- Ultra sound- Ultrasound means we will have a baby. X-ray means

somthing might be broken. I've never had a broken bone in my life.

Y- YOUR FAVORITE FOOD- Well , I'm not picky. But if I had a choice I enjoy seafood (crab). I will try most anything.

Z- ZION- The church of Jesus Christ Latter-Day Saints is Zion. Joining the church is becoming a citizen of Zion. I am thankful to be a member of this church. I'm grateful for our savior , for his example and for his teachings.