Lea and Josh's Wedding

My girlfriend Lea got married to the man i hooked her up with Josh Gardner on November 1st. I introduced them last summer when we all went boating! We always thought they'd make a perfect couple and they did....they're now married!!!!! Lea looked so gorgeous, she made me cry!!! It meant alot to us to have Storm as the flower girl!!! And she did great!! She didn't throw any of the flowers though but she walked down the aisle with the ring bear Dylan (Josh's son) and stood up with the bridesmaids the whole time!!!! Atleast she was good!!! The reception was so fancy and beautiful!!! Our friend Kassen caught the bouquet!!! Oh oh Steven!!!! lol It was a great time!!! And it was so wonderful to see everyone again. It had been way to long since we seen them last!!!!! So Congratulations to the happy newlyweds!!!!!! love ya guys!!!!

Halloween

Halloween was a blast!!! Ryder was a fat lil dinosaur and Stormi was a Kitty!!!! On halloween night we had to drive to WA for a wedding the next day. So we decided to take the kids trick or treating before we left!!! They got way to much candy!! Anyway they ate some on the way !! a five hour drive that was miserable!!!! They were bouncing out of their seats!!!! Storm talked just about the whole way!!!! Never give your kids candy before a 5 hour drive!!!! lol never again we will travel on halloween!!!! But other than our long drive we had a great time! Storm had a halloween party at her preschool!! Everyone dressed up, even the parents!!! Storms favortie part was whacking the pinata and grabbing all the candy!!!!!! Bubba didn't really have to best of time, he wanted out of his costume!!!!!

Afghanistan....

My dad, Pig, as you can tell is in Afghanistan. He's been there since September 1st! he's not fighting well protecting himself is more like it! His job is to inspect the buildings that are built and makes sure everything is going smoothly. But he still has to do military drills and routines so he knows what to do i case anything goes wrong. He says "He has watched to many war movies, so when they are in the Humvee and driving through the town, he is constatnly looking at the buildings for snipers!" Yeah like thats not a little scary!!! Its hard having him gone but we get to still talk to him and send e-mails!! We miss him very much and can't wait for him to come home safe!!!

Storm Kailee-Preschool

So far Storm has had Preschool for 3 weeks! She has learned so much and loves learning it! her first week was basically and introduction to home base! Once a week actually every tuesday her teadher Mrs. Danielle comes over for 1 1/2 hours and does projects and school work wirh her! She knows how to say all her ABCs and count to 10! She can slso draw and identify squares, triangles, circles and rectangles. Her second week she studied the letter A, number one and color red! Each week she had to do bunches of home work before her next visit! Then this last week she didi the letter B, number 2 and color blue! Each week they learn a new letter, number and color! she also gets to paint a picture just about everytime!! Then twice a month she gets to go to school which they call socials and have a class with all the kids in home base!!!! She is doing so good at meeting new friends and getting along great with everyone!

Ryder Axle 14 months old

Well the crawling days are almost behind us! Ryder is fianlly starting to walk! It has been taking him awhile but he starting to get the hang of it! He stands up on his own and had very good balance!!!! He can only want short distances! If he thinks it too far then he gets down and crawls he knows that works much faster! He has seven teeth and bites so dang hard!!!! He is always trying to copying Storm, she teaches him alot! sometimes i don't know if it a good thing or a bad thing!! lol no just kidding! He definetly is getting big though!!!! Our lil Chunky Munky!!!!

Summer in Montana!!!!

Montana is a blast no doubt about!!! We've went swimming a few times in the beautiful lakes!!!! We went to Bull lake a couple times but our favorite place is this huge sandy beach, at warland creek!!! It a beautiful spot at Lake Koocanusa!!!! We've made a few new friends!! Our closest friends up here are, their names are Jeff and Jenny May!!! We are actually attending their wedding on Sept 6th!! But we mostly do stuff with my brother Derek and his girlfriend Jessica!!! The days up here are getting colder and colder!! i think we had our last summer weekend just last weekend!! We can see our breath in the mornings and at night!! Its crazy!!! its gonna take some getting used to!!!! Other than we've just been enjoying the summer and chillin!!! And spending a little more time with my dad before he leaves, August 30th :( But we are very happy adn still can't believe we are actually here!!!!!!!!!!

Storm and Ryder

Storm and Ryder having some summer fun in Montana!! Storm just meet her preschool teacher, her name is Mrs. Danielle! She is so excited to go to school!! She actually in a program called Homebase, when a teacher once a week comes to the house and teachers her different things and then twice a month they have these socials at the school with the other kids that are in home base!! She is getting a fox backpack that she is thrilled to get!!!! She is all ready to go with her crayons, pencils, paper!! her first day is next week, exciting exciting!!!!! And Ryder boy he is trying to walk! So far he has tooken 2 steps!! once he realizes he's standing by himself he drop down and crawl!!! He waves bye bye noow, its so cute!!!! And his new talent that was taught to him by Storm is dancing!!! He'll sit there and bob his head and shake his body!!!! Its so cute...he's got skill!! lol So thats everyhtign that new for now!!!! they getting big way to fast!!!!!