Our Trip to the Zoo

We took the kids to the Zoo for the fist time a while ago. Carson had filled up his chore chart, so his reward was to go to the Zoo. Neither one of the kids had been there before and they really liked seeing all the different animals. Carson's favorite animal was, yes, the Monkeys!

Alaina's Birthday

Finally here are the pictures of Alaina's first birthday. It was September 18th. We had two parties. Our house isn't big enough to hold both sides of the family, so we started have two parties for the kids. Hey more cake is always a good thing, right? Anyway Alaina didn't eat very much of the cake but had a good time making a mess of it!

Update

Well I've been waiting to post until I had some pictures to go with it but Tony has to do some "reformatting" before I can download the pictures from our camera. So anyway this is what's going on with us. Alaina had her first birthday in September. She of course had a lot of fun making a huge mess with the cake while managing to eat very little of it. It was fun though. Carson also had a birthday. It was on Halloween again this year! Can you imagine that? He's 4 now. This was the first year that Carson really understood what his birthday was all about. It was fun to get all excited with him. He got his first real bike with training wheels and everything. He's really only been able to ride it once because the whether has been so crummy, but I'm sure the bike will get lots of use in the future. The last couple of weeks have been pretty hectic around here. Tony got a second job, so now he's working 70 hours a week! We don't get to see him a whole lot which is difficult but the second job will really help us get through the holidays. I'm still working part-time at JCPenny in Nampa so we are going back and forth a lot. So with Tony and I both working, preschool, and being in the R.S presidency my days are pretty full. But I know that things will get better. We just continue to have faith and pray that God will provide a way for us to follow. I'm so looking forward to Thanksgiving in a couple weeks. It really gives me the opportunity to think about what I'm thankful for. My list may not be very extravagant, but I mean it. I am thankful for my husband. He works so hard and everything he does is for his family. I love him so much! My children are wonderful. Yes they can make life hard sometimes, but they are worth it! I am so thankful that we have a home to live in, together. Yes, that is it but they really are what I'm most thankful for!

More pictures of the Coast

Everyone has to take a picture of the sun setting over the ocean. Here's mine.

Alaina had so much fun playing in the sand and water. If you look close there is sand everywhere, I even found some more the next day when I changed her diaper!

Daddy's little girl!

Tony's monster crab. This thing was huge compared to all the other crabs we caught. He was mean too. We had to separate it from the other crabs because it was cracking the shells of the other crabs and tearing their limbs off.

I promised this isn't photo-shopped. There really is a Foster Lake in Sweet Home, Oregon.

Playing at the Beach

Just pictures of us playing at the beach. The water was very cold, but it was so much fun to play in the water!

Fishing at the Coast

When we visited the coast in July Tony, Perry, Thomas, Melissa, Davin and Karen all went fishing for Halibit and Rock fish. They were all sucessfully. Tony also caught a ling cod, but couldn't keep it because he caught it in the wrong part of the ocean. Bummer!

How time does fly!

It seems that there is never enough hours in the day, or enough energy in my body to get everything done. Lately I've been doing some "fall cleaning", and some decorating. That's on top of my normal cleaning, laundry, church calling and work. But I don't need to complain to all you busy people out there. Work is just the nature of life whether at home or at the work place. So even with our slow Internet connection I'll try to post some pictures tonight. Thanks for your patience.