A new Year!!!!

Happy New Year!!!!!

It was really weird that 2008 came to us before it came to our friends and family in Utah and Seattle!!! We called everyone at midnight our time and then and 2 & 3:00 our time we started getting calls from them.

We had a really fun night last night. Some friends came over and spent New Years Eve
with us. It was nice to have other people to bring in the new year with. It was a pretty laid back night just hanging out, eating yummy snacks,talking with friends,playing pool and ping pong.
And the kids of course were happy that they got to stay up till midnight for once (we were suprised that Issac was the only one who didn't make it and he lasted to 11:30pm).
Me & Ali!
Mitch with his sparkling grape juice!
Ali & Isabel love sparkling grape juice!

A great night but now it's time to start our new resolutions and make the 2008 the best year yet!!!
Cheers to a great year!!!

A new week, a new PARTY!

Last night I went to a neighborhood Christmas party (for girls only) while the dads & kids hung out at another neighbors house (i found out later that my family never made it)! It was lot of fun eating,dancing,talking,exchanging gifts. Here are just a few pictures I took. I am not a very good photographer but you will get the point!

Charlies angels!

gift exchange!

Shannon,Pauline & Kate

Mandy,Shelley,Kandice,Stacee,Maureen

terrible picture but had to show the "BIG BOW"

(does it reimind you of anyone?)

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL THE GIRLS IN THE "HOOD"!!!

Happy Birthday Mr. Sinatra!!!!

I have been sent a bunch of pictures from the party that I have yet to go through so there are probably some better ones than are here that I may add at a later time. I said before that most everyone one was in tuxes or formal dresses well, I was the only one in a costume and yes it is a costume I did actually have to rent it from a costume shop and i'm a little bit scared that I actually wore it but it was fun so I guess thats what counts! What a fun night and guess what, I have another party to go to this week! If your ever in the mood for a good party just come visit me because there is always something fun going on in our neighborhood!!!

Saturday morning breakfast

What you might not know about Brandon is that he does a lot of the cooking around here! I'm not quite sure what happened because up until we moved from Bellevue(WA) to Bonney Lake(WA) I was the sole cook but something somehow changed and now Brandon does a lot of the cooking or we do it together.

Last night we were hanging out at the Young's and a few of the neighborhood girls Ali included spent the night there. Brandon decided to invite the kids over for breakfast. They finally showed up around 10:30 and were ready to start helping B cook.


They cooked up a bunch of panckes,sausage,hashbrowns,eggs & OJ. They must have been hungry because Ali and Isabel each ate 3 pancakes and Katie ate 7 yes 7!!

Oh, you ask "where was Mitch"?


Mitch and Isaac we being typical boys playing x-box while everyone else was slaving away in the kitchen.

Yummy!!!

Happy Birthday Frank!

Friday night our neighbors had a party in celebration of Frank Sinatra's birthday!!!!It was quite the event. Fully catered with yummy Hors d'Oeuvres,great music all Frank of course and to re-create Vegas they had to have a craps table with real "dealers" (I don't really know what you call the guys when your not playing with cards). It was a lot of fun. Most everyone was dressed in tuxes and formal dresses and it was requested that because of my "blonde" hair, that I come as Marilyn Monroe. Apparently, you can't have a Rat Pack party without Marilyn!

If you check out our blog often you have probably learned that our neighborhood finds any reason possible to have a party and every party is out done by the next. Keep checking in because there will be more pictures of this party coming soon!!!

Cheers, to new friends!!!

Since Thanksgiving is a day for thanks, we are so thankful that we have found great friends in the Youngs. Before we went on the cruise Shannon invited to spend Thanksgiving with her family. We were excited to have others to spend the day with!!!
Shannon put a lot of work into making it a great day and we had an awesome meal.
Cheers, to the Youngs. Thanks for being such great friends and making us feel so welcome in your home and in the neighborhood!!!