And, the combined Hall and Pratt family (Liz sacrificed and took the picture)
Most of the cousins who came --Luke, Zack and JD are missing (JUSTYN!!!!--this could have been a great picture)
And, with her mom
Our little Averie turned 8 years old! And, she wanted to ride a horse for her birthday so, since she has an awesome aunt, who owns horses, her deepest request was granted! Margo is always so accommodating and let all the kids have a turn, along with the adults--whether they wanted too or not. It was a fun day and fun birthday for Averie. Grandma got invited to share in her day and since I was tending Colton, Logan and Izzie, they got to come as well.
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The kids had a grand time just getting acquainted with the animals. They were so impressed that the dog would obey commands--especially shake
Lucy loved the horse and she and Averie asked if they could do it without Margo leading them, so they did.
(Disclaimer about all the pictures--not favoritism, just we were invited)
Wow--we are up to 4 birthdays in February now, thanks to our last two granddaughters. Happy, happy birthdays to you!
John and Laura surprised me with a gift on his birthday, saying it was my birthday too. True, but he fails to realize that his life is my present-- year after year.
I am very proud of him and love to watch him and Laura as parents.
Little Izzy turned two! Liz was pretty creative and made half the cake for Colton and half for Izzy
She is such a sweetheart and gives great hugs.
Daniel celebrated his birthday last week. Kim took him for a quick getaway to San Diego, one of their favorite places. Hope they had a great time.
He is one of the best!
Hard to believe that little Olive is one year old now.
We had a fun party for her last night. She had a Hello Kitty party, with lots of balloons, decorations, table cloth, plates, cups and party hats. There were lots of people here that love her.
All the little girls were just so excited and hovered around her.
She seemed overwhelmed at times, but loved eating cake, opening presents and walking.
Thanks John and Laura for a fun party to celebrate her life.
We love our February birthday people!
We got to travel to Colorado the first of February for the special double treat of having Trey's baptism and Luke's blessing. It was a great occasion. Besides us, Tom & Kristy's family, Christie and Darren's family and Jer and Liz's family all came. It was quite a houseful, but lots of great memories.
We were pretty worried as we were traveling from the airport to Trav and Allison's because there on the freeway in super cold weather we had a flat tire. It was a Town & Country van and wouldn't you know, someone had a great idea to put the spare under the middle of the car.
So there we were--dad and Darren trying to figure out where it was, then how to get it out, then how to get it to drop down--Christie on the phone with the rental people, kids starving and freezing cold. Dad finally laid down his leather coat and crawled under in the snow and mud and after 40 minutes of so we got on our way again. We thought it might be a bad omen.
Things went pretty good after that. We got to meet Luke and he is adorable. I loved, loved holding him. I had to fight to get him though. He was the most popular person there.
He is such a sweet baby and seems to take all the noise and busy life in stride.
The cousins had such a great time together. I am sure Trav and Allison's home will never be the same.
The boys had wars with their weapons, and I couldn't catch all of them cause they wouldn't slow down for the picture.
The girls played dress up, house and everything else.
It was quite the job to feed everyone, but Allison had everything planned and we all ate good.
Saturday was Trey's baptism. The program was so good and there was such a great spirit there.
Grandpa gave the baptism talk (hint, hint, it is nice to have grandpa's participate!) and did a great job, Allison's sister sang and it was beautiful and then Grandma LeDuc gave a great talk on the Holy Ghost. It was a pretty special day.
After the baptism we went to Brody's game and that was fun.
He is aggressive and really goes after the ball. Josh and Colton came as well and that made him pretty happy.
The next morning we awoke to a winter wonderland. So much in fact that church was canceled! That put a damper in the plans, but then again, it turned out to be really special. Allison's father and their bishop came a little after one to their home, along with the family and some friends and Trey was confirmed and Luke was blessed.
Travis gave some beautiful blessings to both boys.
The spirit was really strong and it turned out to be very memorable.
Unfortunately, we had to leave shortly after to get to the airport. Allison fixed us all a great lunch. We left a huge mess for them, but a much quieter house.
Happy belated birthdays to 4 special people.
Kristy starts out the year for our family. This wasn't the happiest of birthdays for her this year, but she was able to share it with lots of family and a tender time of remembering. She is one of the best.
Unfortunately she wasn't around much and threatened me when I wanted to take her picture, so I am putting in last years celebration picture. She doesn't look a year older though, so this works
After Kristy, Trey celebrated a very special birthday! He turned 8 years old.
He has been wanting this particular birthday to come for a long time now. He had a great day and got to celebrate with family and friends and later in the month, with cousins.
After Trey, it was Colton's birthday. He turned 10 this year.
He was able to have many days of celebrating that lasted the weekend. His mom made him a football cake because he is into football right now.
Trav finished the month up with his birthday. He also is one of the best! It was pretty great this year because we got to be with him and his family right after his birthday. That doesn't happen very often, so it was great.
