Madison's Prom 2012

Despite heartbreak, maliciousness, hardships, and self doubt this kid has shown his true colors. Traven has supreme integrity, spirituality, loyalty and respect. He has risen above the petty attempts made by others to bring him down. We are so proud of him. He is dating like crazy (with a lot of different girls), working, baiting bears, and having fun. He was lucky enough to get to go to 2 proms this year. This is Madison High School's Prom. His date was Audrianna Rose. They went mini golfing and had pizza before the dance.

It's a Masquerade Prom 2012

Kiana answered Traven by saying YES. Kyah had to go clean his room a bit before we could let her down there.

Trying on his "vintage" tux. The boys all got matching tuxes and the guy who rented them to them had to go down to the basement to get them. He told the boys they were about 20 years old. Pretty sure that is the same tux Trev wore to our wedding.




Kiana's mom, DeAnn, and I put together a kit kat brunch for the kids. They do this day date thing and it is expensive so we stepped in. We created a menu and the kids had to list the items in the order that they wanted them served. Each menu item stood for an item we were cooking (roses are red: red velvet waffles). Luck of the draw whether or not you got your fork with your food. We served red velvet waffles with a cream cheese spread, raspberry muffins, scalloped potatoes, bacon and egg soufles, ham, hot coco with heart shaped marshmallows, and fruit cups. After brunch they decorated Valentine's cookies.

After brunch the couples split into 3 teams (there were 6 couples) and played Bigger and Better. They started out with pencils. Tra's team ended up with a trampoline. After the kids left to get ready for prom, DeAnn and I hemmed Kiana's dress and made masks.

My baby is all grown up. I will admit that I teared up some. Here he is escorting his beautiful young lady to their first prom.



Yes, that is the limo they all rented. They had a blast. I'm a little jealous because I've never even seen a limo up close.



I was lucky enough to be asked to take the pictures this year. They are beautiful.

Valentine's Day with the little girls.

Today while everyone else was as school, Acacia and Elyssa and I made Valentine's for their mom Nikki. They turned out really cute!
Today for Valentine's Day while everyone was in school, Acacia and Elyssa and I made Valentine's for their mom, Nikki. They turned out really cute!

Beautiful

These are a few of the pictures I took of one of the flower arrangements at my beautiful grandma's funeral.

Merry Christmas to all!

Giant Kohlrabi 2011

This year Trevor tried a different strain of Kohlrabi. They are HUGE! The biggest one weighed 17 pounds with the leaves and 15 pounds without. We wondered if they would be woody, but they weren't. They are so good and we decided to grow them again next year. We made coleslaw out of them and just ate them plain. Yummy!