Going Away

I decided since it's been about a month since we left WY that I should probably post pictures of our going away party! I do have a pretty cute video of the kiddos in the pool that I'll have to upload later.

Sam and Beth were our gracious hosts for the day......Thank you so much guys! You really let us take over your house...the whole clan came over: me, Matt, Avery and Sammi! We are so blessed because really all of our friends offered to host a party for us, it just was a matter of when and where. We had a great time and thanks to everyone who came out to say goodbye. :) We had so much yummy food...as seems to be custom with our get-togethers!

On to the sappy part...

We made so many great friends in Wyoming....those friends really ended up becoming family. We spent so many holidays together; many of our families grew in size, whether it was little bundles of joy or little furry friends; we all "borrowed" each others husbands while our's was away on alert...and of course that's when EVERYTHING would happen; if someone called in need of help, whatever it happened to be, no questions were asked just a "we'll be right there"; new friends were added while old ones moved on to other parts of the country. We had so many parties and BBQs together that I cannot even count. When you were in our homes, you were family. I am talking in past tense because most of us have left, or will be on their way soon. Even though we are now scattered throughout the country, you all will be in our hearts forever. We will see all of you again I know, some sooner than others. It's really not a goodbye, but rather a "see you later!". How do you say goodbye to people who have really become family??

I really could go on and on and on about how much we will miss all of you and how much you were like family but as I'm in tears writing this (because I'm a dork!!) I need to stop and post some pictures.

Some of the gang hanging out.

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Tanner, Tim and Matt (Tim was actually Matt's sponsor when we first got to WY! We've been great friends ever since!)

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Evan striking a pose in his soggy diaper. :)

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Little Miss after a splash in the pool

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Being "CHEEEESY"

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Tanner being goofy as usual

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One of my favorite pictures of Evan....I seem to have a lot of pictures of the kiddos and not a lot of us!!

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Debbie and Tammi :)

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Happy 2 week (plus one day!) Birthday Braylon!

Debbie and Braylon...what a sweet picture

David and his little buddy. :)

Wide awake!

Sleeping peacefully (at least that's what it looks like!)

My computer has finally let me open and save some pictures of Braylon, our friends' David and Debbie's new baby boy. He turned two weeks old yesterday! He is absolutely adorable. We miss you guys terribly and hope to be able to see Braylon one day soon.

Sing and Dance

I was going to put pictures up of David and Debbie's new baby boy, Braylon, but for some reason my computer is acting up. So here's a goofy video of Avery singing and dancing with her little music table. If you can't tell in the video she's "playing" the piano. :) She cracks me up!

There isn't too much going on with us right now. We're just still trying to get setlled in....before we have to move again probably!! Sammi is enjoying our yard, as well as the rest of us. I think she mostly enjoys running up and down the fenceline barkin at other dogs or leaves or whatever she thinks is going to come in our yard and take over her territory. Matt seems to be enjoying his job so far...I'm definitely enjoying the schedule. He's home just about every night for dinner and Avery gets to see him so much more. It's been great. Avery and I have been enjoying our time together shopping, dancing, walking, whatever we decide to do for the day.

Well that's all for now folks...enjoy the video! P.S. At one point in the video, if you can understand her, Avery says "picture" because she thinks that's what I was doing. She's learning so many new words and talking up a storm lately! One of our favorites (extreme sarcasm) is "give me!". Love that one! :)


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Bon Jovi

The weekend before we moved to CA, Matt and I went to see Bon Jovi in concert. We had dinner with Dave, Debbie, Debbie's sister, mom and their friend John...then headed to the show. We had a great time but the concert barely last an hour and a half. We were disappointed in that but life goes on!! Thanks again to Debbie for being DD....she was very pregnant and tired but she was a trooper for putting up with us!! :)

P.S. Debbie's sister is also pregnant with a boy and is due in September. Don't they both look great????


Matt and I before the concert

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Debbie and I

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The girls: Debbie's sister, me and Debbie

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The guys: David (new daddy!), Matt and John

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Congratulations Dave & Debbie!!

Our friends David and Debbie had a healthy baby boy on Sunday August 12th! His name is Braylon Asher. Weight: 6lbs. 8oz and was 21 inches long. Braylon, Mom and Dad are all doing great, very tired but everyone is healthy which is the important part! :) Congratulations you guys...I'm so sad we were not able to be there to welcome him but you are all in our thoughts and prayers. So far I don't have pictures, except the one that is on Matt's phone so here are some pictures from Debbie's shower last month. :)

P.S. I just uploaded a whole bunch of pictures, so I'm hoping to get caught up on the blog soon!!

Beautiful Momma-to-be Debbie

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Debbie and her friend Jyl from work.

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The Wonderful Miss Tammi. :)

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Debbie opening a few gifts

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Self explanatory...

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Some of the girls...

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And last but not least, ME! :) That cake was awesome!!

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Congratulations again Dave and Debbie!! Can't wait to see little Braylon in person. Miss you guys!!!!

Happy Anniversary and more info...

Happy 4th Anniversary sweet pea! It seems like just yesterday we were hanging out together at Miami and now here we are, 6 years later, married with a beautiful baby girl. I guess she isn't such a baby anymore, but until we have another she's all we've got. :) Love you bunches!!

On to more house info...

I haven't uploaded new pictures to our computer yet, so please bear with me. This picture is from a long time ago when we were in WY but I thought it was cute and wanted to get a picture on the blog!!

Things here are still going well....this base is going to privatized housing soon so we are dealing with that mess. It's going to be a good thing in the end but we are in the transition phase and are most likely going to have to move at least one more time while we're here. The house we are currently living in will eventually be torn down. Pretty crazy huh? I'll have to get some pictures up of our beautiful sea foam green bathroom...don't be jealous!

Enjoy the picture.



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We're Here!

Hi there from sunny (sort of!) California!! We finally arrived on July 29th and it's been a whirl wind ever since. We are officially moved in to a new home and still unpacking. We didn't plan on moving in this quickly, but it's best in the long run. Avery and Sammi did very well on the drive, but they are both definitely glad to be out of the car!! (As well as Matt and I!) We have a nice, big backyard but the house is nothing to write home about. Nothing like the house we just moved out of in Wyoming. It's a nice little ranch though, and there's nothing that a little TLC can't take care of.

I have a ton of pictures to post (not from our trip out here....couldn't find the camera!) and hopefully I'll be able to do that soon. We are getting settled, but still have the most difficult task to tackle. The garage!! Coming from a huge house with a huge basement and a one car garage, we have to slim down a lot!! We do not have a basement here so the garage is our sole place to store anything. It's a good thing it doesn't snow out here since we will not be using the garage for a car!