2007 in a nutshell

It is amazing to me how fast time flies by! Where did 2007 go?


It was a busy year for us. We were able to spend quite a bit of time in Utah
this year visiting family and friends. Grandma Dorothy had surgery the end of Feb. to remove a cancerous tumor in her lung. It was a very hard surgery for her and she ended up spending 6 weeks in the hospital. The Dr. say that she is Cancer free and we pray that it stays that way. We were able to go our and help/support our family for a few weeks.
We put our house on the market in April with hopes of moving back to Utah to be closer to our family and friends.

We made some new friends this year. Sara, Tim and Nolan live around the corner from us and we have known them for a couple of years. But this year we got to spend more time with them and they have become very dear friends to us.
The kids play well together and Sara is my scrapbooking buddy!

Kimberly just loves Nolan, she says she is going to get married to him. She is so funny.

The end of May when the kids got out of school we headed back to Utah and spent 6 weeks there. My mom had surgery and they found cancerous fibroids. She went though radiation for 6 weeks and they have said that they have gotten all. They will keep a close eye on her to make sure it doesn't come back. Please keep her in your prayers that it is all gone.
We had our fist trip to the ER this summer with Kimberly. Little stinker fell off of Russ' shoulders and landed on her face. It cracked her brow bone and gave her a nasty black eye. But all in all she was fine!




I couldn't help myself when I found this shirt. It says: I do all my own stunts! LOL

We were able to go on a road trip with Kevin and Jenn to Montana to visit our friends Chad and Lucy. It was a fun adult weekend!! We had lots of fun! My favorite part of the trip was floating the river on tubes I only fell off once, but I was able to save my drink LOL.

Brooke got to have her birthday party in Utah this year! She loves being able to celebrate with all of her family. It was fun to have everyone there.

We got to spend some time with the Carrie and her family. Here is Abi and Brennen.

Brian had just left for Iraq for 1 year. Please keep him and their family in your prayers.

So we came back home and the kids got ready to start school in Aug. Russell is a sophomore this year. Brooke is in kindergarten and Kimberly is in preschool.

We took our house off the market and decided to wait a little while until the market picks up.

Brooke started Girl Scouts this year! She is a Daisy scout and mom is the Co Leader of the Troop. We have 9 darling girls in our troop.

In Sept we got a new puppy. His name is Brutus and he is a funny little guy. Roxy has been enjoying her new friend.

Oct was fun, it seemed like we had lots of Halloween parties to go this year. It was so much fun. Brooke was a Unicorn and Kimberly was Piglet. And Russell, well.........he is just 15 LOL.

Trick or Treating with friends.

We were able to go back to Utah again in Nov. to surprise my Dad for his birthday! That was lots of fun. We were also there to celebrate Nevaeh's 1'st birthday!

We brought my mom back home with us and she got to visit for 2 weeks. Then 2 days later Kendra came out for Thanksgiving and we were lucky enough to have her visit for two weeks as well.

On Dec. 2 Russ, Russell and I did the Tucson Marathon. We did the 1/2 marathon which is 13.1 miles!

Russ ran it in 2 hrs. and 21 mins. Russell and I walked it. It was a lot of work but it was fun. And we plan on doing it again soon.

So there you have our year in a nut shell.............. OK it's a big nut shell but what can you do!