Dance Time!!!
Merry Christmas

Topping the tree with Dad.

I know it looks like we just woke up, no this isn't Christmas morning, just a lazy relaxing day!

Halloween

We were all cow people as Kejia would say. Kejia was a cow girl, Mom was a "cow mom" and dad was "cow dad." Kejia is so much like her mom in the way she loves candy. We loved Halloween.

She is the cutest cow girl I have ever seen. She was so "essited" (excited) to go trick or treating.

Finished Product of Pumpkin carving.

Happy Halloween!

This picture was Kejia's idea!

Look what happened to us after we went to Honey I shrunk the audience. It was quite a problem walking back to our car after this and we could hardly see over the stearing wheel!

Obviously this was before the Shrinking Audience. Just warning those of you on your way to a Disney Vacation caution before entering honey I shrunk the audience.

Splash Mountain, poor Kejia we bribed her and told her we would get her a winnie the pooh stuffed animal if she rode this. She was quite frightened. Her favorite ride was Small World and she is so cute on it.

Shawn and Jacque came to spend a week and we had our family vacations together. We had a wonderful time. It was packed full of amuzement parks and lots of laughs.

Our first day of Vacation at the Wild Animal Park. We were just starting our 8 mile a day walking adventure but we ate so much junk we made up for all that walking. We had so much fun together...

San Diego in September 2009

My Birthday we spent in San Diego for the weekend. My brother Troy and Tina were there that weekend too. We got to see them a couple of times but of course I forgot to get pics with them:(
Isn't she so cute!

Seaworld rides...Kejia loved this one but the big one, she said she didn't want to do again. Sounds like me. Sorry Kejia if I passed my fear on to you. Daddy has enough bravery for all of us.

This is amazing. We love Seaworld.

September 2009

Riley and Natalie came for a weekend!!! (Arnie's sister Jill's kids) We had a great time. We made our own shaped pizzas. Riley's was a star, Nattie's a heart and Kejia's a triangle!!!
Arnie and I built and painted this bookshelf for Kejia's room. We are proud of it.

Our beautful girl on her first day of pre-school. She loves it.

This is her pre-school buddy Kandrea. They are great friends. This was their first day of school. I teach one day a week and Kandrea's mom teaches one day a week. We are enjoying teaching them too.

Mission Return for Emily's Parents August 2009

They are here. Just pulling up after an 18month mission in Knoxville, TN. As soon as the kids saw the cars they ran down the street to them. It was so awesome.
First meeting after 18 months, Papa and Kejia

Welcome Home Mom and Dad. We love you!!

At the stop sign on the corner waiting for the missionary grandparents to get home.

Everyone was so excited to welcome Grandma and Papa home. We all got together for a fun weekend at the cabin with Mom and Dad. We had a great time and are so happy to have them back. We loved them being on a mission too and to hear all of their experiences.

Arnie and I don't have a lot of pictures together recently but now Kejia is wanting to take pics. So she wanted to take a silly one. So here we are. This is in San Diego in September but I am putting it in July. The reason is because we celebrated our 9 year anniversary in July and don't have any pics from July. We did have a great couple of days to celebrate and Kejia went to play with her cousins. It was the first time in 9 years that we have spent our anniversary with just eachother. It is so close to the 4th of July that we are usually with Arnie's family or my family. We love our families but we love "our" time too. Thanks Joy, Scott and girls for the couple day break.