Gaming

So Dedrick and I have been spending every weekend or every other weekend gaming with our friends the Marshall's and Stark's. This started in November 2011, when we invited both families to come to dinner at our house to have a game night. To break the ice and get to know everyone better we played the game called "Curses", and man did it ever. Since that night we have been hang out playing games.

So with us getting together so often you would think our kids would be fighting or not want to hang out. This has not happened with the nine kids that are involved at each game night. The kids get a long great, like they are best friends. Every now and then they my say mean thing to each other, but are very good about saying sorry!

I am very grateful for these wonder friends for the support, love and laughter they bring us.

Starks

The Husband's

7 of the 9 kids

the cute 8th kid(number nine was hiding somewere)

Thanks for all the Fun! We you GUYS!!!

Valentines

This year two of my very good friends Amanda and Jennifer and I went to see a movie. We did not realize when we picked the day to go out together it was Valentines. All three of us are not into the whole Valentines days hoopla. So when I went to pick up the girls, it was the husbands that realized it was Valentines. We joked that this was there gift to us by watching the kids and giving us a girls night out. We had fun talking and joking and just hanging out together.

I do want to thank our three wonderful husbands for letting the us go out and taking care of the kiddos!

Jenn, Me, and Amanda(+puppy)

10th Anniversary

It's wonderful to realize that we've been marred for 10 years. We never could have guessed where life would take us, but we're grateful for all the blessings we've had along the way. We have three beautiful children, Dedrick has a great job as an engineer in natural gas liquids and Damian enjoys her part time work at the local post office as well. We've made some great friends here in Kansas.

We had the chance to run away for the weekend. The kids went to friends houses for sleepovers and we went to Wichita. We went to dinner at Kobe Japan Steak House, then saw a movie, and then checked in to our hotel for the night. We enjoyed spending the time alone to talk and enjoy each others company. We've made it this far and we will continue to make more memories together on this road.

10th Anniversary

Anniversary Gift

Painted first RC truck body

(Dedrick) The plastic body to one of my RC trucks wore out from too many high-speed cartwheels and rollovers, so I painted up a new plastic body. It's the first one I've ever done and it was not that easy, but I think it turned out pretty well! Of course, the kids decided it needed to be mounted on their heads instead of the truck, but that's OK!

Dedrick's Birthday

My sweet husband turned 35 yesterday! I am very thankful to have him in my life and the kids. We just spent a quiet night at home, enjoying a yummy dinner of steak and potatoes. Then sang happy birthday with ice cream and eclairs. Then spent rest of the evening watching one of his new movies as a family.

I have been very blessed to have this wonderful man in my life and could not be happier to enjoy his birthday with him.

My husband the Viking baby!

Texas

So this year we decided to head to Texas to spent some time with Dedrick's parents for Christmas. We were able to spend about a week with them and it went way too fast. Dedrick's parents were grateful to have us, even though they had just moved into the house three days before we got there. So Grandma and I took the kids out of the house to do fun stuff, while Dedrick and his dad did projects around the house to help put up storage shelves in the garage and stuff.

We took the kids to the zoo, science museum, an IMAX movie "Born to be Wild", a park, the Dallas World Aquarium, the Dallas temple grounds, and the Tree of Lights. So we stayed very busy and had lots of fun. When it was time to leave grandpa and grandma's house, my kids did not want to. They just love to spend so much time with them.

The down side was when we were about half an hour from his parents house on the way there the check engine light came on. Dedrick and I thought we just need a oil change, were we ever wrong on that. Since we did not get to there house till late Saturday, and the next day was Christmas we had to wait till Monday to take the van in to the dealer. They called us back later that afternoon and told us it would take $2000.00 to fix what was wrong. Can you say WOW! So we had them fix it so we could make it back home safely. We hope the work will keep the van running for a few more years.

I want to thank my wonderful in-laws for everything, and for having us in the chaos!

First Snow

This year we have had only one snow storm. It did not drop much snow, but my kids still had fun playing in it. Thanks to grandma Janine they have awesome snowball makers and launchers in one.