The Christmas Tree

Since I was still recovering, Nicole & Rob had ear infections, and it was soooo cold outside, we decided to get our tree from the boy scouts at the 7-11 parking lot! Saturday and Sunday were dedicated to decorating the tree. Rob is in charge of lights and the star on top!

Amanda and her friend, Elizabeth, helped hang the decorations, while Christmas music played in the background.
Tarzan, Nicole's cat, helped her hang up her ornaments! The girls love to go thru their boxes of ornaments and remember who they received them from. We have kept a running list since their first Christmas.
More decorating!
Nicole and Amanda did a nice cheesy pose for their mom!

Nicole's Horrible No Good Very Bad Day!

No pictures today...what the rest of us thought was going to be a great day (because Debbie can now drive!), was Nicole's worst day of High School so far! She got challenged for her 3rd chair position and her solo piece. By the way, both had to be played by memory! The challenge was suppose to happen on Tuesday, and for various reasons didn't occur until today. Well, she chocked...got really nervous because the other girl did so good, and LOST! And if that wasn't bad enough (welcome to the real world) the band director had to announce to the entire band class that the other girl now has third chair and will also play the solo in the band concert. Needless to say, we are a little hurt and upset around here! Rob and Nicole are out on a date tonight watching the jazz band concert. And, hopefully trying to remember why we wanted to play the flute in the first place! Ouch!

Happy Thanksgiving!

We celebrated Thanksgiving with the Hoover's, Aunt Kelli, Dad & Mom. Mom cooked an absolutely delicious dinner for all of us. Of course, Aunt Kelli brought enough mashed potatoes to feed an Army!
We had a delicious Ja'Civa chocolate cake for dessert...
and a scrumptious pumpkin pie! The cooks were very busy preparing the meal.
Aunt Kelli has become a "Martha Stewart"! We were all shocked at the beauty of her cut out sugar cookies. As always they were delicious...but almost too beautiful to eat!

We are thankful for all of you...our family and friends.

A Great Day!!!

Sorry for the blur...I could only get photos thru the windows!



The sun is shinning....
Debbie got to come home...
and yard work got done!
How exciting!

Marina Called!!!

Marina, our Basque student from San Sebastian, Spain, called Debbie today. Really, she is our 3rd Daughter! It was 11:30pm on Friday evening there, and 2:30pm in the afternoon today here. We are hoping that she will come back to Oregon this summer with the "Summer in America" program our church helps host. Marina spent a little over a month with us (July 06) and we can't wait to see her again. We love her to death! She calls us her "American family"! All of us got to talk to her, even her "American Grandparents", Gordy & Judee.

Vetran's Day

Happy Vetran's Day!
Here are a couple of cartoons to help us remember how others have served our country! Thanks goes out to my dad, Gordy for serving so many years, and anyone else who has served!

6th day out of surgery!

Mom and her sleeping pal! They make a great couple because they sleep most of the day away! But mom is getting better! It has almost been a week! She does some pretty crazy stuff ,though! She has every meal in the kitchen with us! Good job mom!

Mom doesn't usually like cats except for Olly apparently! (Grandma's kitty!) Maybe it's because he keeps her company! He is constantly meowing! Mom knows all about his life!















Dad was watching movies and surfing the web. He was supposed to be keeping mom company but that wasn't going well!!!

Mom doesn't like to be alone so here is Grandpa ironing in mom's room!