Our Famous Family Came To Town

We had a great visit with my family this past week! They stopped in Mountain Home a couple of days before the Nampa, ID show. This time they drove up, as the Nampa show is the first in a string of dates in the North and West. They even were able to park the huge tour bus along-side our house. Good thing we live on a corner!

We got free tickets to the show, and it is true that you get what you pay for. Since the Nampa Civic Center sold out, our seats were in the very last row. Happily for us, it is a good theater and there aren't any bad seats in the place.

Naturally nobody in the family thought to get out a camera until an hour or so before the concert started, so all of the pictures we got are backstage!

I know its too early for Christmas, but...

This year's White House Historical Association ornament is now available. The one to the left is the most recent one for 2007. Naturally, half the people in the world have a tradition of collecting a holiday ornament. Sadie and I like this series because the ornaments are shiny, classy, and tell interesting snippets about our nation's history. Even the boxes they come in are fun to look through.

We got started in this collection as the result of a gift. My grandparents in California, Gene and Gypsy Cherryholmes (but we just call them Poppo and Mommo) sent us the 2002 release one year and we loved it! It was beautiful and caught the light in a way that every good Christmas ornament should. We don't actually hang these ones on the "main" tree. Instead we picked up a silver "table" tree that goes well with the styling of this collection.

Why, you ask, do I bother posting this in October? No, I'm not one of those who ushers the Christmas season in prematurely--even though it is one of our favorite times of year. Last year, we didn't order the newest one until we were already decorating for Christmas. Naturally that meant that by the time our 2006 ornament arrived, we were packing up and putting away all the decorations already! Didn't make that mistake this time! We've already ordered the 2007 one.

Welcome Home!

Welcome home Jen, Junie, and Abby the dog!

Couldn't help myself

Okay, my mom sent me these pictures, and I just couldn't help myself. We totally have the cutest niece ever! We love you Junie!

Great News!

After just over one month, Jen is finally being released from the hospital! What a blessing it will be for their family to all be under the same roof again. We are so thankful for her amazing recovery!

Great Weekend

Saturday was such a fun and blessed day! My dad, mom, Bridger, and Juniper were all staying in Boise for the weekend and visiting with Jen. Jen was able to get a pass to be out all day to spend time with her family. That evening we all went downtown in Boise to eat dinner at the Old Spaghetti Factory. As we were sitting at the table, we realized it was the first time we were all together like that since the accident. In fact, it had been exactly one month since we had sat together and had dinner as a family. It was a wonderful night filled with laughter and fellowship. We felt so blessed to be able to do that once again!

Jen seems so much stronger this week. I hope she enjoyed spending time with family this weekend. We’re hoping it won’t be long before she is released from the hospital. Of course, we want her to get the best care, no matter how long it takes! But I’m sure we’ll all be relieved when she goes home. Her doctors are meeting on Tuesday, and they’ll give her an update on her progress.

Our New Car

Last weekend we bought a new car. We had been saving for a new car for quite a while, and our old '87 Honda Accord was costing more to fix than it was worth. SO, we finally got ourselves the car we'd been eyeing for two years! We love our Jeep Patriot!