Calvary Crusaders !!!!

We are blessed once again to have Cody & Dylan playing basketball for the Nampa Calvary Crusaders!! They are required to "dress" before each game....they are SO handsome (in their Mother's eyes anyway) !!

Cody & Dylan are both starters this year, it has been awesome to watch them playing side-by-side and showing their brotherly love on and off the court.

Carter is the official game photographer, he does a great job....it is hard to take pictures in bad lighting, in a crowded area, with constantly moving subjects !! Prayerfully, Carter will be on the basketball team next year. He is working hard to get himself ready !! What a mixed blessing: having 3 boys playing on the team vs. not having any boys sitting in the stands watching with the grown-ups !!!

Cody is #11 and Dylan is #26.....

They are growing up much too quickly !!! What a blessing they are to Dennis and I !!!

Enjoying the Idaho weather......

Enjoying the Snow !!!!

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Jesus, we thank you for......

Goofy husbands who keep us laughing !!!!!!!!

Great photographers who know a good model when they see one !!!!!

Parents who love one another after (almost) 39 years of marriage....

Loving couples who do a wonderful job at doing the dishes !!!! (nice hat, James !!)

Loving mothers' who are blessed to have their families together for Thanksgiving (Paul, Kameron, Aidan & Koryn were missed, our family was not complete without them).

Grandpas' who will stop and offer a helping hand, thank you, Creepie !!!
Uncles' who enjoy dirt biking just as much as we do (James looks excited to have made it up the hill !!)

Beautiful scenery on a nice day (Dylan, Cody & James stopping for a scenic look !!)

Brotherly love (Dylan & Cody were in charge of cutting back the rose bushes, but took it upon themselves to also remove a tree, like father.....like sons !!!)

And last but certainly not all...we are thankful for good health and safe riding (Uncle James decided to ride Dennis' dirt bike for the day....and God was good: everyone returned without injury !!)

Our final camping trip of 2009 !!!!

We love camping/riding in Idaho City, it is so pretty and the riding is awesome !! Unfortunately, this was our last camping trip for the year....we sure enjoyed it though.

Two of my handsome boys !!!

Another one of my handsome boys, on my quad., which he shouldn't be (considering his history on quads. !!) His Mom was quick to point out that he is missing a helmet also. Some boys will never grow up !!

Creepy gathering firewood, what an outdoors-man !! Dylan is just along for the free ride, it beats walking !!! Dylan offered to help gather wood because he LOVES making smores !!

Grandma Janet waiting patiently for the girls to play Rummikub.

Grandma Dot wondering why in- the- world she said , "yes" to coming camping with us !! She is a trooper though, she enjoyed the great outdoors (kind of, while sitting in the motorhome !!)

Grandma George allowing me to take her picture. Look at those smiling eyes !!!

Carter looking way too grown-up for my liking. Where has the time gone??

Speaking of time going too fast.....Cody celebrated turning 16 while we were camping !! That is too grown-up for my liking, for sure !!!

I love this picture....brotherly love at its truest form !! God is good !!!