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Cute pictures of the kids

I just had to post these cute pictures.

Jess comes to visit Whitney

Whitney's friend Jess flew in from CO to visit Whitney. It was so good to see her. The girls took goofy pictures, went to Mall of America and just hung out together. We were so sad when it was time to say goodbye again. We will miss you Jess.

Christopher's Graduation

Christopher graduated from High School this year in June 2008. It was a great ceremony, with some very funny speakers. His Principle is well known for giving inspirational speaches and then ending with "now you can go out and do that....or not". So when he was speaking, the students anticipated this and all said "or not" as he said it. It was very neat. Christopher has started a new job, now that he is free to work more. He is working an 8 hour a day job M-F. He is the youngest person to ever be hired at this company. He tested very well and won the interviewer over. The interviewer said to Chris..."I wasn't going to hire you, but I decided to listen to you at least...and well you won me over...you should really think about going into sales". Chris enjoyed that experience and has now been at his job for exactly two weeks today. This is a company that make s internal medical devices.

College starts for him in a few months, so he is in earn and save mode.

Whitney goes to Selgeas

Whitney went to Selgeas - which is a formal Saddie Hawkins.  She went with Ben.  They went with a group of 22 people.  One of the moms hosted a formal dinner, with servers and a menu, at their home.  Then they went to the last part of the dance. They then went back to Jen's house to attempt to watch a movie, but apparently no one could hear it so they turned it off and just hung out. Whitney had a great time.

Moving

This is Ethan's tent. Perhaps it is unclear from the picture, but trust me when I say..."Ethan likes his tent." In fact, he has slept in it every night (aside from vacation) since he got it for Christmas. That is 32 days...er...nights, and as he just told his Nanna, "I'm going to stay in it the rest of my life"! We are thinking perhaps his wife may have some issue with that! What is even more surprising is that he gave up choice digs uptown in the penthouse bunk. I wonder if Santa knows just how far out of the park he hit it with this present! Anyway, good night for now...don't forget to zip up the rain fly.

Some Favorite Pictures

Whitney loves to take pictures with her friends on the imac with photo booth.  The rest of the kids have learned to do this too.  They sit in front of the computer and take picture after picture.  Ethan and Riley get such a kick out of it, but they like to distort their pictures.  Here are a few from photo booth.

Brysen's Birthday

Brysen had all his fiends over for his birthday.  They had a ton of fun and made lots of noise. I submit the following video as evidence to support my claim.


He had a WII tournament...tons of fun...and further evidence to support my claim!

New House

We moved to our new house last summer. We really love the amount of room we have around our house. Where we lived before the yards were fairly small. You could occasionally find a nice sized yard but they were rare.

Where we now live, every house seems to have a HUGE yard. You can have a small house, a big house, an old house or a new house and all the yards are amazing. At least we think so. We are having a hard time getting used to not having a fence though. The upside is that our small kids have a lot of friends to play with. Every ones yard is fair game and they follow each other around playing all day. I haven't been able to get the pictures to upload. I'm still working on that. Look for those soon!