Family Picture Time

Since the whole family was together on Saturday we decided to have a family picture session at the local Sears. Thought you might all like to see some of the photos we had taken. The kids were so good and actually seemed to enjoy the whole experience. Even all the guys were good sports and went along with whatever the photographer asked them to do.

This is the whole crew.... not the best picture in the bunch but not the worst either.

Krista, Scott and Kayleigh

Craig, Jocelyn and Brooklyn

Jaret, Kara and Evan

I think this is one of my favorite pictures from the whole session. My three kids with each of their kids.

Prints of some of the best pictures will be coming soon to all the relatives so be patient. Anyone else who wants a picture just let me know. We got the disk from Sears so can reprint any of the pictures we want.

A Wild and Crazy May

It's been a while since I did any posting but this has been a pretty busy month. Graduation ceremonies and receptions started on April 28th with a reception for Craig's best friend in high school who graduated from UW. The next weekend we attended another reception for a distant relative of Gary's who graduated from nursing school. She is a mother who needed something to do now that all of her children are grown and away from home. Last weekend, we all went to my nieces graduation from high school and her reception. My brother from the west coast, his wife and their daughter, son-in-law and grandson flew out to join us. It was the first time in a couple of years that my brothers, sister and I were all together so we also had a mini family reunion. My youngest brother had a nice get together in his back yard for everyone on Sunday evening. The food was fantastic and it was great to catch up with everyone again. Krista and Scott and Kara's husband Jaret did not get to go with us but we did have all three grandkids along. Thursday night was Jaret's graduation from UW/CC and we spent a few days with all of the kids and even had a birthday party for Evan who will turn 4 on the 22nd. I think we are done traveling and celebrating for this month but enjoyed every minute of it all. A few pictures from the past two weekends are posted here just to help you imagine the fun we had.

Evan, Papa and Kayleigh leaving Chelsea's graduation.

Five cousins: Craig, Kara, Chelsea, Dustin, Jenna At uncle Reed's house: Dustin, Kayleigh, Trish and Evan.

Jenna, Cheri and Reed doing some family catching up.

Cole and Brooklyn are getting acquainted with some help from Nick and Kara.Evan is four now and just loves "Cars" and of course his favorite is Lightening McQueen. So Kara found a cake pan and grammy spent most of an afternoon making this cake for him. He seemed pretty pleased and actually I had a lot of fun creating the cake.

The candles are all blown out with a little help from his cousins. Brookie seemed to think it was all pretty interesting.

We were also celebrating Jaret's graduation. This is his family except for his mom who must have been behind me when I took this picture.