Cathy's Baby Shower

It has been a couple of weeks now but my friend, Carolyn, and I had a baby shower for our good friend Cathy. She has three wonderful boys and is now having a girl. Of course it was a great Pink Celebration.

Just a little tribute to Cathy: she is the most down to earth person I know and so easy to talk to. She is intelligent and so talented. She has great insights and is always so happy and smiling. She is a great leader and so honest and fun to be with. Thanks Cathy for your friendship.

Here are some pictures of Cathy at the shower. I love all her facial expressions, so sincere and full of love! (sorry I posted just a "few", Kathy Holt took the pictures for me and got some great ones, thanks)

Bring Your Child To Work Day @ bp

Ethan got to go to Bring Your Child to Work Day with Steve. We even took him out of school for it. They had all kinds of fun things planned for the kids. They started with lunch and an opening exercise all about bp and then went to their different classes, petroleum engineer and geology. They served them lunch and had a bag full of all kinds of goodies to come home with. I think it was a great day for Ethan and Dad.

Happy 18th Birthday Cousin Chris!

Our Cousin Chris is off to BYU Idaho having the time of his life. He would have the time of his life anywhere he went. He is always so full of life and energy. He is talented, intelligent, super kind & charitable, just to name a few of his great cousin qualities. He has been a great example to our kids and they love him, as you can see in the pictures.




He just made it into the BYU-I Collegiate Choir of only about 40 members. That's a big deal. He has always been involved in Choir and Drama among many other things. These are some pictures I got off our family website, but I can't seem to figure out how to make them bigger. Anyway, Happy Birthday Chris!

Halloween at the ZOO!

I took a lot of pictures and I have a really hard time just picking a few. I need to learn how though, because it took a long time to upload all of these.

After a late night and early morning full of games, we were all a little exhausted. So this is naptime on the way to the Zoo.


Family Picture before we got started.



Trick or Treating at the Zoo! This was great for the older kids. The Zoo is a little more exciting when there is candy involved. Although, they seemed to still get excited when they saw most of the animals. The reptiles, the birds, the sea lion that poo'ed in the water, the active tigers taking a swim where their favorites.


This was perfect, because Lauren wants to be Snow White for Halloween.


Ethan and Lauren crawling out of a cave.


An Otter enjoying Halloween. It was cute to watch him play with this pumpkin.


The kids pretendng to be fish.




These little guys were having fun playing hide-n-seek in this pumpkin.


Matthew trying to be SPOOKY!


We liked the Fiesta Bird. He gave us Candy!


Photo Opp with the Giraffes and Uncle Ryan.


The little baby giraffe enjoying its Halloween.


The Twins with The Twin Baby Elephants.


I think we hit every Trunk or Treat Stand there was.


I don't think Rachel will ever get this close to a snake again.


I thought this was a good picture. Too bad you can tell it is not really out in the wild.


We had to have a picture with the clowns.


This is Lauren not wanting her picture with the clowns.


Getting eaten by Lion for a drink of water.


All of us with the Pumpkin Head!





This is just so we could feel like we were in downtown Houston.


These poor goats. I think they were done by the time we got there. They we were all hiding behind the chained fence not wanting to come out.



The kids thought it was funny to see a goat sitting in the hay trough.


The ground hog tunnels!


I'm not sure what is going on here!


Your the best, Uncle Ryan.


Cooling off before we headed home. Ethan and Matthew played tag for along time and never had a fight. Lauren just kept dancing the whole time in the water. Rachel got a little wet and then was done.




I think we were done and out of there, but had a great time.



We made BBQ Pizza with Rootbeer for dinner that night and Sunday we had Carnitas and Homemade Ice Cream and Chocolate Chip Cookies. After church we played Apples to Apples and a few games with Uncle Ryan and then his friend came to pick him up and take him away. We miss him already.