As our world spins!

It's not spinning out of control. It's just spinning, constantly spinning and sometimes I have a hard time keeping up, that or I get a little motion sick!!

(Bonus picture of Maya playing Peek-A-Boo)

So we survived a month of travels. From Missouri, to Arizona, and then Boise. The girls are wonderful traveler's as long as they have their DVD player going, needless to say, we watched a lot of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and Princess and the Frog.
We enjoyed the Easter holiday and Jensen loved the idea of coloring eggs and even more searching for them after the Easter Bunny hid them.

Jensen and Maya both got new jammies in their baskets and instead on wearing them all day!

We also lost our dog T-Mac, this past month. He dug a hole under our fence and hasn't been seen since. So now we have a new puppy. He is a boxer/collie mix, he is 10 weeks old and his name is Duke. The girls just adore him.Our cute family at the Grand Canyon

Spring Break - Spring Training

Okay - here we go! Our spring break travel adventures got off to an early start, by about a week. On Tuesday March 2nd, Nate's grandpa passed away, so Wednesday night @ 8:30pm we got in our car and headed to Missouri. We (or should I say Nate, I only drove like 4hrs) drove thru the night (19hrs) and arrived in Harrisonville around 4pm Thursday. We had a wonderful time visiting with family, and attended a beautiful service for Grandpa Tracy. After Church on Sunday, we loaded up and headed out. We ran into heavy fog in Kansas all the way to Denver at 2:30 in the morning. My big brother Richard saved our bacon by getting us a room there. Thank heavens cause we couldn't have gone any further. We got into Blackfoot Monday at 8pm.

Then Thursday, I packed our bags again, and we left Friday night for Arizona! Spring Training here we come!! Sunday after church we took Jensen and Maya to the Phoenix Zoo and had an awesome time. Jensen was so excited to see Marty and Melvin! (We had just watch Madagascar in the car on the way here.)

Monday and today were spent doing what else....watching baseball. Last night we went to the Royals - White Sox game and I got Willie Bloomquist's autograph, I know most would wonder why, but he use to be a Mariner!!! Today's game was Royals - Brewers were Nate got Alex Gordan's autograph, I however, got to much sun, and made Nate leave the game in the middle of the 7th.....good thing there is another game tomorrow. In my defense, it was 82 today and we were sitting in the sun, on the lawn in the outfield. Tomorrows games will be much better, thanks to the Royals 1st Baseman/DH Billy Butler, who has comped us tickets!!!! Boy it pays to know somebody how knows somebody!

After we got home(to Dan and Meghann's)we took the girls swimming. I chickened out and would only go in the hot tub! Jensen loves her new "tube in a suit" swim suit, it helped her swim all by herself! What a big girl.

Our 2 Week Holiday

Lets see, where to start...I guess the beginning is as good as anywhere, right?

The weekend before Christmas, our puppy, McGrady, ran away. Nate and I spent all day Saturday driving around trying to find him. We called the animal shelter and left a description of him and wouldn't you know, Monday morning I got a call that they had him. We thought all was well, until Thursday morning when I got up to take him out, and he wouldn't move. Good ol' Rob came and picked him up and took him to the vet and we found that he had 'PARVO' (flu for dogs) and apparently only 30% of dogs that get it survive.

As you can see, we opened our own DOGGIE CLINIC and were in charge of giving T-Mac (what Jensen calls him) IV's twice a day was well as 4 shots a day. After 5 days T-Mac was given a clean bill of health.

Jensen and Maya all dressed up in their Christmas Dresses

Jensen awoke Christmas morning to see that Santa had come and delivered as she said:

"Big Presents" '

Jensen and Maya opening their
presents from Grandma Tracy

Jensen got Elmo's Kitchen

and Maya got an Exersaucer

from Santa

We had a fabulous New Year's Eve party at our new house with our new house mate

Jacob(Nate's brother), Rachel and Scott, Jillyn, BJ and Landon, and Collin and Tracy Folsom and their kids. We had dinner, banana splits, played lots of fun games and rang in the New Year!

disclaimer: sorry no pictures, we were having way to much fun!

So we woke up Friday morning to a beautiful blanket of snow. So off we went to Rob and Dana's to borrow the four wheeler and do some sledding. Jensen rode with me for a bit and then took a ride with Aunt Rachel on the sled!

I think she had more fun building

a snowman than sled, she didn't like the snow hitting her in the face.

We hope everyone had a very Happy Holiday season.

To all our dear friends and family, we love and miss you all!