Life keeps going on. . .

No pictures for now but we are moving forward. Brittany is back from Fort Bragg and she and Steve had a good visit. Steve is back in Germany for now but should be home Monday or Tuesday. Monday Alicia is having surgery to fix her broken nose and her deviated septum. She will be miserable but hopefully this will help her headaches and breathing. Becky is down to two weeks tomorrow until her due date so we are all counting down. Mom and baby are doing well. Kevin is freaking out but not too badly. Finals are this week for them so that will help to have them over with. Brandon and Andrea are doing well. We had them up for the weekend after Thanksgiving and it was a lot of fun (ok, we are boring but I enjoyed it). We planned on a quiet Thanksgiving with just Ian, Ali, Jeff and I since everyone is coming here for Christmas with Steve home and all. However, Kevin & Becky ate early at her folk's and then came and ate again at ours later that day. Brandon and Andrea came on Friday and stayed through Sunday so it was a fun weekend. Soon we will have everyone home again!!! Yeah!!!! Love to you all.

Grandkids are GREAT!!

While Brittany has been visiting with Steve in North Carolina, we have had the chance to keep Ian here and it has been lots of fun. As you can see by the pictures, he has a lot of character. He loves being Batman (Jax -the dog- is Robin) and has spent lots of time in his costume. Uncle Kevin even tried on the mask. Ian has decided that he like the Darth Vader mask even better than the batman mask so it makes it pretty interesting. Today he told me that Santa wasn't going to bring me any presents for Christmas because I wouldn't let him go out and play in the snow. I guess I better get better between now and Christmas. We have had lots of fun with him and are so excited to get Steve home to spend time with him too.

He's back in the USA!!!

Steve called this morning to say he is on American soil and safe and sound. They were still on base so we only talked for a minute. Brittany got there yesterday morning (Saturday) and checked right into her hotel and then got a call from the family of Steve's roomate for the last 15 months. They invited her to dinner and then came to get her this morning to take her on base. It was really neat and made it a lot nicer for her. Steve finally admitted to her that even though he had said he was fine hooking up with her later, he was REALLY glad she was going to be at the hangar when they arrived.

He will be at Fort Bragg for a week or so and then back to Germany to check in with his home unit and should arrive here in Utah sometime the first of December. We will keep you all updated. YEAHHHH!!!!

Beauty School Dropout

Ali had to dress up for work on Halloween so she thought and thought and finally remembered the movie Grease. She decided that the Beauty School Dropout was very appropriate for working in a beauty salon. She was surprised that many of her friends didn't get it but all her teachers and her boss thought it was perfect!! She looks good as a pink-head!!!

Jade & Tim's Wedding

I didn't get a lot of pictures but I got a couple of fun ones. Jake and Misty did a great job with the decorations; Jade & Tim's families did a great job with the luncheon and reception and I thought Brent made a wonderful DJ!! It was a lot of fun all around and it was fun to have most of the family there. We really did miss the ones that were gone though. Maybe by the next one - DeeDee did catch the bouquet!


My favorite picture, of course, was Delila dancing with Ian!! They made a cute couple.

Ali's Birthday Party

After we got back from Las Vegas we celebrated Ali's birthday by inviting about 12 of her friends over for pizza, ping pong, presents and cake (well, they can't all start with P). As you can tell by the pictures they had a lot of fun.

Las Vegas Trip

Well, Las Vegas was pretty fun. We took Ali to Monty Python's SpamALot on Friday night and she LOVED it!! Of course I forgot my camera and the only pictures we have of that are on my camera. I will try to transfer them soon. Saturday, we got to have lunch and visit with Grandma Walker and Aunt Doris. It was so great to see them. For all of you who are wondering, Grandma looks wonderful!! So does Aunt Doris but we all knew that. After visiting with them for a while we headed over to the Sam Boyd Stadium where we got to watch BYU trounce on UNLV. I swear the stadium was over half blue. My favorite shirts, though, were the ones that said "Real Mormons are Rebels". Las Vegas has a very large LDS population so I am not sure how many BYU fans were locals and how many traveled like us. Sunday, we walked around the strip for most of the afternoon while we waited, and waited, and waited for Curtis to call us back so we could get together with he and his family. HE NEVER CALLED!!! I am a little upset with him. (I hope everything was ok). So we went back to Aunt Doris's and visited for a little while with them and left all of the stuff I took for Curtis with them so we wouldn't have to lug it all home again. He better go get it soon.

Oh, well, Our flight home was nice. We got back around 11:30 and then got ready for Ali's birthday today. It was a nice trip. Pictures of Monty Python to follow if I can figure out how to get them off my phone.