My cousin Andra at her Bridal Shower. It was great fun to to have a girls night out and celebrate her upcoming marriage. I hardly see my cute cousin and I have so missed her. It's just like old times when I am with her. Mom, Sherrie and I spent the afternoon at IKEA before heading to the shower. It was wonderful to be with those two amazing ladies all day!
Happy Valentines Day, from Jorja. She drew all the pictures and helped me put them on the wall for everyone.
We had a little time to open gifts before I headed to work on Valentines day. I love seeing my girls smile!
Olivia got something to help with her multiplcation. She was super excited!
Jorja taking a random nap. She is too cute when she sleeps!
Josh and I celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary at the place we got married. It was wonderful to run away for the night and have dinner in the place it all started. Huntsville is lovely and we so love visiting Jackson Fork Inn.
A view of the drive home from Huntsville.
We arrived home from celebrating our anniversary just in time to attend my cousins wedding shin-dig. It was lovely to catch up with family and help celebrate Daryl and Andra's big day.
The cousins... Me, Andra and Marci... we all grew up very close and it was fun to be together again even for the afternoon. We are missing Shanna in this picture, she was there but we didn't get her photo before they had to leave. We are all close in age and it was so fun growing up with these amazing girls. We need to plan a girls night out just the four of us. It would be great to catch up again.
Andra, being Andra!
Dad and Sherrie looking lovely!
After Andra's wedding the kids and I had a busy weekend. We drove down to visit my Grandma and Grandpa Marshall. It was a wonderful visit and I was so happy to have them let us visit for the night, I know how much extra work it is to have us. It is always a joy to see them!
We decided when we got home to surprise Josh. He had driven to Montana for the weekend to visit his brother, Jared. On his way home, they were going to spend the night at his sisters house in Rexburg. So we drove to Rexburg, ID to meet up and spend the presidential holiday with the family. It was a lot of driving in a short weekend, but so worth is. I made it back to work just in the nick of time! Thanks to the Kelley clan for letting us invade!
The big thing for Girls Scouts this time of year is Girl Scout Cookies! They arrived on Feb 29th and Josh had to help us pick up two pallet fulls of cookies, about 1700 cookies in all. Olivia is showing off some of her 500 cookies that she sold. Thank you to everyone who bought cookies and helped our troop, Olivia get to camp and supporting Girls Scouts in general. We are very grateful!
March kicks off our delivery of all these cookies and cookie booths! So keep your eyes open for those Girl Scouts out delivering and selling cookies. Please remember us again next January when cookies pre-sale.
Jorja desperately wants to be like her big sister and they had to show off all the cookies!
Jorja almost likes the boxes more than the cookies... ALMOST!
Josh turned 30 this January 21st. We were happy to celebrate him, though he wanted to celebrate the beard. It was totally his idea and I had to finally cave, because it fit so well. This is what the invite said:
It’s
a “BYOB” Party!
“Bring
Your Own Beard”
So,
Lets Beard up and celebrate Josh!
He
and his Beard would like to have you join us
for
a celebration in honor of his 30 years.
When: On his
Beard-Day of course, January 21st, 2012
Time:
6:00 PM - till it’s over.
Real
or Fake, please join in the fun and arrive with your Beard.
Prizes will be awarded for some of the
most creative Beards.
A rustic Dutch oven dinner will be
served before
Josh and his Beard blow out the candles.
R.S.V.P. Beard
Regrets only please to Megan
Authors Note: No Beards were harmed in the making of
this invitation.
I am sad to say we could only invite people closest to Josh and not the WHOLE family. We have way too many wonderful people that love us! The party turned out very well and I am so happy everyone got involved! It turned out great, except for all the snow. Josh loved the snow, but it was bad for guests to drive it. I was down right surprised anyone came at all in the bad weather. Thank you to everyone who did brave the weather. We were so happy to have you visit for the evening and celebrate Josh's Beard Day!
We had a lot of fun just shopping for our beards and the girls had tons of fun helping plan the whole thing. We tried to keep it a rustic out doors theme since Josh is kind of a lumberjack. Jaye was very kind to supply the linc-n-logs for the kids to play with.
Jorja looked so mischievous to me and that fits her so well!
Please notice Josh's pride and joy in the back ground of Devin and
Brandy's amazing beards.
Josh said that Sean's cop stash counted. So as long as you had facial hair, it would still be alright if you came.
Josh wanted a picture of the group facial hair!
Olivia has decided I should be Dumbledoor for Halloween since I already have the beard. I just couldn't keep it behind my ears to stay on.
I won the award for the shaggiest beard, we made Josh pick the awards. I for sure deserved that one. I was shedding all over the place. I totally had a hairy chest when I took my beard off.
Mom for sure wins the award for most realistic! She was kinds of freaky as the bearded lady.
Dinner was mighty fine I must say! We cooked the dutch ovens in the garage door opening, barely away from all the snow. But, it worked great! Thanks Mom for helping me with the food, I never would have known how to season the roast that well.
James won the award for the longest beard!
This was supposed to be Atticus's beard, but due to weather they did not make it. Olivia sported the beard for a bit.
I hope your wish comes true my love!
The kids were my favorite! They were hysterical in their beards! I am so sad that I did not get all their pictures. So, if you happen to have pictures of the kids in their beards please email them to me. I want to scrapbook them all. I was too focused on making sure dinner was ready, I didn't get their pictures in time.
Just for Josh so he could have his cake AND ice cream! It has been tradition that his mom buy an ice cream cake but that is a tradition of the past due to his bowl issues.
We had a great evening! It is always wonderful to hang out with good company and I couldn't have pulled off such a party without you all.
Thank You for making it a wonderful Day for Josh!
Happy 30th Baby, I Love You!
