My girls cut off all of their hair! Jan. 4 07

My girls and my sister Mandi, having been trying to convince me to let the girls cut off their hair. I would never agree, but after months of crying everytime we combed their hair I gave the ok. To make it worthwhile, we made sure both girls cut off at least 10 inches so we could donate their hair to locks of love. I never thought I would love their hair short but I do!! And so do they!!

Jan. 3rd Getting our new puppy Bella

After hearing my kids whine for a year and a half about getting a dog, the idea finally started to grow on me. She had to be small though and stay small and not shed or be yippy. I think we have found her! She is so fun and everyday Brayli tells Bella how happy she is that she is in our family. She's 2lbs and won't be more that 7lbs so she's the perfect purse dog!

Ringing in the New Year

I had been really sick the weekend before New Year's so instead of getting together with our close friends the Ludlow's, we stayed home and played games with the kids and ate lots of yummy food!







Tyler as his usual self
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Drinking our favorite sparkling grape juice!


New Years isn't New Years without the kisses

Trent making sure we make lots of noise at midnight

Christmas 2007

Briegan got the biggest present this year!


Brayli got her mp3 player

Trent gets his Wii game

Tyler gets his soccer rebounder. Would Tyler ask for anything that wasn't associated with soccer?

Wendy got her nike chip for her running shoes she's been wanting for a long time!

Pat gets a well deserved massage for a hard year at work

Christmas always brings out more love doesn't it?



We are having our tradition breakfast where we sing Happy Birthday to Jesus and give him presents of goals that each of us try to work on throughout the year.

This year was our year to have Christmas with the Kortus'. We had so much fun being all together as there is alot of us!!
Here are some of the boy cousins



Here's Pat's brother John being Santa this year. Conveniently most of the presents had his name on them!

The grandkids waiting for John to give them a present

Some of the girl cousins

Our last stop of the day was at the Bagley's. We exchanged presents and had lots of fun with them!



My sis in laws

Giving mom and dad their digital photo frame

Going to see Santa Dec. 17 07

We are convinced this is the real Santa!