Holiday Fun

We spent five days with Trese's family over the past week. We packed our days with family, friends and fun. We left Waterville after 8:00 on Friday night and got to Grandpa and Grandma Halls around 1:00 a.m.

Saturday Trese went shopping with the girls while Josh helped Trese's dad with the remodel.

Sunday was Special Meetings in Tenino then we celebrated Dad's birthday which was earlier in the week.

Monday Josh took off with Ben and Forrest to go snowboarding. Christmas Eve we spent and Uncle Dug's with all of the Thornton family, Auntie, Grandma and Grandpa.

On Christmas Day we had breakfast at Mom and Dad's then headed up to Steve and Lori's. We had the traditional football game (Josh's team won, Trese's team lost.) Then we went back to a wonderful dinner that Auntie Lori had made. We were most impressed with the Douglas Fir Sorbet. We headed home during the white elephant gift exchange. We were sad to miss out on Mom's Dessert buffet but since the snow was piling up in Western Washington we figured we would have a long trip home.

We made it safely back to Waterville and headed over to our other families house to visit with Josh's parent, grandparents, aunt, both of the brothers and the ladies in their lives. We are thankful that we have so many friends and family that we want to see, but we are glad that things are starting to calm down and life is starting to return to normal.

Bethany had surgery on her foot and ankle a few days before Christmas. We all had fun leaving her messages on her cast.

The guys hard at work

Mr and Mrs ClausThe guys were exhausted after a day on the mountain with all that powder

Forrest enjoying the powder

Kate got Forrest's Boeing vest that he had given away last year at the white elephant.

Camilla admiring her moose that Dad found in the garage and decided to give away to one lucky recipient.

Basketball Season

For the past two months much of our spare time has been spent in the gym. Josh and Joel have been coaching the Waterville Junior High Basketball teams. For now Josh is convinced that junior high is the way to go. His season was only one and a half months, there is no weekend commitment and he is excited to watch his players next year in high school. Go Shockers!

Engaged!

Ben and Bethany are engaged! We know this is old news, since he popped the question over a month ago, but we are still excited. They are planning a wedding in July at Dad and Mom Thornton's house. Last weekend Trese went over to Seattle and spent the weekend with Bethany, they did some planning but mostly talked a lot about the wedding. We are sure there will be many more weekend like that in the next few months. Congratulations Ben and Bethany!

Desert Canyon

Three weeks ago Josh's parents had a wedding reception for Jason and Sue at Desert Canyon. After all of the festivities we hit the putt putt course.

Teeing offThe newlyweds

Forrest and Kate

Grandpa Demmon, Kate, Forrest and Josh

It got extremely cold once the sun went down

Silverwood

A few weeks ago Trese's sister gave us free tickets to Silverwood that need used before it closed for the winter. We piled in the car with Joel and Jana and headed east. It was a cold day but we had lots of fun hanging out, going on rides and eating junk food.

Us getting ready to head up on the Panic Plunge

Joel and Jana near the two wooded roller coasters

Joel, Jana and Josh getting wet on the bumper boats

Sandpoint

We rode with Justin and Pam on the way home from Jason and Sue's wedding. We stayed the night in Sandpoint, ID. The next day we had a fun time exploring the town and shopping!

The Grillos with Lady Liberty

The Barnes

New Sister!

Josh's brother Jason married Sue on September 29 in a beautiful outdoor ceremony at Sue's parent's home in Montana.

Jason and Sue getting married!

Jason, Sue, Meredith and Miles

The guys minus one.

Mr. and Mrs. Barnes

Mr. and Mrs. Layton

On August 25th our friends Sarah and Brian got married. Trese had the privilege of being the Matron of Honor. Below are a few random pictures from the big day.

Wedding party with the bride and groom at the rehearsal dinner.

Before the wedding. I look like a giant since Sarah wasn't wearing her shoes!

Us waiting for the wedding to start

My sister and I at the reception. Bethany helped out so much at the wedding, Thank you Beth!

On the reader board outside of the Monticello Hotel where the reception was held.

Chicago

Here are a few pictures from our trip to visit Josh's brother Jason in Chicago in April

The first place Jason took us was to White Castle, quite possible the grossest place I have ever been.

At Navy Pier

Trese won front row tickets to Wicked

Josh and I checking out the bean at Millennium Park

Jeremy Draggoo's Bachlor Party

Josh snowboarding in Whitefish, Mt. with Jeremy, Braden and Jason

Awesome Weekend!

Loren and Shanda visited us and we spent the entire weekend playing in the snow, eating, visiting friends and hanging out. Here is our first youtube video clip of a slideshow we created in iphoto! Enjoy

I wish I could show you all the original quality instead of the web version.

Check out the PDF of the slideShow! To see the true images in .pdf form Click here

Holiday Adventure

Hello all, it has been awhile like always but here are some pictures of the few times that we have actually had "FUN IN THE SNOW" this year.

We went snowmobiling outside of Waterville in the wheat fields right after we had a huge dump. Is there anything better than Fresh Powder, Blue Bird Sky and the Smell of 2 cycle? We had approximately 2 feet of fresh snow for the holidays!



Trese needs a long track! ....but I would need a gym membership to go with it.


Getting some exercise