Taekwondo Portraits

We now have two boys in Taekwondo, Morgan and Maddox. Here are their professional portraits for this year:

 Aren't they impressive?!

Thanksgiving 2014

We spent our Thanksgiving back in Jackson again this year. We stayed in the country the whole time and had a wonderful time making memories!

There are way too many fabulous photos to post them all, but here are some of my favorites.

I simply cannot believe how big these two have grown...

Special times with cousins, Heather & Conner!

We got to spend some time with Aunt Susan and Rick before they headed out of town.

We also had a wonderful visit with Larry & Dianne, Jessica, Bailey, and the twins.

Back in the country, there was a WHOLE lotta tractor driving going on! 

...and a dangerous stunt to hang a swing:

...and we finally added our own sign to the tree. (it's clear that we traveled the farthest!)

 Happy Thanksgiving!!

Force Family Wreath

We went down to the lake to do some paddle boarding today and I (Michele) thought of a cool idea for a family picture - to my amazement, my guys all agreed to participate! Here is the final result...

What you can't see here, however, is that this took us NUMEROUS tries! The sun was so bright... for fun, here are some of the failures... :)

See how much my guys love me?! But we DID it, by golly!

Morgan's Bike Race

Morgan joined a mountain biking league this fall and has been having a blast racing with them! Here is a cool shot of him finishing his last race of the season:

That's it until Spring!

Corn Maze

We went with our Cub Scout Pack to the Corn Maze today - it was a gorgeous day and we had a lot of fun finding our way through the maze with our good friends, the Rundles!

The highlight, however, was when we took a hayride and the driver chose Maddox to help him drive!

Super cool!!

Homecoming 2014

Homecoming was a lot of fun this year! First, we watched the big boys perform with the marching band during halftime. It's a great show this year - all music by the Dave Matthews Band. Morgan is on the drumline playing tenors, and Mason is still playing tenor sax.

Then came my moment in the spotlight - escorting Morgan onto the field during halftime for the Homecoming Court presentation.

This is Morgan's girlfriend, Heather, escorted by her mom, Peri. She was nominated, too.

And they won!

And here are my boys all gussied up for the dance... gosh, they're handsome!!

Mason went to a friend's house with a big group of friends, so the rest of us went to Heather's house for a bite to eat before the dance.

A couple of Heather's friends were there too...  Rachel is in yellow, and Kristin is in black/white.

Everyone loves Morgan!

At the dance...

I didn't get as many photos of Mason since he drove himself and went with a big group, but I know he had a lot of fun, too!

22 Years Strong!

Michael and I are celebrating our 22nd wedding anniversary tonight. The cool thing is that our friends (and our personal financial planner) invited us to their annual customer appreciation dinner and it happened to be on our actual anniversary. Score! Free dinner! And we got a fun tour of the Broncos stadium along with it...!

Happy, Happy are we!