Lunch Date

Whitny came to Idaho for a visit while Cody is in India.  I was so excited to get to see this cute little man and his chubby cheeks!  Traygen is growing so fast!  He is for sure the tallest Telford baby I have ever seen!  He is really long!

I think he looks like Cody with chubby cheeks!  He is such a happy baby, just content and calm.  Nice little boy.

Shannon arranged for us all to get together for lunch up at the Arco cabin.  We got to visit a lot (not enough) and love on babies. 

It was fun to see all of these little cousins play together.  We didn’t have any big helper cousins because they are all in school.  These littles were sure fun though.  Lots of boys!  I was glad we got to spend a little time with Whitny and Traygen, its just too long in between trips!

Sister Retreat

We decided to have our sister retreat while we were together.  It wasn’t at all a normal retreat, but still fun.  We missed Kiley (too far away in Florida) and Kristen (who had to work).  We did our favorite things again this year which is really fun.  Erica got us the green scarves.  We tried all sorts of things to get a decent picture, turning one way, or another, we just kept getting the same out come, US!

We had lots of laughing and fun like we always do!  I love my Mom and sisters mucho much!

Some More Pictures From the Weekend

We always have a good time when the Jensen boys are around.

We went the whole weekend with out internet!!  How did we survive!!

We saw lots and lots of wildlife right out the kitchen window and on the drive.

Winter really hit us hard!

We had lots of fun recipes and food. 

I cant wait to redeem ourselves next year! 

Oh, Sisters!!!

One of my favorite things arrived in the mail today!!! 

I am getting excited to see you all in a few weeks!!

Twilight

Lain made each one of us a “team” shirt.  It was a really fun idea.  Now I just need to watch the movies! HA!

Rollover Rett

Rett is a roller!  He got himself backed into the corner the other day.  He just does circles on his tummy all day long. I am getting nervous that he is going to crawl before he sits up.  That is not my plan, doesn’t he know!  I enjoy the sitting, not able to get around stage A LOT!  We had to do a little photo shoot with our little man in the corner.  It was all the big girls could do to not rescue him, he is so spoiled!

He spotted the binkie,  of course just out of reach.

The big girls will always save him and give him his bink.  Thank goodness for big sisters!

He has got to be the cutest babe EVER and I’m not just saying that because I’m his mommy either……

Grandma’s Holly Hobby Dresses

I finally remembered to take a picture of Ashley in her Holly Hobby dress.  We wear them to church quite a bit but Sundays aren't the best days to remember to take pictures!  Emma didn't wear hers, I will take her picture next time.

I cant imagine how old these are?  Grandma Ruby had to have made them when Kristen, Trish, and Erica were around 11-8 years old or so, does anyone want to volunteer how many years that is?

Kollin Nielson Memorial Bridge

This weekend I traveled to Washington to meet the rest of my family for the dedication of a bridge for Kollin. It was a really nice ceremony, I thought it was just going to be a small thing with just our family. It actually bothered me about how many people were there (like 40ish or more) but then I realized as we got to visiting that they were all co-workers, or friends, people who cared about my brother too, others have been mourning his loss too, not just family. It was nice to see all of them who cared and thought so much about Kollin. Everyone of them had a story or two to tell about him, it was great! It was about an hour long ceremony including Luke getting to do the unveiling of the plaque, quite appropriate I thought, it was cute! We had a great time visiting with family and friends. I was thankful that the City of Kirkland and the Department of Transportation and Kiewitt (the company Kollin was working for) would all do this for Kollin (and us). It was really cool!

Kollins Kiewitt family.

It was a great weekend, all of my sibling were there except Kiley, a couple of us stayed in Seattle for a couple of days to shop til we dropped! Of course we had to go to IKEA, and get lost in some GINORMOUS mall ! It was a fun little sisters (and mom) weekend.