Grandma and Grandpa Whipple come for a visit

My parents came up this past weekend for Kamrielle's

Primary Program. She is a Sunbeam this year so it

was her first one. She was absolutely adorable!

She sang all the songs so well. You could even hear her

among all the others. She said her part very loudly into

the microphone. She said "I love to be at home with my

family." I was so proud of her. Thanks Mom and Dad

for coming. It was a busy weekend. It seems like we are

never home or have something going on and we had

planned to inventory our food storage on Sat. so we

got it done thanks to my mom and dad! Dad helped

us unload all the boxes and group and count what we

had and my mom well she did what Grandmas do best!

Love on the babies! She was a great help in that too!

Heres a group shot of Gpa & Gma with the kids before

leaving for church.

Caden had fun videoing Kamrielle while waiting to leave

for church. She was entertaining us all. I'll have to figure

out getting that on here next from the video camera.

Here is the "Star" herself.

And another group shot. I took two because well you have
too! You hope that one will turn out. Well I thought they
both turned out so I had to put them both on here!
Thanks again for coming and supporting your
grandchildren. You always do it so well!

Carder in the jumper

Carder showing his stuff. Thanks to Marcy for getting this

video. I'm embaressed to say that I have had my camera

for several years and did not know I had this feature.

Carder

Carder is usually a happy guy. I thought this

video shows that. He is also very loud. Marcy

took this video while here visiting. Let's hope

it works. This is my first time posting video.

Turleys were here for a visit

Somehow these pictures posted in the opposite order

but it takes too long to fix it so you will get the story

backwards, sort of. The Turley boys were here for a

hunt and of course I did not get any pictures of them.

But Marcy and Camdon came on Sunday Oct. 19th and

joined the rest of us. They left Tues. morning.

While Marcy was here she painted Kamrielles fingernails

and toenails. We were trying to get a picture of her

hands and feet together but she was not liking how she

had to hold her body. Hence the pout...

Here is the shot I got.

Marcy took this one. He looks like a bigger boy
in a bigger hat! Almost 7 months in these pics.

I love Carder's smile! He sure likes to smile a lot!

And heres the picture I wanted first. I was going to say...

Heres what Marcy did while she was here. She loves

my kids and they love her. I wish she were closer.

I could have definately used her today!

Thanks for coming. Your welcome anytime.

Family Reunion~Mexico~October 2008

We had an awesome vacation in Mexico. It was so much

fun! My kids still talk about it. I think we decided we

want to go back every other year now and camp on the

off year like we have been. This is the whole gang that

went below (Vinnie is taking the picture) when we got

back from Church.

My sweet little family!
This is how the family started so that we

could have a reunion...With a Dad and Mom

Here is the front of our villa we stayed in. It was nice.

Marcy and I getting ready to take Carder for a walk

Kamrielle joining the rest of the kids with the "markering"

of the face. See Marcy's blog for a cute video and pics.

Big Brother with little brother.
We loved the sunsets.

This is as beachy as he got. Did not like the water. I guess

he takes after his mom on that one and would rather

just soak up some sun! Of course I kept him in the shade!

Camdon and Kamrielle heading to the beach.

My nerdy face!Playing in the waves!
All the boys playing in the water.

Caden caught a crab.
Trevon holding Carder "the beach bum"
Grandma and Kamrielle
Gang on the beach as the sun was going down.

This was the back patio of the villa. We had a beautiful

view of the beach and perfect weather to go with it!

Kamrielle posing.

We did lots of game playing. Here are Caden and Trevon

playing a game of Chess. We also played lots of Password.

My Moms favorite. We did not get a picture of that.

Vinnie and my Dad playing Speed. I was bragging that no

one could beat me yet. And no one did!

I was thrilled to get to play a game of Beach Volleyball!

Vinnie and Carder in the background watching.

I was sooo glad Savanah came with us! She was so fun
for Kamrielle! They were inseperable. She is such a
sweet girl and a good example for my Kamrielle.


This was just off the patio. Kids playing together.
Looking for seashells
rough housing eachother.
We had access to a pool as well and it made it fun too!

The sunsets were georgeous there! We could not get
enough pictures at sunset time. But you had to be quick.

Mom and Dad
Marcy, Mom & Me
My sweet husband still makes my feet kick up.
Kamrielle played from sun-up till sun-down.
The nice part of this vacation was all the R & R. Sometimes

you just have to get away to get some! Vinnie and Carder.

Vinnie sleeping
Me sleeping
Carder sleeping again. Thanks Grandpa.

We did lots of eating too!
The Chicken Hut. We all liked that place.
The girls loved butter tortillas. We went through lots
of butter and lots of homemade tortillas!

and everyone could not get enough popscicles either!

Vinnie loved the mangos they cut up on the beach and

sprinkle with chille powder.

We did some shopping one day and went to the fish market.

All in all it was a great time and enjoyable! I'm looking

forward to going back!

Peaches

We got back from the Ranch Sun. night, Oct. 5th and I had

Mon and Tues to get my peaches put away plus all the

laundry from the ranch and then pack to leave for Mexico

on Wed. through Mon. (Post on that is yet to come.)

I went over to my mother in laws on Mon. and Tues. and

we canned peaches and made Jam. Then on Tues night

I finished up the last of them and made Peach syrup.

Now I've got to get to my apples this week!