Halloween

Happy Halloween.  We had a really nice holiday this year.  Lots of candy, family and fun costumes. 

Cowgirl Ashby

London Mae, sweet Indian girl

Ezra the little Froggy

Halloween this year was beautiful!  Not only was there no rain, but it was almost hot.  In the mid 60's.  We had a Cowgirl, an Indian or Unicorn and a little Froggy boy.  It sure was great to have Nana and Papa here.

 

Photo Shoot

 So Have I been a lame blogger or What!!!  Haha.  Anyway, I am due tomorrow (but have another week of waiting probably) and wanted to get these pictures we took last week of the girls posted before our little boy makes his appearance.

 Our beautiful and fiesty, London Mae

 Our ever learning cutie pie, Miss Ashby.

These two sisters love each other soo much.  And can't wait for brother to come.

3 Girls I love

Just because.

I need to post again.

Maybe if I get to use the computer, that doesn't hate me, more often.

Maybe.

I love all of these girlies.

Can't complain about a wonderful family.

Knock Knock...

Knock, knock

Who's there?

It's a Boy!!!

We found out earlier this week!  We are soo excited.  I'm due sometime around the beginning of August.  We are excited to have a little more blue in the house. And Ryan said, we need to find a cute stuffed football for him to carry home with him. haha (the girls didn't have any stuffed toys that early!)

Wish us luck, we're on our way to being out numbered.  More kids than laps.

Christmas 2010 Part 3 -Other fun Happenings

We got together with all the Bishop's that could (missing Jordan serving as a missionary) at Grandpa Ken's for Dinner on the 26th.  It is always great to catch up with Ryan's older sister Rachel.  We don't see each other enough.  Her boyfriend Miguel is funny, super friendly and fun.  Ironically he is the only one I took any pictures of.

Ashby Loves him.  I'm pretty sure that she really thought he came over to play blocks with her! haha.  Thanks Grandpa Ken for the great (hand made) gift!

Preston and Alisha and we don't get to play enough together either. hehe.  But it was wonderful to have a nice Bishop Family Dinner.  Thanks for all your yummy cooking Ken!

Nana came up from California to spend some time with us crazy kids who live in the cold. hehe.  She endured lots of cold weather (including snow) and still brought us all very nice gifts.  (thanks Papa too!)  Ashby and London Loved having another morning of sweet gifts.

 

Christmas 2010 Part 2 -Christmas Day

All Was Calm.

Christmas Morning.  Lovely and fun.  It's great to see the excitement.   Love you girls.

Ashby happy as a Princess

London loves balls, snacks and her warm coat.

We had a great morning at home.  Yummy blueberry strata and fun being together before we left to go visit family.  A quick stop at Grandpa Ken's and off to Ogden.

It was great to have all of the Loveless siblings together again.  So fun and wonderful to be together.
We love so much that Adam was able to come again.  Colorado may not be far, but it often feels like it.  Everyone was kind, loving and in the Christmas Spirit.  (even those not pictured)

Christmas 2010 Part 1

Here is a kind of recap of our December (month of Christmas activities)

Selecting a splendid smelling Fur Tree.

Playing with Daddy by the tree.

Eating some Grandpa Ken's traditional Christmas Chex Mix. Yummy!

Breakfast with Santa

 Grandpa took the girls to the fun and yummy Breakfast with Santa

Some of the staff from the North Pole was there to make the morning awesome.  Including Santa Claus, Mrs Claus, Buddy the Elf, Polar Bear and the Gingerbread Man! 

In addition to a yummy breakfast enjoyed by all, there were lots of activities like Face painting and Santa Letter writing,

Lots of Games, Goodies and Crafts.

 There was even fun photo opts.

The line for Santa was long, but we all had a fun start to the Christmas season.

Stay tuned for Part 2.  Christmas Day.

Happy New Year

Welcome Home Preston!

We get to share Preston!  If only for a week.  We are all so happy to all be together.  Alisha and he are too.  Can't you tell!  Any ideas for fun things we should do with our military man on leave?

Disneyland

We all had an amazing time!  I hope to be able to share more later.

Thanks Nana, Papa, And all the cousins!  Ciao, Ti Amo!

Happy 2 Weeks Old!

I want to say congradulations to my new nephew, Jacob.  He is 2 weeks old today.
He came a little early.  Well, a lot early.  About 3 months early.  But he is here to stay and is fighting each day to get stronger, healthier and well mostly just fighting to grow.

I find myself amazed at this tiny miracle.  And can't believe how much I love him.
My brother Jared and sister-in law Stacy are great parents already.  You can see the love in their faces.
Jacob, Jared and Stacy we love you

      

Summer = Family Reunion

This is probably true for many of you.   Summer provides the opportunity for families large and small to gather together to celebrate being together!  For some a family reunion is an hour at the local park. Or getting together for a 4th of July barbaque and street side fireworks.  Still others gather as many together for as long possible.

Lately I have noticed that family reunions have become more fashionable.  Which if you are a more recent convert to the sport of family gathering, don't be worried, jump on the old band wagon and hang on.  This is one trend I hope never falls out of style.

But my family has been having a family reunion for 50 + years now.  No, I'm not trying to brag.  I just excited about it. Really!  We get together for a weekend of camping, hikes, water fun, stories, skits, food, little sleep, cousins, Really old Uncles, really young 3rd cousins and just fun.

Anyway, this year my parents are in charge of this 3 day event of fun.  It's next week.  And I'm excited.!!!

Water Fight - here we come!

Another type of reunion happened just this week for my family.

My sister Amy Loveless returned home safely after being gone for 18 months on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  She served in the Conception South Mission.  She loved it.  She loves the people.  We love her.  Welcome home Amy-lu.

                        
                                   

oh...did I mention Ashby is sooo excited your home!

Skype + Family + Friends = Awesome

I receive a web cam for my birthday (over 6 months ago) but just used our computer to fully skype the other day.  

It was so fun.  Ashby just loved it.  I kind of want everyone to use it.  It's just excited to be able to see who you're talking to.

Although, I can imagine a few times when seeing who you a talking to might be rather...inconvient.  haha (thinking of a time when skyping with my mother-in-law, "oh Cheryl, I didn't know you were there...." )

I guess that is probably a technology that will one day be available in every phone.  Just like one day (soon) everyone really will have their own lap top (or mac book or Ipad or netbook). 

Weird.

But I like Skype.  We were able to skype with some of our favorite people.  They are family and our friends.  We used to do everything together.  Then.  They moved.  But we all have survived.  We miss them.  And may be planning a trip to California later this year just because they will be there.  Until then we will probably learn to like Skype a lot.  

But probably NOT as much as this:

7 Years

March 21, 2003. San Diego Temple.  Life Changing.  In love forever.  Thank you Ryan.  7 Wonderful Years. 2 Beautiful Girls later.  I Love You Always.

the Weather Continued

Last week I wrote about the weather.  That night it began snowing and didn't stop until sometime after noon the next day!  And then it didn't melt right away as had the last of the storms.  But it did yesterday!  It started with a little bit of rain and then the sun came out and it really seemed like it was pouring with all of the snow melting so quickly.
Today it was beautiful!! 

What did we do with it?  Picnic of course!
Daddy even was home and able to join us.

Daddy's Day Off

Lately Ryan has been busy. Very busy. Working with his Construction company during the day. Then working a full time job in the evenings at a local grocery store. We are preparing for him to go back to school this fall, so he is just work, work, working so we can save up some cash.

Anyway, with this schedule we don't always have very much family time. Tuesday and Sunday are his grocery store days off so often we have Family night on Tuesday night. Sometimes we don't. Well this monday we planned his day off.

DDP - Daddy Day off Plan

Play at home with the girls in the morning while Cheryl works out.

Pack a lunch for a picnic because Ashby is a picnic lover.

Take the picnic lunch up into the mountains for a hike.

Use our awesome baby backpack on hike.

Dinner at home.

All together.

Yum.

Fun.

Well all went according to plan except for the hike part. This was disappointing because that was kind of the highlight of the day. Due to the amount of snow still left on the couple trails we planned we couldn't exactly picnic in the mountains unless we wanted to make snow angles while doing it. Nope.

So we went to plan B on this part.

What's plan B you ask.

the Park.

It was great. We all had fun.

We love you Hermana Lu! Here's a hug from us to you!

London's Blessing

After trying to find the perfect day were everyone could be with us for London's blessing day, we finally settled on a date. Then as fate would have it, Ryan had to work on that Sunday morning (and the place he works at isn't even open on Sundays! -inventory-) So we blessed her at home Sunday evening with most of our immediate family and a few close friends.

London is super sweet and we are so grateful our family could join us for on special day.