Happy Birthday Kiane and Kaleia!!!

January is a busy birthday month for our family! Kiane turned the big 21 (look out world!) on the 8th and Kaleia will be 19 on the 20th! They are terrific girls and of course, I am one proud mama!!
This picture above is one of my favorites from their childhood. Kiane is on the left, which naturally puts Kaleia on the right. Aren't they adorable?Kaleia

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Happy 11th Birthday Chase!!!

Our little guy is definately growing up! We couldn't be prouder of him!

Flag Football...

Seth and Chase like to play football in the front yard...it has steadily been growing in participants. But, man, is it cold outside!!!Kiane was on kick off team..
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Seth and his girlfriend Kaci, who came to visit the big metropolis of Palisade for the first time. What a nice girl!!

Christmas...

Okay, I have very little pictures of Christmas to post, but it is definately not my fault...I seem to have some uncooperative family members, but I am going to post the few I have, and if they don't like them, then maybe they will pose for me next time!! Right, children?Seth and Kiane make cookie making pretty tough. They are constantly stealing dough or red hots!
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Kiane and Princess.

This one is awesome. Seth has cookie dough on his finger trying to give it to Princess. A little background, Princess is not overly fond of Seth. At all. Notice Ki's face...she is going "NOOOOOOOOOO". It is always quite a circus around here when Seth , Kiane and Kaleia are all home at the same time!!!

It's Official.....

Staci Alberts Applegarth has officially graduated from Chadron State College!Kiane and I went to see Staci graduate on December 19 in Chadron. It was quite the drive up there...we had snow packed roads half way, hit very heavy fog for a while (while on snow packed roads!), and then totally clear weather for the other half of the trip up there. The way home we hit snow, more fog, and a very long drive on a very long day! But, the price for all this....was priceless!! Ki and I wouldn't have missed it for the world!
A picture of Matt and Staci. For those of you who do not know, Staci is a teacher of secondary math, and is currently employed at McCook High School.

Congratulations Staci!!!!