While mom's away the boys will play!

Josh took a week vacation to play with the boys while I was gone, Although his week vacation turned into working from home for a week. He still managed to do some fun and questionable activities with them.

Like teaching them how to throw tennis balls at a wasps nest

Toasting breakfast with cans of soda

Eating ice cream for lunch, not AFTER lunch but FOR it.

Somethings were a bit more normal...

Burger King runs

And Miniature Golfing

KNOW WONDER MY BOYS LOVE IT WHEN MOM LEAVES ON AN AIRPLANE.

but to give josh the appropriate credit. he did cut the boys hair and had the house completely cleaned up. You would have never guess the boys were bachelors for a week. All 3 bathroom were cleaned, every room was vaccumed (including the stairs) all landry was washed, folded and put away. I've trained him right, but just to make sure I think I should go on another trip to really test him. haha

New Nephew & 10 yr Reunion

This trip included…

• Lots of In N Out
• Yummy Mexican food
• Petes
• Splash pad and ice cream with cousins Giada and Statton
• Italian Dinner & frozen Yogurt with Scrappy Bulldog, uncle bucket, aunt shell and cousins Emerson and Ella
• Shopping and Dinner with my mom
• Dinner with the senior cheerleaders class of 2000
• The Shout house (dualing pianos) w/ mom
• Gila valley Temple dedication (broadcast)
• Family dinner w/ Mom, Aunt Mamie, Brie & Joey, Jerrae & Chris and all the cousins
• A hilarious trip with Jerrae to the post office (only took 4 trips, and 5 different boxes to finally mail boys sheets)
• Swimming with Grammy and cousins
• Snuggleing baby Conlan
• Lots of play time with cousin Grady and BrenLeigh
• Sleep over @ Scrappy and Bulldogs w/ cousin Emerson
• 10 yr High School Reunion ( thanks brie for being my date)
• Helping Brie @ her house and making dinner.
• Visiting grammy at work.

Like always we had a fun and packed trip and way to short of a vist.

Miss Varsity Waiting for the airplane.

She is the BEST traveler

This being our 8^th trip her and I have taken together, i realized we don't have one picture together on the plane. Now we do!

we have never had a person sit right next to us. Being a free lap child she always ends up getting her own seat.
Baby Conlan Lincoln McKinney

Swimming

Dinner with the Girls

Reunion

the Shout House

Gum in the Hair


WHEWW!!!

do NOT let brie push a grocery cart with a baby carrier on it, she can't see over the top of it. resulting in hitting this tower of glass bottles of salsa. We watched as it swayed but managed to stay standing. We left the isle quickly before she had a chance to run into it again.

Other Fun!!!

March, April, May = ArIzOnA

• March= a trip for mom and varsity to phx to see boy go through the temple. And be there for his farewell. I had already booked a flight for the last week in March thinking I would make it for boy's farewell, the temple and seeing him off at the airport. However thanks to stake conference and the temple closed for cleaning. Those plans that were already in place were going to put me in AZ after all of the permission celebrations had already taken place. So josh quickly changed my flight plans, rescheduled his business trips and sent me out earlier.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• April= a trip for mom and varsity to Phx. Grandma dots passed away unexpectedly and thanks so my amazing husband and some quick help from my aunt Lois and uncle Dave. I was able to book a flight and be there with my mom and sisters.
• For the first time in three yrs Jerrae, Statton (nephew) and Giada (niece) had booked flights to come out and visit us....that trip was put on hold with grandma passing away just a few days earlier. Hoping they make it out soon.
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• May= a trip for mom and Varsity to phx...to meet baby conlan (new cousin/nephew) and my 10 yr high school reunion. V and Leave on Saturday. For what will be her last free lap child trip to Arizona now we'll have to purchase 2 tickets because she is my little travel buddy and I can't imagine going without her.
• Josh spent another week traveling through Pennsylvania and Baltimore meeting with customers and working more on his Modular Fire Protection buisness plans.

• More pictures to follow after this trip.

4 Years Ago

these two little guys decided to make a very early arrival... at 33 weeks.

• And after i had laid in a hospital bed only allowed to walk to the bathroom for 7weeks. Trying my best to keep them in. Contracting every night. Nightly doses of Terbutaline. A 24/7 IV of Magnesium, a new IV every four days with a least 2 attempts to nail my rolling veins, a suspicious heart murmur because of to much Terbutaline, twice a day fetal monitoring laying still so they could get a good solid hr reading, constant eating to gain the weight they wanted to see gained --never happened, pretty stretch marks, a two yr old at home and an emergency c-section. Still didn't seem like enough sacrifice when I saw them like this.....


• Kage 3 lbs 12oz

Kadin 4lbs 2oz

after 6 weeks for Kadin and 8 weeks for Kage. We were a family of 5 at HOME!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BOYS!!!!!March 1st 2004.

February snuck in there and just flew by.....

January:

• Jase turned 6!!! Josh and I celebrated with him at "the animal restaurant" aka Rain Forest Cafe.


• Josh visited Arizona for a weekend before continuing up to Las Vegas for a week long Home Builders show. Where he talked all about Residential Fire Sprinklers. And something about a "Pink Gorilla" -- he says what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.


• Josh turned 29 and we celebrated with Elizabeth and Emillio at Lucialls Rockin Pianos in Milwaukee.



• Varsity had her 18month check up where she is 33 1/2in. tall =95%, 22.2lbs =20%, head 18 1/2 in. =60%, so still a tall skinny girl . I'm loving it, josh not so much more worrying on his end. ha ha



• AND more snow!!!!

February:

• Varsity went from having 4 front teeth to having 4 front teeth and 2 back molars.


• Joran Visited the dentist for the first time in 8yrs ( due to laziness) and walked out with no cavities!!!!! only has to go back to have an old repair fixed and an old glue stain from braces removed.


• Josh spent a week in Baltimore & Philadelphia again talking about residential fire sprinklers.


• During the week Josh was gone Joran got Strep throat and a whopping case of tonsillitis.


• Played a ton of Rock band with the Martinez family and Elizabeth's MOM and sis Sydney. ( can't wait to go visit them in Virginia someday!)


• and STILL more snow!!!