Family

Aaron's mom and my mom with Krew

Krew just "hanging" out

Krew and Grandpa

Kali loves books

Coriann

cousin Will, so cute

Veronica and Jayce

Cousin Sherri, won the Thanksgiving 5K, you are awesome!!!!

Janica

Cousin Calee and Kali

Aaron and Krewzer

cousin Michael

It was nice spending time with family in Utah. We were so spoiled to have both of our mom's with us for Thanksgiving!!! Even though it was FREEZING cold we enjoyed being around our loved ones.

flood pictures continued...

Here are some pictures I got from Erin's blog. The flood outside of TVA.

Here are some pictures that Angie took of the flood. Our men helping fill and transport the sand bags.

Love, Unity, Service

Lindsay and Julianna watching as community help to protect their home

the home behind our building

out our back window

Kali and Brylie watching the rain

in front of Hillary house

3:00 am I wake up to Krew crying. As I am walking into his room I noticed the sound of water running, it sounded like a faucet. I look outside, is it raining? It was, it was raining so hard it sounded like rushing water, and it didn't let up. 7:00 am loud thunder and flashes of lightning, the rain has not let up at all. Kali woke up and asked me, "does this mean Jesus has died?" She got that from the movie, The Testaments, since the conditions were exactly the same. I turn on the news, it had been raining since 11:00pm. Flash flood warnings. 8:00am all the men head out to start making sand bags. We walk out side, homes are flooded, rain still not letting up. TVA community gets together and tries to channel the water away from the homes. 11:30 am E building moms really want to help, we start making sandwiches, and hot cocoa. We set up a table next to C building and slowly every one came over and started to eat, grateful for something to fill and warm their bellies. 1:30 pm rain stops. 2:30pm sun comes out and birds are chirping. It was so awesome to see everyone working together with such love, unity and service.

Happy Birthday to...

ME!!!!

Bring on the jokes!! I am 29 and I don't understand why people don't like getting OLDer. I can't wait to hit 30 :) Thanks to my WONDERFUL parents who SADLY :( left last night, for throwing me a little birthday celebration and getting me a snickers cheese cake from the Cheese Cake Factory! YUMMY!

FRIENDS

It was so much fun to get to visit some friends who now live in Utah. We made our annual visit to the Greenleaf home where this year was a little different, this year Kali and James played together the whole time and Fiona, now being 7 years old hung out with the adults and took pictures with her camera, she is quite the little photographer :) It was good to see Keiko and catch up on things, we got to see Jared for two seconds before he was off to work.







We also visited the Ford family. I didn't bring Krew with me to see them because he was napping, but I wish I would have because he and Bodie would have had a great time, Bodie just reminded me so much of Krew, he is adorable. And little Bella, so cute, and still so mellow, I think Kali was a little overbearing. Kara even told me before Kali came Bella said, "Kali is not a monster." She was a little nervous and Kali didn't help at all when she started pretending to be a monster. Sorry Bella.

Charlene and Brenden came over to our place to visit and he and Krew had a great time crawling around together and just being little boys. Charlene is on her way to South Africa to spend time with Wade's family for Christmas. Sounds like FUN!!!

Thank you Hauni and family for coming to Coriann's basketball game and supporting her. It was good to see Hauni and her cute little boy Max. It is so fun to get to see old friends again even if it is just a quick visit.

The Campbell family. Congratulations on your newest addition, Lucy Grace, she is BEAUTIFUL! She is just so perfect and she is so lucky to be a part of the Campbell family. I loved talking with Chris and Tamara, and getting to see their magazine home, it is awesome!
Before Janica's wedding I got to visit Jody Parkinson. It worked out perfectly because she was scheduled to highlight Janica's hair, so I just met her at the salon and caught up on life. She is so cute and Congratulations on your beautiful little girl :)
(We got a picture together but it is on my sister's camera)

It was so nice to visit with friends and see how quickly the kids grow up, so much fun!
We love you all!!