Eternal Family!!!

My brother Todd and his wife Andi celebrated their 15th wedding anniversary today... But the special part about it was that they were sealed to their 6 children... They are now an Eternal family... Congratulations Todd, Andrea, Jacob, Alexandria, Andru, Charlot, Samantha, and Maxwell... We love you guys...


Jake

Alex

Dru

Charlie

Sammie

Max

Skyler's Photo Shoot

Here are the photos from Skyler's Back to School photo shoot...

Ashlynn's Photo Shoot

Here are the Pictures from Ashlynn's Back to School photo shoot...

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This is my inspiration...This Layout just sold on eBay for....Drum roll please................
$1575.00!!!!
holy crap!!!

A little Shout Out!!

Here is a little shout out to my brothers and sisters!!!
I found these pictures when I was looking for my Senior pictures...Do you remember these hats...We are such DORKS!!!...We must have just finished playing softball or something because we are all dressed in our softball clothes...

So here's to Karl, Todd, Julie, Jeff and Andrea...Thanks for being the best brothers and sisters anyone could ever have...I love you guys...

Class of '98'

So this past weekend was my 10 year reunion...Did I go?...Nope...I wasn't willing to pay $50.00 to see people that didn't care about me 10 years ago and most likely don't care about me now...But my friend April challenged all of '98' ers to post our senior pictures...so here it goes...I went a little further and found some other pictures from way back when!!!...lol...

Ok here I am in all my Senior Glory...Like my Friend April said whats with the glum look...I guess I was sad to see high school end...NOT!!!...(kick'n it old school)


Here I am in the Grad get-up...hey girls if you got 'em flaunt 'em


These are my French horn boyz...they were really sad to see me go...I was way better then them!!!


I was a BAND GEEK!!! you know it...this is the Jazz band my sophomore year...Good Times...I'm the short trumpet player in the back...I was even standing on something!!!


This is the Wind Ensemble same year...That's me, the hot French horn player!!!...(i should have made out with him...sorry no names just in case he reads this blog)...lol


OK last one...I know isn't he cute...I married him a few months later...Jeff and I after Graduation...

Johnson Jeffrey Salipeter

Today Skyler informed me that his name is no longer Skyler...
It is Johnson Jeffrey Salipeter...
Just think of what my Grandchildren will be named!!!
Gotta love his imagination...

Family Reunions, Black Eyes and all the good things in life!!!

This past weekend we had a big Family Reunion...I didn't know most of the people there but it was fun...We had it in Chewelah Park...It's about 45 min north of Spokane...There is a Creek that runs through the park that the kids got to play in which was nice because is was 101 deg there...After the reunion was over the kids and I went out to my Grandpa's house in Athol Idaho and met up with my cousins to go Huckleberry picking...WE drove up into the mountains and found lots of berries...Some where on the way down the mountain I poked a hole in my tire so we had to put the spare on...in the process we broke one of the lugs off...I had to drive home very slow so it took me an hour and a half...Sunday we went to church and just relaxed around the house...I made Huckleberry Freezer Jam...mmm mmm mmm...It is sooooooooooooooooooo good...Hayden was running and tripped over a toy and hit his head on the bed...He got a huge goose egg on his head...The pictures don't do it justice...Then not 15 min later he was running once again and fell and got one behind his ear...poor kid...Other than that we had a nice quiet weekend...lol...Jeff is off to Coos Bay Oregon...Back to single parenthood for me...

This is a picture of my Mom and Dad and all their Kids and Grand-kids that were at the reunion...That is only half of us...


Xander, Hayden and Ash in the creek...


Xander fell in face first...He wasn't to happy about that...the water was a little cold...


Hayden's head...you cant really see but the bump is huge...

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Jello!!!

There's nothin better than Jello in the summer time...

Xander must know some secret about using Jello as a skin care product...

I went on a DATE!!!

First off I wanted to thank Arah's Dad Jim for the Spokane Indian Tickets...

Skyler and I went on a date tonight...Just the 2 of us...I decided to take him to he
Indians game and leave the other kids with a sitter...I didn't tell Sky where we were going...When we got there he ask if we were going to watch football...I told him to guess again and he got it...Our Tickets got us each 2 hot dogs, soda, chips and ice cream...We got there early for some activities...First we entered the Simon Says competition...and guess what...I AM CHAMP!!!..I won a T-shirt and a cool Spokane Indians Baseball...Then while the team was warming up we got a foul ball...We took the ball I won and got it signed by a bunch of players...Then Skyler got to join the Kids Club (which got him 2 free tickets to another game), bounce in the Otto castle and hit in the kids batting cage...They ask Sky if he wanted to announce the first batter out on the field but he was a little to shy...We had a great time and great seats...The Indians won 8 to 5...Skyler cant wait to use the free tickets he got to go back with his daddy...here are a bunch of pictures from tonight...

The National Anthem


Picture courtesy of Skyler


My cheese ball son


Nothin better than ice cream on the face


Otto the Spokaneasource...


showing off the cool t-shirt his mama got him


getting that cool ball signed


whats a baseball game with out a hot dog

5 Years!!

Yesterday was the 5 year anniversary of Sierra passing away...I can't believe it has been 5 years already...It seems like just yesterday we were sitting in the hospital with her hoping and praying she would come home...I am thankful everyday for the blessings she brought to my life, and the lessons she taught me...I am a stronger person because of her...

I just wanted to give a Happy Birthday Shout out to all the Kiddos born that same spring and summer that I got to snuggle and love and watch grow up...Have fun in kindergarten...