Party Pics!

The Road Trip Pics...

Kim Arrives
The group of girls
Kimberly at the champagne toast and wine tasting

Sisters...
The group again...off to dinner...

Getting ready for the night

At the bar listening to the band

Paul (the singer) myself, Dawnie and Kim

Trista and I again...

The limo arrives...

So much fun!

This is hysterical...we have fun together!

Kimber and Trist

Kimmie and the limo...good times

We made her do it...this cracks me up still!

Leann, Mary and Trista

Trista and Lauren

Katie and I

Leann and Mary Lou

The Last Fling before the Ring...

Haa..haa...I totally stole that title from Katie :-) This weekend Darren and I went to Kim and Sean's bachelor and bachelorette parties! Kim's party consisted of a wine tasting, dinner at the beach, listening to a jazz band at the casino bar, and a limo ride to Chinook Winds along with dancing. There was 11 girls total and we had a blast. The event started on Saturday at noon and continued into the next day at about the same time. Trista and I were the late nighters staying out gambling until 6:30am while the rest of the party was asleep by 3:30am! I am so thankful I could share in the events it was SO much fun and such a great experience and I am SO happy to have been included. I will post pics asap...

Jeremy and Cally's Wedding

We went to our friends wedding in Lincoln City yesterday. We left Portland at around 10am and the wedding was at 2pm. We got to town about 12:30pm had a quick bite to eat and started to head to the wedding when we realized we were going the wrong way, out of town....darn it! So needless to say then the rush was on. We had to sit in the traffic (again) heading back into town and go just over 60 blocks to the wedding! We made it only a few minutes late and there were a few other car loads which arrived after us. By the time Darren had changed and I had gotten the boys changed we were rushing in, but definitely worked out very well. The wedding was beautiful. It was at the bride's grandmother's house, with a beautiful bay side view. It was a family affair so I was very thankful that we had decided to take the kids, they had a great time blowing bubbles and playing with the other kids. We headed home around 5pm and were going to stop at the beach and let the boys play in the sand, but the weather was a bit misty and Brooklynd had fallen asleep right before we stopped! All in all it worked out well. This weekend was the last for my Summer Term in school!! YAY. This term was good, but I think my classes will result in B's! Darn it, you know I like A's. It is my own fault though. I didn't spend the time I should have on either class, I put forth a minimal effort. Ah, well I got public speaking out of the way and am thankful for that :-) I am scheduled for 3 classes for next term, but one is a night class and with Darren's current work schedule it isn't feasible unless someone else watches them. We'll see! Here are a few pics of our family from the wedding and some of the bride and groom!

Tanner (Jeremy and Cally's son) & Camden (Jeremy's nephew)

The boys..Brooklynd, Braeden and Darren at the bay!

Brooklynd running around...

Braeden blowing bubblesOur family all dressed up!

Surprise!! Nikki's Party Pics!

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The birthday Girl and Jason

Karen Leanne and I Karen, Nikki and Trina Darren and Trina Karen and Cody

Katie and Sam

Jerry and Jaime

Carly and Brandon
Bobbi and Con

The MHS girls of '96

Happy 30th Birthday Nikki!

My dear friend Nicole Clark is turning 30 today. We celebrated her birthday with a surprise party that Karen, I and her boyfriend Jason planned last Saturday (August 11th.) It was a huge success. There were lots of decorations, lots of food, a few cakes and drinks & dancing too! I am not sure exactly how surprised she was, but she was very happy and had a good time, so that is the most important! I will be posting pics of our crazy night. I took around 230 photos so there were a few good ones. I think we had about 40 people including family and friends so that was a good turn out and it was nice for all of us to be able to get together. We have another busy weekend ahead. My co-worker Jeremy's wedding is this weekend at Lincoln City. We are taking the babies as was encouraged by the happy couple. Their son Tanner (who is near Brooklynds age) will be in the wedding. I have my last speech for class due on Sunday and my final paper for my writing class due as well. Then a break for a few weeks and back to it for Fall Term. Darren is working a lot still he works full time at his job with the union and about 20 hours in 3-4 days at his second job. It's wearing on him a little and the boys and I dearly miss him during the week too, but he will continue it for a while longer.

Trista's Birthday Pics!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TRISTA!!!!!!

Stacy Visits & Trista's Birthday!!

We had a VERY busy weekend. Stacy (Darren's sister) came into late Friday night, Saturday we did a garage sale and Trista's Birthday BBQ. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TRISTA!! It was SO much fun. We all had a great time. It was a childless affair so as you can imagine it got pretty crazy. We headed out after the BBQ and there was even a little bit of girl fighting action later, but that is all I'll say about it...well on here at least. Sunday I had to record a speech for school so the troops headed over to our house as I am required to have 6 audience members. My mom ended up taking the kids for a walk because baby Brooklynd was having a major meltdown and yelling mama which made it near impossible for me to continue to speak...later that night we went to dinner with Trista, Jason, Kody and Stacy. Stacy flew home yesterday and it was so cute, over the weekend Braeden learned to enunciate her name very well and also kept saying that she was Darren's sister. He would ask Dada? Stacy's your sister? Or Mama Stacy is Dawwen's sister? Hilarious! Brooklynd took a bit to warm up as is per his usual, but he was also playing and hugging her before she left. It was a good visit and much too short, but we are thankful that she came as are the boys. Come visit us soon (Aunt) Stacy!!