BEAVER BELIEVERS

I'm sorry I deleted you!

2009-09-09T13:00:00.000-07:00

While trying to edit my posts I apparently deleted
Eli's family......so here they are!

Eli, Marie, Jonas and Gabby Hibbert
(not posting makes you very rusty and I am not going to edit anymore, so this is what you get!)

SERIOUSLY!!!!

2009-09-09T12:33:00.000-07:00

O.K. this is the rest of the pictures I put on to post and for some unexplainable craptastic reason they didn't make it on to my original post.....? I have no idea why.....any way this is "One hour family picture taking shoot-out" continued, enjoy,again!

Eric, Shelly and Tate Hibbert

The Grandchildren

(top row) Chaz, Wes, Luna, Ryley, Gabby, Jonas

(bottom row) Tate, Kosmo, Dewey

Grandpa Hibbert with my kids

Wes, Ryley, Chaz and Charlie(dog, not my kid)

One hour family summer picture shoot-out!

2009-09-09T12:24:00.000-07:00

I was going to post Chaz's 4th birthday party pictures.......alas, my camera and my computer wouldn't work together today and those picture are still in the camera and not on my computer. Since I haven't posted in so long I am sharing my favorite family pictures we did back in July..........enjoy!

Our family

Lori, Wes, Ryan,

Ryley and Chaz

Aunt Jennifer and Dosie

Carley Hibbert, Keith, Luna, Kosmo

and Dewey Nerdin

Hair cut

2009-03-13T19:03:00.000-07:00

I came home from class last week and found my baby Chaz with all his curls cut off! That's right Ryan decided it was time. So off to preschool he went and now my baby does not look so much like my baby anymore......such a little man!

2009-02-16T13:36:00.002-08:00

I Know I hardly ever blog anymore.......so just incase anybody looks at our blog anymore, this is what we did at Christmas! I will try and do better!

Christmas

2009-02-16T13:36:00.001-08:00

making a cake for Chaz's Birthday!

2008-12-09T11:24:00.000-08:00

Chaz had his birthday back in August, he turned three! He helped me make his cake this year, too.

He also had to taste it and make a mess...... he was so helpful.

Chaz loves Planes and Helicopters. We made a plane cake and he got a plane for his birthday.

We got to have our cousins and uncle Travis at Chaz's party, now that we live in the same town together, it is so much fun.

2008-10-12T21:44:00.000-07:00

Here......fishy.....fishy......monkey?

2008-10-12T21:18:00.000-07:00

Last month we went on a family jont, to the Fish Hatchery,in the Tonto national forest in Gila county, about 16 miles from Payson Az. where we live. I put in some pictures of the view so everyone can see how beautiful it is here...mountains and real trees! It is great! Some cactus, but not to many!

The kids had a great time, running around and feeding all the big fish... it is amazing how amazed they were and how much fun we had, just looking at fish!

Ryan at work....working it out!

2008-10-05T12:48:00.000-07:00

So....our long lived job search has found us in Payson Az. and accourding to Ryley, "it's not even hot here!" The weather and climate is actually pretty nice and mild and that we love! This is a picture of the outside of Ryan's Training room at Payson High School. Ryan also has an office at the Hospital, but spends most of his time here in the Training room tapeing, iceing, rehabing the high school athletes.

This is the inside of the training room where all the magic happens!

The first day of school!

2008-09-18T09:33:00.000-07:00

A new town and a new school! We moved to Payson Az., were they have year round school... it started on July 30th! This is Wesley and Ryley starting 2nd grade for Wes and Kindergarten for Ryley. Ryley has all day kindergarten and loves it, we also found out that Ryley is very good at writing her alphabet with either her right hand or her left. According to her "they are both easy", so we are still trying to figure out if she is a "lefty" or a "righty". Wes loves 2nd grade and has already recieved an award (Bulldog award) for having all the pillers of good behavior and charactor. So, so far so good, school has been going on for a month and a half and are going good!

Regarding the puddle

2008-09-03T15:06:00.000-07:00

Apparently, when you add kids, summer, water and dirt you get a mud puddle with the drawing power of an industrial strength magnet. Kids and mud puddles...a magical combination that fills the mind with nostalgia. Knuckles caked with dry mud that crack when you bend them as a result of making mud pies those are some of my memories of mud.

The kids wandered into this black as oil mud puddle near my dad's shed cabin one day. We took my grandma Gertie to see the work my dad had been doing all summer long fixing his new shed that happens to look a lot like a cabin. Wes and Ryley hunted frogs in the 'pond' aka glorified mud puddle and left me with the question of how I was going to get them back home without ending up with a muddy back seat.

Anyway, these are a few of the pictures from that day...

Oh, PS...I've been without reliable access to a computer so my posts are as sporadic as a kangaroo with hiccups...I don't know what that means, but it sounds good.

Mud puddle 2008

2008-09-02T15:19:00.001-07:00

Just Some Random Shots

2008-08-10T20:56:00.000-07:00

I was looking through some old files on my computer and found some pictures that I thought were cute, funny, and our family being themselves...
This picture is from a couple of summers ago. Ryley and Wesley just hanging out in an old boat on a pond at my uncles house. I think it looks like they stopped a deep conversation just in time to look at the camera.

You can now see why no one wants to share a bed with Chaz.

I'm not really sure what Chaz is doing, but it doesn't seem to be bothering Ryan at all!

I thought this was a cute picture of me and Chaz. I haven't a CLUE what my dad is doing or think he's doing in the background.

I have to say these Easter eggs have the most personality of any Easter eggs I have ever seen. Plus, the kids had a lot of fun making the faces.

And Now We're In Arizona

2008-08-07T12:08:00.000-07:00

After living in Idaho and staying in Oregon for the summer, the Howard family heads back to Arizona to live. Ryan got a new job as a trainer for the schools of Payson Arizona...go Longhorns! The drive down to Arizona only took two days, several stops and a few non-bloody fights. The kids weren't too bad and there was only one carsick incident. Here are some candid photos of our trip!

The concentration is evident, after all they're watching School of Rock!

(We had no idea he got his hands on the bag)
Chaz giving us a, "I'm full." look after eating an entire bag of Doritos.

Jennifer looking a bit stressed in the heavy rain in southern Utah!

Chaz didn't want his picture taken and so he placed his toes in front of the camera. He thought it was hilarious. So, did we.

Quick pics

2008-07-09T20:37:00.000-07:00

Ryley enjoying her icecream and rolling her eyes without skipping a lick.
I think this is the only time this summer Chaz was actually sitting still. We needed to take a picture to prove this moment to ourselves.
Wesley challenged me to a staring contest. I thought taking a picture would break his concentration.

Summer Soccer Season

2008-07-09T20:23:00.000-07:00

Wesley kicking the ball down field
Ryley concentrating on getting to the ball.

Wesley and Ryley started soccer here in La Grande. They both have played their first games and had a lot of fun. It has been exciting to have family watch them play. Both Wesley and Ryley are very energetic players. They have been burning lots of calories running around kicking the soccer ball.

An odessy of family pictures, can a perfect picture ever be taken?

2008-06-26T12:58:00.000-07:00

This is us trying to take a picture with cousin's Luna and Kosmo. Eventually the dog became part of the picture and this is the best picture of a 30 min. jont in the backyard. With Aunt Jennifer(taking the photo) post op from surgery! (gallbladder removal)

Last month I took my family and my sister (her being the photographer, laboring with yet an other excruciating headache) She thought we should do a mother daughter picture, this is the result. Us in front of an old tree at my Grandma Hibberts house.
I actually love this picture, even though the hay is in Ryley's face it shows every ones personalities.
This was some of our first attempts of a family picture and Chaz started out not very cooperative(imagine that) and only one person looking at the camera. Good job Wes!
Yet another attempt of our allusive family picture. We are in Grandma's Barn on the old stair case, half of us looking at the camera.Yet, I think Ryan and Chaz look so cute looking at each other.
The boy's, great picture! I love the background with the beautiful Mt. Emily in the background!

Wesley proves to be our most consistent picture taker. I love the setting for this, but we, as a family portrait could not pull it off.

Jump into summer!!

2008-06-01T17:42:00.000-07:00

Getting ready!

I needed some family pictures, so I forced my children, husband and my sister Jennifer (who took the pictures) out to my Grandma Gertie Hibbert's house/farm in La Grande Oregon. This is a taste of some of the fun we had.

On your mark, get set! So this particular set of photos was taken in front of the side of my Grandma's old barn. Isn't so rustic and fun, we played here all the time as children and now my kids do!

GO!
I just really liked these action shots mixed with the ancestral background.(literally) This "Barn" once was an old house that partly caught on fire that belonged to my great grandfather and then got converted into a barn by chopping part of the second story off, add a knew roof and walla...... a Barn.

We do have some family shots that I will post later.-keep it real:)

where in the world are the Howards......?

2008-05-13T13:58:00.000-07:00

What can I say, life has been up and it has been down. I have been out of the world of blogging for the last two months! What have we been up to? Ryan is in Arizona working for Grand Canyon University, me and the kids stuck around here.(Here being Emmett Idaho) Wes is still in first grade and it broke my heart to move him, again, with three months left(he has been in three different schools since "k")I can't down load any cute pic's right now it is all packed up. I do though, need to start reading every one's blogs again and i will do better. It is hard to get around to it when ones self is not blogging, you kinda forget about this whole world! With much love to everyone, lori.

I am on my aunts computer and i did just find a pic of chaz, so i posted that.

Cat love......

2008-03-03T12:01:00.001-08:00

Ryley and Chaz love to "play" outside. Which in kid code means "I want to track and hunt down the cat, hold him, love him, and without knowing it torture him. I have to give the cat props though he is really good with them and just kind of chills out while they drag him around....by the neck. I keep calling him "the Cat" he does have a name, in fact he has had several. He started out in the world living in a cow pasture in the middle of nowhere, Oregon. We were visiting some friends and came home with two tiny under fed cats that had been cow licked and taken care of by some very nurturing cows. One of the cats died or ran away, we don't know which. Well the cat that remained was originally named Longfellow(by me) because of the long tail. Then soon was changed to Poof because he always disappeared whenever we came around.Now Ryley has decided his name is Fluffy......vetoing all my suggestion of Jasper, Rico, Jack ect. But fluffy remains and he is a great "farm cat", he does live outside with occasional break in attempts. But through it all he has stuck around and has been a great pal for the kids.

2008-02-29T09:33:00.000-08:00

Last week I got together with my old roommates and some friends we use to hang with. I can hardly fathom that it has been almost nine years since we have all seen each other, together. When we moved back to Idaho, I had no idea we all now lived in the Boise area. So it was great seeing you guys and I love you all.

Last night Ryan was checking on Wes and Chaz and found them both sprawled across Wes's bed together. It was just funny to us because they have never done this before, Chaz has, plenty of times come into our bed, in the middle of the night but this is the first time Chaz has found his way into Wes's. They are such great brothers and we love them very much.

An average morning

2008-02-11T08:34:00.000-08:00

I haven't posted in a while.....haven't taken any pictures either. I decided to look through my albums on the computer and see if there was anything blog worthy. So I finally decided on a picture of some mundane thing that could happen any morning. This was taken a few week ago, Ryley and Chaz still in p.j.'s fighting over....a container of raisins, which in the life of a four and two year old is a huge deal! The rest of the day was a power struggle to decide who got to hold the raisins. Some how the ordeal past and I can not remember who won. So now I just buy the little boxes of raisins. Problem solved.

Family fun at the Boise Zoo!!

2008-01-21T08:34:00.001-08:00

O.k., Ryley who is four, has an animal obsession. This is pretty much all she talks about. All last week she has been saying she wanted to go to the zoo, over and over again. We had never been to the Boise Zoo, thinking it would be tiny and maybe one or two animal. Since we had gone to the Portland Zoo so many times, I thought it might be a little disappointing, but we were pleasantly surprised and had a great time. It may be about a third the size as Portland's, but really how long can a big zoo hold a small child's attention? Since it was the middle of winter, crowds were not a problem, even on a Saturday. We also got a discounted price for the off season and only paid $9.50 for the whole fam. So for us it was worth it. We just put on a coat, took our time and had a great family outing!

Ryan

2008-01-17T17:11:00.000-08:00

Ryan was doing poses for me today, he cracks me up. I actually really like him with his shaggy hair and beard. He is relishing it right now, in case he has to shave it off in a few months. I do so much blogging with the Kids and I wanted to do one of Ryan. I guess he is kinda one of the kids, so maybe, I should say I have four kids not three!

Movies.....Ryley&Chaz......and Alligaters

2008-01-17T08:14:00.000-08:00

At Chritmas time My very smart and talented sister Jennifer made these very short movies, I helped a little bit. But she just started a blog and just posted these movies on it and they are pretty cute, so if you want to see them link to her blog, just click on Jennifer Hibbert on my friends list and enjoy!

A little piece of heaven

2008-01-14T18:55:00.001-08:00

Growing up I probably wouldn't have called La Grande heaven. Now that I'm all grown up and now my parent's live there with my extremely large extended family, in a way it is just that. Now I truly appreciate the fabulous beauty that is there and this Christmas we truly took advantage of all the snow on Fox Hill at my Fathers inheritance and created a sledding heaven complete with lots of family, four wheelers to take us back up to the top of the hill, A new little cabin my dad and his brothers and many others worked hard on this summer, so we could spend more time up in the snow. It was truly amazing and wonderful. These were pictures of just one day up there and doesn't even show all the amazing things and people that were there, but it will have to do and I love sharing all the beauty we got to experience this Christmas.

Christmas in La Grande

2008-01-03T13:22:00.000-08:00

It took a while to get Wes and Luna to take a serious picture.

Chritmas in La Grande

2008-01-03T13:17:00.000-08:00

We had a great Christmas this year. Carley had her baby(Dewey Eugene Nerdin) a few day before Christmas so our cousins Luna and Kosmo got to stay at Grandam and Grandpas too.

The kids were having fun playing and dancing around the tree, so I a took a few pics.
Ryley turned into a little poser? She usually never does that.

CHAZ

WES

RYLEY&LUNA
THE END

Some holiday fun.....with one and all.

2007-12-14T08:54:00.001-08:00

I decided to make chocolate covered cherries this year and then go from there. Ryley was so exited to help me and she did a great job. (If the pictures above don't move just drag the circle thingy and that might work.) We always see our neighbor's peacocks out and about and wanted to show you something we see all the time, this one ran right in front of us as I was turning the corner, I don't know how I got the picture, but I think it turned out pretty good since I was caught off guard and driving! I probably won't do that again!

Friday: Jack Black Day......hurray!!

2007-12-07T12:59:00.001-08:00

I was really bored today and found this picture of Jack Black in the movie Nacho Libre. It makes me laugh and decided to help brighten my day, I would make today Jack Black day. So we can all celebrate! (or just me! Ryan hates the movie Nacho Libre. But he does like Jack:) I also in my plenty of spare time today, figured out how to do slideshows. It was really fun to do so I hope you like them. I used some older photos so hopefully you can still enjoy them.

Helping out

2007-12-02T15:08:00.000-08:00

We had a wonderful time in Rexburg for Thanksgiving. Jill(ryan's sister) and Dan very kindly opened their house up to us and the Ussings while Grandma Susie and Papa Howie stayed in their fifth wheel. The fifth wheel needed to be dumped of it's grey and black water. The aid of a hose was not at the moment possible so trusty buckets were brought in to help with the job. Ryan and Ryan Ussing came to help out Terry, as you can see from the picture it was a little stinky.

After Ryan hid for a minute and stopped gaging, he did come back and help out.

Apparently the job of dumping and eating Thanksgiving dinner was a little tiring and "like father like son" a nap was on the agenda.

Thanksgiving

2007-12-02T14:50:00.000-08:00

We had a fun time playing in the gym. It helped getting all the kids energy out, even the grown ups too. Dan was nice enough to let us in the gym at the school he works at in Rexburg Idaho.
Chaz playing with his ball in the gym.
Luke giving me a big smile and showing his new ball.
Boe was sliding on the floor when I snapped this shot.

Thanksgiving

2007-12-02T14:43:00.000-08:00

The cousins had such a great time playing during the Thanksgiving holiday. We made sure to take a quick picture of all of them before we went home.

Ryley and Jenna playing on a mat. We went to the school uncle Dan works for and played in the gym.

Oh baby!

2007-11-19T10:33:00.000-08:00

Yes, Ryan is holding a baby. Not our baby, this is Tatum Hibbert, Eric and Shelly's new baby boy.

The kids had such a fun time visiting with their new cousin Tate, at Grandma and Grandpa hibbert's house. I guess Chaz thought tate was a little to loud. It did take Chaz a bit longer to warm up to the baby.

Eric and Shelly with baby Tatum Brown Hibbert.

Summer flashback

2007-11-15T14:34:00.000-08:00

My beloved Grandma LaNelda Colette, died this last June 10th 2007. So I got to travel down to Castle Dale Utah, with my Brother's Eli and Eric and my Sister's Jennifer and Carley. Of course my Parents came along too. It was an interesting and fun trip. It was great to see so many relatives I haven't seen in a long time.

My mom Debbie and her siblings, Tab, Diana and Perry.

My Aunt and Uncle, Doug and Diana with my Litster cousins.

Wesley "playing" basket ball

2007-11-11T14:32:00.000-08:00

This is Wes's second time playing basket ball. His team has 1st and 2nd graders on it. This was them playing on Sat.nov.10.

Yummy Tator-Tot casserole

2007-11-10T19:24:00.000-08:00

Growing up my Mom made this really good tator-tot casserole. Now I make it for my family and it is one of our favorites.
It's pretty simple and nothing fancy, just good.

1/4c of flour
1/4c of Marg. or butter
2c of Milk
Peas(frozen)
2-3 hard boild eggs
ham

Melt butter and flour together with milk, bring to boil. Add diced up ham and eggs. Add peas, mix add salt and pepper to taste.Pour mixter into casserole dish,top with tator-tots. Bake 425 for 30 min. or less.

Chaz turns two

2007-11-09T12:50:00.000-08:00

Back in Aug.Chaz turned two. I made him a Pirate cake it turned out to be pretty fun. I have so many pictures stored up, I have to do occational flash backs.

playin outside

2007-11-09T11:09:00.000-08:00

Pictures of me, Ryley and Chaz playing in the backyard. Oh, and our cat Poof.

Our Family

2007-11-09T11:01:00.000-08:00

We really need a better picture of us, but this is all I have for now. We have lived in Emmett for about four months now and are ejoying ourselves. I Think we are here to stay. We really don't want to move again, and it's a great centeral location for our family.

An orange car

2007-11-08T14:30:00.000-08:00

Me and the kids were driving around today and we noticed this car. I just happen to have my camera with me so we took a picture, enjoy.

HALLOWEEN

2007-11-08T14:26:00.000-08:00

We went to McDonalds before going out on the big trick or treating adventure. It was fun, we got to much candy. We are still eating it, almost two weeks later.

The team

2007-11-08T14:16:00.000-08:00

Wesley was really fortunate to be on a wonderful team. It was fun to see all the great team work.

Soccer

2007-11-08T14:14:00.000-08:00

Wesley had so much fun playing soccer, this last spring. It was really fun to watch!

RYAN

2007-11-08T14:08:00.000-08:00

This is Ryan on Easter day, striking a pose.

The kids

2007-11-08T14:03:00.000-08:00