I'm sorry I deleted you!

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!!!!

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!

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

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!

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

making a cake for Chaz's Birthday!

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.

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

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!

 

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!

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

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

Just Some Random Shots

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

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

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

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?

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.