Merry Christmas and new nephew!!!

Merry Christmas everyone. We have gotten to spend a lot of time with family and it has been so much fun. We didn't get a white Christmas but a green Christmas is okay. :) It is still very cold. Mt. Hood is very white. :)

We forgot to add something to our big update last time. We have a new nephew!! My brother and sister in law had him at the end of November. His name is Beau Vance Catt, Born 11/27/07 weighing 8lb 2 oz. He is super cute. So here are some pictures.

That is Lanie when Beau was still at the hospital. She likes being a big sister.

We hope you all have a wonderful Christmas. Happy birthday, Jesus!

The Big Update

Okay, so where to start. Well, since it has been awhile since we updated this we will have to start at the beginning of the summer. This summer Jeff surprised me for my birthday and took me to Cannon Beach for an overnight trip. The weather was absolutely beautiful. I even got a small sunburn (which is rare for our coast).

Here we are trying to fly a kite. It takes a bit to get used to controlling it.

We celebrated our 3rd anniversary by going north. We headed up to Alaska to visit Jeff's mom and step dad. We got to relax and just hang out. We had so much fun up there until the flight back. I can truly say that flying stand by is for the birds. We got to the airport and found out the flights were not until later in the evening, maybe I should say earlier in the morning, so we listed for the flight that left at 1am but you can't check your bags until 4 hours before your flight. We were stuck outside the gate area for a while. We sure played a lot of cards. Then when we finally got to check our bags we got the "special" security search because we were flying stand by. Then we waited some more but when you fly stand by you don't necessarily get on the flight you list for which is what happened to us. So then we had to try for some other flights. Finally we got on one but it only got us to Seattle. Once again we were stuck. Let me just say that by the time we finally reached Portland we had been in airports for over 24 hours with no sleep. I must be getting old because all-nighters to finish projects in college seemed like no big deal but I was exhausted after all that time in the airport. I don't have any pictures of the airport ordeal because well, we just didn't take any but I do have some pictures of Alaska in the summer. It sure was weird going to bed and having it still be light out side. You really lose track of time when it doesn't get dark.

Doesn't he look cute in pink? It goes with his eyes. :)

I rained a lot. We brought it with us from Oregon.

This is in their cabin's backyard. They live in such a beautiful spot.

After Alaska we just did little stuff for the rest of the summer. I took Nicole (our niece) to the zoo one day. We had so much fun walking around the butterfly area. I got my classroom ready for the next round of first graders and took a really fun and informative class. My class is a great group of kids this year and I can hardly believe that it is already December. 1 more week and we are on Christmas break. Yeah!!! Well, here are a few picture of my class and other random things since the last time we updated.

My little munchkins. A very cute group of kids.