hiking, Kitty, and Cole

Vernon and I hiked down Mt. Graham back in September with my brother, Emily and Kayleigh (and all the other folk who I dont think I could name anymore). This was a lot of fun and something I want to do again this year. I dont think Kayleigh and Emily will be joining us again. They were hilarious the whole time. I think they both fell more than they hiked. (I know I shouldn't think that was hilarious but they were walking so funny and then would just fall get up and do it all over again)
This is our cat Shishkabob (no idea how to spell that) We had a gray cat named DuctSealer too but it didnt last very long.

So it's been awhile...

I cant believe how many things I havn't posted about. So hopefully in the next few days I can catch ya'll (such a fun word to use) up to speed on our family. I was going to go to bed, but I stopped in to turn the computer off and decided I should finally post something!!



So first up -- some pictures from the wonderful rain we've gotten in the past few weeks. Vernon went in to work a little late so he could take me and the boys to the wash.


We went down the wash a ways. Dean threw rocks in and told Daddy "bee caweful Daddy." or "wash out!"
That's our front yard. It was a soupy sloppy mess forever!!! We still have pools of water in places. Mostly though we just have ginormous ruts everywhere! Vernon has so many house projects I have no idea where "smoothing the front yard out" ranks on his list. Whenever I drive over them Deano always says "Wooaahh"

Our Boys

Sometimes we give Dean gum because he's shown he can be responsible with it. But then every once in awhile he reminds us that he is still 2 years old.



And since I wasn't aware that gum comes out with some peanut butter, I rashly decided to buzz it all off. I miss his hair... is that pathetic?



Cole has been crawling for a couple of weeks now. He mostly does an army crawl, but he is getting better at getting up on his hands and knees.

Cole loves it when Dean rough-houses with him.

We love our boys so much...

And they love eachother too!

Kam and Jami

For those who don't already know, Kameron Haban lost his battle with Lupus wednesday morning. He has touched the lives of so many with his huge smile and genuine kindness, and will be missed by so many! Jami has also touched many with her amazing courage and faith throughout their ordeal. Whether you know them or not, please keep Jami and 2 1/2 year old son Kason in your prayers.This sweet family is in need of emotional, spiritual and physical support. Kameron spent more than the last month of his life in the ICU. We are all blessed with an opportunity to help. Yesterday a bank account was opened for them. Anyone can go to any Bank of America and make a donation to the account under JamiLynn Haban for the benefit of Kameron Haban. You can also make an online donation at paypal.com by sending it to habanfundraiser@gmail.comJami did an amazing job of updating everyone on her blog kamandjami.blogspot.com if you would like to read more about their experience.Please help us lend support to the Haban family during this time! Feel free to help spread the word of how to make a donation to those who you know will want to help.

(--originally posted by Lindsey Stokes. I couldn't have said it any better, so I didn't! Feel free to post on your own blogs. The more people that know the better!)

swimmin in mud.

We have a broken well line in our front yard from when they were running our water and everyonce in awhile it leaks a ton! I found Dean swimming in it clothes and all. It has this nasty foamy stuff in it but Dean thinks there great.

Birthday/ Cute pictures of my super rad kids!

Dean's 2 year birthday cake. It was a lot of fun. And I was glad my mom was there to help.

We only had Vernons bat... which was really heavy- poor Dean couldnt even lift it. I'm pretty sure thats as high as it got.

Dean giving me his cheesy grin.

Throwing dirt. (I am always asking him not to throw dirt since it usually ends up in my eyes- but this was a cool picture so go Dean)

Covering himself with dirt

Cole got to hang out with his grandma... and he was very happy.

Me and my beautifuly sister Janei. - have I mentioned how much I love her? Oh and most of these pictures were taken with her Awesome camera. I want one!!!

HAHA this picture makes me laugh so much. He totally just randomly planted one on her. It was hilarious!!! He is such a stud!


Bahaha... This was actually taken right before the "smoocher" but its much funnier afterwards :)

The end :)

Our summer vacation...

We decided to go up to Seattle again this year while Dean is still flying free. It had started to get SUPER hot here right before we left so Dean wasn't spending too much time outside- seattle was a good break from the heat. It was sunny and beautiful all but one day we were there, but it never got over 75 - perfect. I think I actually got a tan from being there because I loved sitting out in the sun with the nice breeze blowing. And here are some pictures of the fun times we had...

Mt.Saint Helens
I loved reading to all the boys- Cole wasnt a big fan of sharing mom as you can tell.

Dean loves throwing rocks in and on everything. He shares that in common with his cousins. They were there for awhile...

We went to a beach and had a fire and ate food. The boys were so cute eating there chips together.

I just think this picture is so cute. I love his beautiful blue eyes.
I'm pretty sure this is Justin... DeAnn can correct me if I'm wrong.

Vernon, Cole and I took a quick day trip to Oregon (Dean stayed and played with his cousins) to visit some falls. This first picture is from an observatory on the way. It's looking down at the Columbia River Gorge.

Latourell Fall 249 ft.

Same one. Vernon wanted to get close to it so we could tell how big it was.

Bridal Veil Falls

Sheppards Dell Falls
FairyFall. So we had this travelers guide book Tommy and DeAnn lent us. And it said that after the Wateeka falls you can hike a mile in and find the Fairy Falls. We thought a mile wouldnt be too bad even with Cole. So we did. What we didnt realize was that we were going to hike a mile of switch backs up the side of a cliff. After like 5 switchbacks I was tired and was wondering how much further. So I asked a lady passing us going down and she said we had a lot to go and I probably shouldn't be doing it in flip flops ( she was all decked out- hiking boots and a pack, which after probably an hour I realized EVERYONE on that trail had hiking boots and a pack). But we thought we had gotten pretty far ( and really I wanted to prove to her even though I would never see her again that I COULD do it in flip flops) already and we didnt want to turn around. So we kept going. It took us forever to get to this dinky fall. Which probably would have been beautiful to us if we hadnt been so darn tired. When we reached it Vernon made some funny joke about how lame the fall was to the work it took to get to it but I just couldnt believe that that was it. So we kept going for probably about another 20min maybe more. We finally decided to ask someone if they knew where it was. A guy said it was the one we passed and we were on our way up to the top of Multonoma Falls. But since we had Cole and it would've been a few more miles and we didnt exactly know where we were going we went back down the way we came up.

(Atleast the hike up was beautiful even if I had to watch straight in front of me most of the time since my legs felt like jello)

So this is Multnomah Falls. 620ft. The biggest grandest fall of them all. We apparently didnt take very many pictures- we were tired. This is the only one we got of the whole thing and it pretty much stinks.

The aquarium

We had a blast thanks Tommy, DeAnn, Justin, and Mason!