WEDDING BELLS!!!!

Well it's official!!  Mark came over the day after Thanksgiving and asked Elindsey to marry her.  He pulled it off without a hitch!!  Which is quite a feat with Elindsey involve.  She usually has everything figured out!  She thought she did, he was going to propose to her at Christmas according to her calculations, but she was in for a surprise!!  They went out to a nice restaurant by the river in downtown Boise and then went for a walk along the river.  Mark commented on what a beautiful Autumn day it was and she said "you should ask me to marry you!"  He picked up a twig and tried to make it into a ring but it didn't quite work.  They then walked to a footbridge where he told her that he wanted to read her a poem he wrote.  She was still oblivious because he always writes her poems until the end when he got down of a knee and pulled out the ring!!  She was so excited she kept saying oh my gosh, I can't believe it!  Then he finally said "well will you?"  And of course, she said  "YES!!!!!" When she got home after seeing the fam, she called ashley and kenzie and told them both at the same time.  I caught a cute pic of her telling them the news!  Then they both got on the phone and started calling and texting the news across the country!!

The next day, CIVIL WAR DAY as you can see by the attire, we went down to the river where Mark proposed to re-enact it for the Greenes.  The day before was a beautiful sunny day, but at least it wasn't raining for the photo shoot!!  We are all very excited  for them and are looking forward to adding a new member of the family.  He was the least painful!!!  They are looking at a September 2009 wedding.  We will be keeping you posted!!!

SWEET SIXTEEN!!!!

Well Our Baby Boy is Sweet 16! We found a restaurant that is pretty close to Muchas Gracious!  The have a burrito that is called the California Burrito. It is just like the Oregon burrito!!  We were excited.  We ate there and went home and had Chocolate Chip Cheesecake!!  We couldn't find any candles so we had to make due with what we had!!  Seems like only yesterday my baby came into this world Weighing in at 10# 10 1/2 oz!!  Now he's 6'2 1/2" and 166.1 lbs to be exact!  Where does the time go??  Tune in tomorrow for an exciting BLOG!!!!!

I am sorry it has taken so long to post!  Things have been a little crazy over here!  We have been remodeling our church building getting it ready to have our first official service this Sunday November 16th.  It is almost done!!  You won't truly appreciate it unless you saw it before we did all of the work.  It is going to be nice to be in our own building and it's only about 1.5 miles from our house.  So I will try to be more on top of things in the future!  

The Fam is doing good.  Elindsey has been busy with school.  She is the manager of the student store and President of the Business Club.  She has been designing some school t-shirts that they are going to be selling at the store.  One of he classes voted her most likely to become president.  I think she has other plans........     :)  Levi is getting ready for basketball.  Practice is officially starting this monday the 17th.  After football season ended we took him to the doctor for an injury that had occurred about 6 weeks prior during football.  We discovered that he had 2 highgrade hamstring strains with some some tearing involved. Worse of course because he continued to play on it when he shouldn't have been.  He has been going to physical therapy to heal it up and strengthen it.  He is doing much better now.  Drew is discovering the meaning of homework this year.  He has had more than any of our kids did in the 5th grade.  He is having to work on his organizational skills!!  Alek is doing great.  At his conference his teacher said she wished all her kids were just like him!! Olivia is her usual self!!  She has been a big help with the remodeling while her siblings are all at school.  We are all great over here and miss you all a bunch.  Looking forward to going home for Christmas!!!

My Mom, sister Kelley and a last minute surprise brother Jon came to visit us in October for 5 days to visit and catch a couple of football games.  We had a great time with them hanging out and showing them some of the sights of the Boise area.  Of course we had to take them to see the Snake River Canyon.  One of our usual tourist stops as you can tell by my Blog!  :)  If you notice the extra family member in the group shot, that is Christiana a refugee from Burundi, Africa, who has been coming to church with us! 

 Levi has been taking Foods class this year, so Grandma got him a 'little' outfit to wear!  :)  Jon, Andy and Levi went over to the basketball hoop by our house and played a little pig or horse or something.   Look at the pics of Andy and Levi shooting.  They have the exact same stance when they are shooting the ball.  Like Father like Son I guess!  

We had such a good time it was hard to see them go.  Time goes by to fast!  I hope they make this a Bi-annual event!!

Here we are at the Drew and  Levi's Football games.  Grandma and Aunt Kelley picked a good week to come, Levi's team won, and Drew's last game ended in a tie.  Drew ran a punt return back for a touchdown.  The whole time after the ball was kicked the coach was yelling "get away from the ball!" but Drew seemed to have a better idea, (like usual  :) ) and scooped it up and ran it  all the way down field while his coach was then yelling GO!  GO!  It was an exciting game and a good way to end the season!

BIRTHDAY BUMPER CARS!

We had a blast on the bumper cars at PoJo's for Drew's 11th Birthday!

Happy Birthday Drew!!

Drew turned 11 yesterday and we had a great time.  We surprised him and took him to a place called PoJo's.  We had the whole place pretty much to ourselves.  We spent the evening playing games, riding the bumper cars, eating lots of cake, and having fun with the fam!  At the end of the night we all pitched in our tickets and gave them all to drew so he could use them to get some cool prizes!!  Notice the really challenging basketball game that Elindsey and Levi are playing! Alek was having fun milking Bessie!!  Happy Birthday Drew!