My Jordi J

It has been snowing almost all day here and there are no signs of stopping. We met up with the other Downeys to go sledding today. Here is my Jordi J.

My Boy in the Hood

Yo wassup wassup! This is how we roll in Idaho. Fo Shizle my Nizle.

White Sand to White Snow

We have been back from Mexico for a week now and we finally feel like we have our feet under us again. It is incredible what a difference in climate there is with a 6 hour airplane ride. We went from walking on a white sandy beach to trudging through white slushy snow. Kevin and I had a great time and it is great to be back with our boys. Here is a picture of the snow here in Boise. The snow has not melted all week because it has been so stinking cold. We are expected to get a lot more this week too. Time to get ready for skiing and sledding!

Mexican Cowboys!

Since we have landed in Cancun Kevin had his heart set on going horseback riding. So we woke up early this morning and headed out for a ride in the jungle. When we got there the cowboys asked everyone to stand to the right if they were inexperienced horse riders and to left is they were experienced. Of course almost everyone stood to the right, except Kevin and Bobbi. They said they were taking one for the team. Kevin had a horse named Turkey and he came by his name honestly. He kicked the crap out of my sweet horse and everyone else's too. Everyone was afraid to go near him. Of course he and Kevin butt heads the entire trip because they were two stong willed beings. Anyway I had a very good horse, but I was reminded that I have a strong fear of horses stemmed from child hood experiences. It is almost like some people are with going to the dentist. However, at the end of the ride they took the saddles off the horses and took us swimming with the horses. It was amazing. Kevin and Bobbi talked the cowboys into an extra swim for $20. After horse back riding we came back to the resort and Brenda and I laid out while Keving and Bobbi made more friends at the bar. Love to all and we will keep in touch.

Here we are going through the jungle. We saw a crocodile in the swamps and big huge spiders.

This is me way out swimming with the horse.

This is Kevin getting ready to go out to the water.

Hello From Cancun!

Hello from Cancun! This place is amazingly beautiful. The water is aqua blue and weather is always warm but not too hot. I would strongly recommend this resort to anyone who is looking for a vacation. We are fully taking advantage of all the food all the drink you can consume. Our friend Bobby drank 26 pina coladas yesterday. We miss you all and will keep you updated.


This is Kevin and I getting ready to go snorkeling.

This is Kevin and I snorkeling.

This is the view from our balcony.

Pam, Here's a sneak peak.

Pam has been waiting for a family picture for years. We finally got it this week. I have other pictures I will share later, but I have not had time to edit them yet.

Happy Thanksgiving Everybody!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I hope you all had a very blessed day. Here are some pics from our day. We spent the week in Vegas with the Dallimore's and as usual had a wonderful time. Thank you Brian and Kim for everything. We are blessed to have such great family.

Still having fun with Photoshop

Look at this cute picture from Halloween. I used photoshop to make it look oldschool.

Prayer Request For Holly

I found out some news today about a friend of mine that makes me want to call on reinforcements. Holly has been battling a cancer that doctors have never seen. She has had many surgeries to remove the tumors in her abdomen, but they just keep growing and now another has appeared. They have tried different kinds of chemotherapies, radiation, and other medications. Nothing will take these tumors away and now it is out of the doctors hands. Her doctor told her yesterday that she had about two months to live. Her healing is now in the hands of God so please pray for her healing. We have an awsome God and I know he will take care of her and he wants us to pray for her. Holly is an amazing woman of God. Her love for the lord is admirable and she is a true inspiration to everyone around her.
Heavenly Father, please hold Holly tight and comfort her.

Happy Halloween!

The Boys had lots of fun and excitment last night for Halloween and now we have a big huge bucket full of candy (That Kevin and I will probably eat) sitting way up high in the pantry. They ate soooo much candy last night it just makes me cringe. I can just see all of those sugar bugs crawling around thier teeth and building little colonies. Our church had a harvest festival at the fairgrounds where they recieved a big brown bag full of candy just for walking through the door. After this we went trick or treating at all of our neighbors that we knew. Henry dragged behind all night unwraping candy after candy. Oh well I guess it is only one night right! Please no more candy. Yeah I am talking to you Nana and Grandma Downey.

Pumpkin Carving

We had our annual Pumpkin Carving night on Wednesday night. We were short a few carvers this year and we missed them dearly. Here are the results.

Pumpkin Patch

Avery had a field trip for preschool on Wednesday at the Pumpkin Patch and we had to take Henry with us. They had a lot of fun and came home dirty and tired. Henry has really become part of the clan with Avery's class. He has been to two Birthday Parties and a field trip. Everyone knows him and they all want to be Henry's big brother. Just look at him, he thinks he is a big kid too. The reality is that when we drop him off at his school at church he cries. He got so upset one day he hopped over the gate. It kind of surprised his teachers and the children's ministy leaders in the halls. He is our special little boy. God Bless Him.

Guilty!

Look at this face. It has guilty all over it. Henry was hiding from me and this is where I found him.

Fall in McCall

I wanted to post this picture to show you all how beautiful it is in McCall right now. I havn't spent any time in McCall this time of year. We were pleasantly surprised at how pleasant it is. We took a real good look at the scenery before we left tonight because we know it will look like a completely different place the next time we are there.

And of course another cute picture of the boys. Henry wants to do everything Avery does. And Avery thinks its great.

Fall Fun!

Fall is here, the air is getting cooler and all of the trees in Boise are turning colors. My boys discovered that the best toy ever was all of the leaves that have been falling from our tree in our backyard. They have spent hours moving the leaves in thier dumptrucks, raking them into piles, and then throwing them into the air. It is so much fun watching the boys have so much fun together and growing into best friends.

Miss Jordan Brianna Downey

Tonight the BSU game was so exciting that Jordan and I found a lot of other things to do. She is such a character and is always up to something. She offered to organize my drawer in my bathroom and this is what we came up with.

Cute Boys!

I continue my photoshop editing frenzy. HOW CUTE IS THIS?

Beautiful Krahn Children!

As some of you know I have recently enjoyed learning more about photography. Especially photographing children. Anne has three beautiful children with gorgeous eyes and she agreed to let me use them as my guinea pigs. It worked out great because her girls, Rylie and Chloe, were well rehearsed as you can see her son Mason has lots of cute faces. These are my three wildest images that I love. They probably won't show up very clear on the blog, but I wanted Anne to have a sneak peak.

TIIIMMMMBBBEERRRR!

We use a wood burning stove to heat our cabin and we were out of fuelwood (this is what it is called, the wood you use for your fire places and stoves, new lingo, I learned this by looking at the maps we used to look for the fire wood). So anyway we went on a journey into the back back woods looking for trees with no more pine needles on them to cut down.

This is Kevin cutting down the first of many trees. The kids and I would stand way back and yell "TIIMMMBBEEERRR!" when it tipped over.

Stopping for a lunch break. We left at 10:30 in the morning and didn't get back to town until 5:30'

Kevin cut a lot of logs with the chainsaw and then the boys and I loaded them into the truck and trailer. I think I heard Henry say "Wogs!" over a hundred times.

The next morning we got up, ate breakfast, and then headed outsided and unloaded all of the logs from the truck and trailer and Kevin started splitting the wood. Notice on the picture above that there is not much wood on the deck. By the way, I unloaded all of those logs, the boys helped a lot too, but goofing off with eachother was much funner ( is that a word?). I was happy to unload though because I tried to swing to axe twice, the first I almost completly missed the log, and the second I hit the log square but the wedge inserted the wood about 3mm. Kevin swung that axe from 10:30 until 3:30. Fatique was setting in for sure.

And the finshed product. So much work, but so much reward. If anyone is passing by this winter and looking for a warm place to stay, stop on by, we would love to see you!

Our Family Adventure!

This weekend we decided to go on a family adventure to watch our Broncos take on the University of Oregon Ducks. On Thursday night we drove to Bend, OR and spent the day on Friday taking in the sites with Aunt Meme and Uncle Dave. Aunt Meme showed us all of her old stomping grounds, took us to a great breakfast place, and to a great park. The kids rode thier scooters all around downtown Bend and I had fun taking pictures of them. Here are a couple of my favorites.

Go Broncos!

On Saturday we cheered on our Broncos to thier first ever BCS win away from home. The Duck's stadium was incredibly loud until we started to take a pretty hefty lead on them. Then of course it got loud again at the end when they almost came back to beat us. Both of the boys slept through the first half of the game, but they made up for it the second half because everyone around us was feeding Henry thier sugar, and we can't thank Uncle Randy enough for getting Avery a frozen lemonade. After the game was over we got to go down on the turf where we got a picture with the famous Buster the Bronco and Avery got into some pick up games with some of the Duck fans. Thank you Uncle Beavis and Aunt Callie for the great hospitality. Sorry Aunt Callie about you Ducks.