My Grandma Cherryholmes

My grandma Cherryholmes is such a great example to me of kindness, thoughtfulness and love. She can be blunt and brutally honest at times, but it's those times where we needed to hear what she had to say, so we can change and become better. And she only does it out of love and concern. If you know my grandma she has such a spunky personality and laughs so easily. She loves to be with people but she also loves to be alone with her journals and her paints. She never misses a birthday. Every year since I can remember she has always sent me a birthday card to wish me a happy birthday. And ever since my kids were young she has sent them one too. She makes people feel good about themselves and I love that I always feel good about myself when I am around her. 

Happy Birthday Grandma! We love you!!

 

Boise!! State!!!

It was the game of the week on ESPN!  An undefeated Boise State against a one-loss Hawaii that was putting up at least 40 points on everyone they played.  Big time game that required us to dress in our Double Dragon Boise Bros suits!  Dan, Christy, the girls and I were ready to will our team to victory.  JoAnna and her kids Kade and Brooke came with us, which was awesome. Jill and Claire also came. With our powers combined, Boise State cruised to a pretty easy victory over Hawaii, putting up over 50 points on them!  Great win! I think we intimidated Hawaii with our karate forms and obviously oversized pecs. 

 

Madisen

Here's our sweet Madisen, on twin day at school. She had to dress like a friend and so they both bought dinosaur shirts and put their hair in a ponytail with a green ribbon. Here she is before school with her cat, Snugglebug. 

 

Tight Squeeze

Do any of you get the urge to squeeze your kids so tight, while planting millions of kisses onto their chubby cute cheeks?? 

Well, I have these urges almost daily. And I have to strain myself not to attack my children. But sometimes the urge is so overwhelming that my kids get a dose of my overwhelming hugs and kisses. Avery has gotten so used to it that as I am squeezing and smothering her, she calmly pats me while saying, "Ok, mom. That's enough mom. Ok. You're ok. Let me go now mom..." haha.

 It just makes me hug her even tighter! ;) Emily though gives the best hugs. She squeezes me tight right back! Madisen also gives me good hugs or at least allows me to hug her for a long period of time like Emily. Avery likes to give the "backwards" hug. It's where you go to hug her and she backs up into you, so really you are only hugging her.  I love all my girls and all the many ways they hug back. I am so thankful for their example and kindness in my life! 

Mountain Biking

One of Christy and I's favorite new things to do is to ride our bikes.  We got the kids some mountain bikes as well and drove them down into the canyon to ride at Auger Falls.  There are tons of different bike paths and everyone did pretty good.  Bubbas took a header into a big rock, but luckily she was wearing a helmet, so no serious brain damage occurred. 

 

BSU Football!

Once again Jesse Clark hooked me up with a sideline pass, this time against Air Force, a team we have struggled with for years.  They run Satan's offense (the Triple Option) and are really hard to stop at it. What was also tough is that I grew up rooting for Air Force since I went to high school on the Air Force Academy. There are two really cool parts of pretty much every Air Force game: 1. The flyovers, where jets of all sizes fly over the stadium at low altitude and cause the entire stadium to shake and rattle. 2. the actual live falcons they bring to the games. They brought a peregrine falcon and another smaller falcon.  It was awesome!  I also got on ESPN as seen below! I'm right next to Jesse, watching Boise State Linebacker Zeke Noa limp off the field after tearing his ACL.  No bueno! We ended up eeking out a win against them, but it was too close for comfort!

 

So Thankful

Thanksgiving is a wonderful holiday, one that doesn't get as much recognition compared to other holidays but I love Thanksgiving and being able to really think about everything and everyone in my life that has blessed my life abundantly. I show these pictures not because this is what I treasure most, no, that would be my husband, my kids, family, and my testimony of the restored church of Jesus Christ, and my relationship with Him and Heavenly Father. But I thought to share these pictures to show and bring out the beauty in the colors and art to remind us to always be thankful and ever so grateful for those treasured blessings in our lives. 

 

Sun Valley

We decided that the day was way too nice to stay indoors, so we threw all the bikes on the rack and drove up to Sun Valley for a nice bike ride.  They have some pretty easy and beautiful rides right around the resort there and we had a great time!