Christmas Time :)

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

 We had a GREAT Christmas this year and hope that you all did as well! I have posted some pics just to show some of what we have been up to this Christmas season. The girls have enjoyed spending time together during Linley's break from school. Both girls LOVE to color :) Must take after Grandma Hamilton!

Linley also really likes to help cook so here is a pic of her helping me and Tyra (my future sis-in-law) make Christmas candy. I have to brag because I hear that making Divinity is very hard and tricky but we made three perfect batches on our first try.

 This pic is a little odd but it is one of the games we played at our family Christmas Eve party. It was a really funny game. You put a hoola-hoop in the middle of the floor and then tie a string to a banana (we didn't have any bananas so we tied it to a thing of popcorn seeds) then tie the string around your waste and try to hit an orange into the hoola-hoop. We were all rolling around laughing super hard! I also must admit that the boys in this game had better aim than the women for some reason? Here is Raymond playing the game.

 Briquelle, Bethany and Tyran

 Linley and Addison playing a board game

 Carissa, Chelsea holding Natalie and little Aiden

 Natalie, Chelsea, and Grandma Jani (my mom) holding Aiden

 Aunt Cathy

 Brent and Brenda

 Ha Ha this pic cracks me up! I need to use it as blackmail some day :) It is my dad playing the game I described earlier.

 Hmmm.. This is pretty much what Natalie looks like after eating a lot of the time-especially if the food is squishy...She just loves to play with her food-what can I say?

 It was crackers and cheese by the way..

 Here is cute little Natalie wearing and holding the pajamas that she received on Christmas Eve.

 Isn't Linley just beautiful! She is growing up way to fast-I can't believe how old she looks with her hair pulled up like this.

 Me and Linley both in our pjs

 Jake and the girls still showing off~

 So this pic is from Christmas morning. The little can that you see on the counter has a live oyster inside it. We bought it for Linley when we went to Universal Studios this past November. We decided to save it for one of her Christmas gifts.

 Jake had to open the Oyster and dig out the pearl that was hiding inside. We then had to rub it in salt and soak it in warm water and then dry it off.

 The pearl that Linley got was a white one meaning she has=integrity! Ha it was funny because when she tried to read what it meant she thought it said incontinent! Jake and I had to laugh because since he is a nurse she probably heard him say that a few times and just didn't know what it meant. We had to explain to her the difference between the two :)

 The pearl also came with a necklace that you just slide the pearl into-so here is Jake putting it around Linley's neck. Sorry the pics are so dark!

 Here is Natalie's little stash of toys

 and here is Linley's- of course Natalie is trying to play with Linley's stuff already :)

Hope you all got just as spoiled as we did!!!!!

Camping!`

So we have been CaMpInG four times this year and that is a good amount for me. We went to Green Canyon two times, then to Bear Lake and then to Island Park. Of course I don't have pictures for all the camping trips because of my camera issues but here is a collage of pictures from Bear Lake......Enjoy!

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Getting BiG!

Oh how I love this little stinker! Just look at her cute shining smile :) She is such a happy busy little bee and is learning soo much! She loves her babie dolls and takes good care of them and love love loves animals...

The obituary :(

Sharon Voss 

Sharon Marie Wiser Voss, 71, passed away Tuesday, July 12, 2011, at her home in St. Anthony, Idaho, following an illness with cancer. Sharon was born March 22, 1940, in St. Anthony, the daughter of Jack and Elizabeth Ostermiller Wiser. She grew up in St. Anthony and Henderson, Nev., graduating from South Fremont High School. She married Raymond Henry Voss Jr. on Feb. 6, 1959, in St. Anthony. The marriage was later solemnized in the Idaho Falls LDS Temple on April 28, 1965. They made their home in St. Anthony. Sharon was an active member of the LDS church, serving in the Primary, nursery, Relief Society and library and with her husband as workers in the Rexburg, Idaho, LDS Temple. For over 50 years, she baby-sat for many of the local children, and they all called her Grandma Voss. In 2009, she and Ray and family celebrated their 50th anniversary. Her greatest accomplishment and happiness was her family. She is survived by her husband, Ray of St. Anthony; children, Raymond Henry (Janilyn) Voss III of St. Anthony, Cathy Marie (Darren) Davis of Parker, Idaho, and Brenda Kaye (Brent) Pedersen of Idaho Falls; nine grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and two sisters, Deanna Lee (Paul) Osborn of St. Anthony and Betty Jean (Bill) Oppelt of Vaughn, Wash. Besides both her parents, she was preceded in death by a brother, Tom Wiser, and a sister, Jacqueline Wiser.
Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Saturday, July 16, in the St. Anthony 4th LDS Ward Chapel, with Bishop Kyle Moore officiating. Friends may call at Bidwell Funeral Home from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Friday, July 15, and at the church Saturday one hour prior to services. Burial will be in Teton-Newdale Cemetery.

My grandma was such a strong fighter...the cancer finally got the best of her :( It ate away at her fat and muscle and destroyed her insides as it moved through her lymph nodes. She never complained or questioned "why me?" I had the opportunity to sit with her and watch her for a bit while my grandpa got out of the house. There was so much I wanted to say-but she was so frail and tired and seemed to believe that rest would get her better. I knew she was to far gone but the right time to tell her how much I loved her and was gonna miss her never came...I know that she is where she belongs and that she knows how I feel and felt about her now. :) It's crazy but she seemed like a little child laying in her bed moaning and not able to get comfortable. I just wanted to pray and pray and pray that she could rest and I did.
Now my prayers go out to Grandpa Voss-I know he is hurting and lonely and suffering. He didn't even know how to use the microwave! But through all this we have all gotten closer to each other as a family and that is exactly what Grandma would have wanted :)

So here is just a little scrapbook I made form our pictures over part of the 4th of July!

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We had a BBQ/Swimming party at Jake's parents and the kids had a BLAST!! I don't have pictures from the actual day of the Fourth though-But I will tell you what we did! We went up to Rexburg for the parade and then ate at JB's restaurant. Then we went home and Linley and Briquelle had a water balloon fight (I promise we picked up the balloons when we were done but a couple days later I found 4 full size balloons in Natalie's diaper!! I couldn't figure out how she got them and then when I vacuumed behind the couch another few days later I found a pile of balloons that had fell between the cushions and I think that is where she found her little "balloon snack"-I just find it crazy that she was able to swallow them-I am shocked and impressed!) Any way I will get back to the Fourth...I then made some yummy flag sugar cookies and then we just relaxed around the house until later in the evening. Then Vincent and Tyra came over and we went to stake out a spot to save for the fireworks..and we found a GREAT one! The fireworks were almost right above us! We had a mini bbq at our little spot and thought about grandma Voss often throughout the firework show. She was still on her death bed and I just kept wishing she was with us! Then we came home and lit our own fireworks and went to bed very very tired!!

Movin along..

Well, as you can tell I am movin right along with my "catch up" posts :) yay! I have made it thru June now and Natalie will probably be waking up from her nap anytime so I will post more later........................

Father's Day at Jackson :)

For Father's Day we went to Jackson with Jake's parents. We had a fun time and got to ride the Alpine slide-it was Linley and I's first time :) I felt really bad for the person who rode behind Linley though! Linley went sooooo slllooowwwwwww-it took her forever to go down because she was scared-so when she finally made it to the bottom the girl riding behind her was right on Linley's tale and you could tell she was ticked off! But hey-what do you do in that kind of situation right? We also did a little shopping through the stores and got to ride the carriage. Happy "late" Father's Day Jake! You are the BEST!!!