Tuesday, December 15, 2009

The Best Thanksgiving!!

We honestly had the best Thanksgiving ever!!! :) Jeff & I felt so lucky to have both of our families together in Bozeman, along with Lezlee's boyfriend Bryce & his little girl Jane & Dusty's girlfriend Gina!! The only person missing was EJ's new FIANCEE Jenee!! (See Blog :))


Jane & Brady play really well together & have become good buddies~she is such a sweetheart.


Of course, we had to start the day with the Daws Family tradition of the Turkey Bowl. This was probably the most athletic Turkey Bowl as of yet & didn't disappoint. As usual, it came right down to the wire and had to be decided by field goal kicks...so much fun!!


A couple group photos






Brady was so excited to be involved in some plays & even scored a touchdown! He's been running football plays ever since!




Pretty good form by my hubby!




Hard to believe, but this was our MVP (Bryce) :) He almost broke my dad's finger on this crazy kick...at least you can see he really was putting his all into it!






Nana post kick!







Livvy was wearing her little Michigan State cheerleader outfit for her jersey!





The field was epic!





Nana took the kids sledding & swinging too!





Jane has this amazing motherly instinct & even though she is only 4, she is soooo good with Livvy!





































My dad was generous enough to loan Doug one of his old practice jerseys from the Bobcats...apparently they used to wear onesies back in the early '70's!! :) Doug pulled it off!


Nana set up a special kids table & they looked like a little couple on a date!




Livvy & Gina!








Liv ate quite a bit of Thanksgiving dinner! Potatoes, stuffing & pie! Amazing what she can do with NO TEETH YET!! :)









Uncle EJ & Brady hanging out






Beautiful view!


Olivia's Baptism

Our little Livvy was baptised the Wednesday before Thanksgiving! We waited until all of her sponsors (Aunt Lez, Uncle Dusty & Uncle EJ) were in town at the same time! Now that Aunt Lez lives in Billings (yipeeeee!!!) it makes it easy for her to come to this kind of thing.


Olivia looked like an angel. The sweetest, most perfect little baby girl anyone could ever ask for & her baptism was truly a beautiful experience. I had no idea how emotional I would get (Brady's baptism was when he was 3 weeks old...needless to say I was sort of in a haze!)


All of our family was there as well as Lezlee's boyfriend Bryce & his little girl, Jane. They were a wonderful addition for both the Baptism & Thanksgiving & Brady & Jane are quite the little buddies! :)

























Brady & Jane were really cute in church


















































































My Grandma came & that was so special~Grandpa Fritz wasn't feeling so well so he was missed!



































Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Daddy's Birthday Dinner!

We went out to dinner with my folks & Dusty to celebrate Daddy's birthday~took another family picture with the timer from the mantle! :)



























This was really cute~my Dad was having so much fun feeding Olivia!!










Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Playing Catch-Up (Halloween Pictures)

A little (lot) late on this post~but better late than never, right? :) We had a great Halloween & were invited to our friends' house (The Holmquists) for a dual Halloween party & birthday celebration for Miss Hadley! Everyone was dressed up & it was a total blast~even more fun that our buds, The Johnsons were in town also! Our little sweetpea Livvy hated the entire costume thing & didn't crack a smile or let Mommy put her down until the night was over! I don't think it was her costume that made her mad...it was everyone else's that freaked her out! Jeff went as Brett Michaels, I was Kate Gosselin, Brady a cowboy & Liv a pumpkin~Brady LOVED his costume & was pretty proud of himself! :)

Family Photo


Little Maddy was the cutest lamb & Nick & Jenny went as German Barmaids!



Nick's costume was classic




Wes was a blind referee





Tubby & Tara were "Holy Poop" & "No Poop" (edited version)





Stan & Jan were Kenny & Dolly!!








Hadley the Princess & Brady the Cowboy








I think this is funny because I look just like Kate in this picture...very tense!








Paige was a football player & Kendra was an old woman





Brady & Elsye Little Red Riding Hood!



Little Tahlia was the cutest little Piggy! Liv's face says it all here...she was miserable!