Katelyn's 1 Year Pictures!

This is a very special stuffed doggie that Katelyn got when she was born from her Grandpa Adams.

We were so blessed once again by the incredible talent of our dear friend Brenda Hondorp!  Here are  just a few of our favorites!

I'm ONE!

Katelyn VERY content after enjoying a chocolate cupcake on her actual b-day!

            Katelyn's B-day with the Smith side of our family (and "Auntie Jenny")

                                                   Katelyn with Grandpa Smith
                                             Siblings :).....Craig, Susan and Randy
                      Katelyn about to open a present as big as her from G & G Smith

                                                                   The cake!  Ta...da!
                           Katelyn's B-day party with the Adams family (already enjoying one of the animals from her Noah's Ark from G & G Adams)

                             Another B-day cake (pie)!  Caramel Apple Crumb (YUM!)
                          Katelyn with her cousins Alyssa (Joy!), Isabel and Emma

Marriage Retreat 2008

       Watching the Christmas parade in the freezing cold "downtown" Shipsee
Craig always has to take a pic of us of by himself (he loves to see how well-centered we are!)
                                                               Brenda and Joel
                                      Ahhhhh.....smoochy, smoochy, Nate and Melissa
                         Brad and Bradi............and Joel?!??!? (Where's Waldo?)
Small group peeps......Brenda, Bradi, Jeanne, Melissa and Deb ( I was sure NOT to forget your name this time :).
                         Craig and Joel bonding.....sharing jackets and a little smoochy!

Halloween Fun!

Katelyn sporting her new "big-girl" car seat that we finally bought about a month ago!
Katelyn with Grandma Smith on Halloween night
Katelyn with her cousin Regan at Grandma and Grandpa Smith's trick-or-treating
Craig participated in our church's trunk-or-treat---he set up a "plumber's" candy station
One of Katelyn's costumes this year....she wore her ladybug one during the day when we watched her cousins, Isabel and Alyssa, in a Halloween parade at their school

Romantic Weekend in Las Vegas

                                                                   Our hotel!
                 Early morning walk at 7am (due to the three hour time change!)
                     View outside our hotel window.......loved seeing the mountains!
Floor to ceiling windows in the family room and bedroom.....Craig was pretending he was King of the World :)
Our last night we got 1/2 priced tickets on the strip and went to a Cirque D'Sole....it was their martial arts one called KA!  It's incredible what people can do with their bodies!!
         We were spoiled with a big-screen TV in our living room
Beautiful bedroom (we had to settle for two  queens since we purchased on Price line and they were short on King rooms)

       The bathroom was nearly the size of our bedroom at home!
I (Jeanne) enjoyed a bath daily.....reading, relaxing, and watching our small flat-screen TV in the bathroom

Shark Reef:  Everyone carried a talking wand that explained all the exhibits....very handy!
                            The sharks were amazing to watch
We walked through a glass tunnel with the sharks swimming above us---yikes!

The had a petting tank with small sharks, crabs, and stingray....we both we brave enough to greet the stingray face-to-face
            One of the 7 pools...this is the wave pool (which we really enjoyed!)

                    The Lazy River was a definite highlight!  
              Exquisite Fall Sights inside the Bellagio (we enjoyed our first breakfast buffet here!)
            It even had moving trees like in the Wizard of Oz!
               The ceiling in the lobby of the Bellagio
        Ceasar's Palace was a world of its own!  Out of nowhere this thrilling show popped up....Fire and Ice fighting over their father's throne (Greek god).
           Paris Hotel.......the Eiffel Tower (as close as we've ever seen it!)
         Bellagio with the musical fountain show (spectacular....every hour!)
            Luxor Hotel (next to ours) Egyptian theme
           New York, New York just over the bridge (city and the statue are approx. 1/5 the size of the original)
                             Replica of Lady Liberty.....amazing!
              The Brooklyn Bridge just outside New York, New York

Craig and I went away alone for the first time since Katelyn was born!!  We had free airline tickets and hit the jackpot with Price line (TOTALLY AMAZING 5-star hotel).  It was an enjoyable long weekend.....warm enough to enjoy the 7-pool resort on Friday with temps in the high 70's.  Although there was tons to do our theme was RELAX, RELAX, RELAX.