The Birthdays are coming...ooops! They're here!

I love this time of year... Fresh from the thrill of Christmas, we dive right into one of our family's Birthday seasons... Anyone who knows me could tell you that I LOVE Birthdays - mine and everyone else's. I love to celebrate and make a big fuss over the Birthday-boy, or girl. I'm very lucky that from January 2nd through February 6th, I get to spoil most of my nieces and nephews as we celebrate their birthdays.

This weekend, two of my FAVORITE people are celebrating birthdays. My niece, Chelsea Webster is 20 years-old, today. She's been anxious and eager for this birthday for several years, now. It means that she is "officially" done being a teenager. This weekend, she's having a Birthday party and housewarming to celebrate her new house with her boyfriend, Shane.



Yesterday, my other niece, Stephanie Wozniak, celebrated her 17th birthday. She is too old for birthday spankings (you're NEVER too old according to Amanda) but not too old for a cake covered in candles.



...OR, too old to make a wish and blow them out...



So, to both my beautiful girls...Happy Birthday with all our love. May all your Birthday wishes come true.

In the Beginning...

I've made the attempt at setting this up several times. FINALLY, I think I'm getting it together.

Our menagerie consists of me(Annette or Netty), Kevin, Amanda, Jackie, Freeway and Rover - the cats, and Gracie, Jake, and Milo - the dogs. We just moved from an 1800 sqft house on a half acre in Prescott Valley, AZ; to a three bedroom apartment. So, life really is a little whacky, and sometimes we feel as if we should be carted off to "Happy Acres".

We're "officially" in Boise , Idaho until June of 2007 while Kevin finishes training for his job. At the end of our time here, we'll pack up the entire show and move the Webster-ZOO to the Lehi, Utah area.

Our transition to Boise went much more smoothly than we expected. Our house in Prescott Valley sold quickly. We are extremely grateful for both these blessings. Although leaving Arizona was more difficult than we imagined, we know we're in the right place - doing the right thing for our family. So, other than Jackie breaking her arm for the FOURTH time, our transition from Arizona to Idaho has been as smooth as possible.

We are settling into our routine with work, school, Church, piano lessons, and other activities. Amanda is singing with the "Honor's Choir" at school. Earlier this month they sang at the State Capitol for the governor's inaugeration. It was an honor, and Mandy was very excited to do it.




The girls went ice skating for the first time this weekend.






Now Amanda wants skating lessons, so we're looking into that. I was grateful that Jackie wasn't as interested...given the fact that she's only been out of her latest cast for three weeks.







She really wants to learn to ski, but I don't know if my nerves can handle the strain. We'll see if we can find a ski-suit made of bubble-wrap. Then I might consider it.

We'll be taking a trip to Utah over the long President's Day weekend. We want to start exploring the area and see where we'd like to live. That way we'll have a better idea of what's available when we start to do our serious house-shopping in the Spring.

Some things stay the same...others change enough to keep life an adventure...