The Kearney Family

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

2014....How great you were!

Final post of 2014 before the blog book is given to the printers.... Fitting that we finish with probably more family pictures than really anyone would ever want to see....

One of Aidan's friend's moms is a talented photographer and snapped some pictures of the Kearney/McFadden gaggle. Amazing things happen when we shower...

Our boy, Byron, turned an ever so young 13 this year. 13 years?!?!? It was a blink ago that Ryan bribed me into saying "yes" with this sweet puppy. Kidding, no bribing needed...

Great-Grandma and her kids. Oh please, please, please God, let me have this woman's genes! I promise I'll be good.

And Grandma and her girls. All these years later and she still spoils me rotten....

My three most favorite guys on this planet.

TK5. Which means "Team Kearney 5." We are a team and a pretty rad one.

Love these little faces.

I'm not okay with this. Not one bit. Too old, too cute and too sweet.

And my heart just exploded and splattered all over my computer screen. No wait, that was wine. We're okay.

And again.

Winner winner, chicken dinner of the luckiest mom in the world award. Except for when they are fighting with each other. Then I'm the fastest runner in the world to get out of earshot. It's called a coping strategy people.

No photo montage is complete with a "jump sequence." Am I right?

Or a "throwing leaves in the air" sequence. It's like it's mandatory.

What a year 2014 has been.... Ryan has gone through work changes with a merger, the kids had their first trip to Hawaii, Ryan and I snuck off to Marco Island with xpedx (because Ryan is a ROCK STAR and won another award trip), lots of skiing (snow and water), camping, soccer, gymnastics, lacrosse, job promotion for me, new kitchen and adventures galore... We live a wonderful life. Don't confuse that with perfect, or neat, or easy... just wonderful. Here's to what I hope is another wonderful year in 2015. If you were a part of our 2014... Thank you for the wonderful memories. If you weren't a part of our 2014, but have been a part of previous years, well.... You actually were in our hearts for 2014, so it's kind of the same thing. Love, The Kearneys

Giving Thanks!

I always love a good Thanksgiving.... We always have so much to be thankful for. One thing we were thankful for in 2014 was getting this little fireball moved to Boise. She has enriched our lives and we are thrilled she is here!

So thankful that we decided to stuff our faces with fattening food.

And have classy time with a big bottle of ketchup. But I digress, I couldn't be more thankful for this little boy. This little boy who gets mad when I don't wake him up at 5:30 a.m. every morning so we can have Mommy/Aidan time...

And thankful my DAWGS won. Being the lone Kearney-Dawg is hard. Just kidding, no it's not! It's not hard always winning, suckers!

And this little guy at least roots for the Seahawks... While I nerd out in the background typing reports.

After three days of gluttony, we had to get some exercise. Don't worry, it was short lived and we came right back and started eating again....

Good-byes are hard. These poses were held for a really, really long time. I could not be more thankful for these people, who always make long, often snowy treks to visit, love and have so much fun.

Does this mean I have to cook??

I love the 90's just as much as the next girl... However, what was with the navy blue and maroon montage? And why, oh why, did they use shiny tiles? Questions I'll never get answers to, so what to do? Rip it out.

Ryan wasn't ready for a kitchen remodel. So I casually mentioned that I was meeting with a contractor to get a bid.

And walah! We have a new kitchen. Thank God Mr. Kearney got on board. As aforementioned, he's the "detail oriented" one. I'm the "ideas" gal. God, we are a good pair!

Only two quick weeks of this....

And final product! We couldn't be happier with the result!

Because I like to have things out of order... Before shot.

Buh-barf blonde.

Favorite part of remodel was the coloring we did before everything got ripped out. This counter was COVERED by the end. Mom and Dad even got in on the fun!

Sunday, November 16, 2014

Fall Flings!

A lot of soccer was played, but not a lot of pictures were taken... Partially due to a phone/camera that was of the rotary era and partially because I'm lazy.

But I did snap these photos of our "all star" playing in the end of the season all star game. See, I wasn't loosely tossing that "all star" term around.

Aidan had an incredible season. The boy has wheels! And footwork! And a really cute smile! (ok, I'm off track now)

And he had the COOLEST coach... (Ryan). My kids are so lucky....

Check out this end of the year prize! How cool are these photos? We are beyond lucky to have a super-star photographer mom on our team....

And for halloween, more soccer! Morgan was a zombie soccer player and Aidan was Leo Messi. Pre-trick or treating at Grandma Dolly's condo!

I'm certain none of us were expecting THIS on the other side of the door!

I told you Boise got more exciting when this little lady moved to town!

After grandma's, we headed to the neighborhood celebration.

The amount of candy collected was insane. And now so is my waistline. Thanks a lot!

But I somewhat maintained good Halloween behavior since I had a half marathon to hobble in the next day. And since training was minimal (or non-existant), I figured I'd better at least go to bed early.

"Caution: Runners Ahead" made me giggle on the course. Be cautious around runners, we are a fierce-some crew.

I finished in one piece. 7th place in my old lady bracket. Getting older has it's privileges.

This is what a lack of training, too much sugar, FREEZING cold temps and too many hills looks like at mile 11. Not pretty folks, not pretty at all.

Ben Towne Foundation Boise Chapter held it's first annual BIG event, "An Evening with Ben Towne Foundation." And what an event it was... It was a beautiful evening and so thrilling to see the movement grow and Boise's support! Even Grandma Dolly came along for the fun.