12 years, 12 YEARS!!!!!!

 I married this guy 12 YEARS AGO! Hard to believe how fast this has gone.... We ventured sans kids (thanks Mema and Papa) to one of our most favorite spots... Sun Valley!

 We biked our faces off. We biked up Baldy at River Run, across the mountain and down Warm Springs. Let's just say that we may have been regretting a certain amount of consumed cocktails the evening before...

 But the views were worth it!

 And we had this little friend waiting for us at the finish line...

 This my friends is what exhaustion looks like. NO, not from being married to me, from the bike ride!

 All dressed up and ready for the night life.

But first had to celebrate living in Idaho and the assortment of monster trucks one encounters.

Happy Anniversary Mr. Kearney. Love, Mrs. Kearney

Fosseen Fun!

 We had a great visit from the Fosseen family! And we realized that Shannon somehow got the "tall" genes, while Ryan did not have those to pass on.

 Silliness ensued, lots of it...

 After extreme swimming, hiking, biking shenanigans, we had to get out of the sun and take in a movie.

 Look at this gaggle!!!!

 I kept pushing on the Fosseen's heads trying to make them stop growing, but alas, it looks like they'll be looking down on their vertically challenged auntie very soon...

 And they've already surpassed me in the cool factor.

Thanks for making the trek Fosseens! Until next time!!!!

Miscellaneous Summer 2014!

 We were excited when Morgan and Aidan decided to prep for prom. They make a pretty cute date...

 Motherly love....

 I wasn't kidding when I said that we spent a lot of time at Grandma's pool this summer.... So much so, that we sometimes needs "non pool" things to do pool-side....

 This was all fun and games, soaking in swim suits, until the neighbor kids came over to play and realized our children are just a bit odd....

 I have no idea what he's wearing, but yes, we are an odd crew....

 I do not know why I don't have any more pictures of the Foster visit, but this will have to do for now. Long lost twins, Cassie and Aidan.

 Oh Macka, macka, macka, how I love that boy so....

 We left the kids with a sitter and had a fantastic night out. The list of drinking/eating establishments we DIDN'T hit would be smaller than the list of where we did go....

 After the Fosters left to venture to Sun Valley, we had a night out a play, High School Musical. It was a HIT!

 We also had some time dog-sitting Cody. What type of dog sitters would we be if we didn't engage in some dress up time?

 I think I have too much free time.

 This summer could be classified as "Summer of the Water Sports." Our kids developed a fascination of knee-boarding, water skiing and tubing. And I started water skiing too. I now get why Ryan gets up at the crack o' dawn for "soft water."

 And sometimes there are homemade pirate ships on Lucky Peak. Glad to know we aren't the only odd folk in town.

And then this happened..... I know it's obviously a small snake, but a. SNAKE. IN. MY. HOUSE. nonetheless. Not okay people, not okay. But problem solved. I spent my entire retirement account on "Snake B-Gone" and if my kids start growing arms out of their foreheads from the chemicals, well so be it.

Summer, summer, summer time!

I do not even know what happened this summer so getting the blog caught up is going to lead to a lot of, "oh yeah, we did do that!" It was a blur. A fun, crazy, busy, giggly blur. 

 

 See? A lot of giggling.

 And a lot of teeth falling out of heads.

 And I did a lot of mountain biking.... And a lot of falling. This little number was actually the result of me taking the bike off of the ceiling rack in our garage. Awesome.

 Carissa snapped this view when our ride was almost over and we were almost back to my house. For real. How pretty is that?

 And we had two, yes TWO visits from one of my most favorite girls on earth, Noelle!

 Cousin hike.

 And then this lady moved to town. Boise, did you notice things got more entertaining at the end of June. A huge and sincere thank you to all of the kind strangers my grandma frequently gets directions from.

 And there has been golf.

 Feeling lucky to have this view at the bottom of our hill...

 Who is this kid? Where is my baby? I know, I sound like a broken record, but seriously!

 Oh this impish little boy, my heart is outside the old wrinkled, sun damaged bod.

 Fourth of July weekend.... Retirement community style. No kidding, it was a blast!

 In between Fourth of July festivities, we unpacked my grandma's condo. To say there were some giggles would be an understatement. If you can figure out why she has an Aquafina bottle filled with "coconut rum," then you my friend are seeing eye to eye with this old gal...

 Oh she's going to be so mad for me posting this picture. Bathing beauty....

 We took a long break from packing and biked to the big party in Ann Morrison park. Street performers, oh yes please. Both my kids gave me the evil eye when I made a motion to try out some moves.

 Watch out Park View, there's a tough one hanging around...

 The retirement pool saw a lot of action on the 4th... But our kids loved having other kids to play with....

 If you have ever been in Boise for the 4th, you have seen the fantastic show they put on. We literally had FRONT row seats, as in right in front of our faces.

 The weekend after the retirement party, we had to continue our love of fireworks at the Glavins.

 We always know we can get a fantastic glass of wine there!

 Our kids have literally lived in this pool this summer. I've been searching the internet for floating beds so they can just sleep there, no luck.