Finding Joy in the Journey

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

YO, ADRIEN!!

DAY 1 of Noah Balboa's black eye

DAY 2 of Noah Balboa's black eye (always boogers and drool too)

DAY 3 of NOAH BALBOA's BLACK EYE

Our Noah boy is finally heading up. His sickness is mostly gone, and the eye looks better each day. Next up........teeth on top. SO FUN!

Some of you requested the rest of our family photos.... well here they are. Thank you so much Emily (and Luke, computer skills) for your expertise, talents and TIME! We were pretty cold so our kids didn't last very long. We were lucky to pull off a good shot of each of them and a few of all of us. It is so nice to have great friends that help us smile pretty for the camera.

Thursday, January 17, 2008

Rough week for NOAH!

The week began like this. Eye infections, eating green boogers,
coughing. But, still smiling!

One morning found Brielle in the crib with Noah keeping him happy
until his hybernating mother woke up.

Today finally brought some sledding material! So we headed
over to Chaffee's to sled down their hill. Adam was having
a jolly old time in traffic in the snow so he stopped to get some
food with his buds. In the meantime we are playing in the snow
and this happens........

The week is ending like this!!! so sad... Noah took a tumble.
Call me a bad mom for not watching him closer, I know!

Tylenol, butterfly bandage and a warm bottle put him right
to sleep. Hopefully it won't leave a huge scar.
Noah's first major shiner. I love my boy.

Friday, January 11, 2008

It's The Happiest Time Of The Year!

Sunday, December 16, 2007

Raisin' the Roof!!!

Wow! What a great couple weeks of fun and VOLLEYBALL that we have had. It started a few weeks ago, Dec. 1st when my mom called and said she had a ticket for me to fly to Seattle to see Chelsea play at #6 Washington for NCAA finals. There was only one problem, I was suppose to do so many things that weekend for our ward activities. I told my mom I probably couldn't go and then 10 mins. later I called her back and said, "I'm coming!" I couldn't miss it, and I got subs to cover the things I had to do. I dropped it all and left the next morning at 7:00 am with Noah and we had such a blast. BYU won Friday night and then Washington was Saturday and they beat them too! That was one of the best games I have ever seen. Thank you mom, I had so much fun with you. The miracle of it all was that the Sweet Sixteen region they were in was at PENN STATE for the next weekend. So Mom, Dad, Evonne and Justin (Chelsea's boyfriend) headed over here 4 days later. Friday, we all headed up in the snow to Penn State. Our friends the Milmonts and Chaffee's also came to scream with us! We are glad they drove 3 long hours to support BYU! BYU played so good Friday night and beat Middle Tennessee to make it to the Final 8! Chelsea was amazing and I'm not going to be humble about it, she is so flippin' good! We all camped out at the hotel that night and prepared mentally (ha!) for the big PENN STATE game on Saturday. We knew it would be a hard one to beat them (the best in the nation) and it was a hard loss. Chelsea gave it everything she had and it was hard to see her career at BYU end, but.... she has accomplished so much and we are so proud of her! She received All American again this year! I love you sis and I'm proud of you! You are invited to play on my city team next year........ ha!
See the article below:
http://www.byucougars.com/Filing.jsp?ID=10040