Saysay and ZoZo

Cause what else do you do when your dogs are pawing at your leg and crying for your attention while you're working at the counter?

Flower shots by Rylee

I cannot tell you how often I download my pictures and find gobs of photos of flowers! Seriously, it's been going on for like 4 years now, and she's not to shabby at photographing them either!

Wight's visit 2010

How is it that I have the greatest friends in the whole world? I remember our very first Sunday in our new ward, Fairway Village of Vancouver, whispering to Steve "I'm going to be friends with that cute girl in the front!"and 11 years later she is still gracing me with her presence! We had such a blast when Karen and Madeline came to visit us and, as usual, played until we dropped!We spent a couple days at home and a couple in my favorite place, downtown Chicago.

How sexy are we?

The girls put on a fantastic show for us which involved some risky stunts!

When Rylee broke her glasses (if I were prepared, she would have a back up pair... oh well) we had to tape up the middle of her frames, nerd style. Karen put her vanity behind her in a effort to make Rylee feel better. See what I mean?

We frolicked in fountains,

Posed in the "Bean",

Shopped till we dropped for just the right purse for Karen,

played in the turnstyle,

pretended to be 5 while eating brunch at American Girl,

wished we could eat the Worlds Largest Chocolate bar (only $99),

and quite possibly the funniest of all, were entertained at Ed Debeviks. We may have had a few bums in our faces while the servers were pole dancing!!!!!

Come back Wights! WE love you!

Mads

Is she really headed to YW this year? It seems like just yesterday...

Forida with friends

We were lucky enough to be invited by the Meeks to join them in WARM (we thought it would be anyway) Florida Keys. It averaged about 65 degrees while we were there, but that didn't stop us from laying out by the pool anyway. Actually, it was amazing and seeing the vegetation and my favorite, the palm trees, was plenty rejuvination.




The drive out of our resort- nice, eh?




Susan with her cute girls Rachel and Taylor. Jackson invited his friend from Cleveland and Susan left the baby of the group (Dylan) behind. They all got along great and secretly Mads and Ry want a brother now!







Our 'villa' was decorated with such vibrant, tropical colors and with the lush grounds around us, the whole trip was eye candy for me! I wish I would've taken a photo of the main lobby area, in had a huge, dark wood plantation style porch with (classy) wicker rockers on it and celing fans to blow the breeze around. Heaven!

Valentines '10

This year we were lucky enough to get reservations to a fantastic restaurant called "Malaga's". Man it was delicious, the wait staff was friendly, efficient and some of the cutest girls I've ever seen! They waited on us hand and foot and the sous chef did an incredible job too. Thanks for the best Valentines Dinner ever! (gotta love the red lipstick and the lions robe Steve was wearing!)

If only I could learn...

“Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security.”

Happy Birthday to me

My girls rock! They made me a happy birthday carrot cake (my fav) all by themselves (Steve wasn't feeling well).






I'm not saying I'm a princess or anything, but my mom spoiled us BIG TIME on our birthdays and as a result, our expectations are a wee bit high. I think I've mentioned before that the only way to really please us Thibault girls is to celebrate the entire birthday month. So, Steve and girls are getting a little better every year, and you gotta love the signs they make and hang everywhere (thanks to the Wight family).

Christmas morn 2009

Once again, despite our current challenges, we had a peaceful, blessed, merry Christmas. The girls 'Santa wish list' was short as usual, but as usual, we (and Santa) had so much fun shopping for them that they ended up with way more than they wished for. Traditionally, we head to the movies on Christmas day but we were having so much fun that we decided to skip them.

The anticipation is killing us!

This one of them hugging had to be posted for posterity. :)

Mediterranean trip

I can't figure out how blogger is doing their picture posts anymore, but when I do, I will comment on these photos. This was an amazing trip, once in a lifetime, and we learned so much. We came back with a whole new appreciation for our country.