The Hunter

Back in October Kaelub went up to Idaho with his brother for his first deer hunt. They were down near the Malad area and spent about 5 days doing their thing. He was so excited to get his first deer and it was a pretty nice one. (This is all according to him and those more experienced in the hunting area than I.) We now have a lot of jerky added to our food storage and a set of antlers that I told Kaelub he could proudly display in his man cave, aka the garage. I refused to let him put them above our bed, which I'm still hoping he was just joking about. :)

Not her hair!

It was two Sundays ago while I was at choir practice. Eli cut Ava's hair. I came home and saw her hair out of it's pigtails. When I got closer I noticed hair on her shirt and then realized the top half of her hair on both sides was really short! Eli denied having anything to do with it. He even said Ava cut it herself. I found the pile of hair in their playroom and later found the scissors in Eli's room. He finally admitted it was him to Kaelub a day later. While the kids and I were in Idaho visiting we took Ava to see what could be done to fix it. She ended up with a short little pixie cut and I'm still getting used to it. But she does look cute. Kaelub took this picture on his phone, so it's not the best, but it looked the same on both sides. Poor Ava had a mullet for a few days.

Ball Family Pics 2011

For Christmas I wanted to get pictures of my mom, Aaron, and all of us. So I asked Kelsey to work her magic, which she had to seriously do to get Ava to even be in the pictures. That girl is constantly in motion! But I love how they turned out! My mom still hasn't seen them...so here's a few of my favorites.

9 Years!

Hard to believe that it's been 9 years since Kaelub and I were married. I remember sitting in the Idaho Falls Temple with butterflies in my stomach. It was Dec. 27, 2002, and it had just snowed. Everything was covered in fluffy white. Most of our family was there, uncluding most of Kaelub's mom's 11 siblings. What a wonderful and precious day to think back on. To be able to be together forever. And it has been quite an adventure so far! Three states, 2 children, starting a company, and now hopefully going back to P.A. school this year. I'm so glad I have such a hard working husband who is such a great dad.