POTATO BOWL-GO Aggies

Due to Jeff flying in late Friday night, we got home really late Friday night or early Saturday morning depending on how you want to look at it. We woke up around 6:30 am to get ready to make the drive to Boise, Idaho for the Famous Idaho Potato bowl. The boys were pretty stoked once they were awake enough to realize what was going to happen later that day!! So after we got our Aggie gear ready and Big H got his sign that he made in honor of the game we were on our way!!

It was a fun drive up! We passed alot of Aggie fans, and instead of waving they would be doing the Scotsman in their cars haha it was fun.

I was glad Derek turned RIGHT! haha
After driving 5 hours we arrived at Bronco Stadium

After bundling up and getting Henrys cool sign we were on our way into the stadium

We saw the biggest potato in the world (according to Big H)

We got there early enough to see the Aggies arrive in the bus

It was neat they let the kids line up and give the players five
(the boys thought that was pretty COOL)

I will admit, it is hard to watch games on TV with the BLUE "Smurf Turf" but when we entered the stadium it was 120 yards of pure blue AWESOMENESS! And there was SO many Aggie fans!

Have YOU ever seen a dancing Potato? We HAVE!

The boys had a blast, dancing, singing and cheered their HUGE AGGIE hearts out! Which made the outcome of the game harder to accept.....the Aggies lost

But, we had been to a Bowl game and had a great time!

Henry is looking forward to next years bowl game! GO AGGIES, GO AGGIES, HEY, HEY, HEY

Welcome Home Elder!

I will admit the first year of Jeffs mission seemed quite slow, and like it was dragging at times! As soon as the second year started it really did seem to fly by! So on December 16th we made the trip to Salt Lake and the boys were pretty excited! Since his flight didn't come in until 11:15pm, we decided to take the boys to Temple Square and see the lights, they couldn't believe how many lights were there! After walking around for about 15 minutes they were FREEZING so we made our way into the Tabernacle and watched/listened to some of the Christmas devotional the Choir was performing (we watched it on TV screens) *Pics from Temple Square to be posted! ;)

After Temple Square and a quick bite to eat, we were OFF to the Airport! And Uncle Jeff was up in the air somewhere, on his way home.

Got front row parking :)

Please report to Terminal 1.......CHECK!

Who doesn't love a walk/ride on the escalator
(as escalator music goes through your head) lol

We were pretty excited to see our little brother, gma was excited to hug her baby boy

Grandma and her 3 cute, adorable grandsons
Our sign made with construction paper, markers and LOTS of tape, but best of all EXCITEMENT & LOVE!

One big happy, excited, thankful family

FAMILY PICTURES

So the weekend of Thanksgiving, Dereks family decided to update their family pictures and with good reasoning. There have been 3 official and legit additions since our last family pictures, and they are as follows: Little H had been born

Aubrey-Landens wife
Jared-Adri's long time boyfriend who proposed recently!

The HARDY Family

It was a very cold, nippy fall day but I think the pictures turned out GREAT! Dereks sister is an AMAZING, fun photographer and has a way to bring out the best smiles in the boys! I will be honest though I felt kind of bad for Little H his little teeth were chattering, and he had somewhat of a "frozen" smile in all the pics! haha

Me & my CUTE Boys
(LOVE them)
Big H & Lil H
(best buddies)

Big H
(knows how to play the camera)

Little H
(has quite a mischievous smile)
FRIENDS- For those of you wanting or in need of family pics, senior pics, kids/newborns, engagements, weddings etc... go ahead and check out Adri's website and look for the lemon!
http://adripaigephotography.com/