eagles here and eagles there

Sunday, January 24th we drove on over to Yakima for Coby's Eagle Court of Honor.  Well done, Coby!!

It was also the last time we will see Lon for a very long time.  He has to go back to the Philippines, but hopes to return soon.  We are really going to miss him.  Like a lot.

Saturday, January 31st Jake set up a table at the Issaquah Little League Skills Evaluations and sold First Aid kits to raise money for a scoreboard at Tibbetts Field.  He did awesome.  He was there for 5 hours, talking to people and asking them if they would donate.  Not an easy thing to do!  But he did great and members of his Troop gladly helped out.  He reached his goal of $4000, and any extra money he earns from the vast amount of First Aid kits we still have (oops--way to go, Mom) will be donated to the City of Issaquah to help with the installation which they are now going to do on their own. (yay!!)

This is some pretty exciting stuff!! 

 It is a blessing to see boys SOAR.

arizona

We had places to go...

and people to see.

Such a great trip!!  

(At least for me.  Steve had to work all day every day!)

Seeing old friends and such cool places was the icing on the (cup)cake!

playoffs

2 brothers and 1 sis-in-law plus

2 hours before game time plus

4 touch downs plus

3 points for a field goal 

(And #3 for our favorite player shown here--Russell Wilson) equals... 

12.

a smashing new year

It was fun to make them.

It was more fun to eat the them.

But it was the MOST fun to drop them from the balcony...

and smash them.

happy new year

2015 here we come!!

A beautiful and sunny day

to start the new year.

What will it bring?

We'll record it right here.

2015, we're ready for you!

Hoopes family 2014

On a beautiful and sunny day in October...

 Goodbye 2014. 

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 Drew likes to be "nakey pants for five minutes" before getting dressed for the day or getting his jammies on at night.  It's a Hoopes thing.

 cute cousins at Grandma's

 Flashback to 5th grade graduation,  June 2012.

 Playing cars and making "traffic" for Drew's FHE activity.

 Flashback to Ali making shrinky dinks.

 Drew playing with his new monster trucks from Rylee on the way home from Grandma's.

 More flashbacks from home--Christmas 1990 and 1976--wish I still had that Santa sweatshirt.  And the turtleneck.  

 Drew is in love with the Santa hat.  The nametag is from the guys at the Costco Tire Center.  Since Drew and I are there about once a week watching the tires go on and off, they made him an honorary employee with an official nametag.  How nice is that?!

A perfect morning in my book.  Steve and the kids stopped by the gym to get our jamba juice gift card (thanks Aunt Jenny!) after playing some basketball at the church.  When the teacher saw Steve, she told him to stay and finish the workout.  He brought everyone in--Jake worked out with us while the three littles played in the playroom.  Then we ALL went to Jamba.  Doesn't get much better than that.