The transition into 2009

Ben Favero on Christmas with his favoritest present...yard-o-beef.

KT, Joe, and Becca relaxing on the fence at the schoolhouse (at the 7F Ranch in Roberston, Wyoming on 12/29/08).

New Year's Eve trauma - right after midnight Ben and Becca saw us kissing and nearly reinacted it....yeah, it was weird. This video is the post trauma reaction.

Rachel and Jon caught in a laughing fit at the Favero home on New Year's Day.

Justin and KT. Nice shirt Justin...and smile.

Emily (Jeff's sister) and her 3 munchkins. Abigail showed up David and little William on this one - they must not have realized they were supposed to give a cheesy smile.

December came and went

Snow in Portland - this was the worst it got, and still many were going 15 MPH and had chains on their tires!

Scenes from the nativity story - reinacted by the extended Flamm family (on Jeff's Mom's side).
(12/20/08)

Granny and Grandpa Flamm looking great. Good picture.

Oh, there are the lovebirds at the Flamm Christmas Party.

And then the odd folks (Jeff's siblings) in this section of the party...Becca, Kaytie, Justin,

and Joe

at their best.

Ben and Teresa striking a pose at the party.

Us on Christmas Eve at the Spilker home (Teresa's parents).

Ben and Katie Spilker holding their niece, Brooke.

Jared Spilker with his crew (Brooke, Megan,

and Joshie).

Aren't these two adorable?

Sunday afternoon gathering for family pictures at the Spilker home (12/28/08).

Eliza Spilker (dancing for her baby cousins, Brooke and Megan) on Sunday.

Favero Family Pictures in St. George - July

I love the "before and after" changes that occur. The first picture is disarray and the second is voila! Especially look at Abigail and Justin in the first picture (the ONLY ones looking at the camera!)

St. George on the way home from Powell - July

William Dursteler (Jeff's sister Emily's son) saying "Hey there"

David Dursteler and Uncle Ben

Whoa, they're cool.

Abigail Dursteler (Emily's daughter) and Sarah Klomp (his cousin Shannon's daughter).

Look at Kai Klomp jump over his aunt and uncles!

Lake Powell with Faveros - part II

Joe climbing like the monkey he is.

Becca, Justin, and KT cliff jumping.

Blurry Joe with a sweet dive.

Teresa and Jeff enjoying their time on the tubes.

Pappa, the photographer.

Lake Powell with Faveros over July 4th

Sweet panorama I took at Powell

(actual photo much larger & higher quality)

Oh, look at the lovebirds steering the houseboat!

Justin skiing to a beautiful sunset.

Justin, KT, and Joe rock climbing/cliff jumping.

I caught Becca without a weird pose.

Yeah, it's June now.

Some April pictures to catch up a bit.

Sweet T.

Rachie and Jon at Joe & Becca's choir concert.

Oh, Joe & Becca...

Short and Sweet - the only way I could talk myself into starting to catch up in here!

January came and went

GUESS WHAT? Jeff was accepted to his #1 choice of chiro colleges last week (Western States in Portland, OR)!!!!!!! So we're moving up to Portland around August!

KT, Grandpa Bryce, Granny (!), Justin, Mom, Dad, Rachie, Jon, T, Jeff, Joe's head.

Christmas dinner at the Faveros! Yeah, so I haven't taken many pictures lately.

Here are Joe and KT at the dinner - so cute!

Dads (Teresa's and Jeff's) sharing their passion for photography on New Year's Eve.

Merry CHRISTmas!

This is our nephew, Josh. He was having a good time!


Here is sweet Teresa at the Spilkers, where we enjoyed our CHRISTmas Eve (despite the crazy snow storm that tried to kill us on the way there!).




At the Flamm Christmas party Grandpa Bryce made his way to the front of the room and expressed his gratitude and wonder at the blessings of having such a great family.

He said that when you get to his stage of life (and probably even after this life) you look back and see a lot of things that you wish you would have done more. Then he said, "There are a lot of things I wish I had done more - except having kids....we have plenty of those!"

Here is our cute little

Christmas tree in our

living room.

The kids were all cute during the Nativity, and John and Melissa were a great Joseph and Mary. Ben (my little brother) was the sheep with the black gloves for paws...pretty funny looking!

Few weeks of pictures

Here is a picture of the school I hope to attend in NE Portland.

And here is the beautiful Portland Temple!

Joe & Mindy at the Ranch over Thanksgiving.

And here is the first field after the third river.