
Alex giving the principal, Dr. Kiebert, a hug :-)
After he got his diploma!
Jesse and Alex
It was So windy! They were losing their hats and sashes!

Alex and I at his grandparetns after Graduation
Him and his grandparents
His family
The Cake :-)
The sparkling cider bottle with the graduation cap on top!
The senior class photo in the newspaper. Alex is on the top row like the 4rd from the left
Alex and Jesse at grad night
Alex and I right before he left for grad night
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Alex's Graduation :-)
Posted by Valeri Finley at 4:57 PM 1 comments
Sunday, May 24, 2009

















Ok here's what the pictures are...
#1: Rad and Sam Hugging! :-) I was so happy I got this lol
#2: Mike putting up the bat box. You put bat poop in it and it attracts them so they eat all your bugs :-)
#3: Rad and Sam eating on the porch
#4: Alex and Andrew playing
#5: Sisters :-) I look gross!
#6: Alex and I
#7: Alex and I in the Roadster, Bob let us drive it for like 2 hours! So fun!
#8: Customer Appreciation Day at work
#9: Customer Appreciation Day at work
#10: Rad and Sam eating apples
#11: Sam climbing under the table at dubs
#12: Rad at dubs
#13: Sam and Andrew eating their dubs ice cream :-)
#14: Bob's flames in the parade, bad picture but they were huge!
#15: Mike and Candi in the Roadster and Bob, Yuri, Shane, Robert and Simon in the '52
#16: Same on Granmeri's lap covering her ears :-)
#17: Heidi, Andrew, Sam and mom at the parade
Posted by Valeri Finley at 8:20 PM 2 comments
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Not Good For The Church....
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2009/05/barack_obamas_mom_is_a_mormon.html?mid=daily-intel--yahoo-buzz
http://perezhilton.com/2009-05-06-not-okay-obamas-mother-posthumously-baptized-by-mormons
Posted by Valeri Finley at 12:18 PM 1 comments
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
:-)


Sundays we've been watching Rad and Cade while Derrick and Melenie take Beck to dog school, and this sunday we were playing with playdough and Alex made a truck and I made a flower :-) Lol it was actually fun :-) I miss stuff like that :-)
So you know how every once in a while you'll realize there is something that someone does but you just got used to it so you never say thank you? It's just a normal thing that you don't even notice it anymore? Well i've been noticing how many little things Alex does for me that I don't even notice alot of the time. Once thing that I think is SO cute is when I first started dating him I told him that I had read a scary story once where someone was driving there car at night and they looked in their rear view mirror and there was someone in the backseat, so I have always been afraid and always look back constantly to check :-) Well I should say I USED to, because Alex walks me to my car every night that i'm at his house and I rarely even notice it anymore but he always opens up the back door really quick so it turns on the dome light and lights up the car :-) I thought about it the other night and realized he did it everytime! lol :-) There are so many other things like that, it just makes me happy because alot of it is stuff i've never told him, he's just noticed that I do it all the time so he picked up that that's what I like. So it's nice knowing that he pays attention to what makes me happy! :-):-)
Posted by Valeri Finley at 12:37 PM 2 comments
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Sick...
So I was fine Sunday, went to church taught my cute little nursury kids about obeying your parents. Then after church went to Alex's house and that's when it started... I felt like I was going to throw up. So I drove home, well half way. I had to stop on Baldy and...well you know. And then I got home and had just enough time to clean the bathroom floor and the toilet with clorox wipes and cover the floor in towels before the puking began. TMI, sorry. But I threw up from about 7:30 at night to 2am. EVERY 20-30 minutes!!!!! I thought I was dying!! It was SO horrible. I was SO weak, the next morning I couldn't even lift my head off my pillow. But Alex was amazing :-) He showed up at 6:30 Monday morning with 6 bottles of 7up, a Lightening McQueene sippy cup, and salteen crackers :-) The sippy cup was awesome because I couldn't lift my head up so it was nice. He came BEFORE he even got ready for school :-) He went to safeway, brought me the stuff and then went home to get ready for school :-) So cute. But yeah I ate a total of 4 crackers and half of bottle of 7up that day. And only lost 2 pounds... :-( I didn't go to work yesterday, I stayed in bed but i'm here today and i'm still so weak. I was cleaning the counter and I had to force my arm to move. Pathetic. Shane's got it now and Mom had it monday and tuesday. Not fun!!! Hope you all are doing better!! :-)
Posted by Valeri Finley at 10:38 AM 5 comments
Friday, April 24, 2009
Good Day! :-)
I just went to JcPennys to get a new pair of jeans because mine were getting too big and I ran out of room to make new holes so I decided it was time. ANYWAYS, so I get there and I was looking for a size smaller but they only had 2 sizes smaller so I was like ok i'll just try. AND THEY FIT!! So now I fit into a size 11 :-) I was very happy :-) And I was expecting them to be on sale for $20.00 because that's what the sign said but when I got to the register they were $3.37!!!! I was like "$30.37?" lol and she said, "No, $3.37" :-) I am SO happy! :-)
Posted by Valeri Finley at 12:58 PM 2 comments
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Pictures and More Pictures...

Alex and I just bored taking silly pictures :-)
You can see my freckles lol 
Muah! :-)
Our Beautiful Eggs that we dyed and decorated today :-)
I forgot how much fun it is :-)
This is what the food storage room out in the back shop looks like so far. Mike has been doing alot of work in there while he's been home
It's going to look really good! 
Ok... so here is Mom's, Shane's, Mike's, and Bob's car.... alot of cars in one driveway right? Oh just wait....
Here's a better picture of Mike's car (For Heidi) it was SO wrecked in the back but Derrick and Bob fixed it up which is kind of their new hobby I think because....
This is what our yard looks like lol :-) So on top of all of the cars we drive (I didn't get a picture of Bob's truck and my car in the turn around so add two more lol)there are all these in the yard!! We call it the Suburban Junkyard (even though they are not all suburbans :-))I couldn't get them all in the picture but I think you can see like 6 in the picture but all the way to the right behind the white blazer are two more trucks :-) But Bob has been buying wrecked cars and him and Derrick are going to fix them and sell them :-)It look super white trash right now lol :-)
This is the 2003 Fully Loaded Suburban that he just got for Heidi :-) It's really wrecked but one of the other suburbans in the picture above has all the right parts so he's just going to use the good ones and eventually it will look just like new like Mike's! :-) 
So we went to Liberty Lake Monday night to get new leather furniture for the downstairs living room and when we got there mom saw this and LOVED it! The top slides apart and it has alot of storage inside
So she asked Bob to get it and after talking prices with the guy (Bargain Bob haha) it was loaded onto the trailor along with....
The couch, the love seat, the recliner, and the two end tables! :-)
Mike and Mom also painted the downstairs walls, the hall and around the door and just the bottom of the one wall going up the stairs. You can see where it goes from "relaxed khaki" to the white. 
The paint makes it look SO much better! And the furniture is SO SO SO comfy! Both seats of the love seat are recliners and both ends of the couch recline too :-)
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