Family Pictures.....

Front Row - Jennifer, Haley, Sara
Back Row - Kathy, Jake, Kim, Steve

Over the Thanksgiving Holiday, Kim's family came down to Arizona to visit and since we hadn't ever taken a family picture with everyone, we enlisted the services of Jennifer Petty and her fabulous photography company, JP Photography. (http://www.pettyphotography.blogspot.com)

My Sister Jennifer!!!!

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Our Nieces, a fun day at the petting zoo!!!!

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Baby Shower

Aren't baby clothes adorable? Congratulations Jenn!

Jenn Westenskow's Baby Shower

Her baby shower was a success. The baby is definitely ready to come!

Our WEDDING, POSTED TWO YEARS LATER!!!!!

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Beautiful St. Louis!!

Well, I am in St. Louis, Missouri for a few days doing some stuff for school. I was afraid I wouldn't be able to do much sightseeing while I am here and I haven't yet. Except for the huge gigantic arch right outside my hotel window. At least I don't have to go very far to see it. When I told my old man I was coming out here he asked me if I'm going to join a mob. I don't get it.....

Halloween 2007...

Ya, Halloween is always a lot of fun at our house....Kim loves to go all out and that includes dressing me up to. I was hoping the make-up would make me unrecognizable.

Camping in the Desert...

I am pretty much sick of school after a whole 6 weeks and being stuck inside the stupid big city of Phoenix had taken its toll. So the other day we just picked up and left and drove a few hours to what the people down here call mountains and camped. It was a lot of fun, we (I) made a big fire and took some pictures overlooking some really high cliff that is part of the Colorado plateau. Good times...

Scottsdale Car Show...

I'd like to own a Mercedes someday....this one would be nice.
Kim has her heart set on a Mini. A little girly, but at least it has racing stripes.
My favorite was the Camaro SS 327. And Kim was my favorite too.
I don't know what this car was. It was big and black. Kim liked it. I don't know what that means.


So every weekend for the last 20 years in Scottsdale, Arizona about a hundred old car guys get together a local McDonald's and put on a car show for the public. We got a bunch of people together and went to check it out and it was actually pretty impressive.

Halloween 2006!

Kim as a Fairy, me as myself.
Paige Frakes as herself, Jordan Frakes as Heath Ledger.
Dawson Westenskow as a wrestling official and Jenn as a better looking Dawson in high school.

As you can tell, I'm all about uploading as many new blog posts as I can tonight. Actually, I just found some random pictures on my camera and decided to upload them all. For Halloween last year we got together with some friends and dressed up for a big party. It was a lot of fun and Kim loves to dress up. As you can probably tell, I just dressed up as myself.

Asian Night Baby!!

Some random guy, little Bridger and Jen Allen, Tyler and Erika Hanks and Kim and myself.
Um, not really sure what's going on here.
Me, some random guy's kid and Kim.

So here at Thunderbird besides being constantly drilled by the business school they periodically make us become more culturally inclined. Since over 50% of the students here are foreign, I guess that's not a bad idea. Asian night was this big party of well, mostly Asian stuff. The food was good and at least not all the entertainment was in anime cartoon.

2nd anniversary...a few months late...

Right, well for our anniversary in August, Kim and I went to the Arizona Biltmore Resort & Spa. It was a really nice place and they even bumped us up to a nice suite for the big occasion. Since we had just moved to Arizona, we didn't know really where to go, but Kim had seen a History Channel special on this place, so we gave it a shot...turned out great.

the last missionary...

(Seth, Nate, Jake)

Well, the last missionary of my family at least. My littlest brother Nate (the one in the middle) left on his mission to California San Bernadino on September 12th. My other brother Seth is the other kid in the picture, he is down at BYU studying who knows what. And then there's me. I flew up to Utah from lovely Arizona to see him off, it was a lot of fun.

New Ride...

After we had settled in nicely to our new Arizona home, we decided to start looking at alternate modes of transportation for me to get to school, other than Kim's car. We live within a 5 block radius of my school, Kim's job at the hospital and her one class this fall at ASU. So we looked around and decided to get a motorcycle to run around on. It'll be nice to be able to ride all year round and take fun little trips here and there. I hadn't ridden a motorcycle much since I was a kid, but it came back pretty quick!

Home Sweet Home!

A lime green kitchen/dining/office room.

Our freshly painted living room.

One beautiful bathroom.

Well, we made it through the big move. I arrived in Glendale, Arizona on July 29th and Kim flew down the week after, once she had finished all her summer classes. We've been extremely busy painting our new apartment and trying to get everything unpacked and decorated. As you can see, Kim has done a pretty good job with things. Our place is small, but we love it.

It's been pretty hot since we've been here, usually a high around 105 to 110 with lows at night from 85 to 90. Its going to start to cool off soon, which will be nice. You can only spend so many hours a day at the pool!

I start my classes in a few weeks and I have some orientations coming up soon. It will be busy, but fun. We plan on going to some Diamondbacks, Cardinals, and Coyotes games, and anything else exciting we can do. We have had a great time since we've been down here, and look forward to more good times.

bear lake baby!

During the 24th of July for as long as I can remember, the Bitner side (Mom's) of my family gets together for a big family reunion at Bear Lake. We stay in the condo at Ideal Beach (Sweetwater) and just have a blast.

There's always so much to do, golf, ride waverunners, boat, swim, play basketball and tennis and just lounge around and hang out. As you can see in the pictures, Kim had a fabulous time on the waverunner, and my niece Cecily was pretty excited about building sandcastles!

It's not the Grove....

But it will do.... Since we only have a few more weeks left in beautiful Utah, we have been trying to spend as much time outdoors as possible. It's kinda tough with school and work to take much time off, but we try to go camping or biking at least once a week. Our latest adventures took us camping just off the Logan River (where we found a sweet little campsite where you don't have to pay and is pretty secluded) and biking up to the Jardine Juniper and Old Ephraim's Grave.

One Loooooong Bike Ride

Kim and I have started biking every day, every other day, every three days, or every week or so....We actually try and do some kind of exercise everyday, and are actually pretty good at it. I sold my body (donating plasma, I know what you're thinking) to buy us bikes last year and we are finally getting good enough to conquer some rough terrain. Cache Valley has a ton of great trails and we are learning which ones we like best. Our latest endeavor took us up Green Canyon, which by the way, was really green. The trail wasn't too difficult, but it was a gradual ascent of about 2,000 feet, 6 miles long one way and a bit rocky.

We were both surprised we made it all the way up...

Family Pictures.....

The last time my family took a 'Family Picture' was right after I got home from my mission, circa 1903 (2003 actually). Needless to say, it had been a long time since we had all been together, cleaned up in a respectable manner, and found someone that could stand us all together to snap a few pics on a decent camera. We also had all grown significantly since the last time, mostly horizontally, although I did increase the length of my curly locks at the request of my wife. Since my youngest brother Nate just got his mission call to California and is leaving in September, that Kim and I will be moving to Phoenix in August, Emily finally had a boy (after 3 girls), Seth was married long enough that we think it will last, and my dad's realization that he's not as immortal as he thought...well, we figured those were enough reasons to make it work.

We went with the classic 'white with jeans' look, and posed overlooking the mighty Bear River in east Tremonton. This picture is just of me and Kim, and then just my siblings (front row - Emily 27, Ashley 14ish?, Sara 16 and back row - Me 25, Nate 18, Seth almost 23). Maybe I'll get a whole family one up soon.