My Most Favorite Place

Jodi's family, my sis in law, has a family ranch up in Star Valley about forty minutes from Jackson Hole. This place is my most favorite place on earth! Seriously, I would never leave if I had a choice! We went and spent the weekend there with Steve & Jodi & some friends. It rained almost the whole weekend but it was still fun to get away! Raymond killed his first bird, sad I know, he felt bad afterwards!! He did have a lot of fun running around shooting things with Steve & Tucker. I feel down an entire flight of stairs and hurt my tail bone pretty bad (1 1/2 weeks later I still cringe when sitting or standing or walking) but still enjoyed the good times, lots of cookies, card games and delicious smoked stone oven pizza! These pictures can't even begin to show the beauty of this place, it truly feels like heaven on earth. If I disappear one day, it's probably because I chose to move to the hills of Star Valley!!

Baby Eliza

Baby Eliza was born a few weeks ago and decided she wanted to give everyone a little scare and have some problems. Thankfully everything turned out to be just fine!!! We decided to take a Sunday drive and well we ended up in Elko Nevada and went to visit our newest niece and her mom and dad, Cammie & Kyle, at the hospital! She is beautiful and we loved the chance to snuggle with a barely one day old babe! The poor girl had oxygen taped to her face, an oximeter stuck to her foot, and an IV in her poor little arm! Raymond was quite nervous to hold her and swears he wasn't doing it right because the machines kept beeping but he did great!

On our way home we saw a complete double rainbow! Total luck, they aren't very common!! We took a million pictures (yes we even pulled over to look)! They both were so bright and you could see every color individually from end to end! Never in my life had I seen a rainbow so perfect!

Happy Birthday Camille!!

Sunday the Whipple's got together to celebrate momma Whipple's 55th birthday which was the previous Monday! Camille is definitely the leader of the family, she keeps the world spinning for the Whipples! She never stops working, never stops tending to the 18 grandkids, never stops worrying about all 18 kids, and never stops encouraging us all to do better!! Camille is very positive and is the peace keeper of the family! We love being in her family! Thanks for all you do mom! So they put all 55 candles on the cake! Before the lighting process began they gathered four appropriate "lighters" and they engineered their game plan for lighting! They took it so seriously! And as family tradition, once we sang to the birthday person we re-light all the candles and sang "Happy Birthday to Nobody" and all the grandkids got to blow out the candles! We do it for every birthday cake that enters the Whipple home! The kids love it!

He finally did it

Saturday afternoon, Raymond decided he was very jealous my brother Cody had shaved his head. Cody shaved his like a week or so ago and since then Raymond wouldn't stop talking about how cool it was! So Sunday afternoon led to this.



Step 1: Too late to turn back

Step 2: Wondering why he let me control the clippers

Step 3: Angry old man look


Step 4: TADA!!

Madison's Birthday

Our dear niece Madison Marie turned THREE today!! We couldn't have been more excited to party with her on her birthday! She has such a big personality that can fill the room with just one giggle or grin! This little girl is totally country but also very girly! She loves to dance and sing, especially to Mamma Mia! She also loves to pose for pictures and give big cheesers! And with those bright blue eyes and gorgeous blond curls she is definitely going to be a heart-breaker! We love you Madi!!

5 tHiNgS i LoVe

So life has been busy with the Whipple's but none of it terribly exciting so I want to share with you five of my currently most favorite things to do...in advance I do realize I am a little dorky! :)

1. I love to Hum. Usually I start out humming anything relatively similar to a song and it ends up as a Christmas song...took me 3 weeks to figure out the song was a Christmas one


2. I love to slice vegetables...we bought a new fancy set of pots/pans and it came with a fancy salad shooter that cuts/shreds everything super fast...i still prefer to pull out a cutting board and knife


3. I love the sound, feel, smell of rain...especially when I am lying in bed and hear it outside my window


4. I love to sing...one song in particular...the star spangled banner...i sing it at the top of my lungs standing at a full salute in my living room at least 3 times a week


5. I love to arrange table settings...my favorite includes centerpieces from scratch and multiple plate arrangements with stemware, flatware and folded cloth napkins


Totally dorky, I know...but now you have had a glimpse into my crazy twisted mind. I would love to hear your favorite things to do! Hope you are all doing well!!!