Christmas Fun

Emily and Katie... Christmas Angels in the Church Pageant

Gingerbread houses at Angie's house

Making Cookies with friends

Katie and Kayela

Christmas Eve at Grandma & Grandpa Gill's house

Katie's gift to her friends... T-shirts that say it all!

Christmas Morning 2010

Christmas News 2010

If you are reading this... you found our blog! Here we are a year later and all is well at the Montieth house.

Katie turned 9 in November and is still the princess of our house. She is doing 2 dance classes this year, hip-hop and ballet. She is enjoying 3rd grade, loves spending time with her friends, and bossing her brothers around. She likes taking care of her cats and her new bunny, Smokey.

Garret is 11 and a 6th grader at our local Middle School. Hard to believe he is already old enough to head off in the morning with his older brother. He is playing the clarinet (a step toward the saxophone) in the band. He is enjoying his advanced math class and science this year. Everyone loves Garret's sense of humor and zest for life!


Conner is 15 and a Sophomore at the High School. He finished up driver's ed this fall and is awaiting the 9th of March when he turns 16! Also got his braces off (finally)! Conner continues to play trumpet in the pep band, marching band and concert band. He loves having his own bedroom after our remodeling project in the Spring. He is our right-hand man for household chores and takes on responsiblity without complaint.

We took another fun trip to Maui in April (thanks to Hawaiian Airlines issues the first time we went... free ticket vouchers) and had a wonderful time on the beach and whale watching! This summer we also took a 2 week "road trip" with the Miracles and the Ladners... which included visiting our college friend Chris in Montana, Yellowstone National Park, The Grand Tetons, Jackson Hole, Stanley (Idaho) and visited the Pegrams and more friends in Boise on the way home... such a great trip with lots of fun memories!

We welcomed to the family Kayela Grace Budvarson (Marc's sister Allison and her husband Chad's first baby) on June 28th.

Marc is still working at Midway Sewer and I am still teaching at Foothills Elementary. We both keep busy with the kids activities. I am currently the WREA Vice-President which means more meetings for me. I have 27 first graders again this year and had a student teacher who just finished up. Marc and Conner hunted both elk and deer again this year. We continue to camp as much as we can with our motorhome and love to take the boat out fishing, shrimping and crabbing.

We enjoy keeping up with most of you on Facebook, email, phone calls or letters. We plan on spending the holidays here at home with family.

God's Grace and Blessing to you All... Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

(Look through our blog for more of what we did during 2010)

not 1, not 2, but 3 snow days...

A Kasey Kahne snowman

10 inches of snow

A little sledding

Not sure if he fell or was just worn out

Watching it snow in the hottub

Katie's Birthday

Old School Frozen Custard...yummy!

Birthday Girl

Katie and a few friends have their toes done

making a wish... turning 9 years old!

We went to dinner at Applebees and sat in the Kasey Kahne corner

The 100 year snooze

singing her solo

Katie played Grace #1

"Merry Christmas"... I mean "Happy Halloween"?

Mr. and Mrs. Claus

Allie the elf, Santa Natalie, Katie Claus and Sarah the angel

Halloween Fun

Party @ The Atkins house

Todd, Marc & Conner

Conner won the bobbing for apples contest!

Garret trying to catch his donut

Katie and Toby going after the donuts on a string

The Godfather

Baby Kayela's baptism

Labor Day Pig Roast

Marc and I first met in college at a pig roast... very similar to the one we had this Labor Day at the Lucky Ladner Ranch. Everyone had a fun time and the pig was very tasty!

First Day of School

Garret-6th grade, Katie-3rd grade, Conner-Sophomore

Yellowstone 2010

We began our trip by staying the night at my dad's house in Royal City.


We spent the night in Idaho at Heyburn State Park.

We stayed with our friend Chris in Montana. Here are all the guys target shooting with BB guns.

The girls took a trip to Garnett Ghost town.

I am pretty sure that the kids liked staying with Chris more than some of the other stops we made.

On our way out we had to have a picture with the "cow"... some landmarks you just can't miss!

On our drive to Yellowstone we stopped at the Lewis and Clark caves.

Mammouth Hot Springs

Teddy Roosevelt bear... we didn't see a real one in Yellowstone

We saw several bison

Old Faithful

We saw tons of geysers and hot springs.

Upper Yellowstone Falls... the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone

Continental Divide

Grand Tetons

Jackson Hole, WY

Stanley, Idaho... Salmon River

Yankee Fork Gold Dredge

We stopped in Boise to visit our friends Gary & Julie... and others we golf with at the tourney every year.

Emmigrant Springs Campground, Oregon

Wine Country RV... Prosser, WA