This is on the beautiful island of St. Lucia. Which was our last of five ports.
We visited St. Kitts, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Barbados and the St. Lucia
Barados had the most gorgeous beach we have ever been on and the snorkeling
was amazing. Here in St. Lucia we went zip lining through the rain forest which I
thought was fantastic. Although, no big surprise to any of you, my favorite part
of the whole trip was laying on the beach!! Corby and I had so much fun
together. I will get an album together and send a link out soon. I am sure by the
next time I post something my tan will have faded, but maybe we will be closer to spring.

My cute husband and I were also lucky enough to take a trip together. We flew to New York for one very awesome night before flying to Santo Domingo to start a Southern Caribbean Cruise. NYC was amazing. I have only been there as a child and Corby had never been. We only had about 8 hours, but we packed it all in. We rode the subway, both for the first time. Saw the World Trade Center site, Times Square, Rockerfeller Center, Broadway, you name it, our feet took us there. It was amazing!! With only two hours of sleep we headed to the airport to fly to Santo Domingo for the warm part of our trip!!

At the first of the year I was lucky enough to go to Las Vegas with some of my best
girlfriends for a much deserved weekend getaway. We shopped, ate and shopped some
more. And of course on the way home, got caught in the worst snow storm EVER!!! I was
nominated to drive of course. AAAHHH!!!

Merry Christmas!! We had a wonderful Christmas. We were able to have a great time with a lot of our friends at a first to be annual party. We had the entire Draney family over to our house for a Christmas party. Which was great since about half now live out of the state. And all of my family came home for Christmas and we celebrated Christmas Eve together as we always do. This year was especially wonderful because my mother should have been in the hospital recovering from a kidney transplant. But thanks to many, many prayers her health improved enough to postpone the surgery until sometime in the spring. Yeah!! Merry Christmas to her!!

And then there is Damon, he loves to be outside.
Everytime he wakes up and it is snowing he tells
me all day long, "mommy, it is snowing" in the
cutest little voice. He is so much fun.

As soon as there was enough snow Jaxon was out on his snowboard. He is quite good too. He has been harassing me since he found out Grandma Jill had all of our old skis and now wants to learn to ski.

Colbi lost her first tooth and she was so stinking excited. She is one of the very last of the kids her
age and she thought she would never have a loose tooth. About a week later she lost the one
right next to it.

We let Jaxon and Jake finish the last street with
Jake's mom so we could come home and hand out
candy. Colbi and Damon just wanted to eat theirs.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

This is Jaxon and his new friend Jake.
They had a great time together. I couldn't
keep up with either of them.

Don't they look happy to be getting their picture taken.
Corby is out of town working so we were trying to get
a picture to send on my phone. The kids had a blast
trick or treating. Damon loved every bit of it. It did
quite a few houses before wanting to stay in the stroller.

Corby helped the kids carve their pumpkins. They loved it!!
Damon of course has a lightning bolt and the #95 for
Lightning McQueen. Colbi just wanted hers to look like Jaxon's,
but she settled for what her daddy could come up with.
Jaxon didn't care as long as it only had one tooth.
And as for me, I didn't have to do it. I have carved their
pumpkins for the last two years by myself, so I sat on the
couch and watched. Hallelujah!!

Intoduction

The Draney family was established August 15, 1997. Wow, 10 years ago. Jaxon is now 8 years old and was just baptized last month. He is going into the 3rd grade this year. He just finished his first year of machine pitch baseball and made the all star team!! He was great and loved every bit of it, especially playing with his cousin Kaleb. Colbi turned 6 in May and she is getting so big. She is the best big sister. She loves to teach Damon new things, especially new words and actions. She is so sweet and kind, until her demon side comes out. She is so much like her mother. She is enjoying summer, I think her favorite is going to the pool. She is so proud she can now go down the slide. And then there is little Damon. He just turned 2 last week. We can't believe it!! He is talking so much!! He says everything and it is so adorable. He is such a mama's boy but he adores his daddy too. He absolutely loves his brother and his sissy. He talks about them all the time. He was so confused as to where they were when they were gone for 5 days to Aunt Missy's in Idaho. Corby is busy with work. Still plugging away trying to get his businsess off the ground. He is working very hard!! We are keeping are fingers crossed for some good luck! And me, I am working at the DeLeon Salon doing nails and at home doing nails. I also do travel work for a lady in California. It keeps me busy, plus trying to keep up with these three wonderful kids of mine.