Teresa Shirley Bilesky

Chris' grandma or Nana as she was know to us, passed away on January 15th after having a stroke a few weeks earlier. We attended her funeral on January 19th up in Trail BC. Chris and his father Wayne gave the eulogy and they did a wonderful job. She did so much for our family, and her community, and she was very close to Ethan as he was groing up. Ethan has many fond memories of spending the summer with Nana and Dee and I am very thankful that she was able to spend that time with him. She will be truly missed by her family and friends, but we know we will see her again in Heaven. We love you Nana....

Happy Birthday Dad!!

We L-O-V-E you and miss you a lot!

Bunco Fun in 2010

I love, love the one night a month I get to hang out with all my Bunco friends, this month we had everyone finally back and took this cute group picture. Hats off to the New Year was our theme and we got to wear all these fun hats throughout the night. Can't wait till next month.

Chris turns 31!!

Between work, meetings, and our busy kids we managed to fit in a birthday song for Chris with a little birthday cake...

Chris looking super excited with his cake

blowing out his candles

Eli enjoying his piece!

Happy Birthday Chris, we love you!

Ice skating FUN!!

Sad News

We receieved some sad new Wednesday morning that Chris' grandma had a stroke Tuesday night. At the time, Chris and the boys were in Vancouver BC at a hockey tournament and I was still in Spokane with Ella. As soon as we could, we pack up and headed to Trail to be with her and thankfully she is slowly recovering from the stroke. She has little use of the left side of her body, but she is still able to talk to us and she has been getting better each day since. It is going to be a slow road back to recovery, but she is a strong woman and has many family members and friends that will be by her side the whole way.

We came back home to Spokane today, but I will keep you posted on how she is recovering.

More Family Pictures

Chris said that he used to take turns bouncing his brother and sister on his knee...so we recreated that memory

The Whole gang...Chris, Ella, Ashton, Wayne, Ethan, Chelsea and Elijah

The Siblings...Ashton ( the little brother, though it is hard to tell that with how big he has gotten over the past few years) Chelsea, and Chris. Ironically they are almost the same age difference as our three kids today.

The Kids with their Aunt and Uncle

Chris' sister and brother came down the day after Christmas to spend the day with us and do some boxing day shopping at the mall. We took a couple pictures since this is the first time Elijah has seen Chelsea since he was about as big as Ella. Elijah wasn't really sure what to think about her,but he ended up giving her a hug and a kiss before she left.