Greg & Wendy wedding May 12th 2007

If you are tired of looking at wedding photos, imagine how tired we are of weddings! But of course it was wonderful and great and all that, and very excited to have Wendy join the family. They are very happy and seem to complement each other well.
The standard guy picture.
Michelle and her sister Nicole were the photographers for the wedding and did a wonderful job. There were a number of very good looking pictures, including this one here.
This family portrait is a lot less complete. Annie was just visiting from Michigan where they are selling security systems for the summer, and Shawn's family couldn't afford to fly out to Utah 3 times in a few short months.
Here is how I interpret the looks on our faces. Dave -- I can't wait for this day to be over. Greg -- I can't wait for this day to be over!

Heber Getaway -- Spring break March 25th 2007

There have been way to many weddings going on, so we decided that we needed to get away. We took a quick spring break getaway up to Heber valley. We were sad to find out that we couldn't ride the Heber Creeper (too early in the year yet), but we took some pictures anyway, and bought a cool Train whistle. D -- where is that whistle anyway? M -- I took it to school. D -- (grunt) oh yeah.
Here's Dave!
We saw the memorial hill, and decided to see the view from the top. What a beautiful view!
The memorial was cool, documenting soldiers with relation to this valley who gave their lives in just about every war that has happened. Very inspirational and thought provoking.

Mike and Annie wedding March 9th 2007

It seems to be a popular thing to do recently if you are in the Droge family and "of age" to go and get yourself a spouse. Annie did just that and found herself a great guy named Michael Thomas.
It wouldn't be a wedding album without one of these shots!
Look how cute the two girls born into the family are! This is Shawn's daughter Sarah.
This is the most recent and finally a complete photo of the Droge family.

Birthdays 2007

Michelle doesn't want to start broadcasting how old we are, so I'll just share how old I am. I turned 26. Michelle has been craving a coldstone cake for a long time, so she got her wish.
Michelle's good friend Carrie Hendricks gave her this tile about Christ. It was wonderful and is now the centerpiece of our island.
Here I am blowing out my cake while Bruce, Wendy, and Greg look on.
Here is the cake I got this year. Each year I ask Michelle to do a sort of themed cake, because she is the champion cake decorator, so this year we did a golf cake. As always, it turned out great!

Byron & Elizabeth Wedding 12-29-06

Now starts the stream of weddings over the next few months. First was Byron and Elizabeth.
Greg and I enjoy a little break from the festivities to try and look cool.
All the younger brothers taking out years of frustrations, oh wait no they just wanted us to do a crazy shot. I guess violence is just the first thing that came to mind.
Can you believe that this portrait is already out of date? Well obviously Shawn and his family are out of the picture, but shortly after this, Greg acquired a permanent arm ornament as well.
Here we are!

Christmas Day 2006

This was our first Christmas that we woke up in our own bed and did our own little Christmas morning. It was nice, relaxing and very simple.
Here is Dave with his loot which included a music stand, Dilbert Calendar and the Mille Bornes game.
Michelle got a new necklace (featured around her neck) and a cute little kitten Simba.
Afterwards we spent time with the Droge's and then finished the day at the Pond's for the traditional afternoon brunch. We always have great food and a bit of a program. This year Ralph shared with us the legend of the wide mouth frog. To be honest, we were worried he just might pass out, but all concluded without any incident!
It was definitely a crowd pleaser, what a memorable show!

Christmas Eve Porkchops 2006

Christmas tradition at the Pond House is to eat porkchops on Christmas day. Usually grandpa and grandma prepare the pork chops, but with the passing of grandpa comes the passing of the porkchop tradition. Here grandma teaches us all how to make her famous porkchops (the night before the big feast -- christmas eve). We all had a turn dipping into crackers then egg then cracker again.

Christmas is here!

I can't believe the Christmas time has come and gone. We had a great time with family and friends. There was the DaBell gingerbread house festivities and ping pong tournament, the Pond luncheon, christmas eve with the Droges and other fun. Most years we have stayed over at Michelle's parents christmas eve, but this year we decided to have our own little Christmas morning. It was very nice. Then we spent the rest of the day with both families and had a great time.

Brand new kitten -- Simba

Well after a couple months in our new house, we decided that a pet was needed. We really wanted a dog, but we don't quite have a yard yet, so we got a cat. Michelle's friend Kristin has some inlaws whose cat had kittens so we decided to get one. The names we talked about were Tiger, because of his stripes, and Cosmo because he's an avid cougar fan. We decided on Simba because he is all poofy. Maybe someday we'll shave him except for his mane... or maybe not.

Anniversary 11-23-06

I can't believe it, but we have been married 4 years. I got Michelle some flowers, which she absolutely loved. I earned 450 brownie points!

Our New Home. October 20th, 2006

Can you believe it? The day is actually here. The house is done. On the 10th we signed the papers and then Wednesday the 11th, we moved in our room that we had at the Pond's. On the 12th we packed all of our storage into the garage. Now we are all moved in. Other than a couple pictures yet to be hung I think our moving process is over. Thank you to all those who helped us move in or have given us congratulations on this fun "little project." We seriously have had so much fun in this building process, we would recommend it to anyone and everyone. In fact if you want to be our neighbors, they are starting phase two of this development right across the street from our little culdesac. It'll actually be sad when we are all settled in because there won't be the great conversation piece about building a home. :-(

Well come on in and have a look at what our house looks like now. If you aren't satisfied with the pictures, feel free to come and visit!! 

You can't really tell from a picture, but the table is actually pretty tall. When I sit all the way back on the chairs I feet actually swing! When I found this out I was giddy. 

You'll never guess what show is on. You say CSI? Okay maybe you would. 

Here is a closer shot of the living room. 

I'm still not sure if those bears really belong on the bed, but what can you do when you aren't the main interior decorator? 

We named our front two bedrooms the library and the office. This is the library with the bookshelves our "china wall" and the piano. We put our old couch along the wall opposite the piano and the table there is the "puzzle table." The office just has a couple tables and things for school and work.