Today marks 12 years for the Daggett House

This photo was taken 12 years ago, maybe even about this time. Late afternoon anyway.
We were married on January 17, 1998 at 1:30pm in Eugene, OR at Grace Community Fellowship by Pastor Rick Thomas.
We honeymooned in Bend, OR and stayed at the Inn at the 7th Mountain. We played all week long snow-shoeing, skiing, snowboarding (I didn't like it), snowmobiling and trying new restaurants every evening.
My favorite adventure was the snow shoeing, we had our expert guide all to ourselves and it was so much fun.
My favorite restaurant experience was actually the one with the worst food, "Bend's Tom Tom Diner". I wanted Biscuits and Gravy, I specifically asked if it was sausage gravy or not. The waitress said that it wasn't, so I got it. WRONGO!! Plus it was the worst greasiest spoon ever.

I felt like we had ran away together and everyone was fine with it, weird.

I'm so grateful that Travis married me and I'm so glad that I said yes.
12 years does really go by so quickly, not year-to-year, but looking back it's been a ride for sure.

He's my bestest best friend, I just can't imagine my world without him.
Thank you Lord for bringing us together and keeping us together.

I love you Travis.

2009 in the Life of The Daggett House

Wow, what a crazy fast year this has been.
It seems like there really isn't much new with us, but life has been changing around us constantly.
Charlie's Mom got remarried in May to Tom Gregersen, a perfect fit for our 'Hall' family.
Travis' brother, Sean, married Jillian in October. She too is a perfect fit for the 'Daggett' family.

Both Charlie & Travis said farewell to their childhood homes. Both surviving parents had remarried and it was time for them to start anew. I'm still learning a lot about myself as our families change. My last visit to my old home was unexpectedly emotional as all I could picture in my mind were memories of my Dad, much different than all the other times I was there in the past 7 years.

Travis is still a Sales Trainer for Combined Ins, but that is not his passion. He spends his time with his family and what's left over he spends playing racquetball. He has also enjoyed taking classes here and there at our church and is preparing to lead a small-group discussion on the Truth Project. People are still telling him that they see him getting involved in politics and surprisingly I would support that. We need strong, faithful Christian men leading the greatest country on God's green earth.

Charlie is still involved with the Mother's Bible Study at church and the homeschool group. I teach Alexis 1st grade, Preston some things here and there and of course all the other motherly things that go along with having 3 kids. There are many days that I want to pull my hair out or pull the kids' hair out, but I control myself because I hear this is all worth it.

In September we committed to teaching a small class of 3rd & 4th graders on Wednesday nights at our church. It was a challenge to embrace yet another responsibility, but it has been great spending time with other people's children and helping them in their spiritual growth & understanding.

Alexis is in 1st grade and just celebrated her 7th birthday. She has had an incredible year of change & growth. She used to be our "problem" child, what I mean to say is that she is extremely strong-willed and challenged authority every chance she had. Her teachers at church have helped us mold & shape her little will and we have seen amazing changes. She still shows her God given personality, but she's pleasant to be around most of the time. We believe that God has given her this trait to be used for His glory and we know that she's a leader and will do great things no matter where she is.

Preston will turn 5 next month and enjoys just being a boy. He's a builder and an organizer and can spend long periods of time entertaining himself which Mom loves greatly. He still has such a sweet little personality, but we are seeing a change in him also. He loves to irritate his sister and he's still a bit of a cry-baby, but of course we still love him.

Carter will be 3 later this month and we now start the "battle" of toilet-training him, I don't even remember how it happened with the other 2. I can tell it's going to be a power struggle more than anything else though, great....another one of "those" kids. He loves to be in the action, loves dinosaurs & is terribly scared of them especially the ones in the closet and behind the fridge. He repeats everything his siblings say and then will turn on us and shout out, "YOU DON'T DO THAT!". We have some kinks to work out with him.

Both Alexis & Preston are still in Awana and impress us all the time with memorizing & understanding their Bible.

We sold our condo in Eugene, so we’re 1 step closer to moving back to Eugene. There is no other progress though, but our plan is to move in 2010. We just don’t know the month or what the circumstances will be. Amidst the unknowns of Our Journey we find an amazing amount of peace in the promises of our Lord that He will guide us & continue to give us wisdom and reward us in His time and also reveal His plan for our family. For right now, we’re to remain in our apartment away from our family but surrounded by great friends and an amazing church.

Happy New Year

The Daggett House

Travis, Charlie, Alexis, Preston & Carter

Below there is a slide show of our year, check it out.

2009 in a Nut Shell

Here's our 2009 in a Nut Shell. I had a hard time picking which photos to put up, sorry if it's too many. Also sorry if you're not in any of them, I tried.
We had a great year and then later in the year our camera was stolen so not much to show for November & December.
Enjoy!!

1st Sleepover and 1st Snow of Winter

Well it was last week, but that's pretty good for me posting it so close to the actual event.

I figured I'd get a new post up before adding our yearly letter which I still haven't started yet.

Alexis had her very 1st sleepover last week while school was still out for Christmas break. We had our neighbor, MaKenzie, to stay the night. I also figured it'd be good since they live downstairs that in case she wanted to go home during the middle of the night (which I remember doing), I wouldn't have that far to go to take her home.
Everything was great, they went to sleep with talking or giggling. What kind of girlie sleepover is that? Oh well, I'm sure she'll be doing that soon enough & I'll get tired of going in and saying, "Girls, keep it down". Ya know, in a nice 'sing songy' voice.


That was the day we had our 1st snow of the winter. It came down in whispers in the afternoon and then came down hard & heavy. Earlier in the day I loaned out Alexis' snow clothes to a friend and literally on the way home it started snowing. Oh well, we managed.
It actually stuck and I'm glad we took advantage of it, even though it's so much work to get 4 kids plus 2 adults ready to play in the snow, because by the next day it was slushy and now it's all gone.
We went and played at night, I love snow at night. So quiet & light.
We had a great time and got to stay up late, that must be why the girls went to sleep in like 5 minutes.


We have a new borrowed camera & this was the 1st time using it so I didn't have it all figured out yet, so I apologize for the exposure.

Carter

Makenzie, our friend


Alexis & Charlie

Travis, that was Preston's snowball at him. Good shot.


Preston & Mommy