Found some old pictures

We had a good Thanksgiving out in Bancroft with Kim's folks in their new house they are still trying to finish. We look forward to making it to a Neville Thanksgiving which I don't think we've done since we've been married; not on purpose just worked out that way.

Anyway, we got to see Todd and his family and went up to see JoAnna too. It was really neat to go through her pictures of their Church History tour. We also stopped by the Chard's in Petersona and saw Norma, Jim & Diana, and Doug and Suzy. All are doing good and it was a good visit.

I brought home some pictures I hadn't goon through in years and found a few I thought needed posted for good laughs and memories. Hope you don't mind Holly, I'm still working on getting my own Blog up and running.

-MJ

Day before Marbles 2000

Thanks to everyone who came for Austin's blessing today. Shane was there too but had to get back to work at the hospital before sacrament meeting ended. Mark Willans was also there and stood in the circle. It was a special time for our growing family and we're grateful everyone came who could. We'll post some more pics and updates on our blog also. For those of you out of town, you might notice Josh wasn't in the picture either. He wasn't able to be there because he's just begun a few months in the OSP academy up north so we missed him but hope he does well up there and excels as a new recruit. Congratulations Josh. How was everyone else's Thanksgiving? I know Todd at least sounded a little bitter over the lack of phone communication between Neville's (sounded like he missed his hot-roddy call from mom). I propose a unified Neville Family Thanksgiving next year to smooth that over and to allow MacKenzie a chance at revenge towards Geordan for the snowball fiasco which continues to have new facts come to light even several years later :)................

COUSIN EXCHANGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here is the list that only had a little bit of changing so that if you have to send out a package, you only need to send to one place.

Tyler-----------Branden

Collin-----------Lance

Lance----------Gavin

Tali-------------Logan

Branden---------Kyler

Lexi-------------Tyler

Ethan-----------Carter

Gavin----------Alyssa

Logan----------Max

Kyler-----------Calvin

Max------------Ethan

Carter------------Lexi

Calvin------------Tali

Alyssa-----------Collin

COUSIN EXCHANGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Carty Farty

A long time ago, Carter used to fit in the kitchen sink, and he used to kiss his sissy when she was laid up with a stiff neck.

Danny & Jacque's blog

Here's an example of a photo we will try NOT to include in our new little blog (http://www.dannyandjacqueline.blogspot.com/). Jacque and I started one for our friends/family to get updates on just us, and mostly Austin. It'll be good for her family in Argentina to stay up to speed. We'll still keep checking / updating the Neville family blog as well. Check it out if you want, we tried to provide most of the links we know to other cousin / family blogs as well. And yes, his cheeks really are that big. There's some cuter photos and a video on our new blog. Just as an FYI, somehow in signing up for blogger..........Todd and Jodi both created their own blogs, just haven't done anything with them yet. And somehow Maggi is a participater in ToddyHotRoddy's existant-but-not-functioning blog, not sure how that happened.

COUSIN GIFT EXCHANGE????????

HEY ANYONE WHO WOULD LIKE THEIR KIDS TO BE IN ON A COUSIN EXCHANGE, PLEASE LET ME KNOW SO I CAN MAKE UP A LIST. SO FAR, MINE AND MIKES KIDS ARE IN.

MORE CUTE CAMPING PICTURES

WHEN YOUR MOM MAKES YOU HUG

MAD MAX BRINGS GOOD TIDINGS

I DREW NAMES THIS YEAR FOR THE FAMILY CHRISTMAS EXCHANGE. THE RULES ARE: NO SWITCHING, NO COMPLAINING,AND YOU GET A PRESENT FOR EACH PERSON (NO MINIMUM OR MAXIMUM PRICE). I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE EASIER TO SEND ONE PACKAGE OUT AND KNOW THAT YOU'LL BE GETTING ONE IN RETURN FROM THE SAME COUPLE. MERRY CHRISTMAS YOU LITTLE............

LYLE AND LESLEY-------JOANNA AND ALAN

SHANE & MCKENZIE-----HOLLY AND ANDY

NICK AND CONNIE-------MIKE AND KIM

DAN AND JACQUELINE---TODD & JANETTE

JOSH AND KATE--------GEORDAN

(I THOUGHT JOSH AND KATE COULD GET GEORDAN EITHER ONE GREAT PRESENT OR TWO NOT SO GREAT PRESENTS. AND HE NEEDS TO GET YOU EACH A PRESENT, PREFERRABLY "GREAT")

Baby Nate

I posted some pics and a blurb on our other blog. Too tired to post more here so check out the other site to see baby Nate.

Fully decorated cub scout moving onward and upward into boy scouts.

Just shipped up from Guatemaula!

The scarriest costume at Trunk-or-Treat

I'm pretty sure my children are scarred for life. Not sure I'll recover anytime soon either.

Halloween in Virginia

None of our pictures turned out, we need a new camera, but the video captures Halloween out here in Virginia.

Halloween in Ohio

Happy Halloween!

Kim captured Gavin in one of his sweetest moments. His hair is getting more red by the day if you can't tell. Weight = 50%. Height = 50%. Head = 75%. Cuteness = 100%. Exzema = got it. Allergies = most likely. Toes = so short they still don't touch the floor when he stands up due to his chubby feet. Laughs = almost all day.

I was trying to get away with using this photo that didn't make last years christmas card, but that little thing in the middle of the photo has grown to 4 times his size. We just got back from the trick or treat hay ride and we have invited lots of people over, however I'm down here in the computer room posting a blog.

Beekman (& Dakota) at a glimpse...

If you happened to have seen an earlier blog on our other site you'll remember mention of the feral cats and children that roam our street. On our walk yesterday I snapped a pic of our favorite feral child and a few of the cats. It's not the nicest but we call the kid 'the chunky girl'.

This is a lovely lawn ornament we noticed on the same walk. It wasn't on our street but directly across from it on the cross street.


Wish you were here!

Trick or Treat

Every year, our neighborhood has a hay wagon with bales that the kids get to sit on and ride around to each house, collecting huge amounts of candy without the bothersome task of walking. It is actually kinda nice to ride around, and not deal with tired, whiny shil-dwen, they love it, I don't have to walk up to any of the houses, ( I just wait with the other parents and talk and drink hot chocolate) and the kids run up, ring, collect, and return in 45 seconds with lots of candy for me. It's definately fall here in Ohio, and very pretty. Literally everyone (except me) is an Ohio Buckeye fan and watches or goes to every college game in the season. Missionaries don't tract on game days, people put Ohio costumes on, and dress up any animal or yard ornamentation they have. This is absolutely retarded, and I try to make fun of as many people as possible, without getting stoned. GO BUCKS!!!!!!!

Ski Trip Visit to Clarence and Mary's

For anyone who hasn't seen Clarence and Mary in a while, it was really neat to see them during our ski trip last year. We even had Danny, I think, going around the "Kid Killer", which is still functional and still just as dangerous.

Jodi and Holly

I remember taking a cat into this studio and it running around because it was completely wild and mom wanted a picture with it for some reason, I will also try to find my senior picture with the llama in the studio as well. That was a really good idea to bring a livestock animal into the picture studio ( it pooped on the floor too).

mystery family member

by popular demand, I shall post this photo again. If you can't figure this one out, shame on you

One more treasure from Mom's camera.....

I simply couldn't leave this one out.......I'm proud to see Andy taking on the Neville face-making tradition for the camera.........or is he just laughing?? Also, in honor of Geordan's return to the states, I was wondering if Shane or Josh could possibly post that picture that was taken and ended up on his CD cover a few years back? I think he'd really appreciate it.

ugly girl, pretty photo

This is one of my best

Apparently Geordan swallowed all of alyssas toys, thats why she is mad and he is bloated

Cutest girl........one of the ugliest photos.

In following suit with some rather unattractive photos being posted here of the Neville family..........I couldn't help but include a picture that I just now took off Mom's camera (she filled the card up beginning when she bought the camera in 2002 and I just now saved them to a disk for her to allow more picture taking). When I first saw this picture I recoiled in horror, then realized who it was, then laughed until I nearly pee'd my pants.........enjoy. The bigger you make it the scarier it gets. It kind of reminds me of a picture Holly sent out in a email not too long ago.........

Ooh ugly! This is for you Holly.

Lance catching some air on top of Mt. Shasta

"Forever fearless Talli"

I want to be like Uncle Shane!

Logan's preschool group had the fire department come to their school today. They had a private tour of the trucks, a lesson on fire safety, and stop-drop-and-roll training. It was awesome that the trucks came and did it just for a little home-taught preschool group. Logan and Kyler want to be "firetruck policemen with super powers" when they grow up.

Into the Museum

The Museum of Natural History is one of Logan and Kyler's favorite museums. I caught them mesmerized by a video next to the dinasaur exhibits. It's been really fun to visit all the Smithsonian museums for free back here. They also love the Air and Space and American Indian Museums, and of course the Metro ride in to the Capitol area.

In case anyone missed it, here is the famous 2007 rattlesnake (still biting after being removed from the rest of himself) Killed by Josh and Lyle Neville on the return hike home. Josh decided to bar-b-que it later and he said it was disgusting, (nothing like chicken).

Ok connie, now I'm serious. This is a great pose of mini Geordan, and I thought what a great picture of Nick too.

vinny