Big Mont's First Big Blog

This is "Big Mont's First Big Blog"... Okay so Fred has a great idea and a great goal for 2009, and am not about to be the one who lets him down. Even though I have been a computer geek for almost 30+ years. I have never posted a blog until now. Thanks for getting me off my fat lazy back-side Fred... :)

According to Fred we will be highlighting my family this month. So here it goes...we have something in our family that we call "star week" It's where we take a week and celebrate one kid at a time... This week is Dominique's star week so I thought to feature him first (also since I actually have something that we wanted everyone to see).

Dominique is taking a cooking class at school. As part of a big project he had to cook, serve, and cleanup a complete dinner. He choose to cook his favorite thing, pork tenderloin, using Audrey's famous recipe. He also prepared mashed potatoes, our favorite green been recipe, salad, and then Oreo milk shakes for desert. As part of the project we filmed it and made a little movie. This was my first attempt at movie making also. It all turned out so well that he got an A+ on the project...his teacher and peers were very impressed as were we also who got to eat it...

See the video (warning: better not watch it hungry)





Now for a quick update on the rest of us...

I, LaMont, am fat and happy. I am working for a company called Synergent, but not making any money...yet...still looking for a paying job.

Audrey is everything a Wife, Mother, and Friend could ever be. She is doing Mary Kay and is everything in the world to me and to the kids.

Jake, who just turned 16, is a Sophomore in high school and a girl magnet. He plays on the Monroe High School football team and is doing really well.

Dom was already featured above, but is also an amazing soccer player. His team won first in their division.

Brooke is really into Twilight and has a life size stand up poster of Edward in her bedroom...when she is not sleeping she is talking. She also plays soccer and her team was undefeated this year. She is also teaching herself how to play piano and doing very well.

Hannah is 7 and a star student in school. She love to ski and play soccer and she has never missed a word yet on her spelling tests.

Libby is a real hand full in fact she is sitting on my lap now impairing my typing skills...we love her to death and just wouldn't know what to do without her in our lives.

Well they say a picture is worth a thousand words so rather than try to continue typing with Libby on my lap we will wrap it up with a few of our favorite shots..





Here is Audrey-who just keeps getting more beautiful-at "First Beach" near Forks... to the right of that Libby with a fish she caught there (it is really alive)









Jake-who is now 16-in all his glorious beauty
(the photo on the right includes his brother Nick)





Now lets have a little Brooke and Libby...

Left: Brook is sitting on Bella's Truck at Forks

Right: Libby skiing for the first time
(she said she was making a pizza)







Here is brooke..."just a cute as can be" according to LaMont Daddy!









Here is Dom at the Lake House on the 4th of July

(he's cool man!)

and...Libby Princess (no pea under that mattress)








Last but not Least Hannah's soccer team took first place...(most likely because dad was the coach) Hannah is on the far right.









...and one of my favorite pics of Hannah.







Speaking of Hannah...if you have not yet seen her on YouTube then follow the link.

Well, I am about blogged out for now, so I'll just hit post and then take the heat for the pictures I loaded and the comments I made later when the wife and kids see them.

Love to everyone from the great Northwest... -LaMont...

The first Lee family blog!

Hello Children of Ron and Bettly Lou! Or as the world knows us "The Lee's!"

With the age of the digital world this is an attempt to keep everyone updated on the latest events, trips, birthday parties, new baby additions, etc of our fun little family!

My hope is for everyone to participate on occasion and add to this blog. After all this is one of my New Years Resolutions! I think I will start it off with a few pictures of recent events!

On Saturday the 20th we began the season with the annual "Freak Show" (which nomenclature Bompy objects to--she likes to call it the Family Party) and most our cousins--family of Patsy and Bruce, minus Patsy and Bruce, Honey, and Rainey & fams who stayed in Arizona--all gathered at Bompy's. First we had a great ham dinner plus dishes brought by everyone; a fun program followed with new numbers especially featuring the fantastic Anna Grace who belted out "Rudolph", and Teefy Jo who sang the ENTIRE "Castle on a Cloud" from Les Mis!! Another new number that everyone loved was Rhonda, Fred, and Bradford who danced a great Riverdance. A highlight that has become a special tradition was Sandra and Gary's Nativity including an array of little and big ones in a beautiful frieze of the Holy Night. As always a great time was had by all, and those not there were greatly missed. By the way, next year, the rumor is Patsy and Bruce will come to Utah for Christmas and the FAMILY PARTY will be held after Christmas (date to be set later) at Dixie's!!

For Christmas Lamont and most of his family were in town and spent some time at Bompy's house. The only ones that did not make it out in his family were Etienne and Marcus. All the family that lived nearby came over for Christmas and it was a great time.

For Mitchell's birthday (Dec. 27th) Lucero decided she wanted to do something special for Mitch. She recently had been back home to Mexico for her fathers funeral (our condolences Lucero) and she spent some time with her brothers and sister. She thought it would be a great idea for Mitch to just have a night with his siblings (no kiddlings or spouses running about). Well, the night turned out to be a success! We laughed, yelled, joked, and got a lot of emotions out. For awhile there it became a therapy session and some of us sat there in the well known "Lee Stupor" for awhile. The only ones not were Dean and Tammy. It's okay though cause we photo shopped them into the picture!

This first picture was taken back in......uh......I am gonna say 2002. We used it to set up this next picture then with a little extra time I had I work I just cropped and added Tammy and Dean! See! It's like all y'all were there!

On New Years Day we had some amazing food made by Bompy and Audrey and did our traditional New Years Toast! Libby was so cute and in the middle of the toasting asked where the bread and the butter was. She thought we were going to have traditional toast! So, we decided next year we are going to do it with bread and butter as well.