Happy Birthday Declan

Declan's 4th birthday is tomorrow so we celebrated it today while we were at Grandma Jeanne's for dinner. He said he wanted a construction site on his cake so between Chris and I this is what we were able to create Happy Birthday Declan we love you Tons!
Declan licked the frosting bowl after we made it so his face is really dirty.I think he had fun!

Wow Short Summer

Wow this summer went so fast!My kids started school today I have three in this year.Gavin has all day kindergarten, Tues,Thur and every other Friday so that will be different. I am so sad ,I miss them already. They are so fun to have around and such big helpers!

Bryhton's photos

Photo shoot

Esther and I took the kids to the park and got some cute pictures we didn't get Bryhtons yet because he was at football practice so we will do his soon!

How did he do that

I gave Treagan a bowl of cherries and set him out on the porch to eat them I folded some laundry and then glanced out the window to check on him, I was really glad I put him outside to eat them!

Oh Boy!

I went for my ultrasound this morning and we are having another boy! We are excited!Due date Dec 22, Declan was for sure it was a girl and he started crying and said I don't want another brother it was so cute!

Hunting for Huckleberries

Chris and I decided to take the kids on a little adventure yesterday we went up into the woods hunting for huckleberries. I had never been but Chris has several times so I didn't really know what to expect. It was definately a hunt we hiked up into the woods (no trail) and found some bushes you have to look real close to see the berries they are hidden under the branches the kids thought it was so fun Treagan kept parking himself in front of a bush and would eat until they were all gone. The problem was there were all kinds of berries we didn't know so we had to watch him really close to make sure he wasn't eating poison berries we hunted and picked for about 2 hours and came home with about 5 cups which is enough to make 1 batch of jam, seems like a lot of work for little reward but the jam is delicious.My camera is broke at the moment so I didn't get any pictures! Declan was helping me pick and said mom why did heavenly father make these yummy berries and hide them in the forest he could have just made them grow in our yard! Good question!

We have lawn

We might have to invest in a riding lawn mower.This is our front and side yard all finished and our back yard where we buried our trampoline which is the best thing we have done yet.

Looks like alot of work

We were offered a really good deal on sod and decided to accept so first thing Tuesday morning this truck arrived, We ordered about 10,000 feet and We are pretty sure we ended up with alot more than that. We were planning on doing our front yard and a little of the side and ended up being able to do the whole front and side yard thats alot of lawn to mow. We with the help of some family and some very kind neighbors laid 22 palletts of sod in two days.Sore knees hands ,arms, and some very bright sunburns later we have a beautiful yard. Thank You so much to all of you who helped.

Yeah its Summer

So we started off the Summer with a camping trip on memorial weekend we luck out and have exclusive access to the ski hill so we made a little spot up on the hill by one of the lifts. The kids had a great time Treagan loved the fire and the marshmallows not the smores he didn't care for the chocolate and the graham crackers. the kids hiked up and down the hill, we got rained on three or four times and then we took the filthy children home and they turned the bath water black it was great!

Daycare

So last summer I decided to do daycare out of my home I started out watching a few neighborhood kids and then people started calling me I now have 10 on most days some days I have a couple of dropins Friday we did an egg hunt and I had 15 it was crazy so this is the reason I don't have much time for posting This is a picture I got when they wanted to go exploring so we took a walk!Some day I may be blogging from a mental institution, ha ha ha!

Spring has not sprung!

We woke up this morning to this nasty white stuff everywhere I don't mind it in December or even february but when it is falling in April it really ticks me off!So March has come and gone and still in Idaho SPRING HAS NOT SPRUNG! Anyway moving on to the next picture, we went to Boise a couple of weekends ago and had so much fun with Chris's sister and her family we went to the warhawk museum,the kids buried each other in the sandbox,Treagan went fishing in the humidifier,we ate lots of yummy food and got to relax and visit it was such a nice weekend Thank you Wes and Nikki for your hospitality! Can't wait to see you again!

kids pics

Nikki did a really good job with these pictures the sun was really bright against the snow so a few of the kids were squinting.

More kids pics

Amazing bed builder

Nikki my sister inlaw came up from Boise this last weekend,She had me buy some wood and she built Brylei this amazing bedframe,She drew up the plans on a piece of paper and just started building I was very impressed and Brylei loves it.Thanks a ton Nikki!

Declan Photo shoot

My sister inlaw Nikki did a photo shoot of my kids this weekend she did such a good job she is still editing the rest of the pictures but here are Declans! Thanks Nikki

Good Times

Where is daddy's cell phone?

We had a great start to our Monday morning Chris was searcing the house for his phone and could not find it anywhere,finally I grabbed my phone and started calling his.We could hear a faint ringing noise and could not figure out where it was coming from,We asked Treagan where did you put daddys phone and he kept going into the bathroom, finally instead of dragging him out we followed him in where the ringing got considerably louder and we started looking in drawers and cupboards and then we looked at each other and started busting up laughing when we realized it was coming from inside the toilet,It had been flushed! We had to disassemble the whole toilet and use a snake to finally dislodge the phone luckily Chris had bought a water proof phone because of his landscaping job and It works just fine screen and all Treagan just thougt it needed to be tested! We cleaned it very well of course!

Missouri Trip

We were able to go home for Christmas, we have not been home for Christmas since we got married almost 11 years ago!It was good to see everyone again we got to be at My Brother Byron and His new wife Elisa's wedding and also my sister Hannah and her new husband Chuck decided to get married while everyone was there.We are happy to have these two wonderful people become a part of our family!My oldest sister Amber was the only sibling not home and we really missed seeing them,but we had a great time.As always thanks to DAD and MOM for letting us all come take over your house for the parties!!THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME!