Ryan's 36th Birthday

Ryan's birthday was on July 17. I am a little slow at posting but better late than never, right. He was so thrilled to have his picture taken with his Birthday crown. Unfortunately his birthday was on a work day so he had to work. But at least it was on a Friday that is a plus. Ryan threatened that i had better not plan a party so we all teased him that we had invited the neighbors and all the family and to make it even more fun i had rented a blowup play place that kids jump in, and we were having clowns, balloons, streamers, and a little petting zoo. And since we were on a roll he put in is two bits of what he wanted he wanted a great big cake that a person jumps out of, HAHA. He had to settle for these 4 clowns and these gifts that the kids and i got him.

And the cake wasn't a big cake that a person could jump out of, But i think that he was ok with this cake that i made for him. He wanted it to be a 4020 tractor so this was as close as i could get it. turned out pretty good for an amateur cake decorator.

For his birthday supper i made Lasagna. Other than that we had a pretty quiet night Ryan's mom came for cake and ice cream. And then we went to the sand Dunes for a ride in the Buggy. I think that he had an ok Birthday even if he didn't get the great big party.

Jaren is so ready to help blow out the candles.

4-H Pigs

Sorry i haven' posted for a while so i hope you will bear with me. Keep scrolling i think there are about 5-6 posts. HAVE FUN!
really have to give Kenadee some credit, she actually gets in with her pigs. Today they weight the pigs to see where they all were and i think that Ryan and Kenadee were sweating bullets. But they got some good news her pig that she named pepper weighed in at 191. And Salt was 143. She has two, though one is for back up in case the other one doesn't make weight. They have to weight 230 by the end of August. WOW that is amazing to me. Just last month they weighed 130 and 100. So that is pretty good. Ry said they have gained about 2 1/2 pounds a day since the last weigh in. These are pictures of Kenadee bathing her pigs. I guess pigs have to be clean!!! Pepper is pretty good he lets Kenadee pet and wash him. I am more amazed that she will do it.

Sand Dunes

4th of July

On the 4th of July Ryan took us to the Sand Dunes in the Morning/Noon. We got out to Chokcherry and the whole time Emalee kept asking if we were on chok yet. Well when we got there there was no one there. We thought that maybe there was something going on somewhere else that we were missing out on. Ryan says that this picture is proof that Kenadee got her glare from me. HAHA

After we were done Ry went up to help his dad for a couple of hours while i got the kids ready for the day and make what needed to be made for the Barbecue at my mom's. The food is always wonderful, We had Hamburgers, salads, homemade root beer, and Strawberry shortcake. I think that we were all so full. Before we ate I had Melanie my sister take a picture of us before Jaren decided to get dirty. Which could happen at any moment.

Jaren's first time with Sparklers. Not sure about them. But he found the noisy ones a little nerve wracking. But never cried which was a plus.

Emalee also enjoying her Sparkler.

Everyone starting their sparklers, what a smoky mess it was. We had a wonderful day and we are so grateful for the freedoms that we have and the family that we have been blessed with. I am so very grateful for my own little family and the blessings that have come into out lives from the Gospel. This all wouldn't be worth it if we didn't have our Families.

Ryan's Crazy Garden

Well i am sure that you are all dying to know how the garden is doing?? The top picture is of all the pumpkins there are about nine rows of them. About 4 rows of Corn, about 40 cucumbers plants, YEP 40 plants, HMMM, Carrots, Beans, Peas, 2 different kinds of Onions, Popcorn, Squash, Potatoes, and 2 different kinds of Lettuce. Yep all of that came up. NOW WHAT?????? We went up on Friday and Hoed the garden it took us about 2 1/2 Hours. We didn't go down each of the rows just around the plants and Ryan said he would figure something else for that.

Swimming Lessons

Kenadee and Dallin were able to do swimming lessons up at Green Canyon. They are like little fish up there in the water. It is about a 25 min. Drive for me, but it is totally due able. I take snacks and a blanket and the kids if it is nice ride there bikes around the camp grounds. This year was a little more rainy than in the years past but it was ok. It just wasn't so blasted hot and miserable. The kids had a good time. Kenadee passed level 5 and Dallin passed level 4. Next year Emalee is signed up to start. She is very excited. Kenadee is in the top picture and Dallin is in the bottom picture.

Crazy Weather

So this last month we had the most crazy weather. We had to move our animals for a few weeks over to Brett's so that they really wouldn't have to learn how to swim. This is in our backyard. It is the pasture that has our 1 horse and 7 cows in it until the rain literally brought the sub way up and flooded out our pasture.

We even had hail one day that covered our deck so it looked white. This picture is just some of the Hail.

The pasture looks like a river.

Baseball

Well i am a little slow at posting pictures of our summer so far. This Dallin playing machine pitch. When he slows down and really watches the ball he can hit a pretty good ball out there. If you look close you can see the ball almost in contact with the bat. PRETTY good picture i thought.(thanks to Ryan)

Another good hit!!

Ok, Kenadee is a girl and would rather pick flowers than watch for the ball. All thought she is looking at the ball in this picture. Which the ball is clear in the heck up there.

And this is the picture that totally cracks Ryan and I up if you can blow up the picture she is looking the opposite way of the ball. NOT even looking for the ball to come....HMMMM what is wrong with this picture??? She had fun thought and by the end she could hit the ball way out there.

She just hit the ball and made it to first base.