They have arrived!

Our Boxer, Shay had her puppies last night. We thought that she would have about 4-5 puppies because she was so small. Well, she just kept going and we ended up with 8 puppies. 6 girls and 2 boys. So for she has been a good mom and taking good care of them. Wish us luck with all those Puppies

Dallin gets his bobcat

Dallin finally was able to get his Bobcat in scouts. He was so excited. Along with his bobcat badge he got another badge for helping pass out the flyer's for scouting for food. He totally loves going to scouts. Getting the Bobcat badge.

October odd and ends

For Preschool Emalee had to make a monster. She decided that she wanted to use ribbon. So here is her ribbon monster. And then i guess it had to come eventually, i had my 31st birthday. The kids made me a chocolate chip zucchini cake. It was wonderful.

Here is this years Sweet Retreat group. We did a lot of fun things this year. We made watches, had some good food, learned how to dip Carmel's and fondant, and had more good food.

And then one morning we woke to this. SNOW!!

Pumpkins FOR SALE

We have officially picked the pumpkins. And Yes they really are for sale. They are at my house now. We have plenty to go around. We are going to sale them for any where from $2.00-$4.00 a pumpkin.

This is only half of them. We still have to get the rest out of the pit up at the farm. There is about 2-3 more pickup loads for us to go get. They should ripen pretty quick now that they have been cut. We have some that are ripe and some that need to ripen. But it is still 3weeks until Halloween. So come and get the pick of the crop while they still last.

Grain Harvest

This year has been kinda a crazy year to cut grain. I think that i was kinda bad luck. First i broke the U-joint on the header, then we had to put a new tire on the combine, then the gear box on the combine burned up, then a bearing went out, then a screw went went loose and moved a shaft to make things not work right. All of this all while i was in the combine. A total of 6 days that we were not able to cut and 3 for rain but luck for me i couldn't control the weather. Bad Year for me and the combine. I think that Larid would have liked to throw his hat down on me. Just for anyone who is interested this Combine is FOR SALE!!!!! These are a few pics that Ryan took when he came up to trade me off. This is a combine we have in our back yard. Jaren i guess felt left out today because i didn't take him. He found other ways to get his fill of cutting grain. Funny kid.

You can see Jaren standing in the front of the steering wheel. Happy to see dad come and rescue us.

This is the after affects of a long harvest. Geesh i was so tired. Ryan thought it was funny cause i have a fly swatter in one hand. FUNNY FUNNY him.

Emalee's first day of Preschool

Yesterday was Emalee first day of Preschool. She was so excited. They preschool that we have her in this year is a new one and is one of my neighbors. I was very impressed with how well organized everything is. She has a binder that has all the information in it for the month of what they are going to learn. There is a news letter that she does and she is having a blog that we as parents can look at and see what is going on. That will be very nice. I can't even express how excited she was when she came home. I think that this year is going to be a great year.

It's a Girl

Well here it is we are having a little girl!! That is the tie breaker for our not so little family. We went girl, boy, girl, boy and now girl. The only concern that i have is that every time we have had a girl Ryan has had some sort of surgery right after the baby was born. First it was his back then when we had Emalee it was his appendix. I am hoping that it will go smoothly for him. Just to let you all in on the story of our little bundle of joy, we didn't tell anyone until i was almost 5 months along. That was mostly due to not feeling well and some problems in the beginning. I had had some bleeding that i thought was not normal so after the second ultrasound because i insisted that there was something wrong they found that i was actually caring twins and was in the process of losing one of them. It sounds weird but i was much relieved that they found the reason for the bleeding. Not so much that i was losing one of them but grateful that i still had at least one. Morning, noon, and night sickness have plagued me for 3 1/2 months i am feeling a lot better and am grateful that Ryan was here to pickup were i couldn't. When we finally told the kids the first thing Emalee said was i have the perfect name for the baby...BAMBEE. I was a little caught of guard by the name and told her that she would probably have to come up with a different name. She agreed after a few days that it was not a cute name. We thankfully got out of that one. We asked the kids if they would like to come with us to the Ultrasound that they all thought that was exciting. Emalee thought that they were going to take the baby out because i told her that she would be able to see the baby. We had to explain that was not the case. She still remembers Nathan and so she also asked if the baby would have to stay in the hospital like he did. I said i hope not. But they said that all looked good and everything is looking great.

This is the little Girl parts!!

Cute little Foot!!

A 3-D Kinda cool. It looks so tiny and scrony the arm is up by the face and you can see the ribs. Not that uncommon for my kids though.

Flag Football

Dallin is totally in love with playing Football. This is his 3rd year of playing Flag Football. He is quick kid when he wants to be. Dallin is in the white shirt with Green flags and Black shorts.
Here is the fabulous hand off. In this game Dallin made two touch downs. It is getting better to watch him play because he understands the game now and knows what needs to be done. I am sure that there will be many more entries, this is only his first game. The nice thing about it is that it only goes for about a month. But during that month Dallin is like a kid in a candy store.

Canning

I had a lady in my ward send out an email that she has Chokecherries if anyone was interested in picking them. I totally jumped all over that. So i decided that canning in two is always more fun then doing it alone. I asked Kathy if she was interested in some? And she jumped all over it to. We went and picked them on two different times and were able to get two 5 gallon buckets. The second one was not as full as the first but still we felt like that would be good. We got a lot more than what we thought we would get. But if any thing we were in good company. It made for a long day, but well worth the chokecherry syrup and jelly that we were able to get.

On another day Kathy asked if i would come up to her house and pick her apples while she was gone to Burley. So i took one morning and went up and picked the apples, then went to the garden and picked the beans, zucchini, some onions, and the cucumbers. So here is the finished product of all my labors of the day. In this picture is the apple sauce and some Sweet pickles. I didn't get a picture of the beans but that is a whole nother project that i did on a different day. Along with that Ryan went back up to the garden and was able to get more cucumbers and Kathy let us pick her cucumbers and i was able to get some Dill Pickles as well. So i think that the only thing i have left to can for this year is Salsa, Peaches, and some freezer corn(which is really yummy). Wish me luck!

First Day of School

Today is the first day of school. Which is really August 20. I think the kids were really excited, i think that when summer finally hits they are ready for summer but when the end of summer comes they are so bored and tired of doing things like weeding around the dog house they are totally ready to go back to school. Dallin is going into the 3rd grade. I can't believe how quickly time flies. Dallin i think has a way with getting all his friends in his class. Poor teacher. He is a good kid though, i am not worried. He is getting so big and is getting very hansom.

Kenadee is in the 5th grade. WOW 2 more years and she will be in JR high. I am so not ready for that. GEESH. She is becoming quite the little lady.

So on the first day the kids wanted to ride there bikes to the end of the road to catch the bus. I asked them do you want me to follow you down there so i can take a picture of you getting on the bus? As they are running out the door, they said NO gee mom what would people think? I at that moment realized that my kids are growing up and are learning to do things with out me. Even if i don't want them to. So i took this picture of them riding off to catch the bus. I came back and told Ryan and he just laughed at me, and told me that i would just have to get use to that. I don't think that is going to be very easy. Geesh were is the sensitivity these days.

Hard workers.... NOT

Ryan decided that the kids needed some thing to do, since they were so bored. So there job was to go out and pull all the weeds around the dog house. Well that job ended up taking them most of the morning and into the afternoon. As you can see if they would just pull the weeds they would get done a lot quicker. Talk about diddle doddle. And then you get these two who are just trying to entertain themselves so they don't have to go and help.

Jaren and Emalee found these hats in the garage, they are Kenadee and Dallins and they have been there for a few years. But you would think that they had just gotten a toy by how excited they were to find these new treasures. Funny how kids can find something old and think that they are totally something new. Kids are great.

Computer Problems

Sorry my computer is giving me problems so i haven't been able to update the blog. When i get the mouse fixed i will be doing some major updating.

Kenadee's 4-H Pig

On the 12th-15th of August Kenadee had her pig at the Madison County Fair. She had to have it washed and ready to go on Wednesday so that it could be there before 6:00pm. This picture is of her washing him at home so that she could take him over that night.

I took this picture Thursday morning. Thursday morning she had to be there for the showing of the pig. They had to be in white shirts to show them before the judge. The judging that morning was for a couple of different things. The first was for showmanship. Which is basically how well they can lead the pig around the arena and keep control of the pig. That was a challenge. They separate them by if this is there first year or there 5th year. So that was nice. Kenadee's pig just wanted to put his head in the dirt and root once she would get him out of the dirt she could lead him pretty good until he got back to the fence. The second time they had to show the pig it was for quality. And that can all depend on what the judge might like better for the pig so it is kinda a guessing game on what to buy in the spring.

This is Kenadee leading Pepper around the arena. I might be a little bias but she was the prettiest one out there. I am so proud of her she did a great job. You can't see everyone else but there is about 10 other kids and there pigs in the arena at the same time. So if you can imagine trying to control your pig with 10 other pigs in there to that is really hard.

Saturday was when all the kids that brought animal were able to sale at the auction. So this is her selling her pig.
If you have ever been to an auction the auctioneer is kinda hard to understand because he is saying it so fast. At first the bidding began at $300.00 and i thought that she would maybe only get $400.00 because that is what most of them went for. Well next thing i knew the bidding was up to $700.00 It went up really fast so i started paying more attention to who was doing the bidding. Richard Larsen, Ray Barney(who was bidding for Grandma Robinson) and my DAD. The bidding ended at $925.00. By the time it was all said and done my Dad was the proud owner of Kenadee's Pig. I was so SHOCKED. I just sat there and cried and gave my dad the biggest hug. All i can say is WOW.

My dad left right after that and so i wasn't able to get a picture of him with Kenadee and her pig. My mom was there and so i made sure that at least on of the them was there to get the picture since she is also one of the proud owners of a fabulous pig. Kenadee had a great time doing 4-H and she is excited to do it again next year. I think that it was a great learning experience for her and us. It was fun but a lot of work to run in everyday twice a day to feed the pig and make sure he ha water. We are looking forward to it next year.

Update on Garden

I am sure that everyone is dying to know about the garden. It is doing really good almost to good. This picture is of some of the pumpkins and corn, peas, beans, onions, and squash on the far right. Emalee and Jaren standing in front of the pumpkins. One of the many times that we have been up there and weeded. I have to admit the weeding has not been as bad as you would think. We have kept them under control so when we do go up it is not bad.

This is a view of the Garden looking down on it from the butte.

All the many Pumpkins that are growing up there. Saturday when we went up to pick peas you could see all the big orange blossoms that are growing and we even have little pumpkins that are about the size of a apricot. It is very exciting to watch them all grow. Wish us luck.

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.