My Jump roper

Makenzie's school has a jump roping contest every year. First they see who is the fastest in each classroom and they pick one boy and one girl for every grade. Then they see who is the fastest for the entire school. She was the fastest in her class out of the girls so she got to compete with all of the grades.

This is her warming up.


Before they started they gave a ribbon to all of the kids competing.

She did a good job but the kid to beat had 294 jumps within the minute time. Sadly he took home the trophy. But I am surprised that Makenzie did so well. It was fun to see her up there trying so hard. Her teacher made her that shirt and on the back the whole class signed it.

Battle Wounds

Last night Josh was doing something in the garage and the kids all decided to go ride bikes. They were racing across the street to ride on our neighbors gravel when Makenzie and Spencer collided. Spencer went down and his head hit the asphalt. After screaming and blood dripping down his face we found a big cut and a huge goose egg on his forehead. We decided this was a trip to the ER. Of all the weekends to go this one happened to be the one Josh's mom was not working and on vacation.

On the way to the ER.


The doctor looked at it and determined that instead of doing stitches he would put dermabond(like super glue)on instead. So this is him eating his Popsicle after he was done.



He is a bit happier now that no one is touching his head. The glue is still shiny today.

I am surprised we have not been in to the ER before this. Spencer is our most active child, he is always jumping off of things counters, dressers you name it or climbing things. But look at how cute and happy is even after all that.

Kids in training.

Josh had gone out to mow the lawn and when I looked out the window this is what I saw.
Spencer helping daddy.


Makenzie started to help Josh last year and is so excited to be helping again.


When Josh is out mowing the lawn the kids are right out there to help him, they love to help pull weeds and do what we are doing out in the yard. I think it is very cute that Spencer follows Josh around to help his dad work if its fixing a bike, or mowing the lawn, or pulling weeds with me, or washing the cars. He always has to be holding a tool or whatever we have so he can help.

Motorcycles

We decided that after we had gotten all of our chores done we would do something fun. We loaded up the bikes. We borrowed Josh's parents four wheeler because Josh's bike is leaking fuel when it is running. So my bike and the four wheeler and went up to Kelly Canyon. Little did we know how busy it was going to be up there. The snow still had not melted in some spots. We first started out with Makenzie, Josh, and Kaitlyn on my bike.



And Spencer, me, and Hannah on the four wheeler.


We have been up riding here before so we went to the trails of the ones we knew. We started up one and got maybe a fourth of the way up and started to hit snow. Josh decided to keep going until it turned into mostly snow and no trail. When we got to that point we decided to turn around because he was sliding everywhere. The kids got on with me and Josh rode out sliding everywhere (not sure if it was on purpose having fun, or truly sliding). We got back down onto the main road and Makenzie and Spencer hoped on with Josh and off we went to find another trail. We came across this one that takes you to a look out area. Awesome.


And of course you always get one of these pictures.


I love that we can decide to go for a ride not very far away see some great sites, get the kids out of the house, and enjoy our time with each other. Everyone has fun there is a little fighting of who rides with who but for the most part enjoyable.

Backyard Camp out

Josh and the girls thought it would be fun to set up the tent and have a camp out in the back yard. I think it is too cold for sleeping outside yet, but they thought it was a great idea. We set up the tent and brought all the sleeping gear up and outside, I tucked them all in and said good night and went back inside. Aren't they all so cute in their sleeping bags.


Josh blowing up his air mattress.

About five minutes later Josh brought Spencer in crying. So he and I watched a movie before he went off to dream land. And about nine thirty I hear the back door open and all the kids going down stairs. The wind started to blow when they were done telling their stories and it was quiet which started to scare the girls. They thought that their bed was better then being outside with the wind. So we tried.

Forts and the zoo

Hannah's kindergarten class got to go to the zoo yesterday and I was lucky enough to join her (thanks Josh). She was so excited to go with (just) me and her class. We pretty much had the zoo to ourselves. She got to ride the bus.


She saw the Zebra's


Some otter's


Most of her class with Miss Walker.


It was not the best day to go to the Zoo because we got rained on and because of the weather some of the animals were not out. We did see the monkeys, the penguins, she got to feed the ducks, and see some flamingo's and peacocks. The bears came out for a few minutes to wrestle with each other and then they went back in their house. The camel was pretty ugly right now he is shedding his coat. The lion did not want to come out for us, and the the tiger was taking a cat nap. The best part were the monkeys swinging around and yelling at each other. After the zoo we went to the park and the kids got to play for about ten minutes before we loaded up and headed back to the school. I think Hannah had a lot of fun with her class and it was great for me to have some one on one with her. She is such a sweet little girl.



THE FORT
The other day it was still a little cold and the kids were bored so what does every mom do when they here "I'm bored", we build forts what else. They usually make their forts downstairs but this day we decided to make it in the living room and go over the kitchen table. They each had their own room and their own doors.

The Front

Crazy kids

Weekend fun and Mothers Day

Over the weekend we went to Josh's brother Casey's graduation. He is now a Pharmacist. We are so excited for their family. (my pictures did not turn out sorry). This weekend was also Mothers Day. I was spoiled I got to sleep in and have breakfast in bed. My favorite, waffles with strawberries and homemade syrup with cool whip on top. I also got many homemade treasures from the girls that they made in school. Josh was nice and basically gave me the day off. I love that man. We also went to his brother Ryan and Lynette's house and had an awesome dinner with family. I want to say to my mom that there are no words to describe how much love you can have for your children until you have them and to put up with me took a lot. So for that I am very grateful. And I am grateful for Josh's mother and the way she raised her boys. He is everything to me and he wouldn't be the man that he is without you.
This is the best one I got. Sorry it isn't very good.

Tired of being sick

Last week and the week before my kids and Josh and I were all taking turns with the yucky flu. Josh stayed home from work and I went and ran a couple of errands, and picked up the girls from school. When I got home Spencer was still asleep Josh was asleep and Kaitlyn snuggled up to Josh and fell asleep. Pretty soon I went downstairs and found Hannah asleep. So what does that say when four out of six in your house are asleep at 3:30 in the afternoon.

Boise trip

We took the kids out of school for almost a whole week and went to Boise for a couple of reasons. Josh and my brother Troy were going to this motivational speaker thing on Tuesday morning, and Josh's cousin Sean came home from his mission and his homecoming was on Sunday, the time in between there was left for Josh to look for an internship that he needs to graduate and to play with cousins. We stayed at my brother and sister in laws house (Troy and Ann). On Tuesday when the boys went to their speaker thing, we took the kids to Morrison-Knuedson Park. They have a nature walk you can walk around and see geese and fish and flowers and beavers. The kids thought it was fun and the only thing we really saw were fish and geese building nests.
Bailey, Makenzie, Rylee, Hannah, Brody, and Spencer walking behind Makenzie. Pretending to be owls.

One of the look outs for the fish. Kaitlyn, Nyah, Hannah, Spencer, Rylee, Brody, Makenzie, and Bailey. The gang.

After we got done, we walked to the park right next to it and had lunch and played on the toys. Spencer thought these dinosaurs were pretty cool.

Kaitlyn and Spencer found a squirrel that was trying to eat the food by the tables and decided to chase him back up his tree. Spencer would chase it up the tree and then run around the base of the tree trying to find it, it would eventually sneak back down only to get chased again. He was not a very fast runner because Kaitlyn almost grabbed its tail. They chased him away from the trees so he had to take cover under a car.


Tuesday was the nicest day we had while we were there and Troy and Ann had fixed the pool up to go swimming. It was only in the 70's but the kids thought it was warm enough to go swimming. The heater wasn't turning on for some reason so the pool was only 60 degrees. Not warm enough for me but the kids all got in. Some only put their toes in and others got in and swam around till they were frozen.


I wish that I had pictures for the rest of the week but my camera died after this shot. Just know that we played a lot, watched movies, saw some good friends, went to aunts and uncles houses and had a lot of fun. Thanks Troy and Ann for the place to stay and good times.