Look who's riding without training wheels...

Spencer decided he wanted to be like his sisters and ride without his training wheels. He tried Kaitlyn's bike to see if he could do it and he took off. I helped him a few times but then he took off on his own. I love how if his sisters do something it doesn't take him long to figure it out before he is doing it. He rode all the way around the neighborhood and you can see on his face how happy he is.






No descriptions necessary for the pictures he is just a happy three year old who loves to ride his bike and be outside. That is crazy he is doing that the girls were all four almost five before they started riding like that.

Spencer and the big three

Spencer turned three on Sep. 10th and we had a little party for him. I made coconut red velvet cup cakes. He doesn't care what treat he gets as long as he can lick off the frosting only to have more put on to lick again. This little boy loves his cars and motorcycles and any kind of boots he can put on his feet. He says over and over again if he doesn't believe it or its strange to him is "oh my gosh". It cracks me up because the gosh part is said with a little accent. This boy is all boy and loves to be outside riding his bike or riding motorcycles. He is taking on such a cute personality when he plays with his cars he makes up different voices for each one of them. I love how he can entertain himself now and have fun while playing. He makes us smile every single day and for the most part very sweet and very protective of his sisters. We love him so much I can't imagine him not being in our family.

He couldn't wait for the song to be done before he blew out his candle.


He got a remote control car of lightning mcqueen and loved it. The next morning he woke up and said I want to play with my lightning mcqueen.


He also got a monster truck that the wheels light up.


Of course I had to include this picture because like I said earlier he loves boots. These happen to be motorcycle boots that are his sisters.

My Birthday and Labor Day Weekend all in one

The kids did not have school on friday due to Labor day weekend and my birthday. We decided to go to the cabin. We left friday and when we got there Josh cooked dinner and then we went for a little four wheeler ride. We took the four wheelers from the parents this time because we wanted to ride on the trail that goes from the cabin to West Yellowstone. Most of the trail was on the old railroad tracks. On saturday morning we left the cabin at about ten and headed out. The only way Josh knew how to get to the trail head was on the road. Needless to say we got pulled over by the local police telling us we couldn't ride on the roads unless you had a licence plate, which we did, that our bikes were insured which they were, and that we had mirrors on which we did not. So he told us we had to turn around and jump on a trail. We did and it took us about an hour to finally find the trail head all the trails we took kept putting us back out on the road. Finally we were off and then the kids were saying they were hungry so we didn't get to far before we stopped for lunch.
Josh and I on the back porch of the cabin.


The one thing I love about going to the cabin is I don't have to cook the dinners.


Spencer loves to help but in this case it was too hot for him to help so he got to chill and eat some grapes.


Kaitlyn and Makenzie watching a movie while dinner is cooking.


Hannah waiting and watching a movie.


So this picture is before we left everyone is excited to go.


After we ate lunch everyone is still pretty excited and happy we reached the Montana side.


On the way back to Idaho. Notice Spencer has fallen asleep and everyone wants to get off the bike about now.

I am so glad we went and did this for my birthday I have wanted to do this ride for three years now and Josh finally made it happen for me. We all had a great time and wish we could have stayed longer but it was a nice get a way for awhile. The kids really did a good job not too much complaining for our four hour ride. I love my family.

First Day of School

These three girls started school. I can't believe I have three of them in school already.


We took Hannah to her class first. This year she is in first grade. She has Mrs. Robinson as her teacher and she is so excited that she gets to go all day.


Makenzie is in fourth grade this year. I can't believe how old she is (or I should say how old I am) for her to be in fourth grade. She has Mrs. Udy this year and she can not say enough nice things about her. So far it is starting off great.


Kaitlyn starts preschool this year and she has Mrs. Long as her teacher. She goes three days a week in the afternoon and one of those days I get to go in and help. While Spencer goes to a friends house. She is so excited that she gets to go and be like her sisters in some way. I love this picture because her back pack is just about as big as she is.


I am glad that school is back in because I don't have the million questions a day of "what can we do, its boring". I am also glad that we are back into a routine it makes everything nicer. Spencer has a hard time not knowing what to do with his time now that he doesn't have his sisters to play with or pick on. I'm sure he will get used to not having them around.

Fun Land

We took the kids to Fun Land the weekend before school started because they had tickets from the reading program. They only have a couple rides and the kids picked the one they wanted to ride. Spencer and Kaitlyn rode the airplanes and both had a blast if you couldn't tell from their faces.


Makenzie and Hanna chose to ride this on called the octopus. Makenzie loved it and I think the only reason Hannah went with Makenzie is because she didn't want to ride the little kid rides. I wish I could have gotten a picture of her face when the ride was going she looked terrified. She was better with the ride once she saw me and then she started to smile. This is the best picture I got of them.

They also had Motorcycle races and a car show that we got to watch and look around until we got rained out.