I guess...

I guess that the last several weeks have been a bit busy for me and I am now attempting to make it right.
At the beginning of December we went out to get a tree and brought it home to decorate it for Christmas. Ashton was so anxious to get that tree decorated and he loved every minute of it. Ransom loved decorating the tree too. Tahlia found Christmas decorations that she thought were pretty fun.


As much fun as it was for me to redecorate the tree when they were all done, I must admit that they were a great help when it came to taking down the tree and all of the Christmas decorations.

Ashton's Birthday!!

By now it is no secret, Ashton loves planning his birthday for months and months and months and months in advance. For almost a year he has been asking for a volcano cake. So Aunt Laura went all out on his volcano cake for the six year old. He loved it. He loved the volcano.

Ashton was very anxious to open his presents. He was very excited. All of the presents were set in front of him and riped into everyone of them, without stopping. Wow I think that he had been planning that for a long time too.



So happy that you had a great Birthday Ashton. We love you and love watching you grow up, learning new things and taking on more responsibility.
It should not be much longer until we start planning for next year.

Tree climbing!

Ashton Just discovered a couple of weeks ago he could climb a tree. He loves getting really high and then climbing down. It is nice to have big enough trees for it to support him.

Happy Halloween!

I know you may think that the world has come to an end because I am posting pic. Who knows it may have, but regardless, I am here doing it. Yeah for me. You may ask why I have posted nothing and the obvious could be no time but the truth is there is nothing noteworthy going on. Oh, and I lost my little digital camera a month ago, so I have to remember to take the large camera with me and it is less than convenient.
With that said here are the cute kids dressed for Halloween. Anything but scary! This year we decided to try something new and went to Jordan Landing for trick or treating. The kids thought that it was fun! Then Ransom fell asleep on the way home, which is always good! Then John took Ashton around the neighborhood to go trick or treating for real. Of course he loved it too. CANDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On Friday we put on our scary faces and started to carve pumpkins and this is what we came up with. It is a lot of fun with the kids as usual.

Kindergarten!

Today was Ashton's first day of kindergarten. He was so so so excited. He loves it already. His teacher is great. I hope he takes after his dad and loves school and learning. I have to admit I was nervous for him and about dropping him off and picking him up on time. I got yelled at by a teacher for trying to make a left turn when picking up. Geez! This is the real reason I did not like school.
On the way home he asked me when is his next day off will be. What a turkey! I keep telling him he has many many years of school to go so he better get used to it!

Yellowstone!!!!!

I love Yellowstone. John loves Yellowstone. It has some amazing features that I have never seen anywhere else. Because I have been to oh so many places.
So we took the kids and headed up to Yellowstone and met some of my family there. We were able to do several things that we had never done before. It was awesome to have the time and do and see different things. The
Our first day in Yellowstone we found out that a road we needed to get around on was closed so we went around. It was a 4 hour detour. Getting back was suppose to be a 3 1/2 hour detour. Well the 4 hours in the car with 3 kids was long and then to find out a hike we wanted to do was closed. I was very upset. This is what I wanted to do and now everything was stopping me from doing it. Then we did what we could and started the long drive back and then we got stuck in a huge traffic jam, to find out that Bison were on the road and cars were afraid to move.
During the day John went to pick out a magnet with the kids and asked what I wanted and I said "Yellowstone 2009 Sucks" He found Yellowstone 2009 and said that would have to do. The trip did improve and we enjoyed the things that were close to us. The next 2 days we spent doing things around Old Faithful. It was fun seeing and doing things there I had never taken the time to see. There is always more to see in Yellowstone. Yellowstone 2009 was awesome! I can't wait to go again. I just hope they get the raods fixed soon! Going up to Bozman Montana was a bit crazy!

Summertime Fun!

Life in the new house is great except I miss my swing set. Yes I mean mine. I love to swing. But I was always willing to share my swing with other swing fanatics. We would slide together as well. I had so much fun on the old swing set. I did not realize who much we really used it until a couple of weeks ago, and the kids were driving my crazy in the house, I finally kicked them out and they were right back in and "bored!" Oh well, so we have had to be a bit more creative and find other things to do. So we played in the water several times a week to get out and stay cool.