June 1st 2019

"The entrepreneur fair was awesome! We sold slime, bracelets, rice bags, and chap stick holders. We made at least fifty dollars out of this. It was such a fun experience because their where other kids selling things. I also got to see some of my friends!" - McKenzie

Kelsey and Bridger started their Bob Ross experience on the deck. We will see how they turn out.

Silent house

May 6 2019,

It was a chilly Monday evening. Heath was at work, so I was making a super simple dinner that the kids would love to eat and I would love to make. GRILLED CHEESE SANDWICHES and don't forget the tomato soup. I sent them all off to do their 20 minutes of reading at the same time.

The house was eerily quiet. 6 kids at home and not a sound. I had to document it.

EVERYONE was reading, like they were supposed to. Except our little NETFLIX junkie. Captions. The girl loves captions! She reads her movies instead of listening to them so she can sucker me into thinking she is doing what she is supposed to be doing!

June 17th, 2018

Bridal Veil Falls

I had a great time with my family! We hiked up to a beautiful waterfall. Once we where at the waterfall we played around in the cold water, but luckily it was a hot day so we dried up quickly. After playing around in the waterfall we hiked back down and had a picnic. I had a great day! - McKenzie 

I was at the falls and playing in the water

with Morgan it was fun. The hole family was there. - Emmitt

I was at the falls it was fun. I liked the water.

-Kenna

3rd grade wax museum

On February 2nd the boys had a WAX MUSEUM presentation. Morgan was Evel Knievel and Emmitt was John Henry. They were supposed to pick someone that had already died and that had somehow contributed to society. They had scripts to memorize about their person. When you pushed their wax museum button on their desk, they came to life and told us their stories. They were awesome.

 

"This is called guilty. My name was evel kinevel. i was the worst villain in my class! But it was fun." - Morgan

"I was John Henry. For my costume we got cotton and hot glued it to a shirt. Jace sat next to me, he was Obama. It was very fun."

Boys

January 23rd delivered us a good snow storm. This winter has been pretty mild compared to last winter.  We couldn't keep up last year and this year we're all excited to shovel snow, especially these good boys. They wish we could get enough to go sledding. I kind of do too. All the kids got new awesome snow pants for Christmas and they have no excuse to wear them!

Roasting in December

The weather has been so mild this winter. On December 29th we had a hot dog and marshmallow roast for lunch. It was crazy to be outside and not worrying about how cold it was or if you're Morgan, even wearing a coat or jacket!

I sure love these little crazies! It is good to be back together again during the Christmas Break.

SUMMER IS HERE but we still found snow

One the 4th of June, Heath, Kelsey, Morgan, McKenzie and I took the Ranger up Snake Creek to see how far we could get before running into snow and also to check out our favorite camping spot. 

It was a bit chilly but it was so lush and fresh and beautiful!  It made us very excited for summertime and to get out and enjoy the great outdoors.

I also happened to bring home a few Snake Creek transplants for my yard. They will be great!!

We continued up the road to check out the snow levels and soon ran into a drift that was too much for our bald tires. We shoveled and then we used our winch. We felt like REAL off roaders! 

There's only ONE Lagoon!

McKenzie's dance company, Intensity Dance Team, had a competition at Lagoon in May. We didn't have all the kids with us unfortunately but the 5 of us plus Madelyn had a fun fun day. 

Morgan and McKenzie got very very brave and went on so many new rides. 

I had a really fun time at Lagoon! I went with my Dad, Rachel, Kelsey, her friend, and my brother. It was my first time going on Colossus it was fun! Before we went on all of these fun rides I had a dance competition! I got first place. I loved dancing there. I hope I get to do this next year! 

The weather was perfect and we stayed until the park closed. A late late late dinner at IHOP and it was a jam packed day. We were worn out.