The Cabin

We went to the Taylor's cabin for the weekend over the weekend of the 4th of July. We always have fun when we go with them and we are thankful that they allow our rowdy boys to come :) Tess loves being outdoors!!

 Tray and Jayden getting ready to ride dirt bikes

 Marinda and I rode in their Rhino while all the boys rode dirt bikes and four wheelers.

 Tess loved it! She was so happy to be riding outdoors. Marinda was kind of scared to be driving the Rhino by herself but she did great!

 Ed and his faithful little follower (Talen). Seriously, how cute is that?

 Tess had to take a turn too!

 Our crazy son Tegen thinks he is a lot bigger than he actually is. He had to go for a ride on Ed's HUGE dirt bike, but he did a great job!

Camp OFFA

In June 2011 Tegen and Traysen participated in a football camp called Camp OFFA. It was a three day camp at one of the local high school's. It was awesome, there were several NFL players that helped teach the boys different fundamentals of football. They separated into different age groups and worked on fundamentals.

 At the end of the camp they got medals so this was the medal presentation.

 There were SO many kids there. We are all hoping they put on the football camp again next year!

 At the end the kids were allowed to get pictures and autographs from the NFL players. Tegen and Tray's other friends wouldn't do it but Tray was right there in the middle of things. He loved getting the autographs and pictures.

We are going to have peel that red sweatshirt off of Tray now!!!

Looks like FUN!

This looks like SO much fun doesn't it??? The boys are trying to earn money so they can attend football camp this summer. They did a fantastic job!

Gotta love those darn spring chores :)

Springtime is here.. kind of...

So spring has sprung and the boys have been loving playing outside. There new favorite thing to do is do flips on the trampoline. It scares me to death- but they're boys- I've learned to deal with them scaring me!

Halloween Piano Recital

Tegen and Tray had a Halloween themed piano recital. It was fun and different! Everyone dressed up and played "spooky" songs. I didn't get as many good pictures as I would have liked. Ed was out of town and I was trying to videotape, use the regular camera and hold a baby. Sorry boys! I didn't get any pictures of them at all while they were playing their pieces because I was videotaping them- darn it!
Each boy got an award but oops! I didn't get a picture of Tray receiving his award.

Their piano teacher also teaches several of their friends so I got a picture of the whole group of friends/students.

Talen and his buddy Alex posing for the camera. They're pretty good sports about being dragged to every game/recital/activity that their older brothers participate in.

What cute kids!

This is my pathetic attempt at taking some pictures of the kids- yes, as you can see it didn't really work out for me. Even though they weren't really cooperating they're still pretty dang cute anyway!

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Pumpkin Time!

On Ed's birthday we went to get pumpkins with our friends. I didn't know the church farm sold pumpkins- it was so easy. We went to the little warehouse and got to pick out our pumpkins and they were only ONE DOLLAR each. Amazing! The kids had fun because they were with all their friends!
For some reason my camera took a really dark picture but it wasn't really that dark in there.

Two days before Halloween we let the boys carve their pumpkins. Tegen and Tray did theirs ALL by themselves this year. Every year we make pumpkin seeds and the boys love them! Ed- not so much though :)

Of course I forgot to take a picture of all of them by their pumpkins- oops!

School Days...

The morning of the first day of school brought tons of rain with it. It sure was a slap in the face saying that summer really is over. It's on to a new year of school! My boys are all getting so big! Tegen started 5th grade- yea that's right 5th grade- holy cow! When did he get so big? Tegen has Mr. Weller. It's his first time with a male teacher and he is absolutely loving it!!!
Traysen started 3rd grade. He has Mrs. Anderson and has the same teacher as all of his friends. Poor Mrs. Anderson!!

Finally my sweet little Talen is in Kindergarten. This has been a much awaited day and it finally is here. Talen asked ALL morning about every 10 minutes if it was afternoon yet. He was so excited! He has Mrs. Taylor in the afternoons and knows a lot of kids in his class. He said he wasn't nervous at all. He's so big!

My three handsome little guys getting ready for their big day!

Yikes! I'm glad I got to stay indoors all day!

Talen couldn't take the bus for the first week so I got to drive him the whole week. On the first day he just ran into the class sat down at the table and started playing. He didn't care at all that I was leaving him. I don't think it was quite as traumatic for him as it was for me :)

Randomness...

We have had a pretty busy summer. It seems like we have something going on every day! The boys still love their baby sister. What a lucky girl!
What a silly boy!

One night the boys begged to make pancakes all by themselves. Here is the finished product. They did it with NO help from Ed or I. Yummmmm......