Girls night fun and Ryan!

September 18, 2009

Tonight Rob had taken Justin to our wards Fathers & Sons camping activity so Katie and Megan and I and Ryan too had a girls party at home. We had such a fun time together. I let the girls decide what we did and it was cute what they chose.

Here we are painting our nails. We thought about doing Ryan's but we decided dad and Justin probably wouldn't think that was funny.

They really wanted to watch sleeping beauty and eat popcorn!

And for dinner, I thought they would want pizza or something. No, cap'n crunch! So we ate cereal for dinner then watched the movie!

Mom and her girls!

Ryan was here too! We had a lot of fun and actually look forward to this night every year!




This is the only picture I got from the fathers and sons. They went to a place next to these ponds Rob took the day off and went up early with Justin and our neighbor Matt. While there they went fishing I guess Justin caught all 4 of the fish! This is the picture of him with his fish! Good job kiddo!

Time for peaches!

September 2009

Well our peach tree was full and ready to bottle last week so here are some pics of the kids helping me peel and bottle the peaches. I have done pears and nectarines too. It is so nice to see them all on the shelves but I will be glad when I'm done. I froze a bunch too! I also bottled roast and chicken. Looking forward to doing the beans!

This is Justin with his new friend "Prey" it's a praying mantise and they kept him like a friend. It finally died unfortunately and they were really sad.

Katie and Justin helping me peel peaches. I am so glad they actually had fun doing this, I was happy to have the help!

Butterfield Farm preschool fieldtrip!

September 11, 2009

Today for preschool we took all the kids to the farm near us. They had a lot of fun. Unfortunately not too many of the animals wanted to be seen but the still had a great time.

Justin and Katie in front of the farm sign. Justin was off track so he enjoyed coming too.

All the kids in front of the buffalo's.

Saige, Megan and Madeline hanging out!

love this shot of the kids climbing the fence!

We saw a Barn Owl! Justin spotted it but it was really cool to watch. We also saw sheep, lamas, cows, and horses.

After the farm we went to our neighbors house and looked at there chickens.

Here are the kids looking at one of the new eggs in the pen. It was still warm and really neat. The kids had a fun day at the farm and learning all about farm animals today!

Mamma's boy!

September 2009

I couldn't resist posting this picture of my little buddy! He is so much fun to have in our home. It is amazing how much love a new baby brings. I think I grow as a mom 100 times each time I have a new little one around. They teach me so much mostly more patience. I love to watch my other kids with the new baby too. I truly am such a lucky person and have so much to be thankful for. Look at those big squishy cheeks (not mine) Ryan's. I love to give him zerberts and kisses. You are a keeper, thanks for all the smiles and laughs. 3 and 1/2 months have flown by!

Cute little boy and painting fun!

September 2009

Some random shots of Ryan and the kids.

Ryan is such a HAPPY baby boy so much so that he has rightfully earned the nickname "SMILES" He loves any attention and playing with us. He has a smile that melts your heart and you can't help but stay and play with him when he gives you one of those giant grins!

Smiles!

Happy little boy.

Fun with paints.

Katie and Justin so into their painting. They used about 30 or more pieces of paper each and painted all of them. That is no exageration either.

Work party fun!

September 2009

Tonight we went to Todd one of the partners at Rob's work for a good job party! They had all kinds of fun water things set up and yummy food. It was a really fun time the kids and adults all loved it.

Megan in one of the water slides! My favorite part of the night was watching several of the Dads running and trying to jump this slide. They were pretty funny to watch. Amazingly they actually did it! We have some Tiggers at the firm apparently!

Justin getting ready to slide!

Katie

Megan eating a CARS cupcake! They had cute cars rings in them.

just a cute photo of Ryan with Katie's pet dog.

Katie's preschool hike!

September 3, 2009

Today for preschool the kids made nature viewers and we took them up the canyon about 10 minutes away and went on a hike with them. It was so fun to watch them look for nature, insects, animals, and just play and have a good time!

Just getting ready to go!

Running up the trail.


Katie looking at the water through her nature viewers! The other kids looking too.

Katie on the trail

Timothy, Jayde, Brooklynn, and Katie our cute little preschoolers!

Madeline, Saige, and Megan the preschoolers shadows and little sisters!

Time for snacks!

The girls putting on a balancing act. Timothy is off hitting a tree with a stick somewhere typical boy!

Ryan and Katie I thought this was a cute picture of them.

Ward Campout

August 28-29, 2009

This weekend we went to our wards camp out here are some of the fun pictures of our good times! We always have such a great time up here!

Madeline and Megan playing. Notice how dirty Megan is and we had only been there 10 min. or less.

Madeline and Megan sitting in chairs by the fire. They are so cute together.

Justin with his friend Kelsie.

Megan Eating marshmallows! Yum hugh! Sticky too!

Justin looks like he is in the army. He was soooo dirty but he sure did have fun!

Nicole and Ryan. I am making Brats for all of us for dinner. There is nothing like a brat on a campfire. Yum.

Katie roasting marshmallow's. I think I caught her with her mouth full.

A bunch of the kids by the fire. Kate, Megan, and Madeline. They were having so much fun. The little trio!

Breakfast! What a cute bunch of kids. They are all such good friends and it is so fun watching all of them together.

Katie and Brooklynn I think they are showing me the dirt on their elbows.

Nicole and Megan on the zip line. This was so much fun. She wanted to go on this so bad but was a little to scared to go by herself. So we went together. It wasn't until after the fact that they told us we couldn't do this. Sorry. It was fun though.

Katie and Brooklynn waiting to go on the zip line. They were so excited to do this again!!

Katie just before going on the zip line.

Here she goes... when Katie got on the platform she was a little scared we had to have Brother Shipley running the zip line push her off. Once he did that she had fun.

Rob on the zip line. Good times!


Justin just before going up on the platform. He is so excited can you tell!

Still smiling! I think he's ready!

Off he goes.

Weeeeeee! He wished he could go again. But there are still a lot of people that need to go. Next year!

Ryan in the tent. He had a good time too.

The 2 silly girls, Katie and Brooklynn. They were such good helpers, they went around and cleaned up all the garbage around camp for us.