Popsicle Season

We love MIGHTY MINIS! The best popsicle ever made for a baby! They are tiny and awesome! Brannen LOVES them. The sad thing is, our popsicle days are truly numbered around here. We have had a few weeks of warm indian summer and have loved every day. I just had to record this popsicle moment to remember all winter long.





What a great kid. I'm sure glad I have my little tag along plaything to keep me company all day.

Grover Fun

Our fun Grover Community Park just had a great fundraiser to buy some new playground equipment. My kids thought this carnival was the most fun they have had in a long time. I don't know if Brannen or Rae had more fun. But fun was had - for sure.
The duck pond was Bran's favorite.
All the kids participated in the chicken chase. Chickens are cool. So say the Bran man.
Rae, of course, won the chicken chase. Caught it in 10 seconds. We are so proud of her! : ) What a talented young woman we are raising!!
Cutie Reese!
Cutie Bran!
Rae's other talent that she is so very proud of is her pie eating skills. She won this too - 10 seconds flat. Found the gummy worm at the bottom, beat all the boys. VICTORY! Her life is complete!
What a silly girl!
Brady also won the hoop shoot competition - I didn't get a photo of that. Dumb mom. But he won a cool basketball, and his buddy Seth did too. They were fairly stoked. Awesome evening!

Beautiful Fall!

It is Fall in Star Valley again, and we are enjoying it. I took the kids for a fun bike ride this past week. Kelly was on a golf trip (with the school - he is the golf coach for the high school) yet again, so we decided we needed to get out and do something fun too.
I LOVE Swift Creek canyon. It is the canyon that is in Afton and ends at the Periodic Spring. It is so beautiful. We decided to haul the bikes to Afton and go for a little trek. We had a great time. It was a bit of a climb, so Reesie decided that she liked the way back better. Brannen liked the stopping to throw rocks in the creek. Brady liked taking some "off road" adventures.

We had a great afternoon. It is so nice to get outside and enjoy this place that we live in. Gotta soak it up to last through February!

Mom - update your blog!

Apparently I have been doing a bad job at Blogging lately. Each time one of my kids is on the computer I hear, "mom, you haven't updated your blog!" So I will update! Apparently my kids don't know what we have done until they see it on the blog!!!
Makes sense to me!

Lil trip

Over the holiday weekend we took a little trip to Idaho Falls. The boys wanted to golf, I wanted to buy Brannen a good stroller, Rae wanted to walk the mall in true teenager fashion. So we went. We had a great evening walking around the falls around the temple. The kids really loved it.
We found so many fun trails that we didn't even know about. Fun stuff.
Yep, the dad took the blurry picture. Well, it was better than the group shot that some random teenager took for us. That was too blurry to post.
Brady and Reese LOVED exploring the rocks and waterways.
You can always spot the "country folk" at Home Depot. They are the ones that think it is highly amusing to put strange objects on their babies heads, and then take a picture of it. We have surely "gone to town" now!!
Some quality time at the mall's play place. Once again, proof that the "country folk" are hittin' the big city!

TV

The boy has recently decided that tv might be kind of cool. Sesame Street is his current obsession - and I have to say that I like it a lot too. What a great show!
The other thing that helps keep his interest is the fact that I let him watch on my very tall bed. He can get off of it if he really wants to - but it is kind of scary. So it helps to keep him in one place. Rock on Cookie Monster!

Playing with the boy

I have such good helpers at my house! Brannen is definitely at the stage where he needs to be entertained all the time - he is such a busy little guy.
Brady and Reese end up with the brunt of the entertaining. Rae is so busy now - and always somewhere that is not here! These two do an AWESOME job with baby Bran though. He loves them so much. They are always finding something to do.
I don't know what I would do without my awesome big brother and big sister! They totally save me every day!