Summer Fun

Bear Lake!  One more time before school started!  We had to do it!  What fun!  Here is Rae and her buddies - Shay, Jessie and Makenzie.

Reese and her best buddy.
Brannen hanging out with his buddies - Tyson and Kaylen.  Kaylen LOVES Brannen.

Our Japanese Friends

This summer we were a host family for 2 cutie girls from Japan. They stayed with us for four days - and we tried to entertain them. The kids loved having them here. Both girls are from Kawaba Japan - their Jr. High School participates with a home stay program here in the valley. This gives them a first hand look at America. What a cool program! I wish my kids could go to Japan for a week during the summer. (Would I be brave enough for that?! Rae seems really young!) This is Iori and Karisa - we had a lot of fun with them. This picture was taken at a party the host program had here on their last night. They taught us a really neat Japanese folk dance - I had to post the goofy picture of Martha and Jeff dancing! Ha! Great fun!

First Day of School!

I haven't posted for a while - we have been between setting up the new computer - so I'm a little behind on the news. Everyone is back to school! I can't believe that the summer is gone. It went so very fast this year. But we are into the swing of things now - just like we never left. Reesie is in 2nd grade - Mr. Cazier's great class. He is so fun, she just loves it. Boo is in 5th grade now. He is in Mrs. Miles class - she is nuts about M&M's. So they get to do lots of math games and such with M&M's - and happy eating afterwards. She is a neat teacher. He is at Osmond Elementary by himself, because Rae is at the Middle School! Wow they are getting old! Rae loves middle school too - but it has kind of been an adjustment. Big school, lots of changes. She is such a cutie though, and handling it all very well. Kelly is also back to school and glad to be there too. He really does love his job. He has been really busy this year with coaching golf. I'm just happy that we all have a schedule again. Yahoo! School year 2008-2009 here we come!

Bran Boy

I had to post this picture. It is my favorite of the cute kid. I LOVE IT! What a handsome boy!

More And More And More Fun at the Fair

This night at the fair, was a rodeo - "Tough Enough to Wear Pink" and some of the proceeds went for cancer research. Rae had tons of fun riding into the arena and waving to all of the crowd. Kelly was great help to Rae - finally all those years of cleaning stalls is paying off! He sure knows how to clean a horse stall! Just like ridin' a bike! We'd better get used to this stuff. Seems like she's not getting tired of it yet.

More And More Fun at the Fair!

Here is proof that Rae and Boo showed pigs at the fair. They were quite the talented pig handlers! Where's Dallin when we need him?! He was a GREAT pig handler!





PIGS?!? PIGS YOU SAY?! THERE ARE PIGS AT THIS FAIR?! NO WAY! THAT IS TOTALLY DISGUSTING! ---PIGS!??! HUMPH!!!

More Fun at the Fair

Here is a group photo of the Fair Royalty this year. Can you find
the prettiest girlie? I can!

Fun at the Fair

Rae's favorite day at the fair is always on the last day, when they have "Wild West Games". They play musical riders, don't crack the egg, and just fun games on horses. She took first place in the relay race (of which she is really proud). I thought one of the funnest games was the hide race. One person on a horse dallies a rope, with an animal hide on the end of it, around the saddle horn. The other partner waits at the other end of the arena until the rider comes around a barrel pulling the hide. Then the partner jumps on and hangs on tight for a fun ride. Whoever does it in the fastest time wins. Rae's group wasn't the fastest, but she surely had fun! Cowboy sledding? I think so!




What a fun day! Only Rae would think this was the best time of her life! She was one happy, tired, and dirty girl at the end of the day!

Shades

Why is it so fun to put sunglasses on babies?
Dunno -- just is.
; )

Brannen's Best Friend

Here she is - Brannen's best friend in the whole world. His whole body just lights up when she walks in the room. He loooves Reesie, because she is always playing with him and singing him songs. She is a great babysitter and a great sister. She takes many pictures of him everyday. They love each other!

Brady the Great

No! I haven't forgotten that I have another child this summer! Brady is great! I haven't had a picture of him on this blog in a while, so I had to post this one. What a handsome guy! He is still as happy and wonderful as ever. He has had a fun summer I think. Lots of backyard football, showing his pig at the fair, x-box, golfing with dad, talking cute to Brannen, playing with any extra kids that happen to be around this place and being so kind all of the time are the many things that have kept him busy this summer. I asked him last night if he was ready for school and seeing his friends again. He said no. He's having too much fun just being around here. What a great guy. I love having him around.

Rylee's Twin

At every dance recital we have ever been too - Kelly always says - "hey, whose that girl that looks so much like Rylee?" And I reply, "that is Maddie Izatt" - and Kelly says, "Wow! She looks so much like Rylee." So then he forgets about it-- until we go to the next dance recital or concert and he says again, "hey, whose that girl . . . " We have had that conversation so many times! Anyway, we were playing at the Star Valley Ranch swimming pool recently with Clint and Allison's kids - and Maddie Izatt was also there. I had to get a picture of them together to show Clint and Allison how much they look alike. They are the same age too. Maddie was a good sport to pose for this picture - I think she thought I was kind of crazy. Kelly is right! They look so much alike. They say everyone has a twin out there. I think we found Rylee's.

Carrying the Flag!

So she finally did it! She worked and worked and got Lady to carry a flag without freeking out! Wow! Huge accomplishment! She was really excited. We are glad that fair week is over - it was a lot of work. But Rae had a great time - so it was worth it.

Baby Bran

It has been far too long since I posted some cute pictures of the littlest Fullmer kid around here.
He is getting so adorable. I can say that now, honestly. He is looking less yoda and troll like
all the time. Bekki is right - he is finally growing into his face!

I remember when Bekki said that Maura had found her toes - we have too! Finally!

We are begining to like cereal too! Horaay! What a mess! Mush mouth! Beautiful eyes!

Bekki and her Cuties

I've been looking through all of my pictures of this summer to prepare to
catch up this blog (oh, that's going to be a project) - and found these
cute pictures of Bekki, Dallin and Maura. They are so beautiful, I had
to post them. We had so much fun with them while they were here this
summer. We miss them! Give 'em a big hug and kiss for me, Bekki!

Who's that girl?

Couldn't resist posting this picture. She is adorable! Maura with hair! Black, nasty, wig hair - funny! Love you Mookie! Miss you sis!

Brady chases a calf!

Because we knew that we were going to spend the entire day at the
Jr. Rodeo, we decided to sign up all the kids to compete in an event -
just to make it more fun. Brady was a great calf chaser. He bravely
chased down the calf - grabbed the ribbon from his tail - and then
let go of it because another kid had a hold of it too! Brady is just
such a nice kid - he wouldn't keep a hold of it. Gave it up to be the
nice kid. Kelly is always encouraging him to be more aggressive in sports
- but I'm really glad that he's always the nicest kid around!
Lining up!
Chasing down that calf!
Finishing empty handed - but with a smile!

Cowgirl

Rae is a barrel racer! She is having a blast this summer with barrel racing.
She goes to barrel club each week and really works at improving her time.
She is riding a new horse this year - Lady - and so she has been really
working at getting Lady to put up some fast times. They are getting there.
Barrel club is on Thursday nights and every Thursday Rae bounces off
the walls with excitement - just can't wait to go to barrel club.
Grampa Jonesy and Colleen have been great about taking her and we really
appreciate it - Rae is having a great time! She was able to compete this
last weekend in the Jr. Rodeo in Thayne. She didn't place, but she did get
her fastest time ever. She was waaaay proud! Way to go Rae Rae!

Coming fast around #1
Turn #2
Last barrel and bringing it home!
Yea Rae and Lady!

Hats

Cuties in Hats! Say no more!

Brady the tree climber

Brady normally isn't very daring - so I was really shocked when we were eating lunch under a tree and looked up so see Brady halfway up the thing! He was all smiles! He enjoyed his birds-eye view for a while, and then stressed about getting down! Kelly helped. All was well! Cute boy!

View from my back window

This is a usual sight for me as I look out of my house during the summer. Rae is such a fun girl! Reese loves it when she takes her for a ride!

Minnetonka Caves

We have been having a fun and busy summer! One of the fun things we have done is go on a little outing to Minnetonka Caves and Bear Lake. It was a great day. Brannen and I made it through half of the caves before he got waaaaayy to hungry to continue. So we slipped out the back of the tour and went back by ourselves. Kind of spooky in a long, big, cave by yourself for 15 minutes! Well - Bran was with me, so I was okay! After the caves, we had lunch at a fun drive in - and played in their hammock, then got a little wet at Bear Lake. We had a really fun day.

Relay for Life

One of the fun things Rae has done this summer with the Royalty
girls is participate in the Relay for Life - to raise money for cancer victims.
They had a team that walked all night long. Rae had a blast - and was REALLY tired.
Fun stuff!!

Poor Baby

Brannen looks like he's been attacked by a wildcat! The kid has had a cold for 3 weeks, and he's getting tired of having a stuffy nose. I really have been keeping his fingernails short!

Jr. Princess

We really had a great time going to parades this weekend . Rae is quite the horse girl! She has a fun summer ahead of her. She is so excited! We are too! She is such a beauty - love you Rae!

The funny Brannen

It has been more than a week since you saw the kiddo! We can't have that! I'm sure you are going through terrible longing and pain. So here you go -- I'm setting you up. What a CUTIEEEEE!

Thanks Rylee for the hat! He loves it!