Getting ready for a bath!

Why are baby bums so darn cute?  Totally pinch-able!

October 11th!

This is what we did on saturday!  The kids went sledding!  They always are excited for the first snow of the year.  We have to pull out the snow clothes -that have been tucked away for not long enough-  get all bundled up, and spend the afternoon screaming on a sled in the field, behind Rae- driving crazy on a four-wheeler.  Great times.  Ughh!  It could have waited another month, or two!  Maybe it will melt again?!  A little bit more fall?!  PLEASE!!

Crazy Hair Day!

When you're in second grade you get to do lots of silly things!  One of which is crazy hair day!  If your class is really good,  and you earn enough good behavior tickets you can vote on which crazy thing your class wants to do for the day.  You could wear your pajamas to school, have extra recess, have a movie party or of course have crazy hair day.  You can tell by Reese's picture which crazy thing won the popular vote for the day.  Oh those CRAZY second graders!

Happy 13th Rae!

We can't believe that we have a teenager at our house!  Crazy stuff!  She is a pretty sweet girlie though, so I guess we'll keep her around a little bit longer.  I think she had a good birthday.  We celebrated with Grandpa Barry of course.  His birthday is Oct. 2nd - so he and Rae always have a fun birthday together.  She didn't want cake this year - she wanted cake batter - go figure.  So Reese made her cake batter, I made Grandpa a carrot cake and we all ate and ate.  Happy Birthday Rae and Grandpa!  Love you!

I can sit!

HANDSOME BOY!

Happy Birthday Grandpa Jonesy!

To celebrate grandpa's birthday I decided to dress like him!  Plaid is sooo cool!  Much cooler than baby outfits.  I also really like the hat.  Yep.  I'm thinkin' that I'll be a cowboy.  Cool.

Pie eating contest!

Our Grover community park committee recently had a fund raiser to help our park.  It was a really fun evening.  There were games and food and lots of fun.  You could also pay $$ to have the person of your choice enter a pie eating contest.  Grandpa Jonesy was a great sport at the event.  He spent a lot of his hard earned money buying things to support our park.  He also decided that Rae would do great in the pie eating contest!  Yahoo!  Here we go Rae!  Let's eat lots of creamy pie!

She begins - kind of slowly, doing well.

Our fun neighbor - Carol Larson helped Rae get more enthusiastic about eating the pie, by kind of pushing her face in it a little bit.

Okay Carol!  Watch out!  Rae's getting you back!  

Pie on the head!  Great fun!

Lovely, Beautiful, Graceful Rae Fullmer!   

You mean you went to a pie eating contest and a food fight broke out?!  No way!   That never happens!  Here is Rae and her friend Hunter.

Lookin' good kiddos!

Keeping it Real!

Yahoo!  The season has begun!  No, not fall!  Not hunting season!  I'm talkin' 'bout FOOTBALL season.  I'm talkin' 'bout the mighty VIKINGS.  So, they haven't won a game yet - big deal?!  We are fans at this house.  Fans I tell you!  We stick with the VIKINGS even when they sucketh!  We grow 'em young around here.  We begin the donning of the purple at a very early age.  Raise 'em up right!  

rolling over

Here I go!

Funny!

Someone stole my camera - this is what I found on it!  What a kid!

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.