Jack-O-Lanterns

I have a great pumpkin carvers!  I'm so glad that they are old enough to handle this messy task by themselves now.  I can just leave the room as the seeds and goo end up all over the place.  I leave them to their work - and remind them, as they are dropping goo all over the floor, that they get to clean it all up.  It is a wonderful system.  They even carved a pumpkin for Brannen!  Great kids!

Go Take a Hike!

Around here, you just gotta take advantage of nice weather when you have it!  It has been so beautiful lately.  Some really perfect fall days.  We enjoyed one such after noon by taking a hike in Grover Park.  While on a bike ride, Kelly found a neat fort that someone built, and he's been wanting to show it to the kids.  Some Sims kids wanted to go with us, so Jeff decided to tag along too.  Jeff also brought his GPS unit to find a "geocache" that was hidden in Grover park.  He put in the coordinates, and the kids found it by themselves.  They each traded a prize for another prize.  It was a really fun afternoon.  Beautiful weather for a hike.   I can just feel months and months of below zero around the corner!  Yikes!

This hike might be scary!  Oh no.  I'm not sure that I want to go.  I hope Dad will protect me!

whattsup?

I'm just chillin'.  Kickin' back.  Wait'n for the game to start.  Ya know. The usual.  

More Crazy Hair!

Rae loves Middle School!  She has been having so much fun in her new, big school.  She is involved in absolutely everything possible.  That girl hates to be bored.  The school recently had "Red Ribbon Week" - I'm not sure if it is a National thing or not, but anyway it was an anti-drug awareness week.  Dress-up days were part of the "just say no" campaign.  It was very interesting to see Rae walk upstairs every morning - we just couldn't guess what the next day would look like.  The only day that she looked fairly normal was "Cowboy Day".  Yea, she can do Cowboy Day without much of a stretch.  

We Miss Cousins!

Two weekends ago, Jennifer's cuties were here in Star Valley visiting their dad and we got to steal them away for a while on Sunday afternoon!  My kids had a GREAT  time playing with them.  The Fullmer kids really miss seeing and playing with these cousins!  We used to see them almost every day.    I can't believe how old they have all gotten!  Jude speaks in complete, big kid sentences!  Wow!  Halle loved Brannen, she wanted to help me tend him all afternoon. And Blythie was just wonderful.  What a sweet girl.  What great kids.  Remember to give them to us in your will, Jen.  We miss you so much!

Happy Halloween

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.