First Day of School, Primary Childrens and Karate, OH MY!

Today was the first day of Shayna's second year of preschool. She was so excited to go and never acted worried at all until we got there and got out of the car. She immediately started crying. It was awful. Her teacher was so good with her. She took Shay to get a drink of water and I left. It was so hard to leave her when she was still crying. Her teacher said a girl in class asked her a question and that distracted her enough to stop crying and she did great the rest of the day. I always cried the first day of school. I guess my kids are going to be just like me. YEAH!!

Shayna also had a Dr. Appt. today. She has been having problems with her neck for about 6 months. It pops and causes and enormous amount of pain when it does. So we had it checked. While we were waiting for her appointment we took the kids to the park to play.

Britton wanted to ride his bike around the track. He's getting so good, he even starts and stops all by himself.

Tyler followed the kids around the track on Britton's scooter.

My Mom picked my Brother up from work and came to the park to watch the kids play for a bit. Here is Shayna showing Shane how to ride her scooter.


This picture. Oh, this picture. I'm not sure how to feel about it......

Our conversation went like this....
Britton: Hey Mom, Come here
Me: What's up Bud
Britton: Somebody wrote something in here
Me: Oh yah, what does it say
Britton: I had sex right here and I came everywhere
Me: Silent
Britton: Mom what's sex
Me: They meant six, they just spelled it wrong
Britton: Huh, that doesn't make sense
Me: Well that's what happens when your stupid, you spell wrong and you don't make sense. That's why it's so important to go to college.
Britton: Yah, I'm gonna go to college for sure.

I don't think that I like that he can read.




We went to Shayna's Dr. appt. He sent us to Primary Children's hospital to get some x-ray's done on her neck. If the report comes back inconclusive we have to see a Specialist. We are just waiting to get the results. I should have them back in a day or two.

We had to rush back home after the X-ray to have dinner and get Britton to his award ceremony. He passed his Karate test. He is now a yellow belt 2nd degree. He is doing so good with karate and loves it. I'm very proud of him.

Labor Day Weekend

We went to my parents condo for Labor Day Weekend. We thought it was going to be a nice relaxing weekend. I was afraid it was even going to be kind of boring. Boy was I wrong. My Dad had all kinds of work planned for us, and by us I mean Tyler. Ok, so my weekend was nice and relaxing and I actually enjoyed it quite a bit. Dad and Tyler and everyone else that owns a condo had to do all the work.

If you know Tyler at all you know he avoids pictures like the plague. I was lucky to get this one. I called him in a voice that sounded like I REALLY needed him. He looked and I snapped. This picture makes me laugh. We didn't go to the condo prepared with work clothes. My Dad was prepared however and handed Tyler an old pair of overalls and my Mom's Jacket.

Britton was even hard at work. I just took pictures......someone had too.

Here's Mom, she worked hard to.

Shay just wanted to pose for pictures so I obliged.

Here's another great picture of Ty. I'm actually still really mad at him. He got a hold of my camera and deleted the best picture I have ever gotten of him. He was actually smiling at the camera. It was seriously a good picture, I'm never going to get over it. He was in the process of deleting this picture but I caught him in time. They just got through working so he was enjoying a beverage. My cousin Chance showed up so Tyler put his hat on.

Cold beverage, Chances hat and Dad's overalls = Classic picture

Scott and Toni showed up with their horses which of course made Shayna's day.

Toni took the kids and I on a 2 1/2 hour Horse ride. Britton rode behind Toni, Shayna got the Shetland and you can see my horses ears at the bottom of the picture. I love horses ears, aren't they so cute.




When we returned from our ride Shay got to groom her horse. Poor little horse was sweating so bad under her saddle.

This next picture was the highlight of my trip. I can't tell you the last time either of my kids have fallen asleep in my arms. My kids are not nappers, never have been so this was very relaxing. This was after our long horse ride. I can't even begin to tell you how sore I was after that. My whole body ached. I couldn't sit for two days. I'm definitely a city girl.

Britton Karate/Shayna back to school night

Last night Britton had is Karate test to move up a belt. He was really nervous this time and was afraid he didn't know it well enough. When we got there he calmed down a bit and did a really good job. I didn't get very many pictures because I was nervously watching his every move to make sure he was doing it right and Tyler was busy filming it. We don't get to find out until next week if he passed, but I don't think we need to worry about it because he did awesome!

I had to take this picture because it cracks me up. This is one of their stretching exercises and Britton does it so funny. See the kid next to him in the white shirt, that's how it is supposed to be done. Notice Britton is lifting his leg, he does this every time and of course I laugh every time. Britton you are too cute!

Here he is practicing right before he has to line up for the test.

Here he's listening to his instructor tell them about the rules and how the test will be conducted.

And that's it. That's all the pictures I got. But stay tuned because next week we find out if he passed.

As for Shayna it was back to school night. We left Brittons Karate a little early so we could make it on time. She got to play with the kids that will be in her class while the parents sat and listened to the Rules and Policies. This is the second year she will be in preschool and she is so excited. She starts next Tuesday. I can't believe how fast they are growing up!

Happy Birthday Mom!!

I am posting this way late but Happy Birthday Mom. I just wanted you to know I love you. Thank you for everything you do for us. Your the BEST!!

Hilda's bath

It was time for Hilda to have another bath. Britton and Shay asked if we could take pictures and put it on the blog. Yes, this is the highlite of our weekend. So here it is.....Hilda's bath!


She is trying desperatly to get out the door

And here she is all dry and beautiful.

Happy Birthday Dad!!

Dad's Birthday was actually on Tuesday but we celebrated it yesterday. My Mom, Dad and Brother came over to my house and we opened presents and had dinner.

Here he is opening a present from Britton. Britton even wrapped it himself.

Britton is explaining the card he made for Papa.

This is the card Britton made. Papa is fishing under a rainbow and a cloud and sun, you can even see the fish is the river. So cute!! (I have no idea why it is turned this way, I can't get it to go normal)

My Mom took Shay to get balloons for Papa for his Birthday, she picked them out all by herself. Papa loved them and did indeed have a magical Birthday.

Shayna's made this card for Papa all by herself.

Happy Birthday Dad, We love you!

In other news......

Tuesday Morning I was getting ready for work and I heard a terrible screeching noise. I thought something was wrong with my cat so I went searching for her. I realized that the noise was coming from my back yard so I went outside and saw two Golden Eagles on my neighbors roof.

6:00 AM Two very noisy birds. They got louder when I walked outside.

I haven't seen the birds since this day but we hear them a lot.

Chance in town = FUN

Chance came to town this weekend and when Chance is around there is always fun to be had. Saturday we started off with a lunch Bar-b-Q, after lunch the kids wanted to play with their water balloons that we bought and it soon turned in to a BIG water fight between Chance and the kids. The pool took a lot of abuse as you can tell. I was holding the camera so I couldn't get wet, I thought it was a good excuse anyway. The water fight lasted about two hours and I have tons of pictures but decided to only post a few. I didn't post any pictures of the balloon throwing but if you look closely you can see the balloons all over the grass. Here are the highlights.

Thank you Chance for being a good sport.....My kids love you!

After the water fight we thought it would be fun to get ready for the day and go bowling.

This is Shane, he's not to happy about the gutter ball.

This is Tyler, he's not to happy about the gutter ball.

This is Chance, he's not to happy about the gutter ball.

This is Blake, he wasn't very happy about the gutter ball he got right after this picture was taken.

I didn't get a gutter ball so my picture won't be posted....HA!

Britton and Shayna love to bowl and Britton is so good about helping her. Britton bowls all by himself with no help. Once Shay found a ball that was light enough for her to carry she got rid of the "contraption" and bowled all by herself too. It so nice to not have to help so much, it was definitely alot more fun.

This is Britton and Shay's score. I think they did pretty darn good. They used bumpers but still.

That night we ended with Karaoke, beer and a scary movie. What more could you ask for.

Sunday the kids were bored so we made sugar cookies. I wasn't going to take pictures because I have so many pictures of us making cookies but Shayna was having a rough day and was full of attitude. I don't have many pictures of Shay having attitude, usually I'm to upset with her to think about grabbing the camera, so I decided I was going to capture those moments. So here it, isn't she precious.

I just love that girl....attitude and all.

And here is Britton, enjoying the fact that he is not the one in trouble.

What a good boy.