Birthday Tribute to our Hallie Bug...

There is just something about your first born coming into your family and changing the way you look at life and how you live your life. I look back on the last eight years you have been in our family and tears come to my eyes at how much you have grown. When you were little, you were chubbier than Ledger, and people stopped to tell me you looked like you were going to pop. When you were a toddler, you always said MYSELF! when wanting to do something on your own. You have always been a little nervous when it comes to new things, (you get that from your mom unfortunatly), but when you do it, you love it. You are our happiest princess, a very big helper to me and dad, and the peacemaker of our family. There will always be a special place in my heart for you as our first baby. I thank our heavenly father every day for you and your spirit in our home. I love you, Hallie with all of my heart and wanted to wish you a very Happy Birthday on your special day! Love, Mom

Happy 8th Birthday Hallie! (Friend Party)

Hallie decided for her birthday party she wanted to go to Skateland and rollerblade. She invited 12 friends and all but 2 made it. We had a lot of fun, Papa came and was the girls entertainment for 2 hours playing "tag your it" on skates. He was a hit, the girls asked if he could come to their birthday party. Thanks dad for making it fun! Hallie got a lot of great gifts, she has some great friends. Today she wanted donuts for her treat at class, and then dinner at Gerdie's with the family. More celebrating to come... Papa and Hallie

The lovely guests

More lovely guests

Tinkerbell Flower cake of course

Friends skating at Skateland

A Good Deal!

This is kind of silly to post, but I love getting a good deal!
This week at Target they have wii games buy 2 get 1 free. Which is a great deal if you have ever priced them. At the front of the store they have their fun kid ones for 14.99 ea. So I bought 6 games, printed 3 coupons from Krazy Koupon Lady online the night before for a 10.00 off coupon purchase of 2 wii games only at Target.
Long story short, buy 6 games at $14.99 (the cheaper wii games, but my kids love them), this means 2 free and then 30.00 off in coupons which makes each game $5.00! I was a little sceptical of this offer, because I am not a coupon clipper, but I thought this good of a deal was worth a try. I handed the cashier all three of my coupons and without question she scanned all three, and handed me my receipt...$29.95 for 6 wii games! SCORE on Christmas gifts.

Baptism Preview...

The big day is Dec. 5th, but we were so excited I had to post these, the invitations are on their way. I can't beleive my little girl is going to be 8 this year!

Fall FUN!!!

Hallie bug
Our potatoe head pumpkin family: Hallie got a princess, Ledger got a skeleton, Ryker got a pirate. Decorated pumpkins and no mess! Gotta love that.

Throwing what leaves we had in our yard!

This pictures is suppose to be Ryker and his throwing up leaves, sorry, pretend this is Ryker.
Ryker making a snow angel in the leaves

Hallie making her leaf angel.
Best Friends!


Top Ten Things We LOVE about Fall:

1. Conference Weekend

2. Cooler Weather

3. Less lawn mowing

4. Pumpkin Pie

5. Turning the clocks back!

6. Changing Leaves

7. Costume Hunting for Halloween

8. Reflections of Gratitude

9. Hunting season of course

10. New Moon Movie(Twilight series)

Stairs and Crawling in 1 Week...

This little boy figured out how to crawl Tues. and was doing the stairs by Thurs. evening. Holy smokes, bud you have to slow down, I just can't keep up! Rolled off my six foot high bed last night, woke everyone up in the neighborhood...where do they sell child restraints??? cute little diaper bootie!

Crawling! Yeah, our first baby that has figured out how to crawl. My other two were bum scooters. You had a big sissy teach you every day for two weeks! We love our sis.

Takin' a Breather!

17 of those puppies is a work out for a chubbie Ledgie!

Giving me a cheese when I kept telling him No, No, don't go up one more. Yeah right, he'll show me who is boss!!!

Never a Dull Moment...

Yes, this is our live kitty, that Ryker trapped into a zip lock bag and zippered the top closed. I turn around from the computer and saw him carrying this sack around. I swear there is never a dull moment in this household. Everyone needs a Ryker in their home!!! Luckily it wasn't Ledger's head who was inside. And once again, Yes, we are back to trying out the cat buisness. For those that don't know the cat stories...we have lost seven in a year and this maybe the eighth!

Dressing Up...

Shane and I were out back talking and pushing Ledger in the swing, Hallie and Ryker were inside playing in her room. About fifteen minutes later they come out holding hands, Hallie saying look mom, Ryker wanted to be an indian. Within a second, I said what is on your face? Hallie spoke up and said I used a black marker to make him look like an indian. Oh great, hope it isn't a permanent one. I told him it probably wasn't going to come off and then I headed inside to grab the camera. He looked like this the rest of the evening, even told me he wasn't going to wear shoes anymore, because indians don't! Luckily soap does wonders even with marker. He screamed the whole time I scrubbed and said he wanted to be an indian forever. The joys of dressing up and getting to be someone else for a day. Holding his arrowheads bought at the fair
Hallie, our awesome artist

She thought she should be in one pic because she did such a great job.

our little indian

A Beautiful Bird..

Shane's friend that we met through craigslist is into falconry. He has fourteen of these beautiful birds. We traded him a dog box for a pointer elhew puppy, so while bringing the puppy, he thought he would bring the bird too. It was awesome to see this bird up close, and watch him eat a dead sparrow out of Shane's hand. Shane is now looking into a new hobby (in his spare time, ha ha) of being this friends apprentice, only we would start out with a red tail hawk. The falcon became very anxious around gunner and I had to lock him up. It was funny to see him call/talk when he got nervous.
Eating the sparrow.

Almost a blueish tint to his beak and eye feathers, this one is not full grown.

Pretty impressive to have one up close, Shane's arm got quite tired after the whole neighborhood came out. We didn't care about the new puppy after watching this thing for an hour.

New Calling...Bear Scout Leader!

Hip Hip Horray!!! After three years of enrichment I was called to the best calling of all (since it is only my first week)...Bear Scout Leader! We have four boys so far and I am soooo excited for a change in callings. This will be such a fun time to get to know the scouting program for Ryker and Ledger when they are old enough to come in. Now my only problem is finding a sitter once a week for an hour and a half! I thought being in charge of super saturday was a blast, the scouts aren't going to know what hit them!