Grandma's House

Last Saturday, the 9th, our family got together at Grandma Janet's and Grandpa Gary's house to celebrate Adam's graduation.

It was so much fun seeing everyone and just relaxing. The kids had a blast with their cousins and running around their grandparents yard. We live in Boise, in a subdivision, on only 1/4 of an acre. So... to have acres and acres to run around and explore was a real treat!

We rode fourwheelers, had a fantastic meal, visited, the kids played in the fifth-wheel (it's like a playhouse!). Here are some pictures of our fun.

Jackson blowing bubbles (Or maybe eating them. One of the other.)

Adam and Mason on the fourwheeler

Happy Brigham

Keegan playing with Grandpa Scott

Kiana, always happy to smile for a picture!

Mason, Bridger and Keegan playing in the fifth-wheel

Grandpa Gary and Wendy

Kiana, Savannah and Jackson blowing bubbles

Tomboy

Kiana likes to dress up, get her hair all curled and will wear makeup whenever I will allow it. But, there is another side of her that takes after me.

From All Dolled Up

I had Friday off of work and considering it was going to be over 70 degrees that day, I decided it would be a great day to get some yard work done (and hopefully get a little sun on my winter-white skin at the same time). Kiana loves to be outside, so I decided to have her help out. We were trimming some of our bushes, removing clumps of grass from the areas it shouldn't be and pulling weeds that have unfortunately already started showing up. Well, in this process, we came across quite a few earthworms that were hiding in the dirt. Kiana had to hold everyone of them and had plenty of questions about them, including, "Can I keep one as a pet?" Obviously the answer to that one was no, but that didn't keep her from playing with them while they were outside.

Most girls when you clean out their pockets you find flowers, jewelry, lip gloss, etc. But my little girl, I find rocks. When she goes outside, she loves to find bugs, slugs and worms. I quite often find containers holding ladybugs or rolly-pollies in her room. (Unfortunately, they don't seem to live very long.) She doesn't seem to be afraid of anything and even loves to visit the spider and snake exhibits at the zoo and feels very fortunate when they let her hold them.

To Down and Dirty

I think it's kind of fun to see how your kids take after you. This is one area where my daughter is a lot like me. She likes to be outside and doesn't mind getting dirty. In fact, she quite enjoys it. And she is very proud of the fact that she is a tomboy!

Who Likes Presents??

I got this off one of my friend's blogs and thought it sounded like fun. So here's how it works:The first 3 people to leave a comment on this post will receive a gift from me during this year. When and what will be a surprise. There's a small catch though...Post this same thing on your own blog and then come back and leave a comment telling me you're in. Fun, huh? Remember, only the first 3 comments receive the gift!

Valentine's Day

Okay, so I finally decided to try this blog thing out. We'll see how much time I actually get to update it though. :)


For Valentine's Day, Keegan had to make his own Valentine's box. The instructions said to be creative, no crayons, markers, colored pencils allowed. So Jeremy, being the creative person he is, decides that this could be a lot of fun! He gets 2 reactor core switch panels along with a motor module something :) that his grandpa left him. (His grandfather used to work out at the site for NOAA I believe.) Keegan and Jer decide to build a launch pad with a rocket for the box. All four of us end up working until after 11:30 that night on it to get it ready for the next morning.




Now, there is something you need to know about this motor module with the 2 switch panels on the sides. Together they happen to weigh 16.5 lbs (and yes I actually weighed it using my Wii Fit). Not something that Keegan can really carry onto the bus and then into school by himself. So I drove him to school the next day and carried it in for him. The teacher had him set it in a special place so all the kids could see it.


Jeremy went to Keegan's school a few days later to help with the Valentine's party. He said Keegan's teacher approached him and asked him if he knew that they weren't having a contest with the Valentine's boxes. Jer told her he knew, they just wanted to make something really cool. Keegan said all the kids really like it.

Boys and their reactor cores! Sheesh! :)