New family member

After many many years of begging and 9 months of Kierra keeping her room clean, I finally gave in to the kids desire to get a dog. Her name is "Honey" and she is a 2 year old Golden Retriever. I have always loved Golden Retrievers so I decided if I had to have a dog, I wanted it to be this kind.

Last Saturday Dale started looking on-line for Golden Retriever puppies. He came across the web-site of a breeder who was selling Honey because she wouldn't be able to have puppies. We went back and forth between the idea of getting a puppy or Honey. We decided it would be better for our family to get an older, already trained, dog.

So we called the breeder and told her we wanted to get Honey. The breeder lives in Logan so we all took a trip to Logan yesterday to get her. We were able to see her with the trainer. She has been trained to come, sit, stay, fetch etc...When she first saw us she was very shy. She hid behind the legs of the trainer just like a little kid would. It was sad. She was very nervous to come home with us. She is very nervous and shy and keeps looking for her previous owner. They said it would take a couple of weeks before she would acclamate to a new home. We are excited for her to get to know us so we can play with her. She is a very gentle dog. I haven't heard her bark yet. I think she will be a great dog for our family!

July 4th (part 2)

We spent the actual 4th of July with Dale's mom in Pocatello. We had so much fun! We started out by going to a patriotic concert in the park. My kids couldn't believe how many "old" people were there. It was so nice to sit outside and listen to Patriotic music. They even passed out free ice cream cones to everyone. You don't see that in Utah very often.

Katie was very entertaining for the senior citizens. She kept going over to them and talking to them and showing them her ice cream cone. They loved her and it was fun to see them playing with her.

After the concert, we went to with Dale's aunt and uncle to their church for fireworks. His uncle bought some fireworks and sparklers for the kids to do. The kids had a great time with that. Their church had tons of food for us to eat. When it was dark, we watched the Pocatello city fireworks. They actually put on a very good and long show. So long that the kids started falling asleep at the end. The next day, on the way out of town, we ate lunch at Ross Park. I don't know what it is about that place but I love it. I love going to Pocatello. It is such a fun little town.

Happy 4th of July!

I love the 4th of July!!! I love patriotic clothes and decorations, Bar-B-Qs, fireworks, songs about America, parades and playing outside. Tonight, to celebrate the 4th, we had a Bar-B-Q with some of our friends. There were 14 kids there and they all had a great time playing outside while the adults visited. After we had yummy steaks for dinner we went to watch fireworks in Sandy. I had been here before several years ago and it was great. Not too crowded and awesome fireworks. When we got there tonight I quickly found out that this spot has gotten more popular through the years because it was packed! We did find a spot to set up our blankets and the kids once again had a great time together. They got their glow sticks on and danced to the music while eating snacks! The fireworks were cool but a building was kind of in our way. Oh well, it was still fun! I really love to watch fireworks! Tomorrow, after church, we are headed up to Pocatello to visit Dale's mom and she is going to take us to a patriotic concert in the park and we will get to see more fireworks. I'm excited because I love going to Pocatello. I get to eat at Ross Park drive-in. Yummy!

Last day of school

Today was the last day of school for my kids in elementary school. It seems like every year the school year goes by faster. It was a great year for everyone! All 3 kids had fantastic report cards! Jake had my favorite teacher, Mrs. Newman, this year. She is a wonderful teacher and everyone loves her as much as she loves them. I am very thankful for her patience with Jake this year and we will miss her next year.

Jaxon and Kayla were in the same class this year and have a great relationship. Jaxon does a good job watching out for Kayla. Jaxon was the only kid in his class who did enough book reports to get black-out bingo. I'm very proud of his desire to be the best.
Kierra and Kamry also have a great friendship. They have never been in the same class but as they are going into 6th grade we have decided to allow them to be in the same class together. They are very excited. This means that Kierra will be on a different track then the boys so she gets a longer summer. The boys only get 3 weeks and she will have 6.

School's out! When I picked up the kids today, they were very excited to share the news that our school will be changing their start time from 8:30 to 9:00 next year. I was actually glad to hear this news. I think that having that extra half hour in the morning will be great for all of us. After school was over, we all went to our favorite pizza buffet at Mountain Mikes then to see Toy Story 3. It was a cute movie and thanks to my friend, Suzy, I got to enjoy the movie and not have to deal with Katie. It's been a great year and now we have to try and have a fun three week summer!

Field day!

Another Field day has come and gone. I have been in charge of field day with my friend, Liz, for several years. I decided I wanted to help run the show after being a parent volunteer and had to try to explain to a whole bunch of little kids how to form a line. Annoying! Liz and I have been doing field day together for 4 or 5 years and each year we learn a few things to make the next year run smoother.

Today was the B,C,D track field day and that's a ton of kids! We have 75 parents volunteers and that's not enough! The kids rotate around to 9 different stations and we try to have water at as many as we can. We have 6 hoses that we hook to each other so that we can get a super long hose to fill up everyone's buckets.

This year I brought Kyson with me and had him go around with Jake's class. He had a blast participating in the games and felt pretty cool hanging out with Jake and his friends.

This is Jaxon playing one of the kids favorites, water baseball. He was taking the game a little more seriously than most of the class, especially the girls. He kept pitching too fast and they couldn't even hit the ball. Finally, they made him throw underhand.

, This is Kierra with some of her friends eating sno-cones. Sno-cones are definately the favorite for most everyone. What is it about ice with flavoring that kids love so much? I love watching my kids have fun with their friends.

Being in charge of field day is a TON of work and I come home so beat, but it's worth it when you see so many kids love it so much!

Craft Day

One of Kyson's best friends is his cousin Taeya. Almost every day he asks me if he can play with her. Today they were having a hard time finding something to do so I found a craft for them.

We had a bunch of #10 cans so we decided to make can stilts. I covered them with contact paper and let them paint whatever they wanted on them.

Taeya had a much longer attention span for painting than Kyson did. He drew a few pictures then asked me to finish the cans. She spent a long time drawing cute girly pictures on hers.

When they were done, they had a great time walking everywhere on them. They walked around the house and then outside. It was fun to see them have so much fun together!

Byers weekend at the cabin

We spent this last weekend with the Byers Family at the cabin. We all had a great time together! I especially enjoyed watching Macy and Katie play together. They were so cute! They never got sick of each other and just followed each other around all the time. When I got Katie up this morning she said "Macy Bye Bye" and was so sad. It was so cute to see a friendship starting to develop between those two cousins.

This is everyone that was there. We took this on the last day before we went home. All the kids were sad and didn't want to go home. We had a lot of fun! We went on a walk around Silver Lake, played games, stayed up late and ate yummy yummy food!

We were there on Sunday, which was Father's Day, so we tried to make it a good day for the Dads. We made them breakfast burritoes with Chile Verde from their favorite restaurant and tried to let them relax. I'm not sure what they were looking at on the computer but they were having a good time together.

I'm so glad that Gladys came from Idaho and stayed with us. She is deathly afraid of mice so it took a lot for her to climb into one of the beds and sleep there. We're so glad that she did! Everyone was so excited to see Grandma and spend time with her. The cousins had a BLAST together. They played so well together and got along great the whole time! It was really cute how much Kyson and Taeya loved being with Annie. They followed her around everywhere. One night Kyson was sitting at the dinner table all by himself and wasn't eating. He told me to hurry up and make Annie's food so he could eat his dinner with her.

We played games like Spoons and Guess what Character I am. Jadon even got the oppurtunity to teach everyone one of our favorite games, Pounce. We don't get together with The Byers Family very often so I'm glad that we got this chance to spend the weekend together