Nice Sunday hike.

Today was beautiful outside so we made a lunch and took a little hike up to check out the city. It sure felt good to be outside and get some fresh air. I sure love looking out around the city, its a nice new perspective. I love doing this with the kids, we had great conversation and alot of fun. Now back to the beginning of the week. here we go.

We had an OOPS baby.

I have doves named Jack and Lily, we have had them for about 5 years. during this time they have had 8 babies. We gave 3 of them away and we kept the other 4, one died about 2 years ago, so now we had 5 at our house. Lily lays 2 eggs about every 3 weeks and I usually switch them out with the unfertilized eggs that my other female dove have lain. They are in separate cages from Jack. I guessed I missed the fertilized egg because Saturday I am petting Lily and I see a broken little egg and find this little one. They are so fragile and small I love them so much. Jack and Lily have never minded that we handle the baby or them. They are very social and sweet birds. Pats not so thrilled.

In this picture Cedar is holding him at one day old and then Mckenna and Keely are holding him at 3 days, they grow really fast. It only takes 18 days for the egg to be lain and then to hatch it is amazing.

Out for a little stroll...

We all took the dogs for a nice long walk this past weekend because Pat was having his ankle fixed after breaking it this summer. He has had trouble ever since but they thought it might heal. They ended up finding a bone chip about the size of a stretched out nickle, no wonder he couldn't really move, it kind of sat in there like a door stop not allowing his ankle to bend. It has now been about a week and Pat is doing great, it already seems like its better. We are glad we had it fixed. Anyway the walk this day was great but we froze to death, I think it was like 25 degrees outside. burrrr!!!

Happy 11th Birthday, Oakley!!

So Oakley is getting way to old. What happened? He had friends over and we took them swimming to try to wear them out, it didn't work. But they had a blast, after swimming they told scary stories, or talked about girls I am not sure which. We got up and all walked the dogs and they just played non stop. Cedar had Keely over for girl support. We had a great time with a bunch of awesome kids.

Busy January, what the heck, it's almost February

Wild Turkeys on the way up to Pebble Creek. Oakley got snow board lessons for his birthday.
It was such a beautiful day. no wind which is shocking.
.... while we all played Keely's room was getting a makeover. Very nice!

Fun in the snow!

Here are a few more pics of fun in the snow, what a great vacation from school to get to play and be at home.

3:47 am Christmas Morning!

We tried to wipe the kids out Christmas Eve at Grandpa and Grandmas but it didn't work. They came to get us at 3:47 am. We told them to go back to bed, but you all know how that goes, it doesn't work! so here we are up and at'um all the presents opened a bit after 4am. We had a wonderful day and got a nap in too!

My Dad turned 72 on Christmas Eve.

Happy Birthday Dad! Cindy's family and ours all went to mom and dads for Christmas Eve for dads birthday and the awesome fondue dinner mom makes each year. We spent the whole day together and had a blast. The time with family is so precious, all the kids are so grown up and its great to have these bits of time together as a whole family. We love to play games and eat and of course mostly talk, talk and more talking. I love you all so much!

11 days of Christmas.

Oakley and Cedar got to open a little package each day till Christmas. Usually I do the 12 days of Christmas but this year I was a bit behind and didn't get my plan all worked out. The kids made a little homemade book and each day they had to write down special things they are proud, thankful for, love, wish, etc. and it would go along with how many days left until Christmas. It was fun and will be neat to look back on in the future.

Keely and Cedar stayed outside as long as they could possibly stand it. This fort was so cool and I thought these pics of them needed to get posted.

Cedar's 3rd grade Christmas program.

This program started off the Christmas Holiday so nice. They sang some awesome songs and all looked so stink'in cute, it really got you into the spirit of the holidays.

We had so much fun with friends and family. Here we were at the Sand Trap having dinner and a bit of a boy vs girl competition.







Yes! tons of snow!

Thanksgiving 4 day weekend.

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. We definately did!
We ate a lot of food and had great friends to help us enjoy the long weekend.

Shiver me timbers! Arrrrg, its family reading night.

Edahow had the big pirate event for family reading night. It was so cool, someone here in town had made a whale that was only 1/3 the size that they normally would be and they blew it up in the gym. In these pics the girls and I are inside the whale. It was huge!

Beware of crazy pirates!











This is how big it was on the outside. It barely fit in our entire gym. We had fun and really cool whale! Peace, love and save the whales!!!

Fall Leaves!!

This is for you...Dad and Mom. This doesn't really look like much work got done, but we really did clean up. This weekend was so nice and a perfect day to be outside. You guys have the best leaves ever!!

very sad night!

Last night some friends of ours lost their home. I was at friends last night up Pocatello creek and they live a ridge over from where this fire took place. we smelled a fire and kept checking up the mountain and could see a glow and finally we walked up to see if a fire was headed down the valley and I took these pics of the house. It ended up being a good friend of Pat's and their kids go to school with Oakley and Cedar. We are so sad and feeling so stunned. Both of the kids were with their mom in the house when this started and are all three fine. Its Sunday at 1pm and we don't even know if the dad knows cause he was fishing in Salmon this weekend. This home was in the parade of homes last year. It really makes you think about how this would feel, fire is so devistating. there is just nothing left.

Trick or Treat!

here we have a bit of the 60's and the 70's, these guys had such a fun night and they look so dang cute!
and then here we have Ozzy, the Slayer, and a bad pumkin guy, (Oakley is in the middle) These boys got a ton of candy and covered a lot of territory this Halloween.
Pat's trying to get some of the goods.













This is how these guys normally look anyway, but thought I'd get a picture of them anyway!