February happenings

February has brought on new projects ....lots of them... besides all the fun regular stuff , we have began the transformation of our backyard. We started with the putting green last month, then we order bark, gravel, top soil, we have loaded free top soil into the Suburban  once, had 300plus pounds of rock delivered and made many trips to Lowe's, Home depot, & Ashby lumber. Every Saturday for a month our kids ask what we are doing on Saturday? I thought they would just know and start to enjoy yard work. We make them work but  they all complain, and fight. Once in a while we have a few good family moment in between. Like the one  here....WILD TURKEY"S! oh yes a whole bunch of them and Bob let the dog out front and we didn't see Cooper for a  little while. He loved it! He Chased all the turkeys till they flew up into a tree.

Here"s 2 beds ready for flowers and plants, we added two flowering plum trees up in the pebble area.

a view from the other side of the yard slowly we will have a beautiful yard again. Before pictures are always good for when the project is done it makes us feel so accomplished.

 Yesterday was Colton's first day of Preschool. He was so happy to be there, He loved his first day, I asked him about all the things he did, he said they ate fishy, read the Hungry Caterpillar book, painted his hand red, and sang songs. I said to him" What do you do if you have to go potty?" Hoping he'd tell me where the bathroom was, but Colton said, "Don't pee your pants!"

Addie took spring pictures at school...8th grade is half way over. Can't believe she'll be a freshmen at the end of summer.

 We finished the basketball season with the Hawks! Thayne was a super star, he loved all of it. He really has a competitive side to him he gets fired up when they lose. 5 in 6 they got better as the season progressed.

Thayne and Will  at the pizza party to celebrate. I think these two made the most points each game.



Here is today!

Colton went to school and I spent all morning tiring to fix the washing machine with a tech guy from LG all to find out I have to pay for it and have a service man come out. Cooper is beginning to show signs of being a good dog he just hung out next to me and got a little tired YEAH!



Good News my washer should be fixed by the end of today and the grass should be in too.



Think PINK!

Here is the first official baby picture of our little girl !
Isn't she so cute?


As you can see we have been busy growing a baby girl raising 5 other kids and remembering to feed and love the dog "Cooper". He is so much more clam without his sister. But not too many pictures have been taken, just lots of  homework, science projects, basketball games, valentines day activities,  making dinner, and  making fun family memories:)

and here she is sucking her thumb... oh no! We have done this 5 times before no thumb sucking little lady... time to buy some binkies.

Good bye putting green!

This past week we had the putting green taken out....a 1 to 2 day project turned into a beast! It was a 6 day project. We hired a guy to haul it and he was great! worked hard everyday and got the job done. We found out that this putting green was meant to stay for life. The project killed the bobcat 3 times and lots of dump trailer's full of dirt ,gravel, and rock. We will hire this guy anytime he was GREAT!

Here is the front yard aftermath. They made a mess of the gopher mansions.

But it didn't rain which was great!

DONE! now we have a blank canvas to put a back yard in.

Cooper and Sally

They had to stay on the side yard all week that created lots of work for everyone. Lots of walks we went to a whole Costco bag of bully sticks and filling up the hole they dug under the gate about 3 times.

After all of this work i realized our family of 7 with a baby on the way can not handle 2 puppies so Sally is going to live with Kristine's parents in Dayton Nevada. We all are a bit sad but this is what "Happy Meals" are for. Addie is  the one torn up the most. It will give her some thicker skin, I hope,or she'll need therapy in her 20's. This girl loves dogs!

Rubber ducky's

I know this has nothing to do with the great outdoors but we have had prom drama around here. Carissa got asked to Mormon prom and Junior Prom this last month. the first boy brought a  tub full of rubber ducky's with water saying " I'd be a lucky ducky if you'd go to Mormon prom with me" sooo cute. And her best of friend asked her to go to the school prom! Bob and I were thrilled two great Young Men! There is more to this story but I am forbidden to write about ...but our family will have wonderful memories of Carissa's Junior year of high school. tee hee hee. Boys...we sure love them!

 Colton has now taken all the ducks for himself and insists on making them clean with soapy water. They have been wheeled around the house for a few weeks, but have made their way to the bath tub.