Friday, December 9, 2016

Pumpkin Carving

Cade, Molly and I carved our pumpkins and Sidney painted hers.





Cade created the cutest little face all on his own.






Molly and I used templates instead!  So Molly made flamigo with a palm tree.













And I made a spider!




Sidney painted a giant BOO on her pumpkin.  It looked super cute too!



Pumpkin Patch

The two younger kids and I went to Rowley's Red Barn and took a hay wagon ride out to the pumpkin patch.  We of course - as usual - had a great time!






We ran into Aunt Jessica, the kids and Jessica's mom Kris at the patch.  They were just leaving so Alivia stayed with us and played longer.










We shot the apple cannon a couple times.  I hit my target --- Cade did not!


Playing in Loafer Canyon

Scott and Jodi Brumfield just got their cabin all finished with the remodel and invited us up to watch some football and have lunch.  Jeff and I brought wings and vegies.  Joel and Julie brought some chips and dips and Scott and Jodi had some salads.  It was the perfect "football food" lunch!  We watched football inside while the kids played outside.  They all worked making forts.  Cade, Tyler and Gunner made the "big kids" fort and Molly, Emma, Ellie, Gustin and Trey made the "little kids" fort.  I was so impressed with their creativness!!!  They really used their imaginations this day and came up with some fun stuff!  Unfortunately by the time the big kids were done helping the little kids and went to work on their own fort, it was too dark to take pictures.  But they made a campfire area and decorated it with crap they found around.  It looked really cool!  They little kids got pics of their forts though.  
*They made a little teepee with cattail reeds to lay down on.*

*They made a firepit and circled it with rocks.  Then they found old railroad ties and hauled them over for benches.*

*They found all kinds of "TREASURES"!*


*And Emma made them necklaces!  She found shells all around and poked holes in them with a point of a rock.  Then she shredded a cattail into thin strips and poked the cattail reed through the holes and tied it in the back!*
How creative is that!



Diamond Dawg Family Shrimp Boil

I love this big ol' "family" of mine!  Who would've thought all those years ago that we would have become so close and would rely on each other so much.  We help each other with farewells, funerals, yard work, you name it!  I would do almost anything for any one of them.  I had them all up for dinner and we had a great time together.  We made a shrimp boil dinner and it was delicious!








Big Cay-nan turns 13!

This little monster who seriously is such a bundle of joy turned 13!!!
An offical teenager!
He is super compasionate, soft hearted, thoughtful and kind.  He's an amazing kid and I could not ask for anyone better than him!
All he wanted for his birthday was a new Nerf gun.  Kid at heart still I guess!








He requested that I make him a cheesecake for his cake.

Since his birthday was on Sunday this year, we took him and his friends out to lunch the next day.  They were all excited to not be eating lunch in the school cafeteria!
Going in a horseshoe shape starting from the left:  Dylan Jensen - Kade Cloward - Conrad Andersen - Cade - Kyler Baum - Kobe Carter - Tagg Argyle