Austin turns SEVEN!!!

In November Austin turned SEVEN! He was so excited!! He is the one that looks most forward to his birthday every year. It gets really bad once Samantha's comes along in June! This year he is big into Star Wars and wanted an R2D2 cake for his birthday party.

Here are all the wild party animals! :)
One of our games was to stuff as many marshmallows in your mouth as possible and still say "happy puppy."

And the other was a race to see who could move their smarties from the table to the bowl with only a straw the fastest. Pretty funny!

We are so happy that Austin is a part of our family! He has such a tender heart and is always the first to share with his sisters!

WE LOVE YOU AUSTIN!!

Halloween 2009

Better late than never! Right?! I have been trying to get my photoshop to work so that I could make these pics into cute pages, but to no avail. :( So, we will post them anyways! :) So here we go, in no special order.....since the site is being stubborn and won't let me switch the order.

We had a FUN Halloween this year! The kids were SO excited! Taryne sure got the "Tritree"(Trick-or-Treat) and "Cue!"(Thank you!) down quick once she seen candy was involved!

Here is GI JOE Austin!

Here is Taryne, Eva, and Anna trick-or-treating! Yep, this is how they rolled! ;)

Here is our whole trick-or-treat crew.
Here is the kids going to the neighbors houses.


Taryne the "B-bug!" She calls all flying bugs that.

Sammy the Good Purple Witch! :)

Here are all three kids. Austin cracks me up in this one!

A few days before Halloween we carved our pumpkins! This year I was pretty proud of the kids. Usually it is "Mom, it's gross! Will you clean mine out?" But this year they did their best, and with the help of Grandma and Grandpa they ended up with some great jack-o-lanterns!

Here are Curt's and Sammy's.

Then mine and Austin's!

Grandpa's Birthday Party!

Grandpa Bundy turned 80 this month!! We LOVE Grandpa!!

We got together to celebrate on Saturday with yummy food, playing game, and homemade ice cream!!

Grandpa, Sammy, Taryne, and Austin
again + Grandma :)


Grandma shocked us all by playing Texas Hold em!

Sammy turning 8!!

So I am playing a little catch up here.....on scrapping AND blogging. It's slow going but I am working on it! :)

Anyways, in June Sammy turned 8!! Can you believe how the time flies?!! She invited some friends over for a Flip-Flop Party. They decorated flip-flops to take home as well as all the normal party fun!

Oh, and for the cupcakes......they turned out pretty cute huh? :) When I turned the cake out that morning it stuck really bad. Oops! But she was way happy with the cupcakes!

Bummer!

Yesterday the fam got up extra early and hit the road at 6:00 AM! We headed to Cedar to watch the hot air balloons launch @ 7. When we got there they hadn't even unloaded any of them and a few minutes later the head guy said they were going to call it because of the forecast. BUMMER! Even thought there wasn't a stitch of wind on the ground they did show us using helium balloons that the wind did change higher. Taryne on the other hand was thrilled enough with the balloons we DID get to see though. :) So instead we went to McDonald's and ate breakfast and let the kids play. All was well and we will try again next year. :)

Labor Day

This year we didn't have any plans for the Labor Day weekend. But on Monday Curt and I both had the day off and of course the kids had no school. So since Curt was on call we spent the day getting things done around the house and then just relaxing and watched a movie. We decided that for dinner we would make tinfoil dinners and ride up to the reservoir and cook and eat them and the roast marshmallows and make smores!! My parents, Wade, Jenn, and her friend Dave all came with us too! Jenn and Dave walked with the kids to the lake to throw rocks in the water. They were amazed by Dave's rock skipping abilities. (Thanks Dave! They thought I knew an awesome trick until you came and blew me out of the water! :) Anyways, we ended up having a lot of fun!! Nice when those last minute ideas come together like that! :)

Trav's wedding

My brother Trav got married July 25th. We are so excited to have Heather in the family!! They had their reception at the Marriott and Jenn went through a LOT of work on the food and it was excellent!! I made the cake for them.

CONGRATULATION TRAVIS AND HEATHER!!

here is Sammy dancing with Uncle Trav during the Honeymoon Dance.

Pioneer Day cont.

I took Sammy and Taryne to the races. I was excited that Taryne actually ran this time! On the 4th she would budge.

Here is Sammy racing with cousins on each side.

And coming to the finish!!


And I just get a kick out this pic of Taryne with her race treat! :)

After the races every year the local firefighters do a coin pond! Sammy always looks forward to it. Curtis feels like he misses because he always ends up working that day and doesn't get to hose the kids down. :)

Huh?! :)

What's that you say??! It's about time?? I know, I know!! :) Where have we been?? Well busy, that's where........okay and a little slacking going on too I guess. Once Curt and I started our EMT classes life was so hectic we could hardly keep up! But it was so worth it! I passed my Basics test about a month ago and then Curtis passed his yesterday!! It was a lot of work but it has been a ton of fun also!! :) So here I am, FINALLY updating our blog!! I will be trying to do quite a bit of catch up so stay tuned!

Pioneer Day!!

I always look forward to Pioneer Day here! The day started with Curt and I walking the "Fun Walk". Next was the parade. The kids always end up with so much candy and I love to cheer the floats on! We sit at the beginning where the parade starts so we can watch the parade and chase candy and then at the end the kids can hop on the fire truck with their dad!! It works out perfect! This year I hopped on one of the ambulances at the end too and threw half the candy the kids had picked up. No worries. Believe me, we STILL have candy gaulor!! :)

This year was EXTRA special! Grandpa Jones was Grand Marshall in the parade! He was pretty excited especially since so much family came to cheer him on!!

For your Princess!!

My friend Emily posted this on her blog so I thought I would share it as well. Thanks Em!!

Precious Places (a branch of Fisher Price) is offering a FREE princess DVD called The Princesses Save the Ball. Yeah, that's right FREE. No shipping and handling charges either. If you would like a copy, click HERE and enter your info. The movie should arrive within 12-14 weeks. If you don't have a little girl, you could always refer your friends or give the movie away as a gift. Don't you just love to find freebies or deals!?!

Pay It Forward

The first 3 people to leave a comment on this post will receive a hand made 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!

Missoula play!

Last week Sammy was so excited to be in the Missoula play! She tried out last year and didn't make it so to make it this year was extra great! The put on The Amazing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. She had the part of an Orange chameleon and did a GREAT job! Blogger didn't want to upload the video so I just put some pictures. Sammy is top left.

NASCAR!! Yep, I guess you could call us rednecks now!

So, on March 1st Curtis took me, Jenn, and Wade to the NASCAR races in Las Vegas! He went last year but for the rest of us it was our first time going. My heck, it was so much more fun than I thought it would be! I would definitely go back.

The race was so exciting! There was so much to see! They had flying Elvis', a stunt helicopter, and the fly-over by the Air Force! The cars are SO LOUD!! I never would have imagined!

It was really fun that we had pit passes so that we were able to go down and walk through the driver's pits. (That sounds weird, but how else would you say that?) Anyways we got to tour Pit Road! There you go!

We had hospitality tickets so we got to go eat, we got goodie bags, and listened to Micheal Waltrip answer some questions. I thought he was pretty funny.

We got to sit in this car. We wanted to start it up, but the kid in charge only let the kids or the really pretty girls with big....well you know. :) Jenn and I like the M&M and Aflac tires too.

Take him Down Austin!!!

Saturday was Austin first wrestling match of the season!! We woke up and drove to Beaver that morning. I think he was probably the smallest Kindergartner there but he did a good job!!

Austin took 3rd place!!!

Finally!!

Yeah I FINALLY did it!! I made a new one changed my background from the Christmas one!! I don't know why because we all know it will roll around faster than we know it!! But I am getting Spring Fever!!

Basketball

Saturday the 14th was Sammy's last basketball game of the season. She did really good and LOVES playing!! We could see the improvements she made with each game.

If anyone has pointer on taking pictures in the gym and at a basketball game I need them as you can see. :)

One Week.....Three Cakes!

Well it has been a busy cake week but all went pretty well. I think everyone was happy with their cakes. I had just a couple of little mishaps. One of which Taryne helped with. Ready?...

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Apparently she now knows how to push the chairs away from the table enough to get up. Oh well could have been worse and I couldn't be mad. I remember back when I was taking the cake decorating classes and about an hour before I was going to leave Sammy and Austin ate the middle out of my cake. Yeah that one I could fix-just filled it in with icing. :)

Taryne sure has been a busy little girl, but more on that later.

So check out the THREE cakes I did this week. Click here.

He's a "Star!"

Austin was "Star of the Week" last week in his school class! He was so excited!