Birthday Boy

At our house we make happy birthday signs when it's some one's birthday (a tradition that I believe started from my mother-in-law when Scott was a kid).  This one Scott and Kamiah made together...pretty creative huh? 

Wesley of course was anxious to open presents (who isn't right?) so right after breakfast he sat in the birthday chair and got started! 

Halle REALLY wanted to get him a card from the store, so she did.

It was a spider man with a mask inside.

This is very tough Wesley with his new bat from Grandma and Grandpa Jones (he keeps it on the side of his bed at night, since we didn't think it would be a very safe/comfortable thing to sleep with and that way Jameson doesn't know where it is, he's a little scary with it!)

 Aw!  Little cutie-patutie!

This is a live action shot of Wesley opening his Lego boat present from Grandma and Grandpa Evans!  As you can see he is very excited!

Then that night we went bowling as a family! (No we did not take this picture-though it is very cool.)

We have a few silly pics from bowling, but mostly, we just played with, chased, and tried to happyify children. 

 Oh Kamiah's gonna love this one!

 Here's miss Halle DETERMINED to bowl her own without help...we were crossing our fingers that it would make it ALL the way down...

Let Me Outta Here!

This one since March 30.


Jameson LOVES going outside!  He's always pushing, pushing, and pushing on the front door trying to get out!  The other day he was pushing so hard he slipped and crashed on the floor!  (this has actually happened more than once!) No worry though, he didn't miss a beat!  He got back up and started pushing again!

Get out the Walker!

Here are a few old posts I've had just sitting around (since April 29th for this one), I never finished them I guess so I never posted them, so here they are still as they were, but I'm posting them anyway!

Jameson does this walk every now and then... We like to call it "the old man walk".  He does this half bent over thing with short steps, it's always out of the blue, and short lived.  I can never seem to get a picture of it to document it!  But it's hilarious, and we love it when he does it, makes our day!
we're not quite sure where he got it from??

Air Show

Recently we were fortunate to have the Thunderbirds come to our airport.  It was pretty cool.  Scott was like a giddy little kid ever since heard that they were coming, so of course he wanted to go and take the kids!

So many amazing stunts! 

And then the Stealth Bomber made an appearance.

 Look how thin it is.  It was amazing hearing all the sneaky things about this plane.

 Kamiah and Wesley in something.

 Halle in something too.

 yikes!

 Good thing Scott got some good pictures, because I had the camera for awhile, thinking I was pretty cool getting some great videos....only to find out I was taking pictures of the ground!!  WHAT??!  How'd that happen??

 There was a couple families from an interesting religion in from of us, I don't know what it was, but the women had to wear old fashioned dresses and hair coverings and wait on the men (or at least they did) and the men wore normal clothes and let the women wait on them.  Hum.  I don't care to wait on people.

 Reflections

 We got to go with some good friends.  3 other family friends were there with us.

If you ever get to see them...don't forget your ear plugs!

The next day of the show we were at home when we heard their loud thundering over-head.  We went out to see and the circled over our neighborhood to turn around, about 6 miles away.  Kamiah and Scott went up on the levy to watch.  I stayed near the house, everyone else was asleep and wouldn't wake up.

 From behind our neighbor's house way up in the sky.

This Weekend

This is what we plan on doing this Conference weekend!  We'll see how they turn out!

Clever Firemen

A few Saturdays ago, the kids decided to play firemen, and they went thought the closets and dress up stuff to find the perfect outfits.  Wesley found a pair of too small snow pants, snow boots, fireman costume, backpack sleeping bag, and Scott's rubber thing. (for a breathing hose- ehh, pretty clever!)

 Kamiah found a rain coat, boots, a hat (she did have sunglasses on too- after all a fire's pretty bright!  And snow pants, and gloves, all of which she removed-- it was too warm out she said.)  Their poor baby victim had to go up in the tree that was on fire.

But it safely landed in Scott's throw back net (his new best friend) good thing our neighbor wanted to get rid of it!  : )

 At one point Wesley even got out the garden hose... I'm not sure whether or not he turned it on??

 Then Jameson wanted to go say hi to the puppy! 
(our backyard neighbor's)  He loves the puppy!  In fact his first sentence was, "Where puppy go?", which turned to, "puppy home."  And then to, "where daddy go?" and everyone else in the family...

 There's Girl on her deck.  Really her name is Spot kind of, but she mostly comes to girl. "Come here Girl."

 One day Jameson (since learning his new phrases) was supposed to be taking a nap and he kept calling, "MOMMY.  MOOOOMMMMMMY. MOOOOMMMMY. MOMMY." over and over, until eventually I hear, "where mommy go?"  I couldn't help but laugh and get him out!  Silly boy, your too cute!

All I Need To Be A Mom...

The other day Halle said,
 "All I need to be a mom is, a purse, one of these (a hot pad), make-up, and a ring--I'm almost a mom!"

Close.

Back to School

Well, it's about time I post these since schools been in for over a month now!  Our school district just adpoted the uniform policy...which I'm not totally against, I think the kids dress more modest with it and look tidier.  Plus now the teachers dress up for school,

I was disappointed in how casual the teachers dressed around here and now they have to dress nicer.

 I love this picture of Wesley, even though it's blurry.
Scott was so sweet he stayed home a little longer in the morning than normal to see the kids off to school today.

 Off to the bus stop.

 We love Bus Driver Joe!

 good-bye!

 Jameson wanted to go too!

 Halle does "Mom's School"  I've done it with all the kids at this age, a group of us mom's take turns being the teacher and hosting for the week (just 2 hours, 2 days) with set schedule and letter, number, shape, and color.  This was from her first day.  She wanted to take the pictures on the deck, aparently she wanted to look at herself with the pictures, she told me (she's looking at her reflection in the back door window).

Happy School Days to you too!

Welcome to the Cabin!

This is part 2 of our Montana trip... I'm just slow.

Here's the cabin (Dad you may have taken this picture a couple years ago??)  Unfortunately, we didn't take very many pictures while we were there!  What were we thinking?!  I love this place!  MANY childhood memories were born here.  It originally started out as a bar and dance hall from the early 1900's, turned into a house and then bought in the 60's by my grandparents. 

After living through World War II and the drop of the Atomic bomb, my grandparents felt it necessary to have a place to go, should the world start to fall apart, basically. Plus, they wanted a place for their kids to enjoy being together and learn about down to earth things.  I'm glad they took the leap.

After their kids were all married and families were growing bigger, there were several pregnant women there at the same time, they realized that they needed more then one bathroom (the outhouses didn't count!) : ), and more space.  At that time there was 1 kitchen, 1 bathroom, 4 bedrooms (one was the bunk room that had, well several bunk beds in it), 2 living rooms and a back room that had washers and dryers and storage stuff. 

They decided to double it back and replace the old roof.  My grandma told the contractors the pitch for the roof that she wanted and they headed back to Billings where their regular house is.  They came back after a couple weeks and the builders had to add 2 stories on top to get that pitch!  My grandparents thought, "well, we can pay them to take it down, or we can pay them to keep going. "  They kept going, but ALL the family was able to help with something through the years.  Grand kids wallpapering bathrooms, dads and uncles sheet rocking, and building everything.  Most things the family built.

After there were rooms, my grandma asked my grandpa, "Oh Teddy, can I paint on the walls?!" (as my grandpa told my dad and me one day--she's a professional artist--AMAZING!!)

Now, there are themed bedrooms and other murals throughout the cabin.  There are now 13 bedrooms, 8 bathrooms, 4+ living rooms (it depends what you count, there are lots of sitting areas) and 2 kitchens (the old one is more of a place to store food though now). (This is also from a couple years ago, maybe my dad took it too?)

Here's what we took this time:

 Here's what Halle referred to as the, "scary stairs"  they are pretty tricky, and she was pretty proud of herself when she figured out how to use them herself!  There's a story that goes with these stairs... there's a story that goes with everything in this house!  There wasn't enough room for a full staircase to come out into the room below, w/o over taking, so my clever grandma came up with these (she may have seen something like this in a book??)  Anyway, if you step right, left, right it should feel (to full grown people) just like going up the stairs, it just doesn't take up as much room.

Here's Wesley shooting his cousin's bow.

Here's a video my brother Nick took and sent to me--thanks Nick!

 Don't you just love Montana?!

 Here's another one...

 The old chicken coup.  When my dad was a kid they kept chickens here in the summertime.

 Hi Jameson!