{ HAPPY HALLOWEEN }

                                                           Ty as Jack Sparrow

                                                       Shawnee as Scholar of the year

                                                       Cortlyn as a Hip Hop Dancer

 MRS. UTAH, Butterfly, Biker Boy, Jack Sparrow, Chef Ramsey, Hip Hop Dancer, Scholar of the year.

                                                       Kenzie as a Butterfly.


Aren't we the cutest little family you ever did see? Halloween is a fun time with LOTS of parties and festivities. We hope you all have a safe and wonderful holiday. Now off to Trunk-O-Treat. Go eat some candy!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CornBelly's

 Don't you just want to eat this girl up? So stinkin cute.

 Ty posed for this one. I love this picture of him.

 We went to Cornbelly's with our friends Heather and Graydee. We had so much fun. We had to do everything. Build a Lincoln Log house. Slide down the slides. Watch the pig race. Ride the bikes. Go in the haunted houses that Ty cried through, won't be doing that again. Going on a hayride.

 Of course we had to dress up and be princesses for a little while. While we sat in the carriage. Ty was driving them.

We had to take the horse around for a little walk. These were so cute. You just bounced around a little track. The kids loved this.

Preschool

Ty's first day of Preschool at Mrs. Jen's. He was super excited. Can't believe he is big enough to be going to preschool. He looks so grown up.

One Beautiful and Talented Gril

 All I can say is WOW!!! These are Shawnee's drill pictures for 2011. She is one Gorgeous girl. Good thing she takes after me. NOT!!! I love the action shots. They turned out AWESOME!!!

Soccer Man

 This year we decided to put Ty in soccer. He loves it! He is pretty good at it too. He is the fastest one on his team and can caught up to the other team and get the ball from them. He scored 4 goals in one game.

 I love that all the kids are jumbled together trying to get the ball. So Cute!

Way to go Tyrell. You are one handsome stud in your soccer jersey.

First Day of School

So Shawnee this year is a Sophomore. Yes she is counting down the days until she gets her drivers license. I think it is 5 months and 7 days. That will be a bitter sweet day. She made the drill team again this year and she is loving it. She is the Vice President for drill. She gets all the fun jobs like planning the activities they do as a team. She has some easy classes but she did get AP Biology. Cross our fingers she passes.
Hayden is an 8th grader this year. His poor face. He went to Sand Hallow with a friend the week before school started and got burned pretty bad. He is excited to be in some fun classes like foods, guitar and ceramics.
Cortlyn is in 3rd grade this year. She is loving her teacher Mrs. Wachsmann. She has her really good friend Gabby in her class. She is super excited to learn cursive.

Ty will be going to Preschool. Won't be long before I have no kids at home. That will be a sad day. What will I do then? Read a book, catch up on laundry, clean the bathrooms. Who knows. I will let you know when that day comes.

Jackson Hole River Running

The Big Kahuna was not so big this year....But Lunch Counter was awesome. It dumped a lot of boats over including ours.
We passed the time by jumping rope. Hayden was a good sport and did it. Gotta love the concentration on this kids face.
Ty getting ready to go on the kiddie run. He got in the water up to his waist and then got in the boat.The water was a lot higher then in years past and was very cold.
Here's all the kids on the kiddie run. They had so much fun. Ty even rode on the front of the boat until we hit a little wave and the water got him and he jumped off.
Lunch Counter was awesome. My dad's back has been bad for a while and we were afraid that he wouldn't be able to make it this year. But with some good meds and prays he was able to come and ride. He made me captain the boat a couple of times down so that he could rest his back.
If you look hard it looks like Shawnee and her friend Sabrina are about to fall out of the boat in front. Lunch Counter caught them a little off guard.
Brad and Hayden having one of their wrestling matches. As you can see Hayden was the winner he is a tough kid.
We hiked up to Hidden Falls at Jenny's Lake. This water fall is massive. Being August and the water is still coming down off the mountain. That is impressive. It is so pretty up here.
Here are some of our hikers. We decided to walk all the way around the lake instead of taking the ferry over to the falls. Lets just say we won't be doing that again unless we have all day to do that. All in all we had a GREAT time and can't wait to go back next year.