7 Years ago...

Well, I know where I was 7 years ago - do you know where you were?

I was at Poudre Valley Hospital welcoming our surprise child into the world.  Seven years ago I couldn't imagine what it would be like to have 3 kids!  Now, we can't imagine life without the little squirt.  Well, ok, on occasion Steve and I do wonder what it would be like without any kids.  We are of course very thankful and happy to have the 3 brats, I mean wonderful children we do have.

OK - About Kyler. He is growing and is a great little boy.  He loves animals and is my little Farmer Jones.  He wants to do anything and everything his older brother does.  He loves the football, especially the Oregon Ducks. He loves baseball - specifically the Rockies.

Here are some pics and captions... (baby pics are here:)

Birthday Present

Steve and I gave him Skylanders for the Wii U early (last week).  MaKenna and Jake surprised him with 2 new Skylander action figures this morning.  I really don't know much about the game, but he was sure happy to get it.

Birthday Dinner

 One of my favorite traditions growing up was picking my birthday dinner.  Grandma would always make "Favorite meat", mashed potatoes, and "Favorite Gravy".  Kyler's go to meal is Chicken Fried Chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, and broccoli. He had already eaten the broccoli by the time I got my camera.

Birthday Cake

For his birthday cake he wanted a football.  We made the inside camo looking.  I would post a picture of it but you wouldn't be able to see it (since its camo).

This morning Kyler said this WAS. THE. BEST. BIRTHDAY. EV-ER! It snowed last night - just for him.

Happy Birthday little buddy!

Early Bird Invite...

Saturday Jan 19th, Severance Middle School (Jake's Middle School) hosted the 1st wrestling tournament of the middle school season.  Severance had never done one with 9 schools - guess they didn't anticipate the number of kids attending...

Jake and I headed to the school at 6:15AM.  He needed to be there early to weigh in and I needed to help setup and get things going.  I didn't realize that we would be there all day!  The tournament wrapped up a little after 10PM.  Once all the matches were done and everyone left we started cleaning up and moving mats. I was thankful we only had a 5 minute drive home. 

Jake did an excellent job in his first ever Middle School Wrestling tournament. His matches went like this: 

1. Pin, 2. Pin, 3. Lost, 4. Pin, 5. Lost 

Here are some pics and a video if i can figure out how to get it to work.

We'll be busy for the next couple months as this season he will have 6 tournaments and 8 duals.

Happy New Year

Here are some pics from our New Years countdown:

Countdown bags

2PM - Frosting to decorate cupcakes

Countdown cupcakes

3PM - Decorations

House decorated

4PM - Trip to town for Slurpees and to pick up pizza and wings

5PM - Eat Dinner (Pizza and Wings)

6PM - new Wii Game (Wipeout 3)

Playing Wii

7PM - Ice Cream Sundaes

Fixin's

Finished product

8PM - Movie and popcorn

8:30PM

8:45PM

9PM - Year in review and plans for 2013

10PM - Time to celebrate the New Year (East Coast time)

CHEERS!!

Happy New Year! May 2013 be your best year yet.

Christmas Eve

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house

Not a creature was "snoring", except for ole dad;

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,

in hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;

The children were nestled all snug in their beds,

while visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads...

4-H Float

This was September... just never got around to publishing it.

Windsor Harvest Festival
4-H Club float

November

November pics...
We had family pictures taken at the farm

Boys

Jake

Kenna

Kyler

Girls

November is of course Thanksgiving. We made ham, corn delight, snickers apple salad, chocolate pies, and much more. We ate dinner with our neighbors and friends. It was a very nice and relaxing time followed by Black Friday Shopping!

Kyler's pie creations

Kenna's pie creations

Jake's pie creations

October Catch-up

OK. I know its been awhile, but I didn't realize it had been 4 months. I'll go find some pictures and get caught up quickly...

1st Snow

Chip Kelly, Cleopatra, Josh Huff

The Loot

Dinner