09-09-09 Golden Birthday

It was my golden birthday this year- but, I didn't get any gold???? I still had a fantastic day with my family.
Scotty bought me this pretty shirt- I think it looks better on him anyway.
Jack and my mom surprised me and came to bring my class treats for my birthday.
The second cake for my birthday.
The birthday dinner with Mandiscotty (manicotti) and cookie dough ice cream cake- yum!

Sun Valley Vaca!!!

We went to Sun Valley for a few day to bike and play. I have a hard time picking just a few pictures when everything we did was so much fun, so here is a picture overload post!
the best part of this trip was riding our mountain bikes down the ski hill.
On the lift riding up the hill. This was the coolest downhill mountain bike ride over 3 mountains almost all downhill. It took about 2 hours to get down. We had a few spills but they were totally worth it.
What a good looking mountain biker...
Riding the lift with my dad, who by the way is a rocking old man bike rider- he can kick mine on the downhill riding.
The boys in the backcountry. It was such a beautiful ride through the mountains.
Doing one of our favorite things to do together.
Me, my mom and seesters. I love these girls. We always have so much fun together.
We went to a really fun pool with a slide and lots of fun things to do. Jack and Hank loved to swim in the pool.
Me and my boys.
We went to the fish hatchery and fed the fish. The ranger let Jack feed all the baby fish in the hatchery. There were about a billion little fish jumping all over.
Cort took Jack fishing in the kid lake.They were bound and determined to catch a fish.
Still fishing.
But Cort kept catching trees, and everything else besides fish????
But their persistence paid off because they caught a little tiny fishey.
Jack was so excited that they gutted the fish and put it in a cup with ice for us to bring ALL THE WAY HOME!!!
One happy boy.
Red fish lake is the most beautiful lake I have ever seen.
Jack wading his feet in the water.

A sight we see quite often- Jack following Pa around everywhere. He loves his Pa so much. Pa is so patient and teaches Jack all about life and the world.
We had such a fun time and stayed in an awesome condo. The boys love to play together and we love being with our family. Thanks mom and dad for the sweet vacation and for all the fun memories!

New Tractor and Breaking Ground

We have been very busy with breaking ground on our house and building a fence.
Hank loves to play in the dirt and eat rocks.
Cort and my Dad got this tractor off KSL and have loved becoming farmers and digging holes.
Jack could ride on this tractor all day.
We all had to take a turn driving the tractor around.
The tractor has already been so worth it with all the holes we have dug for our fence.
Jack loved too get in the hole and get pulled out like a rocket man.

We have finally broke ground for our house. We are so excited to begin this process of building.
Hank and his best friend Ace watching us dig holes.

4th of July Weekend Fun!

We had quite the day full of activities on the 4th. I started at 6 running the 10k in Lewiston. Then we went to the rodeo to watch Cort rodeo. Jack watched Cort with Granny and yelled "Go Daddy" really loud the whole time.
One of the reasons Jack loves to go to the rodeo is to play in the dirt with his tractors and friends.
Cort bull dogged and team roped in the rodeo with Coby.

Then we went to the parade. Jack waved at all the floats and loved getting all the candy.

We went to the park so Jack could jump in the big blow up toys and run in the water from the fire truck.

Cort was really glad they let him ride the jerky up and down clown ride with Jack.
We had a great time with Coby and Steph and ate good food in the park.
We then set up the slip and slide and had a pool party.


To finish the night we got together with Judd and Katie and their kids for some fireworks. It started with the national anthem sung by all.
We had quite a selection of fireworks for the night and the kids loved the snakes and sparklers especially.
Not quite sure about Jack's outfit. He stole my headband and wore it all night. We had a great night and day full of activities.