Fall Days!

what better to do in the fall than have a rotten tomato fight!?

Cienna was the smart one and stayed as far away as she could! But Delaney and Joel had a war!

Taking aim

Hiding behind the tree for cover

I think he is going to get her!

Getting him back! Yes I have a lot of laundry to do now, and they had fun for awhile then the crying started of course!

Cienna hiding in the leaves so she won't get hit! What a beautiful time of year, the weather was just right and the kids were enjoying the beautful day while Mike blew out the sprinkler system! The storms are supposed to hit this week, we have been lucky this year and were able to get all our crops out with good yields! Mike is now helping out all the other farmers it is so nice to live in a place where we can all help each other out!

medicine wheel for real

one of mike and I don't we look excited!




It was a little windy up there!










from a distance!






















This is a smaller wheel, you can kind of see it in the picture. This is off by one of the entrances.


























This is one of the "secret" underground entrances, We were able to go exploring off the beaten path and find these again I was told they were to special rooms. The opening have gotten smaller over the years or maybe I just got bigger! It was fun to be able to show them to my kids, most people don't even know they are there!














You can't really tell but this is the center or the "carne" in the middle notice the buffalo skull.

















We made it to the top 1.5 miles to get there! I think that Mike and Joel are still hiking up the hill.

We had so much fun helping Delaney with her medicine wheel project, we decided to take a trip up the mountain to see the real one-now that there is not as many tourist around! It was a beautiful drive up the mountain we went up the Lovell side which we normally don't do, the fall colors were beautiful! What an awesome place to live.

birthday overload!

Look at that cake, yes I cheated and bought one, but what can I say its a busy time of year, and it is cute!


I'm not sure if the kids or my nephew had more fun at Rumble Park, It kinda looks like he is getting whipped by a 4 year old!?

The big kid of the bunch!

Queen of the jump house

Down the hatch

Everyone piled in for a picture! What a fun place for a party and the best thing is almost everyone is asleep now and they didn't wreck my house!

soaking the fingers.

soaking the toes

Cienna turned 8 on the fourth of Sept. She thought it would be fun for her and I to go have a girls day. she picked manicures and pedicures! Did I mention I don't like feet, or my feet being touched!? But I stepped up to the plate! The manicure was fine and nice and the feet wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Cienna loved it she almost fell asleep while getting it done! Me not so much!

Then we took her friends and went to Rumble Park in Cody for more birthday fun! Everyone got really worn out and mom gets the night off cuz everybody is sleeping and its not even 6:00. The only bad things is now I have to have this much fun for the other 2 birthdays, or maybe thats not so bad?

projects

look at how cute the fence turned out, she tyed on little fabric as the prayer offering, just like the real thing.




the finished project headed to the school!










filing away at the fence posts, and measuring to make sure all the spokes would fit.

Delaney is in the fourth grade at school. I loved the 4th grade, that is the year you learn wyoming history. She has started off the year with projects that we have been having fun with. She made a solar oven (that I forgot to get a picture of) out of a shoe box and other supplies. She had to cook a smore in it, it seemed to work she brought it home and there was melted chocolate and marshmallow all over it! That was fun to do.

She also had to pick one of several projects to do with history and she picked to make a model of the medicine wheel. It was a little harder than it looked on paper but it was fun to help her with that, it had to have all 28 spokes, and she glued on every little rock, with a little help. so much fun, I can't wait to see what comes up next!

school

Joel started preschool today! Very sad day to see my baby, a big boy now getting on the bus. He has been watching for the bus all morning and was just sure that it was never going to come. I wish I took a picture of his face when he saw the bus come around the corner!


Here is all three ready for school! Don't they look excited and happy for school, they really weren't!

The girls had two backpacks and Delaney had a walmart sack with stuff that still wouldn't fit! I can't believe how much "stuff" they need for elementary school, I'm afaid to see how much stuff they will need in high school!

So my afternoons will be lonely now, I should get a lot done, but I will probably just nap?? I wish!

Girls Night!

Hali and I thought it would be fun to take the girls to the drive in, in Powell. The movie was Ramona and Beezus very cute movie by the way! The girls were very excited!


This is just some of the "healthy" food we just had to have cuz what is a movie without junkfood? We also had candy and that popcorn we bought 2 that size (it had free refills) how many refills did we get?? 4 yes FOUR no dieting that night! But it was well worth it!

not a good picture but Delaney insisted that our picture be on here too! And look at those yummy nachos in my hand YUM!

Cienna didn't quite make it through the movie she missed about the last 45min of it. Pop and skittles, who needs a teddy bear to sleep? It was a late night but so much fun!

trying to canoe

"If we can just go that way we will be out of the mud enough to move!" But NO dang the wind anyway. It was a good upper body workout anyway!




We really wanted to go canoeing, so we decided to go even though it got really windy! Not the greatest idea, we couldn't get away from the shore!




The kids thought it would be easier to just walk beside us as we desperately tried to go out into the lake!

We finally got out there and then the waves would come in and not so gently rock the boat which the kids didn't like so they started to bail out one by one!

Joel looking for rocks and sticks in the water, he had so much fun!

Another one of Hali and I still trying to get away from the rocky shore so the kids could keep jumping out of the boat, after the first time they thought that was more fun than staying in? AAHH the fun days of summer!