Where Does the Time Go????

It seems like just yesterday my kids were just babies! Now I am sending them all off to school for the WHOLE day! Here is Joel about 6 months old and of course eating with dad!



Now he is in kindergarten! He sure keeps us on our toes, we have to make sure all tools, tape, and glue are put up or we never know what we are going to find!

My little Cienna bug! She is about one year here.

Now entering 4th Grade! She made me straighten her curly hair for the first day of school. She is getting so grown up, she loves babies! I think she is going to be my Drama kid, she is always acting out something!

Miss Delaney, she was about 9 months here ans you can already see the devil in those eyes!

Entering 5th grade I can hardly believe it!! She loves any and ALL sports you can always find her with a ball! She is getting her braces on in a couple weeks! I am not ready for this stage in life yet but like it or not she is growing up!

Yep I am now alone all day, I thought that maybe I would get things done and enjoy me time, but Mike has had me busy so far. Maybe this winter I will get to just sit around and do nothing?? Anyway I hope all my kids enjoy their school year!!

Big Horn Co. Fair

Yes it is fair time again, All sorts of fun times! Here is Joel touching a spiky thing that I guy used in his magic show!


Delaney entered two of her quilts that she tied, in the open class and won first and second place Not bad!!

Mike entered his hay as usual and took first, he was beat this year for grand champion- whats up with that?? The Champ every year and he got beat out by a new guy?? He assured me though the only reason the other guy got it was because he turned in 3rd cutting hay and Mike turned in 2nd cutting. I think that he was more trying to convince himself!

He is still happy with first though look at that smile! so all in all I think it was another good year at the fair, maybe next year we will branch out and take an animal.

Operation!

So Dave asked me to take out his stitches from the removal of his skin cancer. Of course I jumped at the chance! This was right after I had read Mike's cousin's blog, he is a foot surgeon and he had cut a hunk of his hide out of his knuckle and took it upon himself to "operate" on it at his kitchen table! I couldn't do that to myself but boy if I could help inflict pain on others, I guess that's my specialty, I love helping people!


Cienna was taking pictures, she failed to get my official Hanna Montana scissors that I used to cut the stitches, Dave got a little nervous when I pulled those out! Rest assured It was all good I didn't cut him once!

The finished product! I offered to Pluck his whiskers too but to my surprise he declined?? Although I did get a couple trying to get to the stitches. Good as new And I didn't even hurt him too bad.

July 24th

So obviously I am still a little tired from yesterday because I put all these pictures in backward order, and I am too lazy to switch them around so here is our day from night to morning! We ended the night with the dance, Joel is not a dancer ( takes after his dad I guess) but I did get one picture of him on the dance floor getting his glow in the dark ring.


here are a lot of kids dancing in the dark with there light sticks, bracelets, and rings. they had a ball!

Doing the chicken dance!

the afternoon was the community lunch and program which the girls sang in, but Mike and I were helping get the food ready and didn't get to hear them or get any pictures :( Then they played lots of games, then it was time for a nap at least for Mike and I! The morning was the parade the girls were the Irrigating Acrobats it was very entertaining!

Joel and Hunter wanted to ride bikes and throw candy. so here they are on their John Deere Bikes!

here is the end of the race the kids were in first thing in the morning Delaney ran the mile in 8 min and came in first Cienna was second at about 13 min. not to bad! they both won pies!

here come Cienna to the finish line!

Delaney crossing the line look at how excited she is! she loves this kind of thing!

Here is everyone at the starting line- I did it last year but didn't this year. The funny thing is Joel ran it too but he didn't come back I was starting to get a little worried so I went to look for him, well he didn't turn around at the mile mark and kept running with the adults who were running the 5K! I can't believe no one turned him around the poor kids was exhausted!

Well that was our day in a nut shell, it was a fun day but when this time comes around it is also kind of sad because it always means that summer is almost over. But that also means then I might be able to keep up on laundry and keep the house clean again!

wind!

There was one crazy windstorm the other night that came through town there were bracnches all over and this is what happened to what used to be our cafe! Smached right down the middle! Glad no one was in there!


not a great picture but this is an 80 ft pine tree.

This one almost landed on someones house! It only lasted a few minutes but boy was it fierce! I'm sure glad we don't get tornados!

look what we won!

So we went to Cars 2 opening day and we got fancy water bottles that change color when cold we even got our treats for free (thanks to Auntie April) and we all put our name in the State Farm drawing and guess what we WON! They called the other day and said that we had until Friday to claim our prize what could it be?? My mind reeled with thoughts of spa treatments or a free dinner, sadly that was not the case this is what we got boy was Joel thrilled! Not so sure it was worth the drive but the kids were excited to win! You really have got to laugh about it! Now where to put it when I don't want it on the window anymore??

4th of July weekend!

The kids had friends o ver for a swimming party, they had a great time enjoying the sunshine!

The night sky was gorgeous that night.

How rednecks light fireworks, he also uses the welder to light the trash?? I don't ask!

I made layered drinks the white didn't work but the red and blue worked great, it was fun!

the finished product, aren't they pretty.

they made cookies with Granny Kay!

It was a fun relaxing weekend with friends! Nothing much but I thought that I needed to update my blog. Hope you all had a very happy fourth!