Happy 10th Birthday Cienna!

Cienna had a fun 10th birthday! She had her friends over after school on her actual birthday and they got to ride the ponies, they all had a blast! then we had all the family over to celebrate again yummy food and good company! I can't believe she is 10! Where does the time go??? We love you lots Cienna Vivian!

Zucchini Boat Races

 What better to do on Labor Day with over grown zucchinis, than to have Zucchini Boat races down the canal??

 Millie and Cienna got really creative with their boats!

 Watch them float!

 Catch it!!

 Launching them in

 Joel's broke!

Uncle Lowell and Millie came over to have some fun with us!

GROSS,SCREAM, RUN go back & look!

 So imagine getting done baling the hay (in the middle of the night) walking back to your pickup and you hear a sound coming from the bale of hay!? Then you see something move!? RUN then go back and check it out!

 Then you go get your wife to gross her out a little, and for her to take a picture of this!!

 Is it a rattlesnake?? Is it 2 snakes??

Turns out it was 2 snakes and yes we killed them not because they were stuck and suffering but we killed them because they were SNAKES!!  They were water snakes but LONG water snakes! Now if he wants my help out in the field I think I need carried to and from the tractor! small price to pay for help I think!!

Happy Birthday to ME!!

 Joel has been crazy about ghosts lately, he watches the TV shows about them and he also found some stories that some high schoolers did in Cody at the Museum and at Old Trail Town. He has been begging to go to Old Trail Town ever since! So for my birthday we decided to play tourist and go for the tour.

 Joel was sure we had to wait until night time to see anything but he entered each cabin with anticipation of ghosts!

 He was getting kinda mad about half way through and thought that we should just hide out somewhere until night.

 We thought that maybe the hearse wagon might hold some clues to the past, but no!

 The old Burlington store building

 not much of store decorations??

 playing poker in the bar

 We went all the way through and no ghosts we did however buy a ghost story book for bedtime stories?? I think he is crazy but he loves it??

 Then we went mini golfing, cheated the whole way through and had a great time!

We finished it all off with China Town for dinner! It was a great day and I guess that we can just hope for ghosts another day!?

ouch!

 Remember those big toys my kids like to play with?? well this is what happens when they don't pay attention! the picture makes it look a lot less purple!

 The road rash that happens when your sister comes around the corner way too fast and you are going the wrong way. and you hit each other, Joel flew about 15 feet before skidding to a halt in the gravel and lucky me I got to see the whole thing in slow motion! I couldn't get my feet to move fast enough, and EMT mode went out the window and mom mode kicked in I realized after the fact!?

 You can't see it but the mouth guard is all scratched.

 the top is scratched, I think we would have been in the ER had it not been for the helmet!

The grill guard of the 4-wheeler! thankfully everyone is fine, it was a good lesson in paying attention and always wearing your helmet!

16 years and going strong!

 the 22nd of June was our 16th wedding anniversary this picture was taken a couple years ago, but I love this picture!

here is what we looked like way back when! our engagment picture weren't we cute!!??
16 years 3 kids later, lets see what the next 16 are like! bring it on!

Who's Your Daddy??

 We went to Utah for a Neves Reunion, it was a lot of fun here are some of the highlights of the weekend.

 No I was not pinching him!

 Kritin and me

 Virgil and Mike cooking lots of yummy food!

 Joel and Ember climbing a tree, he had so much fun exploring I hardly saw him all weekend!

 some of the group, we even had to take a test on the family history I didn't do very well but there was some pretty funny stories!!

 Delaney and Aspen sitting around the campfire

 They thought it would be funny to blindfold the moms and have all the kids yelling "mom" and have us try to pick out our kids!?

 I found two of mine!

 This is the awesome so creative! Aunt Maire would be so proud!

Virgil (daves cousin) was just sure that Mike looked more like him than Dave so he was goofing around and told Mike to call him "daddy" just to see how it feels! You have to know Virgil I guess but we couldn't stop laughing about it! Sharon, his wife said she woke up in the middle of the night laughing about it! Hence the title of this post! He also told Dave that he should have been a famous sire, that he could have been rich~ Cause Mike is so big I mean stout I mean..... anyway! It was quite a weekend we laughed so hard we cried! Thanks Virgil and Eldon for an awesome weekend, can't wait to do it again soon!