Tater's Earrings.

Tatum decided she was ready to have her ears repierced.  We had tried once before, but she changed her mind at the last minute, so we haven't talked about it much since.  A couple weeks ago she asked, "If we have time when we're in Utah, can I get my ears pierced?"
We had time on Monday, so we headed to the mall.  She was amazing.  She never faltered. They were pierced one at a time and she barely even flinched.  That is my little Tater.  Once she sets her mind to something, there is no going back.
 

 

 

It's great to be 8!

 

a woodpecker in the house . . .

We heard a LOUD thud on the sliding glass door and when Cambrie went out to see what it was, she found this cute little baby woodpecker. It was pretty stunned so she thought she would bring it inside and hold it for a while.  It wasn't long before it was feeling well and taking off in flight.

Before we knew it, this is where it was.  Clear up on our fireplace rock.  As we tried to figure out how we could get it, he decided to try to fly out through the window, resulting in yet another loud thud.  Fortunately he survived yet another crash.  We took a couple more pictures then sent him off on his way.

 

 

The Magic of Dry Ice . . .

Halloween!

{Jake the Pirate}

{Tatum the Witch}

{Cambrie the Crazy Justin Bieber Fan}

{All 3 crazy kiddos}

{Jason the Chick Magnet & Me the Witch with Tatum & Cambrie}
Jake behind the camera!

Such a fun day! I LOVE all of Tater's witch faces. She was great at getting into character.

Piano Recital Videos

Click on each name to see their performance:
(Scroll to bottom of page and pause music player first so you can hear it!)

Cambrie

Tatum

Raspberries!!!

We headed out to a friends to pick raspberries this morning. My goodness, we were surrounded by delicious raspberries. It was incredible how many there were. We picked and picked until all of us were worn out.

Tatum liked to go deep into the middle of the patch to do her picking.

All the kiddos.

Jake ended up with raspberries inside his boots. Apparently a few fell in while he was picking! Look at the size of that patch behind him.
Yummy goodness! We ended up with about 4 gallons. Delish!

Huckleberry'n

It wouldn't be summer in Teton Valley without picking huckleberries. We didn't get out as much as we'd hoped, I guess I'll have to ration myself through the winter months. Anyway, we did all head out together, but with all the bear encounters this year, I was a little nervous.

Cambrie just getting started.

Evidence of success.

Although Jason kept teasing me about bears, he must've been a little worried, because you'll notice, he was packin'. I actually took bear spray and kept telling him that if we were attacked, I'd be better off. He still believes a gun is the way to go. Hopefully we'll never actually have to find out which of us is right.

Yummy goodness! Nothing is better than these babies!

Jake BuStEd!

Getting ready to head back home!

mystery bug

We've had a hatch of some unidentified bug here and the kids have decided to make them their new playmates. When we're outside you can hear them chirping all over. The kids caught a few and decided to bring them upstairs to the play room and play with them. When I went upstairs, this is what I found.

They verified for me that the bugs were still alive, but according to Tatum, "They like being our friends so much they just hold still for us." They had a third one that was riding in the Littlest Pet Shop Ambulance with a tiny sticker band-aid on it's back while I took this picture. He was quite noisy, so they named him Mr. Noisy Pants. Now they are back in the bug containers and being toted around by Jake. Pretty hilarious.

slip n slide day!

Tatum had her friend Ellie over for they day and it was super toasty so we decided to pull out the slip n slide. Of course Jake and Jack wanted in on the fun too.