A nice weather weekend

A nice weekend and week of weather we've had. Its reached 70 a few days this week and the girls were able to get out and play outside, all day...till dark. The turtle was out and about in the front yard, we made a fence for it so it won't get away. The kids enjoy picking dandelions for the turtle, her favorite food.

Graycie was able to use her new Rollerblades. She loves them and is really getting good on them in such a short time. We had to tell her no more rollerblading for a few days because she had them on so much the last few days that her legs are swore.

The wind was blowing pretty good for a couple days and the kids wanted to get out the kite. We walked down to the school and were able to get the kites pretty high in the sky. The girls walked down with their neighbor friends Gretta and Mandy. Both girls did great and Pinot had a blast chasing them around.


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Graycies 7th Birthday Party

She had such a good time at her birthday party. We had it at the house and she had her friends come over for the party. Besides Graycie and Mia, there was Hanah, Karli, Gretta, Mandy, Siera, Akashia, and Kyler. We ended up ordering pizza because most everyone was still here and we just let the kids play until dark.

Here are a few videos of the girls at the party. I will post the rest on the webshots photo album that you can view here. The house looks like a bomb went off, but the kids had fun. Tons of cake, ice cream and good friends.

VIDEO: Singing happy bday to Graycie and blowing out the candles



VIDEO: Kids playing in the toy room before party



VIDEO: Opening up a few presents



VIDEO: Graycie reading Nana & Pops Bday card



VIDEO: Opening presents




Graycies 7th Birthday

Last few weeks at home

Not much going on the past few weeks. We have had some great weather though. Today it was 60 and has been quite nice all week. No rain or snow... but the dreaded wind is here. Its 4 weeks early again, same as last year. A few years ago the wind didn't pick up until April. Yesterday we had 40 mph gusts...

The girls have been able to get out on the bikes and scooters, we've had to get both of them new helmets. Seems like this is becoming a yearly ritual as they are hard on the helmets.


Uncle Mike came up to visit us for a couple of days with RJ. They were here during the weekend and crashed at our place Saturday and Sunday. Saturday they went up to Jackson Hole and skied the Tetons. Sunday we all went out fishing with Steve to the South Fork of the Snake. Water conditions we're the best but we did get quite a bit of hiking in. Ran into a Moose and her calf. I'll be posting the trip on my new fishing blog that is in development.


Other than that notta. Amber got another job to do some interior decorating. She'll still be at her normal work but wanted to get into the interior decorating groove. Hopefully once the kids are at school full time in two years, she'll be doing her own interior decorating jobs... website to come of course.

We've BBQ'd 5 times in the last few weeks, good to see the kids out and playing and now that we pushed the clocks ahead its a little harder getting them to go to sleep. Snow is gone, the trees are budding, almost time for the garden. Bunny hunting season is over, bummer. Pine hen, grouse, and the other bird hunting begins soon :) Steve and I did see a group of three giant black turkeys while fishing the last few weeks. That hunt is in April... Have a good one!




VIDEO: Mia being silly on her "backward silly" dress up day at her school!



VIDEO: The girls drawing chalk pictures for Uncle Mike to see when he arrives!