FALL FUN

Well, I bribed Thom again, and he left the office for 2 whole hours, WAHOO :-), and we took the kids to Staheli Farm, we went to the corn maize and pumpkin patch. We had tons of fun! Again my blogger is have problems, so these pictures are in no particular order, and I have not added captions, but most are self-explanatory.

Well I have been trying to post for a couple weeks now, but was having issues with the 'blogger.' But here you go, this was the second weekend in October, I took the kids to the homecoming tailgate party at Dixie State College. Thom was there with the bull, I have decided that if I want time with my husband, I am going to have to go to him. So we have been spending quiet a bit of our 'extra' time at the college.


The Iceberg guy brought shakes for after the burgers and dogs, and then he rode the bull.

The following day, Sunday, we decided to go on a hike. We went with my parents and some good friends of ours, the Wilkins. We had 15 people and two dogs piled into our 12 passenger van. It was tight and illegal, but we had fun! These pictures are in no particular order.

Misty, Wyatt, Kaiden and Sarah(the dog)
See, my husband even joined us, he was bribed with Bill:-)

Ry is TOOO cute! Have no idea what she is laughing at?

Pretending to eat something?

NO idea what Kayla is doing!

Tiara

Willie Wonka!

It was a big hill, we were tired:-)

Cute kids! Kaiden, Kayla, Ry, and Tiara

This was some 'house', we were up the Anasazi trail, and this was one of their houses or something. Tiara, Kayla, and Ry again.

Kaiden, Wyatt, and Nic

Sarah stole my seat! She was trying to get away from Hunter, my pyshcotic dog, that REALLY wanted her!

Well here I go negelecting my blog again, it has been weeks, though I did not realize that till I was on one of the teacher's websites, that stated 17 days till fall break, and my last post was the first day of school, LOL!! Oh well, Thom was gone for 2 1/2 months so life was hectic! He is now home for "good", but my computer is causing me lots of issues, it has many a virus, so i can only use it for necessities, for other stuff, I am using the library or my mom's, or my phone, but my phone can only do so much, so until I get my computer fixed, I will be out of the loop, but hopefully that will be SOON, Bill tried, but, I think Thom did not do the follow through cause he left for out of town. But I will keep pestering for it to be fixed or to get a new computer all together. And hopefully I will be up and running again soon. Until then most of my updates and pictures will be sent to Facebook, cause I can do this via my phone. There is a bunch of new pics on there from this last weekend in Midway. That is all for now, but hopefully not long:-)

FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL 2009

So I am late getting this up. The first day/week of school has been hectic but here it is.
If these pics seem kinda grainy and blurry, I think they are, my camera is on the frizz.

(these pics were actually taken AFTER school, opposed to before cause my batteries died before school, AUGH!!, so I did not get a pic with their teacher yet, except Nic who startd the following day))
KAIDEN FIRST DAY OF 5TH GRADE!!!!

MAKAYLA FIRST DAY OF 3RD GRADE!!!


RYLIE FIRST DAY OF 1ST GRADE!!!

NIC FIRST DAY OF KINDERGARTEN WITH MRS. MASSEY HIS TEACHER(WE lOVE MRS. MASSEY SHE WAS RY'S KINDERGARTEN TEACHER!!)
WALKING INTO CLASS WITH SOME CLASSMATES(HE IS SOOO TINY, AND HE IS OUR 'AVERAGE' CHILD, LOL)

BUSY LIFE

So, yes...I have been neglecting my blog again. But only because I have been busy(being a single mother), and I have taken no pictures. No pictures, no blog. Simple:-)


School starts again this Thursday. I am quite torn. Summer went way too quick! And I am not ready for my kids to go back, but I am DEFINITELY ready for the trials of summer to be over.


Thom is gone. Has been, will be. He left last week for 2 weeks at Camp Williams for BNCOC. He comes home for a couple days(still undetermined) then he leaves for Germany for 3 weeks, for a 'training deployment', then he comes home for a couple days(again undetermined amount of time) and leaves again for Camp Williams for Field Medic Training for 2 weeks. Then comes home again then leaves for the annual Battalion Conference. Basically Thom will not be home till Octoberish at which time he will have to THROW himself into his job(which his job load got tripled)so yeah even after he is home, we will still not see much of him:( So it looks like for quite some time I will be playing the single mom card. And WHY did all this happen? Because I guess since Obama(GRRR) took office we have to play this 'job security game'. But I am a survivor, and I have AMAZING friends and family who help me, and I will be okay, we will make it:-)!


The kids are doing great. Will is not talking talking yet, but he does add more words here and there. His hearing seems to be MUCH improved since his surgery, PTL! He had his post op appointment and all appears to be working properly so far!!!! YAY!!! Now he just needs to play catch up.

KAIDEN'S 10TH BIRTHDAY

Kaiden's 10th birthday party, DOUBLE DIGITS, WOW, WOW, WOW!!!!!

He looks a little stoned or something in this picture (I pulled him in from the water balloon fight to get a solo picture from him and he was mad at mom, LOL)

My backyard looks totally trashed in these pictures(well it is) but the kids had a water/water balloon fight, they had 'forts' set up, and they had a blast, but wow, my backyard, LOL!

EXPLORING THE GREAT OUTDOORS

In the early morning and late evening while our back yard is shaded, and it is a mere 90ish degrees:-) the cats and bunnies have been enjoying the backyard and freedom. Thom has decided the cats, since there is 3 of them, need to be indoor/outdoor cats. Makayla got two bunnies for her birthday, you will notice I skipped Kayla's BD party, cause that camera is still on the fritz, so I cannot those pictures yet:(


TIGGER
MIDNIGHT (WE DID LET THEM OFF THE LEASHES, ONCE THEY GOT USED TO BEING OUTSIDE)

MY HONEY BEAR

LIBERTY

FLOPSY