Apple Picking

We went apple picking for family home evening! We had a good time and got some good apples!  I made pie with them last night! Yeah! It turned out very good!  I still have a lot apple sauce is next on the list!

We went through clothes again! Time to get out the winter clothes!  Paige picked out this outfit I just thought it was sooo cute!! My little cowgirl!

We went to the Greybull/Big Piney football game on Friday!  We had a blast! Paige and her buddy Callie.  I was so proud of Paige she was playing with her friend when another friend came up to them and she said, "play with us!" What a sweet friend.  Her teacher told me that all the girls in her class love Paige and they just follow her around.  One little girl even had hold of her and wouldn't let her go! :) how cute!  She said she is very good and listens well!  I'm proud of Cloe too, one if her friends just wanted to play with her and Cloe said, "let's play with everyone!"  She also got buried in the long jump pit!  Dakota was getting chased by all the boys!  I enjoyed Brent and visiting with friends. Greybull won!  But Brent was rooting for his old team.

Sat. we played soccer as a family and Brent is putting up a fence.  He's still job searching and he has 26 miles left to go to finish his goal of running 100 miles in sept.  I started working at the coffee barn a couple days a week, I'm learning a lot about coffee.  Bristol gets to come with me.  Cloe is doing cheerleading and volleyball. Dakota is doing cheerleading and soccer and Paige is doing soccer too!  Pictures to come!

Foreign

Me on my first day, by myself, working at the coffee barn.  It sure is a foreign business for me!  I have learned a lot about coffee!  The best part about the job is that Bristol gets to come!  I was a litte bummed having to work so close to Bristol being born but this was the best option so that I could be with her plus I enjoy the social part of the job.  The people I work with and the customers.  I got a couple people from England come through and tell me about their travels through the states!  I'm still hopeful for Brent to get a job soon and we r going back to school I'm going to do English Ed and he's doing special ed!  I'm really excited about getting my degree I'll be ready to teach when Bristol starts school! Yeah!

We had some visitors this weekend!  We had a wonderful time. Brent's parents and their foreign exchange students came for the weekend.  The activities were getting firewood and bountiful basket!  Board games and piggy back rides! We went up the mountain and we went fishing, the girls had never been. They got to catch a fish and my girls got some casting practice.  Then we stopped at shell falls and got to look around there.  We went to the New Mexican restaurant and then out for ice cream I was so pooped I fell asleep right when we got home everyone else tried to watch a movie but then also had to retire.  It was nice to have them at church too and then they headed home! 

5 months old

These are the pictures from Bristol's 5 month old photo shoot! Believe it or not but I narrowed them down quit a bit!

She has started eating rice cereal but I am using the term "eating" very loosely here.  She has changed from pushing the food out with her tongue to spitting the food out!  She usually sprays me and all surrounding areas with cereal!  But she likes playing with the spoon and bottle while we eat dinner!

She does push ups with her body and pushes herself backwards and around in circles but hasn't quit made it up on her knees yet!  She also grunts and talks and giggles!  My favorite noise is when she makes and ahhhhh noise before she goes to sleep!  Speaking if sleep she still wakes up once or twice to eat at night but I barely even notice because she sleeps with me most of the time and we nurse and I sleep! And then she goes right back to sleep!

Cute little dimple!  A friend of ours said, "she smiles with her whole body!"  And that is so true! Her head down to her toes and she just wiggles and her feet kick and her arms wave! It's really cute!

she is very curious and enjoys crumpling and sucking on paper!  She loves to put everything in her mouth!  She doesn't really care for a pacifier or bottle much, but loves to toys in her mouth!

One if my favorite things she does is grab both her feet and suck on her toes! I think this is what she must have looked like inside my tummy!  What a sweet good baby! We are so blessed to have her!

Lightning

The girls and their cat!

You can't see too well but all three girls looking up at the cat up the tree.  Those cats love their girls.

 But unfortunately one of the cats is missing and has been for about a month.  It's Kota's cat lighting!  We decided to give her a funeral.  Kota led a prossesion and she had a vale on and she wrote a beautiful speech about all the fun things she did with lightning and activities that lightning liked to do like play in holes and playing dead and following her all the time especially on walks.  Then she made a cake for the funeral she was in charge of the whole funeral including the cake making, she made a jello poke cake and decorated it with Lightning and the words "I love you."  She was so cute, she said, " thanks for letting me be in charge mom."   The missionaries shared dinner and cake with us.  Then we cut some flowers and made a grave site by Austin (the other dead cat) and put flowers on them and sang a song and said goodbye to the cat, our loved, Lightning.

First day of school

They're off!

Already having to run for the bus on the first day!

Their off, kinda sad that paige starts kindergarten today! I'm going to miss all our alone time, but I'm so happy for her she was super ready!

Her first time riding the bus

Paige came of the bus and said, "best day ever!" I'm so glad she had a great first day!

Kota's first day of 2nd grade, she had friends and already has a "girls group."

Paige's first day of kindergarten!  She was so proud to have a binder to bring home and show me that she got a green smiley face!

All my girls!  I can't believe they r all smiling!?! What beautiful girls!

First day of school!  Cloe's first day of third grade!  Unfortunately she had to use the restroom really bad right after school and I some how missed her single picture!

Me and my girls!

So Cloe on her 2nd day of 3rd grade!  Her first year in the big kids wing and big kids playground!  She is getting so grown up I just can't believe how mature she looks!  She said she had a good day, most of her friends are in another class but she got to play with them at recess!  She lives her teacher and is doing fun things with her already!

Flying high!

Paige, Kota, Cloe getting ready to fly

Cloe and dad

Paige

The girls with their pilot Eric goofing off

Paige in the air

Brent Eric and the girls

The girls helping pull the plane out

Kota in air 

Getting ready to fly

Cloe in air ...I guess she was quit the chatter box her first go up, since she sat in the back she got to go twice

Mom and Cloe

Eric and paige

Kota

We just had a blast what a fun last thing to do before school starts!! Kota and Paige's first time ever in an airplane!  And the rest of ours first time in a small private plane it was a lot of fun!  I wasn't going to go and got talked into it.  Bristol stayed on the ground.  I only got a little sick!  The girls loved it I'm surprised they weren't very scared, like their mom ;)  we got to fly over our house and devils kitchen he took Brent's crew on zero gravity for awhile and he took us from almost 20ft off the ground to a 500 ft drop.  What a need experience I'm glad I didn't pass!  This was one if the things the girls wanted to do this summer I told them it probably wouldn't happen but then Brent thought of a man in our ward that flies and he was happy to do it for them!!  Thanks to Eric for a great morning!

Casey Camping

We went up camping for a night with Brent's family and had a good time hanging out with family laughing, sharing stories, singing songs, playing games, hiking...etc.  Brent, his dad, Steve, and Brice went down trapper fishing.  They caught us some big fish for dinner and had some good brother father bonding time!  We even got to have Brice and Shauna and Cameron stay at the house for an extra night we felt spoiled.  It's been so nice to see them so much this year!

Fhe update: a couple families and us met at the park played ultimate frisbee and had a quick lesson and cookies! Fun night with friends!