GEEZ

The other morning again I realized that Haley had gotten out of the backyard for like the trillionth time. Therefore I went to the front to find her. Well....as she runs up to the front I see that her nose and front paws are bright red! So at first I thought that maybe she had hurt herself as she was going under the fence, but then I thought that she may have gotten to something also like another animal or something. Don't get me wrong she is a really nice dog and she wouldn't hurt a fly but I had no idea at the time what had happened. so I put her in the garage and went out to make sure there wasn't a dead animal or anything like that. Well I didn't find a dead animal thats for sure. What I did find was a torn bread bag that had wet red spray paint all over it, and of course my bright dog was chewing at the bag and probably getting high off the fumes.

And oh yeah, her nose is still pink!!!

My Men

The other night my two men finally got to work on filling the wonderful holes that our dog Haley had dug up under our fence to get out! Since we have had her the poor thing had to be left in the garage of fear she would escape and never be seen again or worse get run over! So finally Sam and Payton of course took their shovels and filled the wholes with dirt. I love these pictures, Sam showed Payton how to put the dirt down and then how to pat it down with his foot and shovel. I don't know really how much help he was but it was great to watch. He just loves to be right beside his father in whatever he is doing!




*You should also know that these two can be labored out if your willing to meet my pricing!!!!

Craft time!!

Since October is here I thought it would be great to do a little craft with Payton! I found a cute idea in a book of mine to make a pumpkin out of a lunch sack! It turned out really cute. Payton had a lot of fun painting and putting the face on the pumpkin.

...if you want to try this all you do is stuff a lunch sac of your choice with papers, tape the top for the stem and have the kids paint it orange. Then you cut out the mouth nose and eyes and put it on while the paint is still wet. It is a fun project to do and then you can use them as decorations and your kids will be happy to see their work on display!

Qwest Bravo Night, "The Monster Ball"

So if you know me then you know that my husband works for Qwest, it pays the bills so it'll do for now although lately he has been coming home really hating it and I just keep reminding him that its just for now and that he won't be doing it for forever!! But anyways so every six months they recongize the top sellers in IF and he was one of them. They threw this monster ball and told everyone to come dressed like the old horror movies. It was fun and surprisingly enough I was able to find something that worked!! I kept telling Sam that he should rent a tux but he kept telling me NO cause there won't be anyone dressed formal! Of course a few days before the event he tells me that he regreted his decision not to get a tux because when is he going to get a chance to dress up again!! Silly boys. All in all it was a fun evening. They had an open bar so we had a lot of entertainment! It was really good Sam got recognized so it was neat to hear his name called and see him go to the stage. We had fun and can't wait to see what they do next year!!

Don't you just love it

....when your trying to have dinner and your kids are running a muck? So here we have Parker playing with the hamburger buns which she tore into tiny bits. Look at here concentrating, I think she's trying to figure it out lol.

But wait here is another bun that is still entact! I guess she felt she needed to feel a part of dinner?

And then there's Payton! My sweet loving son. Sam didn't think I should post this but if you have kids then you'll understand. Payton got mad because after I took the plate away from Parker he thought it would be funny to do the same thing, but I did not and so I got mad took it away and this is what happened!...

and then this cause he got mad cause I was taking his pic! I just couldn't resist though. After I think about the situation and even though I was mad at the time, it is kind of funny now, or maybe not funny but a bit amusing!

So all in all it was a wonderful family dinner. Oh yeah and did I mention that after we did finally sit down to eat my drink got tipped over by my over curious daughter. I'm just glad we weren't in public!

Goin to West Yellowstone!

On the last day of my grandmother and aunts trip we took a road trip to West Yellowstone and then to Jackson Hole! Of course by the time we got to Jackson it was getting late and it was raining so we really didn't get to do much there but eat dinner and buy Payton a new pair of pants because his diaper soaked through his pants he had been wearing. So needless to say we have no pictures from Jackson! But here are the pics from W. Yellowstone. We had a good time, we got to see buffalo roaming down the road and then in a feild.

Above is some pictures from hot springs I guess. I can't remember what they were called but it was pretty neat. If you look at the pool of water in the background you can see how blue the water was. I've never seen anything like it! Then to the left is "Old Faithful"! While we were waiting for the old man to blow we experience quite a storm with lightning and thunder and rain! My grandmother and Aunt loved it and they can't wait to come again next year!!

Bear World

While my grandmother and Aunt were here visiting from Arizona we went to Yellowstone's Bear World! We had so much fun I was shocked. I've lived here now for three years and we always pass it on the freeway and I never thought it looked that fun especially for what they charge to get in. But as we entered I realized how wrong I was about this local animal park. As we entered they told us to keep to keep our windows rolled up at all times which was interesting I guess. Of course we did not follow the rules for the first part of the park....

here is the mountain goats. It is a mother and her two babies,one from this year and one from last!
This is the Albino Elk. The mother had something like one in ten million or one million (I forget) chance of having an albino baby!
Here's where we realized we better keep our windows up for sure!! When we entered into the bear part of the park the lady told us not to stop or we would have some hitch hikers for sure so we kept yelling at my grandmother to keep going when she would slow down cause these guys get close! They had 32 bears in there just wandering around. Two grizzlies and 30 black bears!
Payton really wanted this guy! But opted for something smaller.
The baby bears. If you wanted to you could actually feed them but it was expensive so we just watched. They were so cute and really playful! I guess I can kind of understand why people would go up to them lol!!



Payton was being a little stinker and wouldn't take the pic with me so I'm all alone:(
Payton feeding the ducks and fish!

In the petting zoo. They had a pot billy pig and deer and goats. It was pretty neat. Never thought we would ever get to pet deer.

Riding the rides. We were lucky there were no other kids there that day so Payton got to ride the rides all by himself and didn't have to wait in line. The girls were really nice there and just followed him to any ride he wanted to go on at that time.


The Curator Tour!

This was really fun. We all loaded up on the white truck and we each got a tray of food to feed to the animals. This here is the buffalo that they just got a week ago!

These guys were so stinkin cute! The guide lady told us that over the years that these guys figured out that the better the tricks they did the better treats they got so this guy was clapping at us and sitting on his bum!
This was our last stop on the tour and so by this time all the bears were following us.
And lastly the moose. The guide told us that fish and game found him tangled in a fence and so they brought him to Bear World and put him in the petting zoo but then he got bigger than the kids so they put him out near it. She said its funny cause he doesn't realize he's a moose so he likes being near the kids and thats why they put him there!
We had a lot of fun and I think I would recommend for those with families or not to go check it out and you could really make a full day of it!