Trip to Twin

Last weekend we went to Twin Falls to visit Stephani (really we went because Blair had two college games to ref there, but Steph was my important reason!) We took the kids out of school early on Thursday, drove to IF and then left EARLY on Friday morning to get to Steph's house around 9:30 (Really, Blair was going pheasant hunting, so that's why we had to leave early). The kids had so much fun visiting with her and spending time with the cousins! We went swimming, to the bouncy house, drank volcanoes at the really cool old time chocolate store, played all day long, and had a sleep over at the motel. It was a FANTASTIC weekend. Saturday Dad came over and went hunting with Blair and Adam- they even got 4 pheasants, which made all of the walking a little more worth it. The weekend was too short, but perfect none the less. Below are some pictures of the fun. I tried to make sure to put some cute one's up of Steph's girls, since we don't get to see enough of them on the blog!! There are a couple of pictures of Em that I have tried to load several times, but it keeps loading different pictures rather then the one I choose! I'll try to add them later!

Avery LOVED swimming. This was the first time (I think that's what Steph Said) all out swimming in the water. Dane LOVES it, and wishes that I didn't have to hold on to him.

Steph introduced us to Volcanoes! My kids want to have volcano's with thier friends now! Did you know that Brooke doesn't like "fizzy's"- Pop hurts her mouth, she's probably only had it 4-5 times in her entire life. She would rather be thirsty then have to drink soda.
Sarah wasn't sure she wanted to drop in her egg, but she did in the end!

Love the ball pit. ADMIT IT- all of you secretly want to jump in there to and swim around! I know that I did.

I Propose a Sarah Week

Last Christmas, Sarah learned how to play Wii Tennis. However, she couldn't get good enough to get past the first opponent. Still she would play. Every time a new game would begin, she would explaim in a exasperated, yet somehow still bright, tone, "Oh man! Not this guy again!" It was hilarious.

Beans - 1989

Go Huskies.

Yea for Stephani !!

Yea for Stephani !! I loved your blog. This is what we all should be doing. Lets get busy and use this blog the way we should. I know some of you have your own blog, but please add to this one also. Is there a way you could cut and paste? Love to you all, wish you were all going to be here on Thanksgiving to meet Mike's new "friend". I love and miss you all. Mom

Daddy attacks

Daddy did Avery's hair this day. Enough said. She has just enough curl and it is so long that it got alot of attention when we went out.

Halloween

Really what goes on at our house on a day to day basis and how the girls look when they wake up in the morning is more scary than their halloween costumes. Sarah just had to be Thumbelina, Emily is a kitty anyway (really, she crawls around the house all the time meowing and she meows the primary songs during singing time in church), and Avery is an indian baby because I already had the costume. They had fun trick or treating with Grandpa and Grandma and if Sarah wasn't falling asleep as we were walking around, Grandpa would have gone all night. His mission was more and more candy. All the girls had candy for dinner.

My baby is 1 year old

I can't beleive my baby is one year old. This year went by too fast. Avery enjoyed all the balloons and ripping open her presents. She took three huge handfulls of cake and........................... dumped them over the side of her highchair. Never to be tasted. Grandpa and Grandma Mattson came for the celebration on her day and Grandpa and Grandma Bean came to see her the day after and to have Halloween with the girls.