The Big 30!

Thirty and Flirty. I'm now officially 30. I still feel young, but the grey hair is not helping, it's a good thing I can color it. I had a great birthday. Lur sent some cute decorations for turning 30, so my adorable little munchkins decorated for me. Everyone in my family called me, which really meant a lot to me. It was so good to talk to everyone. I miss all of you tons. Ryan and the girls took me to dinner then we came home for cake and presents. It's was a great day.

My cute girls.

I sure love these two girls.
Ryan gave me an Elliptical, a couple sweaters, and a skirt for my birthday. I have wanted and Elliptical for ever so I was very excited.

The girls helping me open my cards and presents. I was doing good all day, but when I read my families birthday card it made me cry. I miss my family.

Ryan brought home this yummy chocolate ice cream cake.

My girls helping me blow out my candles.

Thanks everyone for a great day. Love you all.

Trick or Treat

Happy Halloween ! For Halloween this year we went to the Ward Carnival at the church. They had stations set up all over the gym and the last half hour the kids could trick or treat around to all the class rooms. The kids were so excited to finally get to wear their costumes and they loved all the sugar and games at the carnival.

Brooklyn really wanted to be a Monkey this year, so we were very excited to find one at Old Navy.

McKenzie wanted to be Sleeping Beauty, but when she saw the lion costume she wanted to be Alex the Lion from Madagascar.
The girls playing games at the carnival.

The famous cupcake walk.

Brooklyn didn't waste anytime digging into her cupcake.

McKenzie decorating her pumpkin popcorn ball.

Brooklyn decorating her pumpkin popcorn ball.

Brooklyn wouldn't play this game. McKenzie did awesome she ate most of it with out her hands.

The kids diving in after the pinata broke open. Yes that is McKenzie laying on the floor stuffing all the candy under her body. I had to pry her off the floor. Candy will do crazy things to kids.We decorated one of the doors the kids could trick or treat at. We decided as part of our door we would bring all of Ryan's pumpkins he carved. He carved a witch, a few pumpkin faces, trick or treat, tiger, and buster.

The girls checking out what they got.

McKenzie fell asleep on the couch with her cute lion face still on. What a cutie.

Halloween day it was really windy, so we took the kids over to the mall to trick or treat.

Look at our cute little girls. They are both not happy about this picture because the wind was blowing really had and they didn't want to take pictures.

The girls and I waiting in line at the Mall. It was a long line we had to wait in, but they said they had fun.

The girls were so excited when they saw Tiger and Pooh. They just had to get a picture by them.

The sorting of the candy. I remember sorting out all my candy when I was a kid. I think this is the best part of all, when you get to see every thing you got.

Field trip to the Fire Station

For Safety week at preschool we took the kids to the fire station to meet the firemen and to learn about how to stay safe. The kids were so excited. We just have a little group, so they were able to see a lot of different things. The girls thought it was really cool.

Here they are taking Emma's heart rate to see if she is healthy. Yep she's good.
All the girls got to sit in the back of the fire truck and see all of the equipment the firemen wear and use.

Emma was very excited to try everything.

McKenzie was so excited when they picked her to sit in the drivers seat and she even learned how to turn on the lights.

Here McKenzie is learning about the fireman camera. It helps them to see warm bodies in a smoke filled house.

One of the fireman tried on his gear for the kids. They have to put everything on in under a minute. The kids were a little scared at first, but he got down and talked to the kids about how he is here to help them and if they are in danger not to be scared when they see them in their fireman gear.

Our cute little friends. Emma, Rosie, Kaylee, Brooklyn and McKenzie.

Our weekend in Yellowstone

Exploring more of Montana and Wyoming!
We headed off to West Yellowstone for a fun and much needed vacation. Ryan and I have not been to Yellowstone sense we were kids and didn't really remember much about the park. I remember seeing some animals, but not any close to the car and I also remember some of the hotpots, but it was really cool to see them again. I didn't know it the kids would like it or not, but they loved it. For all the driving we did they were very good. We drove over 20 hours in 5 days. The girls loved seeing all the animals every time we saw something they wanted us to pull over so they could get out of their seat belts and look through dad's new binoculars. They loved it. The first day in the park we thought they would fall asleep half way through, but McKenzie didn't want to sleep for fear she would miss something. We saw ton's of Elk and Bison a few coyote's, lot's of birds, and a Black Bear. I wish the Black Bear would have been closer, because the girls couldn't really see it and we couldn't take any pictures of it. I broke the trip down by days, so this is day one. We headed into the park about 11:00 in the morning, it was overcast all day and cold, but we bundled up and had fun regardless. We hope you enjoy all the pictures. We had a blast.

This is the WorldMark resort we stayed at.


This was our few we woke up to every morning from our balcony. One morning we saw a coyote walking right in front of all the pine trees.

This was the first set of Elk we saw. We were so excited to see some not knowing we would see ton's more and even closer to the car.

We saw Bison everywhere. I loved how they would walk right through all the steam from the hot pots.

We saw guys fishing all through the park. Every time we saw some fishermen I thought about my dad and brother's and how much they would have loved it.

This picture makes me think of the boys all spread out down the river fishing.

The cold weather made the steam off the hot pots look really cool as we drove through the parks. There were a few times that it seemed like we were driving through fog.

These are some of the pots from the Lower Geyser Basin

These are some of the hot pots we saw on Geyser hill while we waited for Old Faithful to go off.

It was so cool how clear and blue the water was.

Me and My girls.

This is called the Heart Spring

We missed Old Faithful going off, so we had to wait over and hour until it went off again. The girls were pretty patient. It was pretty cool when it finally went off. It lasted about 5 minutes.

On our way back to the resort, Brooklyn had fallen asleep, but McKenzie still wanted us to stop for all the animals we saw. Ryan thought it would be cool to take he up for a closer look. I was being good and keeping quiet, but freaking out inside. McKenzie thought it was the coolest thing ever.

There was a pack of wolves close by and you could see that these Elk were watching their every move.

If you see in this picture all of the Elk's heads are looking to the left, that's were the pack of wolves were back in the trees.