4th of July Happenings

I hope everyone had a great 4th of July! We had a great time. We started off the holiday by going to the kids rodeo in Neola. Madison and Connor did the animal chases. Madison caught a chicken. Good thing grandpa already has chickens so we had a place to put it.
Saturday we went boating at the lake with the Christensens. (Thanks for always taking us.) The kids had fun tubing. Even Connor and Wyatt got on the tubes with Madison and Hannah. Then we had a BBQ with Todd & Kristin. We did fireworks for kids and watched the ones that the city does.
We love 4th of July! I am so proud to be American. I love this country!

Happy 4th of July!!!

The kids on the tubes!!

Mom and Hannah during fireworks! Madison
Connor & Wyatt
The girls watching Toni tube!
Madison and drumstick
Connor chasing a rabbit at the rodeo.

Fishing

We went fishing a few days ago on Wes's birthday. Connor and Hannah both love to fish. Madison didn't want to go so she headed to Kristin's house.
We had a great time fishing. Connor was mainly just playing with a pole and caught a nice size walleye. It was funny! I kept thinking I better keep an eye on his pole so it didn't end up in the lake. As I was thinking this I could tell something was on his pole, so I reeled it in and finally realized that he had caught a walleye. Hannah said she was a loser because she was the only one who never caught any fish! She is so dramatic so its funny to watch her. Wes caught a really nice one.
We had a lot of fun! The kids love to be on the boat.

Me & Hannah

Wes's walleye

Connors walleye

We went from this............

to this...........


in one day!

Yay! We have officialy started on our house! Our builder said he will have us in by Halloween. I will have to go take some more pictures, they were still digging in the picture. I am so excited. It is crazy that we have started! We have been planning for about 2 years!

Crazy days...

Wow we had a crazy day yesterday! First of all we had the last baseball games of the season. I should get mom of the year award because I didn't even take my camera to their little banquet where they get their trophies. I will have to take a picture of them later with their trophies.

As soon as the games were over, we rushed home to clean the house before our company arrived. My parents and my brother and Crystal came out for Madison's birthday. My dad brought out their bikes and that is what they did all afternoon. We then had a birthday party for Madison and Wes. We had lots of yummy food and cake and ice cream. Madison got alot of neat stuff for her birthday. We gave her money a few weeks ago and I took her to SLC and she bought a skateboard, camera, and few other little things. My parents got her a new bike (very nice). Wes's parents and sister got her money. And Lance and crystal got her a way cute shirt and modeling clay. She was very hard to shop for this year and it turned out great. She loved everything. She can't wait to wear the shirt from Lance and Crystal.

We then headed out to our property to show Lance and Crystal where we are building. It is about 5 miles from our house now. Madison, my dad, and Lance rode all the way out there on the bikes. Madison was tired by the time they got out there but my dad said she kept up great and never complained. They rode back in the car with us.

We then came home for some Fireworks. We love fireworks! We had fun and the kids loved the sparklers. Wyatt didn't really like the fireworks but hopefully now he will be broke in for the 4th.

We had such a great time with family here. Wes, Lance and my dad taught Hannah how to ride her bike without training wheels. She loves it now and wants to go all the time. And Lance taught her how to tie her shoes. We have the best family ever. Everyone is so good to help the kids and encourage them to try new things. I have been trying to talk Hannah into taking her training wheels off for weeks and all it took was grandma to walk beside her and lots of cheering on the side lines.

Connor also got a new bike and if you have little kids you seriously have to get one of these bikes before you buy a regular bike. These bikes don't have any pedals so it teaches them to balance before anything. Amazing!! Connor has been riding it since Friday night and he almost keeps his feet up the whole time and will just coast. They are awesome. He loves it and loves to wear his new helmet as well.

Thanks to all our family for helping Madison and Wes have a great birthday party! Happy Birthday to my baby. I can't believe she is 8. Time flies when your having fun! I love you so much Madison. We have our fair share of fights and arguments but I love you dearly! You are a wonderful daughter and big sister. Happy Birthday to Wes on July 2. I love you so much!

Connors new bike

Malisa giving Wyatt a ride.

Wes & Madison with their cakes.

Papa & Grammy Thomason

Lance, Madison, Crystal & Grammy

Lance & Madison

My cutest nephew Wyatt

Lance with Frankie

Happy girl with presents

Hannah on the bike with my dad in Evanston. Doesn't she look so cute.

Fireworks!

Todd, Kristin, Wyatt & Connor watching fireworks!

Lance & Crystal watching fireworks!

Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to....

you, Happy Birthday dear Madison & Wes. Happy Birthday to you!

Madison's 8th birthday is today! We had a wonderful day! Loads of fun!!! I will post more tomorrow. Wes also has a birthday on July 2 so we always celebrate them together.

Hunting rabbits..

Wes wanted to go hunting for rabbits last night. We had a great time. The kids crawl around in the truck with me driving and Wes and Madison stand in the back on the look out. Wes saw a few rabbits and they were very spooked. Wes was sad he didn't get to shoot one with his bow. We did see 2 horny toads. Madison spotted the first one and was excited. Her and Hannah both held it for a minute. Connor wanted nothing to do with it. Wes put it on his shirt and Connor was trying to back away. I took a bunch of cool sunset pictures with my phone. I think I took about 50 of the sunset. It was just so pretty and my phone did a dang good job.It was fun to get out of the house and have some family time.

Wes & Hannah made up a song last year to sing while we hunt for rabbits. I will see if I can get her to sing it on video and put it on here. It is so funny!

Sorry I can't get any of the pictures to rotate! Ugh! Oh well!

Hannah with the mommy horny toad.

Madi

Me ...driving

The girls reflection in the window looking for the rabbits.

Connor being a very good little boy. (This is when we first started.)

I love this picture of Wes's silhouette & the sunset.

Wes with the Baby toad.
Connor hated this darn toad.

Wes & his friend Travis Grant fished the tournament in Idaho last weekend and took 3rd place. They fish at Salmon Falls Reservoir near Twin Falls, ID (I think). Congrats to them. They were so excited. They took 3rd and only brought in 3 fish the whole tournament. Does that tell you how hard the fishing was? Wes said it rained the whole time and they froze their butts off. But I know they both had a blast and they can't wait for next year. Last year they took 1st, so hopefully next year they can regain that title. They won plaques and Travis got one for big fish on Sunday. They won enough money to cover their trip plus some. So they are both very Happy!

Funnies!

Kristin reminded me last night of something the girls said to each other when we were camping a few weeks ago. I just had to post. For those of you who haven't met hannah, she is very sarcastic and serious at the same time. Its hilarious! So anyway...

Madison and Hannah had slept of the couch in grandmas trailer. Madison woke up in the morning and said:
M: "I had the best dream last night"

H: " If it was so good, then why did you have me hold your hand?"

Ok- thats all they said but if you can picture hannah saying that, it is hilarious! She is such a funny girl. Here is another one she said awhile back to her dad.

H: (finds a nice new shiny dime and penny on the counter and hands it to her dad) "Here is the money you made dad!"

Mom & Dad: with puzzled looks on our faces?!?!?!? Moments later I bust up laughing. When Wes leaves to go to work, I would tell the kids that he was going to make money so that is what Hannah thought he actually did. Too funny!

Here is one for Madison a few years ago. I was pregnant with Connor and she would come with me to my Dr appts. I was talking to the Dr one day about getting my tubes tied. Fast forward to the next appt and everyone she see and talks to in the mean time. " My mom is getting her tubes twisted." Can you imagine the look on the Drs face when he realizes what she is talking about? He laughs for many times after that. Also one day this is a conversation that she had with my Dr.

Dr: "Madison, how are doing today?"
M: "I'm ok. I've been having a tummy ache but I don't think I've had to many contractions, so I am good."

Ok so I guess she paid very close attention to every detail I had in my appts.

Relay for Life and Baseball

Last weekend was the Relay for Life. We did a family team and is was alot of fun. I have had 2 aunts, Loya and Kathleen, who have had breast cancer and they both were able to come walk with us. It was so neat to have them there. We decorated a bunch of the luminary bags a few weeks before the Relay and had a ball doing them as well. I can't wait for next year and hopefully we have more family members who can make it to come walk with us. I forgot to count how many laps we did but my cousin Michelle and I walked until 2:30am. My cousins Melanie and Emily started walking later on in the night after they made it and walked all night. The weather as first was cold and rainy. the rain finally stopped but the luminary ceremony and was decent after that. I wish I would have brought warmer clothes. Thanks to my aunt Peggy's, uncle. He brought down his camp trailer for us to sleep in.

Some of the bags we decorated.

My mom and my Aunt Loya ( she was going through chemo

last year and this time and I am so thankful she is still here

with us and able to participate in the Relay)

Me and Loya decorateing bags.

Luminary Ceremony 2009 All the family who participated except for Emily. She wasn't there yet.
Family camp! Ha Ha Everyone was cold.



The next morning I left the Relay early to make it to the girls baseball games. This was their first game of the year. It was fun to watch both of them. Madison is an awesome hitter and Hannah just cracks us up. She has a little to much princess in her but she had a blast. She hit the ball a few times and then didn't know what to do next. It was so fun watching her. Madison loves it so much and can hit the ball better that some of the boys on her team. She also runs as fast as she can around the bases. As soon as Hannah's game was done Connor said it was his turn to wear her shirt and hat and play.

Madison playing short stop!
Hannah playing first!
Before their games!

Connor wanting to play!

Do you have any bad habits?

Do you have any bad habits you want to break? I think this is a half way through the year New years Resolution. Since they never work, I'm doing this.

Anyway...I have had alot of drama going on here lately. Mainly it leads to a bunch of us gossiping! I know I shouldn't do it but I do so I am going to change that. I HATE drama and I swear this town should be the capital for it.

I am making a change right now. I am going to not gossip for a week and see how much better I feel. I know it will be awesome. This means I may not be able to make or receive calls to a few friends but it is worth it. I saw a quote on some one elses blog (I wish I could find it again) and it is awesome.

Great minds talk about ideas, Average minds talk about things, Small minds talk about other people. –Unknown

I also saw on this blog that it is not good to share good news as well because it is not your news to share. Makes perect sense! Here it to a better week!!! Gossip FREE!