First day of school

Ryker started kindergarten last week. He was very excited and talked about it for weeks before. He gets to ride the bus to school too, which was almost more exciting than school itself. The first day I walked him to the bus and waited with him then went back home to drive to the school to meet him there. (His teacher asked that we come for a few minutes on the first day to help them figure out what they are supposed to do.) By the time I got to the school Ryker was already there and in his classroom figuring out what he was supposed to do on his own. He was also the first one there.
So here are a couple of pictures I took later in the day because I was nervous for him and forgot in the morning. I know I never remember to take pictures but hey, I still got one and it IS on the first day of school.

You can always count on Ryker to do some kind of pose. It makes the picture more interesting.

How old are we????

This is what we did after Reagan's party. This is only one of the formations. We always did stuff like this when we were younger at our house in Woodland Hills. This was a fun way to remember those days. (yes Paige as a tube around her waist. wouldn't want to get hurt if she fell....)

It's her party......

Reagan is 4!!

This is miss Reagan on her birthday. She is getting so big.


Here are the gifts. She got lots of fun stuff and now everyone fights over them. That means they are good. We got her the bike. At first she didn't really want to ride it. I was expecting this so it was okay. We have tried to get her to ride Ryker's old one for a while but she always acted like she didn't know how to pedal. So when she didn't do it right away I knew she would do it on her own time. It didn't take as long as I thought for her to be interested. Everyone started playing on bikes and stuff so she joined to fun. She just got on the bike and started going. I was shocked. She is a lot smarter than I give her credit for most of the time. I just can't be there and want her to do it then or she won't. I don't think she likes people watching her. Anyway, she rode her bike for the rest of the night. She even went all the way around the "block". Of course she wanted her toys in the basket on the bike. Which is the reason I bought it so that worked out nice.

Here is the cake. She wanted an Aladdin cake. I was going to put the figures on top but thought that would look a little weird. So this is how it ended up. I like it. (by the way it is a magic carpet)

Happy Birthday to you!!!! Here is the cutie waiting for her lovely rendition of Happy Birthday to end so she can blow out the candles. I love this girl.

Flaming Gorge

We went to Flaming Gorge a couple of weeks ago with my family. We had a great time. We went boating, on the water wennie, and fishing. We were camping while there so we also did all the stuff involved in that. The only downfall was that it was FREEZING at night. One night it rained and when we woke up all the rain had frozen. Yeah.... cold. Anyway when we got there we went for a boat ride on. Most of the kids loved it. Ryker and Reagan acted like it was something they did every day and was no big deal. Jax was typical Jax and just took everything in quietly. Jocelyn did not like it when it went fast. Mostly due to the loud noise of the engine. After a while she was okay with it and wanted to walk around while the boat was going at high speeds. On the other days when we went out on the boat Jax and Jocelyn would almost always fall asleep. We had a blast but next year I hope it is a little warmer.


Skyler, Peter, and Michelle went cliff jumping. So naturally Ryker wanted to go to. I was a little worried about this but figured he would see what it was and decide no way. That wasn't the case, but there was just a tiny little cliff that worked great and Ryker thought he was pretty cool.......

But he did do a belly flop when I got the picture.

On one of the days everyone (except me and the two little ones) went on a rafting trip down the Green River. This was the coldest day there, so it wasn't as fun as it could have been. The kids got soaked bout stayed in the raft. Skyler, of course, jumped out of the raft (so I heard) and one of the rafts was having trouble and kept tipping over. (I think it was over loaded) Mom said I am lucky I didn't go cause it was so cold,but I think everyone else had a good time.
When we got done I only had 10 loads of laundry to do........

White Trash Moment

One day the sprinklers were on out by the basketball hoop so I told the kids they could go run through them. It is easier than sounding like a mean mom saying "no" every time they get close. For some reason the sprinklers got the cement court really wet and not so much the grass. The kids had a great time and were all cooled down by the end.

Jocelyn watched for a while then decided it looked like fun and then joined them. She would copy everything the older ones did, only slightly slower some times.

Say What?????

Yep you saw right...... baby #5. Let the craziness continue......... Really though we are excited. You can all start a poll on the gender.

Bug Catchers

Skyler got these bug catchers from Home Depot for the kids to put together. (I love their projects but it is nice to have Skyler just bring them home so we don't have to drag all the kids to the store early on Saturdays.) Anyway, we have had them for a while and decided that we should put them together because the kids loved seeing the grasshoppers all around. Well as it turns out the kids don't like bugs as much as me. So Skyler ended up catching all the bugs for them,(except Reagan who is the potato bug queen) but hey they still loved it. So here they are with the "catch of the day". Grasshoppers, potato bugs, praying matis', a worm (which died shortly after capture), some sort of weird thing that crawled too fast for my liking, a lady bug, and Skyler put a spider in Jocelyn's. (needless to say I stayed away from hers. But at the same time kept an eye on it so I would know if the thing escaped and started crawling on her). They love having their bugs and were sad when we said it was time to go inside. Of course I told them they could catch more today so they are just waiting for the go ahead. I don't know how they will catch any without Skyler here.......


This is what Jocelyn did at the beginning of the bug adventures. When she realized everyone had cool things with stuff in them, she wanted hers too. As you can tell our sandbox is also a swimming pool. yuck. (this is why she is only wearing a diaper in the above pictures)

Of course when you are looking for bugs you will always get a lesson in sex ed. The kids kept coming back to these guys and wanting to get them because there were two. Skyler said to leave them alone because they were busy........... what a guy. I would have knocked them apart and said I don't want MORE grasshoppers around here. It was funny though to have Ryker tell the neighbor about the grasshoppers that were busy on the plant. Good times!

Who knew that I could have such a long post about catching bugs!!! GEEZE!

Dangers of HWY 6

This morning when I was doing some part of the breakfast routine I heard this crash noise. At first I thought it was just the kids basketball ball hoop blowing over again. But alas that was already blown over from days ago. So I went outside to see what it was (there is consrtuction right now). Well I noticed that my fence was missing a couple pieces and my tree was broken. Then a lady two doors down was out on her deck and asked if I knew what happened. I said no. I thought it was the wind at first. Then I saw that her fance was down too (at least parts of it). So we were trying to figure out what was going on when a truck pulls up. Not a semi but a pick up truck. The lady asked him what happened and he said that the whole wheel (tire wheel everything) came off of the trailer he was hauling. So it came off the trailer flew over the barrier that is along the highway and flew through 3 fences........

This is my tree and fence and my next door nieghbors fence through the hole.

This one you can see all three sections that got damaged.
One of the pieces of mine has a big huge tire skid mark on it. (didn't realize til later should have gotten a picture before I started this.)
A great start to the day. It really is kind of funny. The guy that was driving though felt really bad and when he came to my house and found out I had kids he had to make sure we weren't outside when it happened and no one got hurt. He said that if he would have hurt one of the kids he would never drive again. I feel bad for him. It really isn't that big of a deal. Made my morning more exciting. It would have been cool to actaully see it though. (is that morbid?)

Happy Birthday

Skyler's birthday was on the 8th (as if everyone who reads this didn't know) So we went to the zoo Saturday, had a party Sunday and had dinner and cake on Monday. We weren't going to sing (Skyler isn't much of a fan. Me neither for future reference) But when we went to the store to get cake mix and stuff Ryker said we had to sing. So we did. And here is the one picture I have. (I am such a good wife)
The cake was a turtle cake and it was really good. Happy Birthday love!!! You are the greatest husband ever!!!! (and don't you forget it)

ZOO

We went to the Zoo as part of Skyler's birthday celebration. It was fun and we got a pass, so if anyone needs a zoo buddy just call us.



The picture of Reagan and the map is actually funny. She had is right in front of her face and was just walking along and people had to steer around her. (only one then I made her watch where she was going. And the people thought it was funny so I didn't feel bad) It was one of those classic things where if there was a wall she would have run into it.

The carosel was..... well a carosel. What can I say. All the animals to ride on were cute but it irks that is cost 2 dollars per person (riding not standing) to ride the thing. Too bad the train broke down the night before or we could have skipped the carosel. Oh well, the kids love it and that is fine with me.
So that is out trip to the zoo in a nut shell. It was fun and we will be going again.