Gavin's Field Trip

The AZ museum for youth is a great place to have a field trip! I have really enjoyed working with Rachel this year. Here are a few highlights from the trip. Digging for gold!
Brighton wasn't so sure at first and just hung out in her stroller.

Rachel and 2 of her kids

Gavin found some 'gold'!

Inside, there are lots of different rooms for the kids to discover, this was one of many. They spent a lot of time in front of the green screen!

These boys crack me up. Boe and Gavin trying to look scaryNow, trying to look and sound like dinosaurs

The cutest little bunch of preschoolers (and a big sister)!

Afterward, we went to a park to eat lunch. These girls enjoyed swinging....

and teetering

Long, fun, exhausting day!

Thanks Miss Rachel, great field trip!

Brothers ride

Cass, most of his brothers and his dad, were able to go on a 3 day horse riding trip up in the mountains between here and Globe (somewhere). I wasn't so sure Cass' back could handle it. He was definitely sore, but his back did better than he thought, thank goodness!

I know Cass really enjoys spending time with his family and this was a really fun way to do just that!

Sadly, these are the only pictures I have of the fun overnight camping trip we took with some friends.....I have got to get better at remembering to take pictures! Shooting guns for fun has always been enjoyable to me. Guns still make me nervous, but being able to use them with no danger is so fun.
Thanks Houstons and Russells for letting us use up your bullets and use your guns! The trip was really fun, we should do that more often. Thank you mom and dad for watching our children fo us!

Self reliant

When did they get big enoughto make their own pancakes?! The kids have always liked to flip pancakes but this morning, they decided to do it all by themselves! They think they are soooo big now!
Now what am I going to do with all that time in the mornings!! (By the looks of it, I'll be cleaning up after them!)

Happy 30th!!!

For Cass and my 30th Birthday, we wanted to go snowboarding. Our birthdays are only 2 days apart, and it just so happened that the Friday we went was my birthday, so I got a ticket for free :)

We invited all of our siblings along and The Bardins and Spencer (Lindsay has a tiny baby to tend) pulled thru for us! Spencer brought his friend James along as well which was great! All of the guys totally DITCHED us because we are not the best and they wanted to have fun, so Emily and I had our own fun!!
Spent plenty of time on our behinds in the beginning but we got the hang of it really quickly!


Here's Emily in her awesome red bibs!

We had such chapped lips!!

Now he wanted to hang out with me, he was finished tearing it up! Jk Cass did go down one of the big hills with me, and then ditched again (it's ok)

Thank you Sydney for the equipment, wish you could have been there with us!

We went and stayed at a hotel along with the Bardins that night and had so much fun going to dinner and hanging out way too late, laughing and playing games.