Bouncing Baby Boys and Yee-Ha Cowgirl!

We have two new additions to our family! It is 4-H time again and Brenden and McKenna have their calves for the season. Brenden's is Harry the Hereford and McKenna's is "Steaky" because that is what he will be in our freezer. We got him to raise to butcher, but she wanted to use him for 4-H. This could get complicated. We got Harry when he was a little over a month old. We couldn't get him to take a bottle or bucket, so he went straight to hay and grain. Steaky on the other had loves his bottle. We got him at five days old. All four of them love to be with him at feeding time.

Maren is our little cowgirl. Anytime she can get Trent to saddle the horses she is ready to go. The first pictures was on February 2nd riding shotgun with daddy and the others are on February 16th of her riding Grace by herself for the first time. Now she gets to played caboose.

The Bear River Valley Hospital open-house was this 6th and 7th, so we went. I forgot the camera (as usual) but lucky for us, the paramedic the was there had his camera. He said he would e-mail it to us. He might not have saved our lives that day, but he did save our memories.

The Hunt Exp was in town this weekend. Trent put me in for 6 hunts consisting of moose or buffalo. He put in for 52 hunts consisting of any walking creature with or without horns or antlers. I just can't control the man. I validated my tags and escaped to Park City for the day. Great shopping beats dead animals any day! These are a couple fun pictures they had taken while I was gone. Cool thing is, these are green screen photos. They held the plastic fish in front of the green screen and, wala, a great picture. So Cool!

These are just a couple fun snow pics of kids from this winter.

Maren thought it was fun to sit on the balls once they were made.

This last Sunday, the 18th, we all watched the Church video, Nora's Christmas Gift. Such a good movie. It came to the point in the movie where Nora is at Temple Square and is standing at the statue of Christ in the visitor's center. Maggie mentioned how big the statue must be and it dawned on us both, that we have never taken the kids to Temple Square. We have lived here forever and what bad parents are we! So, we remedied that yesterday on the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. We rode the Frontrunner to Salt Lake, hopped Trax to Temple Square, saw every sight possible, ate at the fanciest restaurant we could find, JB's (Ha, Ha) and then headed home via Trax and Frontrunner. The feeling you get on Temple Square is amazing. It is so nice to get the reminders we often forget. That our family can be forever, that we are Children of our Heavenly Father. The Joseph Smith film was amazing. I can't tell you how many films I have seen on the life of Joseph Smith, but I will tell you what, I learn something new or remember something I had forgotten every time! I should have grabbed more tissue.

Sweet little Maggie lost her first tooth today. 1/20/09 She was so excited. Hey, tooth fairy, if your listening, please don't forget to deposit money under her pillow and remember to take the tooth with you. The tooth fairy seems to run a little behind when it comes to our house sometimes. :)

First Week of the New Year!

I know! I am quite shocked myself that I just posted again. Miracles do happen.

McKenna ran to me screaming for the camera. "Look at Tigger!"

No, it is not a cat on a hot tin roof, but it is one very smart kitty on a black plastic garbage can in the dead of the freezing winter.

Thanks Mister Snowplow Man! Just what we wanted to do this spring was replace our front lawn curbing :) No sarcasm there.

The M&M's sledding.

Some good friends of ours from Smithfield invited us up to do some sledding behind 4 wheelers. Here are the girls. We don't have any with Brenden, because Trent was too busy driving one of those 4 wheelers like a bat out of you know where, trying to dump Brenden off his snowboard and or a sled. (The camera was in his pocket.)

I am a terrible Blogger! I am going to commit to entering a new post every month. Baby steps! Someday I might be as good as Rachel! (The queen blogger) Our family is doing really well. We have enjoyed the Holiday's and are looking forward to a great New Year. Here is the catch up of the last three months.

Because I know my own child, somewhere under the layers of pink is McKenna.

I am hoping to get my hands on the best picture of the day. Holly took Kenna down on the double tube down the path with the jump. They had to of soared 5 feet off the ground. Dave was at the bottom of the hill taking pictures of those catching air. Their picture is hilarious. Needless to say, that was the last time McKenna went down that part of the mountain.

We went to Grandma and Grandpa Florence's on December 27th for their Christmas party. We followed it up with a day of sledding. Maren was hilarious! She screamed like a girl (go figure) all the way down the mountain and then could not wait to do it again. Neither Trent, nor I could sled so thank heavens for Aunt Holly and Aunt Joey. They came to the rescue. Funny, I just got a good look at this picture and due to the facial hair, by reason of deduction, this is Uncle Dave.

They were a little disappointed in the lack of presents this year until they opened the Wii. Can you tell from the huge grin across their faces?

Trent got the Cabella's Hunting game and a Wii gun. Look out Bambi! Run, Run very far!

Christmas morning 2008 we woke up to over a foot of fresh new snow. This is a picture of the kids raiding their stocking to see what Santa brought.

Christmas Eve at Grandma and Grandpa Rutherford's. We had dinner and then they opened the traditional PJ's.

McKenna's 9th Birthday. She is a cheesecake addict, so she was very happy when she found out that is what we were having.

December 21, 2008

Trent is going to kill me for posting this picture, but I couldn't resist! He went in for a joint replacement of his right big toe.

December 19, 2008

Poor little piggies!

The kids had their second piano recital. They were able to pick out their own Christmas song to perform. They did such a good job.

December 11, 2008

Brenden's 11th Birthday! How can he be that old already?

November 18th, 2008

Brenden received his Arrow of Light.

November 12, 2008

We looked out are window and look what we saw!

Brenden received an award at school.

Silly picture I took of the kids just before Halloween 2008.

Maggie's school Halloween program. She was a genie.

October 28, 2008

One more back to school photo!
Trent, his brother, Kim and their friend Cameron ( who is from Arizona) went hunting in Montana. You wouldn't believe what it took to get him on the road! The trailer had a separated tire. At 2:30pm I went to get another tire, so he had a spare. At 4:00pm Brenden looks down and says, "Dad somethings hanging down from underneath the truck. The steering stabilizer bar is completely severed in half. We are so blessed to have good neighbors. Craig welded it for us, but not after he jumped the truck, because of a dead battery. Cam picked one up for us on his way to our house. They replaced the battery and headed out at around 7:00pm. All this excitement and the hunt hadn't even started yet.
This is a bear track Trent came upon along a trail. Yikes!
Trent packing in to their camping spot on the mountain.
Our little fisherman. I have never acquired a taste for fish. Trent brought them home and we had them for dinner. I smothered them with tarter sauce. Trent was the only one to like them. The kids had more fun complaining about them than eating them.
Maggie received a STAR student award for all around academics. We are so proud of her!

The kids all love school and are doing really well.

Maren is completely potty trained and starts school on Wednesday. (tomorrow)

Brenden's chicken is now earning its keep. She is now producing eggs. Good thing!

The Fair is over and School is in!

Could it get any better? We started fair week with the parade. It was actually really fun. Brenden was asked to be a poo per scooper. What a cute boy! Disgusting shovel, but cute boy. I think this was the longest parade we have ever seen! We finally left after float, fire engine, horse, cheerleader, dancer (you get the picture) number 75 and they were still coming! The kids got so much candy that they are good until a recharge at Halloween.

Brenden showed Jerry at the Fair. He placed right smack in the middle of his class! We were so proud of him! He earned a Blue Ribbon. His sheep went to auction. CAL Ranch bought him, Thank you CAL Ranch!

It was feeding time. It took about 20 minutes for them to eat. Nothing like sitting on the job. Can you tell which ones are Tom and Jerry?

McKenna showed Tom in the Pee-Wee class. It is so funny! You dress them both up and parade them around, get judged and get a ribbon. (With money attached to it!) McKenna was dressed as I15 ( the freeway) and Tom was dressed up as the construction worker. She got a few chuckles from the crowd when she announced what they were.

The first day of school! Brenden is in 5th grade, McKenna is in 3rd and Maggie is in 1st. Maren is home with me for one more year. I think she is enjoying raiding bedrooms when the siblings go to school. She has free rein of the house. Oh, did I mention she is POTTY TRAINED! Oh, my heck, no more diapers. I didn't ever think I would see the day when our last one was out of diapers. What a feeling!