Branding Festival

Ahhh......the Branding Festival.  A Friday and Saturday filled with 'annoying' (as Caleb would say) mooing cows, the smell of smoking cow hide, food, and, if you're lucky,
you'll even get a nut or two tossed your way.

Blake was the bravest he has ever been.  He hearded a little with Kim, learned how to shut gates, worked the shocker (his favorite) and helped skin a calf. (It was already dead, don't worry.)

Griff was the pusher this year.  It's the lowest point on the totem pole.  I have a feeling he will be in this position for a while.  He worked hard and loved it.  He took a pretty good kick to the juevos, but it's all part of the fun. ;)

THE HAT was only thrown once, so things went great!

Beesie

Have you ever been THIS sleepy?

O. My. DElish.

Who is the best?  ME!  I made these chocolate chip covered Oreo cookies,
and Blake died and went to Cookie Heaven.

TFZ

Finally!  Weather is fabulous enough to mini golf outside!  We have season passes to Toads, and have really used the crap out of them.  It's close enough to just buzz down for a quick game of golf and laser tag when you're bored.  We have had a lot of fun.

Eva Loves Ben

Finally!  Ben has a baby that loves him! (other than his own)  We watched this little cutie while her mom was taking care of some biz-ness.  She was LAUGHING at him for like 5 minutes.  It was so cute.  Then she just put her cheek on his cheek and they watched Gold Rush.  Adorable!  Blake was just saying the other day that 'we should get a baby girl because then maybe people would come and visit us, like the way they go see THE GIRLS,  or how they go see EVA' .  Too funny! 

Thanks Easter Bunny!

After many failed egg coloring kits, we have made THIS the way we color eggs.  Swishing around vinegar and food coloring in a strainer.  Voila!  Colored eggs.  We cracked a few and put them in bags with food color in them so that when the shell was taken off they were all spider-webby.  They were pretty cool.

Aaaahhhhh......the Promontory Picnic.  The kids look forward to this as soon as I write it on the calender.  Their friends get so jealous when they tell Promontory stories.  Freakin city kids.  ;)  They had fun hunting for their eggs.  Blake tore it up on his 4-wheeler.  He loved it.  Grandma and Grandpa Hunsaker, and Bridgette and Julia came, too.  No lizards this year.  And no Dylan either.  Sniff, Sniff :(

After church they look for a note from the Easter Bunny.

Dang, the EB has mad rhyming skills.

Finding eggs in the back yard is also a fave.  Griff had a 'Too Tall' bunny who's ears stuck out of the top of the box.  I really wanted a picture of it with him because I thought it was so perfect, but it melted!  He also had Tangled and a catching game in his basket.  Blake got Sandlot, and a Boom Ball game.  They both got plenty of candy and some jerky.

I really wanted to get a family picture, but forgot how to work the stupid timer on my camera. 
Happy Easter!

APRIL FOOLS

Around 11 I asked the kids if they wanted some brownies.  After Griff ripped the foil off the pan, this is what was inside.  Brown E's!  I kill myself!

Blake thought it was pretty funny, Griff did not.

He said he remembered, and was going to keep his eye on me after last years, but he forgot.  I went and ran some errands and when I came back, he had made real brownies.  He wouldn't share with me because he said they were only for niceies.  Not meanies.  It was worth it!

Their Mother Must Be Soooooooo Good Lookin

BLAKE
10

GRIFFEN
13
These pictures turned out so cute.  They scanned in a little wierd, but in real life they are fabulous!

Sundee Go to Meetin

We are trying to go to church 2 times a month this year.  So far, we have gone 2 times total.  Late, both times.  Griff can never remember how to tie a tie and both times Ben has been at work, so we are frantically searching YouTube on how to tie a tie at 10:58.  During lunch I ask them what their lessons were about.  Griffen did not want to talk about it.  He had a sneaky little grin on his face.  After insisting he tell me, he let out the longest sigh, probably 45 seconds.  Seriously, he had to take a breath to keep sighing.  Then finally, "It.........was about.........(siiiiggggghhhh) listening to your mother."  I jumped up, did a happy dance, played some air guitar.  After I sat back down, I calmly asked,  "Why?  Why should you listen to your mother?"  Reluctantly, his answer was, "Because they're right 99% of the time."  Best lesson reveal ever.  Brittni's 'It was a review' standby is classic, and will be tough to top, but this was right up there.

Later that night Blake came in my room and said, "I don't know what my purpose is."
Me: What?
Blake:  Our teacher says everyone is here for a purpose, but I don't really know what I'm doing here.
Him and me both.

We went to see John Carter.  It was good.

I am doing Weight Watchers with Brittni and my mom.  :'(  I just want to EAT!  Today is weigh day, and if I'm a winner, I will be upset.

After listening to Cher's Just Like Jesse James Blake said,  "Well, I guess that girl really hates Jesse James." :)

Things That Make You Go Hmmmmm?

Blake asked me if the teacher on Survivor has infinite life because he always looks the same.  I think he is on to something.

120 Months Old

Blake is 10!  How did this happen?  I let him pick what kind of cake he wants me to make him, and this year he said, "Rainbow"  He was totally impressed.

He wanted a bike and Pokepark for the Wii.  He also got his own Wii controller because we only had one.  Grandpa Don and Grandma Kim took him to a restaurant of his choice, and he picked Bejing Buffet.  They also gave him $10.  Grandpa Alan and Faye gave him $20 and a card.  Great Grandma and Grandpa Hunsaker sent him a card with $10.  I was asking him for some birthday gift ideas and he said, "Meat!".  Brittni totally delivered!  Jerky, bacon, sausage, and ham.  Best present ever!

He thought it would be fun to have a party at Toads with his buddies.  They had tons of fun.  Zeke, Kyler, Chayden, Tanner, Keaton, and Seth were his guests.  That is Zeke in the picture with him.  He gave Blake a sweet card that he colored and some money.

10 years of the cutest, sweetest, easiest, nicest boy I have ever met.
(It's a tie between him and his brother)
Seriously, does it get any cuter??? No, it does not.

Which brings us to 10 years of freakin awesome cakes.  Nemo, Thomas, Grave Digger, Darth Vadar, Transformers, Spongebob, Picachu, Angel Food w/cream cheese frosting, and Rainbow.

Birthday dinners are always the birthday boys choice.  He has picked pizza with salad and ranch, McDonalds, turkey burgers with homemade fries, hot dogs, chips and salad, scrambled eggs, sausage, pancakes AND waffles.  This year he wanted French toast, eggs 'over hard' and MEAT!

Cake Smash

I made these freakin adorable (if I say so myself) cupcakes for Taylor and Rylee's cake smash pictures.
I can't believe they are one!

Be MIne

Valentine's Day is so much fun. It just takes a little something to make your lovies day. The night before I set everyones gift in their room so they wake up to it. I get everyone a box of Idle Isle nut balls. They love them! I also write them a little note. I made Ben a deck of cards that each card had one thing I love about him. That's 52 things! He loved it. I also made Pokeball cupcakes. Blake thought they were the coolest ever. Ben gave me roses. They are so pretty.

WaBbIT HuNtInG

We went rabbit hunting. Griffen's foot is finally feeling better and he wanted to shoot his new gun, so West we went. While we were walking, we noticed some things being dropped out of an airplane. They were landing about a mile away. Ben, Griff and Blake went to see what it was and I stayed on a log taking scenic pictures. Quite frankly, Scarlet, I didn't really care what it was. Turns out it was ATK stuff. Shocking, I know.

Blake shot this poor little guy. He was pretty happy about it.

Griff and Blake were practicing for their shooting test for Hunter's Saftey.

They found a semi tire and tried rolling it up a huge hill. They made it about half way. It was a pretty fun day.

Blake the Builder

Blake was a "Builder" at his school! The teachers pick the kids who they think are nice and friendly. Builders build people up, not down. I always knew he was the nicest boy! How could anybody NOT be Blakies friend?

He got this totally awesome hammer pencil and his picture was in the paper.