The Tooth Fairy"s 1st Visit to Sydney

Poor Sydney! This is her with her partially swollen lip.

It was way worse and she looked like a Who in one of Dr. Seuss's books.

While playing, Sydney noticed that her front tooth was loose. She was soo excited!

I, on the other hand, knew that it wasn't a good sign.

Everyone had to have their chance feeling her tooth's wiggiliness.

When Blake had his turn he really gave it a go and made it wiggle more.

That night she woke up in pain. And the next morning a swollen lip.

It happened......it was an abscessed tooth and was infected.

I'm sure everyone wiggling it didn't help either.

We took her to the dentist, did the x-rays, and it was abscessed!

The only thing they can do after that is pull the tooth.

So, Sydney had her first visit from the Tooth Fairy!

Kaden's Kindergarten Graduation

Don't we love Kindergarten graduation!

I hate to say but,

I'm so glad this school year is done.

And Kaden has really been looking forward to 1st grade....Thanks Mrs. Miller for all you did for Kaden!

Here's everyone standing for the Graduates.
Kaden is one of the first ones to come in.

Kaden looking around for his cheering squad.

Don't the kids next to him look like they

are having the best time ever?

Principal Scott's last Kindergarten Graduation!

Enjoy your retirement, we'll miss you!

Kaden and his friends singing

the Peace Builder song.

Mrs. Miller giving Kaden his

Graduation Certificate.

Kaden holding up his certificate

for us to kinda see!

And of course, you got to have a picture with Eddy!

You did a great job in Kindergarten Kaden!!

Good Luck in 1st Grade!........Look out Miss Taggart

here Kaden comes!

Take a Hike!

Well, we loaded up the trailer and the kids for Memorial weekend.

We went to our usual place and actually, it felt like we never left for the winter.

Tyler and Blake had a "bee in their bonnet" to go hiking up the mountain across from camp.

They had seen some sort of animal up the mountain and wanted to check it out.

So, up the mountain they went!

While on the mountain they saw the alleged animals and it was a couple of BADGERS!

Those little stinkers can be mean so, they decided to cut the hike short.

They actually went on a hike a few times, one of which I braved.

Here are some pictures from one of the hikes:

On the way up.

Of course, power lines where in the way of all the pictures

Almost there.

Considering I was in camp and they where up the mountain, these pictures are decent.

Sydney was upset that she didn't get to go.

The boys said they could hear her screaming on the hike.



Stopping to enjoy the view and take pics.

Daisy was waiting for them to come back.

Syd and Daisy spotted them!

We had a great time camping and it was a great start to our summer.

I'm sure there will be many more hikes but,

next time I'll have to take pictures from the other end of the hike.

The Parachute

We decided it would be fun to find and buy an old parachute to take camping for shade.

At first we tried the good ol' Smith and Edwards....

They had some but, they seemed a little to pricey for our liking.

So, Justin did some searching on-line and was able to find a good deal on a used cargo parachute. When we got it, the kids where way excited and wanted to break it in right away. Here's a few pictures of the fun:

Now we'll just need to figure out how to hang this huge thing up while camping. I'm sure that will be tons of fun!

Blake's Baptism April 10, 2010

Blake was soo excited to get Baptised!

We are so proud of his decision and we are glad he is on the path back to Heavenly Father.
The day was great to begin with then afterwards we had a little celebration with the family. We had good food, a NERF battle, a little trick-or-treating, lots of talking and laughing, and of course good company!

Thanks every one who helped make Blake's day possible!!