Pumpkin Patch

On Monday we went to the pumpkin patch with all of the family. The kids loved it. They got to see all of their cousins AND got to dress up! What could be better? It has a corn maze and then some little jumpy things they can jump on and then a play ground. We do this every year and every year the kids look SO forward to it.

Lulla-bye...

The boys were having a hard time going to sleep last night which is very unusal for them. I usually just put them in their cribs with their water cups and they talk to eachother for awhile and then they fall asleep. So easy.

Well not last night. They were not having it. So after much screaming I decided to go in their room and rock Chase. The one who was screaming the most. I get him out and he cuddles right up to me and starts to fall asleep. So I decide to sing a lullabye.

But OBVIOUSLY Mr Ty thought I chose the wrong song. What 'lulla-byes' does he want?

Hey There Delilah
Life is a Highway

These are not on my lullabye list. But they were last night. And it put them to sleep, so who am I to complain.

(if you dont know these songs, I added them to my playlist)

Thanks Dad!!!

My dad wanted me to load some pics on to my computer and post some to the family site and I found some cute ones. So I thought Id share. The one of Shaylee passed out on the back of the wheeler made me laugh out loud. Theres some of Brinleys grandma and grandpa program. And one with her teacher.

States Fair.

ANOTHER FIFTH GRADE PROJECT..... beware out there..those who have not been through 5th grade yet. The homework is CRAZY!!! This is Jentry's..lets see, about 5th project since school has started. And this one was a biggie. Everyone had to have a state and do a project on it. She had South Dakota. There were state symbols, maps, flags, brochures, 3d maps (we made a cake flagging all the 69 counties), fake letters to friends after visiting that state. Gosh, theres more then that...but I cant remember.
Anyway, they had them on display this last Friday. I took the boys, and the two boys I babysat to go check out the display. I cant believe some of the other kids' displays. WOW!! I was impressed. I was also impressed with Jentry. She had a mandatory 600 pts to get. And then 1000 if you wanted an A. She ended up with 1650. Way to go Jentry!!!

Sorry for not posting all that often. But we are just doing the usual everyday. Which is fine by me!!
Get up, get ready for school.
Clean
Lunch
Put boys down for a nap (ITS THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE DAY!)
Do billing.
Kids come home.
Play
Make dinner.
Eat.
Do homework.
Get ready for bed.

Thats our day. Sometimes we throw in a lunch out, piano lessons, grocery shopping or my favorite...a night out without the kiddos!!!

A week without Ty.

This last week was the muzzleloader hunt. My mom and dad took Ty and my neice Shaylee up for the whole week. This is the first time Ive been away from Ty (except to have Chase) for more then a night. Of course, he got spoiled up there and didnt want to come home at all. I took the girls up on Thursday night because they didnt have school on Friday. Thinking maybe, just maybe Ty would want to come home. I pulled up and he actually looked excited to see me. But when I picked him and and mentioned him coming home he would have nothing more to do with me. He told me, "Im staying with Grandpa!"

Chase did enjoy his week at home being the only baby though. No one was there to rip every single toy out of his hand or to take away the attention from him and he ate that up.

We ended up going up on Saturday for the day. Chase had a tummy bug and didnt feel good and puked the whole way up. :-( He was good for the rest of the day until about night fall and then got sick again.

But I did get my Ty back and he talked my leg off the whole way home.
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Heres a couple of pics



Scott taught the boys how to shoot a bb gun.



Grandpa Scott came up with the Scotts. I was suprised to see that he actually came up.



Now only 1 more hunt... at the end of this month. And then we will pack it up until next year.

One of these things is not like the other...

...One of these things is kinda the same. Remember that song from Sesame Street? Well thats what I thought of when I saw this picture Scott took. I told ya theres nothing she likes better then going hunting with all of the boys.

Childhood Friends

I found a few of my old friends on face book this last month. When I heard that Lisa (my best friend since forever) was coming to visit from AZ this last weekend we decided we would meet at the Hillcrest Park (the park by our old elementary school).
Me, Lisa, Heather and Kim were able to get together for a quick reunion. It was fun to catch up on eachother and show off all of our cute kids. We will have to do it in another 10 years. ;)

Chases Fix-It Shop ---Free Estimates

He takes after his dad.

We went to the park....

I dont know why we dont do this more often. The kids love it. They are always good. But I guess Im just a lazy mom. Anyway, Kayleah had invited Jentry to come see Jace's game. So I took her to the park to watch it and just decided to stay for awhile.

I didnt get any really good pictures. Mostly the tops of heads or the back of someone because they were running around like mad!! And by the time I snapped the pic they were outta there!!



One cute thing that happened was a little girl came up to me and said... Is that your little boy (pointing to Chase) and I said yes. Thinking she was going to tell me he did something to her. She asked, "can I keep an eye on him?" I told her yes. And boy oh boy did she keep an eye on him (for the 2 minutes before her mom called her. She seriously was so close to him most of the time that Chase kept looking at her weird, like...what do you think you are doing. It was very cute.

She gets her fashion sense from her mom...

Need I say more?

Its a Hard Knock Life...

Fry Family Reunion...

Last Saturday was the anual Fry family reunion. This year they were doing a benefit auction for my Uncle Steve who will be getting a heart transplant soon (WE HOPE!) There were a lot of people that showed up, a lot of cute items for the auction, and a lot of generosity.

Here are a few pictures from it...


Mandy threatening Mckayden... (didnt think anyone saw that did ya ;-) )



Me and My sister Kymberlie



Grandpa playing with Chase



Kym with our ancestors

Do you remember losing your molars???

A few days ago, on the boards we were talking about this. Do you remember losing your molars? Most people didnt. I dont remember losing mine. So when Jentry showed me hers was about to come out...I thought Id better get a picture of it. Her new tooth was pushing that baby tooth out!!




But it wasnt THAT loose! But of course...Jentry was going to make it that loose!! So she pulled and she twisted and she got that thing out!!! It looks a lot littler out of her mouth. That was her first molar. I remember her getting it. Those things arent very nice to little babies. It kind of made me sad that she lost it. :( But she did write the tooth fairy a cute little Thank you.




And what do you know... the tooh fairy gives TWO dollars for molars.

1st Grade Grandma and Grandpa Program

Today me and the boys went to see Brinleys dress rehearsal of the Grandma and Grandpa program that she will be putting on tomorrow. It was only about 20 minutes of them singing songs. But it was so so cute. I dont know why...but every dang school program that I go to...makes me want to break down and BAWL. Seeing them up there singing away is so cute!! I love it. Im so glad I have the oportunity to go to every single school program so far.

(sorry the pic is so dark. We were in the back and the camera doesnt work too well in the school.)

Got One.

Scott, Jentry, my Dad, Todd, Chad and Heidi all went up to Walsburg this Saturday. After a morning of hunting they were eating lunch and a bee flew up Jentrys glasses and stung her in the eye. From the sounds of things...she freaked (as I would have). So they turned around and started coming down the mountain. Chad saw this deer and Scott shot it from 22 yards with his bow. Its a 3x4. Poor Jentry's eyes are swollen in the picture...but shes a good sport to take a picture with a dead deer. She loves going hunting with her dad. It doesnt bother her one bit to have to wake up in the wee hours of the morning if it means she gets to be with her dad. Now if it means having to wake up by 8 to go to school..thats a different story.

ABC's

The other day after the girls had gone to school I was cleaning the kitchen. Ty was sitting at the counter watching me and I thought...this would be a good time to start singing the ABC's. I havent worked with him at all on those so he probably doesnt know more then just A-B-C. So I started singing them to him and he started singing them back to me!! I was shocked. He's not perfect, but this is video of his second time singing them. (you can turn off the music on the side of my blog by pushing the pause button so you can hear him better)

PARANOID...

Ty got a mosquito bite at Starvation. No big deal, right? Well 2 mornings ago he woke up and his eyes were swollen and across the bridge of his nose was swollen. I gave him some allergy medicine and we went on with our day. Still by night time he was swollen. So I told myself that if he was still swollen the next day Id take him in. Next morning he wakes up and his face looks no different from the night before. I called the doc and they said to bring him in. Call Jamie and she said she'd watch Chase. I get off of the phone, look down at Ty and I swear I could not even tell he was swollen. OF COURSE!!! All it takes is for me to call the doc and find a babysitter and he's cured. He still was a little swollen so I took him in. Doc said it was just from the mosquito bite and that the face and hands swell more then any other part of the body and the mosquito venim had just drained into his eyes and nose so that is the problem. So yes, I took my son into the doctors because he had a mosquito bite.

His Dad thinks hes pretty cute....

The other day we were eating lunch and Scott jumped up from the table and ran and got the camera, took a couple of pictures of Ty and continued to eat lunch. I think he thinks he's pretty cute. I do too. Ty on the other hand...was not co-operative with the pictures.

Starvation

This labor day weekend we went with my parents, aunts, uncles and parents friends to Starvation Reservoir. And we actually stayed the night. I think that is Chases first time sleeping over camping. Saturday was beautiful, Sunday was colder but still nice. The girls had a great time. Jentry had a few kids her age to play with (2 girls and 2 boys). They went on MANY hikes. Brinley also had a friend to play with and they got along GREAT!!! Even painted eachothers toes. Heres a few pictures of our trip.

Happy 100th Birthday Grandma!!!

Today I was web surfing and came across one of our family websites Ive never looked at. It's My Grandma Scotts (my dads mom), Mom. So my great Grandma. I was reading through some of the stuff and came across her birthday...which is...TODAY! September 2, 1908. I thought that was interesting how Id come across that on her birthday.

SO HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRANDMA!

I do have a few memories of her from when I was little. I remember her siamese cats. They were mean and I dont think many dared pet them. I remember her coming over on Christmas morning to see what we got. I remember candy corns in her candy dish. I remember her funeral and Grandpa Sorenson telling jokes through the family prayer. I remember telling my sister Kym just to not be scared and just to act like she was asleep. It was the first funeral either of us had been to. And that is about all the memories I have of her. I should be better at Geneology. It fascinates me.

Date night...with the girls.

Every month we trade off kids with Scotts sister, Lisa, so that we can go on a date...just the two of us. Its worked out really well.

Today Scott came home and said...do you think you can get a babysitter? Lets go to Tepanyaki. I told him Im sure I could...but I think it would be fun to take the girls. We have been wanting to do that for a long time. I called Lisa, and she said she could babysit the boys...so off we went.

Tepanyaki is a Japanese grill where they cook it in front of you, and do a show. You know the kind. The girls were very excited to go with us!! I told them they have to at least try everything they get...and if they dont like it, they dont like it, I guess.

Brinley was just excited to get steak. She is a steak girl. And when I told her that they also serve shrimp...she was almost in heaven.

The cook was very funny with Brinley. When he went to give her her rice he just gave her one piece in her bowl. She looked at me and said "I dont think he even gave me any!" Then he only gave her one piece of steak. She looked at me and said "He is annoying!" She was not amused with his teasing. When he asked her how she wanted her steak cooked he acted like he couldnt hear her and told her that he was just going to have to cook it however he wanted. And if he didnt give her enough food then she would just have to go to McDonalds. She was not pleased. But of course, we were laughing.

Brinley ended up trying everything and loved almost everything except for the zucchini.



Jentry liked everything but the onion soup. Though I didnt tell her it was onion soup because I knew if I did she wouldnt have even tried it.




(sorry the pics are bad, I had to use Scotts camera on his phone and theres not good lighting)

We had a fun night and it was great just to hang out with the girls. The boys had a great time at Aunt Lisa's. Ty told me she had TOYS!! I dont know if he has been downstairs in our playroom lately...but we have toys too. LOL