Austin turns SEVEN!!!

In November Austin turned SEVEN! He was so excited!! He is the one that looks most forward to his birthday every year. It gets really bad once Samantha's comes along in June! This year he is big into Star Wars and wanted an R2D2 cake for his birthday party.

Here are all the wild party animals! :)
One of our games was to stuff as many marshmallows in your mouth as possible and still say "happy puppy."

And the other was a race to see who could move their smarties from the table to the bowl with only a straw the fastest. Pretty funny!

We are so happy that Austin is a part of our family! He has such a tender heart and is always the first to share with his sisters!

WE LOVE YOU AUSTIN!!

Halloween 2009

Better late than never! Right?! I have been trying to get my photoshop to work so that I could make these pics into cute pages, but to no avail. :( So, we will post them anyways! :) So here we go, in no special order.....since the site is being stubborn and won't let me switch the order.

We had a FUN Halloween this year! The kids were SO excited! Taryne sure got the "Tritree"(Trick-or-Treat) and "Cue!"(Thank you!) down quick once she seen candy was involved!

Here is GI JOE Austin!

Here is Taryne, Eva, and Anna trick-or-treating! Yep, this is how they rolled! ;)

Here is our whole trick-or-treat crew.
Here is the kids going to the neighbors houses.


Taryne the "B-bug!" She calls all flying bugs that.

Sammy the Good Purple Witch! :)

Here are all three kids. Austin cracks me up in this one!

A few days before Halloween we carved our pumpkins! This year I was pretty proud of the kids. Usually it is "Mom, it's gross! Will you clean mine out?" But this year they did their best, and with the help of Grandma and Grandpa they ended up with some great jack-o-lanterns!

Here are Curt's and Sammy's.

Then mine and Austin's!

Grandpa's Birthday Party!

Grandpa Bundy turned 80 this month!! We LOVE Grandpa!!

We got together to celebrate on Saturday with yummy food, playing game, and homemade ice cream!!

Grandpa, Sammy, Taryne, and Austin
again + Grandma :)


Grandma shocked us all by playing Texas Hold em!

Sammy turning 8!!

So I am playing a little catch up here.....on scrapping AND blogging. It's slow going but I am working on it! :)

Anyways, in June Sammy turned 8!! Can you believe how the time flies?!! She invited some friends over for a Flip-Flop Party. They decorated flip-flops to take home as well as all the normal party fun!

Oh, and for the cupcakes......they turned out pretty cute huh? :) When I turned the cake out that morning it stuck really bad. Oops! But she was way happy with the cupcakes!

Bummer!

Yesterday the fam got up extra early and hit the road at 6:00 AM! We headed to Cedar to watch the hot air balloons launch @ 7. When we got there they hadn't even unloaded any of them and a few minutes later the head guy said they were going to call it because of the forecast. BUMMER! Even thought there wasn't a stitch of wind on the ground they did show us using helium balloons that the wind did change higher. Taryne on the other hand was thrilled enough with the balloons we DID get to see though. :) So instead we went to McDonald's and ate breakfast and let the kids play. All was well and we will try again next year. :)

Labor Day

This year we didn't have any plans for the Labor Day weekend. But on Monday Curt and I both had the day off and of course the kids had no school. So since Curt was on call we spent the day getting things done around the house and then just relaxing and watched a movie. We decided that for dinner we would make tinfoil dinners and ride up to the reservoir and cook and eat them and the roast marshmallows and make smores!! My parents, Wade, Jenn, and her friend Dave all came with us too! Jenn and Dave walked with the kids to the lake to throw rocks in the water. They were amazed by Dave's rock skipping abilities. (Thanks Dave! They thought I knew an awesome trick until you came and blew me out of the water! :) Anyways, we ended up having a lot of fun!! Nice when those last minute ideas come together like that! :)

Trav's wedding

My brother Trav got married July 25th. We are so excited to have Heather in the family!! They had their reception at the Marriott and Jenn went through a LOT of work on the food and it was excellent!! I made the cake for them.

CONGRATULATION TRAVIS AND HEATHER!!

here is Sammy dancing with Uncle Trav during the Honeymoon Dance.