Twilighters

Most of you know that I love Twilight. Team Edward! I have read all 4 books, twice. And I've seen the movie. Well, Gracie decided she wanted to read the book. So I let her read the first one. And she watched the movie....and now she is on Team Edward as well. So, here we are showing our Twilight Spirit!

10...9...8...7...

Ready for take off! TJ and Tony built this little rocket together. But I bought the wrong engines, so the poor kid waited a month before we finally found some that would fit. And this is it's maiden launch. Here are the two engineers.

Preparing the lunch pad.

Count down to ignition. TJ is prepared to launch.

And the smoke afterward, cause it moved to darn fast for my shutter. lol

Picture Day

Today is picture day at school for both kids. We got the kids all dressed and spiffy and sent them off to school with directions to not touch their hair or mess up their clothes until pictures had been taken. We'll see what happens. Here are a few shots of them before we headed out the door.



*sigh* So grown up!

Mailbox Surprises

Many of you know..I AM A READER. I love to read. So, there is this trilogy called Hunger Games. The first book was intense and I couldn't wait for the 2nd one. So, I pre-ordered it. Last Wednesday, it arrived, via UPS. When I got home from work, Gracie came out and told me that the UPS guy had brought my book and he had kicked Arrow, our dog. I told her that he was probably scared that he was going to get bit. Happens to them a lot, so they are kind of scared of dogs and take precautionary measures. She was not happen. In fact she was quite bent out of shape. I calmed her down and told her that the dog needed to be kept away when someone like that was outside. I thought nothing more of it.

I took last Friday off, to spend some time with Tony, while he was off. We happened to get 4 days together! Holy Moly!!! I was so happy to get to spend time with him. Friday morning, we dropped the kids off at school, and took Tony's semi to the repair shop. Then we headed off to breakfast. After we finished I took Tony back to pick up the semi. I headed home and started cleaning. MUCH later, Tony finally made it home. He had stopped and gotten the mail out, while he came in. He handed me a letter and said what is this. This is weird. It was an envelope, with our return address sticker on it. The to address was UPS Ground, and a bunch of numbers (which we later discovered were on the side of a UPS box). On the back was another of our address stickers and a stamp. And....it was Gracie's handwriting. So, I opened it. This is what I found.

That's my daughter! LOL So, UPS guys...don't kick her dog! Tony and I were shocked...but this is so Gracie. She is an animal lover and she did NOT like to see her dog get kicked. When we told her we had found it, she just put her hands over her face and turned red. LOL This baby is going in the scrapbook for sure!

Vote for Gracie

I have entered Gracie in a Disney Princess Contest, for a trip to Disney World....Who's the Fairest of them all. You can vote every 24 hours!!!

Vote for her here:
http://family.go.com/princess-picture-contest/who-is-the-fairest/princess-curtsy-13820/

Labor Day Weekend

Labor Day weekend was busy for us. Tony and I worked on our deck, and it is almost done. It is done enough that we had a BBQ on it Monday. We got a fire pit too, and the kids roasted hot dogs on it. Now all the neighbor kids want to come roast marshmallows. We also raked weeds and burned them, in an effort to move towards planting grass. Now we have to till the ground. Tony's cousin Leah and her 2 kids came out for part of the weekend, and they came to visit us Saturday. We all went to dinner, in my Yukon. We let the kids watch a movie and the way, and Asher was so excited. It was great. Asher and Gracie and Leah were in the middle seat, and Montana and TJ in the back.


When we got back to our house, Asher climbed into the front see to try his hand at driving. With that smile, who could say no?

During the weekend, we ran to Vernal to get some things for the deck and we stopped at a new store called Cal-Ranch. They had these little chaps that were so dang cute. We dressed TJ up and took pictures. Put 'em up buckaroo!

He even tried out a saddle.

Hope everyone had a great holiday. Sad that we are back to work and school and the daily grind, but more holidays are on their way! And I can't believe it to be honest. I want Summer to stay a little longer.

My cute little Gracie

Gracie's hair has been fun to play with this school year. On Monday, we did a few topsie-tails on top and flipped it all out. She then decided that she needed a crown. And yes, she wore it all day. Such a cutie.

Summer is almost gone

Boating season and Summer are almost gone. I am SO sad. While Fall and Spring are beautiful...my favorite is Summer. Winter well, I like it for a bit, but not much. I think the sicknesses that go with Winter, just ruin it for me. So, with Fall fast approaching, we only have a few more trips on the boat possible. We took advantage of one of those days last weekend. We just went to the closest place, Bottle Hollow. The water was so smooth, it was great. No wind. Only 3 other boats. Nice and sunny. It was perfect. Only bad part was that Tony is recovering from a sore back, and he couldn't do any of the water sports. We all jumped in and swam for a while. We had been working hard, building are deck..and the water felt so good. Gracie & Tony dove right in.

While TJ eased himself in. He did eventually jump...and then he wouldn't stop jumping. lol

I jumped in as well, and after I got over the initial shock, it was so nice. We turned on the tunes and swam and floated around. At one point, Gracie was up on the seats dancing. Okay, I was dancing too..but I was on the floor of the boat. Gracie needed a stage. ;)

I rode the tube with both kids, one at a time. I think I was on that tube for about an hour. I could feel it in my muscles the next day! WOO! Here are a couple pictures of TJ and me and on the tube. Didn't get any of Gracie and me.


We hope to get out another time or two, before we have to winterize and wrap the boat. So, so sad! :(