Happy Halloween

Pumpkin Carving!

I think Max and his bat signal won our pumpkin carving contest this year!

Batman and Tigger

Kaysie Jo

I just caught my daughter having a tea party with Cookie Monster and wanted to share :)

After she saw me snapping her picture, she posed with Cookie Monster for me

Our Summer...in a nutshell

Now that summer feels like a distant memory I had better write down it's events before they become long lost memories! 

I think we spent close to every weekend 4-wheeling up and down different paths in the Pryor Mountains.  It was so much fun, my kids loved every minute of it.

We took a few trips on our own, a few trips with some great friends, and quite a few with Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles and cousins!!!

Look how dirty Max is...we were covered in dirt!

Papa John, Grandma Ro and Peanut (their dog)

We made a big trip up the mountain with this giant crew!

Hudson, Max and Kaysie eating Great Grandma's famous cookies!

Devin and Cari

Max, Hudson, Lincoln, Kaysie

Charlie skipped this trip ;)

There were many, many more trips and many, many great friends that joined us on our adventures...I am so sad that I didn't get pictures of them all!

The days we weren't cruising around the mountains we filled with swimming, parades, shopping trips and soccer.

Doesn't he look like he's having fun?



After a long day of shopping we needed a cold refreshment :)

If you ask Kaysie "What should we do today?"  Her reply is always, "SHOPPING!"   She loves it....I think that this particular day she met her match.  We went shopping in Red Lodge with my Grandma-who is the shopping queen.  My sister swears that my Grandma "even shops after she drops!"  Kaysie looks pretty exhausted in this picture!

Talking with my kids

Here are a couple conversations I never want to forget.....

Me:  We should give Papa John some of the pictures we took today.
Max: Yeah, but not all of them I want to keep some.
Me:  We'll make some copies of the pictures for him.
Max: Okay....but have Uncle Jake make the copies.
Me: Huh?
Max:  Yeah, I heard he's a good copier guy.  :)

(My brother-in-law; Jacob, is a salesman that specializes in copier sales)


Charlie put Kaysie to bed the other night and after he checked on her one last time, convinced she was almost asleep, he came to bed.  A few hours passed and at about 11:30 I heard footsteps on the stairs.  I figured it was Max creeping up to tell me he had a bad dream and I told him to go back to bed.  He didn't say anything and I didn't hear anything else, so I assumed he went back to bed.  A little while later I heard more steps on the stairs.  I got up to see what he was doing and as I rounded the corner I was surprised at who was standing outside my doorway....it was Kaysie.  She looked up at me and said, "Max sleeping, shh."  That little turkey had snuck down the stairs and tried to get Max up. 


Max:  Can I have an apple?
Me:  We don't have any apples, do you want a plum?
Max:  What's a plum?
Me:  Well, it's kind of like an apple, but softer.
Max:  Soft, you say?
"Soft, you say????  Who talks like that?  My son is an 80 year old man trapped in a 5-year-old body!