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Thursday, July 23, 2015

Spring break

Mom came for Spring Break (back in April) since I had to go back to school when the kids were off. 

 Mom flew in and we got to pick her up at the airport. 

 One day we hiked into Hells Gate!  It was a few miles.  Everyone made it!

 The trees and bushes were beautiful!

 Time for lunch!








 A well deserved dessert after hiking back out!

Dad couldn't be here, but he was sending us pictures when we were sending pictures to him. :)  This is his truck!  We are excited to see it in a car show when we go to Boise next week. 

Friday, May 8, 2015

Early Mother's Day!!

We are headed out of town tomorrow for Coop's Hot Shot soccer tournament in Coeur d' Alene, so we had an early Mother's Day!  I love these kids so much! They made me beautiful gifts!  :)




On the back of Emma's frame there is a list about "My Mom".

My mom is 43 years old.  (Coop Said "She's not that old, she would have a lot more grey hairs!")
My mom weighs 60 lbs.  
My mom's favorite color is pink.  (She nailed that!) 
My mom always says put your shoes on. 
My mom cooks the best muffins.
My mom's job is a nurse.
My mom laughs when I say funny words.
My mom and I like to play. 
My mom really loves watching movies.  
I LOVE my mom because she plays with me. :)  
Emma Owen 

 In the middle of Charlie's card a flower pops out.

 Charlie decorated both sides of the bag.  



 Emma really liked the belt she drew on herself.  :) She made sure to point that out to us.  Then she goes, "Oops I colored your hair brown and it is black."  Haha!  I love it so cute!

 Coop gave me some art work that he made at school.

I love them all!  

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Spring Concert

 Goofballs






Coop is singing "Hand Jive" and Charlie is dancing to it.




Rock around the Clock




Shoo Fly



Sourwood Mountain

Marimbas





We all go together!

And some art work.....

Charlie's turtle

Charlie's chicken

Cooper's chicken

I can't believe we will have a 5th grader, 3rd grader and a Kindergartner in about a month.  They are getting so big! 

Sunday, April 26, 2015

Turkey Hunting

Today Coop and Nate went out turkey hunting for Cooper's first hunt.  He's officially 10 years old see he can hunt now!  They didn't see or hear any turkeys, but they had a fun morning.  Maybe next week.... :)  


 We were up at 4am, which Cooper thought was an adventure within itself.  Here was our view looking out kind of south-east from Moscow Mountain.


Coop setup in our blind at our sure-fire, no way a turkey wouldn't come here, spot.


Hiking out of the sure fire spot after getting skunked.


We enjoyed seeing mountain flowers and streams.



Spring is pretty awesome.


I dared Coop to balance on the log across this little dam in the stream.
It didn't take much coercing.
He wouldn't take $10 to jump in the water though.


We took the long way home along Lenville Rd and stopped to check out a few spots.


I had to talk him into leaving he was having fun exploring.


A Genesee sign you don't see too often.  Know where it is?



Coop found a stream that dumped into the Lenville creek and thought that was the coolest thing he's seen all day -- two streams in one spot.


A final shot of Genesee spring time.


This was just an exploratory hunt to try Moscow Mountain and so I didn't know what to expect.   I was kind of hoping for a little more than nothing, maybe to at least hear a turkey but it was a fun start.

Saturday, April 25, 2015

Piano recitals

In between two soccer games and the last showing of, "The Little Mermaid" the boys also had their first piano recital today.  They did very well and we are so proud of them!  Thank you Donna for all you have taught our boys!


Battle Hymn of the Republic by Steffe

Hide and Seek



Fur Elise

Frozen Heart by Lopez

What a great group of musical kiddos and a fabulous teacher!  :) 




Charlie and Kaylee :)