Maui dreaming!

Chet, Zane, Reid, and mommy are over in Maui having fun in the sun, sand, and pool for a week with Nana, Grandma, Auntie Angie, Jessica, Zoe, and Kaia!! The kids are loving our days here! It sure is rough having to decide whether to go to the pool or the beach first! ;D Each of us girls is cooking a dinner each night and tonight was my night! We had Thai curry chicken and yes, even delicious Thai tea! Yummm! And the best part were the fortune cookies afterwords! I took the fortune out and replaced it with our own fortune....A family of five will turn into six!!! Yes, we are expecting!!! We are so excited to welcome a new little Garrett baby April 3rd! :D. The boys are excited that they get to have another baby boy or girl!! Cannot wait to find out what it is!!! Just had to share the exciting news and will post pictures of our fun time when we return! Happy days to you! :D

Hunting boys!

Chet has loooved hunting with Daddy for elk over the weekends! It's so fun that he can spend time with daddy hunting in the woods, and as the boys get older, I cannot wait to join them!

Daddy and Chet!

A day in the mountains!

Cute camo kids!

We loved going up into the mountains this past Saturday to meet Will and Ryan (who were already up there hunting) to pick some wild berries! It is always so fun to be in the woods!

Good picking buddies!

Chet with a wild huckleberry!

Reid absolutely loved eating the berries, and got so excited to find some just his level! Pretty sure he got his daily quota of fruits!

The wild berries were so colorful and delicious! We picked seven different kinds of wild berries: salmonberries, huckleberries, red huckleberries, blackcaps, strawberries, blackberries, and raspberries! Yummm! It'll make a delicious mountain berry jam!

Zane loves chillin in these comfy chairs!

We loved having Zoe and Kaia over for a bit last week! Cute cousins!

Chet, our Kindergartener!!

Chet started Kindergarten, Tuesday, September 6th! He looooves school, and cannot wait to go everyday! When asking if his first day went good, he told me, "Not really. There's too many girls!" I laughed my head off! Now if we can just get him to keep that kind of thinking until he's 30! ;D

All ready to go to school on his first day!

Chet's classroom, room 10, and teacher, Miss Thompson!

We were able to get Chet transferred to Hawthorne School which we love! This is the school that I volunteered at before Chet was born, reading to kids in the SMART program. Hawthorne is a great school! It'll be fun years for our boys!

Another boy!

We are so happy to have another boy in our family! We are loving having Bullet, (named by Chet & Zane) our 13 week old puppy! He is 1/4th Red Walker hound, 1/4th Blue Tick, and 1/2 Blue Healer! So far, with a few reminders on how to behave, he is doing wonderful, and having no problem adjusting to our rowdy bunch of boys! =)

Chet, Zane, and Reid are in love with him! =)

Peach picking!

The boys loved going peach picking last week! The peach crop was terrible this year, but we did manage to pick a couple.

Mommy's good helpers!

Reid enjoyed walking around, munching on peaches while we picked. He was such a sweet and juicy mess! =D

The family farm where we went picking had this fun hay bale maze the boys loved playing in after we were done picking!

Boy things!

We got this kids 4-wheeler for the boys, and they looove riding it around with daddy! Vroom, vroom!

One of the boys favorite places to go now is the skate park to ride their bikes around! It's a lot of fun!

Cute and smiley Reid!

Doing tricks!

Cougar hunting

While Will was away down on business in Utah, we found out this kitty was hanging out 100 yards away from where we play everyday! Not a very comforting thought. We were headed down into town to do some errands one August morning, and spotted 3 of our rams lying dead in the field. I whipped the suburban around and headed back up to the house, and ran down to the field to check it out! Two of them were pretty gory and eaten up, then I realized that we were missing quite a bit more sheep! We only had 4 of our 10 sheep left! One of the missing included Flower, our two week old lamb the boys were really attached to. =( So, I called daddy, and he decided he would come home right away, cutting his trip short by quite a bit. The next couple days, dealing with the cougar, newspaper reporters, and even a lady from a local TV station who came out to do a story on it was quite emotional and draining, not just because it was sad to lose our sheep, but for the safety of our boys. This happened just a couple days before Saginaw #1 started! We were very relieved to say the least that they tracked the cougar the next day with hound dogs, treed it, and killed it. The boys all thought the events were quite neat! Chet especially wanted everything to do with helping out in regards to the cougar! A neat (and scary) experience for them. Here are some TV links to look at if you are interested:
http://kezi.com/news/local/221238
http://kezi.com/news/local/221386
And now we can say, we are enjoying the cougar...he is delicious! They let us keep the cougar and the meat!

Park City, Utah

Will went down to Utah on sales this last month, and so enjoyed mountain biking down Deer Valley out of Park City, Utah one evening! The views are absolutely beautiful!! Park City is world known for their mountain biking! What a fun experience!