Birds of Prey

If you haven't gone you need too!!

Did you know its the only on in the US!!

What an AWESOME place and very kid friendly & educational

one of the birds in the demonstration

shaydon loving his mom....

he was even brave and asked a question?

What does that bird eat?

playing with the puppets

how BIG are your wings?

looking at the birds

snacks after we r done!!

Rebecca has a client who volunteers out at the birds of prey and she meet us for a personal tour!! how lucky r we!! I learned so much and the kids did too! Shaydon talks about how every bird comes from the birds of prey. Thanks Rebecca for the pictures and fun morning. Slater enjoyed himself too at 3 months old!!

Happy Birthday to All of us!!

California here we come!!

Mom was very brave to travel by herself (on her birthday) with two boys, but they did GREAT!! Shaydon as been wanting to go on a plane for i don't know how long!! It's all he talks about. So we asked him what he wanted for his birthday and he said to go on a plane ride, so that is what we did! Poor nana get all of us for each of our birthdays. Mine 1st, Shaydon's 2nd and Scott's 3rd. We are going to have a fun 10 days.

Shaydon waiting to board our plane in Bosie

hanging out

fell asleep on our leg from Vegas to Burbank, finally

he hasn't fell asleep in my arms since he was a newborn!!

shaydon falling asleep, not!! he was way to excited.

Thanks to Nana for picking us up at the airport & the trouble we had filling out our lost bag report (an 1.5 hours later) and a $50.00 parking fee, ugh!!

Yep they lost it, all 4 bags!! plus i didn't have record of them...to make it worse, story below

At least i got it back at 11:00pm that night delivered.

okay funny story but not at the time.

I am a little OCD when it comes to traveling and keeping things where they belong. On our last leg from Vegas to Burbank we has an additional security check and had to get our our ID's aka our passports. Which are kept in my purse with the luggage tags that are stapled to the folder with the boarding passes. I set them in the umbrella of the stroller to have them out and available for the extra security check. So as i am walking and getting the stroller to the area before boarding the plane i have shaydon on the ground holding slater and my carry on bags just sitting there. I get the stroller put away and very thing and everyone loaded and get to our seats. FYI it a FULL flight. I realize that i left the passports in the umbrella of the stroller. So i think to myself what to do? I can't leave the kids and fight the rows of people filing on the plane so i just hit the call button for a flight attendant to come to me!! After about 10 minutes still no one has come and then i hear my name being called over the speaker so i turn tot he front of the plane and wave to get her attention that's ME!! So she brings me my passports that got turned in and all i could think about was how lucky i was to get the passports back. Didn't think that i would need the luggage tags that are stapled to the folder until i was looking for it in filling out the lost luggage report. UGH i didn't have them...no proof of me checking luggage let alone 4 of them. Well we did track all 3 of them down, (1 lost somewhere) but not after some confusion and supervisor help. It ws so confussing because i also had to check in the stroller on each leg and that was just too much for them to follow. So to say the least i had no idea what was coming to me at 11:00pm that night. whew...

Cassia County Fair

papa with Slater waving

papa with Shaydon after the commercial building

Shaydon at the rodeo with grandpa gerratt and cousins

looking at the animals, his favorite part

its always a CRAZY week when we come to the fair. i have a love hate relationship with it. i love the memories, friends, fun and food of when i was a kid, but now i just come to work!! so most of my 12+ hours days are in the trailer making salads. i don't really like the kids down there because they are too hard to watch and work at the same time, but dad or papa loves them there so he can see them. the boys just get ice cream all day to eat. why wouldn't they like it! thank to mimi, grandma and grandpa gerratt, todd and brenda for helping me watch them. not only does shaydon come to burley but he goes to the fair, See's both (GREAT) grandma and grandpa's, aunts and uncles, goes to the farm and al's pizza. It's defiantly a full week and we rest for DAYS after!! i love that family is so close to help with them. thanks sooo much. another year done, check!

Friends

Getting Warm

Tian Shaydon and Trey

Slater

was fast asleep and i snuck into his room for a quick sleeping photo and as soon as i took it he looked right at me!!

5 seconds later he was fast asleep!!

notice the spot on his sheets? Well you guessed it he had a blow out earlier and i didn't notice he got it on his sheets. Most mothers would be upset, but not me.. YEAH!! He pooped!! And a blow out!! I know it's because of the laxative, but it's movement!! Way to go bud!!

spur of the monents

at the mall play area after i did a few returns.

love these boys!

McCall, Idaho

all the kids on Tinkerbell, one of their favorite things to do!

slater giving out kisses

eating our yummy desserts

baked bananas loaded with candy,cookies, marshmallows

well anything for that matter

ridding my trike

my scooter

hanging out pool side

spikes anyone?

lake time

nap time, for about 5 sec.

can you tell they are family?

sand turtle

love my boys

chill time, nice new sunglasses nic.

aunt yvonne playing with slater in the sand

Thanks to Eric and Yvonne for inviting us to McCall for a nice relaxing weekend. I brought up 4 projects and finished them all by Saturday! Amazing what i can get done when the kids play with their cousins. It was such a fun time and GREAT food too. I even slept in. Hope to do it again next summer!

FIRE

Cheeseball! I am just so excited to be on a fire in the 9th hour..

not sure why i can't just smile normal, ugh having too much fun!

our helicopter came to help us

working on our hoselay!

Thanks to Lindsey and unit C for letting me come and play for a few days.

Got my qualifications renewed too, yeah!!

See you next year BLM.

Firefighting in Training

always a silly pix

So i got called into work for BLM, Yea ~4 days on unit C

Shaydon wanted to try on my clothes & equipment.

He is really into dress up. I have a little problem saying that, but its true, at least he dresses up in male characters. It's also hard to explain to him that i was a firefighter for 12 years.

Just doesn't quite get it.