Quick trip to Burley

Shaydon absolutely loves the farm. He talks about it often and really knows more about farming, equipment and how things work than i do. He tells his friends all about tractors especially green tractors the BEST ones and the fields, talking on the radio. Thanks to grandpa gerratt, uncle todd and cousin Jake for all of his knowledge. Grandpa was going out plowing when we were here so shaydon pack a few snack and some water and was off to the field with grandpa. I pick him up for lunch with mimi and papa at Al's!! It was a short trip but did lots today. Thanks everyone for a fun filled day!!!

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!

welcome home

bailey and slater

waiting to leave for church

slater

to larry and barbara from there mission in germany.

we missed them tons and are excited to make up some lost time.
what a fun and exciting weekend with all the family in town.

we love you and thx for the party weekend.

funeral weekday

the flowers were beautiful

the casket was beautiful

at the burial site

saying bye bye to mimi

this one is crashed out while having a snack before we head back to boise for the night

it is always sad to have to meet with family (sometime it seems like the only time we get to see them) on such a sad moment in time, but we are so grateful for our plan of salvation to see grandma great again!! shaydon did so well with all aspects of his 1st death in either of our family's. we showed him pix of them together and talked about seeing her in heaven some day. "jesus is taking care of her right now" he wanted to see her in the casket and asked why her eyes were closed? he said he will miss her as we all will. happy she gets to see her husband again!! since i am posting this sooo long after the fact i can tell you a story of when shaydon went in to get his 1st cast off. we got there a little early and we were sitting in the truck he said in a really sad low voice "i wish grandma great would be here with me? i said she is sweet heart she is looking at you from heaven. he said to me but her eyes were closed, MOM?!!! so we talked about how the body is here on earth and the spirit goes to heaven and he was okay with it and new she was going to help him be soo brave!! i just love the sweetness of shaydon's personality. i love you!!

special visitors

grandma gerratt and slater

grandpa playing with the boyz.

sleeping at willow creek grill good thing slater was awake!!

what a weekend. our surprise package arrived on friday evening larry and barbara. wendy also came from SLC. we all headed our to erics for a BBQ and visiting. the kids had lots of fun together. stayed way too late, but lots of fun. zack taught shaydon all about football. breakdown, wrap and pull. dad is proud!! thanks zack. all the boys went early on saturday to zack and nic football games. i worked and then meet them out to erics house. watched to reruns of kate and will wedding. took a little nap. scott helped his parents look for a car. we went to dinner at my favorite place willow creek grill. shaydon was so tired that he literally fell asleep at the dinner table and didn't move when he got in and out of the car 6 times before we got home for the night. CRAZY guy. Those cousins wore him out!!! how fun it was to see the boyz interact with them. it was like they never left!! how special.

missing....

grandma and grandpa gerratt randomly shaydon wanted to see the pix we have of the gerratt family!! he went through and named every single person in the photo and proceeded to say how much he miss grandma and grandpa gerratt and gave them a big KISS!!! it was so cute. my cousin regan was here visiting and he just kept talking about them and showing her the pix and saying that this is MY grandma and grandpa gerratt. love those moments... shaydon (We) pray for you guys every night and for the missionary's.

(sorry about the tongue)

love and miss you,
shaydon and slater

Fairwell to Larry and Barbara

Their off to Frankfurt, Germany

Alisa, Jan and Hinkley at the farewell luncheon

Grandma Great Garner with Slater

Our Family, We love you Grandma Great!!!

Zack and Shaydon playing football at Grandma Gerratts house

Shaydon and Nic trading helmets

Uncle Dave meeting Slater for the 1st time

Thanks to Lexie for helping with the kids, she is the BEST EVER!!

(we wish you lived closer)

We had such a GREAT weekend with the Gerratt family. It was busy, fun and relaxing. It was our 1st trip since we had Slater and we had to drive the truck to fit everything. I forget how much stuff you have with a little one. We got Gerratt family pictures which i hope turned out good. It's been 3 years since we had one taken before there are 6 new additions to our family since. Slater had a blow out during the pix's. The kids (cousins) love to play with each other and love to have "papa gerratt" play with them. He is good with them chasing them around, playing tractors and hauling dirt visiting the farm (which Shaydon loves). If it's not papa gerratt then it's Logan and Lexie. They are such wonderful cousins to the younger ones. We love you guys. We had pulled pork which was fabulous for the luncheon, best I've ever had.

We also got to attend the blessing of Hinkley Brown.

Ben did a good job and we are so excited to have Hinkley with us.

Thanks to Larry and Barbara for falling in love and having such wonderful kids.

We love you and will miss you, but know you are where you are suppose to be.

GOOD LUCK!!!!

Activies

Eric and Yvonne came over with the kids and we ate, (ham, green beans, corn, rolls, green salad, strawberries & pineapple, garlic potatoes, veggie tray) played in the toy room, colored eggs, had an Easter egg hunt (thanks to Scott for hiding all the eggs in the COLD weather), delicious dessert by Yvonne brownies & ice cream & toppings. Then just sat around and visited (the best part) good company.
Thanks to everyone for coming over and spending the day with us at our home.
We loved hosting everyone.

Using his new bunny ear scissors to get his egg out

Thanks Zack Lily & Nic I love my new hamster too, Nugget

Lily stamping her egg

We love that smile

Ready to dye eggs

Cuddling his new frog

All the CUTE cousins

Love my new ears?

Thanks grandma and grandpa Gerratt for our Easter stuff

Easter Morning

Watching TV with Grandpa Gerratt on Saturday night.

So fun to see how excited he gets!!

Finding all the eggs the Easter Bunny hid

Roxy wanting to get in on all the action too

Daddy helping by lifting me up so I can reach

He will love these when we work in the yard

His new watch & sunglasses can you tell mom's favorite color is Red?

It's going to be his too. jk

Grandma & Grandpa Gerratt were here to share in all the Easter festivities on Sunday. After all the excitement of the Easter bunny we had breakfast and then watched conference. Shaydon did pretty good while we watched by playing, coloring and drawing.

We had dinner planned for around 1:00pm.