Happy Thanksgiving

Our crew at mimi's house

aawww!!

talking to grandma and grandpa gerratt on skype for the 1st time

Hinkley & Slater only 1 month apart

Spending time with grandam great

boys vs. girls ~nice forts....

"Frosty pinata"

getting the prizes..... Aunt Brenda spoiled them rotten with crafts and candy!!

shopping the day after Thanksgiving

glasses from the movie Tangled he crashed on the way home after 5 days straight of no naps!!

What a great long weekend. It is so fun to spend time with family!!

john deer

shaydon has loved being in burley with dad and uncle todd. he get spoiled by them too. this is his new sweatshit. he doesn't like to go anywhere without it!! thanks uncle todd for everything you do for our family. what a blessing to have such GREAT family

Cassia Count Fair

shaydon and christian eating their daily snow cone

pretending to take a nap with papa

mimi loving on slater, she couldn't get enough of him

eating the melting ice cream

wow what a CRAZY 4 days. i forget how much work the fair is. 1st off thanks sooo much to mimi, todd and brenda, britni and the browns for helping me get through this week. i couldn't of done it with out them watching my kids. shaydon is potty training and slater taking a bottle is a lot of extra work besides just watching them. at home when slater needs to eat i just drop what i am doing and feed him. here it didn't work like that. all of the sudden i would look at the clock and i missed two pumping session and was soooo full. if it were up to papa he would have shaydon down there all day. it was just to stressful for me!! i was freaking out when i didn't know exactly where he was. last year he got lost and was in the jump house. he just wandered off. this year he stuck around better, but kept asking when he could go to the jump house. and papa would take him. also juston's son christian came up to help and he was sooo awesome. did i say how good of help he was?!! he was!!!! we couldn't of done it with out him. on one day it was just the two of us until 1:00pm because no-one else showed up for work. we missed him on saturday!! i could do with out a taco salad or chicken salad for awhile. it was fun to see people because i am a social butterfly, but it was hard to talk when i was in the trailer working the whole time. my favorite thing was the fried OREO's!! yummm my mouth is watering just talking about them. i did get the recipe this year. we didn't run out of ice cream or salads. shaydon still ask when we are going back to the fair. he doesn't get that it only come 1 X a year. scott was on a BOYS camping trip so he did get here until sat late afternoon. sure could of used his help. (where is my girls trip?) i stayed with mimi this trip and it was a lot of fun. it's been since i was a little girl that i stayed at her house. we reminisced about the old days when she would do my hair in ringlets and make me toast with hot coco (nesquick), travel to pocatello eat steak. i sure love my mimi. i also went to aubry jones baby shower for about 5 minutes. i got her a boy present and she is having a girl. how do you like that? where is my mind?!! well the earliest i went to bed was 1:00am and the latest was 3am and back up at 8:00. i don't know how i did it, but i did. had lots of aches and pains on sunday.

until next year cassia county fair, farewell!!!

Uncle Ben, Shaydon and Bailey headed to the carnival

love the hat

bye bye shaydon

papa and shaydon

..... mom needs a break, so since we were in burley over the 4th we decided to leave shaydon with papa & mimi and todd & brenda. it was a very need break and i am proud of myself for doing it, but i knew he was in good care!! there were lots of rhino rides, trips to the farm and dairy, working with papa, jumping on the trampoline, checking water, riding on the chopper with cousin jake, receiving his very own chopper, playing with mimi's toys. he didn't want to come home. thanks to kenna for bring him back to boise on her way to roaring springs for the day. he was spoiled rotten all week thanks guys. it took a couple of day's to get him back on track i felt so mean!! I guess that is what aunts & uncles grandmas & grandpa's are for!! thanks sooo much for a much needed break.

boating & fireworks

todd, shaydon & scott

we sure love being on the snake river, thanks uncle todd

slater and shaydon ~ bailer and hinkley
hanging out under the boat

waiting for dinner at uncle todds. BBQ was delicious

pluging his ears when the fireworks were going off.

uncle todd is soooo cool!!! We love the boat and the firework show was AWESOME. We had straight fire works for 15 minutes. you should of seen the set up they had. i think they might be fire junkys!!! i think he might need to take out a loan for all those fireworks. the kids love uncle todd & aunt brenda, kiki and cousion jake and kristi. they keep the kids busy on the tramp or maybe it's the other way around. Thanks for such a fun 4th of July!!

Burley

luven our new little one


slater 6 weeks, shaydon 2.5, bailey 2.5, hinkley 2 months

our boyz


headed to the farm with dad and grandpa gerratt

looken at the baby cows

checking water

shaydon wanted to hold bailey after a wrestling match one grandma's bed

What a fun weekend in Burley!! Alisa and her kids stayed all week to help them get ready to leave for their mission. We crashed the party on Friday!! I don't know if they got much done with us here, but the kids sure loved it. Bailey is starting to talk so much with the influence of Shaydon (good and bad) Shaydon doesn't stop talking!!! Hinkley is sleeping through the night. Spent time with them on the computer to help teach them on to get on and off the Internet and check email. Saved Pix on the computer so they can see the kids and grand kids. We were sent home with lots of food. It's a tight squeeze with two kids and the dog in our little Honda accord. It was hard to say goodbye, but we will get to see them in two weeks at the garner reunion. Good Luck in the MTC! We did get to see my dad and mimi for a little bit. They sure love their grand kids and great grand kids.

Burley Trip

Our trip to Burley this weekend is because Scott's dad has been in the Stake Presidency for 18 years. He was called as the first counselor and when his 9 years were over they called him to be the Stake President. Any way his 9 years as Stake President were up and everyone headed to Burley to see him get released by Elder Dallin H. Oaks (his wife even came). He & his wife stayed at Barbara and Larry's house for the weekend. We stayed at my dad's house. Larry did a great job on his talk on Sunday and it's going to be a real change for him & Barbara. After 18 years of church meetings it's going to take a little getting use to all the time on thier hands! As we were sitting down for stake conference to start Elder Oaks was going around shaking every one's hands. I was so busy getting Shaydon's coat off and toys and snacks ready I didn't see him coming around. So it caught me off guard, but we all got to shake his hand multiple time before the day was over. We were all able to meet Elder Oaks and his wife on Sunday after lunch. They were very nice to take the time to meet all of us and ask if we had any questions for him? No one asked a single question. To nervous I guess. Elder Oaks is a very deep speaker but today seem to speak very warm and loving & on our level. He did a GREAT job. This was the 1st time any of us have meet a general authority. What a amazing opportunity.

eAsTEr WeEKEnD

Friday

• Happy Birthday to my DAD
• Dinner at Barbara's
• 1st trip to Walmart we always end up here
• Up late talking with Scott's family

Saturday

• Easter Egg Hunt at a Church
• 2nd trip to Walmart (like we need more food & candy)
• Weekends with the Gerrat's is an eating frenzy
• Worked on some craft/sewing items

Sunday

• Church at Unity
• Easter Egg Hunt at Grandma Gerratt's with money!! Shaydon slept right through it
• Turkey dinner
• Drive home

The weekend always goes way to fast, but it's always so fun.

We even got to see Brandon, but we missed Dave!!