Will's First Day of School

Will's first day of Kindergarten was Friday, August 21st. He got to ride the bus to school and home and when I asked him how his first day went he said "Great!" He is really enjoying school and likes his teacher. He goes to all day Kindergarten on Monday's, Wednesday's and every other Friday. It has been a big adjustment to not have him home on those days and Isabelle was pretty sad the first day but Kate is now getting old enough that they can play together. I can't believe how fast he has grown up.

Double Trouble

Isabelle has always liked to draw on the walls and so she thought it would be a good idea to teach Kate. Just a tip...Scrubbing Bubbles really works great at removing pencil.


Shhhhh don't tell Daddy!

Summer Fun!!!

It has been a long time since we last posted and that has to do with the busy summer we have had. At the end of July and beginning of August we hosted the Jones family reunion here in Rigby, Idaho. It was so much fun to see my family. We had a total of 50 people here. We rented a bus and we all rode up to Yellowstone together and we saw Old Faithful, a bear and tons of bison. We also went to the sand dunes and rode sleds down the hills, and spent a day at Rigby Lake. After the reunion was over some of us went up to Drew's family cabin and spent a few days up there. We went rafting down the snake and Drew and I both fell out on the biggest rapid. It was so much fun. My kids really miss all of there cousins and talk about them often. I finally feel like life is back to normal and that our routine is back in place. Here are some pics of our summer.
Family Train Ride
Yellowstone Ball Family Reunion All 50 of us!

Rainbow Jello

Look what I made today for a church picnic.


It was yummy and looked good too!

Here is a link to the recipe: http://porterhouse.typepad.com/porter_house/2007/07/finally-a-rainb.html

4th of July Fun

We started celebrating the 4th of July on Saturday, June 27th with the Rigby Celebration of Liberty Parade. The kids had a lot of fun decorating their bikes and Kate's car. We walked down the main street in Rigby and ended up at the city park where they had a fire truck spraying the kids with water and games and crafts for the kids to do. When the parade started Will took off on his bike and went to the front of the parade. We couldn't see him but some friends saw him along the parade route and said that he was in the front of the parade leading it. We asked him about it and he said that he had passed the fire truck and the flag holders and was leading the parade. I wish I had a picture of that. On Thursday, July 2nd we went up to the Harris family cabin to spend the night and next day in beautiful Palasades Idaho and Wyoming. Jay and Trudy (Drew's Parents) bought a paddle boat and we took it out on a little lake/pond up in the mountians. We drove up their and also rode the fourwheelers. It was such a pretty drive. The kids had a lot of fun on the paddle boat and on the inflatable canoe. After the fun at the lake we went home to see the Rigby fireworks display. They do it on the 3rd so as not to compete with the big Idaho Falls fireworks show. We watched the fireworks and then had our own show with Drew's sister and brother in-law at our house.
Watch for Will's butt slap dance

Smilie Face Firework

Sparkler Fun


We were so tired from the 3rd we didn't go to the parade on the 4th but we did go to the annual Harris family bbq. We decided that we would skip the fireworks Friday night so that we could put the kids to bed early and be able to wake up for church at 9am. It was a fun week of celebrating our independence. Here's Kate all decked out in red, white and blue.

Honey, look what the cat dragged in...

I was weeding our strawberry patch when I found this...

So I went and got Drew so he could see the bones the cats had found for us. He was looking at them and thought they looked like finger bones so he got on the Internet and found this...


He was pretty sure it was the bones from a hand and wanted to call the cops so I did the next best thing and called my friend Natalie and asked her what to do. (Natalie is a cop's wife and also is really smart) She agreed that their was probably nothing the cops could do other than identify the bones as human or not. I was pretty sure they were not human, so I continued to weed the strawberry patch. 10 minutes later Drew had discovered the bones true owner... A deer or an elk


Mystery Solved!

Kate's Laugh

Kate is such a fun baby. She is always ready to smile and has a great laugh. Here are two examples of her different laughs...