Weekend Update

Lakeside Rodeo was in town this weekend! We went to the Friday night performance with the Morgan's.

The boys did very well and watched the rodeo the whole time!

The bull riding and the Wild Horse Racing kept them pretty entertained!

Cody and his very loved cowboy hat!

They loved the clowns and food also!

A great picture of the 4 boys, Chase, Jack, Cody and Cash.

Can't wait to do another rodeo soon!

Tumbling

In April, Chase and Cody started a tumbling class. The class had only 3 session left and I wanted to see if they would like it. Our friends, Grace and Spencer was in the class also. The 4 of them had a blast together doing somersaults and head stands.

The best part is the free time where there is like an obstacle course with a trampoline, balance beam, tunnel, back bend stuff, jumping things and the cheese wedge for doing somersaults. They kids just run around and have a good time doing what they want!

Chase and Cody really like the balance beam. They get on it and can walk forward and backwards, stand on one foot and kick with the other foot, do dip downs and jump off!

Int he beginning of the class, Mrs. Jill, warms up the kids by doing fun exercises to music. They boys really think it is fun!

Shaky fingers and popping fingers is one of the warm up songs.

After those 3 classes were over, Grace and Spencer, couldn't go to the next session, but Cash and Jack could so now we are doing 6 sessions of the same thing and having just as much fun!!

I don't think either of them will be Olympic gymnastic stars, but for the time it fun to take them and they go to sleep early that night because they are super tired!

Bronsen's 5th Birthday

Bronsen turned 5 today! (I am just now posting the pictures from it and going to try to catch up on my blog posts).

His birthday party was held at the local bike park.

Oh what fun it was! The weather was quite warm that day and the kids had to have long sleeve shirts, pants and full face helmets to ride their bikes.

Both Chase and Cody still have training wheels on thier two wheel bikes, but we took those out there and they rode.

Cody loved it and everytime we go by the bike park now he wants to go back. He rode the last two jumps and did very good after he got used to it. Chase did better sitting and playing with some of Bronsen;s new presents and stuff on the sidelines.

It was a great birthday party, with pizza and birthday cake!

Happy Birthday Bronsen!

Bike Riding and Bar Hoping

We were kidless this last weekend, the boys went with their grandparents for the night. Steve and I joined up with a bunch of friends Saturday for my cousin, Daniel's birthday.

We did this last year and wanted to do it again. This year we didn't get a room so I was the sober driver for 3 people.

So off we go to our first bar and our first drink...

The girls of the party! We had a great time.One of the many buckets of beers that was consumed throughout the night and evening.

The birthday boy, Daniel and two friends having a great time!

Fun times dancing and carry on!!

Last year I took pictures of the signs of all the bars we went to but apparently I didn't do that this year. I am kind of bummed i didn't because I have no clue where we went to party! I know one of the stops was PB Bar and Grill and we also went to the wavehouse.

Can't wait until next year's birthday to do it all again!

School Picnic

Today was the end of the year school picnic! All Chase and Cody's classmates plus thier parent (s) were there. The teachers made it a potluck with hots dogs, fruit, chips and cookies.

Cody playing!

Chase and Jacob (Cody and Chase's best friend)

Chase!

Cody, Brynnah, Chase, and Jacob. They were watching a tractor get loaded onto a semi-truck. Very fun to watch. Brynnah is Cody's "girlfriend", which changes daily!!

Chase, Jacob and Cody

Ms Sarah playing with the boys.

Chase, Cody and Brynnah.

Had fun can't wait to do it next year and many years after!

Makes My Monday / Mommy and Me

We had one busy weekend. We started Saturday morning, with a carnival at boys school/church. It was a fundraiser/open house for the church.

What fun we had. Chase and Cody's best friend, Jacob, was there also. They jumped in the bouce house for a long time and boy did they have fun. I captured a few cute picture also...

Cody

Chase

They also had a lot of fun games, including miniture golf, fishing, duck races with plastic ducks, ring toss, bean bag toss and a few more. The boys were really enjoying themselves. The music was a little loud...but it was a fun time.

They won a bunch of prizes, ate cotton candy (something I don't ever let them do),and have a sucker within an hour of each other!!

After we left the carnival we went to get some lunch and head over the the Jr. Fair auction in Lakeside. We have visited every year and every year it is great. The kids put on a wonderful show and auction. Cousin Tatum was at the fair also and the boys were so excited!

We alwyas buy at least a steer for butchering and sometimes a pig. This year we thought we would do something different and buy a smaller steer and raise it for about 10 months and then butcher it. So we actually ended up with two steers...this one above renamed Goose. And the one below named Maverick. Goose will be with us only a short time about 2 months we are estimating...Maverick more like 10 months to a year.

Chase and Cody are already feeding it and wanting to take care of it. We are not allowed to have live stock animals at our house, so we are keeping it at a good friends house and she is helping take care of it for us also.

After all this excitement we had Peyton's birthday party to go to in the late afternoon. We stayed at the Green's house until 8pm.

Like I said, we were very busy all of this in just one day...but it all totally Makes My Monday. I love having a lot of things to do!

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I didn't do a very good job this weekend at taking pictures of the boys and I ... (I am very upset with myself that I didn't)...

But I had this one for a couple of weekes ago...

Cody and I

Makes My Monday - Mommy & Me

What a great weekend we had!

We rode in the Lakeside Western Days Parade with the boys schoolon Saturday.

We had about an hour wait for our turn which we had to stay on our float and everyone did very well. But the weather was perfect sunny and warm but not too warm.

Bronsen and Braden (cousins) was also on float with us, so that was very fun and it was nice to be able to hang out with them!

I really wish that they would of let me tuck in their shirts this picture would have looked much better. But just to try to get them both looking at me it took a miracle so this is what I get!

Grandma, Grammy and Pop waiting for us on the parade route.

Play along with what makes your Monday here:

I grab Chase on the float and pointed the camera and this is what I got for my Mommy and Me picture.

Play along here also:

Two for Twos-day

Chase and Cody have been asking to go back to a little working farm that we pass everyday on our way to school. Victoria Gardens is only open on the weekends, and lately our weekends have been busy so it's always when we have time. I took the time on Saturday and we went.

They had a blast. They absolutely love the giant slide and didn't want to get off. We bought enough tickets for them to stay on for 20 minutes, and they enjoyed every bit of it. The weather was perfect for sliding jumping and petting bunnies in the petting zoo.

Here is Chase and Cody getting off the slide ready to it again.


Play along with Debi here:

Cody going down the giant slide, I don't know if you can see the giant smile on his face, but it was there!
Chase trying to hide from me and my camera in the giant obstacle course. Another thing that they spent some time on!

They had a blast and maybe for a week or so I won't hear "Mom, can we go there again?". Instead I will hear "Mom, we had fun." "We did that slide, and we went super fast."

Makes My Monday

Today what Makes My Monday is being able to take Chase and Cody to their first circus! We went Saturday afternoon while it was pouring down rain and unable to much else. We didn't get very wet either from the rain.

They were very excited, but you can't tell from this picture! This is before the performance begins and they were (kind of) waiting patiently.

We actually couldn't take any pictures while the performance was going on, but the acrobatics people on the ropes were the best that kept the boys attention span. They also liked the trampoline guys and the tricks that they were doing on the trampoline.

Then this guy and this 2000 pound wheel thing came out and they were like what is that Mom? I said lets wait and see...Well, we were able to take pictures through this, but they are not very good because of the fog machine stuff in the air.

The guy is inside if the wheel here but he also got on the outside of the wheel and walked blindfolded. It made me nervous!
He's the little speck on top of the wheel. The wheel just kept going around and around with him walking on it and the whole thing would turn. They liked that also.

So right before the next to the last act Cody says "Mom, let's go." Well this is 1 hour 45 minutes into it and I thought it would almost be over, so I said one more and then we can. The next act was the motorcycles in the cage act. Chase and Cody couldn't take their eyes off of this and came home right away and told dad and grandpa all about it! They really thought that was cool. They rode around in the cage and did tricks!

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On Sunday, we attended Peyton's 5th birthday party at Peter Piper Pizza. Chase and Cody had never been there before and had a blast!

All the kids sitting down (for 2 minutes) to have (a bite) a piece of pizza!

Cody wanted to wear his hat on his face some of the time and acted like a bird with a beak...all Chase wanted was Root Beer to drink and nothing to eat.

It was a great weekend, despite the rain on Saturday...Sunday was a cold but sunny day!