The First day of School!!

Wednesday, last week Emmaline started first grade! She was very excited and a proud owner of her first lunch box!I was a nervous wreck the whole day wondering how she was but survived. I wish I had taken the camera with me when we went to pick her up..she looked like she had been beaten up from head to toe with curls hanging down..yet a smile on her face happy to be going home! I think more and more about home school. I hate when my kids are gone!

WOW!!!!

So I knew my daughter was amazing..but this was above and beyond!! I go running every day and every day as I am getting ready my little girl asks if she can go. I kindly explain that I don't think she can. I also let her know that when she gets bigger she can come all she wants. Well, Saturday night my sister Emily came in town and we decided to go for a run. Emmaline was heart broken that the girls were leaving without her. She asked her Dad if she could go and he said yes!! So she quickly changed her clothes and was pushing us out the door. Samuel loaded the boys into the truck and followed so she could get in the truck when she was tired and come home. Well...that little girl surprised us all!!! She ran the entire 4 miles with energy to spare and I need to mention there were spots going uphill that she felt I was going to slow.. so she would push me! I laughed so hard and inside felt so much joy to know she loved me so much that she didn't want to leave me behind. i am sooo grateful for her! to say the least.

Bennett turned 3 !!

On the 19th of August 2006 Bennett joined our family. To my amazement when I say him for the first time I was blown away to find we had another blond haired, blue-eyed boy.I am so grateful for him. He makes me laugh all the time and keeps me going. I am sad that I no longer have a baby in the home. So when he asks, "can you rock me?" just to get out of going to bed I gladly accept.
Bennett has looked forward to this birthday for so long that it made it really fun. He understood what a Birthday meant. I made him a barn cake, which he just starred at all afternoon, hoping it wouldn't disappear and waited patiently to have pizza and presents when Samuel got home.

7 amazing years...already!!!!

Sunday Samuel and I marked our 7 year anniversary!!! We were unable to go out so on Monday we celebrated. I can not believe it has been 7 years..honestly. We were in Marsing on Sunday, Samuels home ward and I ran into some of our favorite people. There was one man paticular who I saw and remembered something he told me 8 years ago. "You will never have a dull moment in your life with him" I chuckled. I had no idea how true that statement was. He has made my life wonderful!!! I am so grateful for a husband that keeps me on my toes and make me laugh every day!

Salamandor Lake Loop

On Saturday we went on a family horse ride up in the mountains. We all had a good time even Emmaline and Brigham who were bucked completely off, after Denny, Emmalines horse was jabbed by a dead tree. Emmaline held on to his neck thru the first buck and during the second let go and rolled off into a ball. Brigham slid right off the back at the first sign of trouble. Bennett had a blast every time a horse would jump or trot. He has the curse!!! My horse towards the end jumped really high trying to clear a dead tree...I did not fall off, but somehow managed to slam my head into the side of the horses head ( bad whiplash ).It was beautiful country to see and an amazing view..being completely on top of the Mountain.

Kilgore, ID with the family

My Family gets to come home from Mexico for the month of July every year. Since Samuel has still been in classes they made a special trip up to see us and spend time with us. I had so much fun and wished it never would end! When they first got here Samuel had work to do, so we took them up to Kilgore, Id. Where some of the cows are at pasture. Samuel had to doctor a cow among other things so we made a trip out of it. Aaron and Emily both got to help out and Aaron got to ride a calf. Emmaline is doing so well riding that she has been able to go to Kilgore a few times with Samuel ride her own horse and help push cows. she just loves it!





* A fun side note...Bennett Broke his foot three days prior to this and is in a green cast..you can not see it..the next day the doctor asked me to come back in and have the cast removed because the radiologist said it was not broken, so I did. After a week and a half of Bennett still crawling and limping I took him back to the pediatrician who got me into a orthopedic doctor(bone specialist) who x-rayed it again and said it was broken and re-casted it. So he know has a bright red cast and is finely feeling better. I sure love Doctors!

Pictures

For the 4th of July weekend I left Rexburg for the first time since Christmas! That was needed! So here are just some random pictures I took over the weekend. Some are on the way to Camp Loll to pick up Samuels cousin to take him with us and others at the reunion.