SAND HILL CRANE

Andy drew a Sand Hill Crane tag aka Red Peckered Salt Chicken, as him and Dust call them. Gage could not wait for them to get home.

it is one big bird

ROAD TRIP 9/9/2011

We had to make a trip to Idaho for a funeral for our friends little boy. We met Roberto (Chicken Little) and his wife Suzanna and there children a few years back out by our property. Dust and Andy make it a point whenever they are out that way to stop and see everybody. Weeks before going to the funeral, we went to Primary Children's Hospital to see Felix. He had a rough life and he was only three. He battled with cancer in different parts of his body and it finally settled in his brain. I have never felt the way I felt seeing that little boy, who was the same age as my little boy, laying in a hospital bed fighting for his life. When we left the hospital room I was sobbing, grabbed Gage and hugged him tight. Sadly Felix passed a few weeks later. After the funeral we headed for our favorite place to be....Grousse Creek!! We rented our friends "cabin" for the night.

isn't it a cute little thing

it is actually very cozy with two queen beds, a mini fridge, microwave, fireplace, a big screen TV, and a loft with two more beds.


Gage and Uncky Andy



calling in the coyotes

he would not try a deep fried mushroom..can't say I blame him

Gage put us all in a good mood that night when he started dancing. I have it on video and watch it now and then. He is such a good dancer!!

you can tell by the look on Andy and Lola's face we were having fun!! I don't think we stopped laughing for hours. Once we were all in bed we were still giggly. Either Lola making us laugh because the "room was spinning" or Andy and Dusty because they couldn't stop farting!! Even though the road trip started off bad it ended good! Good times with GREAT friends and even better memories!!

STATE FAIR 9/2011

Well this year at the State Fair I actually went on a ride with Gage and Dusty. It was like a ferris wheel but took ya backwards. Well on the last time around something landed on my pants and arm, and Gage's hand. I smelled it and I thought it was just bird poop but as we were getting off I noticed throw up all over the ground. A little girl had thrown up as she was getting off the ride and instead of the guy cleaning it up he let the ride keep going around to let everybody off. Well in the mean time it was falling on everybody. Yep it was pretty gross and if ya know me you know I am a germ FREAK!!!! Surprisingly I did ok and we found a bathroom and got all washed up and continued on with our day.

Gage loves the slides

he even won himself a Smurf...ten dollars later!!

FIRST DAY OF PRESCHOOL 9/8/2011

I cannot believe my little boy started Preschool. We were so excited for his first day, and my heart melted when I picked him up and he said "Mom I want to do it again"!!

My first grade teacher and Gage's Preschool teacher, Mrs. Baird

sitting with his best friend Jordan waiting to be picked up

Gage did so good his first day, I think it helped that we had a meet and greet a couple days before school actually started.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY 8/23

For our eight year Anniversary we were invited to JC Smedleys. A guy who works for Dust by the name of Josh Healy invited us to his family's restaurant in Bountiful. It was delicious and we even got our meal for free!!

we chose to eat outside

the next day we decided to take a ride up South Willow and have dinner. It was so peaceful and fun!!

Happy Anniversary Poopsie, I love you with all my heart.

THE SMURFS August 20, 2011

GAGE'S VERY FIRST TIME AT THE MOVIE THEATRE

It was Dusty's first hunting trip of the season so Gage and I decided to go shopping in SLC. That night I thought it would be fun to take him to the movies. We invited Nana Lolly to go with us, it was alot of fun!! I was a little nervous because I didn't know how he would handle sitting in one place for an hour and a half. Well I was worried for nothing, he did really well. There were times during the movie that he was laughing louder than anyone else, it was so cute.

Pajama Day at Daycare

He really didn't want to wear his "peejamas" to daycare, but once I explained to him that it was a party day he was ok! They popped popcorn and watched movies and had a fun day!

FAMILY REUNION 2011

This years Family Reunion was held at the park in Tooele, it was fun but not the same without Av, Gary, and Pat.

Gage and his bud "Mooch"

he wanted to go up this pole soooo bad

while he was playing he made some friends, it turned out they were Lori's kids, a lady who I used to work with....small world!! Her kids were so good with Gage.

they had alot of fun things for the kids this year. Ashleigh tried her hans at balloon animals, Gage picked a monkey

they also did face painting

he wanted to be a lion like The Lion King

entertaining everyone while waiting in line for food

fishin' time

Gage, Kevin and Aunt Nancy

Gage really took a liking to Kevin. I think he scared Kevin a few times but he did really good with him!!

after the raffle they gave all the kids a suprise

MY BOY

It was so cute, I walked in Gage's room and there he was trying to put his toy bench together, instructions and all!!

LOVE MY BOY

he is bound and determined to make a "Frosty"

PaRtY, PaRtY, PaRtY

Gage and Chris

Jordan's birthday party at Daycare

then it was party time at Uncky Andy's house!

Our friend's son was home from Iraq so we had a BBQ, there was a ton of kids for Gage and Brooklynn to play with

Lola decided it would be fun to fill up the hot tub with cold water and let the kids play

Gage and his Uncky Andy

Gage, Troy, and B-bop

Gage was giving everybody a hard time that day. He kept wanting a kiss from Troy's girlfriend and would not leave her alone until he got one. He always loves to torture B-bop, and with out fail everytime B-bop ends up licking his whole face before he can get away. I absolutely hate watching it but Gage finds it very funny!!

Christian, Bucky, Dust and Gage

JUST LIKE MICKEY MOUSE??

I was busy cleaning the house while Gage was in his room, content watching Mickey Mouse, or so I thought!!

he came out and said "look Mom, just like Mickey Mouse"

I still have no idea what part of Mickey Mouse gave him the idea to this, but I had to laugh!!

FrOgGiN' July 30, 2011

We decided we would try our luck at froggin' again. We did it a couple years back to catch some for our ponds and it was so fun. We ended up taking ours back because we had some pretty big ones and we were afraid they were going to eat our fish. That and the fact that when we got home a big frog had eaten a little one, and its legs were sticking half way out of its mouth. That really grossed me out and I have a very different view of frogs now. Anyhoo, Lola wanted to get some more for her pond so off we went, back to Stansbury!

First we stopped at Lola's parents house for dinner

Gage loves his Uncky Andy

of course we had to make a trip to feed the ducks

the guys doing what they do best

finally, it was dark enough to start huntin', Gage was so excited!
Loretta brought along Logan, him and Gage had so much fun. It was too dark to take any more pics but we caught ALOT of frogs, needless to say we did not take any home!!