Family Pictures

We had a friend of ours, Allison, do family pictures for us. She did such a great job it is so hard to narrow down my favorites. I love them all. Thank you Allison for the awesome pictures and for putting up with us doing pictures twice!

Kelsi's baptism

Kelsi chose to get baptised on October 9th. She was surrounded by a lot of family and friends who came to support her. She looked beautiful and was glowing with the spirit and her happiness. She is a very special girl and has made a wonderful choice for her life that will help her the rest of her life. We love Kelsi and are very proud of you.

Baptism Pictures

We had Kelsi's baptism pictures done in her baptism dress, she looked beautiful and the pictures turned out perfect.

Dirty Dash

This year we did the 1st race for the Dirty Dash. Christy and Blake did it with us as well as our friends, Dave and Todd. We had sooo much fun. It is our favorite race and will become an annual tradition for us. The race starts by running up a hill that has been soaked all night with big sprinklers, basicly a mud hill. Then we run through a snow blower, hurdle hay bales, crawl through tubes, climb over walls with mud and manure, jump though tires, run a 1/2 mile through basiclly a swamp, and finish with a 150 ft water slide and a jump into the pig pen. We were covered in mud head to toe and loved every minute. The kids did the piglet plunge as well, which was a mile run. They started at the same place and by the time they started the mud went up to your shins all the way up the hill, ran to the waterslide and jumped in the pig pen, which was now all mud, no water. They had a blast too, well up until they had to wash off. All we could see of Kelsi was her teeth chattering!

Waiting to start

The start

Running

The Finish

Kelsi finishing


Kelsi and Jeff in the pig pen, you can just see Jeff's head behind Kelsi getting ready to dunk her

Kelsi, Brody and Gabe

What brothers are for

Kelsi has been having problems with some bullies at school. They have been pretty mean. They have gone as far as chocking, pulling her off equipment by her hair, pushing her off playgroud equipment backwards, aside from verbal attacks. We have done all that we can with the teacher, vice principal and principal and according to Kelsi is has gotten a lot better. So far the physical attacks have stopped and she tries hard to not let the verbal attacks bother her. She has been off track for the last two weeks so we haven't worried about it at all. However, right before they went off track Gabe made a really cool comment to her. She had brought home an apple that one of the boys had broughten to school. So Gabe started asking her where she got it, who gave it to her, if they were nice to her, ect. He then started asking if Junior was still being mean to her and she said no. Gabe told her to tell him that if he is mean to her again to let him know cuz he will punch him in the face! I couldn't stop laughing, way to go Gabe for sticking up for his sister!

Kelsi turns 8

Kelsi ws so excited for her birthday this year. Not only is birthdays something they count down to every year, it was the birthday she finally turned 8 and got to be baptized. For her birthday she got to invite a few of her friends over, Abby, Megan, Camile(who got sick), Phoebe and her cousins Lexi and Brooke. We took the kids to see Despicble Me (adorable show) and then to make ice cream sundaes at home. They had a ton of fun!

Yellowstone

Over Labor Day weekend we went to Yellowstone with my parents for the weekend. Jeff and Dad rode their motorcycles and the rest of us followed in the van. It was the first time for the kids to see Yellowstone and they had fun. We only heard Yellowstone is boring once! Here are some pictures of our fun trip!