The Magic of Dry Ice . . .

Halloween!

{Jake the Pirate}

{Tatum the Witch}

{Cambrie the Crazy Justin Bieber Fan}

{All 3 crazy kiddos}

{Jason the Chick Magnet & Me the Witch with Tatum & Cambrie}
Jake behind the camera!

Such a fun day! I LOVE all of Tater's witch faces. She was great at getting into character.

Huckleberry'n

It wouldn't be summer in Teton Valley without picking huckleberries. We didn't get out as much as we'd hoped, I guess I'll have to ration myself through the winter months. Anyway, we did all head out together, but with all the bear encounters this year, I was a little nervous.

Cambrie just getting started.

Evidence of success.

Although Jason kept teasing me about bears, he must've been a little worried, because you'll notice, he was packin'. I actually took bear spray and kept telling him that if we were attacked, I'd be better off. He still believes a gun is the way to go. Hopefully we'll never actually have to find out which of us is right.

Yummy goodness! Nothing is better than these babies!

Jake BuStEd!

Getting ready to head back home!

The Big 35!

Well, it's arrived. . . the big 35! It was quite the day!
Cambrie and Tatum brought me breakfast in bed. Cambrie being the uber observant child that she is made me a protein smoothie and eggs. I came out to find the gifts she had made me. A book on Yoga and some bath salts that she had made herself. What a creative little girl. She knows me and what I like pretty well.

I also received a cast iron skillet so that we could replicate our favorite dessert at home. Here is our first attempt. It looks pretty yummy!

Everyone digging in. Tatum was a little tired, but still managed to shovel in the dessert.

our own driving range

We've turned our property into a driving range. The kids love hitting balls out into the field, then they take the 4 wheeler out and round up the balls.






 

Eggcellent . . .

Here are the kids coloring their Easter Eggs. This is quite the event at our house.


The finished product!

bowling.

We hit the Rex for bowling and the kids loved it. They had so much fun!

Santa Cookies!

Every Christmas Eve we make cookies for Santa. The kids were having a blast, but mainly just liked eating the frosting. Santa ended up with a HUGE plate of cookie, the reindeer also go carrots and special reindeer food. This kids are getting sooo excited for the big guy to come.

Gingerbread Houses!

The kids love decorating anything, so gingerbread houses were no exception.  They had a great time loading their houses up with all sorts of sugar.

 

Jake was sure proud of his finished Gingerbread house.

Tater with hers.  She was the 1st one done, but this did not surprise us one bit.  Tatum tends to work very quickly when doing anything except chores.

Cambrie was the last one finished, by a LONG time, but again, this was no surprise.  She needed to construct her own chimney so her house was different than the others structurally.

All three of the houses!  They've been losing Smarties from the rooftops one by one through the week.

Chocolate Covered Birthday!

For her Birthday dinner, Cambrie chose chicken & rice and artichokes. She didn't want a cake though, she decided instead that she wanted chocolate fondue. What a surprise. We decided just to stick a candle in a marshmallow since that is her favorite thing to dip in the fondue.

Cambrie made sure she was the keeper of the sticks until she was ready to dig in.

And the Birthday girl gets the 1st dip.

Delicious!

Tater loved the chocolate fondue too.

Jake got a little crazy with his stick and ended up with chocolate on his head.