4th of July weekend

Friday night we headed up to my parents cabin in New Centerville. Saturday morning we got up and went into town for the 4th of July breakfast. They had ham (plate size cuts), bacon, eggs, omelets made to order, waffles, pancakes and OJ. So yummy. After breakfast my parents, Nathan and I went up the mountain on the 4 wheelers and had a picnic. The view was so pretty!

We were filthy when we got back to the cabin. We had dust everywhere except where our helmets and sunglasses were.

My mom's puppy Boots loves all the pine cones and stick up there.

Monday evening we had our friends the Peterson's over for dinner and fireworks. Since my kids are gone over in Oregon I mostly took pictures of Liam, Mike and Teawna.

Any time you point a camera at Liam he says "Cheeeeessseee"

Hamburgers, hot dogs, bbq'd corn on the cob, baked beans, deviled eggs, little smokies, chips and cupcakes.

I love this picture of Teawna and Liam. What a cutie.

Cupcake time!

Smore's and fireworks. Good times!

Happy Fathers Day!

Because our kids left to Oregon for the next 7 weeks we wanted to have Father's Day a little early so they could be here with Nathan. We started with breakfast. Ethan and Ella helped crack the eggs (which by the way are really good at). We had breakfast burrito's with avocado, sour cream, salsa, fresh parsley from our garden, toast and juice.

Next came cards, each kid colored their own card and gave it to dad.

Our gifts to Nathan were a sweet hat (I don't know the name of the kind of hat) and his 1/6 scale jeep he has wanted. He will have to put it together and paint it. (now you know what he will be doing for the next 6 weeks with the kids gone)

After church Nathan was exempt from everything, he got to sit and relax all day long until dinner when we had our good friends the Peterson's come over for dinner. I made shish kabob's and rice. Unfortunately, I don't trust myself BBQ-ing so Nathan did have to do that. It was a beautiful day outside, it was fun to have the kids swinging and laughing while the adults got to hang out and talk.

Dinner tuned out really good!! Yummmm. We had a peanut butter pie for dessert.

I love my husband and think he is a awesome dad, I sure did get lucky!

Go Huskies!

The season is almost over and I really haven't taken too many pictures. I now know I need a couple more so I will get some posted later on this month. Here are a few that I have so far.

Thanks to our good friend Mike Peterson for umpiring one of the games. (Liam had fun watching his daddy play ball with the girls ) We appreciated it!

Sunday Best

Here are some current pics of the kids all ready for church. Ethan loves to ask us if he looks like a missionary when he wears his jacket to church. . . .

Easter 2011

Saturday before Easter we headed over to my parents house for some Easter Egg coloring. My dad ended up getting the 4 wheeler out and took the kids up and down the street. They love it.

Ella with her favorite cousin, Harper. Ella is 3 weeks older than Harper but Harper is almost a head taller than her. (my poor short kids)

Coloring eggs . . .

Sunday morning the kids were up around 7:30 to check out what the Easter Bunny brought.

Grandma and Grandpa Oni sent the kids each $20.00, spoiled eh?

White chocolate dipped peeps. yummo!

Mountain Dew flavored chap stick.

Bacon flavored chap stick!!!

Oink

Making homemade rolls, take 2.

Last week I tried to make homemade rolls for our Turkey dinner we were having with some family in town. I am new at this so I guess I don't know all the rules. I guess my yeast had to be room temperature (not straight out of a cold fridge) because it never did rise after 2 hours of waiting. So my mom so kindly brought over rolls for me. So this last weekend I decided Emma and I would try it again. This time my yeast was room temperature!! And it worked! I made the rolls but Emma did the rolling, cutting out and buttering. In the end they turned out yummy.

I thought these pictures were funny of the kids. Ethan wanted to eat a Turkey leg so of course Ella wanted one too!