Pheasant Hunting with Dad!

Dan came home from work early about 4:00 p.m. before darkness started to fall, and picked Brody up He saw two roosters out at the farm the day before and wanted to take Brody out shooting. They stopped to gather up Goose and sure enough they shot a pheasant.  Every day when Dan is at work Brody asks me what time he'll be home so he can go with him to shoot birds!  Brodyn's carried a BB gun...with no ammo!  Emmy and I tagged along behind to watch the event!  I had to carry her through the field in front of the office it was so marshy and muddy we had to watch our footing!  We didn't have any luck! The only pheasant we scared up was a female. But we did happen onto an abandoned pheasant nest...too bad the eggs didn't hatch, we may have had better luck!  Brodyn just loves his dad. He's definitely his little shadow!

Halloween and Trunk or Treat!

Trunk or Treat was fun this year, we were lucky to have Camille tag along!  Isn't this a HUGE pumpkin...how do people grow these? Emmy and Brody are sucking on our sweet little old LaRay Olsen's home-made suckers, which she makes every year...they are amazing...and every Halloween her house is a must stop!! Camille and Brody pretended to have a 'comic-book' fight! "WHACK...CLASH...THWACK...BANG!!"  Emmy walked along picking her treats, but she would  think...think...think...which one looked best to choose before she finally made her pick!  Such hard decision to make when your not quite 3yrs old!

Kaden's Halloween Party!

Kaden invited us over for a "ghoulish" Halloween party.  The main course was... "barbecued worms, which did not look appealing! Emmy said to me..."They aren't snakes, they're hot dogs!"  MaRea had  little t-shirts and Halloween iron-on's for each kid to create their own Halloween t-shirt, it was such a cute idea and Emmy absolutely loved it!

Grandma Brenchley's Halloween Party!

Grandma Brenchley out did herself once again this year with her great Halloween party!  She raked all the leaves into a huge pile in the center of the yard, and mixed a bunch of candy and Halloween goodies!  Digging through leaves to find candy is such a big hit with the kids!  We made Bat sugar cookies with Grandma and Danielle. Grandma painted all the kids faces, Brody wanted Bats on his face!!  We were the "Super's" this year, Brody was Spiderman, Emmy Wonder-girl (she has the cutest accent when she says it) and I was Super-girl!  Grandma Brenchley was a pirate.

Day at the Drive-in!

We were bored one day when we had Eliza and baby Beau over. It had rained all day, so we went looking for card board boxes at Grandpa Thatcher's shop and brought them home and turned them into some awesome cars!  Brodyn of course had to have a truck...with trailer and all.  We never got the trailer finished!  He painted the whole thing black all by himself!  We got them finally finished. They dried while the kids were taking their naps. Afterwards we popped popcorn and had a mini-drive in while watching Wall-e!  The mess afterward was pretty grand!  Whenever you do something fun there seems to always be a mess to follow, but today it was so worth it!

Roasting Smore's in the Backyard!

Having Smore's and telling stories around our fire pit out back has become a tradition we really enjoy!  This Evening we decided to start a story round.  Emmy and Dan started telling it.  It started out about a family on a hike up in the mountains!  When Brody's turn came he added to the story...that the family ran into a deer and a moose on the trail!  I think that's about where it ended but it was fun to watch the kids using their imaginations!  Brody built a miniature campfire beside the grand one and tried to get it to light, it was funny!