I want to be a Hobo When I Grow Up

This week Tucker was highlighted as the All Star Student in his class.  He was a given a questionnaire to fill out about himself, these are his answers:

When I grow up I want to be: a hobo

I would love to visit this place: a box on the side of the road

My favorite food is: any food I can find

I love to watch: the cars go by

My favorite sport is: finding food

My favorite hobby is: drinking

My favorite hero is: the guy that never starves

Something that you don't know about me is: that I am a hobo

A funny story about me is: I eat out of the sewer


Luckily his teacher has a good sense of humor and laughed heartily over his answers.

This is the poster he took into his class

Hayden's latest film project, Alien Attack!

Pie Contest

A few weeks ago our city had their annual end of summer festival, "Woodland Hills Days", and I decided to enter the pie baking contest.  I wanted our family to go and participate in the festival, but often times we opt to not go because it can be quite an ordeal taking our rambunctious boys out in public. I entered the contest so we would have to go : )

Two of my favorite desserts are pistachio torte and strawberry pie, so I decided to combine the best of both in hopes of creating a winning combination.  This was my first time making this and I didn't have enough ingredients to make two pies, so I wasn't able to taste my new creation.  With fingers crossed, I submitted my pie... and I won!

Strawberry Pie Recipe

A three year old's explanation of thunder and lightening

Hayden's Lego animation film

Sunny Summer Days

Summer break is drawing to a close. The kids begin school in one week, so we are going to try to pack in as many fun activities as possible in the next seven days.  We've had a lot of fun the past couple months visiting family in Washington, going jet skiing with Allie's family, attending a family reunion in Mt. Pleasant and celebrating two birthdays.

I made a slideshow of pictures from all of our excursions and put it to one of my favorite summer songs, "Sunny Summer Days" which is written and sung by my Uncle, Bruce Bybee.  Please enjoy my hours of hard work : )

Dripping Rock Trail

This is a slideshow of our adventures hiking Dripping Rock Trail in Spanish Fork

I Have a Teenager!

We celebrated Brianna's 13th birthday today. I don't feel like I should be old enough to have a teenager, but alas I am getting old : )  If I didn't have 4 rambunctious boys, I would totally have made a cake like this. Luckily Brianna was excited to get cupcakes from our favorite shop, The Sweet Tooth Fairy, in lieu of a cake.

Everyone enjoyed the delicious cupcakes!

Brianna received a cupcake cook book and is excited to start baking her own tasty concoctions.

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Now to reminisce a bit. Here is a picture of Brianna at 11 months with her Grandma Burt

This is a copy of a scrap book page of Brianna at 2 years and 10 months

All I can say is, I love my Brianna!

School's Out For the Summer!

I have mixed feelings about summer break. I am relieved to not be carpooling 3 times a day, which took an hour and a half out of my day.  Before we moved I was only putting about 10 miles on our van a week and after we moved, 250 miles a week!  Luckily our van, or as we often refer to it, "The garbage can on wheels", has really served us well. Besides it numerous flaws, it is still running, so being the frugal person that I am, I can't justify buying a newer family vehicle.  To get back on track, summer break has begun and already my kids are complaining that there's nothing to do : (  We recently bought a bigger trampoline that will accommodate our growing children, since we left our "small" 12 footer at our old/rental house.  For our End of school party this year, I bought a bunch of beach balls courtesy of the Dollar Tree, and the kids had a blast playing with them on the trampoline.  I also bought some water squirters and we filled up a few 5 gallon buckets with water and the kids and their friends were entertained for hours.

Extreme Yeti

Today our family participated in our city's Yeti winter games.  It's an event hosted by the city to raise money for the volunteer fire department.  Hayden and Tucker entered the junior sled racing and as a family we participated in the snow sculpture contest... and won!  We had a lot of fun and plan on doing it again next year.  You can click on the link if you want to see more in depth details of the events. http://www.yetiextremegames.com/

 The little boys staying warm by the heater while enjoying their chocolate yeti pops.

Gage unfortunately burned his fingers on the heater, but fast thinking mom

ran him outside and stuck his hand in the snow.

 Little boys and Mom taking a break from building the snow sculpture 

This is our medal winning snow sculpture!

This is a video of the boys participating in the sled racing (I missed Hayden taking his turn)