The Boys

Here are just a few pictures of what the boys have been up to!

 Boys working on the pinewood derby cars for the Cheney family reunion!

 Coleton was super excited to work on his own car!

 

 Hayden loved painting his car all by himself!

  

Coleton painted his whole car orange and when we asked him what he wanted to name it he said "race-car!" yay for originality!

 

We had Coleton's race-car, Hayden's crazy paint, Brandon's rusty rocket, and my "maximum horse power" car!

 

Coleton is such a funny little boy! He has Brandon's sense of humor and thinks he is so funny! He just started an online preschool (upstart) and is loving it! He has only been doing it for a few weeks but already has learned more then i expected!

 

Hayden is a goof! He still is a crazy milk drinker and loves his Dora the explorer! He is trying to be so independent and is favorite phrases is "I DO IT!" i find my self reopening doors that i have closed because he wanted to do it and to avoid the melt down i let him! He gets more cuts and bruises then i thought was possible for a toddler, the other day he fell in to a rose bush and has cuts all up and down him not counting the bruises from falling all of the time!

 

This is one of my favorite sights!

 Two boys fast asleep!! The seem to get crazier by the day but they are fun and even more fun when they are asleep!

My First Rodeo

I did something that i never thought i would do... ride in the rodeo! During memorial weekend, we took the boys to Hanna Christensen's house to ride some horses. We thought it would be a fun family activity and it was but while i was there i told the family that i really had never rode a horse more then two maybe three times and honestly they were shocked half. Dave (the owner of the horses) had me hop back on and wanted me to trot. It was so scary but so much fun. He told me that Hanna, his daughter, would start training in a few weeks to run barrels at the rodeo and he said if i was interested in training with her, i could run the barrels in the rodeo. Going home i kind of laughed thinking of me riding in the rodeo! After we took a little trip with Brandon's family to Colorado, i went on a little ride with Hanna again. Once again she tried to convince me to train with her. I really wanted to but how do i leave my three children (one being four months old) to go train three days a week three hours a training?? Brandon, had been trying for a long time to get me a hobby so he said maybe this would be "my thing" so we talked it over and decided to give it a try! During the summer i trained in the mornings and once school started i trained at nights and it was a blast! Hanna just started her senior year of high school so she is just filled with lots of funny stories and situations so it was a lot of fun to be with her! We started training the first week in July and i started from scratch learning how to saddle a horse, how to clean her shoes, brush her, feed her, walk, trot and finally a run! It was so scary and there were days training were i really thought i was going to die but it was an amazing experience!

 

Saturday, September 1st was the rodeo (also Hanna's 18th birthday)

  

I was so nervous! Here is me with my horse Rose! I had Brandon and the kids, Brandon's parents, and my brother Curtis and his family there to see me run not counting all the ward members who came, who would have thought a lot of people went to the rodeo! (in this picture the house directly behind me and to the left is the front of our house :)

 Here was us riding in the Grand Entry we had to run in a crazy pattern and i was very lost :) We had a bit of a situation once we put our horses back after the grand entry. I was suppose to run first in my division but everyone was confused of the order of events . We all thought that it was after the "muttin bustin" that i was to run but when we thought they were going to be starting it come to find out they were just drawin the names for the muttin bustin and i was up but no were near ready to run! suddenly i can hear over the announce them call me to go and i was on the other side of the field!!! I had to run over to Rose, her get her brittle on (which she is a stinker about) and get over to the gate! well, i was not that fast and i kind of was panicking so they called my name probably ten times and they actually had Hanna go before me since i was not there yet! I was then a little frazzled! Not a good way to start of my first run! After Hanna runs (and Badit went nuts when he ran and i thought she was going to get bucked off since she had been having some troubles with that) I go in and kicked Rose probably five or six times then she finally got going :)

 

First Barrel

 

Here was me running to the second barrel 

 

  

 Third Barrel 

Running Home!

 

Finished! I wish i could say i won my division but sadly that didn't happen! I did get third though! Hanna actually did not do as well as she expected. Bandit went crazy and would not run the pattern so she hit about 52 seconds. I did an amazing 35.28 seconds! OK, that's not that fast of a time but i felt pretty good for my first time!

I owe Brandon so much for helping me to get to the rodeo! He watched the kids three times a week for three hours each time and there were many nights were he put all the kids to bed while i was training! He was so excited to have me run it and it made it so much more fun! I could never have done it with out him!

 

 Hanna and I on the night of the rodeo!

 

Here are the boys! They had there cowboy hats on to cheer me on! It was a fun night and i wish i could have done another round but i wont get another chance til the next peach days rodeo!

I posted this picture for Curtis! He said its his favorite : / He thinking i look funny with my thumbs up but i just wanted to thank him for taking all of the pictures, they turned out great!!!

Brooklyn! Six months!

Time has been flying by it seems and Brooklyn is growing so big! We had a doctors appointment on monday and here are her six month stats!

 Height: 25.5 in             39%

 Weights: 16.69 lbs       63%

 HC:  17.5 in                93%

 

Brooklyn like all of our kids loves to stand and laying is no longer enjoyable 

so we pulled out the walker and she has been scooting around the kitchen

  

 She is such a good sport about everything! 

The boys do everything to her, poke her, scare her, scream happily at her but she doesn't seem to mind as much as i thought she would! She really is growing to love the boys and there craziness!

 

 I still nurse, but i have recently been out of the house more often and unable to feed her so Brandon gives her formula and she doesnt seem to mind at all which is so nice.

 She even has started holding her own bottles which is wonderful!

 

The problem with the fact that Brooklyn likes to stand she really doesnt enjoy sitting she can as you can see 

 but she wants to stand so bad that once she starts sitting she will fling her legs out in attempt to stand and as you can imagine it doesnt turn out well :)

 

She is such a happy little girl, but she is getting a small case of stranger anxiety which i hate!!!

 

I just got released as the 1st councilor in the young womens presidency and they put me in as the laurel class advisor and all of the girls are super excited to have brooklyn in class so hopefully she gets us to the girls quick :/

 She loves grabbing at things right now cameras, peoples faces, food, cell phones, but she is not quite good enough to hold them for more then a few seconds.

 These are the pictures that i look at and i have a hard time telling kids a part, she looks so much like Hayden to me!

 They both have the same big eyes round head and smile!

 The boys we started on rice cereal as soon as they turned four months and they loved it!!!

 

I just expected that she would be the same but she really didnt seem to like it she actaully started crying because she did not want me to feed her any more :( 

 

i guess we will wait to try again?

 This is my favorite thing about brooklyn her smile! Well, i am not quite sure if you can call it a smile but that is what she is doing! 

When she gets really excited and happy she opens her mouth as big as she can and i love it! She is my adorable little girl!

Brandons 28th Birthday

This year was an interesting birthday for Brandon :) He really wanted a hydration belt (he sweats so much that long distance running is getting dangerous without him drinking!), new shoes, and there was a relay race that he was wanting to run. So being the wonderful wife i am i go him i hydration belt and let him run in the Ruby Mountain Relay! Well the relay was the weekend before his birthday and he need the hydration belt to run! He also got new shoes from his parents so they gave them to him early so he could use them in the race so the day of his birthday was kind of sad since he already had opened all of his present. I decided to make him a cookie dough ice cream cake so we had that to eat but other then that it was a uneventful birthday! 

 Every birthday they boys insist that use the Lightening Mcqueen candles and we only have five so that is what we used!

Brandon's relay was the weekend before but we don't have any pictures from it! It lasted 24hrs and they had 7 runners that each did about 20 miles! Brandon (and our children) sadly came down with hand-foot-mouth disease the day before the race so he has a hard time running more then 16 miles because of the sores on his feet :( but other then that he had a great time!

July 24th, Pioneer Day!

This year both Coleton and I were in the pioneer day parade! I rode Rose with Hanna and her family and Coleton rode on the wards float as a builder since this years theme is Builders of the Nation!

This picture of me is quite ridiculous but we were going so quick because the horse were excited that Brandon and his family didn't have a chance to get any more pictures :)

Fourth of July!

Like every year, we headed to the parade!

We had a great time and got lots of treats! Later that night, we went to a BBQ with the Bells, Humphries, Princes, and a few other families we didnt know but we had a great time! :) This year the fire works were canceled because of fire danger but hopefully for the 24th we will get some fireworks! Happy Fourth!