Mckai the Basketball Player

Mckai working on his post up moves,

Hey...who's ready to catch this pass?

Finally...

Now You See It......

Now You Don't !

Nathan....You really should try and "smile" when your mother has the camera. because you know I will take the picture one way or another!

It's nice to finally see that "hairball" gone off your chin.

Thanksgiving.....

I remember doing this in grade school....it was Fun then and it is Fun now! I'm always grateful for all that I have, not just during Thanksgiving. But for some reason it just seems to be more evident during this time of the year.

Happy Birthday to You !

YEAH!....A Playmate!

Mckai was lucky the other day...Colby stopped by to play. He is the son of one of Nathan's friends. These two got along so well. They just played all afternoon. Going from one activity to the next.
First they started in the sand box.



Then over to the trampoline.....

And then the slide....they were so good to take turns and clap for each other.

Then a stop to watch the cement truck pour the cement for the new ramp.

All the that playing, makes two 2 year olds thirsty.

Hey is that a big gravel pile?....You bet!! lets go spread it around!

Playing hide and seek with Erin....

Back to the trampoline....theses to can make anyone tired!

Whew....back to where we started ...... The sand box.

A New Ramp

Bruce's Dad (Lynn) needed a new ramp that was easier for him to get down and up. But first the old one needed to come out.

It's a good thing the "Braun" showed up to help Bruce with the "Tear out". Thanks Nathan.

A good way to get your aggression out (swing a sledge hammer) also a good way to get sore muscles! The second crew showed up to haul off all the pieces. Thanks Brandon & Brett.

Finally the new ramp getting poured. There was lots of help, which was needed. Thanks DJ.

The New Ramp

Carving Pumpkins....& Carameled Apples

This year for my birthday, I thought it would be fun to carve pumpkins and make carameled apples. After a little bit of grumbling, (mostly from the boys) us gals Love doing stuff like this. They all dug in and got started. And I think they had alot of fun!


Mckai watching everyone carve, deciding he needed to carve too. So we found a very dull butter knife so he could carve his pumpkin.


Sometimes its a little harder than you think to get that top off!

Nathan ..."Are you sure that knife is big enough?"

Erin's got her pumpkin...actually it is Jason's, and since he was done first he let Erin have it.

Mckai's favorite part was just getting his hands in the pumpkin seeds and squeeshing them. He kept trying to put the seeds back in the pumpkins! Because of course at grandpa & grandma's house "when you take something out, you put it back"

Emily made carving pumpkins look way to easy.

Mckai was smelling the pumpkin and trying to blow the candle out.

Finally the Masterpeices are all finished...Great Job Guys!!

And of course here are all the artists.

On to carameled apples......it was alot easier than I thought it would be. We just melted caramels, and then swirled the apples in the caramel. We found out it works better if the apples are really cold.

Heres Nathan giving it a try. He kept trying to double dip, so he could get as much caramel as possible on his apple.

Erin's got hers. Now the hard part....eating it without getting sticky!

Thanks everyone, it was a wonderful birthday. I loved celebrating it with my family, And thanks for the new chair, it is very much appreciated.