Pictures from Holden

Here are the pictures I promised from our weekend working in Holden. I got a few of them working, but mostly just cute pictures of the kids. Here are some of my favorites.


Cute little Rance. He loves the camera.



Cowgirl Kinley.



Jaylee is getting so big and pretty.




Kinley loved this tire swing, as you can tell from her expression.



Jaylee liked the swing too. Makinzie was so good to push them on it and help keep them entertained.

I love his handsome littel grin.

Rance helping Grandpa cut wires.

Cade trying to pull out a metal post. He did get some of them, but most of them were like 4 feet in the ground so we had to use the tractor.

I thought this was the coolest thing. The chain had been around the tree for so long it is now grown into the trunk.

Cade in his tractor.

We had a lot of fun, but it was a very productive weekend too. We got a lot moved and that lot looks really empty and different now. I'm getting so excited to be able to move to Holden in a few more years.

Land Swap

So here's what happening:
Cade and I have a building lot on Main street in Holden which Cade inherited from his Granpda Hunter. It's a quarter of a block and has lots of big old trees. That's where we were planning on building a house when we move back to Holden. But now Holden town wants to build a new Town Hall and wants it to be on Main Street, but that's really the only piece of land big enough that's not already got a house on it. So they wanted to trade us a piece of land they owned a couple blocks west for that piece of land. At first we were hesitant because that's a good location and it was from the family and the trees are beautiful and huge and we had water meters on it and everything already. But the town offered us a piece of land that is an entire block (so four times bigger than our old piece) and agreed to put a couple water meters on it to match what we already had. We decided we could plant more trees and we liked the idea of having lots more room to build on and have for pasture. Now we are just getting all the contracts set up and making everything official. But this weekend we had to move anything we wanted to keep off the old piece of land before the town starts to build. So we had a lot of work to do: tearing down fences, pulling posts (metal and wooden), taking down the corrals and the loading shoot, and moving all the farm equipment and water troughs. But it turned out to be a fun weekend. My family came over and Jed and Selanie brought the kids so I got out of work by keeping an eye on the kids. Jaylee and Kinley got to sleep over with us Friday night, too. I have some cute pictures of everyone working on Saturday but they'll have to be in another post because I haven't uploaded the pictures from my camera yet. I'll post them soon though.

Jaylee's Dance Recital

It was also Jaylee's first dance recital this past weekend. I was so excited to see her dance. She was way excited too. All day long she kept asking if it was time for her dance. She played really hard all day long and fell asleep while Selanie was curling her hair; I was holding her and trying to keep her head straight. She has to look over at her teacher a few times in the dance, but for the most part she remembered it very well and did it the best of the group.

Eagles Softball

We got to watch Kinzi play softball this weekend at a tournament in Richfield. She plays catcher and she's really good at it. She's only a sophomore and starts at the Varsity catcher. Here's some pictures from one of the games.

I need my privacy

Well I've decided to make my blog private. I've read too many articles about people's private things being comprimised over the Internet and it's made me a little hesitant about all these public things. So I will give it a few days so any of you that read my blog and want an invite can let me know. If I have your email I'll be sending you an invite, but there are a lot of emails I don't have so leave me a comment on here or on Facebook if you have it.

The Dragon

There once lived a dangerous giant dragon and one day he escaped from his cave and came right into the castle. Two brave knights named Jaylee and Kinley took their magic swords and sought him out to slay him. Occasionally when backup was needed their cousin Cobree and little brother Rance came to help them take the dragon down. Through their brave efforts they eventually caught the dragon and attacked him. Then with a magic kiss from Jaylee he came back to life as a good nice dragon.....who still liked to tickle and tease them and chase them around the house sometimes for fun.

Princess knight Kinley with her magic sword that she found in Grandma's kitchen cupboard; it's so amazing, it can also be used to clean dishes (that is until it got destroyed while slaying the dragon).

"There's the dragon!"

"ROOAAR!!" Kinley says "run away, run away" well I'm sure that's what she meant when she let out a scream of sheer terror mixed with laughter.

"Come out of there dragon" says Jaylee. The dragon was hiding in the bathroom.

Later they found him hiding in a closet. "We got you now dragon"

The knights tried to be brave but didn't dare get too close to the scary dragon. Rance didn't have a sword so he found a shield and hid under it.

Finally the dragon fell and the knights attacked.

They made sure he was dead before they let him go.

But princess knight Jaylee took pity on the poor dragon and gave him a magic kiss to wake him up.....but he had to promise to be a good dragon.

Yay I'm 20 years old

My birthday was on Saturday and Cade took me down to see my family. That was the best birthday present; just to see my family and get to play with my adorable neices and nephew. Cade also bought me the Twilight movie but I haven't even had a chance to watch the whole thing yet (don't worry I saw it in theaters though). We did get one picture of me but since I'm the one usually taking pictures most of the them are of my Jaylee, Kinley, and Rance....and sometimes Cade too. We had such a fun weekend and I'll make another post of the Dragon game in a little bit.

Kinley likes to play foozball....she has to concentrate really hard to score a goal. If you hold your tongue just right you'll score everytime; worked for her anyways.

Grandpa taught Rance how to pull a funny face.

Kinley loves Cade. They are buddies.



Heather (with her new glasses) and Rance. "Cheeeeese"

Jaylee is a puppy about 50% of everyday and she's getting pretty good at scratching her ear with her foot.

Me with the birthday attire at El Mexicano. If I have to wear this to get free fried ice cream I won't complain....fried ice cream is delicious.