The Story of My life...

...has been baseball! I knew when Carson took the next step to play baseball in the minor league, it was going to be a big commitment. But, I was not prepared to drive 15 minutes to different towns every. single. day(we haven't practiced in Lovell once since he started), and have hour and a half practices! (I know I'm whining).  He loves it though and is excited for his first game this weekend.

Friday, the kids didn't have school and the baseball league organized a baseball clinic for all major and minor players. Carson attended that from 1-4 and then turned around and went to practice at 5 until 6:30!

 Saturday night, we decided to try our hand at cat fishing with Christian's family. When we decided to go at 3 three that afternoon, it was nice outside and sounded like a really fun/good idea. By 7 when we went, it was chilly and super windy! We hung out for a little while  while the guys got the poles set up. Those of us that aren't die hard fisherman decided to pack up and head back to grandma and grandpa Asay's house to eat and hang out. Carson and Travis stuck it out with the big guys and fished until dark even though they didn't get anything.

Travis enjoying a chicken leg for dinner.

Christian and Daniel setting up the poles.

Kasi, Charlene and kids huddled up trying to stay warm.

Trying to keep out of the wind against the rocks.

We finally finished the wiring on our basement Wednesday night. No we are going to work on wiring our surround sound and putting up insulation then next couple of weeks before the sheet rocker guy comes. I'm excited for the next steps and see how much it changes!

FHE fishing

The weather was beautiful yesterday and we took advantage of it and went fishing down at the pond. This was the first time we took the time to actually sit and fish and wait. Carson caught a crawdad first thing. We were just about to give up and head in to get ready for bed when Landon caught a good sized fish. We tried a little bit longer and then Travis caught one. Carson could have stayed out all night trying to catch one but I made him come in and get ready for bed. I think next time, we will have to start when the sun is almost set because that's when they seemed to start biting.

Carson's crawdad catch.

Landon and Christian siting patiently.

My little buddy. We had come down to the pond earlier in the day and let Landon throw rocks and sticks until it was time for naps(and he fell and got all muddy).

Reeling in his catch.

Landon's catch!

This picture cracks me up. The fish started to wiggle and it freaked him out a bit.

 



Travis reeling in his catch. Christian had taken Landon up to the house so I was really nervous I was going to have to dig the hook out of the fish. Luckily, he wiggled himself off and we were able to release him back into the water.

Travis' catch. Some day he'll look at this picture and wonder what the heck he was wearing. This was his 3rd outfit for the day and he REALLY wanted to change before we went down (but I wasn't about to let him dirty another pair of clothes) because people might see him and he looked funny. He's a crazy kid, but I love him like crazy!

cows

 

Friday, Grandpa Asay called and asked if the boys would like to come and help feed cows with him. We went out and helped him throw hay off a trailer. The boys always have fun helping grandpa "work". We have been entertaining a Flat Stanley for a few days. He came to us from Chicago and is experiencing life out here in Wyoming (that's the little guy Travis is holding in his pictures).

 

 

That night, we went and saw Cinderella at the theatre while Christian stayed home and helped on the electricity in the basement. We now have working lights in half of the basement! Hopefully this week, we will have the other half working also!

The lights as you go down the hall way, the laundry room, and at the base of the stairs.

Over the weekend, we got to help Grandpa Asay move some cows from their pasture to the corrals by his house.

 When we were finished, we took a 4-wheeler ride up to where there is an eagle nest to see if anything was there. We couldn't see anything from below, so we hiked to the top of the hill and looked down. We found there wasn't anything currently in there. When we got back to grandma Asay's we had lunch and then headed home where Christian helped the electrician work some more on the basement.

 

 

From on top of the hill.

Christian found the rock that he had carved his name in many years ago as a kid.

Christian hooking up a can light in one of the bedrooms.

The pond

Our subdivision has a pretty good sized pond that belongs to everyone that has a house out there. This year, a few of us decided to go in together and buy some fish to stock the pond with. Last night, Christian and our neighbor Greg borrowed a canoe to go out into the middle to see how deep the pond was.

Checking the depth with their oars. The pond was only about 3 feet deep, but will start filling up soon when irrigation begins around us.

Having a little fun canoeing around.

After Christian and Greg had checked the depth in a a bunch of different spots, they gave the kids rides around the pond.

Getting a little push off from Mike Steenbakkers

 

Yesterday afternoon, a trout ranch out of Cody came and stocked the pond with 170 rainbow trout. They range in size from 8 to 16 inches long. The boys, of course, couldn't wait to fish it, so as soon as Christian got home from work, they grabbed their fishing gear and headed down. No one got any bites but we were able to see some of them and they are good sized!



Carson trying out the fishing.



The kids found a dead cat floating in the water so they worked on getting it out and then proceeded to poke at it. GROSS!
 



We are looking forward to Monday evening when we are having a community (and by community, I mean the people in our subdivision) pond clean up, weenie roast and fishing night for FHE! Hopefully the fish will be hungry by then and will start biting!

Easter Adventures

We had a wonderful Easter vacation. This year, the kids got out of school early on Thursday and didn't have to go back to school until Tuesday. We decided it would be fun to take a mini vacation and head to Utah for the weekend. We left Friday morning and picked Christian up in Greybull around 10:30 and then made our way to Provo where we went to visit Christian's grandma Asay. The trip to see her seemed to take FOREVER. We stopped 5 times on the way, mostly so a certain little boy could use the bathroom! We finally got to Grandma Asay's around 7 and visited for about and hour. After visiting with her, we were going to have Chik-fil-a but couldn't find it so we had ourselves some delicious 5 guys burgers. After eating dinner, we continued our trip to Logan where we would spend the weekend with my sister. We ended up getting there around 11 and pretty much went straight to bed.

Saturday morning, the boys were super excited to get up and see Auntie Butts. We made breakfast, the boys played outside in a box fort Jabin had made a week or so before, and then got ready and headed to First Dam to show Christian around and feed the ducks. While we were there, Travis crashed and mashed his face ending in a fat lip and gushing bloody nose! After that, we decided to just take a little walk so we didn't get any more injuries.

Hanging out in Butt's crawl space. They boys thought this was a pretty cool place to play while we were there.
 



Me and my sister.



After walking around and feeding the ducks all our bread, we went and grabbed lunch at Rumbi, a place we hadn't eaten at before. We really enjoyed the rice bowls there. When we were done with lunch, we headed back to my sisters and the boys stayed home and napped while we got to go shopping! Yay for some sister time! Shortly after we got back from shopping, Jabin got home from flying. Carson made plans that morning that he was going to hide from Jabin up above their coat closet when he got home. It took some work to get him up there, but he did it. Travis couldn't keep his mouth closed and ruined it before Jabin could even realize Carson was missing!

hiding from Jabin.

We decided to go out for Firehouse pizza for dinner. After dinner, we grabbed Johnny O spudnuts to have for breakfast in the morning and then went and had Aggie Ice cream. It was delicious. Landon and I got the much talked about Aggie Blue mint ice cream and loved it!

Loving our Aggie Blue ice cream.

 After ice cream, we went back to Megan's house, watched a movie and stayed up way too late chatting.

Sunday morning, the boys woke up excited about Easter! They were all able to find their baskets that they Easter Bunny had hidden for them. They were hidden in some tough spots this year: Travis' on the roof of the coat closet, Carson's in the crawl space and Landon's behind a coat rack.

 

We enjoyed our spudnuts for breakfast and then enjoyed general conference on tv. It was so great to hear from our prophet and other leaders. In between sessions, we had a ham dinner, which was delicious, and then the boys went down for some much needed naps. While they were napping, Megan had planned an Easter egg hunt for them so we hid all the eggs she had filled. When conference was over for the day and the boys were done napping, they got to find all the eggs Auntie Butts had hidden for them.

Megan giving the boys some instructions before they went out to find the eggs. There was a large egg hidden for each of them that they had to find along with lots of regular sized ones. 

Finding eggs in the back yard.

After finding all the eggs in the back yard, we moved the front of the house to look for more.



Checking out all their cool things. They got lots of candy, bouncy balls, race cars and splat balls! What a fun aunt they have!



 

The blossoms on the trees were so pretty. They were lots of tulips and daffodils in full bloom too!

Happy Easter!

Taking a closer look at the goods!

 

Uncle Jabin was showing the boys to how fly on a flight simulator. They thought his "man room" was really sweet!

That evening, we built a fire in their fire pit to roast hot dogs over for dinner. While we were waiting for the fire to die down a bit, we munched on some Doritos for an appetizer.

 

 

 After we got too cold and it got dark, we came in and hung out for the rest of the night. The boys and Jabin finished a movie they had started until it was time for bed. Once again, we stayed up too late hanging out and talking.

 

Getting a lesson in how to play a new game on Jabin's ipad.

 We headed home around 8 Monday morning and made it home with only making 1 stop compared to 5 on the way there. We had such an enjoyable time hanging out with Butts and Jabin and wish they lived closer so we could chill more often.