Lately...

The Cub Scouts had their annual rain gutter regatta. Travis knew exactly how he wanted his and his did pretty good. Landon got to make one while we were there and race it. Travis also received his Bear award and has moved on to Webelos.

Travis and his jalapeno boat.

Lovell had their homecoming and the middle school planned some dress up days to celebrate! Monday was class color day. The 7th graders were red.

Tuesday was your future day (what you want to be when you grow up). Carson chose to be an orthopedic surgeon.

Wednesday, the 7th graders were country bumpkins...which we took as red neck. Apparently, most of the other kids dressed up as cowboys... not red necks! But I thought Carson pulled it off nicely!

Since there was no school on Friday, Thursday was blue and white day. He had on all blue and at school got some face paint from a friend.

Carson and Travis both have had games on Saturday. They both lost, but have really been enjoying it!

Dry Head

Last Saturday, Christian and Landon made the trip into Dry Head to help grandpa Asay wean calves. It was a beautiful day and Landon loved getting to ride with his dad. They even saw a black bear while they were riding!

My cute cowboy!

The bear running away from them. At first, Christian said it was coming right for them, but got spooked and took off in the other direction.

While they were in Dry Head, the rest of us were footballing. Carson had gone to Big Horn for a game (that they originally didn't have on the schedule, but picked up a few days before) and Travis had his first flag football game in Cody. Both of them won their games.

Lately

With the start of school, we have been super busy! Carson started football practice the first day of school and has been loving it! They had their first game Saturday against Cody. They weren't able to pull off a win, but they did pretty good against a much bigger school!

He got picked to be one of the captains.

Seeing how the coin flipped...

Christian got to go up to Yellowestone Lake two weeks in a row for a some fishing trips. The first week, he was asked to take our boat and be a guide/give boat rides of the lake. The next week, he actually got to just fish and hang out.

We've had several people over working on repairing our home after the hail storm that hit in July. We got a whole new roof put on, they fixed the vinyl around the windows and we are in the process of getting new gutters on right now. We just have to replace the window screens, some vinyl in the windows and replace a door and we will be pretty much fixed up!

We had planned to go out on the boat last Saturday after Carson's football game, but it was windy, so we decided to go for a 4-wheeler ride to find fossils. The boys always have so much fun exploring. Travis found a little horny toad that he really wanted to bring home, but decided to just let it go back to it's home. We found lots of fossilized squid heads and decided that since we were finding so many that we should have a competition to see who could find the biggest one. Christian and Landon had the biggest ones.

We decided he had better head back when the sky was turning dark. We raced back to the truck in the rain, but got to see a double rainbow!

Travis got to open his gift from grandma and grandpa Asay and was beyond excited about a new, bigger fish tank with a filter! He can't wait until he can get to Wal-Mart and buy some fish. Right now, it is home to a minnow he caught in the pond.

I was finally able to get all my paperwork in to start subbing. I've been busy since I submitted it and got it approved. It's been fun to be in different positions in the school. I've been able to be a para, classroom teacher and even a lunch lady! I love getting to see my kids at school and see them interact with their peers!

Christian said I needed to take a first day of subbing pic and send it to him.

Have to love the hair nets when you're a lunch lady!

This guy has been working hard in first grade and it's exhausting! He asked me if I wanted to come watch tv with him on my bed and he fell asleep within minutes!

Due to the hail storm in July, the corn seed we bought and grandpa Asay planted, was really set back. We are just now being able to pick large quantities of it. The boys weren't able to sell it to the grocery store this year, but they are hoping to be able to fill a few local orders to make a little money to add to their mission funds. We lost most of our garden in the hail, so there has been no canning this fall. Our pumpkins, cucumbers and zucchini were able to bounce back some, so we have been able to enjoy them. I'm excited for our pumpkins, although there won't be very many of them and they won't be very big, but it's been fun to watch them grow (this is the first year we've planted pumpkins).

Travis bringing out a load of corn from the field the other night for me to box up.

Not only is Carson playing football, but so is Travis. His flag football started a couple of weeks ago. He's loved getting to go to practice every night, but is really ready for a game. We have to travel to Cody and Powell (and they come here) this year to play our games. We only had enough kids for one team and Cowley only does tackle, so we won't be able to play them.

Labor Day Weekend 2018

We had a great time at our annual Labor camping trip near Jackson Hole. We left Friday night around 6. We had to wait until Carson got done with football practice before we could leave, so we didn't get to Jackson until almost 11. We got our camper set up with the help of grandpa Foulger and Brett Whitlock, and Jabin and made our way to bed! Saturday, the boys were up bright and early (6:30)...maybe it's because it was also Travis's birthday! We helped grandma Foulger make breakfast for everyone.

After breakfast, Travis opened up his gifts. He got a box full of paracord and supplies to make keychains and bracelets, some beats head phones and a new pair of slides from grandma and grandpa. 

We gave him a new outfit, water shoes, an airsoft gun and a new minnow net. I loved all his excited and surprised faces when he would open up his gifts.

A new fishing tackle box and supplies from uncle Jason and aunt Cassie!

After opening up gifts, we cleaned up breakfast, they kid went on bike rides and then we headed down to the lake for a few hours. The boys had a blast kayaking and playing in the water...the rest of us enjoyed sitting on the beach soaking up the sunshine! It was beautiful!!

Landon heading out on the kayak!

Carson kayaking!

Travis trying out his new net. He was able to catch 3 minnows

 

 After a couple of hours down at the lake, we headed back to the campers, showered and got ready to head into Jackson for dinner at Merry Piglets. This year, we ate and then headed back to the campers...no shopping. We did stop and look at the Potholes (which were really lame...just holes in the ground) and take a pic in front of the Tetons on our way back.

Waiting to get into dinner.

Our favorite...queso!

They brought the birthday boy out a special dessert and we all sang to him!

There are all sorts of weird paintings of pigs in the restaurant.

We got back to the campers and had birthday cupcakes and played a few rounds of telestrations. Landon ended up throwing up, so he and Christian wen back early. Something he had must have not agreed with him because he was fine in the morning!

Sunday, we got up and had a big breakfast with everyone and then headed back down to the lake for the day. It was once again a beautiful day!

The boys love to use the kayaks as paddle boards also. I guess we need to get a paddle board next!

Travis brought his remote control boat to drive at the lake.

Landon and Jabin having deep conversations on the kayak.

Carson and Christian.

Hanging out with baby Butts!

While we were sitting on the beach, the men came up with a friendly competition. They set up three different sized buckets full of water near the shore line and sat and threw rocks at the buckets to see if they could throw them into the buckets and get points. Who would have thought rocks and buckets could provide so much fun! I believe Christian ended up being the winner when it was all said and done.

If you thought you made it in the bucket, you had to get up and dump it out to show the group.

The beach goers.

 After a few hours on the beach, we headed back to the campers and got foil dinners ready to take down to the fire pits for dinner.

The Tetons

Hanging out.

Dinner time!

 After dinner, we headed back, showered and then played some more telestrations before heading to bed. We got Monday and got our camper and both Whitlock campers loaded up and ready to hit the road. Grandpa and Grandma Foulger, and Megan and Jabin were staying another night. We drove down to Leek's Marina for pizza and then got on the road to head home.

Our whole group! A woman offered to take our picture and her husband was standing behind her waving and flipping the bird giving everyone some great smiles!

back: Cohen, Landon, Travis, Carson, Christian

Middle: Cammy, Brett, Cathy, grandma Foulger, grandpa Foulger, me, Jabin

front: Kim, Sadey, Abbey, Sloane and Megan.

Since it was dark when we came through the Park on Friday, we stopped at West Thumb and walked around there. It's always fun see all the different hot pools around. We got home early evening and unloadeed everything from the camper. We had such a great time and did some fun things. We were sad that we didn't make it on a hike or try to catch chipmonks...hopefully next time!