Camera catch up!

This winter a group of us ladies got together every Monday night and watched the Bachelor on tv. It was so much fun to be able to spend some girl time, chat and eat some yummy treats. We always stayed up way too late...we didn't usually start watching until 9 and wouldn't get home until after midnight! We had an ongoing joke about the crazy eyebrows that some people had, so the final night, we did eyebrows on each other, along with watching and eating!

Our group: Kristen O., Addrienne M., Tiffany A., Jill M., Nicole H.,

Kasi, Lauren S., Jill A., LaraLee R. and me (yes, there were 3 Jill's each week!)

Our finale night treats! Christian referred to this night as the Super Bowl for ladies!

 We celebrated Pi day (March 14) with homemade chicken pot pie and some rhubarb pie (Travis's request)!

For St. Patrick's Day, the boys had individual scavenger hunts to find their pot of gold. For dinner that night, we had corned beef and cabbage.

Landon looking for a clue.

Found his in his closet.

The co-op in Powell got in a new shipment of chicks and Landon LOVED getting to hold them one day while we were waiting for Christian.

Last Saturday, I bought my very first year fishing pass. So, we went out and fished at a pond by Grandpa Asay's house to see if anything was biting...they weren't!

Trying to catch something.

Trying the other side of the pond.

 For Easter, Grandma and grandpa Foulger got the boys each a kite. They spent lots of time outside actually enjoying our windy days as they flew their kites.

The scouts in our ward had a dinner/carnival fundraiser this last week. We had breakfast for dinner and then the boys got to use some tickets to play at the games. They most anticipated game was the repelling.

Carson getting to kick off the wall.

Travis's turn to repel.

Travis racing his friend Rocco in a corn hole game.

 Friday, the boys had the day off of school and Christian decided to take the day off of work too. We had decided to take a drive up the entrance of Yellowstone Park to see if we could see any animals. We woke up Friday and heard that Cody had several inches of snow, so we decided to take the boys to the Buffalo Bill Museum. Carson has been asking for a couple of years to go, but we just never have. We got to Cody and found that the roads were dry and there wasn't much snow, so Christian and I thought we would just do the drive instead. We ate lunch and told the boys what we were thinking about going for a drive instead. They were pretty disappointed about not going to the museum, so we decided to just stick with our plan and visit the museum. It ended up being a great trip and the boys really enjoyed it all. After the museum, we grabbed some ice cream from Dairy Queen and then headed home.

Carson checking out some rocks which is what they are studying in school right now.

The Natural History part of the museum was their favorite part.

Inside a beaver dam.

Shooting some play guns in the Gun Museum

2016 Pup Wrestling

The boys just finished up 2 weeks of wrestling camp with a final tournament last night. Carson won both of his matches and Travis went 1 and 1. They (and us) were a little disappointed that they only got to wrestle two matches. They both wanted to do more!

Carson's first match.

Winner!

Travis watching a match with some of his buddies.

Travis's first match. He pinned the kid pretty quick.

 

Carson's second match. This kid was a lot more aggressive than his first match.

 Travis's second match was against his friend, Matthew N., who is really good. Travis lost but did a really good job against him. It was fun to watch him wrestle someone that challenged him more.

Carson and Travis wrestled at the same time.

Each kid got a shirt and medal when they were finished wrestling.

Kane Caves

Because it was such a nice day yesterday (like 67 degrees!), we decided to take a walk and hike up to the Kane caves. We have been talking about doing it for a while now, but have never done it. Actually, we were going to do it last weekend while my sister was here, but it was super windy and Travis didn't feel real great. The boys each packed a backpack (Carson and Travis both got camel packs last year for their birthdays and have been dying to get to use them) with flash lights, shovels, sweatshirts and water. We got the parking site around 11:30 and followed the railroad tracks to the caves. We walked around a mile on the tracks and had fun finding all sorts of old railroad parts and Christian found a spot he would like to try fishing at.

On our way to the caves.

Checking out the river as we walked along.

Along our walk, we looked for a cement culvert that Christian knew had some of his uncle's names carved in it. We found it and were able to identify quite a few names of people we knew.

Once we got to the spot, we had to hike up the side of the mountain to get to the cave.

Travis and Carson climbing up to the cave.

At the top. The entrance to the cave is to the left of Landon.

The entrance to the cave. It's definitely a small opening that you pretty much have to lay on your back and slide into. Landon was pretty worried about going in, but once we got inside, he LOVED it!

As your entering the cave, there is an open box diamond brand that Asays used before they started using the flying A.

We tried to take a family selfie when we got in, but our attempts were no good! Once we were all inside, we looked all around and walked to the end of the cave. They boys loved looking at the crystals and neat rocks inside!

This picture of Landon cracks me up!

Inside the cave!

Here are some of our cool findings inside the cave:

a wall full of crystals

A large chunk of crystal one of the boys found.

Crystals hanging from the cave roof!

One of Carson's finds.

Landon exploring.

Travis exploring around.

The boys checking out the cave walls.

A crystal that looked like it had fallen from the top of the cave.

Travis and Carson.

exploring the cave!

Landon getting ready to head out of the cave.

After we explored as far back as we wanted to, we worked out way back out of the cave. We sat around at the top for a bit to cool down...it was pretty warm inside the cave and we were all a little sweaty!

Carson looking down at the river.

Travis waiting for us to catch up on our walk back to the car.

At the end of our adventure. Carson only had a long sleeve shirt and was super hot, so he decided to ditch his shirt for the walk back to the car.

Eventful horse ride.

Last weekend, the boys got to help grandpa Asay move a few cows around...and it sounds like it was an eventful afternoon. My mother in law, and two of my sister in laws and I all went to Billings for a girl's day of shopping, while the boys stayed behind with the kids. Part way through the ride, Carson's horse started to buck for no apparent reason. Carson was just about to bail off when Christian saw him and told him to hang on tight. He didn't end up getting bucked off, but he was pretty shook up (and sore for a few days). As Carson and Christian were riding up a hill, they came across Travis lying on the ground. Christian said he thought for sure he had broken something by the way he was laying on the ground. Travis says he got bucked off but Christian thinks he got knocked off by a tree branch. So, two out of the three boys were in tears for a short amount of time, but still got back on and rode the rest of the time. What's funny is that Christian never said anything about any of it until I got home that night and the boys told me! I keep threatening to make them ride with helmets!

I love, love, love this picture! Landon loves animals of all kinds!