Est. 2004

Est. 2004
Christian, Jill and Boys

Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Catching up!

It's time for a little catching up for the month of October!

Homecoming week, the middle school got to dress up for a couple of the days. One of the days was dynamic duo day. Carson dressed up as a robber and his friend, Weston, dressed up as a cop.

Travis finished up his flag football season. He had so much fun and loved getting to play all the positions. He scored 3 touch downs and a point after between his last two games.


The kindergarteners got to go on a field trip to the fish hatchery and I was able to go with Landon's class. They stopped at the Visitor Center first where they watched an informational movie about the Medicine Wheel (which totally lost their attention after about the first 5 minutes...), got to see/touch animal pelts and then walk around the pond area. Then we drove the rest of the way out to the fish hatchery. The highlight there was being able to feed the fish. They went crazy and the kids would get splashed!

Landon checking out a skunk and coyote pelt.


On our way to the fish hatchery.

Checking out the fish.

feeding time!
 Grandpa Foulger got a new boat and took us all out for a ride to try it out after Carson and Travis were done with football games. It was a little bit chilly but a good ride, none the less. Christian was in Dry Head helping his dad wean calves...we missed him.
Our crew!

Travis loved getting to hold baby Sloane. She even fell asleep on him!
Dry Head 2017

My cowboy!

Christian thought it was funny to have his mom take his picture in the "family picture spot". We always take our family picture here year after year because of the changing trees that are there, but this year, he was the only one in our family that was able to go.



I had a fun little sign up for Landon's birthday that said Party time. I came up the next morning to find that a certain middle school boy had changed the letters around the spell armpit. I should have known this would happen with a house full of boys!



Carson finished up his football season. They ended the season with a big win (44-8) over Cowley, with a  record of 3-3. He loved football and learned a lot this year. He's enjoyed his week off from sports and starts wrestling today!

Love this kid!

Our gardening has come to an end. It was a pretty bad year for our garden. We got hardly any ripened tomates resulting in me only being able to can 4 quarts of tomatoes. It's a good thing that we have had good years in the past that I've been able to can lots of salsa so we can still have some! We had lots of hot peppers, but not a ton of green peppers. Travis helped me pick what was good in the garden one afternoon. We had been having some cold nights and it was supposed to freeze hard, so we picked all we could. I'm hoping that some of the green tomatoes I picked will ripen in the house so that we can continue to can a few more quarts of tomatoes to use through out the winter in soups and sauces.
Travis picked a 3gallon bucket full of peppers for me.
 I have always tried to go to lunch with at least one of the boys once a month. So far I've been able to have lunch with the younger two a couple of times. Not that Carson is in school, and it's not cool for mom to come and have lunch with you, we decided that we would get lunch and have it together when it's his turn. This time, I picked up champs chicken, picked him up and then came home for lunch. It's always so fun to get to spend a few minutes with them one on one and hear how their day has been going!

  
My mom, sister and I enjoyed a girl's weekend over this last weekend. My mom was already in Utah, so I flew down Thursday and they picked my up and the partying began. We shopped until about 8 that night and then enjoyed Olive Garden for dinner and then headed to a hotel for the night. We got up the next morning and shopped the entire day around the Salt Lake area. We had lots of laughs and good times!
Heading out to shop until we dropped!

Baby Sloane was a champ shopper and was happy the entire day!
Enjoying some Fiiz drinks! Yum!
My little shopping buddy!
 Saturday, we ran a couple of errands in the morning and then spend the rest of the day at Megan's crafting and hanging out. My mom made chili and cinnamon rolls that we had for dinner!
Getting our craft on!


Our finished product. The little hanging guys are interchangeable for each season. We made a fall set as well!
 It was so fun to have a weekend away shopping, eating good food and being with my mom and sister!

For Landon's birthday, Grandpa and Grandma Foulger game him some money and told him that he got to go on a one on one date with grandma to spend it and then go out to eat (their choice of where to eat). The kids didn't have school this Monday and grandma and I had talked about maybe doing it then, but grandma figured he would want to spend the day with his mom who had been gone for a few days. Well, he asked me in the morning when he was going to get to do his date and I told we had talked about today, but grandma thought he would want to hang out with his mom. He quickly replied: "no!" (boy we were wrong about him wanting to hang out). Landon made a quick call to grandma to see if they could go today and, lucky for him, she said yes! They went to Wal-Mart first and he picked out some great things. He bought a lego flash light, toy gun, and remote control car (that his brothers all love too). After shopping, they ran an errand and had lunch at Wendy's. Landon loved getting to spend his day by himself with his grandma! The other boys are now thinking that this sounds like a pretty good birthday idea for them too!
Date day with grandma!
His goodies he bought with this money!

Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Football 2017



We are in the thick of football season here. Carson, acutally, has his last game this week. He has LOVED getting to play football as a 6th grader with the 7th graders. Lucky for him, he's one of the bigger kids playing, and so he gets to play quite a bit. He plays offensive tackle and does a great job. He has learned a lot this year and it's sure been fun to watch him play!
Love my #74














 Travis is playing flag football and is right in the middle of his season. He gets  a chance to play and learn all positions. He loves playing and takes it pretty serious.



Playing QB


Handing off  to a teammate.

Um...I thought this was flag football!


Being center.



Running the ball.



Tuesday, October 3, 2017

Party time!

We celebrated Landon's birthday all day long yesterday. He stared the day with our traditional birthday breakfast of number (of birthday) pancakes and opening a new shirt.

I met up with Landon for lunch at school with him. We enjoyed lunch together with two of his friends and their mom's who were having lunch with their kids too.

After their last recess, Landon got to pass our birthday treats for his class. We wanted to have rootbeer floats, so that's what we had. His class got to play heads up 7-up when they were finished with their snack. Watching kindergarteners play this game is quite interesting!

Singing happy birthday!
Playing heads up 7-up

The birthday boy with his birthday crown from school.
Landon opted to have all of his family around for a party. We went super easy this year and had pizza, chips and salad for dinner
Landon thought it would be a good idea to eat his pizza with a gummy worm on it.

It was really difficult to get him to say what he wanted for his birthday this year. I had no good ideas for him either. He ended up telling me that he wanted a basketball (since, you know, we don't have 5 already and we definitely don't have a place to play with one) and "nice school clothes" (I'm not really sure what he thinks he wears to school every day...). He got a scooter, art supplies, magformers, legos (that he can't wait to put together), and lots of money. He gets to go on a date with grandma Foulger to go shopping with the money they gave him and out to dinner too!

A scooter from grandpa and grandma Asay
 Landon didn't want a cake this year, but decided he just wanted ice cream. We ended up having banana splits!



Monday, October 2, 2017

Happy Birthday, Landon!

Landon turns 6 today! I can't believe my baby is growing up! He is such a fun and active little guy. At six, Landon loves:
*hot dogs
*popsicles
*all animals
*his blanket and bear
*sleeping only in his underwear
*catching bugs
*being outside
*is in charge of cleaning his room, making his bed, feeding his cats and cleaning toilets
*knowing what's for dinner and going on the next day. He asks every night before bed
*sticking his tongue through his giant four tooth hole in his mouth
*doing what ever his brothers are doing
Notice the tongue...


We are so blessed to have you in our family, Landon. You are kind, loving, a good friend, and an animal lover.