Fishing trip

Last week, after some meetings in Billings, Christian made his way up to Craig, MT with a chemical rep and a group of guys for a fishing trip. They traveled Tuesday and fished all day Wednesday and Thursday, getting home really late Thursday night (actually it would have been Friday morning). He said the fishing was great and he caught about 30 fish over the two days.

THis is what Christian woke up to Wednesday morning. Looks too cold for fishing to me!

They stayed in the grey house, which was right on the river where they fished.

A view of the area. It's really pretty!

Flag football

Travis finished up his season of flag football last Saturday too. They were actually supposed to have one more game, but our coach and 4 players were going to be gone and the coach from Cody was going to be gone also, so they decided to cancel it (which he was bummed about). He had a great season and loved it. He was pretty mad at me, to start out with, because I had signed him up for flag and not tackle. Once the season started and he found that his good friends were playing flag too, he was fine with it...mostly! Lovell only had one team this year, so they traveled to Powell and Cody to play their games.

Going for the touchdown!

He starts pups wrestling the end of the month for a couple of weeks, but he's really looking forward to USA wrestling in a couple of months!

Middle School Football

Carson and his team had their last football game of the season yesterday. They ended the season on a high by beating rival Rocky.  Carson has loved football this year and has really grown. He was picked to be on of the team captains this year because of the hard work he had shown during practices. He's sad to see the season be over, but he's looking forward to a little break before wrestling starts!

Putting up a good block on Rocky's big guy!

Coach DeWitt talking to the team after their win.

 A little after game cheer for the win!

Carson was lucky to have great grandparents from both sides come and support him at his last game. It think it's so neat that my kids have great grandparents close that come and support them in all they do. Not too many kids have great grandparents that do that! My grandparents were troopers this year and came to just about all of Carson and Travis's football games. We are so blessed to have so much family close! I love it!!

Birthday time!!

Today was Landon's 7th birthday. I can't believe my baby is now 7. At 7, Landon:

*loves animals

*loves to be outside

*is in charge of vacuuming the stairs, the hardwood floor downstairs, cleaning his room, making his bed and taking care of his cats

*is so good with his younger cousins. In fact, he was Sloan's favorite last time they were here visiting

*has to sleep with his bear, blanket, and a fan on at night

*loves hot dogs

*is kind of a hoarder...he loves to "collect" things

*is looking forward to wrestling this winter

*always tries hard to be kind to others

*is good about trying different foods

*loves spicy things like salsa, jalapenos, and banana peppers!

We are so thankful that Landon is part of our family. He definitely brightens our home!

We opened gifts on his birthday before school so that he could enjoy his bike after school since it was supposed to be warm. All he said he wanted for his birthday was a bike with a water bottle  and fishing stuff.

Traditionally, we do pancakes for breakfast on birthdays, but Landon isn't a huge fan, so he was lucky enough to get roll-ups for his birthday.

All ready to ride his new bike!

After school with his birthday crown from his teacher. He took cupcakes with him to school to share with his class for his treat!

Since week nights are always crazy around here with practices and activities, we decided to have a big family birthday on Sunday. I think there ended up being like 32 of us. Landon loves hot dogs and wanted a football birthday, we did a hot dog/braut/polish dog bar with a bunch of toppings, along with salads, chips and baked beans!

Loading his dog up with banana peppers!

Since it was pretty chilly outside, we set up a table downstairs for some of the older kids to sit at.

These 4 braved the cold weather and ate outside.

 

We are so lucky to be surrounded by so much family!!

Opening presents is always a little chaotic with all the cousins...most of the time I couldn't even see what he got because all the cousins were so excited to see and help!!

When I had originally asked Landon what He wanted for his birthday dessert, he said apple pie! Well, I wasn't about to make enough pies to feed everyone that was coming, so his second choice was a football crazy cake.

He got LOTS of fishing lures and supplies and took his time to meticulously put them all away in the new tackle box Jason and Cassie gave him.

A few days before his birthday, he got to open a gift from Megan and Jabin when we went to visit them at Grandma Foulger's house. He got a football, pistachios and some other treats.