One off the list

Last night, we were able to mark off one item on our bucket list: help move cows! For family home evening, we went to grandpa and grandma Asay's house to help move the cows from over the hill to the corrals. After the short move, we had a picnic in the the back yard where we enjoyed hamburgers and hot dogs, salads and then yummy smores for dessert! It was fun to hang out with family for our family home evening!

Carson and Jared following behind the herd.

Christian with Travis, Jacob and Daniel

Jared and Carson stopping to pose for me!

Landon got to have a turn and LOVED it. They were practicing what they said to get the cows moving.

Down to the corrals.

My cute boys!

Travis and Landon riding around after the cows were all moved.

All done moving the cows.

The grandkids (minus Ian and Chloe)

Landon had a good time sitting in his frog chair while he waited for dinner.

Eating some dinner.

The whole crew...except Jared and Jacob who left to go to FHE at the college.

Roasting some marshmallows!

End of First Grade!

 This year has flown by like crazy! Today is Carson's last day as a first grader. Carson has had a great year! It's been a little trying for him, requiring some extra help in reading and math, but he worked SUPER hard all the time and never got discouraged! One of the things I admire most about him is that he is always positive, works hard and has a smile on his face! This year, he lost several teeth year, and grew some big ones in their place, learned lots, grew 3 inches and gained 2.5 pounds (according to his report card)and made some really good friends! Next year he gets to be in Mrs. Strom's class! Good job on a great year, Carson. We are proud of your accomplishments this year!

First day of first grade

Last day of first grade.

Carson came home with two awards. One for having the most improved MAP score and the other for always turning in his reading logs.

 To celebrate the end of the year, we grabbed a new movie from the Red Box and had a picnic lunch followed by popcorn and treats while we watched it. We had hoped it would be nicer so we could have a water fight, but Mother Nature had other ideas!

 This week has been full of fun things for the kids to do. The weather has been rainy and super windy, making it not so warm. They were supposed to go to Billings on Wednesday to the Zoo, but got rained out and had to stay at school and do activities there instead. Yesterday was their fun day. They did field activities in the morning, then headed swimming, had lunch, and then got to go the the Hyart Theatre to watch a movie with the entire school. I was lucky enough to get to go with him and his class to the movie in the afternoon.

Here is his class getting ready to do the tug-of-war. 

Pull! Their class wasn't able to win any of the times they tried.

They did some relay races.

Carson and the boys in his class.

More relay races...carrying an egg

Carson cheering on his teammates. 

Balloon passing relay race.

Update!

As the school year is ending, we have found ourselves super busy and it's time to get caught up! So here is what we have been up to lately!

Carson got to mark an item off his bucket list when he came home from school one day  having lost another tooth! He always wanted to loose a tooth at school so he could put it in tooth case necklace!

Last Thursday, Christian's brother Jacob graduated from high school. It's crazy to think that there aren't any more of them to graduate and Carson will be the next Asay boy to do it!

Jacob giving me a giant cheesy grin! He wasn't at all excited about the night!

Congrats to Jacob!

Jacob has already got his mission call and wrote it on the top of his hat. He has been such a good example to my boys!

The boys and I made a Summer bucket list with some things that we wanted to do this summer before they had to start school. I think it looks like a great list and we will have a fun summer.

Their faces crack me up. I made them stand facing the sun one afternoon to take a picture of our list.

We got to go pick asparagus one evening as a family out on Grandpa Asay's farm. We managed to find 21 pieces of asparagus to have for dinner this week! YUM!

The boys looking for some asparagus.

Found one!

Carson and Travis looking out the window to try and find it along the ditch bank.

Carson was our official asparagus counter.

The boys love when Christian mows the lawn because he lets them ride with him. It never fails that one of them ends up falling asleep while riding. This time, it was Travis!

We were finally able to get our garden in over the weekend. It took us a series of days to do it, but it's done! This is our first year planting one here, so it's kind of a trial and error year. We are crossing our fingers that it turns out good!

After some work to get the tiller running, Christian was able to till the garden.

Landon really wanted to help with it!

Then we used some scrap wood that was at our house to put a border around it.

Christian put out a bunch of manure, too!

Before we planted, Christian put on his "booster pack" , as we called it, and sprayed the weeds  to try and kill them. We ended up not planting until the next day.

Yesterday was Carson's first coach pitch baseball game. He loved every minute of it. He got to play left field and catcher and had two home runs...which he was pretty proud of!

Getting all his gear on!

All ready to go!

Up at bat! He looks so little in his HUGE shirt and pants!

And a hit!

Grandpa and Grandma Foulger came to watch. Carson had some really good cheerleaders!

 He was all smiles as he ran home for his first home run!

One day for story time, Travis got to make a bird feeder that he was pretty proud of. He was so excited to get to hang it up on the tree when we got home. He would go and check on it about every hour to see if any birds had eaten it. We found that the birds didn't eat it, but the ants loved it! We decided it would be better to throw it away rather than attract ants!

Travis with his bird feeder (in the background) and a piece of wood he got at the lumber store.