Shooting Sports!

The boys keeping track of shots. Monte listening to Calvin.

Monte in the middle with Calvin.

Celine waiting patiently.

Celine and Calvin far right.

Boys and Lawnmowing!

This year Monte is our official "Lawn mower" Yep, he can start it ("watch me mom")and mow like crazy! But I do have to remind him WHERE we need to mow. We have about an acre and 1/2 to mow the rest we leave.... that is where he always wants to mow! I also had to give hime the option of mowing a pattern like a square, back and forth, or diagonal! He was just mowing random strips of grass when he started! :) Boy he does keep things interesting. Here he is with his buddies. They went from mowing, to jumping in the lake, to bikes, and started all over again. Oh, yea, with a few popscicle breaks in between! We are enjoying our summer hope you all are too.

Monte vs. Tall Prairie GrassParker and Damon kill a snake while Monte mows.


Little Tim supervising!


The "real" yard that needs mowed!!

Buddies mowing.

Monte's Baseball Team Picture

The 8 year olds traveled to Ligerwood, ND for a baseball tournament this past Monday. The sun was shining and the boys won all 3 games. They played Ambercombie, Ligerwood, and Hankison. They had a blast. Monte did pretty good. It was hillarious to watch him run out to his assigned position. He would run and slide into pitchers position or shortstop. They just make you laugh at this age!

Celine's Dance Recital

Celine completed her 4th year of dance this year! We traveled and she performed in Ellendale, ND. (dance capital of the world!) The Britton Dance girls (older) travel there to help make a complete show/recital and in return the Ellendale girls travel to Britton to make our recital. It is a great opportunity for the girls to perform and make and meet new friends. The girls did a fantastic job! Celine is growing up and getting prettier every day as you can see below in the pictures.

Small town USA. Veda, Celine, and Haily in Tap outfits.

Veda and Celine dancing jazz.

Girls Ballet. Celine in middle.

Celine and Veda pose in tap.

Monte's 8th Birthday!

Ok, time to catch up on my Blog! Needless to say we had a lot going on the later part of May. The end of school, Celine was part of two dance performances,Monte's Birthday party, Georgia turning 1! And the biggest SURPRISE of all was the birth of Baby Brady! That's just May! So here we go!

The boys had a blast swimming!

Monte loving the Water pack/gun present from Carter!Frog cupcakes and Green frog drinks for all!

Making "Frog Slime"

Aloha from Hawaii 2010

Well here we are in our Hawaiian Sunset.
More pics to come and loads of stories to tell. We've had a great time and are awaiting our 8:00 p.m. flight home as I type!

Rain Forest Hike

Well you wouldn't believe the "Wild" chickens... please note the hen in the tree! Wait until we tell you our "Wild" Chicken and Mongoose story! Now on to the Rain Forest Hike. Carrie with a lovely purple flower.

Carrie and tree with roots.

Tim crossing the waterfall.

Tim and Carrie at the Rain Forest waterfall.

We had quite the 2 1/2 hour hike. The Waterfall was amazing. The water was shooting out the top of the mountain. Simply pure and lovely.