Wizard of OZ - Halloween 2008

It was so much fun getting ready for Halloween this year. With Colton being so little we had a Lion costume for him to wear that Kaylie wore when she was an infant and so that got the wheels turning in this old brain of mine and this is what we came up with...

Colton --- The Cowardly Lion
Cassie ---Glinda the Good Witch
Braxton ---The Tinman
Kaylie --- Dorthy

The kids wanted me to be The Scarecrow (which really seems to be appropriate, because I really feel like I have lost my mind on most days, "If I only had a Brain?")!

As I started making the costumes for Braxton and Cassie, I figured "No worry, the Lion costume is in the Halloween box where is should be, and we just bought Kaylie's outfit.So,On Thursday I went to pull out the lion outfit to get it washed and ready for Colton to wear and just my luck it was nowhere to be found. I tore thru all of the storage bins and still could not find it. I really couldn't think that I would have loaned it out. I just couldn't believe it, it was the one costume that got the theme going for our Halloween. What was I going to do??? I really didn't know!

Later that night I dropped Braxton off at wrestling practice and ran over to Kmart, I remember seeing a lion costume in one of their ads, I was just hoping to find something... anything that would work, because you just never know what is left to choose from with it being the night before Halloween? When I walked in and didn't see anything until on one rack I could see a mane, and wouldn't you know it another customer had it in their hands and was looking at it and commented to me how cute it was and all I could think of was "please don't walk away with it",(along with visions of the morning after thanksgiving day sales may ham of the knockdown drag-out way of doing whatever it takes to get the last one of that must have gift before its gone)so as soon as she put it down I took it and put in my basket without even looking at the size! At that point I just needed a lion costume and I didn't even care what size it was, we were going to make it work. Whatever it took!!!

As you can tell from the pictures it all turned out the way we had planned. Honestly it was even BETTER then we had planned, this lion costume was so cute compared to the old lion costume. And, no I didn't make it disappear.

(You all know it will show up in the next month or so in the one place you would never think!!! IF I ONLY HAD A BRAIN!!!!)

I hope every one had a wonderfully SPOOKY TIME on Halloween and received enough candy to last till next year:0)

Carving Pumpkins

Last Saturday we picked out pumpkins to carve and when it came to pickin' the perfect pumpkin to carve we went with Size and price over color. It was going to be dark outside on Halloween night, Right? So, color really didn't matter anyway. Have you ever heard of a Frankin' Pumpkin? Well those are the ones we came home with. It made for a fun family night on Monday. It was cute how Colton was fascinated with the pumpkins and wanted to keep touching them. We couldn't get him to even look at the camera for a picture. I think all of the carvings turned out Great!!!!

Cassie Ray

Cassie loves to have her hair done and wants it done the way she wants it or not at all, so the other day I told her I wanted to try something I had seen on another blog. Of course she said "NO, I just want two ponies" I pleaded with her and I finally won out. When she saw the finished style all she could do was stare in the mirror and tell me she was so pretty!!! I just love the big smile and she said I had to take her picture and she couldn't wait to pose for the camera!!!

Colton @ 3 months

Our little Colton! Isn't he just the cutest little man you've ever seen? Okay, We sure think so! He is so alert all of the time now and is so amazed with his fingers and loves to chew on them all of the time. I just love it when he looks at me with his big smile on his face and starts to giggle. Colton is starting to look more and more like his big sister Kaylie every day.Kaylie just can't seem to get enough of him and is a real big help taking care of him.

Blackpowder Hunt 2008

Annette and Dad's black powder elk hunt started on October 1st. We have been looking high and low for an elk and had not seen one since September 2oth when I killed my cow. Finally on October 8th the day before the last day, Dad was set up on a field when around 6:30 pm Dad spotted a nice 5x5 bull coming down the trail, when the bull turned broad side at around 50 yards, Dad shot and when the smoke cleared the bull had dropped in his tracks.

Archery Hunt 2008

Mike and I have been hunting hard since August 30Th for Elk. On September 20Th My nephew Layne Rumsey wanted to go Elk hunting with us. It was raining so hard we thought about not going. We had been sitting on a water hole for around 2 hours in the pouring rain, when I heard the elk coming through the timber. I told Layne "here they come" when a dry cow and hard horn spike came running down the trail. As the cow came running by at around 20 yards I stuck her in the chest. She went about 20 yards and stopped so I stuck her again, she then busted out of the country. The rain was coming down so hard, we were afraid of loosing the blood trail. When Mike got to our location it was starting to get dark and was still pouring rain. We had a hard time finding the blood trail. We were able to locate the blood trail and found the cow about 70 yards away. I figure I have found three shed elk antlers and one wolf kill 4x5 Elk this fall so MEAT IN THE FREEZER!

Lyle's Whitetail Picture

Lyle's 2007 5x4 archery whitetail buck

Kaylie's 4-H Project

Kaylie took part in sewing 4-H again this summer and made a beautiful dress to wear. She recieved a blue ribbon at the Madison County Fair and will get to see Her dress down at the State fair next week and will get to model it down there on the last Saturday. She also recieved Top ribbon on her Idaho History Book she completed in 4th grade this last year in school and it will be down at the State Fair too.

Colton's 2 month check-up

August 21, 2008

Colton had his 2 month check-up today and he finally weighed in at 8 lbs. 4 oz. with a length of 22 inches. So, that means our little guy has grown 5 inches since he was born and gained almost two and a half pounds. He loves to smile and hold his head up all of the time. He hates to lay in his bouncy chair and is always trying to sit up by himself. It's fun to see him change from day to day and can't wait to see what he will do next.