Cow Town

 So there is a restaurant in Cowley called Cow Town. I always figured because it is in COWley. I had to re-think that this morning. At about 9:30 a few hundred cows came down main street. It was pretty cool to watch. All these pictures are taken from my front porch. The kids loved watching all the cows and kept mooing to them. Every once in a while one cow would stop and look at them...The kids just knew they were having a conversation! :)

Crazy Fun Place!

 So I heard of this place right after we moved to Wyoming...A place where you take your kids to enjoy some outdoor winter fun, where you just show up, skates, music, lights, learning sleds, bathrooms, and a warming hut all provided...FOR FREE!

I know crazy, huh? Well we had to check it out. It is SO FUN! I have only been ice skating a couple of times, so I am terrible, but it was so fun. Mason loved to push around the sled things, MacKelle and Trace both got so much better after only an hour or so. By the end of the winter, we might even be kind of good. :) I am just so excited to find something to do to get the kids outside during the winter. I didn't get the best pictures, mostly because we were all concentrating on staying upright. But it was very fun, and will probably become a regular event for us!

Does this look like garbage?

My kids like projects, they are ALWAYS creating things...To be honest, I think I started it with Trace's Star Wars ship I made him for his birthday last year.  To cut down on the clutter, I told them that if it looks like garbage, or is left on the floor, it will get thrown away. Justin asked me to take pictures of these. He says that the kids make something and bring it up to him and ask,"Does this look like garbage?" He told MacKelle "Yes", the other day, and she said "oh, I need some wrapping paper". They are funny, and very creative. 

So the above picture is Trace's "Electric guitar"...which he said didn't sound anything like he hoped. :)

Totally random, but had to post this.  Mason REALLY likes his binkies...

 This is Trace's "ship" he made...

 MacKelle made this "car" for her Zhu-Zhu pet...

 MacKelle's "ship" she made...

 Another of Trace's "ships"...

 ANOTHER of Trace's "ships"...

 MacKelle made this "hamster cage" for her Zhu-Zhu pet...

This is Trace's collection of airplanes...some of which came all the way from Idaho. Their favorite game with these is to throw them at a ceiling fan and pretend the fan is an alien ship that they are attacking...:)

So the real question is, what to get the kids for Christmas, when they only like to play with the trash!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

This is the view we woke up to this morning. We didn't get any extra snow, but the trees all had beautiful white frost all over them. It was so pretty! It certainly helps to get us in the Christmas mood.

Award and Snow

 Trace was given an award by his teacher at an award ceremony on Friday. It was for being a good example of "This is it-Making every moment count". I think he was excited about it. He looks rather serious in the picture,but I think it was the audience...

 The other day we got our first snowfall of the year. It was the perfect snow! It was deep enough and wet, so perfect for snowmen and snowballs. They had to go out before school and play in it...So fun!

Up to no good...

Around Halloween we played a Halloween game (we drop off boxes at people's houses and try not to get caught and try to protect our house from getting boxed). One night I found myself with a couple of boxes and a husband that was too tired to help  me get rid of them. I called up a good friend who said she would come with me to box some houses. 

You have to know that I am not a real adventuresome person. Why?? Because if I am doing something that I can get caught or get in trouble for doing, I ALWAYS get busted. This started at a very young age...once when I was a kid, maybe 4 or 5 yrs old, I stuck my tongue out at someone driving down the road...they stopped their car and yelled at me. This is just one of many examples of how I am NOT stealthy.  

I figured that if I was going to get caught, I was going to do it right, so I got all camouflaged up, and got ready to go. Justin thought it was funny and took some pictures. He keeps reminding me to post them, so here they are...by the way, I DIDN'T get caught!!

My New Love...

This was my project this last week. I needed some more storage for the bathroom and this is the new vanity table I came up with. It is a trunk I  got at a garage sale this summer, right before we moved. I just built a bottom for it and recovered the interior.

...And I LOVE it!!

Halloween 2010

Powell Aquatic Center

The kids get out of school early every Friday. A couple of weeks ago my friend Julie and I brought our kids to the Powell Aquatic Center. It was a pretty fun place. There was hardly anyone there (probably because it was early and most people are still in school). So we pretty much had the place to ourselves. It was great with kids, there is a lazy river, and a sloped wading area, kind of like a beach, with a little slide for the little kids. Then there was this, I don't know, obstacle coarse? Trace and Taylor had lots of fun on it! They spent most of their time there. Best of all, it was only $10 for me and the kids to get in...pretty good, I think!

They started to get a little blue around the lips after a while, so here they are warming up.

What is it with girls and horses?

I think I may have mentioned that we used to have horses behind our house.

 A couple of months ago they were sold and we have been horseless. Recently a friend of mine started putting her horse in that pasture. MacKelle has been MORE than excited. She LOVES this horse, named Diesel,  and my friend was nice enough to let MacKelle ride on him one day. MacKelle was in heaven!! Thanks Shayla!

 Here is Mason and Cameron. He is a beast to her, but I am sure one day he'll regret it...look how cute she is!