Annual Thanksgiving Feast with Bledsoe's and Gerratt's

6th Annual Pre-Thanksgiving Dinner with dear friends!

We had a wonderful evening with delicious food. Everyone brought their specialties. The Gerrett's always bring the best turkey! Rebecca cooks up the best yams ever!! We love this holiday tradition with these two beautiful growing families! Look at all the kids now!
Sommers, Brook, and Rebecca with our babies (Shaydon, McCall and Tian). Mine is not much of a baby anymore!
The adult boys are hard at work cleaning the playroom. We left the kids to play and enjoyed our meal and when we took a peak in the playroom....every toy that I think we own was out and all the puzzles were out of the boxes and all the games and their pieces! Ya, the kids I think had a blast! The boys were so helpful and jumped right in trying to piece everything back together. It was cute to see them on their hands and knees cleaning!
Thanks, Boys!
Thank you Gerrett's and Bledsoe's for another wonderful evening together catching up and eating great food! We love you and your little ones.

Andrew and his first dirt bike ride

IDAHO CITY IN NOVEMBER

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

We took off for Idaho City last weekend to go riding at about 9:45 am and arrived home about 5pm. The whole Cazier family rides dirt bikes and Grace, their 7 year old did not feel like riding. I asked Andrew if he wanted to try it and he smiled really big and said "YES." He hopped right on and took off like he had been riding for years. The day was very warm for November (48 degrees). We drank hot chocolate by the fire, had lunch and took turns riding!

Thank You Cazier Family

Andrew followed this same trail over and over and over for about 30 minutes!
Dad was right there for the first round then saw how confident he was and we all just watched form afar.
He went over bumps, through rocky terrain, and even a mud puddle!

He was speckled with dirt when he was done. He quickly asked when he could ride it again.

McCall had fun walking around picking up sticks and getting really close to the fire!

The whole family enjoyed the day. Oh, almost forgot the trauma in the car with Andrew before we arrived. Andrew was complaining about sticky hands. We gave him a baby wipe and he used then 2 minutes later he was still sticky and wanted another one. I had about two in the case and needed to save them for McCall when she did her thing. Andrew just started wigging out, crying and crying and complaining for about 10 minutes. When we arrived he couldn't get his seat belt off and just went off crying again so we left him in the car and dad banded him from his bike. He stayed in the car for about 10 minutes crying acting like he was stuck in there and couldn't open the door! But the rest of the day was great!

Tyler and Dustin took a nice 45 minute ride up the hills.

Andrew found the coolest stick that looked like a hammer!

Grace loved those marshmallows

Jaycie and Ammon looking cool in their gear.

Jackson liked those marshmallows too.

ThAnK YoU TyLeR aNd RhOnDa

FoR a FaBuLoUs TiMe

Halloween Night

The kids were all NASCAR themed. Andrew and McCall were race car drivers and Jackson was a race car. Mom and Dad were the fans!
Mom took the first shift walking the kids from door to door. Our first 5 minutes out Jackson was having problems with his straps...they kept falling off. Then both of them have to pee. Andrew's outfit Velcro's up the back so it's not very conspicuous when trying to pee. I had both of them pee in the bushes when no cars were going by. Then Andrew decides he wants to trick-or-treat Ella's house (a girl in his class) so we head further away from the house towards Ella's. He assures me that it is not far. Well, Andrew is riding in this Race car go-cart that has a battery life of about 20-30 mins. The classmate lived at the very front of the subdivision. I made us turn around half way there knowing that I would be pushing home a go-cart with a card board car inside it!
On our adventure we saw Governor Palin and John McCain. Palin was holding a little baby and a coffee mug and McCain was holding up a campaign sign. It was hilarious!!


On dad's adventure out with the boys, he took them to LOCAL neighbors and to a neighbors Hunted Maze. Jackson said it was scary and Andrew said it was cool. They boys came home about 9:00 pm and immediately dumped out their candy and sorted them. Oh, the memories!

The Boise Zoo Halloween

The Boise Zoo does a Halloween day the Saturday before Halloween. A variety of different companies set up booths in the Zoo and hand out candy to the kids. The Zoo also has a costume contest and different crafts for the kids to do and bounce houses.

The race car drivers got to race an old safari jeep!

Andrew took the drivers seat ready for a race.

The Zoo has a new exhibit that has been in the making for a year!

They now have giraffes!

We went with the Weiss's and they took a pictures of our family by the river.

The Corn Maze

Every year we try and take the kids out to a corn field were they have fun activities for the kids in the month of October. This year we took them to The Corn Maze. We had a lot of fun this year. The Corn Maze had two new things for the kids! They had a Giant Spring Pillow and a pig race. McCall really got a kick out of the pig race. She also LOVED the little animal zoo.

Dustin and I are just the cutiest farmers ever!
Jackson

McCall and Andrew

McCall at the petty zoo. She was so excited!

The boys take a ride in the cow train.

The three of them make a mess in the corn!

McCall hung out in the corn while the boys were on the gaint spring pillow

GAINT SPRING PILLOW

FLY HIGH

Andrew and Jackson both got some pretty good air.

This slide was aweful. I don't recommend for adults!!

Jackson thought this was pretty cool. Last time we were here he was McCall's age hanging out in the corn box!

Andrew remembered the Go-Carts form two years ago.

McCall's Adventures

McCall loves to go through our food storage and stack cans, fill the diaper bag with cans, or just rearrange things

McCall building a tower

We share toys with the neighbor. McCall loves their car!