Blad Family Reunion June 12

WESTERN DAY

Playing cowboys and Indians. Ben was the Indian!

These are my little cowboys/girl

Wanted posters

Andrew "The Rawhide Kid"

"Stonewall" Jackson

"Quick Drawl" McCall

Uncle Ryan made up these posters before the reunion. Bandets came and stole all the kids treasure that Grandma helped them find out in the red rocks. These posters hepled us look for the bandets. Ian, Cashton, and Andrew got to be bandets with their uncles. They put on mustaches and swiped the gold. McCall didn't know what to think when they sole all their goods. She almost started crying. Jackson, Lukas, Evan, and Bronson were shown the wanted posters and took off with hand cuffs and guns to catch them. Jackson found Andrew and tried to put on hand cuffs but Andrew started crying and wouldn't let him!

Preschool Graduation

Jackson had a fun year with his preschool friends. Everyone was that same from last year except one, Lance. Jackson improved a lot towards the end of the school year. He has an interest in reading and can sound out lots of words. He can write all the letters in the alphabet. He is excited for kindergarten and to be riding the bus with Andrew.

The Wolfe's for dinner and some fun

The Wolfe's have been our good friends for many years and one of Dustin's first and best clients. They helped support us through the last part of Dustin's college years and through the start of his business and now. We frequently get together for dinner and here is Jeff entertaining the boys with some golf tips.

We went to Garrett's graduation party at their house in June. They had the setup....huge slices of bread and tons of different shredded meat to put on it. It was very tasty.

The boys always get out Jackson Wolfe's legos when we go there and this time Jackson said he doesn't play with then any more and offered them to the boys! The boys were so excited. They brought home a big box of legos. Before they could play with them they had to clean the whole playroom.

Soccer

Andrew played on the Boise Capitol's Soccer team this spring with coach Charley and Coach Dustin. Their team was called the Kamikazes. He really enjoyed it. Dustin was a really good assistent caoch and Charley was exellent with the kids. This is their after soccer party at PoJo's. They had trophies for all the kids and big fat cupcakes from Costco. We ordered pizza and bought tokens for the kids to play games. It was a lot of fun. All our soccer pictures are on the video camera. Andrew was never goalie, because he didn't want to try it, and he never scored a goal but came close on the last game. He did really well passing and staying with the ball.

Jackson and McCall at Play

We went to the store then decided to come relax at Carl's Junior to pass some time by. McCall finally made it to the top and down the slide. She has never attempted to go that high even with the boys offering to help.

Dirt Bike Riding

Bought some used gear for the boys and pants and gloves for McCall. We are ready to ride this summer! Below is our first trip of the spring.

Our family sport for the last few years has been dirt biking. Dustin has been into it for many years now. I took over Dustin's old bike several years ago when Dustin thought it was time for a cooler bike. In November of '09 he came across a deal from a friend that he just couldn't pass up for a used KTM '07. For a while there we had three adult bikes! Ya, just in time for our move back into our old house! In February we finally sold my Yamaha '04 and Dustin's Honda '05.

The fall of '08 Andrew hopped on a little 50, when we were up in the hills, and loved it. Did just as good as riding his bicycle. Then this spring we went out with some families who had a 50 and we let Andrew and Jackson take a shot at it and they both did great and loved it! So we decided to get the boys something to ride and make that our family sport. We bought a small 4-wheeler for the kids and traded some work for a kids 70 dirt bike. We took our first ride as a family memorial weekend up towards Plaserville outside of Horshoebend. We set up a camp and played around till almost dark and headed home. We brought up Quizno's for an early dinner and cooked up cup-o-noodle for dinner/snack and roasted smores! Andrew took the dirt bike for a few spins and Jackson tried to. This bike is much more powerful than the two 50's they were used to so Jackson had a hard time on it. He mostly rode the 4-wheeler. Me and McCall played around camp.