Summary of June Events

Andrew just loves this 4-wheeler that Grandpa brought and dropped off on his way to a rafting trip before the big Blad reunion hosted at our house. Andrew gets to ride this every time we go to Grandma and grandpa's. So he was loving having it at his house for a while. When Dustin was done working for the day Dad and him would ride it on the dirt roads by our house.


The boys really enjoy their bikes this summer. Andrew took off his training wheels this spring and Jackson followed right behind him. After this picture was taken Jackson's training wheels came off a week later (end of June). He rides all over the place now. Older brothers push along the younger one a lot faster. Jackson was potty trained by 2 1/2 and riding a bike before 3 1/2!


Drew made a trip up to Burley to sing with his coir for the opening of the new Albion Family Reunion camp. Kent along with his brother purchased the old Albion college and is turning it into a huge family reunion camp. The first building renovated is amazing! Dustin suggested to have his Dad's coir come sing for the grand opening so we drove down, took the tour, and listened to them sing.

We had our first ever Gaskill family reunion (my mom's side). Kent and Carol offered to have everyone stay on their yard right by the river in trailers. We kayaked, ate, skied, ate, made funny hats out of pipe cleaners, and ate. All the meals were excellent. It was good to see everyone again and talk about Grandma and Grandpa Gaskill whom we all miss and love dearly.

Summary of May Events

Dustin took the boys to the Father's and Son's camp out. They had lots of fun hiking and roasting smores by the camp fire. They slept in a cabin with bunks and got to stay up very late, they were asking to go to bed.





Andrew felt a little out numbered for his Preschool program. The only other boy in his class did not make it for the last day of school so Andrew had to stand up there with all these girls. Ella was his favorite (last one on the left) and he frequently asked if she could come over and play. Andrew's riding partner all year was Callie (second from the left). Andrew never did warm up all the way in class. He did get to where he would speak to Mr. Douglas and tell her things about race cars or trips we went on. He never did really get comfortable enough talking with the other kids.
For memorial day weekend we drove to Hurricane, Ut and spent a few days at the Blad plantation! We went hiking up in the Red Hills and played around the house with Ryan's family, Ben's and Dannene's. We even roasted smores up on the property one night with the older boys. Andrew thought that was pretty cool that he could stay up later than most of the other kids, especially Jackson. We drove back the old 1996 Crystler mini van in hopes to sale our Dodge Durango. We ended up selling the Honda Fit instead 7/08. No one was interested in paying $4 a gallon to fill up the Dodge!



On the hike we had nothing to carry McCall in so we made a sack out of McCall's blanket and she rode on my hip.

All the kids take a break after a long day of playing. We slept in the basement of grandma's house and the boys slept in our room on bunk beds. Andrew fell off the top bunk one night and after that I didn't sleep very well in fear that he would fall off again.

McCall liked to ride around in Grandpa's toy fire truck until Jackson or Andrew start pushing her in it really hard from behind!

Grandpa and Grandpa are the emergency preparedness specialist in their ward. They often have the dry pack sealer at their house. We brought back two bags of White wheat and canned them here with the Garden City Cannery dry pack sealer. We had people over all week from the ward using it! We got some young families thinking about their food storage!

The boys had a blast with some Beebe guns that Danna and Drew brought with us on a 4-wheeling adventure.

Andrew and his love for CARS

Andrew has been talking about becoming a race car driver for quite a while now. I recently rented a Nascar biography movie and after watching the video over a two day period he came up to me and said, "Mom, I don't want to be a race car driver, I want to be a pit crew guy." The biography was pretty intense and showed the struggles that these young boys had trying to make it as a racer. It was pretty funny that he changed his mined so quick after talking about it for months!


McCall loves to walk into daddy's office and find wires and cables to pull on. She was in there one day when daddy was working from home and he put his sound muffling headset on her. It was a funny sight. She left them on for a while...she must have been entranced by the music he had going.

Summary of March Events

McCall looking cute in her pioneer hat

Grandma Blad bought for her

Jackson celebrated his 3rd birthday with Grandma & Grandpa Blad and family.

Jackson requested a Pooh Bear cake. The cake was acually very good tasting.

Grandma & pa went in on a race track for his birthday present and they also bought him a new bike with training wheels. He picked up on it right away. He'll be riding without training wheels before his big brother!

The week before easter we went over to our old neighborhood and took part in their annual Easter egg scramble. The boys brought their baskets and filled them with eggs. They raced for eggs in age groups 0-3 and 4-7. They were even able to meet the Easter Bunny! McCall was at home sound asleep! Maybe next year McCall.

Summary of February Events

February Fun

The boys really enjoyed sledding this winter

The picture is at my moms house in McCall. The window at the start of the hill is looking out from the kitchen window.

McCall had soo much snow that the burms in the driveway almost reached the top of the car!

We made Grandma Lindy's famous Valentine's Day cookies this year!

We were able to celebrate with Kylie (my oldest niece) when they took home the state basketball championship. Kylie did awesome!

McCall turned one this month and loved her healthy muffin made with apple sauce!

Kids Cookbook

Andrew loves the book Fast Food and for Christmas we received a Cooking with Kids cookbook and Andrew loves it. He is always wanting me to cook something in it. So one night I finally let him cook dinner and we made an Octopus seaweed dish. Not the most nutritious meal but the easiest to make with a 5 yr old.

The boys like to play with their Big Big Big Loader we got them for Christmas. It stays together for a few hours then the boys somehow end up destroying it. Then we get it out again the next week.

Christmas Eve & New Year's

We had a great time in our new home this Christmas. We had a nice Christmas Eve dinner with friends and the kids reenacted the nativity scene while Dustin read from Luke. We exchanged white elephant gifts and read Twas the Night Before Christmas. We even tracked Santa on his sleigh on Google earth.



For New Year's we headed to SLC. There we met with Dustin's family. We stayed at his sister's house and mainly eat and played games and just hung out. We did sneak off to a matinee to see National Treasure 2 (very good and non stop action) and ate at the traditional Rodizio's (Brazilian grill).