Puppies,Puppies, Everywhere!!

Okay, It has been really crazy at my place lately, so I haven't posted for a little while...okay a long while. One reason is I have been trying to sell puppies that we have and I am either constantly posting on KSL or on my doggy blogs. I seemed to never have the time to update my family blog. So once again, I get to try to catch up on all my past events...starting with our puppies. In less the 2 weeks, we had 2 litters of puppies born!! That made for lots of little puppies!

We had 9 german shorthair puppies...

...And 5 mini schnauzers

They started out small (especially the mini schnauzers) but they grew quickly and soon all puppies found new homes :)

Autumn's Baptism

On July 2, 2011, Autumn made the choice to be baptized a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
We are very proud of her. It was really a neat experience. She even wore the dress that my mom made me when I got baptized. She was baptized along with one of our neighborhood boys Ethan Bartlett. We had lots of family and friends there. So many that people had to stand.

We had a nice luncheon after at the park. Of course I would forget to get pictures of our family and friends there. Later that day we were able to spend some more time with them watching the Cache Valley Cruise-in. My dad even got his '69 mustang running and I had a fun ride with Brian, Autumn, and Savanah down Main Street. We had a very busy day, but it was wonderful.

Autumn turns 8!!

I can't believe how time flies. You blink for a second and your baby is turning 8. They grow up way too quickly. Although Autumn is my little challenging child and we seem to butt heads often, she has a very sweet side to her. She is a very loving and kind little girl. (But don't call her little when she is around. She hates everyone telling her how little she is.)
Autumn is very creative. She loves to color pictures, but her favorite thing to do is write books. Staple a few blank pages together, slap on a title and she is ready to go. She has written stories for just about everything from puppies to dragons. I love to see her excitement as she shows me one of her newly written and illustrated books she has created. She loves to read books. Her most recent book is The Secret Garden. I love listening to her read. We will just keep on reading to find out what is going to happen next. She also loves the Puppy Pals books and the Animal Ark series. Anything that involves dogs, cats or horses. She loves animals.
I took Autumn out to get some pictures for her baptism announcement. We drove all over trying to find some good places. We just happened to drive past this door and I loved it. (No I am not a photographer with a fancy camera and photo editing software... but we liked them anyways.)

We had fun celebrating her birthday. We had Grandma and Grandpa McBride, Aunt Kristie and Ethan, Grandma and Grandpa Achatz, Kristin and Jerel, and Great-Grandma and Grandpa Page come. She got some nice gifts, clothes, a puppy webkinz, 2 breyer horses, a journal that we need to work more on writing in. She had a great time and said she got everything that she wanted.

And then daddy pulled out her big surprise.... A brand new bike!!

We enjoyed a cute cupcake cake that for some reason when I bought it, I thought it was a cute bear. Maybe because it was dark brown. But I was informed that bears don't have manes. So it is a lion.

Hopefully this next year won't fly by so fast. Soon she will be all grown up and gone. So for now I am trying to enjoy all the time I can have...even the bad ones :)

School's Out

So the last few months have been very crazy with work so I have not been able to do any posting lately. So I had a ton of stuff to catch up on. I am sure there are more things and maybe I will post them later, but for right now, this is good enough!

Brooklyn's Kindergarten Program
On the last day of kindergarten, Brooklyn's class did a little program for us. They sang some songs and did the Lincoln Leopards school song and motto. I tried to upload the video of it but for some reason it wouldn't work. Then they got their files that included their different awards for being good.

Brooklyn getting her kindergarten completion award from Mrs. Duque' (Do-Kay) We are sad to say that Mrs. Duque' will not be teaching at Lincoln next year. We will miss her very much.

Autumn's last day of school

I had to work the last day so Brian took Autumn and got a picture of her with her 2nd grade teacher Mrs. Parent. I can't believe that she will be going into 3rd grade next year. Kids grow so fast!!

My Crazy Hunter!!

Sometimes I wonder if this kid will make it to his 8th birthday. If it isn't one crash.... it is another! He already had a visit to the ER in August after hitting his head on a tractor and getting 4 stitches. Well, we had a new adventure over Memorial weekend. I was making pancakes for dinner and all of a sudden I hear Brooklyn yelling that Hunter had fallen. I get ready to run into her bedroom when she informed me he was not in there.... He was outside. He had fallen out her window. Brian and I go running outside to see where he was, there we find Lynell, our neighbor, holding him. She had pulled him out of the window well. She said that she came outside for some reason she was not sure of and heard a loud thud. She ran over and he was standing inside the window well. Brooklyn had opened the window and he had push on the screen until it popped out and he fell out with it. He must have had angels around him. He fell 6 feet to the ground missing a large boulder and then fell another 3 feet into the window well.
My mom came over and took the girls so we could go check him out. He would take in a deep breath and then hold it for a while and then let it out. It was really scary. We got to the ER and they let us right in. They had to lay him on a board and put a neck brace on him. He was so brave. The doctor came in and looked at him. He started to cry when he toughed the right side of his back. They wanted to do a CT scan on him to make sure there was no internal bleeding. So he had to get an IV. When they tried to put it in his right arm, they could not get it in. So they had to try his left arm. He was crying and it made me want to cry too.
Hunter has a way with people. Even after everything that was going on, he still had the ER staff laughing. He was so cute. While they were getting ready to try again to get the IV, the blood pressure machine turned on and he told them that it has giving his leg a hug. He also liked the heart monitor. It was like a laser for Buzz Lightyear.
Hunter got to go for a little ride on the bed and into the CT scanner. If you ask him, he got to go through a giant doughnut. Everything on the CT looked good. But the doctor told us that the result for his blood test to check his pancreas and liver, showed that he had bruised his liver and to watch him carefully. After, he was free to go home and get some rest. It was now almost 10:00.
Having Hunter fall that far and have nothing major wrong was a true blessing. He could have easily been hurt worse. I am so grateful for the blessings in my life. That the Lord watches over us and protects us.

My crazy Hunter, posing for the camera and doing a few moves for me. I love you Hunter!

SOCCER!! GO BROOKLYN!!!

Brian helped coach Brooklyn's soccer team with Matt Jensen. She had a lot of fun playing soccer this year. They only won one game... but they tried their best. Brooklyn scored a lot of goals and was super excited! At one game, Brian yelled to her that Grandpa would pay her $5 if she scored. She then ran down and scored a goal! She likes to play defense and protect the goal.
We were very busy running from one soccer game or practice to another...but the girl's really enjoyed it!

SOCCER!! GO AUTUMN!!!

Brian helped coach Autumn's soccer team again this year. We had a really good team. The girls lost 1, tied 1, and won 8! Autumn really started to do good this season. She even scored a goal and had a lot of assists! She was the fast one all over the field! She loved playing forward and striker. Sometimes I think she would forget she was defender and play up front. She did not like being goalie.