More of the Farm

These are just some cute pictures that we took of the boys. We were out for a short walk (because it was freezing) when Cal climbed up on this old truck at the farm. This truck has been there for as long as I can remember, I don't know the story of it, who did it belong to I wonder?! I should have asked my Uncle while I was there. I think it is pretty cool next time I am there, I will have to dress them up cute and take some cute pictures of them on it, especially if it belonged to someone in the family, I am assuming it is an old family car? Dad, Kristie, Wayne, anyone know??

Cade's 1st Birthday!!

I can't believe my baby boy is 1!! This year went by so fast! I feel like I was just in the hospital telling Adrian that he needed to go buy Cade a Christmas present because we weren't expecting him until after Christmas in 2 weeks! He was the best little surprise Christmas present for out family! He had a tough little start at the beginning with being jaundice and being under lights for 2 weeks and then having RSV and having to go to the hospital twice a day for 2 months to get treatments and having to do treatments at home with him as well, it broke my heart, but so thankful it was nothing too big and that our happy healthy little one year old is running around now!!

A little bit about Cade:
He loves food!
He will not drink a cold bottle, it has to be warm!
He likes to walk, but does the army crawl like a pro. If he needs to be somewhere fast he will forget walking and do the army crawl!
He likes to play with balls and cars, he chases them all around.
He loves playing with his brother, but likes it when it is supervised so Cal doesn't get too rough with him.
He loves to be thrown around and rough housed with!
He loves to jump on his daddy and mom but won't jump on Cal.
He is such a sweet easy little boy, he goes to sleep so easily and is happy most of the time!
He has 2 bottom teeth, but working on his top 2!
He is such a joy to our family!! We love you Cade!! Happy Birthday!!

Joy School Christmas Party

Our little class had a fun little Christmas party this last week. Our friend Joe from Adrian's work dressed up as Santa for us and visited with the kids, they thought it was pretty cool! Thanks Joe you did an awesome job!! We also made reindeer food and other crafts, had lunch and had a gift exchange! I think the kids had a fun time!!


Santa and Taylee

Cal and Santa. Cal loves Santa!!

Hunter and Santa


Amber, her mom (Christina) and Santa

Cal and Hunter checking out their gifts. Cal loves his friends from school, but especially Hunter, they are in the same nursery, and Cal can not get enough of him!

Hay Stacks

When I was younger, one of my favorite things to do as a kid was to jump the hay stacks at the farm. We would have all kinds of races and fun! Well Cal and Cade's little legs were not quite long enough to jump so mostly they just sat and climbed around on them the best they could, plus it was freezing!! Cal did attempt to jump one but didn't quite make it. By the big smile on his face you can tell that he still was having fun!

Driving the Tractor!!

The Boys loved being at the farm, they love being outside and having new adventures.
Cal loves tractors, so he was in heaven when he was able to ride on the back of the tractor!

And even more excited to be able to DRIVE the tractor with Grandpa!
Even little Cade got a turn driving the tractor with Grandpa.

Gingerbread House for Uncle Arnold

While in Kansas at my Uncles farm, it was raining and too cold to play outside so, we decided to build a ginger bread house to give to my great Uncle Arnold. He doesn't live at the farm anymore, but in a nursing home. It was a little different being at the farm without him, but we still had a good time going and seeing him and bringing him back to his home. We thought a Gingerbread house would look good in his room. Cal and Grandpa working on the Gingerbread house.

Cal and the finished project!

Cal and his Great Great Uncle Arnold with the gingerbread house! We love you Uncle Arnold!

Shooting Grandpa's "Shoot Gun"

So as many of you know my little Cal is obsessed with guns, (or as he calls them "shoot guns"). For Thanksgiving we decided to go to my Uncle Arnold's farm in Kansas. While we there, Cal was in heaven shooting Grandpa's "shoot gun". The guns Adrian brought were a little too powerful for Cal so my dad decided to bring a BB Gun for Cal to shoot. Cal thought it was pretty cool, he also got to shoot Grandpa's 22 Rifle. He takes after his dad, as my dad would say, "he'se a real gunnie!"Cal and Grandpa shooting the BB gun on the bridge!

Cal giving a big thumbs up after shooting!!

Cal and daddy shooting!


Cal a little excited after he got done shooting!

The 3 Gunnies! Grandpa, Adrian and Cal!

Grandpa's visit from New Zealand

This is long overdue, but we have been so busy! Back in October Adrian's dad came and visited us. We had fun seeing him again and miss him! We wish we could see Adrian's side of the family more! We didn't do anything too big this visit because of Adrian's work but we still had fun with him. We went trick or treating, carved pumpkins, went to see Thriller at Tuachan, put him to work at the warehouse and relaxed.

We had to take Grandpa to the park because it is one of Cal's favorite places to go.

We also went to the Grand Canyon for a day, attempted to take some family pictures, hiked around a little, took lots of pictures of the great view and had a picnic dinner.