Where to start...

Man, where to even start.. Its been a little crazy around our place with the new baby and school starting.. trying to get the hang of everything and my internet only works when it decides it wants to so between the two of those I'm a little behind on blogging!! The kids are growing fast. Especially Briggs hes now 6 wks old. Hes smiling at us now. At his 2 wk appt he was up to 9 lbs , and 21 inches in the 75% for both and growing good. Hes so fun to have around. I always forget how much work they are.. but so worth it! Caden is staring to talk a lot now. He says a lot but still kinda hard to understand. A lot of the words sound the same and most of them sound like tractor. Hes still obsessed with tractors.. especially combines. He can pick them out from miles away! And I'm happy to say that he is behaving himself much better! He doesnt cause me near the headache that he used to. I love it. Hes my little pal now. Aspen is adjusting to Kaylee being gone to school. Shes learning how to do a lot more on her own now that Kaylees not there to do it for her which is good. Shes getting to be a great helper and plays a lot with Caden which is nice!! The poor kid.. she makes him hold still while she puts makeup on him! He need briggs to grow up fast so he had a boy to play with. He puts babies in his tractors and takes them for rides! Aspen is such a sweet outgoing girl who makes us laugh all day!! Kaylee is growing right up. She is such a great kid! She loves school and comes right home and does her homework and jobs every day. Shes a great reader too. I cant believe how fast they learn! Dave Has been released from the Elders Quorum President.. Hes been there for 6 yrs now and it was time for a change. He is the new Young Mens President and is super excited. He loves the boys and has always wanted to work with them! As for me, I'm just here.. Still in the Primary Presidency.. We have great kids and an amazing Presidency! At home.. I'm trying to get trough each day.. trying to keep the house to where its not a health hazard! :) Laundry.. I gave up on that some time ago! no, I'm doing good, but Ive just came to realize I will never have the perfectly clean house and laundry all done. Its just not in my DNA or something. But we have fun.. and I LOVE my family and my live!! Heres some of the things weve been up to.. sorry its so long, Its more for my records! And sorry a lot of the pictures are sideways.. I went through and changed all of them but for some reason when I uploaded them they had I mind of their own. Curse you computer!!

Kaylee has been wanting a motorcycle for almost a year now. Shes been saving any money she can and trying to earn more. It was so cute.. dave got some junk engines from a neighbor who was moving so the two of them spent hours at night stripping it all down and seperating the metals she was out there with the air tools and magnet to see what kind of metal it was then we took it to the scrap yard and she had earned like $50. She was so excited so between that and her saving she had almost enough to buy this all by herself!! She was so excited!!

If only her dad would give it up so she could have a turn!!! (Hes probably going to kill me for posting this one!)

Taking off for the first time

We went for a ride up Ophir canyon. It was so pretty up there!! Dave is pretty set on getting some property up there. Now all we need is money :) Kaylee had had her motorcycle for only a few days but really wanted to ride it. She did great! it was a long steep rocky road. Her motorcycle wouldnt go up the hills very good so she had to flinstone it a lot of the way.

Taking a little break in a meadow

Playing in the stream- surprisingly none of them even fell in!

Weve been doing lots of canning... The kids are great helpers! Caden not so much.. but he tries!

We helped lay sod at my mom and dads house.. See, there are sure advantages to having so many kids!! :) Her yard is so nice now!

Grandma Snyder took us to thanksgiving point and the kidos has a blast!! We went to the petting zoo.. they loved all the animals then we went to the gardens where you play in the water.. Caden loved to just put his head under the water like this. Thanks Grandma!!

Girls playing in the water.

Aspen turned 4 on the 17th of Aug. She just wishes she turned 5 so she could go to school with Kaylee.

With her presents.. just hoping she got some makeup!

She got her makeup.. thats all she wanted :)

When Kaylee got her motorcycle Aspen was mad and she wanted to ride one too. So Dave told her she could after she learned how to ride her bike without training wheels thinking it would be another year or so.. No, she said ok.. take off my training wheels and i will do it. So we did, and she did it. Shes a little crazy still but does pretty good. Shes getting the hang of it!!

Riding by herself

Kaylee on her newest motorcycle... Her first one we got her was a little small and didnt have very good suspension so she would bottom out and hurt her bum bum (as she would say) every time she would jump.. so yes her dad had to get her a faster one with better suspension!! She really wants to race them... We will see...

Kaylee and her cousin Cody giving each other high 5's after they were practicing jumping on a little track by our house. They are so cute riding together! One crashes and the other goes to make sure they are ok and help each other out. Super cute!!

We did asphalt in our parking area for trailers and Kaylees crazy dad let her run the compactor to smooth it all out. She did really good.

Kaylee started 1st grade this year! Its so weird to me...I kinda dont like it. First of all she is the best helper EVER!! so i miss her helping me especially with Briggs. And she is gone all day.. I miss her! But she loves it. She has a great teacher and likes to learn and play with her friends.

Aspen rock climbing at trafalga

Aspen was glad Kaylee got a different motorcycle so now she can have the smaller one! She tried riding it a week or so ago and did pretty good. She would struggle a little with starting and stopping.. but in between she did great :)
Here her dad and sister are giving her words of encouragement!

Off she goes!! Its a good thing her dad is like a freak of nature and is always in great shape without ever working on it.. I kinda hate him for that!!

Getting all stoked up to try to ride by hereself

The girls shooting Dave with water at Trafalga they absolutely loved these boats... especially caden! Even though they all got soaked!