Labor Day- aka Fun Days

So for Labor Day since 2002 we have been going with the Allison/Bollinger Family

up to  Jackass Meadows by Boone Creek, it borders Wyoming next to the Teton Nat'l Park,

we go up sleep in tents, others bring rv's, after two days those look nice.

The food is amazing not hot dogs but this year we ate:

Friday Night: Hamburgers, Hotdogs, Brats, cheesey potatoes, corn on the cob, salsa and chips

Sat. Breakfast: pancakes ( I brought strawberries and cut them up for the cakes), bacon hashbrowns, eggs, 

Juice, hot cocoa to warm up an hour earlier, and I dont remember what else.

Sat. Lunch:  grazed on snacks

Sat. Dinner:  peas and potatoes, fried chicken pieces, chips and salsa

Ate awsome apple pie  & Roasted marshmellows

Sunday Breakfast::   French toast, scrambled eggs, I made fruit salad and added A.'s huckleberries, normal

syrup and huckleberry syrup, sausage patties, links, bacon, and hashbrowns.

Breakfast being prepared..

Activies:

They brought their 8 horses up so they went on a ride for an hour,

came back and then went on homoney.

Dan Fishler, Eli, Daniel-a relative to Matt Allison, and Brad Allison.

Dan rode blue, Eli rode Tonka, Daniel rode Chip, and Brad rode Bo.

The first ride A. rode with Eli. 

A. loves to ride.

C. before they left, He also loves horses but we have not taken him on a long ride.

Matt Allison getting Chip ready for Daniel.

Dan getting ready for his ride, and his dad Mark helping him, giving him pointers.

Dont you love the pink saddle bags.

A. brought his baseball and tees he got for his birthday, truck, tractor, golf balls which he

would hit off the tee, the make a better hit sound- it sounds like the pros.

We walked around to see the creek

Hunted Huckleberries

Huckleberry plant

My berries after picking for an hour, and watching 2 kids, more C, so he wouldn't eat the wrong berries.

Rode 4-wheelers, Rzr

Talked

Cooked

Sometime we shoot guns, for targets, we left before that,

but the older guys did shoot guns some of Seth's and it scared the horses and kids.

Roasted marshmellows

Looked at the stars

Huddled around the fire sometimes it was cold and very windy.

Dan Fishler, Eli, and Mark Fishler Chatting after eating around the fire.

C. loved playing with this wagon.

Say Cheese, wait you dont have to because we are full of cheese.

Before going riding the kids got on their gear,

boots hats and chaps

A. and a friedn he met kenzlie.

C. A. Kenzlie

Aren't they so cute.

I took this leaving and while driving, that is why the windshield is dirty.  It was really windy that day about 30-45 mph.  But I wanted to show how wooded it is.

I love driving up to the place, this is looking around at the farm land with the trees, and the dirt, it was really windy.

I have to post this since we camp by them but closer, this is about 20 minutes away but you can't get a clear view when you are camping of the Tetons Mts.  The day I took this it was really windy and caused it to be very hazy.

This is by left shoulder-what is left, C. bit me on the side where you rotate your arm and it hurt.

He drew blood, and it had a huge welt for several days.  Two weeks later it still has marks of teeth.

A. & C. Birthday Day Celebration

So being lazy and not wanting to do two parties I didn't.

We combined them, right now C. doesn't know and A. doesn't care.

We had a party at Eli's parents in Wanship, Ut.

We were late because of road construction, I was going to get some stuff in Riverdale, by Ogden, UT but a semi truck had wrecked and caught on fire so the off ramp to get back on was closed. So it was

good that Kathy-Eli's mom made a cake.

A. received cowboy boots from Grandma Frahm and Grandpa Frahm

Cowboy Hat from Aunt Mary, and an outfit that included a zip up jacket

Baseball Tee, Bat and Balls and stuffed doll sheep from Eli and I & Cameron

Binos from Grandpa Pace and Grandma Pace

Some models to put together from Sadie, Boston, and Izzy

C. got a matching short and shirt outfit that has Thomas the train and talks and so did A. from Aunt Mary.

Eli, me and A. got him some toy dinos and a puzzle.

Toni got the boys stuffed animals C. a moose and A. a buffalo.

C. got a tractor from grandma and grandp frahm

grandma and grandpa pace got him a front end loader

Sadie, Boston and Izzy got him some little yellow trucks and mader from toy story that you insert a plastic thing pull and it goes. 

The chocolate bear cake.

Izzy, and A. getting ready to blow.

C. has 2 candles and A. has 5 candles

goocie goocie go, that is what c. says and Eli is doing it back to him

Someone not mentioning names kept putting her finger in the frosting and says um, um, and would

do it more and more, I think she loves frosting.

Opening gifts.

Swing batter batter, Swing

Coyoetes and new friend

Going in for the kill.  Eli has found a love to hunting coyotes.  He loves to try and call them in and pop them off.  He found a friend that live in Tollgate, an exit by Wanship, Utah that loves to hunt and he has a fox pro call.  It is an electronic device that has many different recorded sounds to call in different animals.

So they went to Wolf Creek up past Woodland, Utah to try it out.  They saw several and killed one.

Someone asked me what they do with them, leave the varmints, because I don't want their disease.

/New friend, shooting buddy, hunting buddy.

This is Pat Jones

Homoney Horse Ride

Eli loves to ride and Jim Bollinger and Eli decided to go on a ride the next day after we rode to Hidden Lake.  I opted to not go my butt was sore enough.  They rode to Homoney.

I think this picture has elk in the upper parts of the mts.

I would have a tired look too.

They were scoping out some elk.  This is Jim Bollinger.

Striking a pose.

While in Oregon, C. & A. would go to Aunt Mary's and feed her chickens.

They love it C. chases them, and tries to pet them, which looks more like hitting, picks them up,

throws their food at them -maybe he thinks they can eat it better who knows. 

Then one day or night I don't remember we were inside chatting and he saw this chicken.

He calls it "ticken".  He goes a lot of places with him. He shows people his ticken,

takes it outside to eat grass, packs it under his arm when walking, he eats dinner with him,

and he taks naps/sleeps with him.



chicken needed a baba

Kindergarten 1st day for A.

First day of Kindergarten.

Ok I felt sort of out of place at school when I took A. to drop him off.

Other parents were crying and their child

I was excited and so was my child.

Parents are taking pictures-

Oops I never thought about it-
So I thought I would make up for it after school,
I did take the picture of the snacks but not of him,

A. was worried about being hungry so he pack some bars, aka granola bars and an apple.
Good thing the bus never got here til 3:50 p.m., and they said 3:30 on the 1st day.
Then he arrived with his eaten apple and eaten bar.
A. was so happy to ride a bus, preschool was a van.
Although his legs are short he sort of holds on the bar to help kids in and out and slids down.

This was taken after school notice the dirty shirt, I do wash my kids clothes but one it is
one their body, it send out an signal I need stains on my clothes.

Posing his outfit.
A. chose cowboy boots, red shirt, spiderman hat, lightening mcqueen backpack-now cameo
The mcqueen backpack now contains things that are important to him-will share later,
See the eaten apple in the pocket-snack

Talking to Eli telling him about his first day of school

Snack remains

What he worked on his first day-
Colored a gingerbread house and
traced his name.

Everyday he takes out his yellow folder with his name and give me the
stuff he did in class, and what I need to see, sign, or garbage.

Weinie Roast to Celebrate August Birthdays while in Oregon

While we were in Oregon A. had his 5th birthday and C. had his the day we left Utah.

My Aunt Mary had an August birthday bash for Tevan (cousin), C., A. Aunt Mick, and herself.

We had a weinie roast in by fire, yes it was hot, potato salad, chips, drinks, cake, and some other stuff.

So here are some pictures.  People in attandance were Aunt Kay, Aunt Mick, Aunt Mary, my mom and dad,

Trevor, Krista, Niki, Tevan, me, Spencer, Ken, Tito, C. & A.

Toni had just ran.

Having a blast playing in the dirt, aka pigpen.

Aunt Kay, Launa (mom), and Rod (dad)

The wild children also known as A. Teven and Spencer

Some people can't smile.

Trevor and Krista in the bkgd.

Chubs aka Niki

A. smiling but it appears to be very painful.

Almost achieved a two party good smile, open your eyes.

Two sets of 5 candles.

Picture of cake before wax grows and spit appears on the cake.

Aunt Mary, A. Tevan, Aunt Mick, and C.

Anticipation of the lighting of the cake.

The blowing event, along with some spit.

Having some dirt with his Cheeto

aka- Dirty old man

the coveralls and john deere hat really make it stick

Going for a ride

Stopping for a pose.

Roasting marshmellows

Cheese Heads cooking their pink marshmellows with sheer delight.

Old Ladies HaHa
Aunt Mick, Aunt Kay, Launa (mom) & Toni