September Birthdays!!

Early September Rob&Tammy plus their 5 kids came down to Matts parents for the weekend, Paul had just arrived from Utah aswell to hunt for a week! So we had a 'celebrate everyone's birthday' family dinner:)  Katie, Paul, Rob, Dad, Matt and Isabelle all had their birthdays in September!! We had a fun weekend together, Saturday Grant borrowed a friend's horse for the day and the grandkids enjoyed taking ride after ride:)  Sunday dinner was delicious followed by a lot of desserts:)

 Matt!!

Grandad!!

Paul!!

 

 Rob!!

 

Sadly I didn't get a picture of Isabelle and Katie with their cupcakes:(

So for Matt's actual birthday day on the 28th he got home from his night shift that morning and the kids and I jumped out and surprised him with a decorated house and a yummy breakfast ready to go.  We had a pretty laid back day together, than Matt had to go to work that night, so the kids and I drove to the Station with Matt's favorite Baked Smores...I'm pretty sure he felt pretty special;) We love you Matt!

 AND since Matt had to work the night of his birthday...he requested his wife go hunting with him the next night when he was off...and his wish was my command;)

AND to spoil him even more...we had to have a Sunday after birthday fiest with Matts favorites RIBS, mashed potatoes and strawberry spinach salad...with more cake ofcorse:)

Parks' 1st day of School!!!

Oh boy, you really don't have a clue what its like to send your first born baby to school for the first time until it happens to you!! very true.  Parks was beyond ready and excited to start pre-k.  He goes Tues/Wed/Thurs from 12:30-3:30pm.  He's grown up so much...and I didn't ever say he could;) When he was 2-3 years old he would go ballistic if I left him in Nursery at church for 2 hours...now he's an independent 4 year old that was like...'Love ya Mom, see ya later!'  so I let him go to pre-k and only started crying as I walked back to the car (where Matt laughed and Grace just looked at me funny).  I'm just so proud of our little guy.  Since than I've been fine, its been super awesome actually!  I carpool with two girlfriends, so only have to drive once a week.  Grace and I love our girl time together and than before I know it Parks is home:) 
*Cute little sidenote that I dont want to forget...Parks picked out his super cool outfit for his first day...he chooses his sweatpants and batman shirt...the even cuter part is that he asked to sleep in this outfit the night before so that he wouldn't be late!  Thats my boy:)

Ammo's big day!

September was a very FUN month!  We started the month off with finally booking Ammo's ear cleaning surgery...he has had ear infections on and off for the past 2 years!  We were expecting the bill to be between $300-$400...killer, but I saved up from lashes.  We dropped him off at 8am ( i warned them that he is nowhere near a kennel dog and appologized if he barked like an idiot the whole day)...at 3pm Matt went to pick him up and overheard the receptionist talking about how bad this one dog was with barking until they gave him the tranquilizer...hmmmm...turns out our bill was only $130 because he was sooooo drugged out of his mind (from the lovely tranquilizer) that the vet didn't need to sedate him at all.  They did the procedure while he was awake!  When Ammo got home, he was totally out of it...he could barely stand and couldn't control his drool or anything.  He hadn't eaten all day (which is his favorite parts of the day)...i put the food in his dish...and nothing.  It was so sad to see him like that..and i was kinda mad, but happy that we saved money.  Finally by 8pm he was snapping out of it and was able to walk around normally, we fed him by hand and than once he got that yummy goodness in his mouth he gobbled it all up himself! happy day.  I'm a dog lover, can you tell;) 

Lying in the front yard stoned out of his mind!

to do list:catch up on blog posts!

I just haven't been in the mood to blog lately...hense missing ALL of September, now its October 1st and here i am:)  So at the end of my last post i said we'd go back up to Tie...we ended up staying home for Matts 4 days off...and haven't been back to the lake since!!sad. It was really nice...Matt finished the fence, we went to the zoo and saw the penguins for the first time this year (we try and make it a once/year thing) AND we got a new trampoline (the frame was given to us, so we just bought the mat and pads!).  The kids absolutely cannot get enough of our backyard, it is literally a whole new room to our house!  We decided to splurge and bought a new BBQ and patio set...and because it was end of season sale we got both for just under $200!  We ended the month of August by going to the Cardston Temple...it had been awhile...quite awhile! We both were so happy to feel that sweet special Spirit again.

Eating our Icecream at the Zoo

Jump, jump and jump some more!

Enjoying the new patio:)

The obsession of bearded dragon lizards began...