Pumpkin carving and Cookie decorating

Last night the boys carved pumpkins and I made cookies for them to frost and decorate. Lots of fun!!

Tyler

Dallas

Dylan

Dylan, Tyler, Dallas with their pumpkins



Dylan carving with Dallas being silly.

Tyler getting ready to carve

Dallas done carving

Easter

The annual Egg Coloring Night

It is so hard to try and take a picture and not get at least one of them with a goofy smile. :)

Dallas looking for eggs. The sun didn't help in this picture.

Dylan looking for eggs.


Tyler trying to get his easter basket out of the tree.



Dylan showing what he found.

Tyler checking it all out.

Dallas

Shane looking to see if there is any candy worth stealing.

Christmas 2009

Christmas was fabulous!! We always say that we are going to cut-back, but it seems like it never happens.
Here are some fun pictures of the boys in their Christmas pajamas.

CRAZINESS!!

Other Misc Christmas pics

This one made me laugh. Dallas was freaking out when they opened the Wii.

Dylan showing his ipod shuffle

Dallas showing his knex set

Tyler opening his Dinosaur Lego set

All the boys got hiking backpacks from their Grandma Mindy and Rick.

Shane opening his fish spear

Halloween!!

Halloween was one hectic day this year. The boys were so excited. Tyler was awake when Shane was leaving for the gym around 6 am. He tried to get him to go back to bed, but was back up asking me what was for breakfast around 6:40.

I sent them off to school and followed a bit later for their costume parade.
It was a little tricky trying to get a good picture while they walked around this windy maze.


After the parade, I grabbed some lunch for Tyler and I from Subway and went back to eat lunch at school with Tyler. He was so excited and told me that he loved that I came to eat lunch with him. It wasn't 2 or 3 minutes later that he was looking for all his friends in the lunchroom and saying, "Mom, I'm full. I am going to go to recess now." He cracks me up. It worked out perfect, as I was supposed to be in to set up for Dallas's class Halloween party.

So for Dallas's party they had planned to do a Fear Factor party. They had to see how long they could hold icecubes in their mouthes, eat Monster Eyeballs (green olives), and put their hand in a jar to get coins out that had live crickets. Dallas wouldn't eat the olives, but was excited to pick out the coins with the crickets...cRaZy!!


They all had a blast trick-or-treating.

Dallas as "Bloody Bones"

Tyler as "Batman"

(I think this is his 4th year in a row as Batman)

Dylan as "Indiana Jones"

Happy Father's Day!!

So Father's Days and Mother's Days seem to be interesting days for Shane and I. Mother's Day is bittersweet for me since my Mom died, yet it is supposed to be a great day to celebrate that I am a mother. So I can imagine that sincce Shane's Dad is no longer alive, he feels the same way on Father's Day.

I think Shane is the greatest Dad to our boys. I can't imagine how hard it was for him to go from 0 kids to 3 kids overnight. It takes a good man to take on that kind of responsibility.

I love to see him out playing catch with them or teaching them to wakeboard. The boys really look up to him and mimic what he says and does and want to be just like him. It means a lot to me to see what a great relationship and bond he has with each one of them. He has definitely toughened them up since we have been married. Having raised the boys by myself for over 3 years, they picked up a lot of great things...like telling me that my new shirt was cute and how I smell good with my lotion on. Shane rolls his eyes when he hears that, so he is teaching them what he thinks they should know...umm like how to shoot a .22 or brand and castrate cows....quite a difference. But hey..they will be well-rounded kids.

Anyway...Happy Father's Hun!! Hope it was a good one!!

Shane has been requesting all these crazy things for his snowmobile lately...so for Father's Day, we got him 2 of them. I am not even sure what exactly they are for, but they gauges for some boost or something and I have no clue about the other one. Then I got him a couple of Gordon Ramsey cookbooks. He loves that guy and watches every show possible with him on it. Shane has become quite a cook.