Getting out

This winter has been hard on my babies. With me being uncomfortable and not myself. With the cold weather when bri isn't in school. And even too much snow has made it difficult to go outside. So now that the sun is staying up longer I decided that after bri has her after school snack we go outside for some needed fresh air. Of course I had to bribe them back inside with hot cocoa so I could make dinner. I'm almost to the point where they can be outside by themselves (at least bri) but it was starting to get dark when we came in. But anywho...

After a good couple months of no posts here is some fun in the snooowwww :)

He was very proud of his chunk of snow!

She found the hole daddy made

And when not in the hole Bri was climbing.

Snow day

It ended up being a gorgeous day to be outside in the snow. First a snow man and just playing in the snow to going inside for hot cocoa. Then after I cleaned house we went back outside for some more fresh air :)

Last night with daddy home until dec

With it being Claytons last night home for 2 weeks we decorated gingerbread houses. Preston ate most of the candy while Clayton decorated but we had a good time. And of course Brianna confirmed that the candy was good!!

The Big 6

Six years old and in Kindergarten. Feels like it took ages to get to this stage when I think about it but actually being here just makes me see the next 12 flying by. Two more kids to get through this stage.

 

She had so much fun, between her room and outdoor, she and her friends had a ton of fun.

 

Everybody is so serious when painiting

 

Girls painting their pumpkins.

 

As soon as I brought the cake out her friends were trying to get Elsa and Anna off.

 

It was a good day and thank you everyone who came. Only upset was when a little one grabbed Preston's plastic bat and hit her old sister in the face with it.

I'm so excited this year for Brianna, she's already reading words and not just the words her teacher lists out, she will sit there and start sounding other words out, and if its not exactly right we correct her and try to explain but congratulate her on how far she got without us.

She's lost three teeth with three more that are loose. She's starting to learn that in order to get things you need money and you have to work to get that money, if she doesn't do her chores then no cash and that means no new toy.

Can't wait to see what life brings to this girl of mine. I love you Brianna and Happy 6th Birthday.

(to the readers, sorry this was late)



Field trip

This is about a week and a half late. But better late than never :)

I got to help chaperone Brianna's first (technically second but I'm not counting the first one lol) school field trip. All the kindergarteners got to go to sweet pickins pumpkin patch. They have a butt load to do there. At lunch time the kids went and got to pick out a pumpkin (they could carry themselves) to take back to school. They were going to measure and weigh them and count all the lines. I was in charge of two girls, Brianna and her friend Kailey. Wow I never thought I would meet someone louder than Bri. Of course it didn't help that my sinuses were affecting my ear drums that day and they hurt when anyone talked but still. She was a sweetheart though. Poor girl lost her sock cause she took them off when they went to play on the pillow. And I wasn't around the area where they took their shoes off to look after them. Hopefully she didn't get in to much trouble.

On the horse swings. From left: kailey, Brianna, Preston.

Waiting for the girls to be done on the tractor ride.

Big trikes

He tried riding the smaller trikes but his legs just aren't long enough yet.

The big bouncing pillow!! It became more packed than this and it's amazing that not that many kids came off it crying actually.

All in all it was a good day. Of course when I said all right time to go meet your teacher I got told that they weren't able to play, mind you we had been there since 10am and it was almost 2. Nope they didn't get to play at all haha. Then I was the only parent suckered and pretty much forced to sit in the class picture, thank you Brianna. After that I was done for the day, unfortunately I still had to go pick her up later since she didn't want to go home just yet, and then make dinner so no I wasn't able to call it quits for the day. Oh well it was fun!!!

Mountain Madness 2014

Once I heard that the air show was going to be in town I wanted to take the kids, and it turned out that papa Will wanted to go to so he came along. I remember going to airshows when I was a kid and I loved them. Of course living on an air force base made it a little easier.

 

There was bouncy houses and some obstacles courses that were done up for the kids, so I got Brianna a wrist band so she could just get off one and go for the another, it was so crowded that I had a hard time keeping track of her. We went and got some food and then went to start seeing the planes fly. Brianna and Preston eventually did get bored just standing around. Preston ended up falling asleep for about 20-30 minutes before the thunderbirds finally woke him up.

 

Of course there were a couple of planes were we able to look at. There were more but we never ventured to that side of the airshow.

 

Standing next to the Air Guard Cargo plane

The front of the cargo plane

 

Where we stood while it rained

Brianna go to be lifted up to see the inside of this fighter

Demonstrating a search and rescue

One tired little boy

Thunderbirds finally make it out

I can't remember what the commentator said this move was but it is their most famous.

I was able to get three of the six planes in this shot. I even had my eyes closed because it was move where they all met in the middle and being a spectator you just see a big explosion coming

Thunderbirds getting put away. Fun Fact: the pilot of #6 is from Kalispell and has been flying with the thunderbirds for two years.

more play time before we hike to the car.

 

I got a couple videos of some of the flights, but can't figure out how to post so I do apologize about that. Just want to give a thanks to ALL of our service men and women!!