Monday, September 13, 2010

Happy B-day Alan, Summer, and so on...

Lovely! Brayden has a chocolate face from Alan's birthday cake.



Ellie loves cake


Audrey in a leotard sitting ON the table next to her cake


Helping Daddy blow out the candles





Weird pattern of candles, it looks kinda like a J.





Wow, he has allot of kids!







"Chips Ahoy, just what I wanted!" These cookies were from one of the kids.















I took the kids to go see Despicable Me on Saturday night because Daddy was hunting. Surprisingly, the kids were perfect Angels and thoroughly enjoyed themselves.









Ellie at Victoria's Soccer game.












Victoria's first Soccer game.








All the kids at Geertsen Family Birthday party.















Grandma Shirley had one of the birthdays.











Heather and Sean















Meliek made the Lego dude that was sewing for my mom's birthday. What a thoughtful gift, she loved it.















What is that face?
















Beautiful
















Brayden's First day of First Grade.
















Victoria's first day of Third Grade.





















Victoria and Brayden with our down stairs neighbor Carlos. They walk to school together every morning.


















My brother in law Erik and my sister invited all the nieces and nephews to come up to Strawberry and go Crawdad fishing with them, and then come back to his folks cabin and cook em' up. To Crawdad fish; you tie a chicken drumstick to a piece of string, throw it in the lake, then pull the chicken up and retrieve the Crawdad (which can be a little creepy, because you have to grab it). It was such a blast! We had a feast of Crawdads, Potatoes, Corn on the Cob, and Sausages sprinkled with Cajun seasoning. Oh my! So Delicious! The Crawdads were pretty good, if you could get past the yellowish green goo that squishes out when you detach the body from the head. Brayden was fascinated with the little things, and was tearing it apart one piece at a time and inspecting every inch of it. That kid should be and doctor and make use of his fearlessness to things that most people would be squeamish too. He loves to help Daddy tear apart Doves when he comes back from hunting.





















The Crawdad
























Aunt Heidi and Audrey

























Ellie



















Austin fishing

























Victoria with her Chicken drumstick
























































You just fish from the dock, couldn't be funner!























































































































Heather and I went to Thanksgiving Point's Farm Country at the end of the summer. It was allot of fun. The kids got to see a brand new baby calf and lots of other animals. This is a picture of us waiting in line to ride the ponies (it was an hour wait). I love the look on Dallin's face.
































Dallin and Heather

































Ellie was supposed to ride on a pony too, but she was too scared, so I walked around next to Audrey.



































Victoria feeding a Llama dried corn.










































































My Dad and Glo through me a surprise Birthday party in St. George. It was so much fun.














































































This picture is so funny! My dad had put sunscreen on, and coulden't get it to rub in!








































Audrey painting her bobble head!









































I guess I really like this picture!










































Ellie, under the table agian!











































Kids painting Bobble heads in St. George.













































Beautiful Victoria (sorry the pic it sidways)!













































Ellie's favorite place, under my vanity (or any table or desk).















































Hello














































Look at those eyes!






























































































5 comments:

Laura Burtis said...

What fantastic pictures!! Great update April! We sure do love you guys!!

Kathrin Paul said...

I'm so glad you have all those kids.

Heidi said...

Oh my gosh, you have some beautiful little kiddos! I can't believe how big Ellie is getting! And, Brayden and Victoria at school, they look so grown up. And, who can say enough about Audrey!

Lyndee W. said...

Wow...I'm pretty sure I'll have nightmares for awhile after seeing that creepy crawdad! LOL.

BTW, when did Victoria and Brayden grow up? That first picture of Brayden reminds me of Alan as a kid.

Jeanette said...

Are those THEE cutest kids on the planet or WHAT?!!!