Cade's Birthday

Wow, Cade is two! He had a fun birthday and got lots of cool gifts. Quinn and I got him a gator, and even though he doesn't drive very well, he gets better and better each time. All the kids had so much fun riding it around at the party.

He also got a bat and ball, but he insisted on using the wrong end to hit with.

Emily and Lauren driving Cade's Gator

Cade was pretty excited about the cake and blowing out the candles. He loves woo woos(trains), and couldn't believe there was one on his cake! After Emily blew out the candles for him, we had to relight them and try again.

Just a little bit of riding and roping

We usually try to rope once a week, and the kids are always in the arena and in the middle of it all. They love being in the arena and getting dirty and riding the horses.

Emily
Cade on Roy

Bringing up our fine roping cattle, yes that is a jersey bull, and the others are heifer calves with strapped on horns. Not exactly the best roping stock, but we make it work. They have actually turned out to be pretty fun to rope.

Cade and his Momma, he never misses an opportunity to ride, and now that the weather is finally starting to cool off a little, it is so much nicer to be down in the arena.
Thanks Jackee for the pictures.

Happy Halloween!

The kids had so much fun trick-or-treating this year....Emily was a fairy princess, Lee was a storm trooper, Lauren was a fairy, I was Dorothy, and Cade was a munchkin from munchkin land. We went to our church trunk-or-treat and halloween party where we had good food and lots of fun.

Bonfire

I absolutely love this time of year, when the leaves start to change and the weather gets cool. We decided to have a bonfire and we could not have picked a better night......clear skies, and cool temperatures. We invited over a few of our friends for chili, hot chocolate and smores. We ended up sitting around the fires while the kids played and talked about scary movies, yikes! Thanks for coming everyone, we had so much fun!
Some of our good friends, Josh and Lacey.

Lincoln, trying not to touch the grass with his hands.

The boys, and tiger.

Quinn and Jess

Emily was so much help in her cheerleading costume.....thanks Lexy, she loves it!

Tiger has grown to become a really big dog. He likes to run past the kids from behind and knock them down.

I think he's turned out to be a pretty dog with a very fitting name.

The kiddos helping dad with the fire. Gavin thought this was Rowel's best side.

Finally got the fire started despite the 4 inches of rain in the past couple of days.

Helping Dad.

Gavin and Jessica

A Princess birthday party

My cute little boy???

We celebrated Emily's birthday with a party fit for a princess. Emily was suprised to find a beautiful princess gown when she awoke this morning to wear to her party, and all of her guests were asked to also wear their finest princess costumes. The girls had so much fun getting to be princesses for a day.

It only took Emily one try to blow out all her candles, hope she wished for her ittle pink pooter (little pink computer)!

My sweet little Emily