Picinic and a Hike!

Another Day during Labor Day weekend, Danny decided he wanted to go hiking so we went downtown to Hyde Park were they have some trails in the hills. It sounded like a great idea nice picnic lunch and a little hike, lets drag our friends out too. We shortly discovered that we are out of shape more then we already knew. But it was fun being outdoors for a few hours.On top of the hill, the clouds were great that day.
The Wheeler Family, Porter is there dog. They are smart with the proper hiking pack for G.
Few of the park and the city
Few of the city buildings and trees.

Afternoon at Lcuky Peak

Our little B always inspecting everything..
then eating everything! Yummy sand!
One of the days during Labor day weekend we went up to Lucky Peak for the afternoon with the Wheeler's just play on the beach and in the water.

Matt and Garrett
The Wheeler's playing in the water.

Bronco Nation!

The boys got to escape the family for the evening and have a little fun at BSU. Richard scored 2 tickets to the Bronco's vs. Oregon Ducks game on Sept 3rd from his company. This is one of the biggest game of the season playing there rivalry team. You might have seen on the news this was the game that the BSU player got punched in the face at the end of the game and the Oregon player got suspended for the rest of the season.
Danny has been wanting to go to the games since we moved here, but tickets are hard to get so when he got the invite he was excited to go. It is fun to live in an area that college games are the BIG deal to go to. People turn CRAZY when it is game time. Almost every major store sells Bronco stuff, amazing things that people buy and do to there vehicles to show there PRIDE. For this game people were in the parking lot at 5 am to save there spot for tailgating at game time. One of Ricky's co-workers has a van all decked out with big screen tv in the back, a cooler with soda taps, and all done up in BSU colors.

The Bronco riding in to bring out the players!
The Band, nice formation :) Every game and seat section has a color theme so you must dress according to the section you are seated in. Of all colors they got ORANGE, so I had to do the game day hunt for an orange shirt not easy to find, but JC Penney's saved the day. They couldn't go the there first game and not fit in or get attacked for messing up the colors. SO just a little something I thought was interesting: If you look at the picture above see the different colored sections orange, blue, white, orange etc... they are colored because of people's shirts, the seats are not colored like that. Good Job people for wearing the right color. So overall Danny said it was not the greatest played game, but they WON. He had a great time, thanks Ricky for inviting him.

More Summer fun!

How I forgot to post these I do not know, but here they are! This August when the Barnett Family came to visit we got to go white water rafting, it was a blast! We had never done it before and that morning it was raining and ugly looking so we almost backed out. We are so glad we decided to go anyway. We dropped Brooklyn off to play with her cousins at Ricky and Steph's for the day, thank you for watching her. Once we got to the rafting place about 45 min.'s away it looked like it had not rained there so we were excited. They outfitted us in some fabulous wet suits ( we all looked like some happily feed seals :), but we were so glad we had those suits on the water was chilly! We had the best instructor Eric, he made the experience even better.
This is one of the rapids we hit, little Dani is "riding the bull" in the front of the raft and is completely covered by the wave. I think Josh and I swallowed about a gallon of water on this rapid.
Oh, there she is! Dani did great she held on tight and sat up front for most of the way. At one point Krisitan jumped in the water and said it was not cold so later Josh and I jumped in. What a difference a few miles down the river makes, it was FREEZING like take your breath away cold. We were pretty much the only boat that jumped in and got to do some fun little tricks along the way. It was a day of good times and happy memories. If you havn't done this you should.
This was about a 3 hour tour and tons of fun! So if anyone wants to some visit next summer we have to plan on doing this!

9 Months Already

Our Brooklyn Rose turned 9 months in August and is just growing and exploring like crazy. It is hard to believe that she is going to turn 1 this November. She is 17 lbs. 9oz and 27 in. long. She is definitely not a fast weight gainer, but if you saw her eat you would wonder were it all goes. She now has 5 teeth and working on the 6th one. B started crawling at 8 months and has been non-stop since. She gets into everything and puts everything in her mouth. The word NO is a common word around our house now. She has started to say Momma and tries to say Dada. She is an amazing part of our lives and we could not imagine our house without her. Not a day goes by that she doesn't make us laugh, she has a great personality and already has a little sense of humor. We are so fortunate to both be at home with her and I am extremely grateful to Danny for working so hard to make it possible for me to stay at home. Here are some of the photos Danny took of her for her 9 month picture at the local park in Boise. I don't know why some look grainy, must be because they are just raw photos. I hope you enjoy them as much as we do.
Always finding something in her hands to examine.






This is a little video of B playing in the water with the sand at Lucky Peak Beach.

Extra Moments!

My Little Jimmy Fan! Love it, this is how she carries the car around.

B so happy she just finished eating Ravioli's. She loves eating anything, but baby food especially of she can feed herself.
Brooklyn's favorite thing to do to Mommy, Ouch!
Daddy seeing if the helmet fits yet, almost! :)
Cheese, such a ham for the camera
Crashed out after our walk
My Marissa, so cute!
Jeanette and I with the B's. Brian loves his "baby" cousin
Oh, Caleb my little buddy!
We were at target looking in the clearance section and Brooklyn was playing dress up with Dani. This is what she created!

And there you have it all caught up, finally! As you can tell we had a busy and fun filled summer.

A little video of Daddy and B playing Chase.

Picnic Lunch at the Lake

View of Lucky Peak from the beach. Last weekend we decided to go up and have a picinic lunch, we were not to sure how the weather would be, but it turned out great. We watched boats coming and going. It was rare, but nice to have the beach all to ourselves. It was a relaxing afternoon.
Enjoying having the beach all to ourselves.
B loves the water.
I was just going to out her feet in, but she wanted to sit down. Good thing I had extra clothes no time to put the swimsuit on with our water girl.
All smiles with Daddy!