The Youngs

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Idaho and Logan....1480 miles in 5 days with 3 kids

On Friday the boys, Aunt Holly and I left for my great grandfathers memorial service. He was 101 years old when he passed away and was such a blessing to our lives. The service was in Bruneau, ID and then we stayed the night at my grandfather's house in Boise. We had a good visit with grandad, and Holly and I even got to go to some garage sales with him. He is the king of garage sales and we had a special time with him. That afternoon we left for Logan, UT to visit my brother Dustin and his family. It was great seeing them and the kids that have grown so much. My boys had a blast with their cousins. We headed home Tuesday. On Wednesday morning we stopped in Big Sky to visit with Jeremy and Darlene and check out their new ranch. It was a great visit with all the family, much too short though. Thanks so much to Aunt Holly for putting up with the joys of traveling so far in so few days with 3 energetic boys.

our grandad Jim

Great Uncle Bobby and Aunt Leona Jordan and Dylan in a serious soccer game, while Logan hits a huge ball with a bat....lots going on at once. Dylan spending some time with Uncle Dustin cleaning out the pond in their backyard we saw the funniest porcupine lounging on a log.... so Mackenzie re-enacted it at the park....eerie similarities huhHolly, Mackenzie and Logan at the zoo my parents with all their grandkids. (check out that Tyler is now almost as tall as grandpa) Holly, Dustin and me

Tyler, Mackenzie, Jordan, Allie, Colton, Logan, Dylan

me, Jordan, Allie, Dylan, Colton and Logan

Jordan, Allie, Aunt Holly, Logan, Colton, Dylan

Dylan, Colton, Logan, Brayden, Chase

Track Day

Dylan and Colton had their track day last week and it was a beautiful day. They both did great in all the events and most importantly had a great day. The following day was the last day of school, so it was a good way to end the school year. I just love watching the kids working their hardest to do well and then seeing the smiles on their faces as everyone cheers them on.

Dylan in the 400 relay

Colton in the 400 relay

Colton in the middle running the 25 meter

the family breaking for lunch

Dylan taking 3rd in the 50 meter

Dylan in the long jump

Colton in the long jump

Dylan and Simon in the 3 legged race

Colton and Jon in the 3 legged race

Dylan in the sack race

Sunday, May 10, 2009

Branding at Grandpa Mike's

We spent the afternoon at Grandpa Mike's branding his calves. I didn't get any pictures during the branding until the last two calves when Dylan and Colton wanted to ride them. While Brian was getting the bull rope on Dylan's calf, he got a little wild and Dylan wisely decided not to ride. Colton however got right on his and made it a couple of good jumps before he landed pretty hard on his head. He also rope burned his hand and decided it wasn't so much fun riding bulls. But, about an hour later he was back to wanting to be a bull rider again. I really need him to talk to some ropers! Anyways, after all that, I got some pictures of Logan riding, but I didn't get any of Dylan who spent most of the branding riding his horse around. I'll get some at our branding in June though.

Dylan's portraits

Ok, so I finally got Dylan's 8 year old pictures taken. I took them the morning of Mothers Day so it was a nice start to my day! He is such a joy and I love taking pictures of him because he is really the easiest of my boys to get in a pose and stay and look natural and stay and smile and stay!

Monday, May 4, 2009

Finally a little bit of spring!

We finally had some dry weather this weekend. After church we all enjoyed getting some sunshine yesterday.

Dylan jumping on the trampoline

Logan inbetween a bunch of activities Colton finally mastered his bike yesterday!!! Good job Colty!

Branding

On Friday we had the first of our brandings this year. We only had about 35 calves to brand so it went pretty quick. We woke up that morning with 2" of new snow so I didn't think we would brand, but Brian was determined. He plowed a spot at about 6:30 that morning and with the sun shining all day, the temperature reached around 50, so it actually was mostly dry by that afternoon. The boys had such a good time wrestling and roping. Thanks to everyone for giving us a hand.

Dylan wrestling with some help from Uncle Jeremy