New Years Suprise!

We arranged for Dustin and Rachel to come from Greeley, CO for Christmas as a surprise to mom and dad. Unfortunatly, they were snowed in, so we had to postpone it until New Years Eve. Mom and dad were very suprised and we had a great visit with them and the kids. They were able to stay until Sunday so we played games all night for 3 nights straight. Many thanks to Dustin and family for making the long drive up here.

It's been a long time since our whole family has been together.

L-R:Holly, Travis, Brian, Mindy, Tyler, Dustin, Mackenzie, Rachel

Logan, Dylan, Colton, Mike, Sherry, Allie, Jordan

Mackenzie Allie

Jordan, Dylan & Logan playing basketball

The Abbott family was kind enough to give our boys a wii for Christmas. Needless to say they were thrilled. The adults had alot of fun with it too. Apparently we are quite a competitive family!

Holly & Travis

Colton & Jordan

Jordan & Dylan

Allie & Colton

Uncle Dustin & Logan

Mom & Dad

Rachel & Mackenzie

Mackenzie, Jordan, Collton & Allie

Christmas Day!

My parents came over on Christmas morning to open gifts with us which was such a treat, especially for the boys. We had such a wonderful morning with them. Then later that day Holly and Travis came over along with his parents for dinner. We had a great night eating way too much food and playing games.

Colton got rollerblades from Santa

Logan got a "big green tractor" from Santa

Dylan got a bb gun from Santa.

Grandpa Mike and Grandma SherryDylan's new football pants

Logan sporting a new bathrobe

Colton got a cross necklace from Dylan that he made himself Dylan with his new muckboots

Colton's new cowboy shirt

Brian made this horsebarn for Logan. It turned out so awesome and he loves it. Uses the skidsteer to clean it, and the horses get fed with the big green tractor.

Christmas Eve

After church we went to Brian's parents' house for dinner. We had a great evening with his parents, his grandparents and his brother Jeremy and his family. It was so fun visiting with them all. The kids had a blast because we hadn't seen Jeremy, Darlene and the kids for a couple of months.

here we are after church just seconds before the boys ditched the ties. I was lucky to get a picture first!

Colton was THRILLED to get a leatherman from Grandpa and Grandma, he has been counting the days until he would be responsible enough to have one.

Logan playing with his flarp from Uncle J and Aunt Dar. If you don't know what flarp is I recommend going out and finding some. We had hours of laughs with this stuff. Logan also got a skidsteer from Grandma and Grandpa, so if you know him at all you know how much he loves that! Dylan also with his flarp, he is at the perfect age for it.....finds it hilarious! Next to him he got an erector set from Grandpa and Grandma that he loved. He has already made a helicopter and took it apart to start on the next project.

Tiny Tim

Last week was the Absarokee schools play A Christmas Carol. Colton tried out back in September and got the part of Tiny Tim. It has been busy going to play practices each week, but so worth it. The play was great. Colton LOVED it. He is already excited to see what play they will do next year.

Tiny Tim and dad, Bob Cratchet

just some pics we took at our house

getting our Christmas tree after an afternoon of hunting

catching up on fall

Well it has been months since I have posted something new. We have been having a very busy fall and it seems that Christmas is just around the corner so I thought I better get caught up on the blog.

Early in October we had a major snow storm and the boys had a blast building forts and having snowball fights.

Dylan was in the NFL punt, pass & kick competition. He placed first in his school and went on to regionals in Lewistown. He did really well, especially since it was only 19 degrees and windy. I was froze so I can't imagine how he must have been feeling out there!

The annual NILE stickhorse rodeo is an event the boys look forward to all year. They have the cutest rodeo all done on a stickhorse. This was Colton's last year to enter and Logan's first. Logan competed in the bronc riding and Colton was in the bull riding. They both won their events and had a nice trophy to show for it.

Halloween.......love this time of year! Carving our pumpkins was fun as always. Dylan made a horse, Colton did a flaming jack-o-lantern, Logan didn't want to carve and instead decorated his as a fish. I made the wicked witch of the west and Brian made howling wolves. Trick or treating time....Dylan was a hunter, Colton a skeleton and Logan was Buffalo Bill Cody.

The adults had fun dressing up this year as well. We went out with Holly, Travis, Jeremy & Darlene and their friend Erin. We all dressed as cartoon characters.

Left to Right : Donkey (Mindy), Shrek (Brian), Miss Piggy (Darlene), Kermit (Jeremy), Sylvester (Travis), Tweety (Holly), Ernie (Erin)

Logan celebrated his 3rd birthday on Nov. 5th. Dylan and Colton made him breakfast in bed before they left for school. He then got to spend the morning with dad in the tractor which is just about his favorite place to be. We picked Dylan and Colton from school and had a picnic lunch. Then had his choice of dinner that night. Great day for Logan! On Friday, we had a party with an Elmo theme. He had a wonderful time. I can't believe he is so old already! I took his 3 year portraits the week of his birthday and he poses so perfect!

On Saturday we moved cows and it was just such a beautiful day we took a couple of pics while riding.

Monday was my birthday and I also got spoiled with breakfast in bed. The boys gave me wonderful birdhouses that they had each made. That evening Brian made great enchilladas for us and my parents, and holly and travis came over as well. We watched the Broncos game and had a nice quiet evening