JUMP

Kaelen loves the trampoline and spends many hours on it each day. He is always in the back yard and for a lot of it he spends it on the tramp. He jumps so well for how little he is. I am so surprised at how high he jumps. It is so fun to watch him. We have put footballs and other size balls on the tramp that he loves to play with while he jumps. He is so cute. Kaelen also loves to squish his face into the enclosure netting all the time. It is so funny. I love that we have the net as well because Kaelen can jump all he wants by himself and we don't have to stand next to him watching him all the time. He also loves to run real fast and fall into the enclosure. I could spend hours watching him jump.

Kaelen jumps so high.

I love how his little nose is squished against the netting.

Kaelen has such fine baby hair still that all he has to do is lean into something and his hair goes crazy. His hair is so funny when he jumps on the trampoline. I love how high it sticks up.

Kaelen was so funny in this video. He never touches the camera but this time he really wanted to touch it and grab it.

Rachel and Rachael

When we went to Boise we also had the opportunity to go and visit Rachael Adams and her family. Rachael is Rachel's best friend who moved to Middleton, Idaho 10 months ago. Rachel was so devastated when she moved. We brought Rachael a birthday present. Her birthday was just two weeks before. We spent the afternoon and evening with Cherice, John and their family. It was so much fun. Rachael and Rachael had the best time. They were so sad to say good bye. They actually ran off and hid while we were trying to leave. These are the best pictures of the two of them.


Rachel bought Rachael Heely's We got them for such an amazing deal that we actually only paid $5 more than if we had bought her a toy. Now they both have heely's.

Rachel and Rachael loved playing with Alyssa Rachael's sister. They all had so much fun together.

These pictures are the best pictures. Rachel and Rachael were goofing around while I tired to take one good picture of them. I think that I got 20 or more good pictures.

This middle picture is so cute. Oh I love those two girls.

I am so grateful that Rachel still has Rachael as a best friend even though they live so far a part. They write each other all the time and they call and talk to each other. The Adam's actually have an empty lot next to their home and Rachel is convinced that we need to buy it and build a house on it with a tunnel that will connect to the Adam's house. She has asked many times if we were really rich if I would let her do it.

Fun Moments in Boise

We had so much fun in Boise. I think that the kids had the most fun. They all loved playing together. Here are just some of the cute pictures of the kids and the activities that they did together. We were so grateful for Noal and Wendy for letting us come over and stay in their home. We love being in Boise with them.

Rachel and Morgan had a water fight and then eventually Jacob and Kaelen got all wet and involved. They all had so much fun playing and getting wet. The picture of Morgan and Rachel was a funny picture because right after I took it Morgan dumped the bucket of water on Rachel's head. It was pretty funny.

Morgan, Jacob and Rachel pulled Kaelen and Ainsley around in the wagon. Ainsley and Kaelen had so much fun. I think that Kaelen's favorite part was eating a delayed melting Popsicle. Coolest new invention even though he still got it all over him.

Wendy and Kaelen played in the blinds. It was so cute. I love the blurry picture. I think that it looks cool. Wendy was kissing Kaelen. Kaelen had so much fun playing peek a boo in the blinds. He was giggling. I also love that you can see Wendy smiling through the blinds.

We cannot visit Morgan with out playing the Wii. The kids had so much fun. They were playing boxing in the pictures. It was fun to watch them work so hard to beat each other.

We had the chance to go and pick peaches from a local orchard. They were so cheap and so good. I canned after I got home 50 quarts with what we picked. So nice. The kids liked picking too. I think though that they enjoyed playing in the dirt more though.

Jacob and Morgan ran off and quilt dirt castles. They didn't work very well though.

Kaelen really loved playing in the dirt. He would sit down and throw it all over himself. If he wasn't doing that he was grabbing the peaches from the buckets and was throwing them all over the place. He really liked all the balls he had to throw around. We didn't like it very much.

Our Little Girl

Kaelen to me has always been a very beautiful baby. I have always wondered if he looked like a girl if we dressed him in girl clothes. While we were in Boise Kaelen ran out of shorts and while his shorts were being washed we had to borrow some from Ainsley while we went fruit picking. They were denim with flowers. I made the comment about what he might look like in girl clothes. Wendy brought out a pink shirt for me and we put it on him. He looked so pretty. It was amazing what just changing the color of the shirt does to a baby. The best was that Wendy then brought out a bow for Kaelen's hair. He really looked like a little girl. It was pretty funny. Fortunately he knew that he wasn't a girl and did not like the bow in his hair. He pulled it out rather quickly and then cried. His days of being a girl were over. I did what I had wanted to do for a while and now have probably caused hours of therapy in the future. I hope you enjoy our little girl as much as we did.

Oh I love these pictures. The middle one especially.

Boise Trip - Football Game

For the labor day weekend we went to Boise to spend time with Noal and Wendy and to watch the Boise State football game. We drove to Boise Wednesday evening. The kids were going to miss 2 days of school for this trip. We figured that this was an okay time to miss 2 days. School had just started and so they weer still reviewing things.

Thursday evening Boise State played the Oregon Ducks. Boise played Oregon last year in Oregon and won so this year Oregon was ready for payback. This has been a much talked about game for 6 months now. Enoch and I were very excited to get tickets to it. We bought season tickets because there were going to be no tickets available for the public. We bought extra tickets to this game and other games to sell for more to make up the price we paid for the game. So if everything works the way we want we won't have paid anything for this Oregon game. The game was completely sold out.

This year in the stadium they have asked that people wear certain colors in the area you are sitting in. We sat where we wore white. Enoch surprised me with a Boise State shirt. The games started late too. Kick off was a 8:15 PM. Enoch and I had really good seats. We sat at the 50 yard line on the side of the press box and a little more than half way up. We could see everything so clearly. It was awesome.

The game was a good game. Not the best because both teams made many errors but Boise States defense was awesome. Just before the 2nd quarter Org eon had only 6 passing and rushing yards and no 1st downs. That is pathetic. By half time they only had 14 all together.

Boise won the game. The most talked part about the game which was sad that it was really the only thing talked about since they did win was the Oregon player that punched a Boise State Player in the face. After it happened which we didn't see they showed it on the big screen over and over again. Well the crowd started booing the Oregon player and he got even more mad and tried to attack some of the fans. Because of the incident he is suspended for the year and his chance of playing in the NFL is gone. So stupid that he let some comments and losing effect him so badly.

Enoch and I had so much fun though. We loved being at the game. We also loved that Noal and Wendy watched our kids for us so we could see the game.

Enoch very excited to drive to the game. We have flags for our car that we have for game day as well as a nice big sticker on the back window, our fiesta bowl sticker (we went to that so we had to have it on the car) as well as magnets now. Yes we are fans.

You can really see the crowd and their shirt colors in this picture.

Oregon's rushing and passing yards. Still not sure why it says 7 because 5+1 equals 6 last time I checked.

Boise on the blue turf.

Enoch after the game. Yippy they won!

My shirt says "The Myth is True..Ducks Do Crash on the blue." It had the date as well on it.

New Glasses

Rachel surprised us all on Monday by calling in the middle of the day saying that she was having a hard time reading her school work and reading the board. She said that everything was fuzzy. I called Enoch at work to ask his opinion. He said that he would find out stuff about our insruance and then would call me back. He called me a little later saying that Rachel had an eye appointment at 12 noon. We are leaving for Boise today (Wednesday) and we didn't want problems while we were there. I got her out of school just before lunch and took her over to the eye doctors. We had her eyes checked by another doctor in December because she had been complaining of her eyes hurting. The doctor had said that she was a little near sighted but nothing to even worry about. She could still see far and we didn't need to come in for another year or more. Because of what the doctor said we opted out on optical insurance for Rachel for the 2009 year. Luckily though the appointment is covered under medical.

Well she did need glasses. She is near sighted in the right eye and has a astigmatism in the left eye. She wasn't too bad but bad enough to get glasses. So we picked out some glasses for her. I was so hesitant because of how much they were going to cost. I even ran over to Walmart to look at their glasses. We didn't find any that we liked so we got ones from the doctor. The nice thing about getting them from the doctors was that they could have them ready for her the next day. They also had a coupon for $65 dollars off. I was happy that it wasn't over $200 for her glasses.

She picked out some small dark purple metal framed glasses. They are really cute on her. I was hoping to get a picture of her in them yesterday with her hair flat ironed straight and in her shirt and tie that she wore the first day of school. No such luck. I did get pictures of her this morning though as she headed out the door. She loves them and looks cute in them. She also can see really well now. No more blinking 100 times while talking to you or watching TV.

Rachel also has an appointment with the orthodontist on Tuesday. She should be getting braces soon. I told Rachel that she would be a geek with her braces and glasses. She then told me that glasses and braces were cute and all of her friends that have braces and glasses look awesome. I guess I felt like a geek when I had glasses and braces. Glad she doesn't feel that way.

Oh yes and Jacob cried when he found out that she was getting glasses and he wasn't. He was so mad. He really wanted glasses too. Kids are so funny.