The 24th

We were able to go to Enterprise for the 24th! It was a ton of fun.  We wish we had more time, and was able to see everyone more, but it was fun to get away for a bit.  The boys had a blast, and loved spending time at their grandmas' houses.  Enterprise is such a great little town.  I was able to run in the fun run, which was fun, and we also took a day and loaded up our storage unit in cedar which was not fun=)  Then we ended the week spending time with grandma Debbie for her birthday.

  Major picture overload! 

Boozys photo shoot...

Knox loves his daddy  (they all do)  But when I told him I wanted to take a picture of him with his daddies old hat, he got a bit into it=)  I wanted to test out my new prime lens, which I think takes lovely pictures, but I just think this kid is a cutie pie!  He has such a unique fun personality.  Don't you think he looks just like his daddy?

just so you know there was absolutely no editing done to his eyes or anything (just a filter on my lens)....He is a beauty and a cutie=)

Holden+Knox+Race=a lot of work

A short write up on each of the boys, Rye, even though it was the last thing I'm sure he wanted to do, haha, got me a new camera.  So we went to the park to test it out and play with it. Good thing I have cute guiney piggy's=)

Holden

 Holden is a dream child.  Although I get feeling so bad, because he is at that age where you expect a lot out of him, and he is the big brother.  I feel like I'm constantly getting mad at him.  But in reality he is such a good kid.  He spends his life trying to please people, do whats right, and be a good person especially a good brother.  He is constantly doing things for his brothers, scavenger hunts, playing school, reading, and making them things.  He is good boy.  He is also a know-it-all=)  This is a funny conversation I had with him.

        We were driving and Holden was telling me what kind of

Dr he was going to be.  (a heart surgeon, I'm cool with that)  So Knox yells from the back,  "

MoM!  You know what I'm gonna be hu!  Im gonna be a police man!!"  Then Holden says "No no no Knox, that's not a safe job....you will die....hummm...pretty much there's only 4 jobs you can do that you wont die doing, a Dr....a sub (a substitute teacher)...a bishop...and...and...an Indian, that's it!"   I laughed so hard!  where he gets his logic is beyond me.  I sure love him though. 

 

Race

Of all my children this one is the biggest stinker.  He spends his days trying to break, get into, eat, pretty much destroy anything and everything.  Its so hard to because he is so CUTE, and so Rye and I usually just laugh, and so he doesn't get disciplined.  And he has his daddy wrapped around his little monster finger.  Rye is so strict with the boys, and Race can do no wrong!  I think its because Race, I hate admitting it, is me! haha!  And Rye likes me a lot, in case you didn't know...=)  90% of the day he is yelling "NOOooooo!"  It gets so old.  He terrorizes our poor kittens....oh my gosh.  I went out there and he had the littlest kitten and was driving it...=(   he had it and was smooshing it on the sidewalk and pushing it forward if you can imagine.  I ran over and saved it and it was actually purring! He also tries to throw rocks in order to break stuff (our windows).  He is just destructive.  But also is so sweet, he snuggles and kisses, and does in fact LOVE the kittens, when hes not holding them under water (true story)  We all LOVE this baby.  I feel like our entire family revolves around him.  His big brothers adore him, and spend all day playing with him.  IT is so fun for me that they all 3 play together so good.  I really do think they were all best friends is heaven.  Love this little monster. 

Our Boozy

Knox is so funny!  He lives in his own world, and can keep himself busy all day!  He is a ninja, a cop, a robot, a transformer, a jedi, you name it!  He is so dramatic!  It makes me nuts. He will not try at anything to do with education.  I'm so scarred to send him to school next year :/  He is just not interested.  He is way smart, but probably wont read until hes 14! haha!  jk.  We have been trying to work with him on his speech.  He cant say his l's or r's.  It is so cute, but it's not going to be cute when hes older.  He is so fun!!  This kid is going to get any girl he wants, he is so cute!  Hes got this manly man masculine cutie pie thing about him.  He is so shy to outsiders, yet he is my most wild outgoing child.  Him and I get along the best. He is fearless with anything except interacting with people.  He had told me he had two pet spiders.  He fed them and took care of them somewhere outside.  I never went and looked.  He kept trying to get me to check them out for a while.  He would say things like they were so cute and stuff. I was like "ya, uh hu, go play."  Well when I found to black widows in the mudroom, I died of fear, locked the door, and had Rye kill them when he got home, I never dreamed those were his pets!!  "Mom!! Why did you kill my pet spiders!"  .....true story.  If your kid says he has a pet, go check it out.  We love Knox.  He beings the wild to our home!

May-july

Well, it's been a while!  We have had so many big changes to.  Rye graduated college (In May)!! Woot Woot!  During graduation one of the speakers was talking about how this is a huge accomplishment and some of us worked harder then others...and literally when he said that I had a melt down, its like it all caught up to me and I could finally cry! Its so hard just stopping your entire life for two years and cramming 4 + years of work into 2.  I literally had no husband, a pregnancy, a new baby, surgery's, two moves, major church callings, financial stress, marriage stress, you freaking name it!  Rye had his equal share of stress to, literally he was at school or working all day every day all year long for two years!  BUT we did it, and he did so good!!! We did good, and got through it with our little family.  He had an amazing job offer before he even graduated. I'm so proud of him.  He is such a wonderful man, and provider. He is going to get his bachelors of business next year, while he works.  He only has 6 more classes.  He figures he might as well. He got pretty dang good at that school thing.  He is loving work, except all the over time.  It just feels so good to have a job, and good paychecks, and insurance, and everything else...School stinks, do it while your young. Don't wait until you have three kids.  One kid would even be easy, I remember going to school when Holden was little and thinking it was stressful, if I only knew. I did get straight A's this last semester =) , Ryes grades are better then mine though and he took double the credits, haha.  It was kind-of humbling having him proof read all my papers and do so much of my homework.  He literally would go to work and work on my homework during his spare time with his buddy.  haha!  I only got A's because of him.  He literally did every single one of my Physics Labs...I know I'm pathetic, but seriously guys...3 kids, and primary is not school compatible.
 

May was so stressful.  During finals we had the stress of our lease running up a week after graduation,  We had to get out of our apartment because we no longer qualified living there since we weren't in school, and our kids literally were going crazy, as were we.  I DID NOT want to leave our ward,  it still is a touchy subject for me (Primary)  But we lucked into an amazing home in Spring creek.  It is just right outside of elko.  We have wanted to move out here, it seamed more like "us".  We were right!  We LOVE it.  Our home has been so fun.  We are in town but on 3 acres.  There are corrals and a chicken coop, trees, and grass.  A huge fun driveway for trikes and bikes.  It is very private and Rye has a shop.  We are renting, but if we stay in the area we hope to buy it.  Our boys have been in heaven!  We can finally have pets, they play outside swimming, shooting their bb guns, camping outside,  and running around in their undies all day.  It is heavenly.  I was devastated to move wards. I cried the first two sundays in our new ward, and still get emotional when I Think about my kids.  What a blessing it was for me to get to serve in that calling, even if it wasn't for that long.  I feel like I learned 10 years worth of lessons! 

 

Anyway, were good. We are just so happy=)  During all the commotion of moving Race broke my camera (again a very touchy subject for me)  I cried for two days straight. May was such a bad month, haha! I had just gotten a new lens, and learned so much in my classes.  I have missed taking pictures so much, these last few months.  I didn't realize what a big part of my life it was.  But here are pictures from graduation, then random happenings from the last two months, pictures I took with my phone =)  I know blogging died, but hope everyone is good.

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 My family came to visit,almost everyone!  They did yard work, grandma cleaned, and we played.

 Our 3 little kittens.  Tommy, Obi, and Zane.  The boys named them, and love them lots.

 Holden is so sweet and takes such good care of Race.  Race makes him read to him every single day.

 yard campouts are a favorite.

 Funny story:

So The boys had gotten out their bb guns, and I being the wonderful mom I am, I  was like "You guys can go bird hunting!"  They were reading the book the Hatchet, and so they were all excited!  So they wondered the yard and the sagebrush with no luck.   I go to check on them, and they express their stress of not being able to get anything let alone get an opportunity to aim....I have to "embellish"  a lot in order to keep my boys busy.  SO I was like "Guys, guys you gotta be quite and sneaky and crouch down and wait.....wait for them to come to you.  Here let me show you how it's done, your mother is pretty much a sniper."  I was trying to sound all hunter like.

So literally we were in the driveway, its lined with trees.  And we all crouched down against the van, JUST right in the driveway.  They were all excited and whispering. Literally with-in 3 seconds I aimed the BB gun up......and  shot a huge exotic bird!!  I shot it....And it falls.  We all went quite, and I looked at Holden and his Mouth hit the ground.  He was speechless, and had a look of pure disgust on his face, and I was speechless and in shock, and couldn't believe what I just did, then Knox, after about 5 seconds of pure silence screams "MOM!! YOUR THE BEST SNIPER EVER!!!!"    I about died.  I felt so bad!  I never imagined they would ever get a bird, I just wanted them to spend all day trying, and I certainly didn't want to kill a bird, let alone a big pretty bird....WORST mom, I swear.  I just was not thinking at all.......My boys think Im pretty awesome though

The end=)

 

Hiking with the kids with my friend Michelle.