Grady Turns...

Yes, my baby is now 4.

On his birthday Jon took the day off and took him to:
Toys R Us
McDonald's
and to see Kung Fu Panda

Grady decided he wanted a monster truck birthday party.  Here is my attempt at a monster truck cake:

It turned out pretty good for my first themed cake.

We had friends and family over and had a good time.

He got lots of great stuff from everyone!

We are very grateful for all of the great people we have in our lives to celebrate with us!

Shooting

Over Memorial day weekend we took a day and went out to Erda, UT to do some shooting!

We went with lots of friends and had lots of fun!

Here is Jon with his holster and shooting his 22 shotgun.

The kids had fun plying with their fake guns and also by picking up all the brass shells that had been left by previous shooters.  My friend Stacey took them all in to the recycling center and each kid ended up getting $2 each.

Hudson got a chance to shoot a shotgun and a handgun.  I love how Jon takes the time to explain stuff to our kids so they can learn how to do things.

Next was my turn! I still can't believe that this was my first time holding or shooting a gun.  My dad is an avid hunter and has a safe full of guns and somehow I have never been shown how to use one.  So between Jon and my friends I learned how to hold, aim and shoot a gun. 

                                     

I have to say I really liked it.  At first I was not hitting any targets but by the end I was hitting cans and bottles!

                                                      Here is Huddy looking cool as ever!

Afterwards we headed to our sister-in-laws parents house and enjoyed a BBQ!

Baseball, Baseball, Softball

                                                                   Where have I been?

Well these pictures should answer that...

All my boys are playing ball.

Huddy started Little league baseball and he is lovin' in! He pitched several times and really likes to do it.  I have really enjoyed watching him play on a real field with a real uniform!

He played on the Oakland A's team.

Grady started T-ball this year.

Him and his cousin Marshall played on the same team!

They had a lot of fun and learned a little bit about playing on a team.

Jon is playing softball again this year with our church and is the coach!

We like to go out every Friday night and cheer him on and fellowship with our friends!

Lunch date

I was able to go to lunch with Hudson at school.  I took him his favorite: "a hamburger with ketchup only".  He is such a cute boy and I love to spend one on one time with my kids (they are much better when they are apart!)



Scooters

The kids were able to finally ride their Christmas presents because it was finally above 40 degrees!

Pumpkin Carving Party

My friend Stacey had a pumpkin Carving Party at her house and these are the pictures of the fun!

The hostess with the mostess

All the pumpins lined up for the voting.

Huddy won the scariest pumpkin!

Hudson's 7th Birthday

Hudson celebrated his Birthday for a couple of days.

On his actual birthday we let him open up his presents from us and he got a bike!

Then we went to Incredible Pizza where we ate, played games, rode bumper cars & go carts.

 Here are the peeps who came with us

 Then on Saturday we went swimming with a couple of friends and family

After we went back to our house for food, cake and...

... a fat lip from the tramp!

Despite the casualty he had a great 7th birthday!!

For my birthday friends & family came with me to

It is also my uncle Deven's birthday

We sat out on the patio and it was so cool sitting in the mountains at night with the twinkle lights.

Huddy learns how to ride

Without training wheels

While we were at Pine View Hudson learned how to ride without his training wheels.  It only took a couple of times for Jon to run holding the back. Then he didn't want to stop!