What happens when it's WAY too quiet

Yup that would be shredded paper!! I asked Hunter what it was all for and he informed me that they were for his friends because they were having a paper party. Duh!

I now have a nice little shredded paper trail from the shredder to the playroom. I set them to start vacuuming the little trail up and then I hear, "I can't vacuum all of that up!" I go to investigate and one of the containers was dumped out by Jacob. Lovely.

Family T-shirts

Ryan thought it would be fun to make tie-dyed family t-shirts a couple of weekends ago. I have no idea where he comes up with these ideas! So he bought all of the stuff a couple of weekends ago and that Saturday we went to work. I'm sure he had grand visions of the 4 of us doing this together, but Hunter told him that he should try it first to see if it works. Hunter's done too many crafts with me that haven't worked out as planned. He knows the drill.

Ryan and I did a shirt each for us to show the boys then they gave us their input on where to put the rubber bands and what colors they wanted. They were super excited when we showed them how their shirts turned out and couldn't wait to wear them. I was pleasantly surprised at how they turned out, the majority look pretty neat. Granted there are a couple that are hideous!



2 of our finished projects. One of these days we'll get a family picture with all of us in our shirts.

What's your super power?

The other day Ryan and the boys were playing tackle-pillow fight and Hunter tooted.

Hunter (while he's cracking up): I tooted! Did you smell it?!

Ryan: Yes

Hunter: That's my super power, Daddy. When I toot you die.

Ryan then proceeds to do a dramatic version of him dying on the bed. Hunter kept trying to do his super power some more but he had nothing left.

I guess whatever can make you a super hero!

Everybody needs a little quiet time

After a long, busy day we all need a little down time. Grandma was rubbing Jacob's back and he just crashed. I had to wake him up after an hour so he'll be up for dinner...let's see how long he'll be up tonight.
Hunter got some good quality time on the computer because god forbid that boy takes a nap!

More fun in the mountains!

We've had lots of fun running, tickling, and going on adventures in the forest. Right now the boys are with Grandpa searching for bears in the woods.

Jacob chucking rocks under the condo.

Having races around the so-called yard. It was just like the Olympics with the bucket being the hurdle.

A day at the track

The boys and I are up in Pinetop again with my mom and Hank. Today we went to a little family fun park in between Pinetop and Show Low. They had video games, go carts, and goofy golf. The boys were SO excited to do the go carts. We did the family ones first where the boys rode with us. Hunter loved it and had a big smile on his face as soon as we started driving. Our car was much faster that Mom and Jacob's so we passed them the first lap. We would have won but I let them catch up to us.

The boys then got to do the kiddie track where they got to drive their own go carts! They did pretty good and Jacob only crashed into the side a handful of times. Hunter has had practice driving his tractor and gator around our yard. For some reason Jacob never drove very much and his driving skills aren't that great. Both took the driving very seriously which you can tell in some of the pictures.

Trying to figure out the system at 4 years old!

One of Hunter's responsibilities is to feed Indy twice a day. I'm not a huge enforcer of this but if I ask him to do it, he'll feed her. He has told me that he likes to only feed her in the morning and not at night, so I try to have him do the morning one just so we don't have any struggles.

Yesterday morning I asked him to feed Indy and I happened to peer in her bowl after he put it down. There was a lot of food in there!

Me: Hunter, how many scoops did you put in Indy's bowl?

Hunter: 4

Me: How many are you supposed to put in?

Hunter: 2

Me: Well why did you put 4 in there? That's too much for her right now.

Hunter: I didn't want to have to feed her tonight so I put enough to last all day.

Such a little smarty pants!! We got home around dinner time and he checked on Indy's food. He told me see, there's still food in there so I don't need to feed her again!