Jared's Flexoff

I, Jason, thought we needed some flex off pictures of Jared!  I wish he was this intimidating on the mat!! Unfortunately he just lays there and makes snow angels.  He is at least smiling and enjoying himself.  The culminating moment for him is getting his medals!  Too bad he doesn't have to win to get one!  It would make the flex off more meaningful!  I know Kim has already posted some of these pictures, I just felt they needed to be together for the overall effect!

French Toast Anyone?

Cole took out some french toast from the freezer and put some syrup on it and put it in the microwave himself.  This is what happens when you put it in for 3 minutes instead of 30 seconds. 

Easter

Our easter was a bit hectic we were in the middle of getting our house looking nice for an appraiser to come.  We are in the process of refinancing our home to get into a 30 year fix rate of 4.375% which is why I haven't posted for so long.  Anyway we went to the town easter egg hunt (don't think I'll do that again).  I took all the kids myself while Jason worked on putting in tile in our basement.  There were so many people there and not really enough eggs.  We had our own easter egg hunt at home and dyed eggs.  






April 11th and 12th

Feed the Birds

(If you build it they will come)

Jason made a bird feeder and put it up in our front yard with the help of Ty.  We stocked it with black sunflower seed and have had hundreds of birds at it everyday they stay in our aspen trees and fly down to feed.  We can look out our living room window and the boy's bedroom window and watch them.  The kids have really enjoy watching them.  There are so many birds that it is quite noisy when you go outside our front door. We have even see a few bird fights.  We have all been able to get up right next to the bird feeder and have some of the birds stay there some of us have even touched the birds. It has been a lot of fun.  

Lyndie had to help as well.  She found the gloves and hat herself and put them on. We don't believe in coats in star valley if the weather is not below zero which is why no one is wearing coats.  We did this the first week of April notice how much snow we still had.  You got to love Star Valley.

Pine Siskin

I was able to stand right next to the bird feeder and get some neat pictures.  These birds are called Pine Siskins.  We also had some Evening Grosbeaks and some Cassin's Finch which have a pretty red head.

 

It's hard to see in this picture but there are lots of these birds in our aspens.

Spring Break

We went to La Grande for spring break and took the cold Afton weather with us.  It rained and snowed most of the time.  We were told not to come back if we bring weather like that again. We had one day of good weather and the boys took advantage they bought steelhead tags and went fishing on the Wallowa River.  Jason Tyler and Corey woke up at 6:00 a.m. to go fishing and came home at 9:00 p.m.  They had one very long day of fishing and Tyler and Corey did not want to quit.  They did not catch many and are die hard fisherman.

 

Ooooh! Kiss a fish. Cole and Jared kissed the fish Jason caught for luck. Yuck!

Uncle Seth and Corey 

Tyler caught two nice fish this is one of them.

The best catch of the Day!

The redband steelhead Jason caught.  A whopping 25 inches.

Lyndie was not pleased she got fish slim on her hand.  It went well with her runny nose though.

Grandpa and Lyndie watching the fishermen.

Little Cindy lou Who

Abbie did one of her special hairdo's while we were there.  she looks as though she just walked out of a Dr. Suess Story book. 

Time to relax!  we watched lots of movies and just had a nice relaxing time.  

Jared sang popcorn popping on the apricot tree over and over for Grandpa and fell asleep on Grandpa's knee.  

We went to Sarah and Matt's house and got to see all the work they have done on their addition It looked great and it was so nice to see them and their cute kids.  It was a great vacation.