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.

Cooking Diasters

Abbie made some Ramen Noodles for her and the other kids.  She let the noodles cook too long and the water evaporated out of the pan.  The noodles were big and slimy.  She dished up the noodles for all the kids who wanted them.  I over heard the conversation.  They all decided the noodles were digusting even Abbie agreed.  Lyndie however, kept eating them.  Cole explained the reason for this was because she did not have taste buds yet and we do.   Corey took one look at his noodles and said,"Oooooh, gross these don't even have any broth in them that means they don't have any favor."   Cole said, "Oh, they have plenty of flavor they just don't taste good."  Abbie cooks Ramen Noodles almost as bad as I cook grilled cheese sandwiches.  Jason doesn't believe I know how to make a grilled cheese sandwich without burning it.  I made some pancakes the other day that were really dark on one side and perfect on the other.  Tyler said "Mom were you thinking you were making your grilled cheese sandwiches or something."

CRASH!

Jared fell asleep in our computer chair the other day this is how I found him.

Wrestling in Cokeville

We took the boys to Cokeville for a little league wrestling tournament yesterday.(March 12, 2009)

This was their second tournament and for some dumb reason Cokeville did not have a 7th-8th grade division so Tyler  did not get to wrestle this time.  He was a little bummed but he made a great assistant coach for the littler boys.

Cole and Jared did some serious flexing to scare the opponents

(I know real scary Huh!) 

MUSCLE POWER!

ABBIE 

Abbie was the cheerleader and helper with Lyndie.

LYNDIE AND DAD

Lyndie got sick of the wrestling  quick and was not the most happy spectator.

Corey

These two pictures of Corey are of his last match.  I did not get to see the Other matches they split the preschool-2nd grade from the 3rd-6th grade so Ty and I went to help Cole and Jared. Corey won this match by a pin.

Corey wrestled Daine Waldron a second time this year at this tournament.  Daine is also from Star Valley and from a big time wrestling family.  His Dad coached in Juab and is the coach for our Junior High currently.  Corey and Daine went into over time (sudden death) in their match here and Daine beat Corey by two points.  It was intense they are both good competitors. Tyler Wrestled Daine's older brother Gabe last weekend in Evanston and barely lost as well it was also a great match.  Our boys are learning lots and having fun.  We feel fortunate to have the waldron's here to challenge our boys.  

COLE

Cole Wrestled Preston (I don't remember his last name) for a second time as well.  They wrestled each other in Evanston last week.  I went to school with Preston's mom, Angela,  it was fun to see her.   She and her husband live in Hennefer with their 3 boys and 1 girl.

Cole is a scrappy little wrestler and does a great job.

Cole lost this match. This kid was quick and one year older than Cole.  Cole fought hard and did awesome.

COACHING FROM DAD

Jason did pretty darn good coaching the boys these past few weeks after going from the High School to little league.  It is not easy for him to tone it down with the littler guys, I was proud

of him though he is fun to watch. (As you can see Lyndie is not super happy here either she was done with it all.)                 

JARED

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This is how Jared looked  through most of his matches (on bottom with a great big smile on his face).  He was just happy to be there and wrestling like his big brothers. 

Jared assumed this position under the score table while watching cole's match.

Jared got this pin for wrestling and had to show it off to every one.

International Day at Girl Scouts

Abbie's girl scout troop had an international day and each troop learned about different countries and presented the information to the rest of the girls.  Abbie's group learned about Japan.  Abbie has some awesome leaders that really go all out.  I think she has really enjoyed girl scouts.  It has been a great experience for her.

 

They made hair things out of chopsticks 

Their drums are made from I think oatmeal cans and they used chopsticks for the drumsticks.

They made these fans and their leaders taught them some painting techniques.  These are the fans Abbie did.                                                                 

These are the shoes their leaders made them.

Abbie the little Giesha Girl.

Mom and Abbie.  Abbie's leader painted this board.  The girls all took pictures with their Moms. (Lots of fun.)

The other troops did presentations on greenland, Holland, Australia, and the Philippines.

Recipe for GAK

Here's what  you need :

    2 cups white elmer's glue

    4 teaspoons borax (you can find this in the

       laundry detergent section of wal-mart It's in a green box.)

     1 1/3 cups warm water

Here's what you do:

1.  In a large bowl combine glue and 2 1/2 cups water

2.  In a separate bowl combine Borax and 1 1/3 cups water

3.  Add Borax water to glue water and mix.

Here is the trick when you put the two mixtures together just keep mixing and kneading it.  It doesn't look right at first, it is very runny but just keep mixing it and over time it will form a big ball of slimy dough.  I threw the first batch I ever made  away because it didn't look right.  I just needed to keep kneading it in the bowl and it would have worked. ( chalk it up for experience .)

                      GAK!

 

This is the favorite in our house.  Slimy play dough.

Made from Elmer's glue, water, borax and food coloring

for color.  It is hours and hours of fun.  It lasts about 3 months 

if you store it in Ziploc bags.

The kids love to squish this stuff in cups it makes a farting 

noise that makes them laugh so hard.  (Boy what they won't 

think of next!)