Big-Rig turns 1

Sept 11 - one years old!

Big ball, little basket

Think you got game?

yummmmm
Tradition - give the kid a big slice of cake with chocolate frosting on their first b-day
Happy birthday Ridgon

Dagan tunrs 6!!

Aug 28 Ushered in Dagan's B-day - With a guest appearance from Spidey!

Guns are Cool - Star Wars Guns are the bomb!

Storm Trooper Dagan, Reporting for duty
Indiana Jones Lego game and Spiderwick

Pin the tail on the Marvel Nemesis
Grandma even got in on the action

Happy B-day Dagan!!

Labor Day

Sept 1 - Labor Day - We took the kids hiking / biking at Cheyenne Canyon.

he's our Troll doll - if his hair was blue, we'd be set

down by the creek
on the bridge

bushwacking We had a fantastic time in the canyon.

My Grillz

The cheese smile was Jolena's Request for the before braces pic:


Now Rolling with Braces

OKLAHOMA

I have to confess that I always thought Oklahoma looked black and white and was dusty and dry - this is largely a result of watching the Wizard of Oz as a kid....too many times. More than once = too many times.



I learned that was not the case: on our family trip to OK, we hit some pretty severe weather as we entereed the northern tip of Texas, he actually had to pull off to the side of the raod as hail pouinded our vehicle, then drive through strong wind gusts and pouring rain...good times.

Finally we pulled up to Jim and Charity's place:

The Puerto Rican's seemed to have adjusted well in their new OK homestead, they are the first redneck surfers I've ever met.

Eric, Stacey and their kids were there to greet us and Dave, Rainey and their kids were going to be arriving that following day - the recipe for fun!!

since lots of the kids were born around the same time- we celebrated a gigantic b-day party, with relatives (Rainey's Relatives) and those of os visiting, we exceeded the fire code regulation for the home by about 125. I think during lunch - we went through 100 hot dogs some steak, bratwursts, pizza and a couple cases of soda.

The cousinsa had a great time playing with eachother, swimming, catchin frogs, whatever they wanted to do in rural OK.

Broden was happily showing off the Bratz rings that he got from Cupcakes:

Dagan was having fun with lots of his girl cousins.

We couldn't pass up the opportunity to take some family pics:

Jim! what did you do to your forehead?

Ok - I was there - Dave was a little closer to the incident than I was, but I watched the event unfold before me. We were playing several games of sand volleyball Windsors-Clark vs the Christensens. We were on a roll - and closed out the day nicely for the Windsors-Clark Team. The Christensens felt the stars weren't aligned just right and wanted some more punishment - I think they thought they might actually step up their game. So the following day, we accomodated them:

They actually did step up their game (a little). It took Jim, digging for the ball and coliding his eyebrow with Dave's knee, for the Windsor's-Clark Team to lose a couple of games...Jim and Charity spoke the next day (Sunday) in sacrament meeting, Jim was able to point out his wound from the non-contact sport of volleyball.

Who would have thought that roles of hay would be soo much fun, this is at the Christensen Angus Ranch!