Cute Cousins

When I took this picture of Dallie the other day, I was thinking there was a picture of Ashley that looked just the same.

They are both about 15 months old in these pictures. The dress was made for Ashley to wear for my wedding reception. Cute girls!

Memory Lane

I never got fully unpacked when we moved to the McGinley (I didn't hang any pictures on the walls or anything), so some of the boxes I'm opening now I haven't seen in over a year. I found these framed pictures packed away and wanted to blog them.

Jason on our wedding day. Doesn't he look so young?

This is Kache at 10 months old. I'm amazed how different he looks from Ryder and Dallie when they were this age. He had the thickest cheeks and no hair!

This was taken almost 3 years ago during our first calving season on Rex Ranch. Ryder's hair was so curly. Dallie doesn't have curls on the top of her head like Ryder did. I don't remember why Kache had such a sour look on his face.

Pumpkin Carving and Stake Conference

Amidst all the packing boxes, the boys took some time to carve pumpkins. Dallie wasn't very happy that she didn't get to help.



Stake Conference (in Rapid City, now only 3 hours away since we've moved) was the weekend of Halloween, which meant no trick-or-treating for the kids. But our hotel had an arcade, so we spent a few dollars playing games Halloween night.

This was supposed to be Ryder and Kache racing their stock cars, but as you can see Ryder got kicked out.


Finally we found a game that a 3-year old could play.


Relaxing in the room. We really like this hotel. It has a water park attached to it, but the water park is so expensive that we haven't been. Maybe next year we'll plan on spending a whole day there so it will be worth the $9 for a 3-year old to play.

Finally

We're finally moved in (not settled yet) and have phone and internet. Of the 13 times we've moved in the 7 years we've been married, this has been my least favorite. It has been hard to leave the Eldred Unit and McGinley and start a new school for Kache (it hasn't been hard on him, but hard on me), but I guess we'll survive. Our original moving day turned out to be the first day of a 3-day snow storm, so we moved a day early in hopes of beating the storm. And we did - we didn't get snowed in until we made it up to the Star (the camp we live on now).

One last goodbye to the McGinley.

Kache's last day at Garden County Elementary. He hasn't been sad that he has had to switch schools. He talks about Mrs. Wendland and the kids at Garden County, but when I told him that his new school only had 3 girls in the kindergarten class, he said, "Oh, they need me because they need a boy." I'm glad he has a good attitude.

Now he goes to a one-room schoolhouse (not really, there are two rooms and a gym). It is Kindergarten through 8th grade, and currently there are 8 kids. There is one teacher and one aid. The kindergartners spend most of their day in a separate room from the other students. Kache is one of only three boys in the school, so the other boys are happy to have him. When we got to school his first day, all the of other kids were watching out the window for him to come.