A hunting we will go.....

That's right people, I am a very VERY nice wife and went hunting to the mountains with my dear sweet husband. He was hunting for deer, which I saw a doe (but he didn't really care about that one). The highlight (for me) was seeing some mountain goats and some moose (not quite as exciting as the bear I saw last year, but exciting nonetheless). They were fun to watch.

So we woke up really (REALLY) early (thanks to Nate's sis Caitlin for watching the boys) and headed up the canyon. I usually don't care too much about the hunting part, but I do enjoy watching Nate get excited when he sees something. Too bad we didn't see much else, but did have a great hike. I also like that part of the hunt........the workout. It works muscles I didn't know I had (and I have lots!) :)

Aside from me going this time, I am getting sick of the hunting season. I usually start out pretty good and then get sick of him going (and taking time off). He is still going so I guess we know who rules the roost at our house!

Where did 6 years go?

So I was informed last night that I was a bad mom because Heidi has a post about Kace's birthday before I do, his own mother. I really had started it, but wanted to get everyone else's pictures first..........oh, well, mine will have to do.
I can't believe my Kace is 6, where does the time go? The past few weeks he has been wanting (begging, whining, crying, etc) to go the the aquarium in Sandy, I had told him we had to wait until his dad could go with us because he would really like that. So FINALLY (kace's words) we were able to go. We went down on Friday (his bday was on Saturday) and went to the aquarium and then stayed the night at (my) grandparents Spencer's.

I would have had more pictures of Kace, but he was RUNNING through the aquarium like nothing else. We were out of there in less than an hour. He hardly wanted to stop, but oh well it was his day!

In the morning we met my entire family at IHOP for a birthday breakfast. Kace opened up his presents there and enjoyed all the attention in the world. One who did not enjoy it, was Ty, OH BOY, WAS HE ONERY! For some reason that kid picks the WRONG time to get sick (and of course it was when we saw Heidi and Clayton so now he is NEVER going to get cousins because of all the crying he did........he REALLY isn't like that ALL the time!)

The present opening. About in June I saw Kace throwing his toy(s) around and asked him why he was doing that....his answer........"I don't want them anymore." This translates into me SPOILED BRAT so I told him that I wasn't going to get him any toys for his birthday this year because he just decides that he doesn't want them anymore. Well I stuck to my guns and didn't get him any toys. Clothes, movie and soccer "stilts" (they are cleats, but for some reason Kace keeps telling everyone he got stilts.........don't know where that came from!) Although everybody else did.

After IHOP we went to the BYU/UCLA game, am I glad Kace picked that to do, because it was what I really wanted to do! In case you haven't heard (I don't know how you couldn't hear about it though) BYU KILLED UCLA 59-0. We went to the tailgate party and Kace got to throw a football in the hoop, spin the wheel for a free milkshake, shoot a basket, etc. He had fun, but it was HOT! And then for Nate's favorite part of the day, we stopped on the way home and got some ducks for his pond (next post)

Kace wanted to go and give the players high fives when they came out of the locker room so we went and WAITED. Needless to say Kace got bored. Nate did too, I am pretty sure, but I was surprised when he said that watching them come out and run onto the field made him miss playing football and wished he could play again.

Kace's hand kept being smashed against the person he was standing by. And by person I mean 25 year old man. You would think that it would be just kids wanting to give them high 5's, but NO they are mostly adults. I know most of you are probably thinking that I, Rachel probably still does that too, but NO I HAVEN'T DONE THAT SINCE I WAS A KID, come on people.

And then on Sunday we enjoyed my cousin, Tyson's farewell and then went over to Nate's parents for a nice family birthday dinner. When I asked Kace what he wanted for his bday meal he said, "mac and cheese." Typical. So I said, "steak or chicken?" So we had steak as well as this really good home made mac and cheese. He had a great birthday!

more stuff we've done...........

Well it has been awhile (sorry Heidi), I was just waiting for some more things to happen so I could have some pictures to post. We went bowling last week for FHE and had a great time. We played 2 games and I broke 100 the first game so was kind of proud of that. Kace loved it!


I know, I know Ty looks real good in his 'too little' clothes, I now have to break out the 3T clothes bin to find something for the big boy to wear. I just wanted to show you the little bowling shoes, I couldn't believe they had them that small! Also, he only messed up our bowling computers one time, so that was good. :)

Soccer has started again and I told them when I signed up that we may not be to many Saturday games, because of hunting and football games, but I think we will only miss one game. I asked Kace before his first game if he was excited and he said, "YES! I don't think I can go to sleep!" I then asked him how many goals he was going to score and he said, "Oh, probably a thousand!" At least he has confidence!! So his first game his team did well and won, we shall see how the other games go. He loved having real 'refs', even though it was just a 8-9 year old kid. He was funny he would blow his whistle and say, "um, Kace, you can't push other kids down.............um, the red gets to have a kick." It was entertaining. For the grandparents and others who want to watch they play every wednesday at 5:30 and every Saturday at 11:30.

We went to Lagoon this last weekend thanks to Heidi, Clayton and Cortney. It was ICON Lagoon day and only those who work at ICON can sign you up to go (thus the reason for the thanking), it is a great deal, they rent out the entire park and so it is not crowded at all. I don't think we waited in line for one ride. Even the white roller coaster you just walked right to the cars and got on (LOVE THAT!). Anyway, it isn't crowded, the parking is free, you pay $11 to get in AND you get a all you can eat meal (Nate loves that part!) We have gone the past three years and loved it. We get the excuse of Lagoon Day coming up for not riding the rides at the county fair ($10 for the ferris wheel, I DON'T THINK SO!) Kace said his favorite ride was the roller coaster, but by the end he said it was the haunted house (even though he was scared and wanted to hide under the hood of the car the entire time) He said the ride he didn't like was the wild mouse, because he felt like he was going to fall off. On the way home Ty kept saying, "WA-HOO, wa-hooooo!" We are just glad he is saying anything besides 'grunt'