Sunday Pictures

This was in November. The weather has been crazy! Its a little colder now, but still no snow. I love leaves, and my kids are super cute, so I took a few pictures one Sunday after church. I think they are pretty good, I may be just a bit bias though.
This girl is completely adorable!

Him too!

Seriously, they are so stinkin' cute!

Best little friends.

Throwing leaves in the air!

Pueblo Zoo.......

Not bad for the first piture Carson has ever taken! Yep, we are posing as Indians. Well I guess its not posing when you are the real thing!

You can't really see, but there is a HUGE bull elk in the background. Carsons favorite thing in the world right now.

Kenzie, petting the miniature horse.

Cars, and the miniature donkey. They were so cute!

We were at this exhibit for at least 20 minutes. Emma and I are just as excited as the kids!

The penguin exhibit was so cool! We seriously watched them forever and tried to get the penguins to follow our fingers. I am a little excited, can ya tell?
Crazy ostrich! Emma least favorite! They were so big! There were about four of them and they chased/followed us as long as they could, pecking at the fence and making their weird little ostrich noises.

It was a fun day. I was pretty impressed, and will definitely go back next summer! There was a really big lion too, we got to hear it roar. So awesome! We LOVE the zoo!

October.....

Busy, busy, busy! Alot has happened this month. Starting with the last thing first, All Hallows Eve. Its so fun but, a ridiculous amount of work to go to 6 houses trick-or-treating. My kids were SO excited though. Captain Hook (well his "helper" cause we lost the hook at a pre-halloween party!) and Tinkerbell.

The roof of our new house!!!!! Finally able to get some sheeting up with the help of my awesome big little brother! Cole has been a huge help. By the time Cade gets home from school, there isn't a whole lot of daylight left. So they work really hard and fast to get one row up a night!
Working hard while I take pictures! It really looks like a house now.
My little pumpkins, holding their pumpkins! Kenzie's came out of our garden this year.
Kenzie eating the pumkins, after I told her don't put that in your mouth! She would lick it and look at me like mmmmm, this is good!
So excited to carve the pumkins! Carson couldn't wait for this part. =D
Unc, being a great Unc, reading to the kids. We are SUPER excited that he will be living here for a few months at least. Carson wants to have a spend the night every night. He even prayed for Unc to have enough $ so he wouldn't have to go to work, and could spend the night. They really love him!
Well that is part of October, keep reading and you can see what else we have done in the past month!
PS- look at me go with the blogging! hahaha

Mini-Mortensen-Reunion

Almost a reunion! 4 of Grandma's 7 kids were there, and a fraction of her grandkids, and great-grandkids. We had a good time though! we met a few sundays ago at after church at the park in Sanford. We had some good food, good visits, and of course, a good game of football!

Our cheering section.
Serious strategies being developed here!
There were a few good hits before we switched to 2 hand touch. =D
I don't know who is more excited to have their pictures taken, my kids or Grandma!
This is all of us, lets see if I can get everybody! Back row on the left: Gordon, Cole, Lynn, Mike, Dad. Next row: Dixie, Kayla, Lois, Tiana, Emma, Jan, TJ, Tyla, Tayte, Ashlee, Kenzie, Kelsi, Kenya. Front row: Colby, Cord, Casen, Mandy, Grandma, Carson, Tyrell, Kacee, Natalia, Taylor, Cody, Colton, and Austin. Oh, and Misty was asleep in the car. Whew!

Round-up 2010

Round-up this fall was really good, nice weather, good company. We even had a little extra help!
Sweetheart of a girl!
Cousins
Love him!
Cutest. Kids. Ever.
Like father, like son! These two would ride everyday if they could!
Carson waits for this all year! He would wake up every moring for about 2 weeks before the cattle drive and ask if he could ride. He is our lil' cowboy!
Oh, how I love them!

The three Amigos!
2 of the cutest cowboys, ever!
Emma and Cole helping out on the good ole cattle drive!

Birthday Party!

Emma, Andy and Cole all took me out for my bithday! It was AWESOME!!! Dad and Jan joined us for dinner before a movie. we really had alot of fun, and alot of laughs =D

My house part II

We are making progress!!!!
Ok, this is where the stairs will be on the left of the opening. The far left is a sort of mini loft. It will be left open with a rail along the edge. The right will be left open also. So it will be open all way to the top!
Oh, and the big beautiful window above the stairs is 5' x 5'
Best. Kids . Ever! I love them, they are so cute!!!!
They are sitting in the twin windows in the upstair family room.

Also the upstairs family room.

On the right is the door to the upstairs deck. Facing north.

The twin windows, facing west.

Carsons room in the southwest corner.

Carson and his sword. In case you haven't heard, he is a pirate.

(Also, my hard working husband who has built about 98% of this house by himself!)

Kenzie in her room! The southeast corner.

Master bedroom.

Front room, looking in and to the left, from the front door

Kitchen!






The back/north side of my amazing new house. The holes are the back door (left) and dinning room window

Well, thats it for now! We should get the roof on in the next few weeks, and then it will REALLY look like a house!!!!! So exciting, we are getting closer !

Some of our Summer fun!

Ok, so here is some of the pioneer day celebration activities. It was a blast! I got to see alot of my Mortensen cousins and, my mom was here always a good time

My amazing cousins( some of 'em) and I all made these wicked awesome shirts to do the 5k in Manassa. It was alot of fun, as always!


My lil' cowboy! After his mutton bustin'. He was so excited! 3 of his little cousins did it too. They were all so cute.

Lokk at his cute little face! He is all cowboy!

Riding the sheep! He did pretty good too. The dang sheep kinda ran him into the fence. When it was all over he looked up at his dad and told him, " I almost won that rodeo for you Dad!" Cutest. Boy. Ever.

Waiting for the big ride!

All the little Huffaker cowboys that did the mutton bustin'!

So cute eh?!?!?

Well there is a start to catch up! Stay tuned, there are about 4 more I need to finish to be totally caught up. My internet hates me, so I have to pirate from my sis-in-law! Keep reading, I have 3 new posts and I love your comments!