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!

The 4th of July

Every 4th we go fishing in New Mexico. My kids love it! They always catch a couple of fish (its a stocked pond!)

Cade and the Kenz with her first fish!

Carson is so funny! There were about 3 or 4 that got away from him before he got this guy reeled in. He was super excited! He did lots of jobs to earn his own fishing pole and practiced casting for about a month before we went. It was so cute, he yelled and hollered once he finally caught a fish. My Grandpa D would be proud of this little fisherman!

Carson and one of his cousins fishin' away!

And of course, FIREWORKS!!!! Always a good time with Papa and Grandma Jan.

MY HOUSE!!!!!!!!!! part I

Jeez! I finally got some pictures downloaded!!!! Yay. Of course they are backwards, and I have tons of other more recent (2nd story!!!) pictures now, but first things first!!!!!

Ok, these are the exterior walls dowstairs. This is the west side of the house, my kitchen and family room. The big openings are either doors or windows.


The front of the house! Also the south side that faces the road. The big horizontal boards towards the top are headers for windows and doors. The center header is the front door!

One of the BEST babysitters ever! My mom!!! She got to be here for a couple of weeks which my kids LOVED (and I did too!) !! She helped with the kids alot so I could help Cade.

Lots of good help! Cades family came and helped us stand up these monsters!

Standing up the exterior walls! It took 7 of us, I think. Heavy!

Before we got the north and south walls stood up!

First sheet of sub-floor on! Cade might be wearing an apron! Hahaha, its for all the nails!

Floor joists. Cade did all of these by himself! THis is looking south, towards the road.

SO, this is the begining of our house!!!!! We are really excited/stressed/broke! But so far we have been able to do everything ourselves! Hopefully I will get some more pic up soon! We stood up the 2nd floor exterior walls last week! We are making progress!