The Huffakers

Just a story.....

2011-01-18T22:20:00.000-08:00

About the differences between boys and girls.
Carson talked his dad into playing Godzilla. They were having a great time killing each other, and biting off legs, arms, etc. "This one can shoot lasers from its eyes dad!" (appropriate killing godzilla noises included. Use your imagination!)
Enter: the little sister. Kenzie picks up the biggest godzilla and cradles it. Lovingly strokes its head and says, "Be nice to my baby."
The game is ruined.
Kenz rocks the baby back and forth, like any good mother would, and defends claims that her baby is a monster.
Dad," Thats your baby? He's kind of an ugly baby isn't he?"
(Moans, groans and whining from Carson in the background)
Kenzie looked at her baby, looked at the other godzillas and looked at her dad.
"Yep!"
She drops godzilla, and is gone without another word. Off to destry something else.

Sunday Pictures

2010-12-15T22:34:00.000-08:00

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.......

2010-12-15T21:48:00.000-08:00

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.....

2010-11-05T15:19:00.001-07:00

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

2010-11-04T21:21:00.000-07:00

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

2010-11-04T20:30:00.000-07:00

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!

2010-11-04T16:38:00.000-07:00

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

2010-09-30T21:25:00.000-07:00

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!

2010-08-31T12:34:00.000-07:00

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

2010-08-31T12:11:00.000-07:00

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

2010-08-30T11:15:00.001-07:00

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!

Fairy God Mother

2010-06-29T23:04:00.000-07:00

Again, the bias "mom" opinion. My kids are SO cute!! Last weekend Kenzie found a magic wand at a garage sale. So, for a dime, she got it (my kids are a little spoiled too). She has been casting spells on every one. This morning I could hear them playing together and Cars was telling Kenzie to turn him into a prince. She looked at him funny and asked, "Princess?" Carson was a little adamant," No, a PRINCE!" "Princess?" This went on for about 5 minutes until Carson lost his patience and not so calmly explained that he was NOT a girl, so he could NOT be a princess! It was so funny! I laughed out loud. I don't remember exactly how it ended, but to hear their little argument and their own little personalities. I kinda LOVE them.

Attempt to catch up!!!!

2010-06-08T11:15:00.000-07:00

WARNING!!!! LOTS OF PICTURES! Well not tons, considering all thats happened in the past 2 months! This is a small taste of all our adventures. First, this picture is a classic Carson-ism. He likes to wear his swim gogles outside when its windy so the dirt won't get in his eyes. Which in and of itself is a Carson-ism. He didn't want to come inside to take his gogles in, and he has had the talk, "Don't leave your things outside where the dog can get them/ruin them." This was his own solution!
Cars, doing what he loves...... eating chocolate cake. @ Kara's work (love you Kara!)

Em taught Kenz to blow the seeds off a dandilion. Pretty girl.

Em & Kenz at " This is the Place"

All time FAVORITES! There are penguins behind the kids. Oh, the kids are favorites too =)

cousins

CuTe GiRlS! I love the different looks on each of their faces!

The only pic I got of the kids birthday party! it was fun though,

MORE PICTURES!!!!!!

For Carson bday he wanted to go to the park and play. so, we did!

merry-go-round

slidin'

Kenzie wanted to do the same thing for her bday too. They play SO good together most of the time. I love it.

Phew!

Well, th-th-th-th-thats all folks!

Attitude Adjustment

2010-05-10T22:18:00.000-07:00

Its a good thing that I have good kids around to remind me what is important, and how to look at this life with a positive attitude. Carson got a new infaltable waterslide for his birthday (thanks Papa and Grandma Jan!).He has wanted to set it up every single day! The weather has NOT been cooperating. It has been cold and super WINDY. I am pretty vocal about my dislike for this "stupid, nasty, ol' wind!" It stinks. In fact its supposed to snow a little tomorrow. When I told Carson that he was really sad. He just wants to play in the water! Poor kid, living in land-locked colorado! He didn't stay sad for long though. When he said his prayers tonight he prayed that we could have fun in the snow tomorrow. =D Hows that for an attitude adjustment? Smart boy.

Branding........

2010-04-29T17:22:00.000-07:00

One of the benifits of being married to a cowboy! I love branding, of course I don't do much of the work, but it is SO fun! Every one loves it, especailly these two cowboys. Look at those grins, I can't tell who is having more fun!
Cades family does it the "old fashioned way", with a fire and horses. Not everybody brands this way. Its part of what makes it so fun though! Cade dragging a calf to the fire on his colt. Yep, I married that.

EVERYBODY gets in on this! All the little cousins, from 14 to 2 year olds. They all want to help and be involved.

I don't know why this is in here twice. It is so cute though =D

This is Carson riding a calf, or at least the tail (haha) end of it. He rode two or three. He LOVES this stuff! Such a little cowboy.

I have a video and more pic's but the computer isn't cooperating right now so..........

Kenzie was there too, but she thankfully slept through 3/4's of it. But she loves it too.

So cute, so much fun. I love that my kids get to grow up this way, its kind of a lost art. Very western, very tough. I think.

Spring time on the ranch!

Sew, I made this ......

2010-04-14T10:52:00.000-07:00

This post is for you mom! You would be proud, I've been quite the little seamstress lately! Not really, but I try!This was the latest and was kind of an experiment. I liked the u-shaped yoke I had seen on a differnt pattern, so I tried to make one. I had to cut a couple out before I got it right. Ema did the flower for me. Cute baby eh?

This is #3, a little out of order I know. I love it tho! I really like purple.

This is #2. The first one I did without any help tho. Well Ann helped me fix the straps to be ruffle-y. I have enough of this material left to make 1 for Myah too =D

This was #1. I got it all cut out and Ann helped me to read the pattern instructions. I never have used a pattern before! I really like these colors too. I am going to sew the bows in, cause Kenzie pulls them out and the dress falls off!

This one was all me! I even made the straps cross in the back!

I didn't do hardly a thing on this one. It was kenzie's easter dress. CUTE!

Kenzie laying down in this one, you can see the flower better tho.

She is so cute!

So I got a little carried away with this pattern, but they are all so cute! They are all a little different, and have different lengths. Some are dresses, and some are the longer, tunic-like shirts. Anyway, not too bad eh mom?

ps- I also made Carson a little tractor scripture case/cover. He was feeling a little left out of all the sewing! He is super cute too!

Spring is Sprung!!!

2010-03-13T22:27:00.000-08:00

Boys and girls play on the swings......

Best friends throw rocks and play in the mud.....

Little pirates come out to fight/play.....

The flowers bloom......at Target.

Yep.....spring time is here!

My cute lil' family....

2010-03-01T15:14:00.000-08:00

finally got all together for a family picture. We have taken a couple of others during the past year but NONE of them turned out very well. I am not crazy about this one either (because i am in it! blah!) but anyways. Every one else is cute eh? I thought so.

oh, the cutness!

2010-02-23T22:30:00.000-08:00

Not me OBVIOUSLY! But look at this girl!
Good thing she is so cute, cause boy oh boy is she naughty!

I. LOVE. THIS. Makes me lol every time =)

How can you not LOVE these two cuties! I *LOVE* my kids!

My favorite brother!

2010-02-23T22:04:00.000-08:00

My favorite brother came for a visit a couple of weeks ago. My kids were SO excited! He is so good to them! No wonder they love him. Carson kept asking him to stay for longer and longer. Cole told Carson that he would probably be back next weekend. Carson has asked my about 5 or 6 times if it is next weekend yet.

They played tractors!

Had a spend the night (sleepover), with a movie and popcorn.

They really love him!

Kenzie really warmed up to him. Pretty good for not seeing him for several months!

We all were so glad to have him come visit! He just needs to stay a little longer next time! Love you Cole!!!!

Kenzie baby

2010-02-04T14:20:00.000-08:00

My baby isn't really a baby anymore! She is so big! Or at least she thinks she is big. She wants to do everything all by herself, "I ge' ll it mom", "I do it mom", "I help you mom". Dang she is cute.

Last week she put Carsons boots on, found her purse, her keys, and her baby's bottle, had her coat in hand and told us," Ba-bye guys. I be wight back". I asked if she was leaving and she told me,"Yeah, papa gah's (papa & da's). Wuv you mom, ba-bye." Little miss independant. She probably would of made it over there too, if she could open the door.

a quick little summary.....

2010-01-19T22:31:00.000-08:00

So, this is a very compressed little update. My computer hates me, and the feeling is mutual. I finally got it to download a few pics, after about 8 tries. ANYWAYS! Enjoy this little delicious morsal of my life the last 2 months! Oh, and did you see how stinkin' cute those kids are? Yep there mine!

Best husband I ever had! Seriously, I really, really like this guy. We have alot of fun :)
How cool are we?!? Sleding up at La Manga. We are so hicks! The road wasn't plowed down into the campground, so we just pulled off the hi-way and went sledding down the side of the road more or less. Em, dad, me.
Hahaha. Great shot eh? Playing Around the World at the quonset. L to R is Rachal, Kayla, Kelsi, Kim, me, Ema, and Mike. Click to enlarge, there are some serious winners in there!
Going to get a christmas tree, in the dark, while it was snowing. Me and the kids sat in the truck and Cade cut down the first thing he thought was a tree. It wasn't to bad either!
In 2009 we took a little trip, down to pikes stockade (on the mighty missis sip!) jk!. It was fun, we had a picnic, a left-handed rock thowing contest, and played in the water a bit. Emily and I climbed up the walls of the fort for a photo opp. It was a good one. We laughed, and laughed!

2010-01-07T16:39:00.000-08:00

a little bit of christmas........

2009-12-22T22:44:00.000-08:00

Sing, sing a song of Christmas! Rejoice, rejoice!
Praise to the baby Jesus with heart and voice!
Praise for the peace he braught that night!
sing praises, sing praises of joyous delight!

Boys just don't get it....

2009-12-10T21:39:00.000-08:00

How do you explain to a three year old boy that you can't curl hair with a comb?
7 minutes, and one grouchy girl later i try to explain. Luckily no scissors were involved.

Also, how do you explain to them why we don't tell dad what his christmas presents are?

Lastly how are you supposed to respond to the statement, "Mama, you have chichi's huh?"

No boys were harmed in the making of this post. ;)

thanksgiving!

2009-12-03T12:59:00.000-08:00

Oh, where to start! My sisters came down from Utah on the 25 to stay at my house. We got to do a little cooking thursday morning, went shooting, and headed to my dads for dinner. Jans mom was there, some good friends, dads kids, Jarica and family, Tasha and family, me and family, Emily, and my Grandma Kathleen, she is 82 and is a litte spacey. ANYWAYS, we have a tradition to say 1 thing we are thankful for before we bless the food which is always good. Dad asked Grandma to say the blessing, so she stood up and said a few things that she was thankful for, and talked about family and how we should all get along because that is the most important thing. Then she closed in the name of Jesus Christ and sat down. It was really sweet, but not much of a blessing on the food. We all looked around at each other like, Do we say amen?, Was that it? I didn't close my eyes! Are we gonna say a real prayer now? It was so FUNNY! I mean you can't get any sweeter or more sincere then Grandma, but it wasn't quite what we had in mind. So we stared to eat, it was delish! It totally reminded me of the movie Christmas Vacation when the grandma gets up to bless the food and says the Pledge of Alligeince instead. lol. Oh so funny. Definitly one of those family moments that no one will ever forget, and will be talked about and remember the rest of our lives! Sorry to those sibs that weren't there b/c its one of those things that instantly becomes a classic!
The rest of the weekend was great too! We shopped, ate, b.s.'ed, laughed , went to Pikes Stockade (killer pic's to come, seriously!), played games, went swimming, and Jarica and David blessed their little girl too. It was so much fun. I can't wait to do it again at christmas! Thanks for coming to play guys! Love you ! I'll post pics soon =D

2 cute kids!

2009-11-16T13:25:00.000-08:00

i got a new camera, wahoo! but i don't do the technology stuff at our house so the software hasn't been added to my old computer yet. which is good b/c i'd rather have it on my new computer! (lucky duck eh? we got coles old, but still newer then ours, one) so until cade can get all that done for me there won't be too many pics. ANYWAYS, my kids are still cute! i wanted to share a couple of stories about them.
Kenzie loves babies, no i'm not pregnant. but lately every one has been her baby. the other day she was hugging carson and was patting him saying, baby! sashon (carson) baby! it was really cute carson thought K was crazy and just laughed and laughed. she also tries to get cade to be her baby :)
we are at cades parents fairly often b/c they live like 5 miles away. but i am am staring to think that my kids are a little too comfortable there. we were there saturday evening talking and playing. my f-i-l was outside talking to the neighbor. carson went outside and very politely asked,"papa, are you going to come in and make me some dinner?" sheesh! where is that kids mother eh?

New Pics!

2009-10-29T19:41:00.000-07:00

My little drummers! Both of my kids LOVE! to play the drums, and pound out the beat on anything nearby! Carson calls it jammin!

Kenzie being as much of a cowgirl as she can at 17 months! Killer boots eh? They are all she wants to wear :)

Carson and Cade, being cowboys too! Also as much as they can, whenever they can!

Carson loves the snow! I stood in the doorway and took a pic.

Carson and Kenzie looking at the first snow out my bedroom window. They were both so excieted! Well Carson was, so Kenzie had to be too! They stood there and watched the snow fall for like 5 whole minutes! Cute kids eh?

Never land

2009-10-19T22:14:00.000-07:00

is my new dream place to live. Why? you might ask? Beacause I don't want my kids to grow up! They are so stinkin' cute right now. Almost all of Carsons cousins go to school. So do his uncles, dad, da, and aunt, (we are a huge family of educators!). So, naturally, Carson wants to go to school too. I told him he has to wait for at least 5 more years!
Carson asked me today who makes soap. I told him grown-ups make soap. Then he asked me, "Are me gonna make soap when I am growed- up?" Good question.
Kenzie has stared saying k. Sounds more like day. Go to sleep Kenz! Day! I love you! Day! Be nice to Carson, Day! But she still loves me to rock her to sleep :)
I guess it would be nice if they could bathe themselves eh?

ema wanted

2009-10-12T09:51:00.000-07:00

me to post some pic's of this summer that didn't make earlier posts so here you go em!

sorry em! there is more to come but my computer won't upload them!

Trip to Utah!

2009-10-06T08:34:00.000-07:00

Here are some pics finally. My computer is kinda picky about when it decides to work. Its lots of fun! :)
Ema, Mom, and me on our way to Lake Uba(sp?)

All of the grandkids (moms) celebrating her 50th b-day.

My two cuties at the Provo Temple. They had alot of fun visiting w/ cousins, and were pretty good most of the time!

Kenzie, ever the little lady, was eating off the table at Olive Garden. I was so proud! lol

Granny and the girls. They were both so cute (surprise, surprise eh?). They both would get a little jealous of the other one when they were with Granny. Mom loved it. Can you tell? :)

So, now that I have August covered, maybe I can do September in a month or so. j/k!

UPDATE!

2009-09-16T21:45:00.000-07:00

So, I am not super good at the blogging business. So heres a little update for those 10's of you (maybe) that follow this ;)In chronological order, Kenzie started walking! She just started to walk one day, she'd tried a little before, but never more then a few steps at a time. My mom was here for it and she says that K was just waiting for Granny(my mom).
Mom and me, and my kids went to visit Tasha and Ema in utah. We had tons of fun with cousins. Its so cute to see them play together, cause they don't get the chance very often. We went to the childrens muesem, boating, shopping, celebrated my moms b-day, and did lots of visiting. We got to see Jarica and her cutie-patootie of a baby, Aleah(sp?)
Cade started school! (sniff, sniff) He started at a new school this year and is pretty excieted about the new position. The kids(& me too), had a hard time adjusting to not being able to go with Cade on the ranch. Carson whines that dad is never-ever gonna be home, and all Kenzie says is dadada, GO! She has really started to talk lately. Its crazy how fast they grow up after they start to walk.
Finally this week I turned 27! Cra-zy! I swear I am not really that old, or at least I don't think I should be. There was a story on the news about a 19 year old girl and I told Cade, thats just crazy that a girl our age would do that! He had to remind me that I am no longer 20.

So, anyway thats about it. Cade will have to help me download some pics from all our adventures! :)

SAND DUNES !!!

2009-08-18T21:07:00.000-07:00

Mr. Carson, having a blast with Auntie Em. As always! It was alot of fun to have her here. Carson wanted to ride with Ema everywhere, and sit by her, and wanted her to spend the night in the zebra tent with him every night. He was pretty cute :) Em's a pretty good sport about it too, she took him to the parade one day and they had a pretty good time. Carson about talked her ear off!

Carson burried in the sand. He thought it was pretty cool!

Being burried in the sand. Cute little boy:)

Cars brought us handful after handful of wet sand :)I think he threw a few at us too, such a boy!

Kenzie loved it! There was just the right amount of water for the kids. Believe it or not they are both little water babies! Even Kenzie splashed and played and laid down in the water. We really had a good time. There wasn't many people, and it wasn't too hot. we had alittle shade and had a picnic right by the water. It was great :)

Oh, these sand dunes are about an hour away from my house, and are pretty fun if the wind isn't whipping the sand in your face!

Celebration!

2009-07-27T07:49:00.000-07:00

My cousins and I did the 5k in Manassa. It was fun with everybody there!

My super cute cousins, Anna and Cara after the 5k. Anna if you can't get it off of here, let me know and I can email it to you :)

Cara, Anna, me, Ema, and Andy in our 5k t-shirts. Kelsi and Kayla did it with us too, but we couldn't find them after the race. It was my first one! Ema, Andy, and I did a walk/run thing that wasn't too bad =)

Carson and his participant sucker. He was so excieted about the races, he did pretty good, but at the end was too excieted to really run. He sorta jumped and skipped across the finish line. (Foot races in Sanford)

Kenzie and Collin (sp)? in the crawling race. There were 4 babies. Kenz is usually really fast, but she stopped to watch and play with the other babies.

Auntie Em and Kenzie, enjoying the shade. It was so stinking hot!

I'll post more pic's soon. Cade finally figured out how to get some pics on here. Its a little ridiculous. But we had alot of fun, as always, and now it will take a week to recover from all the fun and sun. =)

Summertime!

2009-05-14T15:22:00.000-07:00

Aaahhhhhhh, the sweet scent of dandilions! Or the sweet taste if you are like Kenzie and would rather eat them then smell them! My computer hasn't been cooperating lately so there are 3 different posts from today. Mostly its just pictures (those are for you mom!), but I will do better in the future=) Happy blogging!

2009-05-14T15:06:00.000-07:00

Kenzie and the kitty!

They were checking each other out pretty good. Then Kenzie started being too rough and I had to take the kitty away. She cried and cried. Like I was sooo mean. Little stinker! This is her birthday too, ! year old! I can;t believe it!

Addy, Kenzie, and Batman (aka Carson, don't worry he wore that to the store too!) They had shared a chocolate push-up pop and were pretty cute and chocolatey!

Casron taking a "super" nap! (notice the cape=)

Carson loves books! Especially if they have tractors or big trucks!

I'm Back! (sorta, I never really went anywhere!)

2009-05-14T14:38:00.000-07:00

I finally had to borrow Jan's computer to get some dang pictures on here. I got a little carried away. But my mom will be happy =) Oh, I just realized these will all be backwards! Oh well.

Carson Tuck's 3rd birthday. He was soooo excieted! We had a combined party with another cousin. Carson sang (the loudest of anybody), Happy Birthday to me !!! But then he didn't want cake or ice cream, he just wanted to play with his new tractor.

Kenzie, Jaclyn, Carson, Tiana, Kacee, and Kasia. All waiting for the water out on the prairie.

Cade, Carson, and Papa Huff riding on the prairie, chasin' cows, and bein' cowboys!

Carson coloring easter eggs. It was kinda late so he was pretty tired, but excieted too! All my other pic's of him and Kenzie in their easter clothes are on my other camera.

How Kenzie sleeps with us some nights! She really does pretty good most of the time, but she was getting some teeth a month or so ago, and after being up 3 or 4 times I finally put her in bed with Cade and I. Cade was nice enough to cover me up before he took the pic so I wouldn't be too revealing =) But don't I look lovely!

Fun stuff!

2009-03-30T11:00:00.000-07:00

It's alays a bit of a let down when you have to go back to normal everyday life! Ema, Tash and her kids, and Jarica were all here for the weekend and it was so fun. Now that they are gone I'm like now what am I gonna do? Not play with cousins, or have big, loud, out of control dinner at my dad's, or stay up til 2am making fun a tasha's inability to roll her tongue(love you Tash!). Oh well. My kids are taking naps again and that is definitly a good thing. But we did have a blast! Tasha's kids got REAL cowboy boots so we decided to follow suit and wear some too. So we had to go and watch Cade and his brothers and dad sort the cows on their horses, real cowboy stuff!
It was fun, Drake got to ride a horse my b-i-l helped him down and drake told him very excietedly that when he got big he was going to be a REAL COWBOY! If you have heard Drake talk you know how animated and loud he can be. It was way cute to see them both so excieted. Tasha you'll just have to bring them back more often so that they can continue their cowboy pursuit! Pictures to come, my camera is at my dads. I'm sure Tasha has all of her's up too!
A little lonely in CO =)

SO Big !!

2009-03-03T20:23:00.000-08:00

Kenzie started crawling last night! She has been army crawling for about a month, and has been crawling backwards for a few weeks now. She just started crawling like it was no big deal. Carson was pretty excieted, he has been showing her how to crawl for a few weeks . He wanted her to follow him around like a little puppy, which she kind of does anyway! Ah, cute kids=)
The weather has been so nice for the past few weeks! We have been outside everyday, and I love it! Kenzie really likes it, she watches the cows and horses. It is a good break for all of us to get outside to play and enjoy the sunshine. The snow is all gone, and the mud is drying, that means I can wear my flipflops!

Why? Why? Why? Why?

2009-02-12T10:48:00.000-08:00

Lucky for me Carson has discovered the all important question of why. For everything I say he has to ask why. I feel like an encyclopedia 24/7. Its a little draining to say the least. I am sure most parents have experienced this to some extent. These are some of his recent inquiries.....
-Why I can't put 2 legs in this one hole?(pants)
-Why Kenzie can't eat Cheetos?
-Why I don't plug in the vacuum?
-Why this is not 5? (holding up 3 fingers)
-Why I can't eat all of the cookies?
-Why don't we shoot Jesus?(the picture on the wall)
-Why we don't eat crayons?
-Why we are not going to Granny Pat's?
-Why its too late for pop?
-Why the wind is blowing so bad?

That was yesterday, who knows what today will bring. Its a good thing that moms know everything eh? I have to admit that even though some of my answers are a little bogus... I do have an answer for almost all of the why's he can throw at me. Thats putting a college degree to good use don't ya think? (haha)

Kiss me on the Darth Vadar

2009-01-30T09:22:00.000-08:00

These are just some random stories about my adorable kids.
I have the cutest kids ever! The other day Carson Tuck was wearing his Darth Vadar mask (he calls it Dark Vadar), we were leaving Cade's parents house and he told Da (grandma) to kiss him on the Darth Vadar. He is so cute! He loves Kenzie so much, it is super cute to see them play together. Last night CT was putting a sock on Kenzie's head and when it would fall off they both would laugh and laugh like it was the funniest thing that had ever happened to either of them. Pretty much the cutest kids ever, if you ask me. Carson was looking at me very seriously the other day and he told me," Mom, you have a pretty great big ole' head." Thanks Cars.
When Makenzie was born we talked about different names for her with Carson. When we said that we liked Makenzie, Carson told us "ya, My-Kenzie." That's pretty much why we named her Makenzie. He still calls her that every once in awhile. When I say my-Kenzie he will say no, my-Kenzie. Maybe we could share her! Sweet boy.

Technology?

2009-01-13T20:30:00.000-08:00

I am now an official blogger ! Yay! Crazy how these things work eh? Tasha expect lots of tech-support calls until I get this all figured out. Hopefully Cade will get our computer up and running WITH a wireless connection. Until then this will have to do, and Cade will have to download pic's at school. But finally here we are !