Brinleys school picture.

I had Jentrys retaken. She had major glare going on with her glasses. But I thought Brinleys turned out cute!

Rifle Hunt 2009

Well the rifle hunt is coming to a close. This is a big deal for my family. Every year since like 1900 (OK not that far back but pretty close) we have went to Wallsburg and stayed in about the same spot. This year my parents went up for about 2 weeks. They usually have some kind of grand kid with them. This year they were supposed to have both of the boys and my niece Shaylee. But Chase got sick. :( So it was just Shaylee and Ty for about four days. The girls had fall break off so they got to go up on Wednesday night and stay until I came on Friday and went home Saturday. My parents were going to pick Ty and Chase up again on Tuesday but they could not kick their tummy troubles and weren't able to go up and stay with grandma and grandpa again. :( (It wasn't just them that were sad about it. ;-) ) The weekend that we were able to go up was pretty fun! We had lots of family up there and lots of fun stories to tell! The kids really enjoyed riding the motorcycle and four wheelers! Brinley learned how to ride the motorcycle by herself. I was so proud of her. At first I just had to ride it down the hill in neutral so that she could figure out the brakes. I was too scared to let her have it in gear. But not her dad...He put it in gear for her and off she went. She did crash (more like fall over) about 2 times. But shes a tough cookie and got right back on after a few tears. Jentry is a little different than that...if she crashes or gets scared...she wont try it again for a few days, weeks, or possibly never. We love love love going up to Wallsburg. Even though there aren't any bucks up there. (which is fine by me!) We did see a moose on the way home though.

Can you hear me now?

Last night Ty came to me and said... "Would you get something out of my ear?" My dad always plays this game with him and pretends to get things out of his ear so that is what I thought he was talking about. So I grabbed the nearest block that was behind him and pretended to get it out of his ear. He looked at me and said... "No! Get this out of my ear!" and showed me a little Styrofoam ball from one of the bean bags. I looked in his ear and sure enough..I could see a little ball down there!!

Scott decided maybe we should do a little more ear damage and tried to suck it out with the vacuum. (You know you're a red neck....) That didn't work so off he went to walmart to get some tweezers. We have gotten this far without having any tweezers and I think this could explain my uni-brow..hmmm....

When he got home he was able to pull that sucker out!! What will it be next??


(I did thank Ty for giving me something to blog about. Its been slow-go around here!)