Mother's Day

On Mother's day, my mom was in town with us. It was a great day. Earlier on for an Easter gift she sent the kids a butterfly kit to raise some butterflies. We diligently kept up with them....not that they needed much tending, but regardless, we had 4 beautiful butterflies and one physically challenged butterfly who came out all deformed, ha ha. His wings didn't grow quite right and he couldn't fly :( Anyway, so for Mother's day we had a nice dinner and invited Blair and Michelle to come eat with us and afterward we set the butterflies free. Once they were free, my mom surprised the kids with some fun gummy butterflies to eat. Kinda cute. It was a nice time and real fun for the kids to get to hold the butterflies and see them fly away.

I had to include this picture of the kids on the trampoline. Dallin had just "bombed" Ben and the poor kid ate it. He wasn't hurt but the look on Dallin's face cracked me up.

The beginning of the UPDATES!

Ok, so it's been FOREVER since I even logged into my blog if you haven't noticed. I am sure nobody even looks for it anymore :) Well, I will just start posting random pictures as much in order as possible.
I went on a cruise in January and that just started the whole slacker problem of mine. I have gone from one thing to the next up until now in SEPTEMBER when things have finally started to slow down.
Here is a little outing with my mom and Drew clear back around February??? We went to the river and fed the ducks and let Drew ride around on his scooter(which has now been stolen from our front yard by the way!!??!!) The one with just the ducks in it was what I took when we were walking back to our car to leave and I turned around to find all the ducks following us in this big line down the sidewalk. I thought it was so funny I had to snap a shot of it. The picture of me and my mom was taken by Drew, the budding photographer. He got a very centered shot, what a great eye he has......

New Year's

We spent New Years Eve with our good friends, Kitty and Juan. We went bowling, ate some good food and hung out. Dallin took his friend, Kaden, with us too. Drew was cracking me up because he always had a funny pose after he sent the ball down the lane. It was a good time!

Christmas Pictures

Here are some Christmas pics. I know I have been a bad slacker. I'll post more soon..... The Caldwell Family on Christmas Day (will someone please tell Doug to smile)!

Dallin and Grandpa Gibson

Dallin on his new toy.


Dallin with his friends, Sarah and Matthew, breaking and eating the gingerbread house! YUM.


The Gingerbread House


Drew and Aden with Owen and Grandpa Hoxer

Linds and Jen with baby Owen

All the boys: Jared, Doug, Chris and Blair with their new big boy tools.

Grandpa Gibson playing with Drew and Aden. We love Grandpa!

Karie and Owen baby


Drew with his new Batcave!

Biggest Loser: Shishter Edition

Check out mine and Lindsey's weight loss blog at www.losershishters.blogspot.com to see our competition and progress. We will post pics and tips and whatever we want! Come join the fun!

Halloween

Well, another fun Halloween and birthday! We had a little battle with Dallin over his costume, the bugger! He wanted to be the Scream character and I thought it was stupid so I made his Scream into that cool Scream Abduction (that I am wearing) for him. I thought it was awesome and a good compromise, but he still didn't want to wear it.....UGH! So the night before the Trunk-Or-Treat I told him I give up and if he wanted another costume, Dad was in charge! So he ended up with the Reaper :( . I had originally got the Jack Sparrow costume for him and he wouldn't wear that one either so we pinned it and made it work for Drew (which I thought turned out awesome!) Doesn't he make a cute little Jack Sparrow??!

Dallin's friends, Connor and Kayden, came with us to the Trunk-Or-Treat on Friday night. Connor is the hippie, Kayden is the BMX guy.

Here is my awesome Scream Abduction costume.....it was a big hit! The little kids around 2-3 didn't want to come near me for fear they would be taken too. Some of the real little ones were real scared and buried heads in the necks of their moms, ha ha. The adults just thought it was great and I even had someone say it was the best costume they had ever seen! Stinkin' Dallin.

After the Trunk-Or-Treat, the boys came home to count their candy and EAT it!

On Halloween we went with the Hone's and some of their friends to have pizza and go out Trick-Or-Treating. Of course we had another run-in with Dallin. He didn't want to trick or treat in someone else's neighborhood and he started freaking out that he wasn't going to get treats in OUR neighborhood.....UGH again! We caved again and left early to go meet up with his buddies in our hood and all was happy again. After counting candy, Dallin begged us to take him to Dr. Slaughters House of Terror. We have never been, but we told him he would be too scared. He started crying and saying how it was the last day to go and he has never been to a haunted house before and please, please, please!!! (Yes, he is extremely high maintenance if you haven't noticed!!) So we went along with this little plan and drove over to Dr. Slaughter's. When we pulled up and he heard the scary music, he didn't even want to get out of the car! ha ha... So I told him we would try to find this other one that I didn't think would be so scary. We couldn't find the dumb thing so we drove back to Dr. Slaughter's once again. Dallin and Doug got out of the car and walked in. I had to wait in the car because Drew was with us. A few minutes later I see Dallin's white face with Doug's arm around him walking back out of the haunted house. The little stinker couldn't take it. After all that begging to take him.....I swear. So those are the adventures of Dallin on Halloween. I hope nobody else has such a difficult child!

Dallin's Baptism-Sept. 5, 2009

"And whoso believeth in me, and is baptized, the same shall be saved; and they are they who shall inherit the kingdom of God."

-3Nephi 11:33

I am so proud of my big 8 year old! He is such a good kid, has so much faith and is a great example to his friends. I am glad that it was his choice to be baptized and follow the example of the Savior. I love you, Dallin. Continue to do all the things you know are right and you will be on your way to living with your Father in Heaven again. Congratulations on your baptism!

Dallin and Dad before the baptism.
We went to Chuck-A-Rama after to eat with the whole family.
Everyone made the trek up to Idaho Falls to see the baptism.
Drew and Paigee
Dallin and Amanda