Birthdays

JASON'S BIRTHDAY

For Jason's 31sth b-day (March 9th) we went out to lunch at El Caporal.
I got braces Feb. 22nd so here's the first shot.

BRADY'S 2nd BIRTHDAY

Playing with bubbles.

COLE'S 5th BIRTHDAY

Cole has been talking about going to Chuckee Cheese for his birthday for a long time. We made plans to go to the closest one in Boise. We drove up in our new car we bought from Jason's sister Amy, an Oldsmobile Bravada. It seats 5 and has room for both car seats. We still have our Toyota Corolla. I have been working at The Amalgamated Sugar Company Co since December of 2010. I work on shift so I have to work nights and days. Jason had a single cab truck that couldn't fit both car seats so he had Cole sit in the middle without a car seat. One day he was pulled over and the cop told him both kids needed to be in car seats (which we already knew and wanted but had to make due). Luckily, I happened to be driving by and Jason told the cop so the cop had me stop and take Cole since I had his car seat and Jason avoided a ticket. We decided right there that we needed a bigger vehicle. So we bought Amy's and got a great deal.

On the way, we saw tons of windmills. Uncle Glen came with us.

We stayed at a hotel in Meridian. Cole's birthday was April 22nd and Easter was 2 days later, so we decided to celebrate Easter the morning of Cole's birthday in the hotel. Jason has MTW off and have TH F off. This way, we only have to have babysitters on the weekends right now (my schedule changes). Jason took a personal day so we had Easter too on the one day we had off together. Anyway, back to Cole's birthday.

After Easter, we made it to Chuckee Cheese.

When we arrived, the host asked if it was anyone's birthday. Cole said it was his and he had the biggest smile on his face. He was given a sticker with his name on it and a few extra free tokens.

We ordered pizza and bought lots of tokens. Each machine took a single token so we were there for hours. The boys had fun.

Cole danced with Chuckee and caught some token he threw out to the kids.

That night, we invited the grandparents over for cake and Cole's party.

Haircuts

Brady had his first haircut a few months after his first birthday.
He didn't cry. Aunt Steph gave his things to keep his mind occupied.

Cole likes getting haircuts.

Sleeping

I just had to compile a few pictures taken when I found Brady sleeping throughout the past few months.
Poor guy in the picture was sick this day while mom was working. Grandma fell asleep too.

One of my favorites. Brady and Cole share a room and one night, Jason was woke in the middle of the night and found Brady asleep at the side of our bed on the floor. He had made it that far from his room and passed out without us even knowing he was there.

Christmas 2010

So Cole has had a wonderful year in pre-school this year. His school performed at the festival of trees.

Halloween

Cole was a zombie. He was able to dress up at school.

But his mask was really scary so he didn't wear it much.

Brady was really scared of all the masks and would start crying. Poor guy, not his favorite holiday. He was Spiderman. They didn't go trick or treating this year, I had to work and Jason was planning on going to our ward's trunk or treat but they had it last week.

Pumpkin Patch

We took the kids to an awesome pumpkin patch in Rupert this year that had all kinds of pumpkins.

My favorite were the cinderella pumpkins.

We went with Jason's cousin Austin and his family and Brock.

Harvest

I decided work during the beet harvest this year. It only lasted a few weeks but we worked 14 hour days 6 days a week. I worked past Rupert in like Minidoka or somewhere close to that.

I worked in a tarehouse shown above on a piler.

Trucks pull up and my job was to track the truck number and take samples from every 3rd truck from the same grower and field. Beets are fed onto a hopper and carried up, the dirt is filtered onto another belt that is weighed and then the beets are dumped into a huge pile to be carried away later. The samples come through a tube into a bag.

Here's a picture of a busy day. We had 3 pilers at our dump. I was helping out in #1 for a little bit.

I worked in piler #2. The sampling was a lot different than the other two pilers. In ours, we had to place a bucket onto a lever that would catch beets. Then we took it inside and dumped it onto a tray with a bag attached at the bottom and then we would pick up the bag and toss it into a crate down below. Our piler was also up high, not on the ground like the others.

This was the biggest beet I saw, also the first one to be captured in my bucket. It was HUGE!

My co-worker Faith! We had so much fun and we carpooled together.

The end of the season view of all 3 dumps.

We thought it would be fun to climb the beets.