EISF 2015

We braved the fair this year. Kade's work had a booth and he got me in free for a night or two, 5 and under are free so we thought why not?!? 

We made a deal with the kids they could choose one ride. Drake wanted a train ride and Addyson was obsessed with the Ferris wheel. I don't know how she even knew what one was, but when we started talking about visiting the fair that is ALL she could talk about. We let them each ride the train and we all, except Lex road the Ferris wheel. 

The kids had to have an adult with them to ride. So naturally girls and boys split up. 

I fully expected her to cry because it was high and pretty fast....instead she loved it and was majorly bummed when it slowed down to unload. 

This is the little train...I guess u can't see what they are riding on. 

Trecia and Jake helped with kids!!! They were awesome. 

We had fun, got cotton candy (which they hatted) and some Carmel apples. 

All about our home in Pingree

I have not been writing as often as I should, which brings a problem… I'm far behind on my blog. No one probably knows what's going on with my life. We purchased a house at the end of July, the last day of July. We kept it from EVERYONE!  Mostly because I kept getting the feeling that it would fall through, and I didn't want to be disappointed and keep sharing and sharing in the disappointment.  We have a small budget so that equals a small home or a home that need major work.  We looked for a year for a home in and around Blackfoot, everything within our budget we either couldn't get a loan for or was falling down.  Kade wanted some land, but that was pretty much nonexistent for our price range.  When our home came on the market we looked at it and made an immediate offer.

Some stuff about our home.
It was listed as a 2Bed 2Bath home with an office, when we looked at it and realized there were in fact 3Bed 2Bath with an office we figured it would be big enough. It is 1682sqft so we may not have any room for more kids and  Kade didn't get the garage he wanted but we hope to build one someday in the distant future.  It was stick built in 97 so it sin't very old and has some nice custom things about it and central AC.  The one and only previous owner was in a wheel chair and so all the doors are nice and wide, there are 3 outside doors, the toilets are super high, the closets have nice shelves and the tub and shower are a little different designed.

The house was in rough shape (foreclosure).  Cats and dogs had been left inside.  There was even feces on the walls (YUCK). We knew it would be a lot of work, but it's always more work than you anticipate. Especially since I mostly had the kids and so when they were with me it was impossible to get much done.  Trecia and Jake helped a ton, painting, pulling out floor, painting, putting in floor, painting, and cleaning! you guys rock thanks!  Plus my mom and Annie watch my kids from time to time, thanks for that, awesome people.

These are the pictures from the realty website.

front room/living room

The kitchen while standing in the dinning room

Kitchen standing by the laundry room/ backdoor.  You can see the dinning room as well.

master bedroom, and master bath.  

master bathroom, there is another mirror/sink on the other side of the tub.

The office

one of the bedrooms.

There isn't a picture of the 2nd bedroom, and I didn't take one. As soon as we closed Kade went and ripped out all the carpet before I had a chance, haha.

bathroom

back of the house. 

It took us a full month to redo flooring, paint, and make it so we could stand to live in it.  We didn't get the bathrooms or the laundry room floors done.  they are just subfloor. but we can use them and eventually will finish them.

I never want to move and I don't plan on it EVER again!

The house is on a 5.3 acres and is up on a hill.   The outside is surrounded in sagebrush so establishing a yard will be a big to-do. There are also 2 single-wide trailers on the property...which are torn to shreds and the kids love to explore in them *yikes*  we are hoping to burn them or something in the spring,

The moving is slow and painful.  Someday we will finally be unpacked......someday. But we officially are living here.

7.18.15

We had a fun Saturday! We decided to hit up Atomic Days in Arco, Idaho. The kids LOVED the long parade....they each gathered a bag of candy each! 

The kids didn't like it too much when water was squirted at us and there was a lot of that! 

For the first time in a long time I noticed an age difference with my kids. Drake really understood racing for the candy and Addyson, even though she is competitive, still needed help finding the candy and picking it up in time.  

At one point a plane flew over head and dropped ping pong balls...my kids were in awe!!!

The fun didn't end there! I got to participate in my 2nd 10K!  Where I enjoyed myself so much! It was overcast, 70°, and it even sprinkled a little bit. I felt amazing until mile 5 where I started getting tired. 

You see that pretty Ford?!? He followed me for over an hour at 5mph or less. Yup, I was DEAD last and had my own personal cheerleader! I found it quite amusing, I hope he enjoyed my dancing at mile 4, which probably was the reason I got so tired at mile 5. :) 

Before you get embarrassed for knowing the girl who came in last, know that there were only 5 people who even ran the 10K. With this fun run they had a lot of participants, and like any other race I've been to, they start the 5K and 10K together so you don't know who is running what until 1.5miles when the 5K and the 10K split. 

Because there were only 5 of us and only 2 of us were women, we all placed and all got medals. 

Kade forgot to take pictures and I forgot to remind him.  So I tried to get one by the finish sign but they were taking it down by the time I got my medal. So the finish line will have to do :)

Later that night Kade, Lex, and I went to a car race in Pocatello with Jake and Trecia. It was sponsors night and PRB OIL sponsors one of the racers at the track. So the boys got in free and wanted to go. It was surprisingly fun. 

Look how cute we are! I hope everyone else had an enjoyable weekend.  

Recap of June 2015

This is a recap of my month according to the pictures on my phone. 

Speaking of phones, I got a new one this month! My awesome Iphone 5S needed an update and when I went to update it, my phone fried.  It really just bit the dust, I took it to the store thinking they could just update it and reboot it.  The apple guy said he had never seen that happen, but I lost some pictures and some money....such is life.  Now I have a better phone to show for it tho.  

9 months and 6 teeth! 4 on top 2 on bottom

Kade, Lex, and I got to go to Boise for a job training.  We stayed 2 nights in a hotel. It was nice because some awesome family members watched our 2 oldest kids!

There was a pool, and we spent a lot of tie in it.  Us in our swim gear.

ade had a class early and all day on Wednesday, so we drove up Tuesday night!  Tuesday and Wednesday were shot, and we had to drive home Thursday!  BUT, on the way home we did some shopping and visited the old state penitentiary....it was super cool!  Lots of crazy stories!  

Kade was taller then the doors and it was 4 levels high.

When all 3 kids fall asleep you take a picture because that sh*t just doesn't happen.

The kids love living by the green belt and they love exploring around it.  And yes Addyon dresses herself haha.

New swim suits.

My diet bet results....if you can remember I did a diet bet.  I ended up entering 2 at the same time ( you can enter up to 3) I paid 25$ and 35$ I got back 107.16$! 47.16 bucks that I won.  I got me a new pair of running shoes.

a walk with all 3 kids smashed in the stroller

More pictures by the green belt....apparently it was cooler in June because we stopped going as often.  

Running through the sprinklers 

March 2015 Four Wheeling

My sister is super lucky and won a four wheeler from cal-ranch the end of last year. Ever since we have been bugging them to go with us up to 8 mile (the place of our first date/where we got engaged).

Today we went, we were worried because it was super windy. My mother-in-law watched all 3 kids, although Lex refused to eat because he is teething. I felt bad for both of them, thanks again. 

We had fun and enjoyed a short ride. It wasn't too windy, but it was icy. We made the most of it and got some cute pics.

My kids even got a ride from Trecia.