Did you say turkey poop?

The day started off with our cute neighbors Colter and Hadleigh. They wanted to come over to Backen and Kayla's house. Well Colter loves Bracken's motorcycle but only when it's not moving or running. So we sat him and his sis down on it and had to get a picture.

We also discovered while taking pictures that Hadleigh has the best cheesy smile, well at least I think that is what she is trying to do.

 Then Bracken started tossing Colter and after a few takes we finally got a good one of him. Notice the pointed feet, he takes getting thrown serious.

A few weeks ago I decided I wanted to plant some flowers in my little dirt patch in front of our house. I spent $6 on a few colorful ones, planted them and called it good. Well Dana and Eric decided they had to compete with the "Batemans" and Eric went out and spent over $40 on flowers!!! Well after a few days, almost all of their flowers died and mine were only looking better. So after some talking we decided it was their soil. So Dana and I went to Smith's to get reinforcements. Well at Smith's this cute lady, who most definetely had a green thumb, saw we looked clueless and helped us pick out some top soil. A few minutes later she came back and said, "I was thinking and you need to buy this too," It was a fertlizer, with yes, you guessed it... TURKEY POOP! So we bought it of course with a few new flowers to get her dirt patch back into shape.

And of course it got a little crazy!

Well after making her side look nice and fresh with dark dirt and new flowers, I had to dig up all my flowers and add some turkey poop so that mine side looked good too. It now has become a competition.

And of course you have to taste it, wait I mean of course NOT, but you have to get some pictures getting dirty. Oh and did I mention that it was raining this entire time! It got pretty dirty.

Meanwhile while Dana and I were planting flowers, Bracken and Colter were running around in the rain. It might not look like it but if you look at Bracken's shoulders and shirt he is soaking wet!!

At the end of the day Colter and Bracken tracked in water and grass into the house, Dana now has a flower bed that can temporarily compete with mine, and we'll have to see how well this turkey poop keeps our flowers alive.

Weekend at the Cabin

Our familiy owns a cabin up Fairview canyon. My dad and family built it back in 1992. It has your traditional wood burning stove, no electricity, and of course an outhouse. My family took the 24th of July weekend and headed down for some fun in the great outdoors.

Our first day we were there, my brother pulled out his fancy gun and starting shooting at a metal target 750 yards away! Well of course since dad-e-o (what his son calls him) did it, Gage had to settle down and take aim.

Braxton and Austin got bored so decided to have a seat in the dirt while the big boys shot. Gage of course had to join.

This is the entire family at the cabin! All siblings, their spouses and children along with grandma and grandpa in front of the cabin.

I told my mom and dad to smile for a picture and this is what I got.

We all went for a cruise on this dirt road that took us all the way to the top of this gorgeous ridge. It was so pretty! Everywhere you turned just green mountains on every side!

My sister Kalli and her husband Scott

My sister Jennie and her husband John with their kids Braxton, Austin, and Brielle.

My brother Jeff, his wife Brit, and their two kids Gage and Lucy in their decked out razor!

 This is my adorable niece bubbles. At first her nickname came because she would spit bubbles from her mouth all the time. I now think it is because she is the happiest bubbly baby girl I know, always smilin!

 So we packed up and headed home but of course had to stop and do some fishin. Bracken was the only one to catch any fish will the help of my cute niece Brielle. Funny story, Bracken just caught a fish and needed to put another worm on his hook. He asked me to do it. Well I could see Bri was bored so I had her bend over to the worm cup and coaxed her into picking one up for me. Well she found it fun and we couldn't keep her out of the worms!! Oh and p.s. I got the worst sunburn ever from fishin that day!

I think this outfit deserves some sort of award for best dressed!

It was a great weekend with the family enjoying the outdoors! I can't wait to do it again!