Birthday Party

Tucker put his candles in the shape of a T.

 U of I and BSU are playing for the last time on Friday. Rusty wanted to go to the game, but the tickets have been sold out since September.  I have watched Craigslist, but couldn't find any.  Anyhow, Rusty had a buddy that had 2 tickets and couldn't attend so offered to sell them to Rusty.  I told him that he should take Tucker as he REALLY wanted to go and I don't care so much.   Rusty brought the tickets home tonight and put them in an envelope and wrote U of I and BSU on the front.  It was on the counter.   I moved this envelope several times near Tucker as he was in the kitchen and he just ignored it.  I finally said "Why don't you go on Craigslist and see it there are any tickets."  Here he is searching for tickets.  I pushed the envelope towards his elbow several times, but he still didn't notice.  Finally as you can see in this picture I pushed it under his elbow.  He still didn't notice.  He found some tickets on craigslist so I told him to e-mail and ask the seats hoping he will look down as he typed.  FINALLY!!!!  I wish Rusty would have got that picture.  It was so funny.  Tucker is thrilled that they are going! 

Happy Birthday Buddy!

Happy 12th b-day

Happy Birthday to my sweet boy!

Trip to the Karls house

We went for a short trip to Montana to see our dear friends.  We all had great time visiting with each other.  Thanks so much for letting us come invade your home.  We love you guys.

I don't know when Wendy took this, but I stole it from her blog cuz I thought it was so cute.  

The crew!  Again I stole this from Wendy.  (:

 Abby Dabby Do!!!

Lily being so cute after her bath.

 This is what the boys were doing if they weren't having air soft wars.

Lily and Rae

Happy 60th Dad

Baptism

Ethan, Tucker, and Cody were baptized on Wednesday.  It was so neat to have them all baptized at the same time.  I am so proud of all of them.  

My Tucker is NOT a morning person

One of the things that I worried about when we decided Tucker would go to school this year is getting up in the morning.  He is like his mom and not really happy in the morning.  He has done great and gets up every morning and gets in the shower.  He will eat breakfast and then sit on the couch and read till its time to go.  This morning I think he was a little tired.

Just cuz he is so cute.

Poor Tanzy

I have had Tanzy longer than any of our dogs.  She has put up with all the other cats and dogs that have come and gone.  She is so patient and the best dog.  Darth is constantly laying on her like this.  He sits and kneads her back.  She just lets him.

4 lbs. of mischief and mayhem

Bella is so naughty and mischievous.   For such a little thing she can get up on everything.  I find her on the kitchen table, on my craft counter, and  on my coffee tables.  She is just so naughty.  She will stop if I catch her in the act, but keeps right on if no one is looking.

The poor chickens are subjected to her chasing them around.  I haven't been putting on her shock collar as it rubs sores in her poor little neck and she knows when it is on and when it isn't.   The moment you let her out without it she goes to visit the birds.  They DO NOT enjoy her company.

She LOVES toys with stuffing inside or bedding with stuffing.   She will attack her toys and rip all the stuffing out till I get irritated and throw it away.  I buy cheap quilted pillow shams at the goodwill for her kennel and she will chew holes in them till she can pull the stuffing out.  ARGH!  I now by rope toys or squeaky toys NO more stuffed animals.

Lucky for her I kinda like the naughty thing and for some reason Rusty thinks she's the bomb.  She is a good little bed buddy.

Football Pictures and last game

Tonight is the last game of the season.  It's gonna be a wet one.

Well that is hard to see, isn't it!  Well they turned out great.