First Beeker

Montana

2011-07-09T21:22:00.000-06:00

We went to Montana with family over the 4th of July and we all had a great time. We were supposed to go fly-fishing and be eating fish like crazy, but it didn't happen because the river was moving to quickly to catch anything. With white water rafting, games, family, and fun, we all had a great time even without the fish.

It was beautiful in Montana and I couldn't get enough of it. Here are a few of the many pictures I took of and around Rock Creek.

The bridge suspended over Rock Creek.

The beauty of Montana:

Trails winding around Rock Creek:

The Farmers' Market in Missoula. I didn't get as many pictures there but here are some of the few that I got.

Roasting marshmallows: Yum!

Kate with Uncle Aram and Aunt Mollie.

Enjoying marshmallows: Even better.

Kate had a little dance.

Henry had a little song.

This is Camden, my almost six-year-old cousin. She is as sweet as can be and I miss her a bunch.

Camden had a great time.

This is Claire a.k.a. ClaireBear. She is a cutie patootie and I miss seeing her cute little face.

This is how Claire likes to enjoy her marshmallow.

Camden and Claire.

Me and Camden.

Kate, Aunt Miriam, and Camden.

Me and Aunt Miriam.

Cousins!

Me, Camden, and Claire.

We all had a great time and I wish we didn't live so far away from each other.

Spring...almost

2011-03-25T18:10:00.000-06:00

It was beautiful outside this morning. The snow was all glittery from the previous dusting of snow and everything was covered in frost. I was brave and went outside in the cold, without a coat on. I guess I'm too lazy for winter. Spring was in the near future until the blizzard this week. A blizzard at the end of March? Weird.

I will admit that the snow in the picture below is perfect.

Pancake breakfast

2011-03-25T17:50:00.001-06:00

Almost every Saturday morning we have some special breakfast. This particular Saturday morning we were having pancakes. I mean, I was making special pancakes and everyone else was eating them. Pancakes just seem a whole lot better when they are in a special shape. These first pancakes were for the loving parents who provide the ingredients...

This pancake was Kate's special flower pancake.

I think Kate really enjoyed her pancake.

Henry's smiley face pancake.

The dogs really wanted to join the pancake breakfast.

Mt. Rushmore

2011-02-24T13:39:00.004-06:00

I finally figured out how to get my pictures on this blog!

We visited some friends in South Dakota, and while there we visited Mt. Rushmore. It was amazing. Seeing it in pictures just isn't the same as seeing it in real life.
The huge rock pile below the heads is the remains from the dynamite. 90% of it was built using dynamite.

These were the cool flags leading up to Mt. Rushmore.

It was absolutely beautiful the day we went.

The scenery was also beautiful.

This is another cool, but random, picture that I got.

Piper

2010-03-15T20:11:00.001-06:00

This is a picture of Piper I recently took. I don't have any recent, good pictures of Elliot at the moment, though. He is Cute.

Aggie

2010-03-15T20:07:00.002-06:00

This is the very last picture you will ever see of Aggie on my blog. She died on Monday, March 8th 2010. At a little more than 10 months old, she died. She died as she was crawling up to her house and she didn't even have enough strength to completely get in the house. This picture is going to hang in my room, above where her cage used to be.

Speaking of Short Hair...

2010-03-15T20:05:00.001-06:00

I GOT A HAIRCUT! I never thought I would do it, but I did. Usually my hair isn't this straight, but the hairdresser straightened it. I always have it curly.

Short haired

2010-03-15T19:31:00.006-06:00

These are the pictures of the puppies after they were groomed. This first one is of Piper. He looks like a totally different dog! Piper's "Old Man" look

CUTENESS OF PIPER!

Ellie Bean

Piper

Dorky picture of Piper

Blurry but cute picture of Piper Head shot of piper

I just had to include this picture.

Head shot of Elliot

Other Blurry head shot of Elliot

Weird picture of Elliot

Cute Elliot

Long haired

2010-03-15T19:22:00.004-06:00

We got our puppies on January 10th, Henry's b'day, and they didn't go to the groomers until March 3rd. These are the pictures I took a few days before they went to the groomer. Piper's eyes aren't really green, my camera just stinks. The next two pictures are of Elliot.

This is a really rare picture considering what was happening at the moment. Hiper Piper wouldn't look at the camera long enough for me to get a picture, but apparently a chew toy is really fun to look at. Their eyes aren't actually glowing, did I mention that my camera stinks?

This is Piper, hair over eyes and all.

Elliot in my doll pram.

Cookies for you

2010-03-15T19:16:00.003-06:00

Mommy went on a trip to Mississippi and Louisiana for 10 days starting February 16th. These were the presents for her family before she left. We got them at Cookies for you. Mommy got this one for me because I am her sunshine...

Kate is always joyful and Happy...

Henry is, well...Crazy

And Daddy is, Uh, apparently angry.

Updates

2010-02-11T19:49:00.007-06:00

A lot has been happening in our art studio. We have several new items for sale as it says on the sign below. The next three pictures are drawn by me and though I have several others these are my best works of art. Fruit Platter.

Banana

This is the first picture I have ever made and I still have not sold it. It is called "Lazy pasture horse".

The next two pictures are pictures Kate has on sale. This one is bracelet...

And this is perfume bottles.

Kate also has foam for sale which I don't have.

Another thing I don't have, Kate makes faces to sell. She also sometimes makes them with yarn hair but this one does not have it. Kate made this one a Grandpa.

Something that Kate doesn't have, paper cranes. I have many other colors but this is just one of them. I make them all by hand, and I plan to make several other origami figures.

The next two pictures are of the foil art that me and Kate have to sell. the first one I made and the second one is Kate's. We also have several other holiday ones.

Kate and I both sell cards. We make them using stamps. These next couple ones are mine and the one at the very end is Kate's. This first one is a Thank you card. And you should know that there is sometimes a design on the inside too.

A baby card. This is my favorite card ever. There is congratulations stamped in the inside.

A miscellaneous card. I also have several other miscellaneous cards.

Birthday card.

This one is a masculine card.

This is a holiday card, Easter card to be specific, and I have several other holiday ones.

And this one is Kate's card. She has one or two others but this is her best one.

I also make scrap booking pages. Mostly just for me but if you want one I will be happy to make it for you!

Creativity?

2010-02-05T13:39:00.002-06:00

Today Henry asked me to build him a fort out of pillows. I just said "No" and then I tipped the couch over. On purpose of course. I stacked a few pillows, put a lamp inside it, and put a blanket over the top for a door. Oh, and I told Kate and Henry several times that it wouldn't fall on Henry's head. I wouldn't really call this creative but I don't know the right words so creative is fine. The cutest Henry ever. He wants to keep the fort up forever. I don't think so.

Dorkish?

2010-02-04T18:06:00.003-06:00

Yesterday I found Henry on his bedroom floor in these Transformer sunglasses and a medal. Complete with the messiest hair ever. He couldn't keep his eyes open at the flash on my camera (Even with the sunglasses on) or in the next picture.

I would call this the weirdist and may I add, the dorkiest picture that my camera has ever taken.

Piper Jonathan & Elliot Noel

2010-02-04T17:53:00.005-06:00

I can't believe that we have had the puppies for 3 weeks and I don't have any pictures of them on my blog yet! We got them on Henry's birthday. They were Piper Jonathan and Noel Isabella but we decided that Noel was too close to no and she wasn't really learning her name so we changed it to Elliot Noel. I love them so much! Whenever I say "Where's my puppies?" Piper comes running to me and licks my face. He isn't much of a cuddler but he will play with you at any given time. Elliot does play but she would prefer cuddling on your lap. She doesn't always run to me but when I sit down she thinks that she can just climb on my lap and fall asleep which is fine with me. The next two pictures are of me holding Piper. In this first one Elliot was also asleep on me. I think that this picture is so adorable!

Me and Elliot.
This was the day they both came over and sat on my lap. They might have fallen asleep but I think that they were too interested in the camera.

We love our puppies so much and I wouldn't trade them for any other dog in the world!

Sophia, Rachel, and $6.00

2010-01-20T21:55:00.000-06:00

On the way to pick up the poodles Mommy said that she would offer $6.00 to anyone who would get rid of their hamster. Kate and Henry agreed to that offer right away but old, fatty Aggie is going to hang out with me for a while yet. This is a very rare picture. This is my only one of all three of them together, mostly looking at the camera, and not blurry. Here is the last picture of them together. This must be embarrassing to Rachel.

I think that Aggie is lonely even though Mommy says she doesn't even remember them now. Sophia does have red eyes in real life but my camera (that doesn't work very well) makes her eyes look even redder then normal.

This is the last picture that you will ever see of Sophia on my blog.

This is the last picture you will ever see of Rachel on my blog.

I hope that they will remember us! (Even though I know that they won't.)

Henry's 6!

2010-01-20T21:18:00.001-06:00

I can't believe how fast time goes by! I also can't believe that Henry is six! This is his Transformer birthday cake. The candy things: Pure sugar. Yuck.

He didn't do that well with blowing out his candles this year. It took him two maybe three tries to blow them all out. He sure was cute about it though.

He was too busy eating cake to smile for me.

This is finally what I get. He looks really happy here.

He gave me a good smile when he had cake in his mouth.

I think that he really liked his gifts this year.

He was tearing through the presents so fast! In no time at all he was done opening them.

He got really carried away with the opening of presents that he was standing on his chair most of the time.

And here are all of his presents. We got most of them on our girls' date in Fargo at the beginning of November. He would have loved Toys_r_us.

He got quite a few trucks.

When he had only torn through enough wrapping paper to see what was inside the gift he said "Okay, I already know what is in this one. Next one coming up." Or something like that. Henry doesn't really play with this toy as much as Daddy does. It has a remote control and it requires a lot of skill. (I think)

This is something Star Wars.

When we went to visit the Blacks in Colorado they had a snowball maker and Henry loved it. So they got him one for his birthday.

I got this for him. I don't think that he really liked it compared to some of his other toys.

Henry loved this Indiana Jones sword and knives from Dave and Bev. I think it was his favorite present or at least one of his favorites.

Henry decided for his birthday lunch he wanted to go to Space Aliens. I think he really liked it but everyone was distracted by the fact that we were getting our puppies right after that.

I didn't really get as many tickets but I didn't mind because I just couldn't wait to get the puppies!

Kate got the most tickets out of anyone. She may have had a little help but in the end she ended up with 300 something tickets.

Henry ended up with quite a few in the end too. I think that Henry had a great birthday and everyone had fun. Even though we were pretty busy during his birthday we had a great time!

Old town, Fort Collins, Colorado

2010-01-07T17:07:00.000-06:00

While we were visiting the Blacks we went to Old Town. I thought it was very pretty there. Prettier then Minot if you ask me.

I love the pictures I got of the trees! I like this one the best.

I have absolutely NO idea what this is supposed to be. It looks very interesting though.

The Blacks

2010-01-07T16:51:00.000-06:00

We had a great time at the Black's house in Colorado and we all really miss them. They are so cute! This is Kate with Ezra.
Henry is VERY touchy, apparently.

Me and Asher, I mean, Batman.

Me and Obed. As you can see he loves books.

Me and Solomon. So cute! And Chubby!

Ezra

Asher

This is Kate, Ezra, and Asher in their secret castle. I understand that this picture is bad but, whatever.

Obed

We really miss them and I hope we can see them again next year!

New years/New years eve party

2010-01-07T16:47:00.000-06:00

We had our New years/New years eve party at Dave and Bev's rental house. It was very fun and I only fell asleep once. Acually I was the only one who fell asleep at all. This is what took up about an hours worth of time. Scrabble.

For some reason everyone wanted to throw all of the decorations on my head. I didn't really mind though.

HAPPY NEW YEARS!

Christmas puzzle and Aunt Maggie's birthday

2010-01-07T16:30:00.001-06:00

We had a Thanksgiving puzzle so here is our Christmas puzzle. The only (Well, I guess I shouldn't say only) difference was 500 pieces. Yup, this one was 500 pieces more. This puzzle was very hard.

This is Aunt Maggie's birthday. We ended up eating the cake when it was almost 9:30. It was because we went snow tubing that evening. We went sledding on her birthday last year and snow tubing this year. Things just keep getting better and better. And by the way we didn't get any pictures of snow tubing. But believe me, it was awesome.

Skiing, Sledding, ect...

2010-01-07T16:03:00.000-06:00

The title says it all. This post is about sledding and skiing. This is Mommy and I at the ski resort after our lesson. I did get lost for about an hour but nevertheless, it was still fun. I went down a hill (not big but not small) for the rest of the time after our lesson. And that was very fun. I have one word about the ski boots: OUCH!

And this is the sledding part. Henry spent most of his time going down with other people but in the end he went by himself some.

When Daddy and I went down we went FAST! My tailbone hurt for a while after we did the big jump several times though.

Snow is my favorite. It should be one of the food groups.

Our one week home

2010-01-07T15:51:00.000-06:00

Welcome to our one week home in Colorado! This was where Kate, Henry and I slept for a week. There is another set of bunks and a trundle bed across from these. We could fit our whole family in this bedroom! This was where Aunt Maggie stayed while she was here and I slept here the last night there. I think that my bed is more comfortable.

This was our kitchen. As you can see Daddy is the master chef. HAHAHA

I think that this bathroom is bigger than our bedroom. Not really but this thing was huge! This is at least double the size of my bathroom at home!

Henry is addicted to the TV as you can see. Well, not really.

This one week home was much bigger and more comfortable than a hotel!

Christmas

2010-01-07T11:20:00.000-06:00

I had a great Christmas this year and it made it even better that we went to Colorado! I took this picture of myself at about 5:00 Christmas morning. I couldn't sleep so...what's better to do? This is me with my new Webkinz.

Kate and I got this for our art studio. We needed somewhere to put our things and this worked out perfectly!

I just thought I should give you an update...

on the sales. This is Posy.

I got this new Madame Alexander doll. This is Jo from the little women. I think she is very pretty.

I love her hair!

This was one of my favorite presents. This is Zlock my new zumbuddy.

This was my other favorite Christmas present. It is the main part of the Playmobile pony ranch.

This is my favorite part about it.

I think this horse is so pretty!

I think that we all had an extremely fun Christmas!

Christmas Cookie Marathon

2009-12-19T15:39:00.001-06:00

Last year we decided to make Trays of Christmas cookies for some of our neighbors. As you can see here we decided to do it this year to. Although we made the same amount of cookies this year as last year it seemed like so much more work. :o These are Oatmeal, White chocolate chip, craisin...cookies. Toffee bars. I have one word for you: YUMMY

I made Ginger snaps. I've made them a few times now and they are just about Daddy's favorite cookie of all times so...

White chocolate raspberry bars.

We also made sugar cookies. I don't understand why we go to all the work making these cookies and decorating them if i don't even like sugar cookies. Hmmm This cookie tray was special because of the giraffe. It was the only one we made because its legs kept breaking off. Actually even while we were decorating it one of the legs fell of. So sad.

These are Henry/Daddy's cookies. Daddy did everything except for the sprinkles. Isn't that tree awesome? And no, Henry didn't make it.These are Mommy's cookies.

These are Kate's cookies.

These are my cookies.

This is before:

And this is after.

The Dead Sea

2009-12-18T15:19:00.000-06:00

Today I had an Experiment in Science. I call it the Dead Sea experiment because it showed just what it is like to be in the Dead Sea. These were the exact words from the assignment. Dissolve about 10 teaspoons of salt in a glass of warm water. Pour fresh water in another glass. Put and egg in each glass. The egg in the fresh glass of water sinks but the one with salt will stay up. Can you see the difference? I didn't think it would work but it did!

As you can see the one in the salt water just is bobbing around at the top.

Flag Football

2009-12-18T13:33:00.000-06:00

This Fall/Winter Henry joined a Flag Football team with his age boys. Too bad he wasn't wearing his football jersey...The cutest player on the team: Henry. I don't know if you can see what is on Henry's medal, but it is a football with a football helmet in the background. The cutest five-year-old Henry ever.

Certificate of Participation is awarded to Henry Carroll for your outstanding dedication and sportsmanship for the 2009 Flag Football season at Minot AFB, ND.

I'm proud of my little brother. :)

Decor and Dolls

2009-12-07T14:50:00.001-06:00

Merry Christmas! We have two trees this year, a kid tree with all of the family ornaments and the adult tree or "pretty tree" with just red and silver balls. I think the adult tree is boring, but whatever. This is the kid tree. Most of the ornaments are on the front. I guess everyone wanted to see their ornaments first. This ornament is my favorite ornament of all times. I don't know when I got it though. In case you didn't notice it says Noel on the front. The first Noel is one of my favorite songs and I like the bear on it. I also like it because we are getting a black toy poodle and naming it Piper Noel so I like it even more now.

Our fisher price nativity scene.

Daddy says that his Stocking is his favorite and his least favorite. It is his favorite because Mommy made it and it is his least favorite because of what it has on it, Santa and Mrs. Clause.

This is my favorite. Well, of course! It has my name on it!

The adult tree. It did end up looking prettier than I thought. You probably can't see but their are white lights on it.

These are on our table.

I really liked this angle so I had to post it.

Our real nativity scene.

Henry told me this was Actually what Joseph and Mary looked like. Weird.

I have no idea why Kate thought that this bear was supposed to go under the piano.

All of my American Girls are dressed up for the holidays. Felicity is riding on Penny the horse, Kirsten is behind the table, Addy is next to the table, Emily is holding baby Polly, and Ruth is the one in the black and white dress.

Studio

2009-12-01T08:02:00.001-06:00

Our art studio is nearing the finish! As you can see on the chalkboard. If it is too blurry it says; Official opening soon! contact Addy or Kate for details. Then at the bottom it says closed. The red thing at the top is our toy cash register where I keep some of my things. It is sort of messy but that is because we forgot to clean up yesterday! :o

Yes, Henry bought the picture of pencils from me.

Pictures on hold: forest brown bear; my picture and...

Perfume bottles; Kate's picture.

We take requests for certain pictures if we don't have what they want. AP means already paid.

Some of my pictures. All that's left is to make and put up a curtain over the upper half of the door!

The Bear

2009-11-29T18:52:00.000-06:00

Henry's friend, Jo, requested a bear picture from my art studio. But after I finished drawing it his sister, Gen, said he wanted a black bear. But that is fine with me. I am selling this picture to anyone who wants it for 60 cents. It would normally be 50 but with the frame it is and extra ten cents. We just finished the door in our studio and hung up the chalkboards and corkboards today. I will put pictures of it on here as soon as it is completley finished! Today I made a total of 76 cents.

Jungle Snake. 45 cents

2009-11-29T13:32:00.000-06:00

Hording

2009-11-29T07:48:00.001-06:00

For all of you who wondered what hording is here is a perfect example. Also here's some pictures to make up for Aggie last night. I just put food in the food bowl and they all run down from their houses and start stuffing food in their cheeks as fast as they can. As you can see Aggie's head is Completely dunked in the bowl. Rachel was the first one done so she goes up to her house and spits out her food and eats it. Then she falls asleep. So... Only Aggie and Sophia are left hording. Can you see the difference between Aggie's size and Sophia's? That's what I mean when I call Aggie fat.

Now Sophia decides to be done and just leaves Aggie hording for a while.

Sophia comes back and says "You know, she is really fat. I think it's because she eats too much."

After Sophia joins Rachel in sleeping Aggie is still hording. Five minutes later she still hasn't brought her head out of that food bowl.

Now finally she decides she's had enough.

Apparently hording bedding straw is just as good as hording food. See her huge cheeks? Now do you get what I mean by fat?

Rocky Tunnel. 47 cents

2009-11-28T21:01:00.001-06:00

Troublemaker

2009-11-28T20:52:00.000-06:00

This is a story about a black hamster named Rachel. Once upon a time Rachel somehow got out of her cage. It is a way that nobody will ever know. A man named Phil said "Addy, have you seen Rachel today?" Addy says "This morning." They look everywhere for three hours and still don't find her. Then the man is in the utility room and he says "Addy, we found Rachel." She had made a nest in the insulation, had poop in a corner, and after they found her, kept running under shelves. They finally lured her out and she didn't get any cucumber that night. The End. See Rachel's mad face since we put her back in the cage?

Sophia was there to welcome Rachel. Sorry, I didn't get a picture of Aggie because she was asleep most of the day...

Art Studio

2009-11-28T19:30:00.000-06:00

Kate and I are having an art studio opening tomorrow evening. We well sell our art pictures and crafts for only a few coins. First here are the most beautiful artists.
Lazy pasture horse (black and white)

Lazy pasture horse (color)

High Flying U.S.A. flag

Proverbs 3:5a

Crayola pencils

HEHEHE...saltine cracker :)

Fantastic design

My friend Gen

2009-11-28T15:19:00.000-06:00

This is Gen. Apparently I'm not good at holding the camera in front of me. This is as good as it gets.

And no, she does not normally have this horrid face. Or red eyes.

She is givin herself thumbs up for being weird.

She loves weird poses :)

I told you, weird.

And no, she is not droopy eyed; her hair is over her eyes.

Puzzle

2009-11-27T09:05:00.000-06:00

I just thought I should show you the completed Thanksgiving puzzle. It was worked on by many people.

Thanksgiving

2009-11-26T19:01:00.000-06:00

Happy Thanksgiving! I am thankful for many things this year.

Food:

These were supposed to be appetizers and I didn't get a picture of them before people ate it. This it Spinach Artichoke dip. It went with bread but that went too fast to even take a half-eaten picture!

Corn Fritters; very yummy.

Our trusted oven and stove.
Mashed Potatoes,
and gravy.

Green beans and onions.
Stuffing

Cranberry sauce

Salad

Mashed sqaush

Regular squash
This is Turducken. It is a chicken inside a duck inside a turkey with stuffing between the layers.

Turkey
Now the desserts. Lemon Cheesecake.

Apple Pie

Peanut butter chocolate chip pie
Berry Pie

We did acually have pumpkin and cherry pie but somehow I managed not to get a picture of those.

Things:

I thought our table settings were Beautiful.

This was our Thanksgiving puzzle. People kept just coming to it and working on it little bits at a time.

I think that everyone had a fun time and it was a great Thanksgiving!

Quarter collection

2009-11-21T10:28:00.000-06:00

I've finally completed my entire quarter collection! I had all of the quarters except for Arizona. When we went on our girls' date in Fargo I bought something and I got a couple quarters in change. When I got home I thought, maybe one of the quarters is for Arizona. Sure enough there was an Arizona quarter in there. Here's the final quarter.

The little girl

2009-11-16T13:36:00.000-06:00

We should have named Henry, Henrietta.

Baby birds

2009-11-16T12:06:00.000-06:00

We had a surprise this spring with a nest under our deck one day. The mother bird, red beak, was sitting on the nest. One day I climbed a ladder and I looked in the nest. There were three birds just cheeping and cheeping. The nest day I found two egg shells on the ground. The other shell got blown away in the wind. The babies, Long beak, Short beak, and Crooked beak, grew and grew. One day I was watering the flowers and they jumped out the nest a flew away. Apparently trying to catch three babies with gloves isn't accurate. It all started with an egg shell...

And then birds being born...

And next thing we know they are old enough to hop out of their nest and fly away. Sad day.

Family Funnies

2009-11-16T12:00:00.000-06:00

These are just the funny faces in this family. I learned my amazing funny face abilities from Daddy.

Mine's better than Daddy's though because I have my eyes crossed...

Apparently Kate and Henry don't really know any exellent funny faces and Kate can't stop from smiling even though she is trying to look scary. It's cute enough though.

baby hamster impossibilities

2009-11-16T11:04:00.000-06:00

These are the babies. Ashley, Rascal, Casper, Michael, Johnathan, Sal, Sophey, Cutie Pie, and Laura. Kate named Sophey, Henry named Michael and Johnathan, and I named the rest.

This is Johnathan. Little did we know that he is acually a she. Oh well, we didn't keep them anyways. I know this picture is a little blurry, but it is so cute and I didn't have another one like it!

All nine of the babies are gone now; we took them to the pet store. They are about two months old now and will start selling soon!:( It is impossible not to love these babies!

I thought I should also introduce you to the big hamsters.

This is Henry's hamster, Rachel. Also called Rachel Rachey Rach. Sometimes I don't know where she gets all of her energy. Whenever I let her run around she is getting into trouble, exploring new places (which includes getting into a drawer with scissors and pins) and trying to get out of her cage constantly!

This is Kate's hamster, Sophia. She is really greedy with her food and isn't the nicest hamster in the world with sharing "her" food and house. She is the smallest hamster which makes her nickname "baby". And yes, her eyes are red, I think all white hamsters have red eyes because even the four white babies had red eyes.

This is my Hamster, Aggie. of course she is my favorite hamster and she is very nice (most of the time). She has a special kind of hair that is very soft and it sort of feels like velvet. I believe that she is the fattest hamster in the world even though she was the one that didn't have any babies! Oh, and I should also mention that she loves hording and her huge cheeks make me laugh every time.