Hunting Fever

Hunting Fever has officially been installed into my son's head, heart, body, & soul. Still having a hard with the fact that Taylor is 12 and is old enough to hunt, where did the time go? Taylor had a tag for the elk hunt also but after 2 weekends of searching and hunting they came home empty handed. ( i was not to sad) The deer hunt started last weekend they left at the crack of dawn sat morning & hunted all day and came home with nothing. On Sunday they left not so early and I got a call about 9:15 am to let me know that Taylor had just shot his first deer.
Laramie said through the shaking and the tears of joy streaming down Taylor's face he was able to get a direct hit 400 yds away. Not sure who was happier the hunter or the hunter's dad. Then the work began to go and find it, gut it, haul it home.
The girls and I were outside waiting for them to get home and you could see the grin on Taylor's face coming down the driveway. Congrats to you Taylor!!!!

Kids are back in school, Kennedy starts preschool!

Another summer has come and gone, kids have now been in school for about a month. Taylor started 7th and is in the Middle School and has to leave the house at 7 am to catch the bus (which hasn't happened much I've been his bus) we all know that he is not a morning person at all!!!! He is once again playing on the Storm soccer comp team and is also playing and practicing with the a-team. So we pretty much have soccer 6 days a week. He is also able to hunt this year which he is very excited for.
Gabrielle has started 5th grade and is in the Timp. Intermediate School her bus arrives a little after 8am and she is a morning person thank goodness, I hardly ever have a problem getting her out of bed to go. She is also taking violin this year in school and is so far loving it. I hope that it is something that she will continue to love. She likes her teacher this year and was a little nervous about going to a different school but she has done great!
Kennedy started preschool and loves it, asks everyday if she has preschool today. She is in the afternoon class and it is so hard for her to wait till after lunch to go she absolutely loves it. Her teacher is Ms. Lalie (Laurie) she is wonderful with the little kids.

Before photos of kitchen

After photos

My New and Fabulous Kitchen

Happy to announce that the kitchen remodel is complete, (well almost) still need glass for upper cupboards and the metal mesh for the island cupboards, but at least it's in working condition. After about 3 1/2 months of construction, dust, money, patience, more patience, some bad words I'm loving my new kitchen. It is soooo nice to have such an open floor plan we can all eat dinner at the island and have plenty of room.
I was so worried about not having a pantry and where would I put all my crap, well all the crap that wasn't or hasn't been used since we've lived here went in the garbage and for all the other stuff I have plenty of room even have unused drawers and cupboards now. Luis my cabinet maker did an amazing job!!!!!!!!! If you haven't done you need to check out his website @ CapunayDesigns.com.

Kennedy turns 3

Some little things about Kennedy,
She is now 3 going on 33.
She loves her brother and sister and is very sad on Monday mornings when they leave for school.
She cries and wants to ride the bus too.
She loves to pretend that she is the mom and I'm her weetheart.
She LOVES her Aunt Jodi, so much that when we are with Aunt Jodi she is her mom and I'm Stephanie. She will tell me, "mom this is my mom ok, your Stephanie." I think she would live there if I'd let her. She will only drink milk for A. Jodi.
She loves to play with her cousins and asks to go there on a daily basis.
She loves to play with the dogs and feed the horses with her dad.
She still has 3 hour naps and will probably be in her crib forever cause I'm not giving up nap time.
She changes her clothes 50 times a day I never know what's clean and what's dirty so she keeps my washer going all the time.
I don't know what we'd do without her, she brings so much joy to our family and we all love her very much.

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