I know, I know! I'm doing a terrible job at keeping my blog updated! Why do I even have one? Oh, yeah! To stay in touch with family and friends. I promise to try and do better everyone!

Well, the following pictures are from earlier today, picking pumpkins. This is our third year picking them straight from the patch to carve for Halloween, which is coming up. The boys are both going to be pirates! AAAAARRRGGGGHHHH Matey! We've been practicing.

What's new with us, you might ask? Not too much. The boys are doing well-Britton is fully potty trained now. He has been ever since his birthday, but I haven't posted anything since then, so some of you may not know that. Woohoo! He is getting so big and fun. I think he says something new every day that just cracks me up. Hunter is FINALLY sleeping completely through the night, from 7pm to 7am. What a blessing! He can also walk, but he's not excited about it at all. He would rather crawl or be carried. We're working on it! He loves to look at books now, and he's starting to talk a little, and he's just super sweet!

Jared and I are doing well too. He hasn't shot a buck yet, but soon, we hope. November is his elk season which he is really excited about. It's all he talks about! I guess that's ok, since it only comes once a year! I'm staying busy with my boys and primary calling. All in all, we are one big happy family!

Here are a few pictures of us at the Pumpkin Planet patch here in Salmon! It is quite popular this time of year. We picked three pumpkins out of one of the HUGE piles: a small, medium, and large pumpkin for Hunter Wunters, Britton Goose, and Mama! Jared was the cameraman. Britton also got to ride on the cow train! We had a fun time!

Hello All!
The boys are sleeping so I guess I better update my blog since it's way past due anyway! We're all doing fine here. Jared is BUSY with work, either out of town in Ucon or here in Salmon, and online school. He'll already have 12 credits out of the way by next Monday! Yeah!

Britton is busy learning how to use the potty and playing with all the new toys he received for his birthday, which is tomorrow, Aug. 4, but we celebrated it a little early last week in Challis along with Hunter and his cousin Tavie. He and Hunter got a trampoline for their birthdays this year from us, and they love it! It has been a life saver for me!

Hunter officially turned 1 last Wednesday! He has all of a sudden discovered his voice and goes about the house babbling and screaming to let us know he's there! He's starting to stand up completely on his own but he won't take any steps by himself just yet! I think he'll take off walking pretty soon though! It's fun to watch him and Britton playing together more. I definitely have two very busy boys, but they are both fun!

Opening presents was an adventure! Britton loved the forklift he received, but I think Hunter was mostly excited about his cake! He has a sweet tooth that he must've gotten from me!

The owner of the excavator took Britton for a short ride down the field, and they dumped some rocks out of the bucket. Some HUGE rocks as Britton boy would say!

Jason Beyeler had some excavators working out in his field the past two days. We drove by one morning, and Britton was so excited to see them working out there! We stopped by and just watched them for a 1/2 hour. Of all the big trucks and machinery out there, excavators are Britton's favorite! He calls them "ufabators."

Here's Hunter Indiana! He just turned 8 months old. He's not quite crawling yet. He likes to scoot backwards and turn in circles when he's on his belly. He can get around though! He just cut his botton two teeth, and he's very long and skinny. I wonder who he gets that from? He looks exactly like Jared when he was a baby. They have the same face and bright blonde hair. What a sweet boy!

I'm finally updating my blog after a year! Yes!! I'm so good at this. Here's a little bit of news until I have more time to do more: Jeremey, Jared, and Britton went fishing below our house on Monday, and Jer caught this steelehead. Britton was so excited! He thought it was his new toy and just wanted to carry it around. Oh how he loves to fish!!!!