Family Portraits

For the first time ever, we decided to get a family picture done professionally.  I saw an ad on one of my local facebook pages that I follow of a mini-session being done down at Cave Falls, which is a very beautiful place, so I figured let's give it a shot!  The actual photo shoot was a little stressful.  Since it was a mini-session, the session was only going to last 15 minutes and that's not a lot of time to get some good smiles out of stubborn children.  When our photographer posted some sneak peeks on her facebook page, I was even more worried.  They did not look, uh, good.  But, once she sent me all of the pictures, there was one family picture that turned out pretty good!

And that's all we really needed!

My boys.

The girls.

9 years of marriage and still going strong.

After our photo shoot, we drove the rest of the way to the falls and hiked down to check it out.  It was a really fun family outing.

AG Days at BYU-I

I heard that BYU was going to have an AG Days activity on the campus, so the kids and I drove to the school with Bo, dropped him off at his class and then went to go check everything out.

It was a lot of fun!  They had a couple cows and a pony and they were even equipped with a milking station, so the boys got to get in on a little milking action.

They had tons of booths where they were giving away ice cream (comes from a cow!), lemonade, fries made out of Idaho Potatoes, sparkling grapes, a hand washing station, some trivia stations on cows, just lots of fun things.

Mari enjoying her ice cream.

Oh and they had a lot of tractors!  Tractors are always a big hit with my boys.

They even had these little roping stations where you could rope these little metal sculptures that looked like cows and a horse drawn hay ride.

The kids each got their own individual container of lady bugs from the horticulture booth, so when we got home, they released them.  Ryker dumped all his out in the dirt so he could see them.  I'm sure they appreciated that.

It was a fun day and a perfect way to waste an hour.

Rattlesnakes

Bo's cousin Drew has a little fishing spot he likes to go to and one day he decided to venture on a trail nearby to do some exploring.  He ended up coming upon a rattle snake nest!  Bo has been wanting to get a rattle snake to help teach the dogs to stay away from them, so he and his cousin decided to go back to the nest and kill a couple of them to bring back home for training... and to eat.

We had the whole neighborhood over when they were outside cleaning and skinning them.  It was quite the event.  Bo cooked the meat up on his BBQ.... I did not try it, so I can not attest to how they taste, but Bo described it to be like a cross between chicken and fish.

Gross.