A Walkin' Fool!

Brooklyn finally started walking! She has actually been walking for a few months, but I never could get her to let me get it on camera. Everytime I got the camera out, she would just sit down. I did get her walking awhile back, but accidently deleted the video off the computer. She started walking about the third week in July. (Just a few weeks after her 1st Birthday.) She is getting to the point now she runs! If Ryder takes something from her, she will literally chase after him now. She is at a fun stage. You tell her to go get something and for the most part she knows what you are saying and goes and gets it. One day maybe I can catch her chasing Ryder.

In the video she was in Ryder's room and I told her to go find her blanket. (She LOVES her blanket!) She let me follow her while she went to retrieve her blanket.

The Petting Zoo

This last weekend Nils and I decided to take the kids and go to the Blackfoot fair with my parents and Misty. The kids had a lot of fun going around looking at all the animals. They had a little petting zoo that the kids thought was fun. We gave Ryder some food and had him try to feed some of the animals. He only really got close to the goats. Here are some of the pictures I got with them and the animals. It's all with goats because I wasn't fast enough with the camera on the others.

Here is Ryder barely starting out letting the goat eat from his hands. He was WAY nervous about it.
Ryder got a little braver now and had just put more food in his hand for the goat. He wouldn't let Nils let go of him though. Yes, he is my whimpy boy. ;)
Brooklyn was a bit curious at first, but then started petting it and loving it. Ryder finally decided here he was brave without Nils holding onto him. When I took this picture he had said, "Here Brooklyn, this is how you feed them. They are nice, I promise." It was really fun watching them feed and pet the animals!
I told Ryder to let me get a picture of him standing by the goat, but he was too busy watching the big goat with horns coming towards us. LOL! He wasn't about to take his eyes off it! (You can see the goat's horns that he was watching in the bottom of the picture.)
Brooklyn was just a laughing and having a great old time! She tried to sit on it, then sit by it, then feed it, and then pet it. She was cute and Ryder thought it was fun showing her how to pet them.

Bye, Bye Tree!

A couple weeks ago we had a nasty wind and rain storm that came through. We had gotten home from Church, ate our lunch and just put the kids down for their nap. The wind was blowing really bad and it was raining like crazy. We were watching T.V. when Nils and I heard a loud bang sound like something had crashed. We looked out our windows and didn't see anything. Ryder came out of his room a little later and we thought it was weird for him to be awake so soon, but again didn't think anymore of it. We decided we would take stuff over to Syd and Kevin's house so I went in to get Ryder a jacket. I then had an urge to look out his window. Right when I looked out I noticed tree limbs. I looked closer and saw our last pine tree along our house had been blown over. Ryder's window is right by it and how it didn't hit it or go right through it we don't know. Nils and I decided to go out and take a look at it to see it and this is what we found.

The tree was all the way out of the ground, roots and all!! If you look to the right you can see Ryder's window. It was right there for the top of the tree to go through, but it didn't.

We had a few other pine trees along this side of our house, but they were all dead when we got moved in so we chopped them down. This was the last pine tree and the only tree along our house. Now the side of our house is bare!

Again, just another view of the big tree and how it missed his window we have no clue! Crazy! I guess it means next year I'll be planting trees along our house for shade now.