Frozen Burritos

This child is so weird! He LOVES to eat frozen Lynn Wilson burritos!! I guess when he gets hungry he takes matters into his own hands and sneaks a burrito,we find him hiding behind the couch just chillin munching on a nasty frozen burrito!!

Grandpa Hillstead

The middle school band had a spaghetti dinner fundraiser to get to Disneyland! I'm a sucker for kids needing help to get somewhere and if I don't have to make dinner it's a win win situation!! I must say it was CRAZY being there, I haven't been on the school grounds in years and so many memories flooded my mind some good, some sad. In that moment I realized I'd never taken the boys to see my Dad's memorial plaque and the tree that was planted for him! I miss him everyday and wish I had more time with him and that he was here to watch my crazy boys grow up! I know I know he's watching us from heaven but it's just not the same. It makes me happy though that my boys will get to be in a place that my Dad used to work! I think this plaque will have to be our memorial place since he's buried in Wyoming and we don't make it ther often enough!!

Let's Play Ball

Here we go the first game of the season!! We weren't going to sign anyone up to play baseball but Scarlet some how convinced me that Degan needed to play and be on the same team as all his buddies! I told her she was crazy putting all of them on the same team but she's convinced they'll have a good time. I'm sure they'll all have a great time and drive Tom crazy in the process!! Haha!

P.S. Degan had me find out what color his uniform would be so he could get matching cleats!

Sea Camp

3-20 - 3/21 Dillon has been waiting for his chance to go to Sea Camp in La Jolla California for years!! He had fun playing with sea animals, boogie boarding, and learning about all the different Sea creatures!! 

LVMPD

3-22-2014 Darin's squad at work decided to have a BBQ at the Centennial park in Vegas! It was kinda nice to be able to put a face to all the people Darin talks about! and the boys had fun running around!

sneaky leprechaun!

The traps have been set to try and catch a sneaky leprechaun!!

Funny Story: The boys were going to work together and build just one trap but somehow they found two boxes so Dillon decided he wanted to do his own and than there wasn't another box for Degan and he was being onery and nasty so I may or may not have told him that leprechaun's weren't real and not to even bother building anything because there was nothing to catch!! (PMS maybe?) He insisted on calling his Dad at work and Darin fixed everything our the phone. (I don't know how he does it) And than he built the coolest trap of all with an oatmeal drum, stairs made out of legos that reach a rope to climb up to the top, and treats in the bottom of the drum to get the leprechaun to jump down!!

11yr. old scout camp

March 14-15 2014

My BFF's

3-8-2014 It's always a good time when we get together! Today we just met for lunch at the scoop and got to see Genna's cute belly that nobody knew she had until like a week before we got together!!

The race is on!

 There was a little drama with the design of Degan's car, him & his Dad decided on the design and it looked kinda crazy so Darin tried to fix it and he still wasn't happy and thought it wouldn't win so he was told his options were to 1- use one of Dillon's old cars or 2- suck it up and use the one they had made! He eventually decided to use his purple car and wouldn't you know it, the thing won!! Haha! #65 got 4th place and had to go back for round 2!!

Katie's Shower

3-1-2014 I love any excuse to get together with my sisters & mom!! Today's excuse was Katie's baby shower!! I provided the house and games and Carla made lots of yummy food! Later that night we went into Vegas and watched the show Mystere at the Treasure Island! Our seats were right by a wall and at the end of the show one of the people in a crazy costume jumped up right in front of us and Kasaundra, Deanna & I screamed so loud that Carla, Lindsey & Gerilynn could hear us on the other side of the stadium!! Can't wait to meet their cute baby girl Maelie!!

Spider Monkey

    Spider Monkeys are mammals and are known as the "trapeze artists" of the animal world. They spend much of their time swinging from limb to limb in the trees high above the jungle floor. These quick and well coordinated monkeys are found in the rainforests located in places such as Southern Mexico, Central and South America, Brazil and Northwestern Columbia.

    The average weight of a spider monkey is 12 - 20 pounds, the length from head and body is 19 - 20 inches and the length from head to tail is 27 - 30 inches.
   
    Spider monkeys are social animals and stay in troops of up to two or three dozen during the day. However, they split up at night in small groups, each group consisting of half a dozen or fewer monkeys. They have black glossy hair that covers their entire bodies except the face. They do not have thumbs but they can still grip powerfully to tree branches. They also have a patch of skin at the end of their long tails. This patch works like a finger, it increases their gripping ability by using their tails to swing from tree branches leaving their long arms and legs free to grab food items from other branches. Spider Monkeys feast on 90% fruit and in the wild they eat nuts, seeds, leaves, insects and bird eggs. It is believed that spider monkeys play an important role in spreading seeds of plants throughout the rainforest.

    Typically, female spider monkeys are somewhat larger than males and they give birth to a single baby every 2 or 5 years. Young monkeys depend completely on their mothers for about ten weeks. Mothers continue to care for their young for the first year and a half of their lives, and often move about with their babies clinging to their backs.

    Sadly, man is the spider monkeys greatest enemy. Humans are destroying their habitats, hunting them down for meat, and are also responsible for dragging these beautiful animals into the  pet trade business to make money.

      One day I hope to be able to help these fascinating creatures and hear them make loud noises that can be heard up to 1000 meters on the ground and up to 2000 meters above the trees.

Boys & their Toys

Jim & Carla decided to sale their scrambler and offered to give us a family discount of $1000.00 if we wanted to buy it so we took full advantage of the offer and picked it up!! The boys are having fun driving it around the yard!!

Shining the pearly whites

I wasn't sure how Daxton was going to do for his first official teeth cleaning because he HATES it when I brush his teeth, I have to sit on him and hold his head still to get the job done and he screams the whole time. I hate to say it but he gets his teeth brushed maybe every other day if he's lucky!
To my surprise he did great! The assistant showed him everything and he just laid there while she did her thing without a single peep!! I love it when things turn out better than I think they will!!