Camping Trip to Cooney Lake

This weekend my mom asked if we would like to join her for a weekend of boating, eating smores, enjoying the sun and family. So after work the kids and I went home, packed up and headed to the mountains. We got to the lake about 8 on Friday night. My mom, Emily and I worked on the tent while Cody took pics then helped Tom with whatever guy stuff they were doing. After we got the camp set up it was time to make smores
then off to bed the kids went. The next morning we had a very pretty sunrise and we were off to fish for a bit. Cody goes fishing with Mom and Tom so he knew how to handle the boat when he was driving. Emily didn't know what to think of the boat, but by the end of the weekend she was driving it and wanting to go faster. Cody just knew Emily wanted to see the worms, she thought the were gross and wanted nothing to do with them. Later when Sandy, Joe and Bayeligh were able to join us we got the raft out to go pull behind the boat. Mom and Cody were able to hop a wave, it was so right at the top of fun things to do for Cody. After that the kids took a little break when the storm moved in then it was off to shore fishing.
That night we had more smores and a very pretty sunset.
Then the next morning it was back to the boat and more fun. While out on the lake we went down a little turn off and happened to look to the side, and we found a cow just chilling.
It was the kids first time camping and they didn't want to leave they had so much fun. They were so worn out they went to sleep for a bit on the way home. However even asleep Emily was not letting go of what was left of the smores.
I went way over on pics so I put them on a music video. We had so much fun, I cant wait till we get to do it again.

Cody's Class Spring Program

Yesterday Cody had his spring program. Same as with Emily's I edited so it isn't the full 30 mins. They did a cute job, but the faces he was making had me and his teacher laughing. He really got into the dance song, well the part he got to swing the girl around anyways. I cant believe how big he is getting.

Emily's Class Spring Program

Today I had Emily's spring program. The school does the spring program during the normal music class time, so I will have Cody's on Tuesday. Here is Emily's class, I cut down some of the down time so its not to long to watch. Behind Emily is a little boy with blond hair, that would be her boyfriend who she thinks is so cute. At the end is two of Emily's best friends. They did a very cute job.

Random road trip to Great Falls

This weekend the kids and I decided to take off to Great Falls and see some family and friends up there. We took off Saturday afternoon and got there about five on Saturday night. We went by to say hi to Grandma and Grandpa Horne then went down to say hi to Connie's household. It was so weird seeing everyone again, feels like forever sense I have seen Connie, Pat and Megan and was the first time to meet Megan's husband and her baby. After we visited for a bit it was time to take the kids to the pool to enjoy some swimming. They ended up meeting a little boy there and started playing monkey in the middle, poor Emily had the hardest time getting the ball when she was in the middle. After that we went back to the room and after a bit we all were sound asleep in the most comfy beds I have ever been on.
The next day after laying in bed for a bit we went and ran around town for bit, I showed the kids were I grew up at, my old school and things like that. I took them down to the river to show them the falls,
they thought it was so cool till Cody noticed some ants crawling around. After that we went and meet a couple old friends and there daughter at Chills and had lunch with them. It was a blast to catch up on old times and to see how big Taylor has gotten. We finished lunch and we went to say bye to Grandma and Grandpa Horne then went down to say hi to Grandpa Ruff. On the way up we went to a veterans memory wall where my Grandpa and four uncles are on. It was really cool to see there names on it. After that it was late and time to head back home, next time we will have to leave earlier in the day so we can go walk along the river and go to some parks. It was a blast of a weekend and so nice to just get out of town. The kids had so much fun they slept for most the ride home.

Emily goes to day camp

Last week Emily went to day camp for girl scouts. We went out to a pond where the girls got to ride in canoes, search for water bugs and do a treasure hunt of all the different things growing around the pond. They had so much fun, we started with the canoes. Emily rode with two of the other mom's and one other girl, while another mom, 3 little girls and I rode in another one. After that we went for a hike around the pond to see what kind of fun outdoors stuff we could find. Lucky there has been snow and so not much was out. After that we did Emily's favorite part and went hunting for water bug. They all got to use little nets to find the bugs then we took the buckets up and figured out what they were. It was a ton of fun and I'm going to see if we can get Cody's boyscout pack up there. Here is a little of the video I took, the start is her in teh canoe and the end is her looking at the water bug someone just got.

Emily Reading Bingo

This weekend I got the little hand held video camera I have been wanting. Today while Cody was at a friends birthday party Emily wanted to read a book. So I decided to take that chance to tape her reading Bingo. Sorry the video is so big, I cant figure out how to make it smaller.

Cody makes Student of the Month for 1st Grade

On Thursday Cody brought home his award for Student of the Month for the month of April. It was the first time he received an award like that so he was so excited. Emily and I where so proud of him. He got the award, a free dinner at Wendy's, a water bottle and a free trip to the school store.