Our Chickens

Back in April we went to Wilco in Battle Ground and picked up four baby chicks. Logan's family raised chickens when they were little and Grandma and Grandpa May still have lots of chickens. Our kids love them. We wanted some of our own!

Aren't they so cute? I wish they stayed small longer! We kept them in our garage until they got too tall and then they moved into Verne's chicken coop for several months while Logan and Verne built the chicken coop. It took awhile for Logan to start... and I was starting to wonder if the chickens would ever come back to our house. But they did!
September 6th we got them back!

Logan and Verne built this awesome chicken coop.
It drew quite the crowd when they brought it.

We love our chickens! They are the best pet. They require very little work and they are so entertaining to watch. We love to feed them our scraps. We can even watch them from inside which is fun too.

Tonight was the first day that we let them into our yard. We will do this every once in awhile until we get our chicken run set up on our side yard. Verne told us they would march right up into their coop once it got dark and sure enough they did. It was fun to watch!

Idaho & Utah Roadtrip

The day after Logan's 28th birthday, we took a road trip down to Idaho Falls (and Utah after that!). We met up with my parents and Mackenzie to visit the Hirschis. Two of my cousins are still at home, my cousin Lexie lives close by and my cousin Brianne drove home from Provo. The only one missing was my cousin Brittany and her fam who are in Virginia! We missed you Brittany!

This was on our first night, Nanette and the boys hanging out on the back porch.

On our second day we went to Lava Hot Springs. Baylor and Wesley pretty much swam the whole time. I especially love swimming with Wesley. He is such a water baby! 

As kids we would always go to places like these together. Felt like old times waiting in line for the water slides!!

We had quite the set up with the tents and lots of food!

Lexie and Wesley

The next day we went to the Lake to swim and ride the wave runners. Nanette was afraid the boys might be bored but they were in HEAVEN with the water, rocks and sand.
They kept busy the whole time!!!

My Dad and Val came as twins! How cute :)

1-2-3 JUMP! The water was cold but felt SO GOOD! I even got Baylor to swim with me he liked it!



A perfect, fun day in the sun!!

Nanette and my Mom left on two wave runners and came back on one. I didn't think anything of it at first! One broke down, figures that would happen while they were out! haha! That was the end of our wave running fun for the day.

We visited Landon at work, Baskin Robbins.
I loved my Daiquiri Ice!
It was sooooo much fun visiting the Hirschi's. We stayed up late play Just Dance, talking and snacking. I'm so glad we were able to come. Thanks Nanette!!!!!

After 3 days in Idaho Falls, we headed out to Roy.

Heidi and I wanted to try some of the recipes we found on Pinterest! Here's me and True working on the Chocolate Chip Cookie Cheesecake bars... they were good!

I don't think a day has gone by since last Summer that Baylor did not talk about the Dinosaur Park. This is like Disneyland to him. This is little boy heaven!! Logan's cousin Morgan and his wife Melanie and kids were able to come down from Provo to visit for the day and join us at the Dino Park. It was awesome!

I think this was new this year. Cute photo opp! Also, they added a big sand area for digging for fossils. That was fun too!

It is a MUST to get a picture by the big T-Rex!

We were in Utah for two days. The other day we did, in Heidi's words, some "Serious Shopping." It was awesome!!! We always have the best time visiting the James' and it is icing on the cake when we get to see Morgan and his family too.
This was the perfect ending to our Summer!

Goodbye Casey

My big brother Casey made the

crazy decision to take a job that moved him here:

Chicago! What the heck.

That is so Casey to do something like that!!!

Me and my family aren't too happy about it, but he seems to be having a blast so we are happy that he is happy there.

We miss him a lot though!

We had a little going away party for him at my house. 

My family and the Palmers came over to say goodbye.

After the crowd left me, Casey and Ryan sat down for one last game of Settlers of Catan. 



Me and my good friend Tamera Palmer. She is married to Casey's Best Friend Ryan who we've known forever and ever from Moses Lake.

Baylor LOVES his uncles 'Caseys' Nobody can get him wound up as fast as Casey can!

Casey,Ryan,Tamera and Kash.

Not the best picture but we had to get one before he left. He's not gone for too long though, he will be back for Christmas and Thanksgiving... thank goodness!

 We miss you Casey!!

Cannon Beach

We went with my family for a day trip to Cannon beach. This was our first time at the beach this year! When we do go it is usually cold and we end up spending more time in downtown Seaside then on the beach. This time the weather was nice and warm. We had a quick lunch at Pig N' Pancake and spent the whole day on the sand. I forget how fun and easy it is to just go for the day. We will be doing this much more often from here on out!

Logan had to make a quick stop at the Surf shop.

My sister Mackenzie came in sweats. (That's usually what you wear to the Oregon Coast right? Something warm.) Anyways, I had my swimsuit on so I was a nice sister and let her wear my shorts... but that left me looking like a crazy lady in the pictures wearing no pants!

My little beach babe!

We would go to the beach a lot when we were little. My older Brother Casey always wanted to dig big holes. He would have us digging all day. Baylor was a good sport and he let us bury him. It felt like old times digging the hole for him to lay in.

I'm shocked that he let us do this!

Baylor and 'Nama Chapen' (as he calls her)

Wesley and Oliver digging away.

This was such a fun day. It is hard for our family to work out all of our crazy schedules and get together like this. 

We loved it! Hopefully we can do it again next year! :)

Sunny Days

Here a few pictures from another awesome Summer! It took awhile to get hot here, but once it did it was beautiful!



While all the cousins were swimming Baylor would be running around the yard. He did NOT want to swim. I finally just grabbed him and pulled him in. After crying for a little while he realized he LOVED swimming!  After that he called himself a 'Swimming Boy' all Summer long.

Popsicles by the pool is always fun!

The James family came to town for a couple weeks. This was one of the only pictures I got. What the heck! I love this one of these two boys though. They are so cute together.

We went with my family to Kahneeta for a day. It was SO HOT, it felt amazing!

Baylor & Oliver... High Five!



Hangin out in front of our house.



Logan and Baylor 'Cooking Dinner.' I've said this before but Baylor likes to do everything just like his Dad!