Great Job This Season Ryleigh

The last game of the season was a very cold one.  The season ended at the right time.  She had a lot of fun and can't wait to play again in the spring.

GOAL!

Ryleigh is still loving soccer.  She was right when she told us she would get better.  She is not as timid as she was at the beginning of the season and has since scored several goals.  I was able to capture one of them last week.

Here is the pic of the ball she kicked rolling into the goal. 

Go Aggies!

At the beginning of the month we headed down to Utah for a long weekend to attend the Utah State vs. BYU game.  Aunt Kristi and Grandma watched the kids for us so we could go.  They had a great time being spoiled by them.

On our way down to Aunt Kristi's, we stopped at the mall in Salt Lake and stopped for a picture on the sky bridge.  After the mall, Grandma took to girls to Aunt Kristi's on the Front Runner train.  They had a blast riding the train.  The pics of it on are Grandma's camera.

Then it was off to the game with Daren!

It was probably the funnest football game we have been to.  We had a ton of fun!  Devin and Daren are very loud fans so we were getting looks and comments from the BYU fans all around us the whole game.

It was the first time the Aggies beat them in their stadium since 1978! 

Saturday we went with Kristi's family to a local farm that had tons of activities for the kids.

The girls' favorite was the giant slide you went down on a potato sack.  They wouldn't go down by themselves but went over and over again on everybody's lap.

Aunt Kristi and Bailey 

Mom and Ryleigh

They rode the animal train a few times too.

The petting zoo was NOT their favorite.  They were not interested in feeding the animals or even getting close to them.

So Dad took over on the feeding.  Bailey was just the right height for the animals to be right in her face.  She wanted out of there fast.

They loved the giant box of corn kernels too.  Trevor was having everyone bury him so the girls decided to copy him and bury themselves.

Thanks for a fun weekend everyone!

Bentley Turned 4 Months!

Bentley is growing too fast!  He turned 4 months at the beginning of the month.  He is rolling over from his tummy to his back, continues to sleep through the night, always laughing at his sisters and is overall a great baby!

Sporting his new football hat Auntie Ann made him ready for the Duck game

Trying some rice cereal

Giggling at Ryleigh after church today

"Cheese"

We headed down to Indian Creek tonight to try and get a decent picture of the kids to update the one on our wall.  I had a few more poses in mind but Bentley was ready for bed so it didn't happen.  Here is what we did get.

Vietnam Memorial Traveling Wall

After the aquarium today, we headed to The Vietnam Memorial Traveling Wall.  Devin's uncle was a Marine and died in the Vietnam War.  We went to find his name on the wall that came through Boise.

There he is, Edwin E Wilson.

Devin tried to do a rubbing with a crayon but it wasn't working.  The wall was too hot and it was melting the crayon. 

My friend, Shawnle, was at Ryleigh's soccer game this afternoon and mentioned that she was invited to speak at the program they were having tonight at the memorial.  We were planning on going there today so we timed it so we could listen to her speak on behalf of women in the military.  She served in the Coast Guard.  The girls kept waving to her from their seats.  They love her!

Boise Aquarium

Boise got an aquarium a couple years ago.  We heard it wasn't real great when it first opened but they have since added more to it.  We decided to give it a try.  It was actually pretty decent.  The girls loved looking at all of the creatures.

The first touch pool only had fish in it and they weren't swimming up to the top for us to touch so the girls just put their fingers in the water.

The next touch pool had sting rays and sharks.  Ryleigh was hilarious!  She would get up there to look and would quickly jump off when they came anywhere close.  Bailey sat in the stroller with her hands over her ears because Ryleigh would squeal each time she jumped down.  Bailey didn't even want to look.  I was trying to convince them and Devin to touch the sting rays.  Devin eventually did.  Ryleigh said no way and every time we mentioned it to Bailey, Ryleigh jumped in and told Bailey not to.

Bailey was hoping there would be sea stars at the aquarium and was talking about them all morning.  When we reached this touch pool she was very excited but wouldn't touch them.

After standing there and coaxing her for a good 10 minutes, Ryleigh finally touched the purple star fish.

Look at those suction cups!

Shark tank

They thought this was the coolest thing and kept climbing back up behind it.

"Take my picture, Dad."