Happy 30th Birthday!

To my wonderful husband, friend and best daddy ever. Happy birthday old man! I can give him a hard time about being so old because I am ALOT younger than him! This is a couple days late, but for good reason. We went up to the cabin for his birthday and the muzzleloader hunt. No luck on the hunt but a good time relaxing. Happy birthday baby, I love you!

Also the day before Chad's birthday was his dad's birthday. So happy birthday Larry, we love you!

Play Dough and Stuff

While Dagen and Taite were in school today, I made them some play dough. We set up the picnic table outside - to not make a mess on my 'oh so clean floor'! LOL
Here is some pics of them having some fun!

Taite and Dagen

Taite - I watch Taite for a few days a week while Ashley is at work. We have really enjoyed having her around. She is such a sweet girl! Thanks Ash!

Dagen

This is just a random pic of Graden. He was eating his favorite meal, chicken nuggets, and was so tired he fell asleep in the middle of a bite! So Cute!

Bringhurst grandkids - from the top Logen, Dagen, Taylor holding Graden, Morgan holding AnnaSophia, Kya. On the bottom Kambree, Ryder, Isabel

A bit blurry but this is my boys!

Crazy Hair Day!

So as you know, Dagen doesn't have a ton of hair. So trying to make it crazy was a bit hard. I asked him if he could color it and he said that he teacher told him no. So we just spiked it the best we could and called it crazy. Well when we got to school this morning, there was tons of boys that had their hair colored. Oh well, next year!

I took the picture as we were in the parking lot of school with my phone, so it didn't turn out all that well.

One Word

One Word...

I got this off of Marie's blog, thought it might fun!
Here are the rules,
YOU CAN ONLY TYPE ONE WORD! Not as easy as you might think, but fun!


1. Where is your cell phone? Here
2. Your significant other? Chad
3. Your hair? Curly
4. Your mother? California
5. Your father? Working
6. Your favorite thing? Family
7. Your dream last night? None
8. Your favorite drink? Water
9. Your dream/goal? Health
10. The room you're in? Office
11. Your hobby? Dance
12. Your fear? Disasters
13. Where do you want to be in 6 years? Home
14. Where were you last night? Home
15. What you're not? Brilliant
16. Muffins? Sure
17. One of your wish list items? Vacations!
18. Where you grew up? Utah
19. The last thing you did? Emails
20. What are you wearing? Watch
21. Your TV? Silver
22. Your life? Crazy
23. Your mood? Tired
24. Missing someone? Nope
25. Your car? 4Runner
26. Something you're not wearing? Shoes
27. Favorite store? Target
28. Your Summer? Busy
29. Like someone? Sure
30. Your favorite color? Red
31. When is the last time you laughed? Today
32. Last time you cried? August

Now you try - I tag everyone that reads this!!!

The Elk Hunt is Over!!

Chad, Larry (Chad's dad), Matt( Chad's buddy) and Ben (Chad's brother-in-law) have been working really hard looking for the perfect bull. Chad left our house at 4:30 am on Saturday for opening day. They took the horses and went for a ride. I never heard from them and just assumed they had shot one. So some of the girls came over Saturday night and we watched a movie and hung with all the kids. Still never hearing from the guys. The girls left and I put the kids in bed and still never heard from the guys. At 1:00 am on Sunday Chad finally made it home. He was beat, sore and hungry! I fed him some leftover pizza and sent him to bed. The next morning we went up to Larry's to see what the outcome was. This is what we saw when we got there.


Logen, Graden and Dagen with the Elk

Some of the Grandkids with the Elk

Great job Larry - I am so glad you finally drew the coveted tag!

Where were you?

I was sound asleep in my bed when my mom came bursting into my room saying, "I can't believe you can sleep through this, our country is under attack!" I obviously had no idea what was going on, I was sleeping peacefully. I drug myself out of bed and sat on the couch with my mom just in time to witness the 2nd plane crashing into the building. What horror I felt. I felt helpless, yet so angry. I made my way to work that afternoon with thoughts of anger. When I sat at my desk my co-worker, Kim, was just mad. She was having the hardest time working that day (obviously). In fact, I am not sure she did, she was reading everything she could on the internet to see what was happening. We just sat and shared our feelings that whole day.

One of the things that I remember also is that I purchased our airline tickets to go to Mim's wedding on Sept. 10. That was really scary to think that I was going to be getting on an airplane in a month.

So where were you and what were you feeling?

Drill Team Reunion

The greatest drill team coach ever, Michelle, is retiring at the end of this year. So she put together a drill team reunion. We got together on Thursday evening and mingled for awhile. We then split into groups and learned dances from the 80s, 90s, and 2000s, to perform at halftime during the Homecoming game on Friday night. I realized when we started dancing that I am not as young as I used to be. Wow was I sore the next day. I performed in the group of the 90s. It had a total of 12 girls in it. I thought that I was going to be a little more hidden in the groups since it is teams since 1980. That is 28 years worth of teams and I just so happened to pick the group that had fewer people. There was probably a total of 130 girls. But it was so great to see everyone, well that showed up, since there was only 2 girls from my senior class that did it. But it was still fun. I forgot my camera both nights, but Leslie said that she would email them to me. So when she does I will post some pics. Thanks Michelle for a great reunion. You are the best coach ever. And all the girls love and look up to you alot.

Conversations with Dagen

After School Conversation

Me: How was school?
Taite: Good
Dagen; Good
Me: What did you do?
Taite: Colored
Dagen: Stared at each other

So this is funny because I asked him what he did at school the other day and he said "nothing." So I replied, you just sat and stared at each other the whole time? He laughed. So now he actually has replied to my question the same way for the past couple of days.

After school on the day of the staring conversation we had to run some errands. So I decided in order to keep the kids from driving me crazy in the car we would stop at McDonalds and get them some lunch. Well I think we struck gold, because Dagen got two things of fries in his happy meal. So he tried to give them to Logen and Taite but they already had some. So I told him to give them to Beavis, referring to Graden.
Dagen says who is Beavis?
I told him I just called Graden that for fun. (it really isn't a nickname.)
Dagen says well I want to call him Chowder instead, can we?
So now I guess Graden's new nickname is Chowder, and I have no idea where he came up with it but it works I guess, I actually have called him that a few times since.