The Mining Expo

A couple of weeks ago The Mining Expo was in town! We all enjoy going especially the boys. They love because they can climb on all of the equipment and get lots of free stuff!Koda is pretty sure that changing this tire would be hard work for one person!

Koda said he could probably be able to fix this machine!

The boys are sitting in an underground machine.

(sorry I don't know the name of it)

Bry driving the bus. He thought he was pretty cool!

Koda was content being a passenger

The boys loved climbing on this LARGE dump truck!

Standing in the bucket!

Talk about BIG tires!

Bry thinks that this machine would be fun to have around the house!

(yea right where would I put that)

Koda said he would be able to make a lot of money if he had one of these!

This rocket was there and Bry thought it was pretty cool!

I am not sure what this machine was but both of the boys could pretend to drive it at the same time!

All in all The Mining Expo was a great one!

one of our most favorite things to do . . . . .

since it was a nice day the other day we decided to take advantage of it and load up the 4-wheelers and go for a ride. a few of our friends told us about some trails that are close to the house so we decided to try them out. it was a fun day and i think that we will be back soon to try out some of the other trails. favoritei thought that this picture was funny.

bry driving down a really steep hill looking to see who is behind him.

koda loves to play on the hills on his wheeler.

after we rode for a while we decided to take a break and have some lunch. then off for more fun.

shawn enjoying the day riding his 4-wheeler

this is kimney trying out some of the fun trails

these next pictures were of bry wanting to see if his 4-wheeler would make it down the hill and across the water to the other side. he is not afraid of much.

and of course he made it.

we can't wait for the next nice day so we can go again!

Congratulations Kimberly!!

Shawn's niece Kimberly graduated from Roy High School at the end of May and we had the opportunity to go and see her graduate. All of her aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents were there to see her graduate. Wow she has a big family, all of us took up 3 rows of seats. All in all the ceremony went good, and then we were all on our way to a park close to Peggy's house to celebrate.

All of us gathered at the park for some good eats, and fun. Now that she is done with High School she is moving to our house to go to college here. We wish her the best of luck!!

CoUrThOuSe ToUr

the last couple of weeks of school the 3rd graders (Kode and all of his class mates) learned about voting, holding an office, and other things like what the county court house does. the children had the opportunity to run for a position (like the mayor, the sheriff's deputy, etc. .) Kode decided he did not want to run for office, he just wanted to own his own business. After the unit was just about over with they took the children on a field trip to the County Court House. (they asked me if i wanted to go so i did) the field trip was very interesting and i am glad i had the opportunity to go.

when we first got to the court house the teacher quized the kids about some of the things they had learned in the class about the court house while we were waiting for our tour guide.

we had the opportunity to go through the recorders office where they showed us some of their really old books that were hand written in from 1910.

we stopped to take a look at a really cool map they had. i just love Kode's cheesy smile

our next stop was the jury room. that was pretty cool. the kids thought they were pretty cool pretending like they were the jury people

this is judge Memeo. he came into the jury room and answered the kids questions.

then we were on our way into his court room. he talked a little about the kinds of things that go on in his court room and then the kids had an opportunity to act out a case that they created. it was called "who kissed the green frog?"

each student had a part in the case and Kode was part of the jury. it was so neat that the judge let the students take over his court room.

after our tour was over everyone gathered on the stairs for one last group picture.

(kode and his cheesy smile)