Our California Friends!!

Saturday of this Past weekend.. we were able to go and see some of our dearest friends from Jeff's mission in Sacramento, Ca.

This is the Roberts Family.

Ron & Julie & Their 4 daugters... Marie(not here), Katie (to the right of Julie)

Sammy (the left of Jeff) and Alie on the far left!

We were so happy to see them. We enjoy visiting with them so very much.

Love you all!!!

Tietjen's Utah Trip - Memorial Day Weekend

Tietjen has lots and lots of fun this past weekend with his Grandparents! When we left he wanted us to turn around and go back. He loves them all so very much.

Here is Tietjen with "Grandpa Dennis" mowing the backyard.

Tietjen thought it was so neat to ride on the lawnmower.

(There is a train in the Thomas collection named Dennis that he got from "Santa" this past Christmas. When we told him that Grandpa Awsumb's name was Dennis also. He thought that was just so COOL that Grandpa had the same name as a Train. So he became "Grandpa Dennis"

Tietjen loves making and playing with friends.

He had all the older cousins playing in the dirt with his trains.

Thanks Tanner, Thomas, Jacob & Taylor (she is hiding behind Jacob) Tietjen really enjoyed playing with you all..

Thank you Maddison for being such a good and fun Cousin and watching him for us!!!

Happy Birthday Anna Belle

Our little Girl turned a YEAR old on April 29th....

The Saturday before her birthday we celbrated it with my side of the family.

This past weekend we end to Utah to celbrate her birthday with Jeff's family.

Growing so big.She is our cute little girl.. This is her birthday nightgown from Mommy & a carebear from Aunt Wendy & family

Anna Belle & Daddy with her pink cupcake and pink icing... "Daddy I want it"

Our family BBQ picnic with all of my sisters and their families and my parents!!!

Anna Belle's Cake in Utah - THANK YOU Grandma Awsumb!!!

Annie enjoying her cake with Tietjen and her cousin Hailey!!

Jeff's Hard Work

The past couple of weekends. We have been working on cleaning up our yard and taking out some old tree stumps and planting our small garden... here are some of the pictures of our work...











This was a apple tree that fell down before we had the house.. we finally got the stump out. Jeff
dug it out with just the shovel.. well he broke the first one, we had to go buy a new one then.. Tietjen is standing in the hole about chest level on him...



















This is the Pine tree that we cut down last spring.. we rented the stump grinder and after 2 1/2 hours we got it down to ground level.. Tietjen loved the sawdust (with his trains)

Tietjen Rides a BIKE

Yesterday, we spent the day at my sister Kimberly's home in Pocatello. They have a bike with training wheels and Tietjen wanted to try riding it. He did so good as you will see in the video. He did have to shift his weight to reach the pedel on the down push. He is getting to be such a big boy. I guess we know what his next birthday present will be.... ENJOY!!

The Sand Box

Where do I start... the Sand Box. When we moved to our home 2 1/2 years ago.. the previous owners or someone in the past left a huge tire from a tractor.. which I wanted to convert to a sandbox. Last summer our neighbors went out to the dunes to get sand for theirs and had extra leftover and filled ours also.

Tietjen loves to play in it... Anna Belle it took a couple of times before she would sit in it. Tietjen has been playing in the sandbox all month of April. Even when it was cold, he was out there in his snow gloves and coat. I was just gratefull for some of that engery getting out of him.

Here is some pictures showing our times in the sand box........

We made a birthday cake out of sand with old kitchen utinsiles for the candles.

Here is Tietjen very upset because he turned on the hose and put water in the sandbox, then he wanted me to take the water out of it....