BE MY VALENTINE!

This year will be Austin's last year in elementary school. The students had to bring a decorated box from home for their Valentines Party at school. Me and Austin worked on his Valentines Box together. It was really easy and it turned out way cool! Austin also had a girl ask him to be her Valentine. He put some extra candy on her Valentine and she gave him a small box of chocolates with a card.

PLAYING CATCH UP

I know, I know, I'm not good at keeping up with our blog. Sorry about that, if there is anyone that reads this. Anyway, here are some of the highlights of what the Fountaine Four have been up to. We welcomed a new nephew to the family. My brother Kirk and his Wife Andrea had a baby boy named Dylan, nick name Dill Pickle. He has red hair and Chance is so excited to have another red head in the family and he thinks Dylan is his brother.

We went to Disneyland and Sea World in October. We had so much fun. Disneyland is a must see for Halloween. The fireworks were amazing, the decorations were so cool. The Space Mountain ride was awesome!!!



Chance Turned 6 and Austin turned 12.

Christmas was beautiful. This is my favorite holiday especially when spent with family. It was our first Christmas with Cole he wasn't sure what to do. It was also our first Christmas without Sawsha, we defiantly missed her!

HALLOWEEN TIME

Halloween has come and gone already but we had a blast. Mom had her traditional Halloween Party. We always look forward to this party. The kids love it and it's a lot of fun watching all the kids have fun.

Austin went as a modern day vampire (not Edward Cullen)

Chance was Optimus Prime

I dressed up as static cling for mom's party because I was estatic to be there.

Cole was a Black Stallion. Mike had to work so he was unable to go to the party, but I'm sure he would have dressed up as the HVAC man (ha, ha). I would have had more pictures but I didn't realize the battery was so low on the camera so unfortunatly the battery on my camera died. But the kids played Musical Tombstone (Cole marched in the circle with them). they also played Halloween Bingo, Pumpkin Ring Toss, and Tic Tac Toe Halloween style of course. They made some cool Haunted Houses from graham crakers, forsting, and loads of candy. We ate some yummy tacos except for Chance he had his usual chicken nuggets. Big Thanks to mom for starting a tradition that is fun for all!

FAMILY CAMP OUT

We went camping this past weekend at Joe's Valley with my family. It was my mom's birthday on the 13th and Mike's birthday on the 14th. By the way Mike is 40 now (he, he). We had a lot of fun, especially the kids and dogs. The kids played in the dirt almost the entire time. When they weren't in the dirt they were riding 4-wheelers or eating. My brother Kirk brought his dog and we had our dog and they played in the dirt as much as the kids did.


This is my baby, Cole, he got so dirty we had to use the vaccum on him and Mike spent most of Sunday morning picking stickers out of his fur.

This is my nephew Alex. He's one of the youngest boys and I think he won the prize for the dirtest boy that weekend. This picture of him is probably the cleanest he was all weekend. I was watching him play in the dirt with a little plastic sand shovel and he would scoop the dirt up and pour it over his head then he would sit on the ground and pour the dirt over his legs and up the leg of his shorts.

Here is my little guy, Chance, it almost looks like he was eating the dirt. Well . . . at least he ate something.

Here is Uncle Kirk (my little brother) giving Ryan a ride on my machine.

Here is Adam and Leslye in the Razer with my hubby (the 40 year old).

Here is grandpa with Ryan

and here is my sis, Heather, with her 2 boys Ryan and Caleb.

Here are my handsome boys, Austin and Chance on Austin's machine. And no Chance is not flipping me off he is showing me the peace sign.

FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL

Hip Hip Hooray! School has started! Austin has started the sixth grade. He really likes his teacher, Mrs. Smith. Our goal is to have a better year this year. He is going to focus more and improve his grades and get ready for Jr. High.

Chance is starting kindergaten and he gives it a thumbs up. He has been so excited to start school he could hardly stand it. He loves his teacher, Mrs Wood. Kindergaten starts a week later than the other kids and Chance was pretty upset when Austin started school and he didn't. But once the day rolled around for his turn he couldn't have been happier.

BRACE FACE

So Austin had braces intalled yesterday. I can't believe how fast he is growing up!! I feel so old. And to think he only has 1 more year left in elementary and than it's off to Jr. High. Where does the time go?

Goodbye Sawsha

Today was one of the toughest days of my life. We made the decision to put Sawsha down. It was extremely hard to finally do this. We have been saying for about a year that it was getting close to that time. I'm glad I was there to hold her and comfort her as she left her body but it was heart breaking to say goodbye. Poor Sawsha could hardly walk anymore and she must have been in some kind of pain even though she never showed it. I think of Sawsha as my baby, I often called her baby girl even though in dog years she was much older than me. She was such a good dog! I wish dogs lives weren't so short. We were lucky to have such a wonderful friend for the past 12+ years. She has blessed us with many, many memories. MOMMY WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU BABY GIRL!