Oh.My.WOOT!

Tren and I have been scouring craigslist for a while now, searching for a sweet Tent Trailer. Tren finally posted a "wanted" ad saying what we were looking for. This Sunday, someone responded. And need I say more, but:

We are going to get it cleaned up inside and out and then move on in for a 4th of July weekend trip. I can't explain how excited I am that Tren bought this. I can't wait to use it! Belle doesnt yet know of the new addition. I think it is going to be quite hilarious when it is in the traveling position (closed up in a little box) and I tell her "This is our new trailer for camping." She will look and think to herself "How are we going to fit in this?" Then I will point out the little bottom half of the door and I will open it and tell her to see how she likes it and see if she crawls in. I just can't wait to see her reaction when we get it all set up! She will love it!

Thank you Tren, for getting this for us.

Thank you Grandma Brenner, for letting us park it at your house.

John Deer Tractor vs Backhoe!

Tren's nephew is turning 2 tomorrow. I, of course, offered my help with making his cake. Cassie (the mother) said I could just make it for him since they wouldn't be in town until late the night before anyways. She had asked Gage (birthday boy) what kind of party he wanted... either a tractor or a backhoe party, and being nearly 2 he said "both". So, she did a tractor vs backhoe birthday invitation that was A.D.O.R.A.B.L.E. and I started googling cake ideas. I found a few different ideas I liked and sent them to her to choose from. I liked this one (below) and I thought I could do a tractor and a backhoe each:

Then I liked this one and digging in the cake!

Or a tractor plowing a field! Plus, with the toys on the cake, he could keep them and use them! Perfect!!

Cassie had already bought a tractor toy to put on the cake, so she gave me that one and then I did some looking on the internet for a matching sized backhoe. This was difficult, so we ended up just buying a tractor with a mower attachment and a backhoe.

Tonight we made the cake!!! ((I need a boy to make cakes for! Seriously! So much different than pink and princesses! Ugh!)) I think it turned out absolutely delicious!!

What do you think?!

Big Boy on a Little Trike!

Off to a good start.....

Uh-oh!....

Aw crap!....

He would not let me take a picture of the bruises from the handle bars. They were on his inner thighs and a bit high up! Pretty close to doing some serious damage.

The Dam

So, this weekend in Emmett there was a lot of flooding or near flooding. Tren went driving around with a friend to get a look at things. He came home, we went to see Shrek and then he said we had to go up and see the Dam. He told me "this happens once every 15 years!". I'm not sure if that is true, but it sounded good. So we all went up to check it out. YIKES!






It was getting late and it was cloudy, so this is the best picutre I got. Every now and then a huge tree would go over the Dam and then you'd see it go floating by. The water was a really tastey (not so much) brown color from all the dirt and stuff in it. Then we headed up towards Montour/Sweet and took a look around up there. There was lots of gophers out in the road and we decided it was because they were flooded out of their holes in the ground. It was a watery drive.