Caleb's Birthday Party

We had a fun family party at our house tonight, Caleb has been very excited about it all week.


The birthday cake was fun, but the most entertaining part was when Caleb was having trouble with some of the candles - Reed helped him to blow them out. Caleb was so furious, he didn't have words, he just glared at him until I got them relighted. But as you can see here, he didn't dwell on it for long.

November

Caleb wanted to take some photos, I took this one, but I thought it was fun.


When we got home from our trip to Arizona, we entered the Winter Wonderland. Everyone had a good time getting back into normal November weather.



Luckily we have 3 snow shovels. ;)

halloween

I know it is kind of late, but here are some of our Halloween photos. Caleb decided a while back that he wanted to be Spiderman, then Neeve wanted to be like Sister Bear in the Berenstein Bears books - a pink ballerina.


Neeve with her Pink Tutu.


Scary I know, but I did dress up - Jon also did, but his costume consisted of his Spiderman t-shirt.

Busy week

Here is a Self Portrait of Caleb.


I let the kids have a bubble bath in my tub - they loved it till Neeve slipped and bumped her head and Caleb got taken out for throwing water out of the tub.


We had a great time bouldering last Saturday, we went with Josh and Shelly and their two kids - we all had a great time.


Neeve took a turn with the camera and got some great shots of her dad. Always interesting to get a little different perspective on life.




We squeezed through this little crack to get to our last problem.



This was likely the craziest peach canning day. Caleb and Neeve decided they wanted to help, so Caleb found one of his plastic knives and started slicing peaches - they did a great job, I was really surprised at how much they helped! Sorry about the no clothes - this was the second batch of jars.


You should know something about Neeve, she is a collector, or hoarder, she will carry all this from one location to the next and just sit with all her stuff.

Goings on from the Kitchen Window

This is what we have been watching lately. They are putting in a new house next door, something exciting every day.

Hawaii

Here are some of the fun things we did on our trip to Hawaii with some of Jon's coworkers. We all had a great time.

Climbing

We have tried to get out climbing this summer, we have enjoyed getting out with Heidi and Bryant, but we only brought our camera on this outing with a couple of families from our ward, the Mullins and the Wellings.

Carnival

The Carnival at the New North Park was a ball, the kids go to do all sorts of fun stuff, like ride a carousel,



Go for a Pony ride,


Ring a Train Bell,


Play on a Fire Truck,


Climb on a Tank,


And Neeve got to Swing to her heart's content.

Spanish Fork Rodeo

Just thought every one would like to see Jon in a cowboy hat! We had a good time at the rodeo!




We also had a good time at the Demolition Derby - All the Ryskamps came along for the fun.

You might think that because we live in Spanish Fork we are hicks now, well you might be right.

July

Long time with out anything new. I think I haven't felt like I needed to post because my brother Matt returned home from his mission and I didn't need to keep him updated. Well, here is our July.

Neeve decided she could wear ponytails - big advancement- but they didn't really last that long.



We had a great time in the Tetons with Marie and Salomon for the fourth of July. We did a little hiking, but Neeve cut her mouth open, so we didn't want to press our luck with happy kids.





And of course - Happy Birthday to Jon - who celebrated 30!

Peggy and George's Birthday Party

Well, the most exciting part of the party was riding on Grandpa's Horse - so everyone had to take a turn.