Enjoying a Little Challenge

Looks like TV can keep this little one entertained!

Who wouldn't enjoy a little Food Network Challenge?

Amazing Race Party

 Saturday, September 3rd we went down to Rigby to celebrate Bryan's Birthday.  We followed the Schauerhamer's down since we would be heading to Utah right after the party.  About five minutes away from the house, after taking quite a tight turn the Schauerhamers quickly pulled over and Morgan jumped out of the car...pretty upset.

(I share this story because I KNOW Morgan will laugh about it now.  RIGHT?)

Well, after a bit of time we realized that her huckleberry cheesecake had fallen on the floor of her backseat.  I would've been quite upset too...seeing how she picked the huckleberries herself.   Here are some pictures we took that I am sure will make Morgan laugh!  Hopefully!

 Andrew's hand after cleaning up the sauce off the floor.

 Some of the left over mess.

The salvaged part of the cheesecake.

Even though it didn't look the best, it was DELECTABLE and it was eaten ALL UP!

Thanks Morgan for making such a wonderful treat!

The rest of the evening was spent driving like crazies around Rigby, in order to complete multiple tasks.  Bryan and Lisa's kids had put this Amazing Race all together for us to complete.  I just thought it was such an awesome thing for them to do for their dad and mom.  It really was a FUN night.

One task was to find a stranger and get them to eat a treat that we offered them.

All we had in the car was a Fiber One bar.

 This young man was willing to eat it up for us!

 We also had to go to the tennis court and serve ten balls into the kill zone.  I completed that task for our team.  Brought me back to my Middle School years.

 And of course, PLANKING was involved.

We had such a GREAT time during this night.

We loved meeting new people and competing in an Amazing Race.

Even though our team came in DEAD last, it was still great fun.

Here is Jackson next to our friend, Marlese's baby, Brayden.

He is only ONE MONTH older than Jackson, but much bigger.

It was great to finally see him and of course to see Marlese and Nathan again.

Here is Lisa with our sweet Jackson.

They both loved meeting each other for the first time.

We are so happy that we were invited to come and spend this evening with everyone.

We are so lucky to know this family.

They throw some pretty FUN parties.

Now off to Utah for our niece's baby blessing.

Yay! Jackson meets the Chapman Family

Ok, when I was unpacking from Andrew and I coming back from Arkansas I realized that we had WAY too much stuff that we DID NOT NEED!  

We decided on Thursday to have a Yard Sale LAST MINUTE on Saturday.

We already had a ton of stuff in our garage that we were ready to sale and I found WAY more stuff as I was organizing the house to put stuff away from coming back.

The sale was a SUCCESS!

We made over 100 dollars on the junk we didn't want anymore!

While doing the sale, the CHAPMAN'S made their way up to Ashton.

They finally got to meet JACKSON!

 All of them were excited to meet our little man, but I think Kristi was the MOST excited.

 Here is Anna, Laura, and Camilla hanging out with our little Jackson.

 Ah!  Jackson was a bit tired.  He didn't really know what to think of all this attention.

We were so happy that the Chapman family was able to come up and visit with us.

We just LOVE that family so much.

 These next pics of Jackson were taken when he was about ten weeks old.

What I loved about this outfit though, was that he is wearing a SIX MONTH onesie with NEWBORN pants.  Both of which fit him perfectly.  The sizing for kids clothes is all messed up!

 But, my goodness...sure do love him in everything that he wears!

 Don't worry everyone THE CAR WAS NOT EVEN ON!

Daddy just wanted to teach Jackson to drive a little bit earlier than usual!

We have been having fun being back in Ashton and introducing to Jackson to all of our friends up here in Idaho.  It is crazy how big he is getting so fast.  I never thought he would EVER fit into clothes bigger than newborn sizes, and I have since then packed away his newborn clothes...and don't worry, when I did pack away his little newborn onesies I shed a tear or two!

You have a Minute to Win it Good Luck

Friday, August the 17th we had a Minute to Win It Party!  Morgan was kind enough to wait until we got back in town to have this party.  I am so glad she did, because it was a blast!

Morgan decided to do a salad bar.  It was perfect. Light and delicious!

Why do we not do more salad bars at more parties.

LET THE GAMES BEGIN!

For those who have never seen Minute to Win It, I'll just tell you that it's just people doing silly tasks using everyday items within a minute's time. Which equals hilarious! Andrew Schauerhamer found a great minute countdown on YouTube and so that made the Minute that much more intense.

We divided up into three teams and then each person on the team did two of the games. 

Jackson got to join us for the party.  He was such a good little boy.

He even slept through most of the party.

GOOD JOB!

The first task was Breakfast Scrambler.

Morgan cut up boxes and we had to put them together, like  a puzzle.

I represented our team and it was much harder than what I thought it was going to be.  Needless to say, I would've lost a life on the game show. 

The next game was Dizzy Mummy

Each person had to unroll a roll of toilet paper by mummifying themselves by making 360 degree turns with their body.

It was pretty fun watching them run around in circles!

The third game was Face the Cookie

Andrew got to do this one. They had to have a cookie placed on their forehead and maneuver it using their face muscles so that it made it into our mouths. Funny to watch and even more funny to do!

 

Luckily, Andrew and I had just seem this one done on the actual show and so Andrew ROCKED it!

The 4th game was Penny Hose.

This is where there are two pennies, one at the end of each leg of a pair of pantyhose. They have to retrieve the pennies without using the other hand or anything else.  I am pretty sure I would NOT have done very well at this one!

The Fifth game: Nose Dive

I got to do this one, and I was glad I did!  It was pretty fun! We had to put Vaseline on the tip of our nose and use it to transfer cotton balls from one plate to the other

It was fun to shake my head like a crazy person to get that dang cotton balls off of my nose!

 

The Sixth game: Keep It Up

This one was AWESOME!   They had to keep a feather in the air for a minute.

 It got PRETTY crazy!  They got pretty into it and Andrew S. was all over the room, even out of the room and in the last second his feather went behind the table and he had to try and dive to keep it up. He failed... Oh well..

 

The Seventh Game: A Bit Dicey

Using a knife clenched between your teeth you have to stack dice on the tip.  Andrew did this one for our team.  He said it was quite easy. He finished it in a few seconds!

The Eighth Game: A Jimmy Fallon Game

This one isn't technically a Minute to Win it game but Rachel Erickson who helped out with the party thought it would be fun to try. With their hands tied to a stick behind their back they have to pour water from one bottle into a jar on the ground.

We had such a GREAT time at this party.  It is GREAT to be back in Ashton and I am still just so happy that they waited for us to be back in Ashton to have this party.

Here is a compilation of some of the movies we took.  It really was a FUN night.

(Thank you to Morgan for the pictures and some of the descriptions of the games and such!)

Back in Idaho -- Meeting the Uminskis and welcoming Jackson to his Home in Ashton!

 Well, we left for Ashton on Wednesday, August 24th.  We made sure to stop at the Uminski's in Rigby so that they could meet Jackson.  It was great to see everyone again. 

Ariana was so excited to meet Jackson.

Jackson loved Ariana...mainly because she was feeding him.

But, also because she is his Aunt.

Jackson loves all who are family!

Nadia did such a great job holding Jackson.

Forrest didn't really want to hold him. 

But, we did get a picture with him.

Marek wasn't too excited about taking a picture either.

 But, Jackson was!  Look at that face!

 Ok, Nadia is WAY cute in that hat!

Loot at Forrest trying NOT to smile.

Marek is so big compared to when we last saw him in May

Then there is Jackson.

Just chillin'

 This has got to be one of my most FAVORITE looks that Jackson gets.

Seriously...I just wonder what he is thinking here...

Or rather, what was I doing to make him look like this...

What in the world Mom...what are you even doing?!?

 I'm sure I will see this look ALL throughout his life.

He just has to get use to the fact that his mom...ME...and his DAD are a bit CRAZY!

 

 So, our car was a bit full coming back from Arkansas!  

Good thing we got the new car so that we could fit everything!

 Jackson really DOES not like the sun in his face.

I love love love love love this look as well!

Oh my goodness..I just love this boy so much!

Well...after many months, miles and adventures...we have arrived back in Ashton at our house.

This is the first time Jackson entered into his home.

He is so excited about it...right?

Well, we were!  It was so nice to be home and back in Ashton.

We sure did miss it.

It was nice to be back to all of our stuff.

Our house was exactly how we left it.

So weird. It was like we hadn't even left for as long as we did.

Sure do love this little house of ours.

Here is Jackson taking in his NEW surroundings.

Well, of course when we got home we unpacked the car and got some things put away.

But, our first item of business was to get some FOOD for our house.

So...off to Dave's we went!

 I had to document Jackson's first trip to Dave's!

We love Dave's! We visit it OFTEN!

It is one thing that we love about living in a small town...

going to the grocery store and seeing many people we know!

Which is exactly what happened here.

I don't even think we made it IN the store without seeing someone we knew in the parking lot.

It is great to be back!

The other thing we needed to do was to WEED our flower garden.

Oh goodness it was bad! 

I was so sad that I missed all of my flowers that had bloomed.

I couldn't believe HOW BIG my lupines were.

Unfortunately all I saw were the stems and leaves.

The flowers were dead. Sad! 

But, at least they grew.

I also missed the poppies and the lillies.

But, I heard they did bloom and they were beautiful.

Here is what it looked like AFTER we weeded.

So much better.

Man, those pansies are such TOUGH flowers.

They are still going strong!

 The second night we were there we went to Arleigh Grube's wedding reception.

It was so nice to go and see a TON of people all at once.

Everyone was SOOO happy to meet Jackson.

They have been watching him grow up the last two months on Facebook, so they were so glad to fianlly see him and HOLD him.

For some reason I didn't take pictures of everyone who held him that night...just know that there were ALOT of people who held him and kissed him and cuddled on him.

He did so well with it all.

Gosh!  It was so good to see all of our friends again.

We sure do love living in Ashton!

Jackson really does like my friend Kathryn...he was just so tired at this point.

It was the end of the night and he was so ready to go to SLEEP!

Well, we are back!  The summer is technically over.

Kind of!  Andrew doesn't go back to school for another two weeks.

(I am writing this as if I posted it back in August)

So we still have some time to play!

Which is exactly what we are going to do.