Is 4 Too Young?

 I often asked myself if 4 was a little too young to give your boy a bb gun.  Well, I guess not because Kasen received his 1st little gun a few weeks ago.  this was tates when he was a little boy and brought it back to Idaho with us from his parents house.  It was really fun and exciting.  Tate and Kasen were out in the back yard for a while learning about how to shoot guns.  Tate really did an extensive gun safety training and every time he shoots it has to recite all the rules of gun safety. 

 Aiming at the target. 

 He isn't quite strong enough yet to caulk the gun yet, so Dad has to help out. 

Showing Kasen where the safety of the gun is.  They had a fun time.

Ragnar 12

 Our family did Ragnar again this year.  It's always a good time being together with a bunch of girls in a van for 2 days, sweaty, tired, sore.  It's especially good for me to keep me motivated to keep running, because obviously being healthy isn't enough for me:)  I initially wasn't going to be able to run because we were going to be gone, but lucky for me, not for my brother in law who got injured, I was able to take his place.  It was awesome!

 Shanna and I.  The original Ragnarians:)  Sure do love that sister in law of mine!

 Jentri, Me and Shanna just waiting at an exchange.  Jentri is about 15 weeks pregnant right here, and she totally rocked every single one of her legs.  I really did luck out when it came to in laws.  Mine are the best!

 So after the race, we went to a yummy place to eat in park city, which I can't remember the name of it right now, but I was walking back out to our van, and heard this laugh, which was a very distinct Misty Griffiths laugh, I looked around and couldn't see her so just went on my way.  We then got seated and ordered our food, when I heard.  "Jana?"  I looked up and sure enough, there was Misty.  I knew I had heard her:)  It was fun to run into her, i ran into her last year at Ragnar, and that is always so much fun!  She is great!

 Our entire team at the finish line.  I don't remember what time we finished, but I do know that we finished:) 

Van number 1.  We rocked!

A while Back

 A while back, Kasen got to go to Father's and Sons, which he so cutely refers to as "boys camp, no girls allowed mom."  He had been looking forward to boys camp since last year and I am so glad that Tate was able to take him.  It was cute watching Kasen get everything ready to go and get things in the camper.  They stayed nice and dry that night during the rain storm, and he had alot of fun. 

 A while back, one of my most dearest friends, Kaylynn, came to visit me.  She is living in Moscow and luckily her husband was going to be gone for 6 weeks for school, and so she decided to take a drive to see me.  I couldn't have been happier.  It was such a fun week spent with her.  She has 2 beautiful little girls now, and we got to get to know them and play with them.  Such fun.

 A while back while Kaylynn was here, we did some more minnow catching, although on this particular day the minnows were not out.  We couldn't spot them anywhere.  Darn!

 A while back, Kaylynn and I met the cutest ever Twinners in Blackfoot and Kaylynn decided she would catch herself some minnows with just a little cup.  Leave it to her to stand in the water forever and be patient and actually catch one.  Those suckers are fast.  She is quite the fisherlady. 

 A while back, Daisha decided to smile this way, with a big, cheesy grin, and yell "cheese" as loud as she could to the camera.  She is pretty cute.

 A while back, I got this cool camera that does the color effect on pictures while I am taking them, so I got this adorable one of Melissa snapping a picture of something really cute, seeing how she is showing them how it's done to smile!!!

 Here we all are, some great friends, who have managed to keep in touch a little bit throughout the years.  Our kiddos, We all have 2 each which makes it a fun, relaxing time when you are wanting to visit and catch up:) 

 Melissa and Kaylynn. 

 Me and Melissa

 Me and Meag.  Luckily, we decided that we wanted to live by each other. So we both moved to Firth Idaho, well, I actually followed her there, but that is beside the point.  We somehow manage to keep in touch with each other while being 6 minutes away from each other.  She is quite awesome and is a great running partner who slows down her pace to stick with me.  She is nice like that. 

Me and Kaylynn.  We grew really close to each other during our 2 years at CEU.   She really is such an awesome person and I am lucky to have these ladies as friends!

 Our 2nd year at school.

 A while back we all became close friends.  I am pretty lucky!  Love em!



Zoo Trip

We took our first trip to the zoo for the summer.  It is always a good time. Daisha did not like the little kids area with the nest and chicken and egg things to play on, she was not having it, she did like to see the real chickens. those are her favorite.  Just some fun pictures of a fun day

 Gotta love the pictures of them holding hands.  I love it!

 It was obviously nap time!

Memorial Weekend

This post has been along time coming.  It took forever to get the pictures uploaded and it took forever in between the going and coming of everyday life.  But a few weeks ago all the Sorensen family, Tate's immediate brothers and sisters and parents, got together for a fun little reunion.  It was fun because we all were able to make it and that hardly ever happens.  We were able to get in a nice big lodge that accomodated all of us.  it was pretty crumy weather Saturday but it was nice to be in one big place where we could all hang out.  It was alot of fun and hopefully we will be able to do this again one of these years!

Kasen was so excited about fishing.  Once we got all things settled we all headed out for the fishing.  Hannah was the first one to catch anything and it was really exciting.

Daisha and her "cheese".  she doesn't so much as smile as yell cheese as loud as she can while making a silly face:) 

Kasen getting ready to cast out.

Here is Kasen's first official fish that he has caught.  He reeled him in and had so much fun. 

Most of the kiddos,  eating dinner all together, it was fun.

Kasen and Case.  They are practically attached at the hip whenever we are visiting.  They are too cute together.

Some of the dinner crew fixing up something yummy.

Grandpa and Grandma were wiped out.  They deserved a little snooze after all the work they do!



Some more fishing

Daisha wasn't feeling too good when we got there and was pretty whiny all weekend.  Turned out that she had a double ear infection, she ended up falling into the pond this trip I do believe.  She wasn't happy about that at all.

 Daisha with a few of the younger cousins. 

 playing on the 4-wheeler

After a long day of playing, the kids were chilling on the couch with a fun ipad.  They were laughing so hard at the game that Trace was playing, it was pretty cute. 

All in all, we had a fun successful weekend.   WE love getting together with the cousins and being able to play. We don't get to do it very often, so we will take it whenever we get it. 

The Hunt is On

After we made trails and rolled our eggs down them, we got all ready and lined up the kids for the Easter egg hunt.  The Easter bunny was super sneaky this year and hid them all over the hills, in the trees and under bushes and in the sand.  The kids were really ready and exited and could hardly wait. 

Kasen and Colt were making some pretty wierd funny faces for the camera, oh let the personality shine through:)

 Here they are again in all their cuteness and glory:)

 And another one.

 And another.

 Daisha and Rossi.  Rossi is about 8 months older than Daisha, but the older Daish gets the better they get along and play.  It's going to be fun watching them play and grow up together. 

 Cutie pies. Ready and excited to go hunt for eggs with their cute little buckets.

 Kasen ready to go.  he was a little bugged at mom for making him stop and turn and smile for the camera, he just wanted to go and hunt for eggs.

 Daisha getting the eggs.  She had a little trouble walking in the dirt by herself, and couldn't quite grasp why we were finding eggs in the dirt, but she found a few and was happy.

 Kasen on the other hand was all about running as fast as his little legs could go to try and find as many eggs as possible.  he ended up with a great little basket full.  He didn't really want to go to another egg until he had opened and eaten the candy inside the one he had found, but i convinced him that he justneeded to find a few an then he could have some candy.  he has quite a sweet tooth, just like his mother.

 Here are the boys enjoying their findings. 

 James was throwing stuff at Parker, it was cute as far as throwing things go and he has quite a good little arm for a 2 year old.  He really lets it fly. 

 The crew resting after a good easter egg hunt in the sand. 

 Some more 1 on 1 time with Grandpa enjoying peeps.  I dont really care for peeps, but that's okay, Grandpa and Daisha had a good time enjoying them.

 Yum yum!!

I didn't get any pictures of the older kids hunt.  We also usually have a money hunt, Grandpa and Jerry funded the dollars for the 2 bigger kids to have  their own hunt, and Jerry and I hid the eggs.  It was pretty crazy and hard.  There was alot of money to be found and I would have been motivated to have to find them even though we hid the eggs pretty hard in a pretty large area.  I even climbed up pretty high in a tree and hid one, it was a $10.00 egg, so it was worth the effort.  Even though I gave Parker quite a HUGE hint as to where it was because they were having a hard time finding any of the eggs.  Parker ended up finding the 2 big money eggs, but it was fun watching them and even funner hiding  them, even though I didnt' remember where I hid them, and that ended up being quite a deal towards the end when we really needd to find it so we could go home and enjoy Jerry's famous ribs, and Grandpa's famous homemade root beer. 

  It was a GREAT time at home and enjoying the hills with my family.  so glad i was able to go and spend time with them all, there really is nothing better.