Wedding Bells for Angie!

Angie and Skylar Putnam tied the knot on Monday, August 27, 2012 at the Sereno Event Center in Menan, ID.  Congratulations!!

The girls all ready and excited for Aunt Angie's bridal shower to start! 

Mr. and Mrs. Putnam

Mya, Sadie and Kennady admiring their pretty flower girl dresses!(If only I wasn't in the background...oops)

Brooke and Angie 

Waiting for the ceremony to begin.  What a bunch of beautiful girls!

Can't leave out the handsome boys! Max was the ring bearer.

Angie and Skylar's announcement turned out so cute!

Fun on the Farm

In the spring Grandma got two calves to take care of.  We love being able to take turns bottle feeding them whenever we visit.

Waiting for a turn to feed the calves grain.  Look how much they have grown!!

Grandpa's farming equipment all lined up to get ready for harvest was quite the sight for Zach.  He would have spent all day there if I would have let him.

Thanks Grandma for taking the kiddios on a tractor ride!! They loved every second!

Zoo

This summer the kids and I visited two zoos, the Tauphus Park Zoo in Idaho Falls and the Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City.  We went to the Tauphus Park Zoo earlier in the summer with Stef, Marcus, Angie and Max. The weekend before school started, Cassie and I snuck in a trip to Hogle Zoo with Grandma Jeri, Cari and the twins.

HOGLE ZOO

Hogle Zoos playground while we were waiting for Grandma and Cari to go through the zoo with us.

 This polar bear was so much fun to watch. He would push off this rock, swim underwater, pop out in front of the window and then go back and do it over and over again! Definitely the highlight of the day.

 Zach was so excited to ride on the train. Although he seemed really calm I could tell he loved every second.

TAUPHUS PARK ZOO

 My kids have always loved the petting zoos and feeding the animals. This was one of Zach's first close encounters with a goat.  So cute to watch.

Brushing the goats

Angie and Brooke "hatching" out of the egg

4th of July

We celebrated the 4th of July in Afton this year.  Danny, Cassie, and Cooper  and even Kaden came for a few days. Cassie's parents also came and stayed for a day. They took a little detour on their way back home to Oregon so they could get a feel for Afton, because Danny and Cassie are going to be staying with us until January for Danny's clinical rotation. 

We hiked up to the Intermittent Spring

On the 4th we went to the parade in Thayne

We also floated the Salt River for the first time. 

Cooper and Zach with full tummies after our  yummy Barbeque!

The next days were filled with Jake, Danny,Kaden and Tyler doing a lot of fishing, went golfing and ate lunch at the Burger Barn.  This is the Rulon Gardener challenge which fed all of them.   This is the day that Cassie and I went to Jackson Hole and took the younger kids swimming and had dinner at a chinese restaraunt.  

Jumping on the tramp!