Happy Birthday Jayden!

Well Jayden turned two on the first of the month. We had to wait a week though to have his party because both Auntie Em and Grammy and Grandpa were out of town. So we had his party last weekend. It was lots of fun. All our friends came over and we got to swim in my new swimming pool, play on the slip 'n' slide, hit a pinata and of course eat ice cream and cake. Jayden loves motorcycles and cars so mom made him a motorcycle cake. I think he had alot of fun at his party. I know I did.























It was also Aunt Bollie's (Millie) birthday the day of the party so mom made her a cake too and we sang her happy birthday and gave her presents. I made her a necklace with her name on it for her birthday. That is Aunt Bollie and Aunt Lydia playing in the pool. It was lots of fun. Ialways like it when my Burney friends come over. Well I suppose that is all for now. Next week is family camp so we will post pictures when we get back. It should be lots of fun. Have a great week!

VOTE FOR SCOTT!!!!

My Dad's friend Scott who played basketball with Dad and Justin in the three on three tournament entered this contest and needs us all to vote for him so he can win an xbox 360. Here is the link. He is the one from Redding who looked like a mountain man before the shave and a twelve year old after.

We'll we have been very busy doing lots of fun stuff this summer. We go to the lake at least once or twice a week and we go to Kids Kingdom, We've done some hiking out at the park.

This last week was the fourth of July and we got to go to the fireworks with the youth group it was real fun. Justin caught that huge salmon with his bare hands in the river.
The fireworks were pretty neat, but kind of loud.

This is my Mom who is hiding behind the camera in most of the pictures that we put on here.

Too Kayla

Kayla my Dad says he is not going to comment on your blog anymore. He said he does not want to comment as joshnjay so he will not comment at all. By the way everyone I got a new pool today. It is 8ft around and 30in tall, perfect for me and Jay. New post soon to follow.

Summer Fun

Last week mom and dad took me and Jayden to the Shasta District Fair. We had lots of fun and got to see tigers, horses, and eat lots of yummy treats. Mom and dad let us get our faces painted with matching lightning bolts and I got to ride on two rides. They said next year I could get a bracelet and go on as many rides and I want. Well here are a few pictures of how much fun we had....






















We all had very blue tongues after our snowcone.











This is the other thing weve been doing to try and enjoy our beautiful 115 degree weather. (note the sarcasm) Weve been going to the lake alot. Of course building sand castles is a 110 and below activity, otherwise we dont get out of the water much :)













Hope your enjoying your summer as much as were enjoying ours!

Busy Days

Sorry its been so long since weve posted (a month to be exact). Mom and dad have been very busy and they actually do have something to show for it. I now live in a new house... well not really but with new floors, paint, and lights it sure feels like a new house. Nana and papa have been visiting for the last few weeks and Papa, Zach, and Uncle Paul helped my dad pull out all of our carpet and put in our new "wooden floor". Mom and Dad think it makes the house look much better. I dont really care too much what the house looks like but it sure is fun to slide on our floor in my socks (Zachary taught me that game). Here are some pictures of what my mom and dad have been up to lately.

Before & After....











































While Papa was here I got to go fishing twice. Papa bought me a new Nemo fishing pole and I had lots of fun learning how to cast. The last time we went mom and dad came too. I caught
six or seven fish which was much better than my mom..... she only caught three. I even reeled them in all by myself. All together we probably caught twenty or so fish (we happened to be there on a plant day) but we only brought home seven.











This is Jayden hiding in the entertainment center. We had to empty it to move it around and he thought it made a great hiding spot. Well thats all for now....hopefully we will post sooner next time.

STEVE THE STUD

To start this story I will go back a few days. Our van has been acting up every now and then. It would not start every time you turned the key. Sometimes it would and then sometimes it would just click and not turn over. So my Dad was procrastinating with fixing it but then last night we went to the store and then it would not start. IT finally did after about 8 or 9 tries. Then when Dad got home from work he tried to start it and it would not do it at all. So my Dad jacked it up and was checking out the starter. He called the auto parts stores and they said it would be 120$ to get a new starter. He called Steve Taff (our cousin the fix it man) and asked his advice. Steve said if you can get it started and bring it here then I think I can fix it. Problem was it would not start. Steve suggested slaming the car door as Dad turned it over. It did not work on the driver side but when Dad tried it with the passenger side it started. Pretty funny huh? So we drove to Steves and Dad and him started messing with the starter while Jay and me played with Courtney. They took the starter apart and cleaned the contacts on it. It still would not work so they took it all the way off and found one part on the inside that was a little worn out. Unfortunatly every place that would have the part was closed allready. So Steve being the genius that he is goes hunting for something that would work. He finds a door hinge that is about the same thickness of metal and decides he can make the part. He went to work with the grinder and saw and he made fireworks everywhere. It was pretty cool to watch. So Steve made this part and put it on the starter and said "well it will either work or it won't". And then My Dad tried it and sure enough it fired up. So instead of buying a starter for 120$ we got the van fixed for a door hinge. If that is not the coolest deal then the fact that I got to ride the fourwheeler with my Dad is definatly pretty cool.

These are a bunch of random Easter pictures. My Dad was too lazy to put them in order so he just left them wherever they were. There is some of us coloring eggs and some of us finding them. There is even one of Jayden dropping one. OOPS:-) There is Dad and Zach not helping color eggs, and there is Dad, Josh and Steve not helping find eggs. Sorry it took so long to get my Dad to post. You guys know how he is, VERY LAZY.






P.S. Did you try the new game? Tell me what you think. My Dad got 1177.

My New Cousin

Today we got to go to the hospital and meet my new cousin. His name is William Kent. He was three weeks early so everyone was really surprised. If you want to read more about him you can visit his hospital page. Uncle Paul and Auntie Em had to stay at the hospital all night so Michael got to spend the night at my house. We got to watch a movie and sleep on the hide-a-bed and mom made us pancakes for breakfast (my favorite!).

Tonight we went to the Cool April Nights car show. It started to rain on us so we didn't stay long but I didn't mind because we went out for icecream afterward. My mom and dad forgot the camera so we didn't get any pictures of the "power cars" but I thought they were pretty cool anyway. Well I am off to bed cuz I have another soccer game in the morning.

SNOWBOARDING & SOCCER

Well Mom and Dad finally took me snowboarding. It was a lot of fun. I practiced on the rope tow hill for few runs and then they took me up the chair lift. It was a fun ride up the lift. My Dad held on to me so that I would not fall off cuz it was a long way down to the snow. It snowed the whole day and we got very wet. My first runs I took it easy but then I was flying over the jumps as you can see by my last photo;-)

Today was the first day of soccer for me and my team the Cheetahs. I played real hard and even fell in the mud. My Dad told me that we tied which is ok I guess as long as we did not lose. It started raining and so we cut our game a little short. It was a lot of fun though.

The last 3 weeks or so....

Well sorry about the lack of posting for most of the month of March. This will hopefully bring you all up to date on everything that has been going on in our busy lives.

As a lot of you know there has been a record amount of snow falling at the Ski Park and so my Mom and Dad have been up there a lot. This picture is of my Dad in a race. The good thing about them going snowboarding is that Jayden and I get to go to Burney which is one of the coolest places to go stay.


These pictures are of our retarded fish.
He lives upside down most of the time and only really turns over to eat or when we bother him. My Dad always thinks he is dead and taps his tank to make him swim.







I decided that Jayden was ready for his first haircut and so away I went with the scissors. I did not get to finish before my Mom and Dad caught me and said I should not do that. It must have been funny cuz they laughed a lot. They said luckily jay has pretty fine hair and it did not really show.






This is my first soccer practice. My team is called the Cheetahs. I have a really nice coach and lots of friends on my team. The first game is on the 1st of April. It will be so much fun.





Jayden is pouting cuz he could not play soccer with the big kids:-(








On Tuesday we had AWANA skate night it was a lot of fun.
I rode my new rollerblades and played video games and air hockey. I did not play red light green light because it is hard and I probably would not win, so what would be the point.


Well thats all for now we will hopefully be a little more faithful with our posting.