My birthday party

The Shadow Returns!

This is SHADOW! Today we got him from a house by Horn Creek. When we got into the pen he ran right past my feet and I liked him from the start. He's the runt of the family and is the most nervous one. He loves to stick his head in my arm pit and lay there.I made him a temporary cage with two cardboard boxes and cut a door in the middle. I can't wait for him to be full grown and not as nervous.

My Rabbit, Thumper

My rabbit, Thumper is one month old. Today, October 7th, I picked her out. Really she picked me out. Because she came to my feet and then ran off to hide behind her dad. She has two brown streaks on her back and one black dot in the middle. Her ears are brown too. She has a black patch around one eye. I was planning to name my rabbit Thumper, and then I found out that was her dad's name. So she inherited her dad's name. I love to snuggle with her. When I hold her, she puts her chin on my elbow. I like to pet her ears. Her fur is so soft. I love Thumper!

My Rabbit, Patches

This is my rabbit named Patches. It is really cute!! We picked her up today. I picked her out of seven rabbits. I love her. I love holding and snuggling her. Right now she is living in a cardboard box in our mudroom. We are going to build a hutch with my dad on Friday.

My Summer by Tommi

Well, there are lots of words I can say about my summer, but I will only say 5 things: FUN, ADVENTUROUS, EXCITING, AWESOME, HOT! I loved seeing all my cousins and aunts and uncles and grandma and grandpa. I miss you all very very much especially Toby, Kai, Elly, Finn, Stella and their parents. I really miss papa's Mokie stories at night and grandma talking to me while she's cooking in the kitchen. I'm bummed that I didn't get to fishing with Papa and I didn't get to have a tea party with Grandma.

Love,
Tommi Ann

Does this make u happy ,Ed?

1) Spend the night at every one's house. 2) Hold babies 3) Run every morning(probably don't have the determination or perseverance). 4)Have an awesome fireworks show(this is for you Ed) 5) Golf with Papa and Gram at least 7 times. 6) Hang out with Toby and Kai, Finn and Stella ad Elly but mostly at different times each individual love. 7) Bike at least 3 hours a day in Sun river. 8) Have an awesome birthday party. 9) Go out on Todd's boat with Piper and Todd.

This is for Uncle Ed!! / Things I want to do in Oregon by Levi

Things I want to do with Adam and Alicia:

1. Ride bikes in SunRiver
2. Play with Kai
3. Hold Toby
4. Help Alicia with Kai and Toby
5. Go to their house and stay the night
6. Play on the slip-n-slide (the surf board thingy)

This is what I want to do with Papa and Grandma:

1. Go golfing again - wherever we went last summer
2. Pick flowers and make bouquets
3. Pick raspberries
4. Help Papa in the garden
5. Play in our playhouse with Tommi
6. Sleep on the deck on the 4th of July
7. Go fishing with Papa
8. Go to Ikea with Grandma
9. Ride bikes just with them in SunRiver (holy cow, I do lots of things with Papa and Grandma!!)
10. Show them my Bible school songs, but not in my underwear this time!


Things I want to do with Piper:

1. One night I want to celebrate my birthday
2. I would like to go on a date to a movie
3. Rafting in SunRiver
4. Play at Papa and Grandma's house

Things I want to do in Oregon with the Moore's list:

1. I want to spend the night at their house again
2. I want Stella to stay with me at Grandma's house
3. I want to go to the park with Stella
4. Get ice cream together in SunRiver - ride bikes to the ice cream shop

My List of things I want to do in Oregon with the Chesney's:


1. I want to spend the night at the Chesney's house
2. Play with Elly
3. Bring my bike to Ed's house and go to the park
4. Rafting in SunRiver (I hope Elly is old enough to go!!)
5. Ride bikes in SunRiver
6. Make my famous french toast - one time I made it for Ed and Em and we ate a whole loaf of bread - it was pretty good.
7. Go to the Farmer's market and get cherries

For Uncle Ed / "Things to do in Oregon" By Tommi

This is for Uncle Ed!

Things to do in Oregon :

1. Spend the night with Ed, Emily and Elly alone
2. Have a tea party with Grandma Karen
3. Go fishing with Papa Tim
4. Go rafting in SunRiver, OR
5. Help with the babies
6. See all my aunts and uncles
7. See all my cousins
8. See aunt Kathi
9. Go to Scamp's pets and buy goldfish
10. Sleep out on Papa's deck on 4th of July
11.HAVE FUN IN OREGON !

I love you all and can't wait to see you!!! Love, Tommi Ann

Happy Birthday, Papa!! by Levi

This is me and Stella with our Papa. He loves to read to us. I love my Papa. . .
This is me getting the weeds out of my Papa and Grandma's garden. My Papa has a beautiful garden. I love playing in it and helping him with the garden.

This is my Papa telling us a Mokie story. We are sleeping on his deck. Me, Ty, Tommi and Uncle Ed are sleeping. There were lots of fireworks that night. I love my Papa's stories!

This is me and Papa at SunRiver. I love to go fishing with Papa. He is really good at teaching me to fish. I still need some help. Maybe we can go again next summer. One time I went fishing with my dad and I thought I wouldn't need his help, but I did because my string kept getting stuck in a tree. Happy Birthday, Papa!! I love you!

Happy B-day Papa By Tyler

The reasons I love Papa: 1) he's the most caring person you will ever meet in your life. 2) I love hanging out with him and he will always put aside things for me. 3) he's an awesome golf partner!
Papa is always there when you need him and he loves hanging out with me because he loves me not just because he has to.
I hope you have a great b-day, wish you could come to Colorado with grandma too.

DDR

This is me doing DDR [Dance Dance Revolution]. It's so fun! Our friend Matt is the dancing king.
This is me doing the Wii it is so cool all the dancing , different music, and levels.

I love the song '' I want candy". To see my mom and dad is funny. They both are really good at it and so are my brothers. Well, so am I, not to brag or anything. My grandma, aunts, and baby cousins are coming out to visit. Who's dancing first?

School Days. . . by Levi

This is my teacher, Ms. Bowers. She is very good. I love her a lot! This picture was taken at my classroom before our Christmas concert. My "teddy dot" card is right there (behind and to the left of me).

This is our gym. I got an award in the pride assembly. I love Kindergarten. I am learning about volcanoes, telling time, learning to read and write. I write in my journal. My last story was about a lion in the forest. On learning time, I know o'clocks and thirties. My favorite thing is PE with Coach T. We have done scooter soccer, hockey and jump rope. I also love Ms. Baum. She is my music teacher. I love to see my mom and dad at school.

Optimist Brain Bowl

Last Friday is where the journey began. My Knowledge bowl team( Michael ,Madeleine , and Cloud) and the 8th grade team got into the school suburban and headed for Denver where we'd spend the night and go to compete the next day. when we walked in to the opening ceremony I was amazed to see how many people were there. our first match was against a school in Colorado Springs. We won by two. Who went on two the finals was determined by the points you score in for rounds plus a written test. After our first round victory we headed to the cafeteria to take our written test and it turns out that we only missed one question on a forty point test. The round after that one was our first taste of defeat. long story short we lost by 7, but it was almost a good comeback. We were down by 12 at one point and closed the gap to 3, then they exploded and got the final for questions. We won the next one by 4 and then faced Littleton, they were undefeated coming and trust me they kept that title easily. In fifteen question it was 12 to 3 them. We kept getting clobbered for about 6 more questions. Then and there it was 14 to 7. We made the best almost comeback of the century and ended up losing by 4. It turns out that we didn' make the finals we got tenth place and were seven points from the finals.

The Fort. . . back in the day. . .by Levi

Today, Tommi and I played outside ALL day! We built walls on our fort with sticks and wood we got from the forest. We dragged it for like five miles! (Tommi is disagreeing with the distance)

This is our campfire. We pretended like we were olden day people. That's why the title is called "back in the day".

This is another picture of the wall we built. It really helped keep the wind out. We were so snug and warm in our fort!

This is the rest of our fort. The top is where I go hunting. We got a lot of meat. It was very windy today.

This is our whole fort. It is very old. We built it one evening when my mom was working at Sangrita. My dad helped us. All we did today was fence the bottom. We won't fence the top. Look closely, the big pieces of wood are plywood. Tommi and I tried to build another fort out of that but it didn't work so we used it for a wall on this fort. We had to saw the piece closest to the tree.

This is the BEST fort. The wind will probably knock the stuff down, but , Oh well, we can fix it! It was very cold outside but we had a great day! When we got hungry, we went to the store. The store is actually our house. It was a great day, but now me and Tommi are REALLY tired. The End.

Riding Lessons by Tommi

I love horses! My parents bought me horse riding lessons. This is the ranch where I ride.

This is my horse, Tom-Tom and Belle, my horse riding teacher.

This is me on Tom-Tom, Belle's horse is Ceasar. This is the arena where I ride.

I am riding Tom-Tom. I am trying to make the horse trot.

Tom- Tom is a big horse, but I am not afraid. His nickname is the Abominable Snowman because he is big, white and gentle.Leading Tom-Tom out of the arena for a ride through the pasture.

This is us riding in the pasture. Isn't it beautiful here?

A very long day by Ty

Yesterday was a very long day, 9 to 5 to be exact. My dad and I had two installs for the Internet business. First we had to go to Maytag ranch. My dad thought that it would be a piece of cake because it was basically already set up, we just needed to change some stuff around. That one was really fast so we finished up and headed for the second install but the people weren't home. My dad and I sat in the truck for awhile because every other place we'd been to in that area usually had vicious dogs. He then decided that we should go to town and install Internet at one of my teacher's house. If there's any thing worse than going to a stranger's house it's having to work in front of your teacher. It took two and a half hours but we finally finished and headed home for dinner.

The Three Chefs by Levi

One afternoon, while my mom was exercising, we made her lunch. I made the fruit salad with Ty, Tommi made crackers drizzled with honey and bananas with orange zest, and Ty made a green salad with eggs. She was so surprised!! We also cleaned the kitchen when we were done. Mom decided we should cook dinner one night. Here are some pictures:



This is Tommi making Leslie's chocolate chip pie - Our favorite. It was so yummy!

Ty getting ready to make crunchy munchy chicken from our Kids in the Kitchen cookbook.



I made the biscuits. This was also from our cookbook. They were the BEST!!




Here is a picture of me cutting out the biscuits. My mom said this is our new recipe for biscuits!





Dinner is served!! Here is our food that we made - look closely, it looks good! I wonder what we'll make next time??

X Games

Winter X Games, they come once a year and are amazing. My favorite events include: Ski big air where Simon Dumont did a double front flip superman. Snowmobile best trick is awesome. Levi LaValle pulled a double backflip but totally biffed the landing. The sad thing is that it was only two years after Travis Pastrana did one a dirt bike. Superpipe is also really cool. Shaun White came from last place and won back to back gold medals,the first ever.

Rafting Trip by Levi

This is my Papa and Grandma. We are about to go rafting and this is our car with all the rafts on top. I love to go to this place where we go rafting. I like it because it is not too deep and it is very fun to swim in the water!

The great thing is that no sharks live in this water so you can swim whenever you want. And. . .next time we go back to SunRiver we can all raft together and live in the same house.

And it is very fun in SunRiver. You can also go biking on the bike trails. You can ride your bikes to the park, we like to live in a house that is close to the park. Our other house was a long way from the park and we got exhausted trying to get there.

Stubby by Tommi

Today I went to the Mathis' house and ate lunch and played with their two dogs and two huge cats. One of their cats weighs 18 pounds and is almost bigger than Stubby which is a Welsh Corgi who loves me. I would sit down and he would come put his head on my lap and I would pet him but then I got hair everywhere on me, but he still is the sweetest dog Ive ever seen. I love him so much!

Something for Uncle Ed

About Our Blog Title

We named our blog Lady Bug Frying on a Sidewalk because we like the song. It is by Go Fish--a Christian band that we like. A boy's little brother was outside playing with a ladybug in the sun with a magnifying glass. Get the picture? This is another song we like by that band.

My Cousins and I . . . by Levi

Stella and I are cousins and friends. We love to play together. I love Stella very much and she is very cute. We like to play house - she loves baby dolls so much!


This is Finn. I love to play with him. He is very funny. He is big. . .
This is Kai. He likes to walk around furniture. I love to play with him. He is a very fun cousin.

This is my cousin Elly. I love to help take care of her because I LOVE babies. Elly and my Aunt Emily came with us on vacation. I got to help give Elly her bath.