Warnke Reunion - June 18-20

So we had the Warnke Reunion up at the farm this year. It was a blast! The first day we spent most of it getting the shelter up and ready for the family to use. The guys did an amazing job, as always! And the ladies and kids helped out too, of course. That's why it's called a "Family" project. It looks awsome!

Gav lookin' so cute up there!

My amazing husband!
They put some sheeting up top so we are mostly protected from the elements.
Later that afternoon family started showing up. Here are the Warnke sisters ~ Lori, Lisa and Glenda ~ together looking through family pictures and stories with Uncle John.
Skye was totally kicking her mom's butt at tether ball! I love this picture!
Skye roasting some starbursts. Very yummy!
Saturday was the big day. We had a big portion of the family come up for most of the day! It was a great success! Chase and Gloria were enjoying the shade with Olivia.
Fun with bubbles! Geena and Courtney had so much fun with the kids, whether they were coersed(sp?) or drug there by the kids is irrelevant!
The kids loved hangin' out with Aunt Lisa! She had the best seat in the house! It looks like Gaylen is ready for a nap!
Family chats.....nice to see the adults can get along! ;-)
Uncle Dennis playing with the grandkids, while their dad, Zane, is on the phone.
Aunt Tina, Angie's hubby, Matt's wife and Aunt Jan. Sorry, I am bad with names!
Uncle Dave chatting with Uncle John and Aunt ?......told you.....bad with names!
Aunt Jonna with Chant's 2 kids, Logan and Boston and Heidi watching our "Redneck Pinata bashing".
The kids had a great time going after all the candy!
Gloria is amazing and made all of the "redneck" pinatas. She just used empty cereal boxes, filled them with candy, taped them shut and tied some string through them. The kids had a blast! Bret sure hit it like a pro!
Jason and Gary playing Cowboy wrestling (I think that is what it's called). For some reason Gary always ends up falling on his behind! Hahaha! ;-)
So here is Bridger's worm. He brought it over to his mom and wanted her to eat it.....needless to say she wasn't going to! She told him that if he ate it then she would.....well, the little stinker put the worm in his mouth and then pulled it back out. He then completely expected his mom to do it! She was not going to at all, but he sure persisted and tried like crazy to get her to "eat" it too!
Cousins enjoying the campfire!
Sunday was a great day. There weren't many of us left.....Lori and her family, Gavin and Glenda, me, Gary and the kids, Aunt Lisa, Uncle Dave and Tiffany came back up after staying in town for the night. We had Courtney too and Garin and some of his buddies came up later that day. Naturally there had to be a water fight......naturally I tried to stay out of it!
I think these dirty girls had a great weekend!
Everyone enjoyed watching the big boys shoot golf balls with the shotguns. I know, we're rednecks, and we're okay with that!
We hung out most of the day with Lori, while she waited for Barry and Cody to make it back from baseball games in Montana. It was lots of fun with lots of good conversation and laughs. I can't wait to do it again!

Catch up and Farm Fun

The weekend after Memorial weekend, my mom had Garage Sale. It turned out great! We had a lot of people show up through the day and got rid of a lot of stuff! I brought a bunch of desserts to sale and did a pretty good job too. By the end of the day my kids were really getting into it and handing out fliers to people as soon as they got out of their cars. It was pretty cute. I sold almost everything that I brought and made some nice change. It was a lot of fun!

The next weekend, June 11-13 was a busy one too. The 11th and 12th were our Ward Campout, which we had up at the farm. A good friend of mine from our ward came up with me, and all of our kids. to get dinner started. We made chili and let it cook all day in the dutch ovens. We'd only been up there for about 5 minutes when Grace came running through and tripped over a little stump in the ground. She landed right on her left wrist and it hurt, a lot! I, being the horrible mom that I am, had just started getting food set up and ready to cook. I looked at her arm and wasn't sure if she broke it....it wasn't obviously broke. I made a sling for her and set her in the pickup to rest. She did that for quite awhile. Her grandpa showed up and he wrapped it nicely with some horse wrap and that did the trick for her, she was off and running again. I didn't think too much about it for the rest of the day.....horrible, I know! After we got done with the campout, and all packed and ready to head home, I decided that I needed to take her in to the Dr. and have it checked, just in case. She'd been doing really well, other than waking up in the middle of the night telling me that it hurt.....but I didn't have anything that she would take, so she went back to sleep. Anyway, I dropped the kids off at the house and Grace and I headed into the Dr.'s office. Well sure enough, she had a buckle break in both of her bones by her wrist. So another cast we got! But, luckily(I think) I know the front receptionist and she told me about swimmers casts! I had never heard of them before! I was so excited because the kids had swim lessons in two weeks that had already been paid for! Grace was able to get a cast that she could get wet and swim in.

That Sunday my Sister and her husband and kids were in town so Mom got all the food ready and we headed up to the farm on Sunday for a family barbeque. It was the perfect day for kite flying, and the kids did a lot of that!



These girls were having so much fun being silly together!

Hahahahaha! I just had to put up this beautiful picture of my baby sister! MWAH!

Memorial Weekend

Memorial weekend was a great one this year. It was cold.....but it didn't snow! We had lots of family and friends come up. It was just a great weekend!



This one made me laugh! Gary was moving dirt around with the skid steer and totally dumped it all over himself! He was buried in there! It was really funny to watch!
The big thing this weekend was roasting things! Brandi and Jason and their kids came up and hung out with us a couple of the days and we introduced Jas to roasting starbursts. He loved it! After that, he wanted to roast anything and everything! Between him and the kids, they roasted starbursts, tootie frooties(the fruity tootsie rolls), a regular tootsie roll, a piece of fried chicken to heat it back up, pineapple and a cheese filled jalapeno. It was very entertaining to watch them scour the campsite for new things to roast over the fire.
That weekend my cousin had her open house and they were kind enough to employ me. So I made 180 cupcakes for them and had to run home and deliver the cupcakes and come help set them up. They turned out really cute! I had free reign with how they looked, so I had fun with them. Some had a cream cheese frosting, which isn't the greatest for decorating. The rest had a buttercream frosting, which is for decorating! Regardless, they were all yummy!
My sister Jess came up camping and brought her friends Michelle and Dan and they had their son, his girlfriend and one of his buddies. They were so much fun! Here's Jess playing frisbee with the kids.
Jess had so much fun with Addi and Em. They were trying to eat marshmellows and making a mess out of themselves, but loving every minute of it!
Jess with her friends Dan and Michelle and Sierra and the back of Grace's head. It was nice to hang around a roaring campfire.....keeps you nice and toasty on a cool night!
Emma was all tuckered out!!
Agh....how'd that picture of me get here! ;)
Joe thinks he's a rockstar!

There were some extra cupcakes leftover from the open house, so my mom brought them up and everyone enjoyed them......some a little more than others.....*cough* Jas *cough*
Gary making another sign....this one is in honor of my dad. It says Wind and Elevation. It was something my dad would say a lot while hunting, but it wasn't always a hunting reference, it was used a lot as a life reference too. While you're hunting, you have to take in account the wind and elevation before you shoot to make sure you get the straight line you're looking for. It's the same in life. The wind is always trying to blow you off course and you have to know where you are and where you are going to try to keep on the straight and narrow.
My adorable nephew......Noah....aka "Tank"
The kids had this awsome hole they had been digging. They made themselves a bench in it and everything. They spent a lot of time in this hole!
Jason was teaching Gary how to play Cowboy......um, I don't remember what it's called at the moment, but it was very entertaining. Basically you get a long rope and tie the ends so it's a big circle. The guys wrap it around their feet and hold onto the rope. They then kick their legs out and try to knock the other guy down first. You can see who won!
We ended the weekend with sparklers, thanks to Brandi! This kids loved it! It was such fun....good food, good friends, good conversations. Thanks to everyone who came!

End of the year Dance Program - May 27th, 2010

Joe and Grace had their End of the Year Dance Recital on Thursday, May 27th. It was so much fun to watch them and all of the other dancers! Their teachers do such an amazing job! They go to Front & Center Dance in Rigby and we Love it! The kids both did an amazing job. They each had 2 dances to perform.




The pics aren't great. We were sitting in the back of the auditorium and between zooming in and the glare of the lights on the stage the pics aren't great. But it's okay, I have better pics from other performances.
Miss Grace did a great job as usual! She always has a big smile on her face while she's dancing. Even if you can't see it here, I know that on the other side of her is a big smile!
It was a fun time! Grace and Joe are both doing Hip-Hop together this next season and Emma gets to start in her own dance class too. They are all excited and Joe is already asking me when dance starts again.

End of School programs

On Wednesday, May 19th, Joe's kindergarten class had their class play. It was called "Cows in the Kitchen". It was really cute. Joe got to be the farmer. All of the kids did such a good job! Joe got excited and messed up at first, but got on cue and did an awsome job!

Here Farmer Joe is sleeping under the bale of hay while the animals are sneaking into the house.

This is his embarrassed smile!

Farmer Joe is sleeping again!

After their play they sang us some fun songs!

Man, he looks really tall in this picture! Good Job Joe! I'm so proud of you!

That same night Sierra had her end of the year orchestra concert. It was the 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th graders.

"Hey look, my mom is sitting right in front of me! Great!" ;)

Trying to watch the older kids perform! They did an amazing job! Mr. Wenstrom, their conductor is an amazing man! He's so good with these kids and loves to teach them new things. He had them playing the song "Uprising" by Muse....it was awsome! If you don't know the song, check it out on youtube. I love it!

Great Job Sierra! You are one talented young lady!

The next Monday was Grace's turn. Her class did the Little Red Hen. Because of how many kids there are, they had to do it in shifts. So they had two sessions that day and each session did the play twice, with different kids each time! The 2nd time in the morning session was Grace's turn. She got to play the Little Red Hen in her group. It was very cute! They sang us some fun songs too when both plays were done.


Grace is a performer...she doesn't usually have a problem being out in front in the spotlight.

Great Job Grace! I'm so proud of you!!
I love all my kids so much! How lucky am I to get to raise them and watch them grow up and evolve into the amazing people they are becoming!

Getting ready....for everything!

Gary and his dad went for a ride up at the farm and they ended up finding a bunch of really nice elk antlers! They were both pretty excited about it! These are some nice horns for not really trying to to find them.

On May 15th, we were at my mom's helping her go through stuff again to try and get ready for the garage sale in a few weeks, when we got a phone call asking if we could go over to the Westover lodge and help them with the roof that was being fixed. So off we went. While I was cleaning up after the crew, I noticed this nice little moose going across the lawn. It was fun to watch for a little while, from a safe distance! Gary was on the roof and was so glad that he was. For some reason moose are attracted to him! ;)

After working all day on this, that and the other we all packed up and headed to the farm to sight in a few guns and just have some fun! Mom and Jess came with us. It was a beautiful day! We had to take full advantage of it while we could! I can't believe how rainy it's been.....so when the sun comes out to play, so do we!

Girls with guns! Don't mess with us!

Grace was being funny and writing things on my oh so clean car! Hahaha! She cracks me up!