TEAM TINGEY: 2009

We LOVE Thanksgiving

It all began with two AMAZING grandparents.

Grandpa & Granny cook up the best thanksgiving feast in the world. All of us grandkids love to take thanksgiving cooking lessons from Granny and Grandpa. It is amazing to see how much work they put into creating the perfect meal!

Thanks Grandpa & Granny...we love you.

Our First Thanksgiving...too bad we had to eat cheerios!

Post Meal Rockers

Fondue...we can always make room for fondue.

Dress-up

Delicious turkey + lots of trimmings = NAP TIME!

GOING CRAZY AT THE.......

KANGAROO ZOO

We had a fun day with our cousins!

Jeff and Burklee enjoying some one on one time!

When we lived in Provo a few years ago we discovered the Kangaroo Zoo. Now every time we go to Utah Ammon wants to meet up with my cousin Ashley and her kids. It's a win-win situation for everyone. Kids can go crazy...parents can go crazy! Parents can also sit back, relax and visit. What a great place!

COSTUMES & CANDLES!

OFF WE GO......

Halloween is double the fun because it is also Granny's birthday. It's always so great to get together with family and celebrate this Spooktackular day with granny. Did I mention pumpkin cake and popcorn balls....yummy!

Mr. & Mrs. Nate Kitty

The Happy Couple!

This is my beautiful cousin Erica and her hubby (Nate Kitty) coming out of the Twin Falls Temple. When they walked out we were all just staring and smiling and Erica said "this is just as awkward as I imagined it would be." I thought it was pretty funny.

The day before the wedding Ammon's Grandma Tingey asked him who's wedding he was going to and he said "Nate Kitty and uh, uh, uh mom what's that girls name?" I thought that was pretty funny too.

Good thing we had 4 boys and 1 girl with no hair because it was a windy beast outside the Temple. I tell ya what my hair was a treat to behold in that wind. I think we did pretty good during this little photo shoot, considering we had 5 kids under the age of 5.

The twins waiting patiently while I got everything packed and ready to go to the wedding. They were watching a movie and holding hands, it was so cute. Sisser didn't seem to amused that I was taking pictures and interrupting the movie.

We had such a good time over the weekend. We got to stay at Granny and Grandpa's house and they went all out to take care of us. Granny is amazing in the kitchen and we were absolutely spoiled, and might I add I gained 7 pounds. She is also very good with the babies and always so willing to take care of them. Thanks Grandpa and Granny for letting us stay with you...we loved it.

UPDATE ON THE KIDDOS

Farm Kids

Sisser's lookin' large and in charge!

Quick, take the pic.

Turtle Power!
Ammon & Deeders having fun playing super hero's
(their favorite thing to do together).

Kellan & Grandma 'Great' Sorenson
Having a good time at Ammon's baseball game.

Little Slugger

(Before)

(After)

Don't take a picture; feed me more food!

(Before)

(After)
He sure looks satisfied!

Speed Demon

Two Speed Demons!
Jeff found out he still has speed...good thing, cause the boy is crazy!

FYI
The twins are 6 months and growing like crazy.
Burklee is 16 lbs. 10 oz.
Kellan is 16 lbs. 4 oz.
Ammon was 16 lbs. 1 oz. at 6 months

Why am I not surprised Burklee out weighs both boys? She eats like me...leading to huge thunder thighs and saddle bags. It's dang cute now....why isn't it cute when we get older?

AUGUST

HUCKLEBERRIES

We started the month picking huckleberries and we ended the month picking hucks. We made sure we had a ton of fun in between.

Ammon having Jeff inspect his berry.

Me and Kellan taking a break.

SUN VALLEY

Ammon's first time on ice skates

The two most popular people in Sun Valley!

Everywhere we went these two munchkins stole the show.

Especially at the pool

Ammon taking a few pointers from his dad.

36 miles later! Doing what we love and loving every mile of it, except for the last 6 miles! Lets just say I was lucky to make it back to the lodge. WOW!

BOATING!

We were able to go boating a bunch in August. It was nice having some cool weather to keep the crowds away. The last few times we went we were about the only ones out there.

Nice photo on my part...but i guess Kurt deserves the glory for the nice show he put on. Notice the lone tree in the background. I just thought it made for a nice photo.

Jeff and Kurt thought it would be fun to play around on two skis.

They were definitely having more fun on two than Kristy and I were.

The babies just relaxing on the beach.

Kris and Ammon playing in the water

Brandon hanging out with the twins

MORE HUCKS

We got to spend some quality time in the mountains picking huckleberries one last time for the season. We ended up bringing home almost 10 quarts. The bad part about that.....

...washing and cleaning all of them.

RANDOM PHOTOS

Ammon and Carv

aka Spider-man and Dash Dash

Carver, Bryson, Ammon & Indie

All the neighbors thought we were having an early Halloween party. I had to explain this is how boys play dress up (super hero style). Indie wanted to be a part of all the fun too so she went for the cookie monster costume...which is probably Jeff's favorite super hero!

Lucky to get all three looking at the camera.

Kellan's shirt is over 30 years old. I love old school stuff!

Well hopefully I will be on the ball a bit more during the month of September so you don't get a picture overload in one post.

BOATING, BOATING & MORE BOATING!!!

Photo courtesy of Ammon. He is pretty good with a camera. I noticed I don't have any pics of him out in the boat but then I realized it's because he always has the camera.

So far so good! We have had the twins out in the boat about seven times and so far they have done pretty well. They spend most of the time sleeping so that makes it nice. I drive the boat, Jeff gets pulled behind and Ammon runs the flag. We have a pretty good system going.

Notice the seagull about to get splashed! Jeff said he planned that...I don't believe him.

4th OF JULY

Each year we spend the 4th of July in Soda. We always have a great time and this year was no exception. Here are some pictures to recap our fun weekend.

Of course we had to start off the weekend with the annual FOAM PARTY!

AMMON'S FIRST RACE!!!
And of course he had to run it sprinter style...he wants to be just like his dad. So here he is sporting his first speed suit. This was given to him by our Fremont Track boys. They all loved to wear speed suits and they thought Ammon needed one at 9 months. Well it came in handy 3 years later. Jeff had to run with him because Ammon is under 6. As you can see he forgot his running shoes. Good thing it was only a 1K.

All three kids were fed up with the photo shoot. Ammon said "I can't hold them up anymore" so he fell back and this is how they all landed.

Ammon taking a break from the water to eat some dinner at Bear Lake.

On our way home from Bear Lake we could see a storm brewing out north. We were trying to beat the storm home but didn't quite make it. We ended up running in the house like a bunch of crazy fools. Once we got in, we all sat by the windows and watched the storm unfold. I love watching storms...I enjoyed the storm more than the fireworks show.