Deaver family

More of the weekend

2010-04-19T21:00:00.003-05:00

One last 4-wheeler ride before we head home from the fun filled weekend. How many rides was that Mom?
Ready, Set, GO!!! Grandpa woud fly the helicopter and the kids would run after it. Like Dad said nothing like the kids getting the exercise instead of him. He knows how to do it.

Stay, stay, GO!!

Grandpa push me,Needless to say Dad didn't sit much while we were there.

2010-04-19T20:47:00.002-05:00

The boys after "Walking with Dinosaurs"

Momma T-Rex with her baby.

Gunnar called them the Pumpkin Flower

I like this picture as it shows the love even in dinosaurs between a momma and a baby. Even though they are believed to have been over 40ft tall.

This past weekend I took the boys to the show Walking with Dinosaours. We had great seat we were on the a corner and only 3 rows back, couldn't complain on bit about our seats. We had a great view of the stage, Gage wasn't so sure about it in the begining but liked it once he got into it a little more. Gunnar on the other hand never took his eyes off of anything that was happening. I have plenty of more pictures but this is all I am going to share.

2010-04-19T20:40:00.002-05:00

Grechens idea of easter morning goodies is in her own words, "My not going to to look for eggs. My going to eat the candy" Yes that is right it is My not I.

This is just a to precious picture of Daddy helping his little girl get ready for church.

HAPPY EASTER TO ALL!!!!

Good Weekend

2010-03-08T12:11:00.006-06:00

Who says a person needs a lot of time for a painting project. All of this took about 30mins. to do. The kids got to pick out a ceramic figurine to paint for me and below are the results. Gage chose a frog. He chose the right colors but this frog changes color from front to back. Such a serious face he as but he did a really nice job. That is my Gage everything has to be just right.

Gunnar had a dog to paint. He likes his black apprently, it took some convincing to get him to use some other colors. But in the end it turned out really cute, surprise right?

Started off as a brown horse which quickly became a painted pony as you will see down below. The good news is that she really enjoyed herself and she likes her colors.

Gretch had to show off her hands to me so I could see that she herself was just as colorful as her horse that she painted. She enjoyed herself the most even though she really didn't like the mess as she was always wiping the paper off in front of her and wiping her hands.

The finished product. They did good work and will look great sitting on my desk at work.

The week in review

2010-02-21T21:08:00.005-06:00

Well there wasn't much for goings on around here this week. It was my last week of goof off before I start my new job. I start at ING tomorrow as a data entry. So for my last day of goofing we headed to the Bottineau Winter Park for some tubing. There was a group of about 15 people that went. All from UA, Thiess', Ericksons', Cousin Brad and ourselves. We got there early enough that there wasn't a lot of other people there and then by the time we were ready to leave the crowd was starting to show up.

Gretchen had a blast. But why shouldn't she as she didn't really have to walk any where, just sit in the tube and be pulled everywhere.

Now Gage. Once we helped him figure out how to get pulled up the hill, into his tube and get moving we never really saw him again for the couple of hours that we were there.

Gunnar had a blast as well. He did really well with everything. We would help him get set to be pulled up the hill, made sure he was set in his tube and give him a little push. I was glad to see that when he would get to the bottom of the hill he would stay in his tube until someone from the group that was behind him pull him to the side so I never really had to worry about him getting knocked over.

So as one would guess it was a great day with family and friends and a good way to end/start the week.

RANDOM PHOTOS

2010-02-09T11:04:00.008-06:00

Okay, I know it has been ages since I have done anything with my Blog. I normally don't make a New Year Resolution but I have decided that I need to do a better job at updating my blog. So in the words of my kids you take what you get and you don't throw a fit. I will try my best to update here once a month with the happenings of the month. Hope you enjoy.

So here a little run down of the last month or so.

Gretchen telling a story of some kind.

Boys watching TV in my room.

The christmas tree that I made my mother in law for Christmas.

My Sister in law Brooke's quilt I made her for Christmas.

The Snowman couple I made for Waylon's Aunt Rhonda

Waylon and I at the Falcon's football game we went to while we were down in Georgia.

Preschool Program

2009-05-22T09:39:00.006-05:00

Hello to all

Well Gage is now a Kindergartner. He graduated from preschool yesterday morning. It was a good program. I was a bit nervous about how Gage would do in the program but he was quite the ham during the show, along with his cousin Jacob. The show started about 10:30a and lasted about 30min. The kids sang about 8 song and did about 8 nursery rhymnes.

It was a very good show for a group of 4 and 5 yr olds. Congratulations to all the preschoolers for a job well done.

Bubble, bubble, POP

Wind blew East.....

All around the Mulberry bush...

Tyrannosaurus Rex, ROAR

THE END.

A river or a Lake

2009-04-20T19:34:00.009-05:00

I took some pictures of the Mouse river that runs through Minot. This is the River by HWY 2 and Cnty Rd 14 between Towner and Granville. The river banks are with in the tree's.

Here is the actual intersection of 2 and 14. We drove on Cnty Rd 14 Thursday night on our way home from Forks and by Friday morning it was closed due to being underwater.
Here is some railroad damage between Towner and Denbeigh, the railroad is on the north side of the west bound lane. One picture that wasn't taken is that there are railroad ties on the south side of the east bound lane.

Easter

2009-04-20T19:13:00.012-05:00

Evening All. I know Easter was a week ago but better late then never right? Well as usual Easter morning started out with the easter egg hunt once everybody was ready for church. The kids had a good time searching for eggs and thier easter baskets. We headed to church and then to the Hoffarth house for lunch. We had a good meal, thanks to Deb and Brad, they are quite the cooks. The kids had a good time, Gage and Averie played the Wii system quite a bit, Abby was busy with Gretch while AJ and Gunnar were playing hockey. We just hung out and had a good day. My stay was rather short as I had to work at 2p but at least I got to spend the important part of the day with my family. Later in the afternoon Waylon and the kids headed out to the Deaver household for a nacho supper and an afternoon of sighting in guns.

Gretchen finding her 1st Easter Egg

Gunnar found his Easter basket.

Gretchen in Uncle Dave's coat on Easter morning.

Gage and Averie playing Wii

AJ and Gunnar playing hockey.

AJ and Gunnar in a Hockey fight as the Gunnar throw down his gloves and told AJ to bring it on.

Egg Time

2009-04-09T22:38:00.011-05:00

Evening all. Tonight we decorated eggs at the Deaver house hold. It was quite the time. I had bought these little rabbit tong do-hickies(Yeah I know real technical), the kids loved them as they could dunk thier own eggs in the coloring and remove them all by themselves. We had a good evening with it as we all got in on the fun, I even got Waylon getting in on the action and if you look close you can actually see a smile on his face. I did put the kids cooking apron on them as to not stain thier clothes, 2 of the 3 aprons came from Great G'ma Lorraine and Gretchens came from Great, Great G'ma Iverson. When all was said and done we had lots of dye on the table and Gunnar's hands look like the Incredible Hulk. I bet you all wish you could have been here for the fun tonight, come on admit it ;-)

Yeah even I wore an apron as I know my kids and I am no dummy there.

Gretch trying to put an egg in her rabbit tong thiny.

Look close for that smile on Waylon, its there, really it is.

Gage sneezed just as I took the picture. Those little do hickeys were nice to have even if Gunnar did use his hands most of the time as it was quicker and easier for him.

Here are Gunnar's Incredible hulk hand and the mess on the table. I know, I know the picture isn't the greatest but Gunnar was moving his hand as I was trying to take th picture.

2009-04-03T10:58:00.000-05:00

Just a cute picture of the kids

My football player

2009-04-03T10:51:00.003-05:00

I also have a football player in the house. We are using nose strips at night to help Gage sleep better at night as he does not sleep that well. (He does say that they help)

My little hockey player

2009-04-03T10:42:00.004-05:00

I have a little hockey player in my family. If I could get my husband to agree he would be in the hockey program. So he just plays around the house.

Don't you love his hockey gear. A garbage can for the helmet, necklace for the chin strap and Diego gloves for hockey gloves.

A little of Great Grandma Thacker

2009-04-03T10:35:00.003-05:00

Hey there everybody. I have found out recently that Gretchen has some of Great Grandma Thacker traits. For you all that didn't know her it is the trait of wearing underwear on her head. Today it was tights but she has been known to put underwear on her head as well. Nothing like a good day when you get a glimpse of a very special lady in your kids.

Watching Hockey Weekend

2009-03-08T22:03:00.013-05:00

GO AJ!! (16)

Hello to all. We went to Langdon to watch AJ play hockey. He had a good weekend of hockey as 2 of his 3 games went into OT. Watch Deb's blog as I am sure she will have more details. Here are a few pics of the family at the hockey games.

"Go Hockey Go Hockey"

Deb talking (Does she ever stop?)

Look at my new face I can make.

This is a quilt of AJ that G'ma Judy made of AJ from a photo that Deb and Brad sent to Mom. I am quite proud of Mom for the nice work she did on it. Dad even helped out some with advice on the face. She was finishing the binding work on the quilt during the came so she could give to him after the game. Thank goodness the game went into OT so she was able to finish it.

Bunk Beds

2009-02-22T21:21:00.020-06:00

Well the boys got bunk beds from G'pa and G'ma Schmidt as part of thier Christmas presents and we got them put together and set up last night. Let me tell you they love thier beds and I think Gretch is a little jealous though as her brothers can now get away from her. I don't know of to many kids that can say they helped build thier beds. They were quite the helpers to I might say, instead of an hour job it took a couple of hours as I had to track down either my tools or the screws to use.

See what I mean, my not so helpful helper.

Here are pics of the boys doing thier part to show that they helped out to make thier beds.

Once it was all set up we put the mattresses on and made the beds. I should mention that Waylon help a little bit. He put the ladder together and the rails on the top bunk. If you look close at the top picture, the top bunk has Spiderman sheets which is Gages bed, the bottom bunk has Handy Manny sheets which is Gunnar's bed. Not bad for a girl and three little kids.

Look at me I'm 2

2009-02-18T22:07:00.004-06:00

Well Gage had his Birthday but now it's my turn and you better believe I worked it over. There weren't that many people here to night as the men and I mean G'pa Danny, G'pa Andy and uncle Shane were at a meeting, Aunt Rhonda had to work and Auntie Brooke has parent teacher conferences. G'ma Debbie, G'ma J, Aunt Maria, Logan and Jacob came over the evening. Cindy was here for only a few minutes but she headed out quickly as the fog was rolling in and didn't want to drive home on slippery roads. But last night I had supper with Auntie Deb, AJ, Abby and Averie and I got a good present from them. I want to send a special THANK YOU to Averie for the puppy as I sleep with it. Tonight I got some good presents also, G'ma and G'pa Deavers gave me a jewelry box and some barrettes which Auntie Maria let me do her hair with them. Auntie Maria gave me some some pretty ponies which are fun also, she even gave me some playdough which my brothers and I can not wait to get into. THANK YOU Cindy for the "Cool" PJ with the ice cream come on them.

Fun with Playdough

2009-02-13T10:03:00.005-06:00

Gage got some playdough for his birthday and the kids love to play with it. Of course all of the colors are mixed together so it actually pretty neat as there are swirls of the colors all together.

"SQUEEZE"

"HMmm, How do I get that out"

"I'm rolling out the dough"

"I'm making cookies"

GUESS WHO TURNED 5

2009-02-13T09:49:00.003-06:00

Look who is now 5yrs old.

Does not seem possible but Gage is now 5. Not to sound like one of those Moms but I can not believe he is that old. I can remember all to well the day he was born, don't worry I won't bore you all with the story. He is becoming more and more of a boy all the time. He is wanting fewer and fewer baby like toys and wants mainly Spiderman and those type of toys all the time.

Back on here

2009-01-20T10:20:00.008-06:00

I know it has been months since I have added any new posts. My computer crashed in November and I did not get a new computer until the end of December. So here is a run down of the happenings around here.

HALLOWEEN:

We carved pumpkins this year. Gage did not much care for the goup of it but Gunnar and Gretch really enjoyed it.

TRICK OR TREAT:

MERRY CHRISTMAS:

Well the holiday season has come and gone already. Here are some pics of decorating the christmas tree and pics of around the house.

Happy Birthday Gunnar

2008-10-13T11:31:00.018-05:00

Hello to all. Yesterday Gunnar turned 3 years old. The day wasn't the nicest out as we woke up to snow/rain and cold but we did have a nice and quite birthday party for him. He had his grandparents, great grand parents and a couple of Aunts and Uncles there. Well I did my usual outrages birthday cakes again this year. I made Gunnar a football helmet cake. It actually turned out pretty cute and Gunnar loved it. Grandma Judy even got in on decorating the cake. She made the face mask for me.

He got good presents this year. He got clothes which he was in need of but he also got some pretty neat toys too. From the Deaver Grandparents he got these bit boxing gloves Whoppair, The kids love to hit and they have a pretty good punch with them.

From the Hoffarth's he got a nerf bow dart gun. He and Gage absolutly enjoy it. We shot it down the hallway as it packs quite a punch.

I just want to thank everybody for the presents as he is enjoying them, even the clothes.

Football

2008-10-06T22:19:00.005-05:00

Go Bombers!!!

It was a balmy 56 degrees out and the kids and I head out in the chilly evening air to watch the Berthold Bombers take on the Surrey Mustangs. Now you know we are football nuts when I dig out the winter coats to take the kids to watch a game. The battle of the brother in-laws was on, Waylon with the Bombers and Brad with the Mustangs. Berthold was the first to score with a 45 yard TD along with the 2 point convertion. Berthold went on to score 4 more TD before Surrey got their 65 yard TD on a kick return. The final score ended up being 44-6 Bombers. I tried to get a few more pics but I must have shivering as they all ended up blurry so I didn't keep them. I parked behind the end zone so I sat in the Suburban the second half of the game as the kids were cold. Then by the time I got out of the Suburn I missed Waylon and Brad's hand shake at the end of the game.

Little Helpers

2008-10-06T10:32:00.008-05:00

My kids can be quite the helpers when they want to be. Waylon had been out picking corn for supper one afternoon. While he was out picking corn he decided to pick more so that we could freeze some. I was working on shucking the corn for supper and freezing it. Gunnar and Gretchen were watching closely to see how it was done. Pretty soon they were shucking corn themselves. They did a good job considering they are 2yrs and 16mnths old(at the time of the pics) Gage was sleeping while we were working on this.
Gunnar does a good job shucking corn. It sure didn't seem to take him to long to figure out how to do the job. He defiantly knew what he was doing.

Gretch sure tried her best at the shucking. It took her a little longer but she did a good job herself. Of course when she would get one done she take a bite out of the cob. So needless to say we had cobs with bites taken out of them. Oh, well they tasted good even if there was a bite or two missing.

Summer Fun

2008-10-06T10:15:00.010-05:00

Well summer is winding down for the year now I believe. This is from some of the last few warn days we have had. We enjoy playing outside when the temps are right. The kids got a battery powered Gator from Deb, Brad, Grandma Judy and Grandpa Ervy. Thanks a huge bunch as the kids have a good time with it.

As you are all pretty much aware of we don't even live a block from the railroad tracks. So when they come through the kids all run to the slide to watch. Gunnar's ears must be getting a little sensative to the horns as he does this a lot lately when we are outside. He should be plenty use to the train noise as we hear enough during the day and night. On the other hand it doesn't seem to bother Gretch to much.

Gretchen love to swing as much as her brothers to. For being only 18mnths old she loves to lay on her belly and swing. I just couldn't turn down this shot.

2008 Hostfest

2008-10-05T20:54:00.008-05:00

2008 Hostfest

It was an early day for us all. Mom was up majority of the night stitching on the girls Bonads(??) Which I will say turned out beautiful, nice work Mom. Gretch and I got to Deb's house about quarter to 9 in the morning. They all there had been up since a little before 7a to get AJ to the bus for his football game. Maria got to Deb's around 8a or a little after. We got to the Hostfest probably around 10am'ish. We walked around the exhibits ate great food,talked to lots of people and watch some exhibiters work. We had numerous people stop to ask about the girls dresses and some even asked to take pics of the girls. So all in all we had a great bunch of girls and had a good day.

Gage's 1st day of Preschool

2008-08-26T22:26:00.008-05:00

Well the school year is here and guess who started this year. Gage started preschool which does not seem possible that he is old enough. It all started last night when at 11:30p last night Gage was still awake as he was so excited for school the next morning so who know exactly what time he went to sleep. All I can tell you is that I went to wake up Gage at 7:30a who would not budge until I said it was time to get up for school then he darted out of bed and was dressed in a flash. Around 8:20 we were out the door and on the way to school. He couldn't get to school fast enough. When Waylon and I left the school Gage was saying "Bye, see ya later" I was a good girl and didn't cry, but Gunnar on the other had was a little lost today with out his brother around. Then around 11:30a I went back for him. He was all excited about his day. His teacher told me about his first day and how she teared up when I left him there this morning. OH, did I neglect to say his Auntie Brooke is his teacher? Needless to say it was a good day.

Gunnar and Ruffles

2008-08-26T22:14:00.006-05:00

Well all I have to say is dogs are a wonderful thing for a family. Granted this isn't our dog, it is Auntie Brooke and Uncle Ryan's dog and her name is Ruffles. Ruf and Gunnar stands almost nose to nose with each other but she is the sweetest dog you could imagine. We were out and Danny and Debbies house haning out and on one of the 90 degree days and I found Gunnar and Ruffles hanging out in the shade together. You gotta love a dog that you can just lay around with.

Gunnar and the love of Football

2008-08-13T15:20:00.003-05:00

Well if most of you are not aware is that Gunnar is a football nut like his Dad. Waylon and I took the kids to the school park on evening to play, while we were they Waylon got to talking to the Berthold football coach. The talk ended up in a meeting as Waylon is the D-line coach this year for the varsity team. Any ways Gunnar started to get mad when we were leaving so the coach gave Gunnar a football and Gunnar slept with that football that night.

Not exactly your Girly Girl

2008-08-13T13:20:00.013-05:00

Well who says just because you have girl means she needs to be all clean and cutsy. Here is what Gretchen looked like on Sunday morning for church.

This is Gretchen Saturday afternoon. Waylon and I went raking and haying for Danny. Gage went to his friends house to play while Gunnar and Gretchen came with Waylon and I to ride in the tractors. We had a good time, never mind the fact that I did have a minor break down. Once it got to windy to rake the 4 of us headed to the farm to get the part for to fix the break down. While Waylon and I were looking for the part, Gretchen was chasing a kitten around the shop and outside of the shop, which I might say is not the cleanist place in the world. There is grease, coal dust, wood shaving, even an oil filter to play with, and of course ash from Uncle Ryan's welding forge. I don't think I have ever seen Gretch have such a good time. Grampa Danny and Grandma Debbie were quite amazed to see thier Granddaughter in such a mess.

Of course this is Gretch Sunday evening, we had around 2 inches of rain Saturday night/morning.

2008 State Fair

2008-07-28T14:41:00.004-05:00

Well it was Friday the 26th a beautiful July day. Maria, the kids and I headed into Minot for the North Dakota State Fair. We arrived there are noon. The first thing we did was eat, the kids each had a corn dog which they throughly enjoyed. We then walked around and looked at the rides while the food in thier tummies settled. About an hr later we bought some tickets and let the kids ride the rides. The kids loved it so then I decided to buy an unlimited band so the kids could ride as many rides as they wanted. Gretchen enjoyed the rides as much as her brothers. I even got in on the rides myself a couple of times. We left around 5:30 so with out a doubt we had a good time at the fair

Gretchen outdoors

2008-07-14T14:43:00.001-05:00

Here is how Gretchen enjoys the outdoors.

Fixing Tractor

2008-07-14T14:39:00.001-05:00

"There you should be all fixed now. Why don't you give it a try now. "

Summer Fun

2008-07-14T14:35:00.002-05:00

The boys haveing a good time playing outside.

Father/Son

2008-06-30T21:16:00.002-05:00

LIKE FATHER

LIKE SON

BNSF Memorial Run

2008-06-24T16:12:00.017-05:00

Well first of all I want to thank Dave and Paul for the tickets. We really enjoyed the train ride. My

boys are telling everyone they see about it.

Thank you Dave and Paul

Well our evening started off with Dave and Kim meeting Deb, the girls, myself and the boys around 5’ish at Deb and Brad’s house. From there we proceeded to BNSF Depot. We arrived about 20 mins early to make sure that we did not miss the train. When we pulled into the lot the kids got really excited. They walked up to the train and climbed on with out hesitation. We sat in a double decker coach car. Dave and Kim sat on the main level while the kids, Deb and I headed upstairs to sit. Then with a jerk and some rocking from side to side we were off. Gunnar’s eyes got big and the other 3 kids just grinned and said “We’re moving, we’re moving”. We were eastward bound to Towner. As we rolled through Minot the kids could hardly take their eyes away from the window. A gentleman came round with some drinks. After a little while Dave I headed to look for another place to sit. We found room in the upper level of the lounge car, 2 cars ahead of where we were. So we headed back to get the rest of the gang. Gage and Gunnar were carried as they weren’t to sure about the crossing in between the cars due to the rocking and bouncing. Dave led the way as he could easily open the doors between the cars. The kids enjoyed the ride as they would ask questions on what things were or point things out us. On the way to Towner Dave and Kim got interviewed by the local news. (Not sure if was on the news though as I didn’t get home until 11p) Once we got to Towner we sat for about 30 mins. In that time we got to see another train pass by us. The kids thought this was pretty neat (I have to admit I thought this was really neat as well). They laughed out loud and just watched it go by. Then we were headed back to Minot. The trip back to Minot seem to go faster.

As you can tell Gage enjoyed the departure. Gunnar on the other had wasn't so sure about it.

Here are the kids shortly into the train ride. As you can see thought the sight was pretty need. Abby was a little tired as she came straight from a Baseball game Brad was coaching.

Here are the kids watching the other train pass by us. They just laughed and watched it speed by us.

As for the boys and myself we throughly enjoyed our first train ride.

Tring something new

2008-05-02T08:51:00.000-05:00

WELCOME!!!

As if I don't have enough to do with my time as I work 2 jobs, have a family and now I am going to add this to my list of things to work on. But it will be worth it so that the family can see pics of the kids. Don't be expecting new pics every day or every week but I will do my best to keep pics new and let you know when I do something.

I got this idea from my friend Angela. This is how she and I keep up with pics, So I thought what better way for the family to keep up on the kids then this.

Here is a pic of the kids from just before christmas. The kids have changed some but this is the most recent I have all 3 of them that isn't still on my camera. I will have to get my memory card onto a CD then I will post more recent pics of the kids as they each have their own personallities now and it sure comes out in the picturs. I will post more soon hopefully