The Gard Family

2009-04-21T14:32:00.002-06:00

On Sunday all the Thurman kids that live in this area got together. We ate dinner and then all hung out. I think we are going to make it a monthly traditon. I'm already excited for next month's get together.

Easter Fun!

2009-04-21T13:27:00.006-06:00

Easter Sunday

Getting Ready For The Sugar City Easter Egg Hunt

The Easter Egg Hunt At Our House

My brother Darin and his daughter Brylie

Kyle showing off his collection of eggs

Aubrey gathering her eggs. She liked opening the eggs and eating the candy better than filling her bucket full of eggs.

Dying Easter Eggs

Aubrey showing off her egg

Aubrey's Birthday!

2009-04-21T13:12:00.000-06:00

2009-04-05T21:05:00.001-06:00

Here are some pictures of Kyle and Aubrey's birthday party. It was a candyland theme. We put the Candyland game on the wall and then as a group moved one of the gingerbead pieces through the game. We stopped at each of the Candyland characters and played a game. Some of the games that we played were:
Gingerbread (7 feet tall) bean bag toss
Candycane fishing
Pin the lollypop on the sucker stick
We had everyone hold onto a sheet and we bounced small balls on the sheet
Keep the balloons in the air
Hershey kiss relay race
We got burger king crowns and had the kids decorate their crown with candy
Musical Gumdrops (we had big gumdrops on the floor. when the music stopped everyone had to get on a gumdrop. More than one person can be on a gumdrop at a time. A gumdrop was taken off the floor each round. By the end everyone had to all squish onto one gumdrop.

For Kyle's actual birthday on the 31st I made him a rocket cake. Darin usually does the cakes but he's busy with school this year so it's up to me. It's the first time that I've actually cut shapes out of a cake and then put it back together. Tomorrow I'm going to attempt to make a butterfly cake for Aubrey. We'll see how that ends up. Every butterfly cake that I've seen on the internet says to use round cake pans. Well we don't have round cake pans so I'm going to have to try to cut it out of a 9 x 13 pan. We'll see how that ends up.... I'm a little nervous!

Make a Smilebox slideshow

2008-12-10T16:58:00.000-07:00

We woke up the other day and had snow on the ground. Kyle and Aubrey each have their own shovels and they had a blast shoveling the snow. We'll see if they are still this excited to shovel snow at the end of March!

Christmas Tree Hunting

2008-12-10T16:07:00.002-07:00

Here are some pictures of us christmas tree hunting in the mountainds in Montana over Thanksgiving. Kyle and Aubrey got a little tree for their room.

Turkey Time!!!

2008-12-10T15:57:00.002-07:00

Here are some pictures of us making turkeys out of oreos and other candy over Thanksgiving.

Sesame Street Live

2008-12-10T09:40:00.002-07:00

Kyle has been asking me if I could take him to Sesame Street for quite a while. My mom told me that Sesame Street was going to Bozeman. I gladly jumped on it and got them tickets. Kyle was so excited that he finally got to go to Sesame Street. It was really fun! We were in the 3rd row from the front and on an isle so Aubrey was able to dance next to us. Boy she has got some good moves ( must get them from her dad!)

2008-10-28T16:10:00.001-06:00

Aubrey is starting to dress up. She loves to wrap her fluffy boa around her neck and prance around the house all day. Whenever we go anywhere she has to pack and bring her pink furry purse of all of the essentials.....princess cell phone(just in case she gets lost), her my little pony and of course the treasured binky!
She is what she wanted to wear when we went shopping on Saturday!

2008-10-28T16:03:00.002-06:00

On Friday at Kyle's school they had a Halloween carnival. The whole school was packed with people. There were activities in every classroom.

Kyle is a Monkey this year. He is very good at acting like a monkey!

Aubrey is a ladybug. The other day when we tried on her costume she saw the wings on the back of her costume and started running around in a circle trying to catch it. It looked like a dog chasing his tail.

Our New Ride

2008-10-28T15:50:00.003-06:00

Well we have grown out of our Chevy Malibu. We tried to put three carseats in the back seat and lets just say that the doors will close but only after you make sure every ones fingers are out of the way and you give it a nice shove with your whole body. So we decided it was time to move to a bigger car. We have become a mini van family. We got a 2007 Dodge Grand Caravan. It is pretty nice. It has duel heat control, which I love! Now Darin can sit with the air conditioner on while I have the heat cranked up during the winter! Also it has the stow-n-go and the duel power doors. Kyle calls them the magic doors because all he has to do is push a button and the doors open!

2008-10-28T15:20:00.001-06:00

Over the weekend we went to a straw maze. When we first drove up to the maze it looked tiny and wimpy. Once we were inside it wasn't as wimpy as I thought. It was very well put together. It took us forever in order to find our way out. Dan and Darin went one way and my mom and I went another. Once we were out Dan and Darin took the kids and went again. They were out in about 5 minutes. They talked grandma and me into going back in. They said that the kids would show us the way. We ended up getting lost again. Dan and Darin said they would come and find us if it took too long. After a while we decided to sit down and rest. Grandma decided to build a strawman with the kids. One thing led to another and before long it turned into a hay throwing party! By the looks of it, it looks like the kids won!

2008-09-30T18:35:00.002-06:00

This is my first sewing project. I saw how to make these burp clothes on the internet. So I decided that I would give them a try, after all how hard can it be to sew a straight line, right? Well after a little practice I got them pretty straight. These are cloth diapers that work really good for burp cloth. They absorb ALOT! I jazzed them up with ribbon so they aren't so plain.

2008-09-29T15:04:00.000-06:00

I had a great birthday! Here are some pictures of what we did! Kyle had a field trip for his preschool so we all went to that. We went to Farmer Sutton's Farm. He has a pumkin patch and and a bunch of apple trees. He also has a tons of animals! Kyle and Aubrey had fun feeding the the horse apples! He also had a 900 pound pig! That is the biggest pig that I have ever seen!

Kyle loves to go and talk to the policemen, ambulance guys, and firefighters when he sees them in town. One time one of the guys told him to stop by the station and they would give him a tour. He's been asking nonstop to go and see them for about a month and a half. Finally we decided to take him. He thought it was so cool!

That night we went to Walle at the movie theatre. After the movie we had my favorite cake! Chocolate cake with strawberries, pudding, and whip cream! Yummy!
It was a great birthday! We celebrated all day long!

Kyle's First Day of Preschool!

2008-09-06T10:39:00.002-06:00

Kyle's first day of preschool was on Wednesday. His preschool is part of the elementary school. When I dropped him off he saw a whole bunch of his friends in our neighborhood at school. He thought that was pretty cool! I drop him off at 8:20 am and then he gets to ride the bus home! The bus drops him off at about 11:30 a.m. He is so excited that for school. They got to go to the library on Wednesday and they also traced their name glue and glitter. To top it off he is so excited to be able to ride the bus! They drop him off right in front of our house which is really nice! Later that day we made school cupcakes.