Class of 2024!

Blake's Kindergarten Graduation was today.

Congratulations Blake!

They had a cute program where they told what each kid wants to be when they grew up, sang songs, and got their diploma and awards.

Nana with Gavin, Blake, Grandpa and Grandma Bingham with Caleb.  Shilo got to go to the program and then went back to work.

Afterwards in their class, we watched a slideshow of the kids throughout the year, and they made a copy for each of us to take home.  Gavin wanted to sit by Blake and gave him a hug.

It was a really cute program, and I can hardly believe the year is over.

Adventure Day was last week and I got to go and help for part of the day.  The kids got to ride a horse, go on a hayride, milk a cow and make butter, look for bugs, play games outside, etc.

Here is Keaton and Blake flying kites.

Here they are grinding wheat for their pancakes.

Here they are shooting bottle rockets.  

It was a cold day, but the kids had lots of fun.

Memorial Fun

What I love about having all boys.... They are highly entertained by ROCKS!
 For Memorial Day we took them to Craters of the Moon.  They just loved it.  They kept running from one spot to the other.  Shilo and I had a hard time keeping up!  Even Gavin would say, "Ooh Look at the Rocks" or "Did you see that," pointing to big holes in the rocks.  I'm glad they really liked going.

Shilo and Gavin

Caleb, Bryan, and Me. (I truly got wore out by the end)

The boys were the most excited about.... the CAVES!

They had so much fun climbing the rocks.  Blake and Bryan would be a little too adventurist, and go way before we could with Caleb and Gavin.  They just wanted to see it all.

This is the only cave Gavin and I went down, because the others were too hard to climb down into, and you had to hold Gavin the whole time.  He did not like being left behind, and I got to hear all about it. 

Caleb climbing a tree we told him not too.  (But I had to take a picture because he was so cute).

Just to illustrate a point about Caleb's personality.  We kept telling the boys to stay on the path, like the sign said (that way we could also keep track of them.)  So, Caleb walked with one foot on the trail like he was supposed too, and one foot off the trail to show what HE wanted to do!
We had a very fun trip.  The boys wanted to keep going to climb the big hill, but I was wore out and wanted to go home.

We also visited graves on Sat and Sun.  This is Shilo's Grandma Bingham

Shilo's Grandpa Hunsaker

My Grandma and Grandpa Tietjen.  It was so rainy we could only hop out, take a picture and hop back in.

After 5 years, we FINALLY have a ridding lawn mower!  We are so excited.  We have never bought anything this nice and brand new before.  At first I felt like it was so nice, we shouldn't use it or touch it.  We still have to use our push mower to get everywhere the ridding mower cant get.  But Shilo mowed the big section of our lawn in 30 min, and it use to take us an hour!

Love the Heat

We can't wait for school to be out for the SUMMER!

Caleb begged, and begged me to get the pool out, until I finally gave in.  He wants to live in his swim suit.  I can already picture summer: boys in and out of the house, constantly taking out my towels, wet grass all over the carpet, and wet clothes everywhere!

Gavin is constantly taking off his clothes.

This is part of our garden this year.  Shilo wanted to try a new method called "square foot gardening".   It requires expensive soil for the first  year, but there is no weeds, less water, and more food planted per square foot.  It is an experiment, and we are having fun.  We have more things planted now than what is in the picture.

Happy Mother's day.  I got the second book of the BEYONDERS and some flowers.  The boys made me cards at school.  My favorite is a conversation I had with Blake.  Bryan gathered some things in his room to give me.  Blake cries and complains, "I want to give you something too, but I want to keep all of my stuff."  He is a funny boy that is hard to please.

Waiting for church on Mother's Day.

Kim wanted me to post a picture of how big I am getting.  This is a couple of weeks ago.  I was 6 months along.  Now I only have 12 weeks left.  Getting excited.

There was this quote in our Relief Society Newsletter:

            "Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; Now I have six children, and no theories!"

What's up

Here is what has been happening to us the past few months.

Caleb's 4th Birthday was in February.  He got a marble toy.

Bryan's 8th Birthday was in February.  Now he gets to go to cub scouts.  He was so excited and just loves it.

Bryan was Baptized on March 3rd.  It was a very special day.

Our family is growing up to fast.  We appreciate all the support from our families on this special day.

I came home from a R.S. activity one Saturday to find that we now own chickens!  We have talked about it for 5 years, and now I guess Shilo will have to build a chicken coop.  They grow too fast and already flying out of this container.

 

 

 

You all have heard our news about our new baby GIRL!!!  I'm having fun finally being able to buy pink and cutesie things!!!  Now we just have to wait 4 months to hold her.

Bingham Baby #5

Today we had our first ultrasound.  Shilo and I were so excited.  I am 14 weeks along and I am due Aug.6th.  It was neat to see the baby, because then it makes it all seem real.  I am over the morning sickness/ complete lack of energy stage.  I can hardly wait to hold that baby.  Nine months is too long!

New Bathroom

For Christmas, Shilo gave me a new bathroom.  This is what our old bathroom looked like.  It didn't have a shower.  The vanity had water damage and the front could be pulled off.  The floor's tile had water get underneath it, and caused the grout and tile to break. You can't see it in this picture but the cabinets by the tub were ...different. 

Demolition.  This is the bathroom completely gutted.  We had to take out everything and even put in new plywood on the floor and new plumbing. We even put in a new door coming into the bathroom. Shilo put in new drywall. He even had to do work on the electrical and move the lights and install new plugins.

We got a tub and shower and moved it to the right side of the room.  This is when they did the texture to the drywall.

This is the new vinyl floor and painted walls.

Our new vanity and mirror!

The new tub and shower.  We still have a few minor things to do, but it is now functional!  We want to put a linen closet in that little nook in the corner,behind the wall from the tub.

It took a lot of time and a lot of work.  Shilo worked on it the whole Christmas break, and every night after work for 3 weeks.  It was really hard to only have one bathroom.  The boys would wake up Gavin all the time, because they had to use the bathroom downstairs. We had to bathe our kids at Kurt and Jalene's and then convince them to come home. One day we didn't have water for almost 24 hours.  Let's just say I was not a happy camper!!!!  But now that the stress of it is all over, I just love it!  It is so exciting to see the transformation.  Shilo did a wonderful job, and a lot of it was a first time experience.  Thank you Shilo!

Happy Holidays

Santa at the Library.  This is as close as we get to him.

Blake's School Program

 

Watching Bryan's School Program.  We had lots better seats than at Blake's.

Bryan's Christmas Program

 

Gavin's 2nd Birthday.  He got a farm train set.

 

 Christmas Eve

 Christmas Eve party at the Bingham's.  This is Bryan with Great-Grandpa.

Christmas Eve we played the game Rachael made us for Christmas.  You can't see in the picture, but each of our faces are on the little missionary game pieces.

 Christmas Morning!  We woke our kids up at 6:30 so we could open presents before Church.

Bryan and Blake got Transformers and the original Transformers Cartoons. (Blake doesn't like the flash of a Camera.)

Caleb got a Caterpillar, and they all go the KungZhu Hamster's battle armor and training sets.

Gavin got a dump truck and a V Tech  Nursery Rhyme book and the movie Toy Story 3.

 Every year we act out the Nativity. 

Gavin and Blake the Shepherds.

Bryan and Caleb were the Wise men.

Merry Christmas from the Binghams