Moss Family

Monday, October 8, 2012

Bulldog football #7

Dalton just finished up his football season last Saturday. This was his first year playing tackle football and he LOVED it. He was a running back and got a lot of playing time. His team record for the season was 5-2. Alex helped with some of the coaching and I think he had just as much fun as Dalton.

Running the ball

Moving in for the tackle

Half time (Alex is in the blue shirt)

Look out here he comes

Some of his AWESOME moves

Running it in for the touchdown

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Griffin goes to school

Griffin really wants to go to school with the rest of the kids, so yesterday he just decided he was going to go. He put on his backpack and helmet hopped on his bike and headed out. I let him get about a block away before I brought him back and he was VERY mad at me when I did.

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

School

The first day of school was last Wednesday (August 22nd) My bigger kids all rode their bikes to school in the morning so I don't have any pictures of them at school just leaving on their bikes

Ethan 3rd grade with Miss McMinn

Anika 2nd grade with Mrs. Boehme

Dalton 5th grade with Mr. Lake

Fenton is going to afternoon kindergarten and so I rode to school with him and went to a little parents meeting. (Of course Griffin had to be in the picture to)

Fenton sitting at his desk

The kids were not ready for summer to be over but they have been enjoying school.

Dalton's Sheep

A few weeks ago was our County Fair were Dalton got to show his sheep. He did a really good job this year and took a first place ribbon in market class and a second place ribbon in showmanship. In the market sale he got $325 for his sheep which wasn't as much as he was hoping for but he still made a little money. This year was a little better experience showing the sheep than last year because he knew what he was doing better and was much more confident in himself. Dalton was very glad to get his sheep sold and not have to worry about it anymore but he must have enjoyed it because he is already talking about how to make his sheep look even better next year.

Monday, July 23, 2012

Beach

One of our favorite summer activities is going to the beach at Bear Lake. The kids love spending hours playing in the sand while I sit and relax, and I love that my kids think I'm a great mom for taking them.

I have know idea what that look is but I thought it was pretty funny.

Fenton LOVES the water! I have to watch him pretty close or he will go out pretty deep. One day when I was scanning the beach looking for him I found him talking to a guy with a jet ski trying to convince him to take him for a ride.

Griffin splashing

Anika and her friend Bailee hunting for shells.

One of the boys favorite things to do is build sand castles with motes around them and then they fill the motes up with water. One day while they were doing this I said that we should have a lesson about erosion. When Ethan and his friend asked what erosion was Dalton went ahead and explained it to them. What a smart kid.

Sunday, July 22, 2012

Moss Family Reunion

This year the Moss family reunion was held near Yellowstone National Park. We have visited Yellowstone several times in the last few years but we always manage to find new things we haven't seen before. This trip I let the kids take a lot of the pictures because I felt like I had already taken all the pictures I could of boiling pots of mud. It was interesting to see some of the things that they chose to take pictures of.

I don't know which of the kids took this pictures but I thought it was very good.

One of the kids must really like the green algae (or allergy as Ethan calls it) because their were several pictures of the algae.

I like how this one is framed by the fence.

We had planned to do some swimming but all of the places that you are allowed to swim at were closed because of high water. We found this shallow spot just below a waterfall and let the kids wade around a little.