The Kearney Family: May 2012

Saturday, May 26, 2012

Fun with the Bordner Kids!

It's important that Ryan and Jeremy make efforts to keep their bromance alive and well, therefore, they had a little boys night away, along with Joey who was visiting from Seattle! Meanwhile, Kirstin and I were in "Operation Wear Out Children" mode. So a little Jump Time, a little Red Robin and my children are currently sawing logs. A success!

Aidan loves the Bordner ladies! Loves, loves, loves!

What? A t.v. in the floor? Showing a baseball game? Hooray! (I know, weird right?)

La-la-la-la-la Lola. What a sweet, sweet baby girl!

This was right before Aidan declared, "Lola has a crush on me." Oh boy.

These two... I don't even know what to say about these sillies!

See what I mean... Sillies!

And continued...What would we do without these buddies?

Got goats?

We've recently been surrounded by 300 goats! Living up in the foothills, fire is a constant worry, so there are always efforts to get rid of the weeds and brush surrounding our hood. In the past, herbicides have been sprayed, much to the chagrin to all of us who run, hike, walk and play in the hills. So this year, they tried a new idea and I think it was a success! I can't believe how quickly these little buggars absolutely CLEARED the hills of any brush, weeds, etc. Plus the kids LOVED peeking at these little guys every evening!

Camping Season is HERE!

The Kearneys recently purchased a new camping trailer, lovingly named "Big Pig! We love, love, love the great outdoors and I have to say I am pretty thrilled to be sleeping not on a deflated air mattress with two little munchee-chees climbing all over us!

Aidan kept saying he was having "THE. BEST. DAY. EVER!!" And I think I might be the MOST. LUCKY. MOM. EVER!

Keeping it classy with a PBR... Love that silly little goose.

So bizarre to see... Offspring of ours making silly faces and laughing. That's not like Ryan or I?

What? A Kearney laughing a hyena, wide mouth, cackle. Again, bizarre to see a child of mine do such a thing, I am so much more sophisticated, right?

Again with silly faces... Little bugs I love.

We camped right next to a beautiful stream and we had a great time pretending to fish.

Morgan developed a LOVE for fishing... She had a blast and I loved reading my book in the sun (except for every couple of casts when I was designated the "unsnagger." Oh well, books can wait!)

Near our camping spot was this fun pool, filled with natural hot spring water! The kids spent HOURS in this pool and I can't say Ryan or I minded the warm water either!

We have a climber...

And an aeronautical engineer. You can see it, right? Of course that's a space ship! This kids is ALL boy.

The bikes, oh the bikes. They added some adventure to our trip. Especially halfway there when our bike rack fell off. Thank goodness I married Ryan, otherwise, our family would be bikeless right now.

That's safe.

Little sweet Byron. He has a silly habit in the middle night of finding the kids' stuffed animals downstairs from our playroom and sleeping with them. I think he was so pooped after camping, he couldn't quite wait for nighttime to give the kids' stuffed animals some loving... First camping trip= A HUGE success! We can't wait for more!

Sunday, May 13, 2012

Knuckleheads!

Morgan wrapped up her soccer season this Saturday. The team switched from the team name of "Sillybands" (last fall) to "Knuckleheads." Both names are very fitting for this fun little group of gals.

The Knuckleheads went from one win last season to an undefeated season this year! Something clicked and these girls did incredible. Not to mention some new sweet little friendships were made!

Such a great group of girls! We are so lucky...

Sun Valley.... Again!

I love Sun Valley, I really really do! Ryan and I escaped again for a kid-free weekend, filled with lots of hiking, lots of food and adult beverages and per usual when together, lots of laughing.

Beautiful weather, we wouldn't have asked for a better weekend. Thank you Mema and Papa!!!

I like this guy! Weekends like this remind me that I did pretty well for myself in the marriage department!.

Spring time fun!

Spring is here and so is bike riding and outdoor eating, hooray!!!

The patriarch of this madness...

Goofy... Where would he get that?

Little Gardner!

Aidan is my constant helper... gardening, cooking, baking, you name it, the kid will do it (besides clean his room, that's just too much to ask if you ask him). Here he is showing off the spoils of his labor and ready to get it in the garden!

First soccer fracture...

Poor Morgan had her first soccer fracture! She has had such a great season and we have been beyond proud of her newly acquired skills.

Luckily a very minor buckle fracture and it hasn't slowed her down one bit!

A Bordskey

It used to be a regular occurrence for the Kearneys and Bordners to have slumber parties at each other's homes because really, who wants to end the fun at 8 p.m. when the kids need to sleep? Now that our broods have gotten bigger and schedules more hectic, we hadn't had a good solid Bordney in a while.

The Bordner's have begun a HUGE renovation project and we recently bought Big Pig, our camping trailer and voila, the makings of another Borney overnighter! The night wouldn't have been complete without the Skene's, so we ended up with a Bordskey. The Bordner's have been living in their garage while the remodel is complete. Three kids, one a baby in the garage, no problem!

What Bordskey would be complete without a crazy, costumed girl. (She wasn't this cute at midnight when she would NOT go to sleep... Don't worry, I am plotting my revenge in the form of spoiling rotten her children someday!)

Gary Busey in the garage.

Ladies dress in their best garage living attire!

Before the dog fight. Yes people, what garage party would be complete without a dog fight? Cody and Byron (normally best of friends) got a little excited about a bone...

And Ryan Skene's leg. No worries, Dr. Ryan was there. Ryan frequently tells us some of the reasons he isn't a doctor, which are typically way off base, but he did do an okay job bandaging his buddy.

Big girl

Stacie is WAY better doing Morgan's than I will ever be and often she'll send me pictures through the day of the kids having fun. This picture made me gasp. Who is this big girl and what did she do with my baby?

Fosseen Family FUN!

We had a fun visit from the Fosseen family before and after their Sun Valley adventure. They were happy to escape the rain of Seattle and we were happy to host!

While driving up our monster hill every day can sometimes be a pain, it is so worth it to have these hikes in our backyard!

Crazy children, just how we like 'em.

Since we typically miss birthday celebrations because of the distance between us, we had an impromptu Zach/Miller/Cody celebration, complete with a pink and blue cake!

Aidan had to get in on it too. I'm pretty sure his wish is that he turns into Anakin from Star Wars (yes, the obsession continues).

Dinner in Big Pig (our new camping trailer!) We'll get those Fosseens camping one day soon!

Living a life of luxury in Big Pig.

Cody and Aidan were HILARIOUS! I love those two sillies. They had so much fun at Morgan's soccer game, shooting everything in sight with their folding chair machine guns.

Who knew there were so many bad guys at Rush soccer?

I felt safer with these two watching my back!

We hit up Wahooz for some laser tag, miniature golf, arcades, go karts and bumper boats. I'm tired thinking about it. We all felt like we'd left Vegas afterwards, eyes dazed from blinking lights, feeling a little grimy and really tired!