Colter drew the picture for his poster and Randy helped him put his poster together on Saturday. Then he practiced his presentations Saturday, Sunday, Monday and lastly on Tuesday evening before supper with his final critic Kyla.
We got to host the 4-H meeting on Tuesday evening at our house. Here he is in the living room giving his little presentation to a packed room.
It's his favorite breakfast. One morning he made it all by himself and surprised me. Now we call it "Colter Toast". The recipe is well known but his is special for other reasons. Here's the recipe...
Here's the reasons this recipe is special. The heart cookie cutter shape is for Valentines day coming up. And this toast is extra yummy when made with homemade bread. And we use coconut oil! If you don't know about coconut oil... take 5 minutes and google it. It's worth the time and I think you'll understand why we are using it in all our cooking these days.
Lets just say that Montana isn't known for it's Manufacturing Industry. There was a day however, that a little company in Havre, Montana called Northern Manufacturing Comapny cranked out some big tractors. Some REALLY BIG tractors. In fact, Colter's teacher's father owns one of these tractors. His tractor was produced in 1977 and happens to be the biggest tractor in the world. The tractor can work more than one acre per minute, at speeds up to 8 mph. You can read about it here and here.
And there was. I think Colter's "Big Bud Smile" says it all!
I absolutely l.o.v.e. this picture taken back in November of 2002. Colter was only 4 months old here and Daddy was already introducing him to some of the finer things in life. How To Bag The Biggest Buck Of Your Life was the book and I adore how Colter looks so into it!
Colter and Daddy relocated all the reloading stuff up to the living room and enjoyed the evening together reloading bullets. I "heart" this too!
We got to celebrate Colter's Birthday (July 10th) at the Family Reunion! Daddy lit the candles and we all sang Happy Birthday too him. It was so fun to celebrate with Grandpa Larry and so many aunts, uncles, and cousins!
Here are all the kids lined up waiting for cake and ice cream...
Ready to open presents...
Walkie Talkies are always a hit with nine year old boys...
Colter set up his tent several times over the last few weeks... outside, in the basement, and in our livingroom. But, it just hasn't worked to sleep in it yet.
Colter and Kyla with thier piano teacher, Mrs. J.
These two collages are of Colter and what he's been doing lately. He's been fishing with Daddy several times this winter and more recently he got to go along with Daddy, Grandpa Steve and our buddies Loren and Justin. He caught his very first salmon (above). We ate them on Sunday-YUM!!! Keep up the good fishing Colter... your family enjoys them.
For any of you who have boys in your life, this little "lathe, jigsaw, sander, drill" is a super little tool for them. It's safe and fairly easy to use. So far it hasn't broken or hurt anyone in our house. You can buy them here.
These pictures were taken back in January of 2009 during a brief period of time when I was not blogging. Colter was in a music class called "Harmony Road" and this was his recital.
He really loved his class and learning how to play songs on the keyboard.
I love these sweet pictures of my little man who was so excited about his recital that day. *smile*
Here he is with his teacher Michelle. She was also my piano teacher when I was in elementary school and later when I was in high-school! Another reason that this is a Memory Lane Monday post!
You can't really bring mother hens into a school classroom for show and tell, so recently I took these pictures of the kids so they could bring in a picture of themselves holding their chickens to show the kids in their class. They also brought in a few colorful hard-boiled eggs too. The kids and the teachers alike think it's a pretty cool show and tell...
Speaking of Mother Hens... Scurry on over to The Prairie Hen Speaks Her Mind and take a look at another of my favorite blogs. Raimie is having a super giveaway and it ends tomorrow!!! Now that's something to cluck cluck about!
I love these pictures of Grandpa Larry showing Colter how to safely operate his new BB gun. 
I have no doubt that he got a good education from his Grandpa as they sat on the grass in the setting sun that evening.
It's a good thing to have Grandpas and Dads that can pass on the wisdom they have learned through the years. Makes this Mom feel a little more at ease.
