Branham Bunch

The Story of BUNNY CAKE!!!!!

2011-05-01T20:27:00.003-05:00

My name is Bunny Cake and I came to be on this great Easter Day.

Everyone loved me. I was so excited about searchng for eggs, the Easter Bunny

had hid them so well that it took HOURS and HOURS for these "4" to find them.

They searched everywhere.

They grabbed candy and eggs as they found them.

Sometimes they had to stop and really think "Now where would that Old Funny

Easter Bunny hide all those eggs.

They searched HIGH!!!

They were racing to see who could fill their egg carton first!!

Under the couch!!!

In the draws!!!

Sometimes they even found one!!!!

Sometime they found things that the Easter Bunny didn't hide!!

I wondered if they are cleaning or searching??

Maybe they were just hungry??

Finally they had found it all and I was the HAPPIEST

BUNNY CAKE ever.

Then the most terrable thing started to Happen!

I couldn't figgure out what was happening.

I could not HEAR!!

Then in the morning in broad daylight a Theif Came.

My Beautiful Tie was gone.

Then when night came and the sun came up and all of a sudden it went

DARK!!

I could not see anymore.

But bunnies have great noses so I could smell my way around.

Then all of a sudden my jaw was ripped from my face.

I could hardly eat.

I started to fight for my life.

But it didn't help much.

I still had my nose so I could still find my way around.

As soon as I said that my nose was gone.

Then my mouth disapeared and I couldn't speak anymore.

My life was "Cut" short.

Only my Shadow REMAINS!!

HELP

2010-06-19T11:30:00.000-05:00

Millipedes live outdoors in damp areas such as under leaves, needles and dead plant debris, or in cracks and crevices. They feed on damp and decaying vegetable matter and are beneficial as "recyclers" of organic matter. However, they become a pest when they migrate into buildings as accidental invaders. Millipedes are usually found in the garage, basement or lowest level although they may wander into other parts of the house. They are most active at night and usually hide during the day in cracks and other moist locations.

Millipedes are harmless; they do not feed upon building structures or furnishings and they can not bite or sting. Millipedes can not reproduce indoors. All millipedes found inside wandered in by mistake.

Help We Are Being Invaded By MILLIPEDES

WARNING!!!!

DO NOT LOOK AT THE NEXT PICTURE IF YOU ARE SQUEAMISH

Life is grand when you live in Iowa.

You never know what you are going to encounter next.

Makes you feel like you are in the Indiana Jones movie doesn't it.

No they are not in the house they are outside Kristi Dawn's bedroom window.

But we do have plenty of them sneaking into the house.

BUD'S New Project

2010-04-07T12:09:00.000-05:00

Bud wants you to meet

Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cotton Tail

or maybe it's

Bugs, Roger and Thumper,

or maybe it's

Bud, Blake, Rob,

or maybe it's

??????????!!!!!!!!!!??????????

Bud and Bob went and picked them up on Saturday

April 3rd so of course they are Easter Mules

Bud is excited about his project over the next year. They are yealings and he is going to play with them and after he starts riding them he is going to decide which one he is going to keep and then sale the other ones.

I will try and keep everyone posted on their progress

Nyah's Happy #3

2009-11-21T10:47:00.005-06:00

NYAH

NOW YOU ARE THREE

OH THE THINGS YOU WILL SEE

Happy Birthday Nyah

Love Nana & Papa Bud

Congratulations Jason

2009-11-21T08:26:00.009-06:00

October 16th and 17th Kristi Dawn, Bud, and my self went to Fort Madison to watch Jason in the BOA Finals. The top 25 bull riders from the 5 surrounding states were there. The introduction of the riders was very exciting. They put lighter fluid on the ground and stated it on fire as they brought each cowboy out. By the time Jason was introduced the flames had burned down a bunch. He was 8th overall and 1st in the Rookie. He is the very tall one with the pink shirt on.

Jason bucked of his 1st bull, rode his 2nd bull, scoring 85 and was 6th. He bucked off his 3rd and 4th bull but stayed in 8th position and won the rookie of the year. The ride is great you just have to listen to me yell as you watch it. They gave each contestant a very nice vest and Jason won this beautiful buckle. It was a great weekend nobody got hurt and Jason succeeding in his goal that he had made at the beginning of the year to win the rookie.

Congratulations Jason

We Love You

Kristi Dawn and David Hecht one of our good friends that was there.

Treyson #1

2009-10-04T18:24:00.006-05:00

Happy Birthday Treyson

Nyah holding Treyson on his real Birth Day

Blessing Day

Lazy Day

Dads Day

Standing Day

Family Day

Happy Birthday Treyson

The Big ONE, UNO, UNE, ENA, EINS, UN and anyway else you can say it.

Happy Big One!!

Love Nana and Papa Bud

Happy Birthday BUD

2009-10-04T17:15:00.007-05:00

Well Here is the Blog that I have been meaning to put on but have just been procrastinating.

Yep Bud is a year Older, Wiser and Grayer

and doing what he loves best.................HUNTING

Yes 3 weeks of HUNTING

Showing the deer to the Elders '08

Bud and Jason '02

Bud '01

Bud,Jessie and her first deer '98

Elk Camp Salina '97

Big Spike Elk '95

Bud, Jason, and Jessie '91

Bud and Jason '88

Still Wild and Going Strong

2009-08-14T13:48:00.011-05:00

Happy Birthday

Jason

Doing what you love

Another day another dollar

Chillin out before going to ride

Work, Work Work

No rest for the wicked and the
righteous don't need any ;)

Jason at Wayland

Jason at Ft. Madison

Jason at Washington

Happy Birthday Cowboy

We love you and think you are grand

LOTS OF LOVE

MOM & DAD

Kristi Dawn's #19th Birthday

2009-08-14T12:48:00.007-05:00

Happy Birthday Dawnie

Kristi and Tina Celebrating the night before

Kristi being the kid that she always is

and everybody loves

Kristi and Omni with her saddle

Kristi sitting on the bike to see how it feels

With the helmet on, ready to try

with the training wheels

Kristi stepping it up a bit without the training wheels :)

Graduation

Watch out Kristi don't go to FAST

Happy Birthday to Kristi Dawn

We love you lots

MOM & DAD

Tina's Terrific Birthday

2009-08-14T11:51:00.006-05:00

Terrific, Tremendous, Talented, Tasteful, Thoughtful, Tender, Thankful, Tireless,

TINA

Tina and Kristi Dawn

and Treyson

Tina and Nyah

Tina and Treyson

Tina and Blake

Hope you had a great one.

It was wonderful for me to get to spend time with you and your family and to be able to wish you Happy Birthday on you special day

Love you Lots

MOM and DAD

Tremendous 2's for KaBella

2009-07-12T13:46:00.006-05:00

Happy Birthday KaBella

From Your First Trip To Iowa To Your Last

WE LOVE YOU

NANA, PAPA BUD, JASON AND KRISTI DAWN

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESSIE

2009-06-05T15:20:00.005-05:00

HAPPY #29TH BIRTHDAY JESSIE

CAN YOU BELIEVE IT HAS BEEN 28 YEARS SINCE YOUR FIRST BIRTHDAY CAKE.

ANYBODY WANT BIRTHDAY CAKE!!!!

LOVE MOM AND DAD

Tina and Blake #5 Happy Anniversay

2009-05-29T12:11:00.007-05:00

Happy Anniversary Tina and Blake.

Boy how does time go when you are having fun!

You have a beautiful family.

Thank you for letting us spend time and enjoying it with you.

We love you MOM & DADY

Your anniversary is a time

For sharing your affection;

It’s obvious the two of you Have quite a deep connection!
We send glad congratulationsAnd heartfelt wishes, too,

For joyful happiness and love

In everything you do.

From This

To This

To the joy's of these

Happy #101 Grannie Great

2009-05-29T12:00:00.003-05:00

Can you believe it! Grannie Great is 101. This picture was taken at her 100th birthday. It is already out of date 2 more great, great grandchildren have been added. We love you Grannie Great and hope you had a great day.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROB

2009-05-27T19:15:00.006-05:00

Happy Birthday Rob

We are so thankful that you are in our family. You are such a great father and husband. Hope you have a great BIRTHDAY

Rob and Ruger,
So Tired!!!!

Rob and KaBella,
Rob you are so kind to show Bella her cake befor you ate it!!!!!

Rob and Gunner,
Doing what you love the most FISHING!!!!

Gunner, Rob, KaBella, Jessie
Thanks for having such a great family
We love you so much
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROB

Bud's Turkeys

2009-04-21T20:24:00.005-05:00

Well Rob and Blake have both been turkey hunting and Bud was feeling pretty sad so I decided that I should do a post on Bud's Turkey Hunting. Now the second hunt is going on now in Iowa and I have told Bud that if he wanted to go hunting all he needed to do was go and purchase a tag and get it done, he has been working on the pastures and he wants to get them replanted before we get lots of rain so he is blaming in on that that he doesn't go hunting. Maybe he is loosing the feaver ???? (Not really) Bud has hunted Turkeys three times here but has never been successful. Bud you need to get busy and keep up with your Son-In-Laws

This in some pictures of turkeys that are here in Iowa 2-04, We see them all the time, so not a real big deal to me. When we took these pictures they were fanning but we just couldn't seem to get them to do it when they were in the open. There was also a white turkey with these but we were never able to get a picture of it. As you can see we were quite a way away. Oh well thats how it is sometimes

This picture 9-90 is of some turkey at Kolob, this is where Bud has done most of his turkey hunting.

Why did the Turkeys cross the Street? To get to the other side.

This is a very intresting picture 5-90 Tina and Jessie do you remember the turkey we caught in the fence out in the trukey pens we had it for a while and then Kurt Chadburn brought his Tom so then we had two turkeys. Maybe the real turkeys are the people that locked them up.

Now this is the real Turkey Hunter 5-89 This is the turkey that is stuffed at the house. Bud shot it on Kolob Mountain durring the Spring hunt.
So there you have it.
Bud's Turkey Hunting

Happy Aniversary Jessie & Rob #3

2009-04-14T15:45:00.009-05:00

April 15, 2009

JESSIE AND ROB PRICE

3 Years WOW

As we reflect on the past year of your marriage we are so excited on your wonderful life together. You have such a great family, beautiful children. Remember life has its ups and downs but as President Gordon B. Hinkley said, "Life is like an old time rail journey..delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas, and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride." Thanks Jessie and Rob for letting us enjoy that ride with you. Love MOM & DAD

Jessie and Rob,
1,2,3 or 4 bowling balls?
We love you
Rob and Jessie

Our Trip to Utah eating at Sizzler. Thanks Rob for sharing your shrip with me.

One, Two and 3/4th on the way
Thanks for giving us Grandchildren #1, #3, #5
Did you relize that that is all the odd numbers!

Rob your are a great Husband, not many men would get into their PJ's to get their picture taken, Jessie and Rob your have such a great family.

Jessie and Rob,
Sharing

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BLAKE

2009-03-29T18:51:00.005-05:00

MARCH 30 2009

We have been so blessed to have Blake in our family and

he has been so blessed to get to

visit us 3 times over the past year.

Happy Birthday Blake,

WE LOVE YOU

Have a Great Day

Bud and Blake after a hard day of fishing

Nyah and Blake getting the fishing hooks ready.

She has the fishing line in her mouth

Nyah sleeping and Blake riding Omni on their trip to Iowa

Kristi and Blake racing.

(Kristi wanted me to note that she is winning)

All alone up in the tree stand thinking about those
BIG WHITE TAIL BUCKS

Be careful Blake don't fall down from the tree stand

Blessing Trey in Iowa City

Jason, Alicia, and Blake playing cards

Tina, Blake and Nyah at Grandma Bradshaw's 100th birthday party

FARWELL TO A GREAT FRIEND

2009-03-08T14:28:00.009-05:00

Well its time for me to update my post. I have been putting it off because I knew that this needed to be the next post that I did. This is a little e-mail that Bud wrote that I decided to use it because it sums it all up. I use the first picture of Clipper that I could find. Why we don't have pictures of him when he was born I don't know but this was his first ride. "Boy does Bud look young" The last picture is a couple of days before the old man died. He had fallen on the ice out side and we were helping him back to the barn. So many pictures in between that when I tried to decide which one to use there was not enough room to put them all. So I decided on the first and the last and to all that knew him will have to remember their favorite picture of him.

January 6th 2009 The old man of the barn (Clipper) passed away, 32 years of a great opportunity to have a great horse - as they say (something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man or woman) he fit the bill and you could not ask for a better partner to build memories with - oh the game we have hunted - the horses and cattle we have roped - the states we have traveled in and the mountains we have seen the other side of - the games that we played - the barrels he turned and most important the family he raised (even some of the grand kids got the opportunity to ride him) - Definitely a living legend came to an end and a legend was born to the memory books of life.

Frozen But Still Kicking

2009-01-16T10:36:00.004-06:00

This was taken at 10:13 PM on Wednesday January 14th, 2009. I usually keep my thermostat on 69 degrees in the evening and down to 59 degrees during the night. The gas stove had been on down stairs and then it doesn't heat the upstairs as much. On the news most of the schools were telling that they would have a 2 hour delay in the morning for school because of the cold temps.

This was taken at 6:55 AM Thursday January 15th 2009. My furnace kicks on at 5:00AM and it was having a hard time trying to warm my house up. As you can see it is very cold. By this time the schools in the area had all canceled school for the day. They were saying that the wind chill was -54 degrees. Of course Bud and I both went to work. When you are inside you just look outside and don't know how cold it really is. You just make sure you have your coat, gloves, scarf, and of course I wear my thermos.

As of Friday morning it didn't get quite as cold, it was only -18 degrees so I didn't take any pictures, the area schools had all cancelled school on Thursday evening for school on Friday.

Now Kristi's school never canceled on either day, Thurdsay or Friday. "They did have a late start on Wednesday because of the 8 inches of snow that we received Tuesday night." "They think that because you are in college you will be able to remember you hat, gloves, and scarf. Well you are wrong. Wednesday night Kristi and her girlfriend Becca were trying to start Kristi's car. They needed to plow the parking lot and she had not been able to start her car on Tuesday to move it. So as the temperatures were tumbling down Wednesday night, Kristi with no hat, (she had a coat on), Becca with no coat (she had a jacket and sweatshirt on and a hat) were trying to jump the car. Coach Jennings came out and said what are you girls doing!! He gave Kristi his hat and said give this back to me tomorrow at practice. He tried to help but the car still wouldn't start. "Looks like she needs a new battery." So as we have many hats at the house Kristi didn't have one at school, so the great shopper that she is went to the store on Thursday to buy a new hat. It was a great "Deal" she said. It was regular $16 marked down to $8 marked down to $4 and then on sale for $3 so she bought it because it matches her new jacket that Jessie and Rob gave her for Christmas. So as you can see college is teaching her math skills if nothing else. By the way she was on the Dean's List for the first Semester at School.

HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY GUNNER

2008-12-27T08:22:00.008-06:00

December 28 2008 Gunner will be turning "6"

You are a joy to all of our lives

Gunner and Papa Bud enjoying a Pepsi (Diet)

Hold on Gunner, Watch out Kristi, Hey Brent what happened to you HEAD

Gunner getting the lowdown before Uncle Jason gets on his Bull

Gunner getting ready to ride a bull!!!!!!

Gunner and Brent napping (They are always napping)

Gunner, Aunt Kristi, Papa Bud, Mom, KaBella and Nana
at the rodeo

Aunt Kristi practicing her goat tying on Gunner

Gunner why is that goat wearing your hat?

Gunner getting ready to cheer on before a Basketball game.

Two cute noses.

Gunner getting ready to show his moves!!

Watching this movie could make you sick you need to watch it sideways

Christmas from the Past

2008-12-27T07:11:00.005-06:00

12-01

12-98

12-95

12-93

12-92

12-91

12-90

12-89

12-87

12-85

12-84

2008-12-12T07:51:00.012-06:00

The Washington Branch had our 8th Annual
Live Nativity on December 10, 2008
It was of course in our barn, not as many animals
this year, but still enough to get the feel of it.
The weather was very cold, but it always is.
Here are some of the pictures that
were taken during the night.
We sang, then enjoyed cookies and hot chocolate.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NYAH MARIE TUBBS

2008-11-06T19:42:00.009-06:00

Nyah will be turning 2 year old on November 8, 2008.
What a joy she is in all our loves

Nyah looking through a big tire
Nyah and Wrangler, Wrangler is trying to ignore her but she really love it
How tall are you when you are "2"
Nyah enjoying Papa Bud's Pepsi

Nyah on Clipper

Tina, Blake, Nyah, Treyson Trip to Iowa

2008-10-31T10:20:00.035-05:00

Tina, Blake, Nyah and Treyson came to visit for the week and we were able to bless Trey while they were here. We had a great time and enjoyed visiting, laughing, playing games, riding and anything else we could fit in.

Treyson Earl Tubbs on his day.

Trey being tired with the whole thing

Nyah being the great big sister holding Trey with his new blessing outfit.

The wind had been blowing hard over the night and the power had gone off, Tina just knew we were going to have a tornado. But I told her not to worry the wind was not blowing that hard. After church we all came home to eat. The power had went out again while we were at conference (it was stake conference and we blessed Trey in the High Council room right after the meeting) so instead of coming home to food cooking we came home to a cold oven. When the power finally came on we cranked the oven up to warm the ham and then enjoyed warm ham, mashed potatoes, corn, cottage cheese salad, and green salad.
Papa Bud and Treyson, Tina, Blake, Alicia, Jason, Nyah, Kristi, and Brent

Kristi and Blake racing at Bloomsberry Farm's

Papa Bud and Nyah in the bike race

Kristi, Tina, Trey, Nyah playing in the corn crib at Bloomsbery farm

The goofy bunch
Blake, Tina, Nyah, Ellen, Kristi

Blake and Nyah on Omni riding over at Bob's

Tina on "Drift" and
Nyah on the old man "Clipper"

We Have A Secret

2008-10-15T10:41:00.002-05:00

We just receive the great new that we will be having grandchild #5

FAMILY

2008-10-05T13:42:00.006-05:00

Listening to conference I was so struck by President Monson remarks that I needed to let my family know how much I love them. They are the reason that I live. They are what life is all about. Being blessed with the best husband in the whole world, 4 wonderful children, 2 fantastic son-in-laws and 4 of the most angelic grandchildren that this world could ever have. I am so thankful for you all.

LOVE YOU ALL

Its Great to Be GRANDPARENTS!! :)

2008-10-03T16:29:00.007-05:00

Gunner
Nyah KaBella
Treyson