Nice long day

Today we had a great day! The girls and I picked up Eli early this am in Cedar. He decided to come down and go to the kite festival with us! We didn't tell the girls anything, so it was a fun surprise for them. We hadn't ever gone to the Kite Festival, so I decided that we better go before we move. (notice there are no pics of any kites. haha! There were kites there. Didn't have a ton of wind though) It was very nice today. We all got some sun!! Welcome summer weather! :)

After we got home we grabbed some friends that the girls don't get to play with very often. They kept the front lawn, driveway, vehicles, rocks, bushes...etc etc WET. :) (love Paityns pose)

Enjoyed some snow cones....

And water for her.....hehe!! It was pretty cute. She "lapped" it up!

Tractor rides...

On to the next adventure

She cracks me up


Ava was excellent! So much to look at!

More bounce houses

....and more great expressions

Showing off some face painting. Don't ask me how Ava's toes got in this one! They sure are cute though. And very editable looking!


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Friday after school we went over to Blynn's Art Festival at the school. They were showing off art work and dancing and other performances. We saw some of her art and enjoyed a little dance by the first graders.

They acted out the book, "Giraffe's can't Dance". It was very cute! She kept dancing on the other side of the gym! So here is a nice motion pic.

Blynn with her butterfly. One of the teacher just passed away from cancer. (B's old teacher, Mrs. Neilsen, left in Jan to go help the other teacher. So B got a new teacher.) Anyhow, K-5 all did different kinds of butterflies and decorated the entrance of the school in memory of this teacher. It looked great! I wished I would have got a pic. It was so congested :(

A quick funny. For me anyhow. I was a little stressed Thursday night/Friday. Eli and I totally went through all of our crap. We packed a lot of stuff and made a nice mess. Looked like a tornado. I was so tired and ready to hit the sack when I remembered that we were having the bug guy come and spray, and also a insulation guy come and do some work. They pick days for stuff like this and let you know. They do the whole complex at the same time. So I was so embarassed at how the house looked. Yes, granted we are in the process of moving, but still!!! I tried to hurry and straighten up. (cat, I remember the time when you forgot your bug guy was coming and didn't remember till he showed up on your doorstep. haha! Couldn't get to the base boards! :) Same deal here) I kept trying to tell myself....bug guys don't spray very well anyway. we are moving, who cares? Anyhow, I got it presentable enough and sure enough I had insulation spread out everywhere. But still no bug guys. Weird. They usually come early in the am. Got busy and totally spaced it. We ran errands and did our thing. Then when we were outside visiting with neighbors and they were discussing the day. One set of neighbors totally spaced that people were coming and surprised them by entering their home! Nobody mentioned anything about the bug guy. Why? CUZ HE CAME ON TUESDAY!!!!

Its a good thing I don't remember what condition the house was in!!!! We managed to miss him twice! Once when they came in the am for the outside, and later that day for the inside.....

I give up.

Finally catching up

Well to start off this post, The 10th was Eli's 31st B-day!! The girls were so excited to celebrate. We decided to celebrate for a couple days. He was scheduled to work on his bday so we took Tuesday and went bowling. (its so hard to back track...I can't remember anything!!) The girls are huge fans of bowling now. Eli killed us. Next time I will have bumpers for me. seriously. It was that bad!! Coming off of Easter vacation, I loved Claudia's cream cheese pie she made for Eli, so I decided to make another one, for me! :) But it benefited Eli too! Eli did have an approval for a shift trade so he did get to spend his bday at home. The night before the girls and I made huge signs for the garage door outside. They wrapped a couple a presents. We went to the airport the next morning and the girls were so excited I thought that they would blow it before he saw his signs! We were almost home and Elle was so excited she yelled, "MOM is dad awake!!!!?" All I could do is laugh. We made him breakfast. And that night we took the girls to Family Fun and then we hit a movie. It was great fun. I love being able to spend time with him. He is amazing. Love him so much and are greatful that he is ours!! Here's to another great year babe!!! (Even if you do have several more gray hairs along for the ride!!)

On the 3rd our sweet little angel turned 5 months already!! Time is flying. I know I say that every month but its hard to savor this! She is showing more and more of her personality. She can turn on the tears in a heart beat. :) She loves to scratch materials, your arm, face, whatever she can get her hands on! She's trying her veggies and already isn't a fan of green beans! :) I love the faces! She will talk and talk to you if you give her attention. She loves her mommy!! It makes me feel so good when she see's me and gets excited. She makes all these cute little noises. And, at times it stinks because I need a stinkin break!!! :) I love her to pieces! All her little rolls make her very yummy :) She gets plenty of kisses!

She loves her sisters and smiles them. Blynn has gotten her to giggle more than we can. :) It makes me melt to hear both of them giggling at each other! Ava's sleeping habits have gotten worse. I had it down to where she would only get up once in the night. Now its several times. She is wrestless when she sleeps. Makes for long nights and even longer days!!

How can one resist those cankles!!! Seriously!! And teeny feet!!

She was helping make some fruit pizza and all she could have (when mommy was watching) was the fruit container.

She did start to take a pacifer which is very nice!

We dyed easter eggs. I was so glad I only got two dozen. Wasn't too bad. Just messy:)

Nice Tyler. Never thought I'd find someone who sniffs egg dye......lol!

While in Wyo, we had a little fun shooting clay pigeons and everyone's guns:)
Eli setting in his 30 ought six (however thats spelled? no gun lingo here)


Loving the teeny gun! Haha!!

Don't worry, he got whatever I missed!! Its okay to laugh at the stance. ;) Anything to try and avoid some major kick back. One of the shot guns did give me a nice bruise though!! It was worth it! (eating dust, and loving the WIND)


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Lloyd's aim was pretty dang good. I don't think he missed much of what he was shooting at.

We did the Easter egg hunt at the HS. It was your nice Wyoming freezing wind weather. Fun huh?!

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Sweet Matty!


Hopefully I won't slack this bad and I will make myself stay on top of it!! Doubt it though. We will be moving very soon and things aren't about to change from being hectic :)

She did it!

She rolled over from her tummy to her back. I wasn't expecting that!!! I layed her on the floor and was playin with her and decided to do some tummy time. Moved back and she rolls over. Yesterday was her 4 month check up and immunizations. (poor thing!!) Her doc asked what she was doing and all the fun questions like does she giggle yet? Sleep through the night (HA!!! My kids don't grasp that concept) So tonight she surprised us by rolling over. Its going to fly by from here.
She weighed 14 lbs and was 25 in. long!
She isn't a big fan of her rice cereal....going to try the oatmeal and see if thats any better!

She is a sweetheart and is loved a lot around here!!

Thinking of a title.....

Sunday evening started out like this.....nice and quiet activity. We all colored and was havin fun....of course that never lasts very long around here (especially as of late....) She is trying really hard to roll over. That dang arm is just in her way!!

See? Turned into Kung-Fu....fighting karate mixture. Pretty entertaining.. Even better since there wasn't any tears from "rough-housing"

Which changed very quickly into a round of some cha-cha. Goof balls....

Then I'm more flexible and can do this. Can you? Here let ME help!!! :)

Little bit of everything....

Ava ate cereal tonight! We did try last week, with not much luck. She wasn't sure what to do. But we decided to go for it again tonight and she picked right up on it and ate a couple tablespoons worth!

Dirty face! Rice cereal is horrible....it gets everywhere!

Chillin in her plane jammies!

Sister E playing "airplane" with her.

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I caught them like this the other day. So funny. They love the tub. Anytime we will let them they are in it! Eli told them that they could wash off their stinky feet. :) great fun huh!

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For my b-day we went bowling. That was the activity the girls picked out for me to do. We had a blast!! The girls loved it and have been begging to go again! Ava did great too so it made it that much better! We woke up that morning and the girls and Eli did breakfast in bed for me. I bathed Ava while they got it ready then jumped back into bed :) They did eggs and toast, and crepes. Blynn brought it in and my crepe had a nice bite out of one end. I got a kick out of that! Eli even did fresh squeezed OJ.

After breakfast the girls brought in their presents for me. They were so excited....to give me one of their books, a basket, snowglobe, and homemade cards. I loved it and it was great. They would have given me the world if they could have! I love them so much!

Later that afternoon after league was done we went bowling. They loved it. Elle was so funny to watch. A heavy ball, lack of positioning, and other things, made it very entertaining! (remind me to blog about watching her jump rope. THAT was the BEST!!) Blynn had a great time even though she wasn't winning. It was pretty hard considering she does pretty dang good on the Wii! :) They even let me win. I guttered my first two balls.

Then I was able to enjoy a sweet date with my hubby. We went out to dinner child-less. It was heaven. Nobody screaming that they didn't and wouldn't eat what I was makin (Elle) and adult conversation. We even enjoyed a movie afterwards.. Thanks to the Barnes' who endured our grouchy baby and rambunctious kids!! THANK YOU!!

Thanks to everyone who called and did messages on facebook. It made my day! Here's to enjoying my last year in the twenties........ ouch. i'm getting up there.

Sorry so blurry....

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Sunday I had had enough of some attitude that the girls were dishing out. They had pushed every button and I was done. So I sent them to the "corner". (please don't mind the laundry, it is cleaned. or the mess...) They were like this for quite a while.

Four months!

We accomplished her hand mold the other day. Turned out better than the other two! :)

After bath this morning.... (She gets excited when she hears her bath water!)

She always has her feet like this. So cute. They are still teeny. Socks and shoes fall right off.
I can't believe it! Time is flyin by! Ava is getting so big! Sorry these are the only pics I have of her so far. She doesn't go in for her four month check up until next week. So I still don't have any stats :) Some things she is doing.....

* trying to get her two bottom teeth in. (which means tons of drool! she hasn't been a drooler as of late so this getting her clothes soaked is crazy!)
* she still is trying to get over her nasty cough from a couple weeks ago!!!

* She is reaching for her toys now instead of just looking at them!

* She still loves to talk and coo.

* She will smile at anyone

* She is VERY ticklish!!

* She does cat naps. and still doesn't have the best sleeping habits. (B and E never had good sleeping habits) I was so excited the other night when she went down at 7pm and it was a little after midnight when I finally went to bed. I was thinking she would wake up any minute..... and she did just that about five minutes AFTER I crawled into bed! Of course.... :)

* She loves her sisters. Elle sat in her crib the other day for a minute while I was trying to get something done and she got Ava to go to sleep. I loved that. Her big sisters are such big helpers!

* Sometimes Ava will "talk" or "hum" herself to sleep. Its pretty cute. She still FIGHTS going to sleep.

* She wears size two diapers and wears some three month all the way to six month clothes.

* She can throw a temper tantrum quite well already. I think I'm going to buy stock in Midol.......

Dr. Suess week

Yes its that time of year again. Celebration of Dr. Suess week at school. The only pic I managed to get was of Crazy hair day. I was stressed trying to figure out something fun and crazy. I found a fun pic online, but she doesn't have enough hair and I didn't have any fudge time to figure it out. So morning of, this is what we came up with. Thank you wiffle balls. :) You saved my bacon. She was really looking forward to it!
I was just about to send her out the door when my neighbors knocked. She needed me to watch her little girl until she went to school at noon, OH and do her hair for crazy hair day. No creative juices flowing. She just had perfect hair for ratting. The end effect was similar to a trolls hair. With multi colors too!
Blynn loved the crazy socks, wearing green, and jammies day too. :) (Does wyoming celebrate this?)