My baby is one year older

Alexis had a wonderful birthday this year and was so spoiled by all the people who love her so much!
She picked out this cake from a book and I tried my best to do it..... for some reason the frosting was really runny so it didn't stay the way it was suppose to, but she loved it anyway. (she is so artistic and very good at coloring so that is why she wanted to have a crayon cake :)

Ryan and I bought her a locket for one of her birthday presents and put a picture of herself in it. It has CTR on the front of it and I loved it because she is 8 now and will be getting baptized so I told her that when she was tempted to make a bad choice to look at her locked and remember to CTR, and also look inside and remember that you are a child of God! (she really loved the locket because it reminded her of Annie)


For Alexis's birthday party we went to the movie "Shrek the final chapter" with all her family and our best friends the Marlows.



We all loved the movie!

After the movie we went to Golden C0rral to eat and do presents and cake.
Ty walked in and saw all the presents and said, "Wow Alexis, this is looking pretty good"!
It was really funny!



After we ate she was able to invite her BFF Ahslynn over for her very first sleep over.
I love Alexis so much and she is such a great girl! I wanted to write 8 things about Alexis.
1. Alexis is so creative and loves to make crafts and color and make things beautiful
2. She is such a great big sister, and such a great example for her younger sisters
3. She loves to cuddle with me, and is very loving
4. She loves to read and when she gets into a book she wants to read it until it is done!
5. She loves animals and wants to take care of them and be around them all the time
6. she is a very good friend and is faithful and caring to them no matter what
7. when you give her a something to do she always does a great job
8. Alexis loves to play and will play with anyone. She doesn't play by herself but has a great imagination when she is playing with her sisters and friends.
Alexis is so great and I don't know what I would do without her. She always tells me that it isn't fair that she has to go to school and she misses me because she doesn't get to be with me very much and so I am so glad that we get to hang out together this summer and spend a lot of time together...I just remembered one more thing,
9. Alexis always makes sure we are doing what is right, if we forget about family home evening she will make sure we get it done, or if we forget to read scriptures she will also make sure we get it done. If anyone says anything they shouldn't she will let them know (even if it is Grandma and Grandpa and they had no idea what they said was bad)

Pre-school Graduation

Elizabeth had her Pre-School Graduation today and is so ready for Kindergarten!



She went to a fun pre-school that also did gymnastics and swimming. She was one of the oldest in the class and sometimes was a little board and wanted to do more advanced things but she always had a great time.

When they asked Elizabeth what she wanted to be when she grows up she told them she wanted to be a Mom! (she is so cute)
She was so shy and didn't want to sing or do anything at the first of the program.
All the kids did the dance and when I was telling her to do it, she just stood there and shook her head "NO" at me.

Elizabeth is so excited to go to Kindergarten and has been ready for a long time. She will be one of the very oldest because she only missed the deadline last year by 9 days.
I am glad I was able to keep her to myself for one extra year and Brytlee is very happy that she has been home also. They have become such great little friends and play together so great. Elizabeth is such a sweet girl and is so loving and kind to her sisters. She always wants to make them happy and hates to see them sad. She has such a sweet smile and can make me laugh so easy. I love her so much and I am so proud of her!At the first of the year Elizabeth was going to a different pre-school that she went to last year. She loved it and it was such a great school and when she wanted to go to the other one when it opened I was a little surprised. (but the fact that there was going to be a pool and swimming during pre-school had a lot to do with it....)
Her teacher did such fun things with the class and went on great little field trips.
This is a picture of a field trip they went to a grocery store and learned about the checking process and went to the bakery and tasted a few things and watched how they were made.

New Pet, and trip to IF

The girls have a kitten! They love it and want to play with it 24-7..... the kitten is great with the kids and loves to play with them also. The girls and I have named it Chauncho, but Ryan hates the name so he calls it Bob.
We went to see my family this last weekend for my dad's birthday party, and everyone else who has a birthday in may.


We had a great dinner at Chris's house, and then spent Sunday with my Parents just hanging out, playing on the four wheelers, playing baseball with the girls and other fun games.
The other night I was getting the girls to bed and it was not that great of a night.... I was mad at them, they were not listening to a thing I was saying, and Brytlee would not say in her bed!
So after I got the older girls in their beds I went to check on Brytlee and didn't see her in her bed and thought she went outside to see Ryan working on the house.... I called him and he said she wasn't with him so after I looked around the house for her I found her behind her door asleep. She is being such a stubborn little turkey these day's and is really pushing all of my buttons, but then will turn around when you are so mad her and say, "can I hug you mom"? So just when you want to spank her bum she melts your heart and you have to just give in to what she wants..... (she has me figured out)

Children around the world

Alexis and Ash before the program!
The school had a program today with K-5! Each grade wore a different color and learned a different dance that was from a different country. The second graders all learned a dance from Haiti.
They all sang it's a small world together and did some other dances as a school

At the end they all come out and did sign language to a Indian song that was about Education.
It turned out so cute, and they put a lot of work into putting this together. I don't know why but when I saw so many kids together and singing at the same time I got a little choked up.....

pretty bird

This spring this Killdeer bird laid her eggs on the ground in the middle of some ashes. It is right next to our house and the girls have been waiting for them to hatch for the last month! Two of the eggs hatched as you can see in the picture above and then one day later the third egg hatched and as soon as it did the birds all left the nest.
We couldn't figure out why in the world this bird would lay her eggs on the ground and so close to people. Anytime we went outside the mom would go crazy and pretend like it had a broken wing to keep you away from her eggs. (Very Strange)

Field Trip

I was able to go with Alexis on her field trip to the river bottoms this last week and it was a lot of fun. We were looking for any signs of Animal activity, so we looked for footprints. We found some bear prints, some raccoon prints, and some bird prints. We made casting molds of the prints and they all turned out great.


We all ate lunch together, it was a little rainy but not bad..... after our lunch the sun shined through and it warmed up.
There were three classes that went together, and Rett's class was one of them. It was a ton of fun to go together.

Alecia also came and helped with the classes.
It was really cool to see all the trees the beavers had chewed down. It was neat to see their marks on the trees. Alexis really loved looking at all of them.... they also found a birds nest in one of the trees which Alexis wanted to climb up to see if there was any eggs in it. So she did and said, "look out, I will do it, I am a professional"! It was really cute!
Alexis and her BFF Ashlynn! They are in the same class this year and it has been great having them together!
The parents didn't get to ride the bus with the kids because all three classes were all on one... I was a little sad because I was looking forward to being on a bus again!... it has been, mmmmm, over 15 yrs I think.

Brytlee's hair cut

I had been getting tired of fighting Brytlee with brushing her hair.... it was a fight every day and she would cry and run away so most day's her hair was looking a little crazy!
So I talked her into getting a hair cut and I was going to just go to her shoulders but she would not stop moving and it just kept getting shorter and shorter..... but I love the way it looks and it is very cute on her.
The picture is of Brytlee and her great little friend that she has so much fun playing with!

I had a birthday shout hooray!

I had a great birthday this year and I am 29..... that sounds sooooooo weird to me...... I am so lucky to have a great husband who has given me the best present in the world, but he couldn't find a bow big enough to go around it... (the house) and he was so great on my birthday and took me out and let me choose anything I wanted to do! I have been wanting to try a Indian restaurant for a very long time and so we did, and we both loved it!!! (it is my new favorite place) We also went to a comedy club and it was great, my face was hurting after it was over!
And I also had a lot of other great family members and friends who made sure I had a great day and were so great to sing to me, bring me gifts, and just wish me a happy birthday! I felt so loved and I am so grateful to have so many people who love me in my life!
Alexis said something really funny when we were talking about birthday's.... She said, "Mom I am so glad that you decided to go to the hospital and get me out of your belly instead of just leaving me in there and letting me die"..... and then she gave me a great big hug.

Alexis took a picture of me getting ready to go on my big birthday date!

the roof!

The shingles on the house are almost done!!!! We are getting closer