like mother like daughter

For Mutual last week they did a activity with the moms and it was really fun.  They  had the girls dress up like their moms and told them to do their hair like them and had them do a few other things.  I tried to get Lexi's hair the way mine was but it is not even close in color.  Ha ha.  I don't even own a button up plaid shirt anymore so we had to borrow one of Ryans shirts.  We played a few games and we kicked butt at them.  They did a game that was kinda like the newly wed game with mother/daughter and we got all of them right but one.  I had no idea we knew so much about each other.  Alexis is such a great girl and I just love her to pieces.  So glad she is mine!!!

This was my last minute flower pots I threw together and it was fun.  I have had the tall one on my front porch and it just looked out of date and ugly and I thought it needed to be brightened up a little.  I am having so much fun with the flowers this year and love all the fun color it brings to the yard.  My girls are really loving it and want to plant lots more flowers.  Adison is so cute and when we drive by someones yard she will pick out plants and let me know if they have the same ones we do.  She is right about all of them and knows which ones we have.  Kids really watch and take note on everything we do.  

put a pin in it

I can not remember if I told the story about when Max put a pin in his ear or not... so I am going to tell it.  We were all down in the basement cleaning up and I was vacuuming.  My girls hang a lot of their school work/artwork on the walls down stairs with my sewing pins.  I saw one on the floor and so I picked it up so I didn't run it over with the vacuum.  I put it on the ping pong table and as soon as I did a thought came to me that I should put it in the middle where Max can't reach it.  But I didn't listen and just kept vacuuming.  A few minutes later Max was running around screaming.  I looked at the table and the pin was gone.  My first though was that he put it in his mouth and swallowed it or something.  Then his one hand kept brushing his ear over and over so I looked inside his ear and saw a silver pin.  I went to grab it but it was so far in that my finger just bumped it and pushed it in more.  The point of the pin was inside his ear so I didn't want to push it more so I grabbed a pair of tweezers and held him down and got the pin out.  He was really upset and I was so nervous that he put the pin through his eardrum that I ran him to the doctors office.  The doctor checked his ear and said that there was a little blood behind the eardrum but he missed it and everything was going to be alright.  I was so glad and so mad at myself for not listening to the thought I had.  I know it was the holy ghost telling me what to do and I just was in a hurry to get things clean..... I think as a mom I need to remember to slow down and always put my kids before a messy house or THINGS>.... they are not important and they can wait but my kids can not.  It is so funny that I have had a few experiences with the holy ghost like this and not listened.... it is almost like I have expected a mans voice or something and it surprises me that it is always more of a thought or my own voice in my head that I hear.  

So glad this little boy is ok, and hope that his run of bad luck will come to an end.  He is always falling and bumping his head or doing something to get bumps and cuts.  He has been really bad with misquito bits this summer and has learned how to itch them.  He will itch them so bad that they are bloody and just a  big hole.  Then he likes to pick the scab and just will not leave them alone.  I had to put new skin on them so he wouldn't get big scars.  

Elizabeth has been working with Ryan a lot this summer and so has Alexis.  They both love to complain about working but they end up happy in the end.  I am so impressed that they can put together lights now and know how to wire them and check them to see if they work.  It is so nice to have a husband that will teach them and is willing to let them work even thought it would be so much easier to just do it himself sometimes.  I find that with just cleaning the house also.  It is way faster and easier to just do it myself , but I want my kids to know how to take care of a house and have the responsibility of doing chores.  

Max is such a fun boy and he is happy most of the time.  He just brings so much joy and love into our home and we love him to pieces.  He has started to growl and laugh really deep and it is so funny.  I jumped out and scared him the other day and he just growled at me and I couldn't stop laughing.  He is so much fun.  

Animal drama

I swear we have the worst luck with animals.  So we have had our dog zoe for almost a year and she is still so happy and has ALOT of energy.  She is great with the kids and loves to play with them but she is not so great with other animals.  She has killed a few of our chickens and just the other day attacked our neighbors goat.  It was the worst thing to watch a dog just go after a goat like she did and she was not going to let go.  It really freaked me out and I was so ready to get rid of her that day.  When I saw her attack, it reminded me of a wolf or a dangerous animal and that isn't what I want around my kids.  But then as soon as she was not around the goat she was back to being her sweet self.  She has always been great with all my kids and has never  been aggressive with them at all.  But do I really want to take the chance of her snapping and going after a kid like she did the goat..... I don't know what to do.  Ryan has been working with her and we have been watching her very close to see how she acts.  

There was a airshow on Saturday and we went for a little while and the kids found seven baby kittens that were abandoned.  They had to crawl in this dirty area of the airport to get them but they were so excited.  

When we got home the kids played with them and named all of them and they were feeding them when Ryan let Zoe out of her cage and she ran right over to the kittens and grabbed on and just shook it in her mouth for a few seconds..... The kitten died as soon as she let it go and the girls were all so traumatized and just balled their eyes out.  Ryan was so mad at the dog and I was not sure what he was going to do with her at that point..... He let her know that what she did was wrong and put a little fear in her.  The girls are all so afraid to leave the kittens alone now because they don't want anything to happen to them.  UHhhhhhh  it has been so crazy

Alexis was outside and found this cool little bird.  I thought it was a pet but then when we looked it up we saw that it was a normal little bird.  It was a cool little bird and the girls put it in a cage and took care of it for a couple of days and gave it bird seeds and water.  When we let it go we noticed it flew into the walnut tree in front and saw that there was a bunch of blue birds just like it.  We were glad that it could be with its family again.
Another one of the baby kittens got sick with something and died yesterday and the girls were so sad.  We couldn't get it to eat and it kept throwing up.  We are down to just five kittens and I told the girls that we are getting ride of them soon.... I don't think it would be smart to keep them with our dog and have to worry about them turning into a chew toy.  

Rodeo weekend 2

Friday morning the Hospital does a cute little carnival each year for free and the kids have so much fun at it.   They do a pony ride, have a bunch of games that the kids can win prizes, bouncy houses, four wheeler train, bow and arrow game, and a bunch of other fun things for the kids to do.  I was out on a bike ride and saw the little four wheeler so I was lucky to see it or I would have not remembered it this year.   Max was not a fan of riding the horse without me.  He loved to touch it and pet it but as soon as I put him on it he was mad.  

same with the little train ride.  He thought I was shipping him away for good.  Brytlee said he was crying the whole ride.... I bet the guy driving the ride loved that.  

We went to the very last day of school lunch after it was over.  It has been nice to go everyone and a while so the kids can see their friends, and then I don't have to cook lunch and clean it up.... win win situation.  

We went over to the rides as soon as they opened and let the older three kids buy a wrist band and then just grabbed a couple more tickets for Adi and Max.  They saw a train ride they didn't get to go on the night before and they loved it for the first five minutes.  But the guy left them on forever and just kept it going until someone else got in line to go on it.  Max kept looking at me and doing the sign for all done.  It was so funny.  They were on it for 10 minutes or more.  

I didn't buy a ton of tickets so Adison went on a couple  rides alone.  Max didn't really care but he still had to do his fall down and be sad trick.  

He started playing peekaboo so he wasn't to sad.

This was the favorite ride of both the little kids.  They were able to ride it for a long time also because no one else was there to go on it.  

My older girls invited friends this year to the carnival and they had a ton of fun together.  I wish we could have gotten a friend to go with Brytlee so she could have had a riding buddy but most of her friends went the night before and were done.  She still had a lot of fun.

All of the kids loved this evil ride.... this is the one that made me throw up a few years ago and I will never go on it again.  

It was fun for Alexis to see all of her friends at the carnival and hang out with them here and there.  It is weird to see her getting so big and see how she acts so grown up with all her buddies.  I feel like I was her age not that long ago.... time goes so fast.

Rodeo weekend 1

I love that I can ask Max for a kiss and he will give me one.  He is such a good boy!

Back to the park!  I am getting a little better.  

This weekend was the Preston Rodeo weekend.  It is a big deal!  The kids always have such a great time at the parade and then on the carnival rides and all the other fun activity's they do.  

Adison was ready for the party to start!  She is always up for some fun!

Max was not sure about most of the rides and he took a minute to get warmed up. 

Adison got on her horse and told me she had to ride like a lady!

Max did like the ride once it got going.  

After a few rides Max was ready to go on them all.  He didn't really like waiting in line and he didn't really want to get off them when they were done.  

His face on this ride was so cute!  He would go around the turn and just have a big smile on his face.  I was so not loving how many people were at the carnival and how hard it was to walk through the crowd with a stroller.  No one was nice and would just let you threw... they acted like they couldn't see you.  I wasn't as into the whole thing this year and I am not sure why.  I think it is because this is the first year someone from my family or Ryans family hasn't come and hung out with us.