Thursday May 8

Porter has been so excited about getting the garden planted.

I guess that has been our thing the last few years :)

Today we actually planted a couple rows.

Hopefully we can get more done tomorrow.

He is a good little helper.

A little bossy though :)

No, he is a fun one to work with.

And I wish I had a noise recorder on him all the time, cause he is a pretty funny kid.

And a deep thinker too.

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Dad spent all day figuring out pipes, and irrigation, and all that fun stuff.

Need to start getting water on that lawn before it turns all brown on us!

We got some rain drops this evening, so that is good :)

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Cassi is just loving Miley.

Well we all are.

After school, Elsie and I took her some carrot treats.

Elsie thinks that is pretty cool!

She wants to ride her again, but we really need to get a bridle!

Anyway, Cassi wanted to take Miley for a walk, so she put the halter on and took her over to the other field with its nice lush grass :)

Miley liked that.

The lady that gave her to us said that Miley has no problem with being ridden bare back.

So Brent tried it out :)

Plopped Cassi up on there, and away they went.

Miley just walked back to the barn.

She must have been tired :)

But Cassi thought it was just the greatest thing.

I think she will be a great little horse rider.

Elsie will too, once we got all the gear!

 

 

Wednesday May 7

I have pictures...but they won't download....so maybe I will add them tomorrow.

We went and got most of the garden stuff today.

We took Porter and Cannon with us.

They were so cute in the toy aisle at D&B.

Looking at all the farm and cowboy toys.

They crack me up.

Hopefully I can get stuff planted in the garden tomorrow.

Not much else happened today......

Dad got some new pipe the fill in the culvert in the front yard.

That will be nice.

Madi had YW.

And I had a good late afternoon run.

I can't decide if I like working out in the morning or night.

Anyway....

It has been so windy lately.

I hope that dies down.

And......that's pretty much it.

Boring.

Sorry.

 



Tuesday May 6

I swear these two were just babies yesterday!!!!

And now they have grown into beautiful, TALL, and awesome young ladies!

Heather....we are pretty lucky to have these girlies as our first born, don't ya think:)

Kara played Madi's school today in Tennis.

So we hopped in the car and went and watched her game.

It was fun watching her.

She did a great job.

It is fun to see these girls grow and blossom.

Makes me happy :)

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On the way home, Port wanted to hop out to take the garbage can back off the road.

He's a great helper :)

But oh my goodness, that boy can talk!!!!!

I swear to you this morning he talked non-stop!!!!!

He came up with an awesome robot invention.

This robot can do some amazing things.

And I learned about EVERY.SINGLE.THING!

It was pretty cute and he is so gung ho about it.......

I told him he is gonna have to wait for when Dad is home to build the robot.

But he did tell me that the robot will be able to put my groceries away.

So I think that's pretty awesome!

 

Monday May 5

Every so often....I think just maybe these big girls may just turn out to be good friends.....maybe :)

They were playing a game together when Elsie and I came home from PT.

I am not gonna lie, it made me happy :)

And they went running again this evening.

They have been running 2 miles each time they run....I think that is impressive.

And they are enjoying it.

Pretty cool, I think.

But the getting along thing is even cooler!

It makes this mama super happy!!!!!

 

Sunday May 4

It was a nice Sunday today.

The kids were so nicely sitting together looking through our blog book.

(I NEED TO CATCH UP ON THOSE!!!!!!!)

I really do love those books!

Brings me so much joy :)

And I love that I have so much of their lives written down....and photographed.

BUT......literally 2 seconds after taking this picture a big fight broke out.

Oh well....that's the way life goes around here :)

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Church was great.

I spent the last two hours trying to get people to sign-up for the talent show this coming Saturday.

I think we did good, and hopefully it will be a good show!

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Dad works tomorrow, so Cassi decided that we would do FHE this evening after church and dinner.

She did a good job.

It was about the Sacrament and how to repent when you have made a mistake.

She even had a great visual aide :)

Good job Cassi!

 

Saturday May 3

We woke up early this morning to go and clean the church.

It went by pretty quick, because there were lots of people to help out.

Since we were out that way, I wanted to stop and see if I could find some cheap t-shirts.

Madi needed some too....

Dad dropped Madi, Elsie and I off at Target, and he took Cassi and Port with him to Home Depot.

They were lucky because they made it in time to do the little project.

They made a cute little flower planter.

Well, Porter did....(I have my suspicions that Cassi did it too, and she is saving it for Mothers day :)

We headed back home and did our usual (the new usual :) Saturday Clean-up.

I really do love the note card thing I have going on.

Each card says exactly what needs to be done in that specific room.

Makes it nice because they know exactly what they should do before it is done.

After the great clean-up, we got to ride Miley.

She is a good horse.

Poor girl is old though...and stays pretty slow.

But that is good for little ones :)

Elsie was so excited to ride her.

She was in a bad mood when we rode Strip last time in Wyoming, and I think she feels bad that she didn't.

So she was happy to be able to ride Miley.

I think Miley will be a good thing.

I hope she likes it with us :)

Cassi wanted me to French braid her mane, I think it turned out cute!

We had about an hour before we had to head out to a afternoon mom and dad date....

So we started laying the old black plastic on the garden.

It is pretty rough looking, but it will work.

We had to buy some more plastic for some spots, but we fit them all together and I think we are ready to get planting!!!!

Then Dad and I headed out for our date.

We had a Groupon for Bodies in Motion with Drew and Heather and also Chad and Tracy.

It was a couples ropes course thing.

It was fun stuff.

It started with a charades game....Brent and I the top score, so we got to be first pick for our team mates.

Then we moved to some minute to win-it games....which our team won too :)

Then moved on to the ropes course.

They had different baggies taped around the ropes course and we had to find our teams color of bags....one couple per bag, and then when we had all the bags, we had to open them and put the puzzle pieces inside together.

It was really fun, and oh so tiring!

Brent really wanted to be up there, so he picked one that was far away, and I feel like he took the longest way around......but....we did it.

Our team did awesome and we got a quicker time then the other team.

We pretty much rocked it!

Then we played some team building games.

They were pretty fun stuff.

It would be a fun thing to do with all of our kids....I think they would have a blast with it.

Then the groupon came with a dinner too, but we had to take ours to go, because I was supposed to go to the stake baptisms tonight.

Luckily I had asked if the Primary president would go, because I did not make it in time :(

I thought I planned it good, but I didn't.

But we got home and finished up the plastic on the garden and spent some time outside, because it was such a beautiful night.

Now I feel so completely exhausted (but that might be partly due to Cassi being up in the middle of the night and me having to deal with that...)

It was a good and long day!

 

 

 

Friday May 2

We went out to dinner tonight to celebrate the end of the Captains test!

He got word today that he passed....came in 8th out of 23 who took the test.

He ended better than he thought he would.

He actually came in 5th, but with seniority points of 3 others (being a driver for longer than Brent has), that put them above Brent.

Thee were many frustrating things about the whole process...but he ended out good.

And, like I said before, we are so happy it is all over with!

We went to Buffalo Wild Wings.

Elsie bug was happy about that!

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Elsie had a field trip today....

I didn't go...and I was kinda sad about that.

But she had such a great time.

And came home so extremely exhausted.

But she talked and talked about....it was a good time for her.

I wish I had a picture of her :(

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After dinner we headed out to pick up a horse :)

Everyone here wants a horse, except for dad.

We have a fire department friend who has an old horse, and she was willing to let us take care of her.

This way we can prove to dad that we love horses, and that the kids will be willing to take care of her.

Her name is Miley.

She is really old....like 24...but she is great with kids.

We can't wait to get on her and take her for a ride :)

The kids are all super happy!

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Oh, and our project today was to get the garden ready.

Got all the water lines all laid down and hooked up.

We will lay the black stuff down soon, but it was so hot today.

We need to do it when it is cooler...maybe tomorrow morning....

 

Thursday May 1

Dad took Porter to his field trip to the Zoo today.

They had a lot of fun, and dad did what I asked....

He took a bunch of pictures :)

He knows how to make a girl happy!

Port was so excited to tell me about the dinosaurs and that he got to feed the (sloth) bear.

Fun stuff!

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When the kids came home, they figured it was hot enough for sprinklers.

I think our thermometer needs to be in a new location......it was about 80 degrees and the thermometer read almost 120 :)

 Anyway, they played in the sprinklers for quite a while and Elsie and I went and found dandelions....and made a little timeline of the life of a dandelion :)

And Dad worked in the shop to weld together himself a brush harrow for his tractor.

Pretty great day :)

 

 

 

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