Zoo!

Last month the kids had a day off of school so my friend and I took our kids to the Zoo. We had so much fun! It was a little rainy which made it a perfect day for the Zoo, all the animals were out enjoying the rain and the park was empty! Thanks for taking us we had a blast!

Emmys pose with the Elephant!

Emmy and Tucker and Haydenn loved this cow that you can try to milk, Rylenn not so much!

Tucker did pretty good!

Haydenn loved the cow! She cried when we had to leave!
It took Everything Ry had to do this, she was ok as long as she wasn't close to the face, and it only lasted for a second as soon as I took the picture she was out of there! She is so funny, she is so animated and so bold in her every day personality but for some reason there is just a couple of things that totally make her nervous, and I guess fake cows is one of them!
Haydenn saying good bye to the cow and giving her a kiss!

Rylenn and Haydenn on the tractor! Gotta love John Deer!

Tucker feeling right at home on the tractor!

Emmy at the Fisher Price playground! This place was so cute with all the animals in corrals and big enough for the kids to climb on and ride!

Surprisingly Rylenn chose to ride the cow! It must just be momma cows with utters that scares her!

Tucker and his good friend, having a blast at the playground!

Rylenn in the little Fisher Price barn! So cute!

Haydenn playing peek a boo in the barn!

Isn't she a cutie! I love this little goofy grin that she does, you can't help but to laugh when she does it!

Tucker and Emmy with a friend, enjoying the dragon exhibit!
Well we found out that day that Haydenn has a thing for monkeys. This is her at the orangutans, clinging to the fence mesmerized by them. She stayed like this for like 20 minutes. She loved them she kept blowing them kisses! When we started to walk away I thought she was going to go through with drawls. She talked about the monkeys for weeks after!

Thanks for letting us tag along we had a blast!

Family N Flowers!

A couple of months ago Emmy had a school project where she had to show a 3 generation chart, like a family tree. But the teacher wanted them to be creative. So this is what Emmy came up with.



A family flower garden. She came up with this idea all by herself. And we had fun spending the time together to get it done! Emmy got a A+ on her project! Good job Emmy it looked great!

A Black Leelatard and pink skut!

Nothing could make this little girl more happy then her black "leelatard" and her pink "skut"! This last month Rylenn has started a ballet and tap class. I wish everyone could be at my house every Friday morning while she is getting ready to go. She flutters and twirls around the whole house while I'm trying to get her ready. And every week she is just as excited as the week before! Almost every time she asks if this is the week we get to watch her and bring her flowers (she's really excited about the whole recital part of this experience!). Rylenn is such a girl, she loves everything pink, princess, dancing, makeup, dresses, you name it if it has to do with being a girl she loves it! So you can imagine how much she loves her new ballet and tap class!
Rylenn in her perfect ballet pose, so she says!
Our Beautiful Ballerina!

Love those big blue eye and those kissy lips!

Snow!

After Christmas, my Sister-in-Law came up with her kids and we all played in the snow! We were so thankful for her because she brought up all her kids old snow clothes which fit my kids perfectly! With the right snow clothes on my kids played out in the snow all day! My cousins were up for Christmas as well and were staying with my Grandma who lives next door. They got out all their snow boards and the kids snowboarded down the hill. They did really well and were very proud of themselves for being able to snowboard! I went out to check on them and they had opened the pasture gate to give them more room to snow board! Clever kids! They had so much fun! We finally had to call them in when it got dark!

Emmy riding the sled with her cousins Kylie and Baylie! Aunt Becky and Tucker on the 4 wheeler

Having a blast! Kylie, Baylie, and Emmy!
Aunt Becky giving Rylenn a ride on the sled!

Sadly I didn't get any pictures of the kids snow boarding. I didn't have the right snow clothes on and I was cold!!!

I don't think Santa came?

My parents would tell us that every Christmas morning when we wanted to wake them up so early and they were hoping for a little more sleep! Now I find my self saying the same thing. Thanks to Santa, who did in fact find us at Grandma's house and our new budgeting system, we were able to have a very good Christmas!

Some of my kids most favorite gifts!

All Emmy wanted this year was a pink guitar! She wants to learn to play so she can write songs like Taylor Swift, and she is very serious about this! This is not a toy to her! I wouldn't put it past her, she loves music and singing! You go Emmy!

Of course Tucker loved his football jersey! And it's Cardinals colors, Go Cards!
Rylenn was so funny this year! She is so animated that everything she opened was like you had just given her the world! Rylenn is so in love with Sleeping Beauty, she thinks she is Sleeping Beauty! I think it's the hair, she loves her long locks! So this is Rylenn giving her new Sleeping Beauty night gown a huge hug!

I have never seen a little girl love something more then Haydenn loves Ariel! I know it's kind of weird that both of my girls are in love with princesses, but Haydenn started it with Ariel. So I was so excited for Christmas, I found all this fun Ariel stuff that I knew she was going to love! Well the first thing she saw was some Ariel stickers hanging out of her stocking. We couldn't get her to open anything all she wanted was to open the stickers. She went from person to person trying to find someone that would open them! Josh finally had to start opening her presents for her. When she saw more Ariel stuff she became a little more interested, but that changed when Josh opened this Ariel book. I think Ariel books have a special place in Haydenns heart. That's where she first fell in love with her. So when she saw this book she was ecstatic! She again went from person to person till she found Grandpa who gave in to her "read me, read me!" I think he read her that book like 100 times. Josh did have to finish opening all the rest of her gifts and even after she saw everything else. She still wanted that book! The funny thing is, that I just picked it up at a second hand store last minute. I had no idea that would be the thing that she would love so much!

Tucker eating his chocolate football!
Rylenn with her stylish glasses and fun bath stuff that she got in her stocking!

Thanks to Walmarts 75%-90% off after Halloween, all my kids got some pretty fun dress up stuff! Emmy modeling her hippy outfit!
Tucker as BumbleBee!
This is what Santa brought for Haydenn and Rylenn. I'm so sad I have no idea where the pics are with them playing in it. But anyway I'm sure you can imagine how excited they were when they saw these! Rylenn was screaming and dancing around the room at the same time. They took that little castle and the princesses into the tent and I don't think they came out all day! They even turned it so that they could see the movies that were playing through the door!

We always have a good time when we spend Christmas in Eagar! There is something about it that just makes it magical! Christmas Eve we were driving around looking at Christmas lights and came upon Santa's "reindeer". As we came around a corner right in front of us grazing in a field were all of his "reindeer"! My kids went crazy! We pulled over to watch them for a minute and tried to see if we could find Rudolph, my kids decided he must be with Santa at someones house. When the "reindeer" took off my kids were suddenly ready for bed, we couldn't get home fast enough! My kids were sure Santa was going to know they were awake and skip over Grandma's house! It was so fun, and only in Eagar do you get to run into Santa's "reindeer"!

Although we had a great Christmas it was sure quite around the house! Usually the house is in an uproar from all the kids running around but this year it was just us. Well actually Rusty, Ashley and baby Bryly were there but stayed with her parents, and they don't make much noise. Kayde and Jennie moved to Ohio and weren't able to come for Christmas, It made me so sad! It kind of felt like someone was missing! We sure missed you guys!!!! Luckily, Becky and her kids were able to come later in the week and play in the snow with us (post about that later)!

I hope everyone else had a really good Christmas!

What could it be?

A Christmas Eve tradition like many others it to let the kids open one gift. Don't tell my kids but it's always pj's. Emmy this year has started to figure that out but the rest are clueless and love the excitement of opening a gift.

Sorry this picture is a little fuzzy but when all 4 kids are looking you have to take it fast, no time to focus!

I love the difference between the girls and Tucker. The girls are gently opening, and Tucker is tearing through it as fast as he can. Having all sisters definitely does not effect this little boy!

The kids in there new PJ's!

This is my cute niece Bryly. My kids had so much fun with her! Always such a happy girl!