Returning with Honor!

This post is a little bitter sweet! The last of my 3 brothers came home from serving his mission in Peru. Although I'm so glad that he is home, I am very sad that I no longer have a brother that is serving a mission! I have 3 brothers right in a row so for the last 6 years there has always been a missionary out there. We are so proud of Cameron and the good missionary he was! I will forever be grateful to all of my brothers for setting such a good example to my kids! It creates such a unique opportunity when you have to explain where their Uncle will be for the next 2 years and what they will be doing! Even though I am a little sad, I am so glad to have everyone home! Cam is such a good Uncle and my kids love him to death! Emmy and Tucker holding their welcome home sign. The only thing Cam wanted when he got off the plane was a twix bar. So we made sure he had plenty of those!

This is my nephew Brig, with the sign that all of the nieces and nephews signed, he wasn't to happy about me taking his picture!

Emmy and her favorite cousin Brynly, waiting to see Elder Brown! These two are inseparable!


Elder Cameron Brown saying hello to my Mom!

Saying hello to my Dad!

Saying hello to everyone else!

Sadly these are the only pictures I got, my camera died right after he got off the plane!

A boy and the girl he loves!

From the beginning Tucker has been in love with one girl. Every once in awhile another girl will creep in there along with her but she is always there! My brothers and sisters use to tease Tucker about having a girlfriend and he would always tell them that his girlfriend was Jessy. Jessy (Jessica) is the girl on "The Man from Snowy River". Then when he saw "Toy Story 2" and the cowgirls name was Jessy he assumed they were they same girl, and has loved "Jessy" ever since. One time I asked him why he liked Jessy, he said because she can ride a horse!

Well a couple of weeks ago we got a phone call from a good friend who has been trying to sell his horses. He got the others sold but was desperate to get rid of the last one. Well we worked out a deal with him and got this awesome new horse! Yes we still have Sugar Cookie but now we also have ... Yup you guessed it, Jessy!

Tucker, and the rest of us ex specially love Jessy because she is old enough to be ridden, unlike Sugar Cookie who is not quite old enough yet.

Look Mom I'm a real Cowboy, No Hands! Yay cause everybody knows cowboys ride with no hands LOL!

Jessy hadn't been ridden in a long time so we weren't quite sure how she was going to act. Josh got on by himself first to kind of test her out. Rylenn was so mad that we wouldn't let her on. All she kept saying was that is my horsey, I want to hold my horsey. Well after Josh was on her awhile and could see she was pretty gentle we finally let Ry get on her horsey! Then the problem was getting her off!

What a stud! This is my cousin Crew on Jessy!

My other cousin Kashley taking her turn on Jessy.

This is my beautiful cousin Jentry, who, yes boys is single! So if you want her phone number leave me a comment!

No pics of Emmy because she forgot her shoes up at the house and didn't want to go back to get them! New rule no riding unless you have shoes on, good shoes! No pics of Haydenn either who was taking a much needed nap! No worries though I'm sure there will be plenty of pics in the future of the kids riding Jessy!

We had an awesome weekend in Cottonwood picking up Jessy. Not only did we get to pick up our new horse but we had an awesome time with my Aunt Nat and Uncle Scott and their family. Thanks guys for letting us stay with you, can't wait to do it again!

Stay at arms length away!

Notice to Everyone!
Our house has been infected with pink eye! Yuck! I hate this stuff, all green and goopy! So the Dr. tells me until the girls (Emmy and Rylenn) have been on antibiotics for at least 24 hours our house is very contagious. And you know how it goes with a house full of little kids, every one passes around everything. So I'm eye dropping everyone at least 3 times a day. Hopefully we can beat this thing before we all get it! Not to mention that this weekend is my brothers homecoming and of course Easter! I can't be shut up in my house! So for now stay away and wish us luck!

Ry in Ribbons

The other day I wasn't feeling well and had just been laying on the couch most of the day, well Ry was getting a little bored and she started to bring me all the ribbons out of the drawer telling me she wanted to wear them. After I ran out of places to put them in her hair I started putting them everywhere else, which she thought was hilarious!
I don't know what she liked more, the silly ribbons all over her, or all the pics I was taking of her!

Painting Puppets!

I love to do crafts, I'm not the best at them but I love making and trying new things. I think that I have rubbed off on my kids to, cause they are always asking me if I have anything they can make. Well the other day I saw these cute puppet things at Michael and knew my kids would have a blast. I was so excited because they were only a buck! How much better can you get. Something for the kids to do that cost almost nothing. I got one for all the kids so they could do puppet shows and stuff. Me, Tucker and Emmy painted all of them while Rylenn and Haydenn took their nap, and then when they woke up they were so excited to start making up their puppet shows. Totally into their painting!

Who is this? and what have you done with my kids?

Emmy did a fantastic job painting her flower!!

Tucker was more into the colorful thing! I love that his bed head hair goes perfectly with the monkey!

Rylenn made such a cute Lady Bug!

I couldn't get Haydenn to hold her butterfly up to her face, so no pic of her! My kids have spent hours with these things making up puppet shows and I have spent many hours watching puppet shows! But a day spent together and hours of them spending together makes it all worth it!

A Day in the Desert!

A couple of posts ago I talked about how we went to the desert to celebrate Haydenns birthday, but I forgot to post about the rest of the things we did.

We had so much fun, I can't wait till we can all go back out again!

We played a little softball! I love softball I use to play short stop when I was younger and totally miss it!

The kids joined in on the fun as well. Look at that form, he is actually pretty good!

We had a blast riding the quads! Grandma with Emmy and Rylenn and Uncle Rusty in the back round.

Grandpa taking Haydenn for a ride. I love that her bib says Biker Chick!

Of course they had a blast playing in the dirt!

Rylenn was so funny, just walking around and talking to herself. I guess she just loved being out in the open! Then Grandma surprised the kids with kites to fly. It was a perfect day to, just enough wind. Emmy was so nice to help Ry fly it!

Emmy trying to get her kite off the ground!

Aunt Becky helping Tucker get his kite up and flying!

I thought this was a cool pic of the kites! You can just tell what a nice day it was!

Probably the best part of the day was watching Tucker play with (or should I say wrestle) Bronx. Bronx is Rusty and Ashlee's dog, but looks just like our dog Zoey. It was so funny, Becky and her family had already gone home, Rusty and Grandpa had gone on a 4-wheeler ride, Josh was out helping Emmy fly her kite, Haydenn was asleep in the car, so there was only a few of us there. Bronx would come over to Tucker and try to get his toy and then the match would start. Tucker was trying to climb on him so he could ride him like a bull. You know Tucker, everything is a bull to ride! It was hilarious to watch they would just roll around in the dirt together, every once in awhile Tucker would swing his leg over and get on, But it usually ended up by him being dragged by Bronx. You think it would hurt, but Tuck is use to it I guess! We laughed and laughed till our cheeks hurt! There is something to be said about a little boy and his dog!

One of the times Tucker is being dragged by Bronx!

Every time I though Bronx had, had enough he would go up to Tucker like he wanted to play some more!

A couple of times Tucker actually got on, just not always the right way!

A little boy, a dog, and some dirt on your face, now that is a good day!

All in all we had a great day! Thanks Grandma and Grandpa for having us out we can't wait to do it again!!!

Love those Leprechauns!

Well I know that St. Patricks Day has long come and gone but I've been busy and hadn't had the chance to do this post. So here it is!

Emmy came home from school where they had talked about Leprechauns, and she decided that we needed to build us a Leprechaun trap so we could catch them and then of course get their pot of gold. So that evening was spent coloring, cutting and gluing a trap for the Leprechauns.

We all know that Leprechauns a pesky little guys who are full of mischief and love to do the exact opposite of whatever it is that you ask of them. So Emmy and my little sister Sawyer came up with this idea to build a stage and on it have a sign that says Please Stay OFF the Stage, knowing that they wouldn't be able to resist staying off they built in a trap door. When the Leprechauns got on the stage they would fall into the trap! So the stage was built and placed upstairs in our loft where we were sure that they would see it.

The next morning we were so excited to see if indeed we had got ourselves a Leprechaun! But it seemed that our trap was a little flawed and instead of a Leprechaun, here is what we got...

This was the stage that we had made. But the Leprechauns destroyed it and left this note saying

"Ha Ha! You thought you could trick us - Try again next year. Hope you like cleaning up our mess! The Leprechauns weren't totally cold hearted they did leave the kids some of their pot of gold, in the form of gold candy!

And here is part of the mess they left for the kids to clean up. Those pesky Leprechauns! We will get them next year!

Well a little less messy was Emmy's St. Patricks Day hair do. I don't know if you can tell or not, but here is a picture of the clover hair do she had!

Here is Emmy right before school with her clover hair do. She is getting so big so fast I can't believe she is almost done with first grade and that in the next year and a half she will be baptized.

Hope every one had a happy St. Patricks day!