Unsupervised fun...

Wow, it's been a while. I can't say that nothing blog worthy has happened since that not's entirely true. Today I just happened to think of snapping pictures with my cellphone. :) Madelynne, Jacob and I went to play group this morning for 1 1/2 hours. They had fun and were both played out when we got home. We did our lunch then Jake went down for his nap and then all of a sudden I couldn't keep my eyes open. I talked Madelynne into lying down on my bed with me with her books then when she relaxed and actually put her head down I figured it was safe to drift off to sleep. The next thing I remember an hour later is hearing Benjamin come pounding up the stairs after getting home from school asking why it smelled like fingernail polish. I barely lifted my head to look around at him and caught a major whiff of polish. Madelynne was at it again. Although after this latest little spree of craziness I only have 3 bottles of polish left. She emptied about 6 of them into her squirt bottle that I use for her hair. So here are a few pictures for fun. She was quite sad from getting in trouble, she's a funny girl for sure! Oh and she had dumped out 3 different games on the playroom floor. Makes me wonder if she just waits for me to not pay attention and goes wild. haha!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY&feature=email


I absolutely LOVED this! It gave me goosebumps and we've played it over and over a few times. lol. Enjoy!

Easter weekend

We had a great weekend! Saturday morning we left for Glenrock to stay with my brother Hyrum, his wife Kristi and their 3 kids. It was relaxing and nice to get away for a weekend. Kristi and I had fun hiding all the eggs for the kids and they all had fun finding them all. Hyrum was addicted to some word games on the computer and my kids had fun watching him. haha! Hyrum and Kristi's church starts at 9am and amazingly with all 8 children and 4 adults we made it to church 20 minutes early. It was unbelievable. hahaha! A first and probably a last for a while. On the way to Casper we saw a herd of horses going the opposite direction from us and slowed down to rubber neck and check it out. It was way cool. Then when we came home today we saw the same herd just about to Shoshoni. After our little break we went back to the edge of town and stopped at the rest area and watched the herd go by. I don't know how many for sure, but 200+ easily wild horses when right by us. There's a video down below of them. So all in all we had a wonderful Easter vacation and are glad to have an extra day off tomorrow to get things unpacked and back to normal before school on Wednesday. Thanks for a great weekend Hyrum and Kristi! I definitely say REMATCH in phase 10....lol.w

all of the kids except for Owen...he and his big brother were matching!!





Marley is their new dog and quite a fan of dad. Whenever dad came around he'd light up and follow him or curl up next to him. Pretty cute.

The wild horses going through Shoshoni this afternoon. (my guess is they were on the way to Riverton to the auction the state holds...don't quote me.)

And then we ran out of gas 3 miles from home!!! My dad and I did not even think about it the whole way home or even look at the guage. hahaha! The kids were that distracting!!! haha...no not really...maybe a little, but I can't blame them entirely. :) We called up our neighbors, Jean & Roy, to rescue us with their lawn mower can so we could at least make it to Maverik. It was pretty funny. My dad and I got a good chuckle.

Flashback Friday!

I couldn't think what to do for Flashback Friday this morning so I found an old box of pictures in my dad's room and grabbed a couple for fun.

This one is when Theron and I were volunteering together in Benjamin's preschool class in Salt Lake City.
This was taken in 1994 or 1995...I think. All the girls in the family. My sister Andrea, my mother and me. My black hair phase. hahaha...drove my mother nuts. :)

This is how old our kids were when we first moved to Wyoming. Too funny. They grow when we're not looking. :) (2004)

I can't believe it's April!

I am amazed at how fast time flies. We've been busy lately. I'm way behind in the blogging department. Lots has been going on. The biggest news was that Dad announced yesterday that he's engaged to be married. We're all very excited for him. He's marrying Jennifer Haynes from the Glenrock area. They'll be married in Glenrock by the bishop then as soon as her sealing cancellation goes through they'll head up to the Billings Temple and be sealed. The wedding date is June 27th. That's actually pretty major news. Wow! I am totally stoked for him. We'll miss having him close by though. We've been very lucky to have him down the street for the past 4 years then living with us for the past 6 months. I told the kids that Grandpa was getting married last night and I swear I thought I was going to start bawling with how sad they reacted. It was almost hilarious! Michael wouldn't even finish his dinner he was so bummed out. They didn't like hearing that Grandpa is moving away. After talking about it some more they got over the part of him leaving and were happy that he's getting married and they get a new Grandma Jennifer. That will be different for me since I got so used to having him around since Theron's gone on the road so often. Also today is the 5 year anniversary of my mother passing away. I've been an emotional wreck...ugh. I am normally so good at keeping it together and today is a sunglasses day. hahahaha! Crazy how memories of the day she passed away flood back more today than any other day of the year. I'll have to plan to be in Disneyland on April 1st next year and turn it into a party memory! haha...i wish. :) Anyway, miss you mom! Thanks for giving me the years you did. :o)