Howdy Partner!!

#4 Turned SIX!!! Holy cow!!

He is going to be a first grader this year and is growing up way too fast!!

He has been DYING to have a friend birthday party....so after much deciding and debating

 he picked the theme of COWBOYS!!  We had so much fun!!  We dressed everyone up in hats, bandana's, sherriff badges, and gave them water guns and a money bag.  The first thing we did was a snake hunt (thanks Aunt Carrie for the idea)- we live right across from an open field... so hiding 200 rubber snakes was super fun, they had a great time finding them in all of the squirrel holes. They also found a real lizard!  Then, while they were hunting for snakes we sounded an "alarm that called for all of the sherriff's in town.... two BANDITS were on the loose.... they had just robbed the local bank, we needed the sherriff's to recover the money, to chase the bandits down and arrest them!"  We had #1 and #2 dress in black and run around the field dropping money as they went.  The kids had a great time finding money all over the field and chasing the BANDITS!!  They eventually caught them and arrested them!!  They were the cutest little bunch of sherriff's in the county!!

The LIZARD!!

Happy Birthday Partner!!  Hope you had a great birthday party!!!

Dance-Sing Sensations Disney Show

These are just a few of the shots that Shane was able to take....

He was also the MC for the evening.... glad he was able to be funny and keep everyone laughing in between numbers!  The kids were so AWESOME!! They did so well!! #3 sang a solo and did an AWESOME JOB!!!  She was super scared and didn't really want to do it-- then afterwards... she said-- she wants a bigger solo next time!!  What fun!! 

3&4 year olds

5,6,7A year olds

5,6,7B year olds

9-12 year olds

Singing her solo!! Way to go GIRL!!!

What a GREAT group of KIDS!!!!

Spring Catch-Up #2

 Shhh!!! She is sleeping!  I just thought this was a funny position to sleep in!

The next few pictures are of #4's 6th Birthday!!  We had to celebrate it early because Dad was out of town on the OFFICIAL day!

 The infamous FORD GT!!

For those of you who know BUB... he LOVES cars and was really excited to get this one!!

 This is a set of lights for his bike!!

 Pretty excited about this one....

 Lego Star Wars for Wii!!

 Another thing right up his alley.... Kawasaki Motorcycle!!!

 Last, but not least... a nerf rifle gun!!! SWEEET!!!!

 Bub doesn't like regular cake that much so we got him an ice cream cake!!

 Notice how he is holding off his sister and her candle blowing....

 Still holding her off....

 Even still.....

 All Done!!! Happy Birthday BUB!!! We love you so much!!! Can't believe you are already 6!!

Spring Catch-Up #1

I have seriously neglected my blog lately... so, I will attempt to catch up over the next few days....


Over Mother's Day weekend... we traveled up to Utah County so I could ride in the Goldilocks Century!  A few of my friends and I went up there with our families to ride it together.  It was so fun!!  My friend Janette and I were the only ones who did the 100 miles. We got to see so much beautiful scenery, we also saw a few animals on the way!  Our families were great support vehicles and chased us around all day.  It took about 8 hours for us to finish.... 7 hours on the bike...but we didn't try and hurry-- we both just wanted to finish. Niether of us had ridden over 35-40 miles at one time.  The last 15 miles were pretty tough-- we had a pretty strong headwind and were pretty wiped out!  But we made it!  When we got to the finish line-- our odometer's on our biked didn't say 100 miles... so we rode around the parking lot until they did say 100 miles!   Anyway-- it was a fun, fun time!  I wasn't even that sore the next day!!

At the end!!!