4th of July Night

What a crazy weekend!

Leave on Friday for camping until Monday...

Come home Monday to a dead fish :( Cailey's beta fished died while we were gone), do laundry, clean the camper out, water flowers, take care of the neglected house, put on a happy face and head to my sister's for a bar-b-que! I am exhausted. But I loved every minute of it!

After the bar-b-que, we headed to the old lumber yard and watched the fireworks from there. Then it was back to Tawnya's to let off our own fireworks. I am a cheap one when it comes to fireworks. Not Cody though, $30 later and stupid fireworks that did not do much we headed home to much needed sleep. Poor Cody had to leave at 5:00 am for work!

James just adores Cayden

The kids on the fire truck

Cailey enjoying the night on her daddy's lap

So pretty!!!

Cayden (along with all the rest) loved the sparklers!!!

Watching the fireworks...

4th of July Weekend in Cascade

I hate coming home from camping!

I hate the unpacking!

I hate the washing!

I hate the low you feel!

However, I love the memories we make every year!

Cailey with her first fish...she would "mother" it around and carry it like her baby

Cayden and James with their "cheese" smiles. James loves doing everything Cayden does

Waiting for the Cascade parade to start.

Cailey watching the crazy people

the kids excited for CANDY!!!

Waiting patiently for CANDY!!!

My fourth of July cake that melted before we got to eat it, but it was still good!

Mother's Day

I hope everybody had a wonderful mommy's day. I sure did!

Cody let me sleep in :)

He cooked a wonderful breakfast for me, the kids and his mom.

I am almost embarrassed to admit this one, but "the kids" got me a Kitchen Aid mixer...I have been wanting one for years now! It is a pretty red one :)

Cailey made me a really cute pot and then we were able to plant flowers in it.

And then we lounged around.

Cody had to leave around 2:00 for work. He is working in Wyoming this week. 

It was a wonderful day until then!

What did you do?  

Easter

I loved the idea that Easter was so late into the year! But once it got here, it did not feel to much Easterish because it was so late. hmmmmm

We were very thankful that it was warm enough to go Easter egg hunting in warm weather this year and not snow (like last year)!

Cailey and Cameron Brown

Cayden and his best bud, Tucker Brown

On Saturday we went to the Letha egg hunt and it was wonderful! There were still a lot of kids, but not as many that attend the Emmett egg hunt. They had eggs in the grass vs. candy thrown everywhere. And the kids got a lot of eggs. I met my friend, Becky, and we separated the kids...I took the girls to their age group and she took the boys to their age group. It worked out well.

After the egg hunt, I took the kids to the wheels and wings show. It was great! We were able to sit on the air way and watch planes land and take off. The kids got to check out the life flight and watch it leave (actually they had to hide behind me because we were almost blown over by it). Cayden really enjoyed this!

After that we headed to Uncle Ronnie's house for his branding mainly to watch daddy rope some calves! We went long enough to watch for an hour, eat a nice lunch (branding lunches are always the best!) and leave to go home and rest before we headed to watch the movie HOP!

Cayden taking a rope to his daddy

Sunday was much more relaxing! We woke up to find what the Easter bunny left for the kids, searched around inside for the Easter eggs the Easter bunny left, ate our traditional sticky buns. Got ready and headed over to Margie's for dinner and another Easter egg hunt, and ended the night at my parents for dessert and a smack at the pinata.

Cailey sporting her new shades...

It was a busy weekend for us and Monday came way to soon!

Those Crazy Leprechauns!!!

We don't miss an opportunity in our house to celebrate! We don't go on big vacations, buy toys whenever, so when there is a little holiday we go all out!

For St. Patty's day the kids dressed up in green, Cailey had two days of wearing green. One day at school (she only has school Monday-Wednesday) and the second day was actually St. Patty's day.

When we got home, we came into our house being destroyed...Those pesky leprechauns...then we had to waste another hour making sure they were out of our house by going through each room, looking under each bed, and through each closet!!! They left the kids a little green squishy ball (smelled like lemons, so that must mean leprechauns smell like lemons!ha!) and green bubbles.

We made a rainbow cake. I was so excited for it to be cut open and quite impressed with how it turned out.

And we had a green dinner. Home made Mac-n-Cheese...noodles were dyed green, which I advise against, it looked like the noodles had rotted!

Nothing huge, but still fun to do a little something different for dinner.

Did you do anything fun for St. Patty's day????

Valentine's Day preparation

Even though we have a little less than a month away until Valentine's Day...Cailey is in full swing of it!
I always make Cailey's Valentine's for her to give to her class. I cannot help the control issue and I love anything pink and brown or red and white!  Anyways, we were in Target going through all the Valentines and Cailey could not resist looking at all the Valentines, in fact I was even in aw! We stared at all the Valentines for a good 10 minutes and my logical brain (yes, sometimes it does make practical decisions!) decided to let Cailey buy her Valentines this year! She decided on Hello Kitty and Rapunzel.

I figured we would buy them early and she could work on signing them throughout these cold and miserable dark nights....Oh no! She sat down that very night and worked through all 34 Valentines. I am so proud to say they are all signed, put together, and placed in a nice clear ziplock bag! It is such a breath of fresh air to know that I am not working on them day in and day out... sewing,stamping and distressing the edges....just for the kids to tear apart and realize that there is no cool tattoo or sticker!

Now, don't get me wrong I have a lot more Valentine's Day ideas. Especially now that I don't have to make 34 cards.

Halloween 2010

Two days later and I still feel like I am hanging up side down!!!! Have you ever felt that way after a very long extended "holiday"???

I really do love the day...but this year Halloween lasted a little too long. We dressed up on Wednesday for Cailey's preschool party, on Saturday for trick or treat downtown, and on Sunday for the 'real' trick or treat...This mommy is exhausted! It took a lot for me to get up and go to work on Monday...I even had a harder time waking the kids up to go to the babysitters (Cayden got woke up and thrown in the truck with his jammies still on!).

I think the day after Halloween should be considered a holiday...Especially for mommy's! (Sorry dads! But seriously, Cody is gone every Halloween and I have to do all the work). It should be a day where you get to stay in your jammies all day, eat all the candy your children get, and do nothing at all. Of course that would never work, but darn it, it sure does sound good!!!

So here are my pictures of the festivities. Thank God the weather held up for us! It did make it so much nicer trick or treating on all those days...And when you ask Cailey what her most favorite thing of Halloween was.....Handing out the candy to the other trick or treaters at Aunt Tawnya's house! Goes to show you the kids love easy things....It is us parents that make everything so darn complicated!!!

Aunt Tawnya and the kiddos...they really did not know what to think of her and were kind of scared!

Trying to get Cailey to just look at me!

My cutie of a lion...RRRRRR

He actually asked for his picture by this.

At the Carberry Boo Carnival...I always loved the stick fishing...Cayden did too!

"I promise if you just smile once we will be done and we can go!!!"

Actually posing for me!

Cayden loves his Great Grandma Roma

Cailey's favorite thing to do...passout candy!

This little lion is out!!!but only for a very short time...With no naps during the day, a 3 minute nap in the truck, and running like a wild man you would think he would have slept all night! NOPE...We did not get any sleep at all! And now it is catching up with us later in the week!!!

Hope you all had a great Halloween and the candy God's were good to you. They were actually too good to us and now it is in hiding from the kids and should be in hiding from me! Maybe if I eat it all in one day it will be gone for good and then I won't have to worry about it....hmmmm