Reesie!

What a girl! She just performed with our high school drill team and had a great time. Pictures like this remind me that she is growing up. Love you Reese! You are a beautiful person!

He Toddles! And Attacks!

Brannen is FINALLY thinking that walking is pretty cool. He is trying it more and more on his own without being coaxed.

There he stands at the back door saying - Ma-Ma, Ma-Ma ---Nana Nana! Nana Nana! Over and over. (Nana is our dog's name) He loooooves the dog. He always wants to go outside and hug on her. He loves to be outside in the sunshine (when we have some) and crawl around and throw rocks and eat grass or dirt. He has cabin fever somethin' terrrible!

He spied me! Now he's comin' for me!
He's in attack mode! I'm being accosted by a baby! A crazy toddling baby!
Yep, he caught me. I was too slow. I've got Bran slobber on my face to prove it. He tried to eat me too - but I ran away. I'm sure he will attack again.

Solution to the Snow

We have finally had a couple of sunny days! Horray! (However, as I type this, I see out my window, that it is currently snowing again - ho hum. Such is spring in Star Valley) We really enjoyed the sun - the kids have been playing outside non-stop and the snow has almost gone! Yahoo!
Kelly must have really been fed up with the snow last week. I looked out my window and what did I see? A crazy man with a shovel - throwing snow like crazy! He was spreading the stuff out to help the melting process. So anyway, the kids noticed this shoveling too and pretty soon the whole neighborhood was involved in the "getting hit with snow" game. The danced and screamed while Kelly pelted them with snow. I'm not sure who had more fun!

They had a great time. And all the snow melted.
Kelly and Jeff Sims (our great neighbor and friend) were able to thatch all of the dead grass from both of our lawns and get them all cleaned up from winter. They finished just in time for a snow storm today! Gotta love Spring!

April 15 2009

Ahhhhhh! WE NEED SUN!!!!!!

Easter 2009

Happy Easter everyone! We had such a nice weekend. The rabbit found us on Saturday morning and we had a fun time finding eggs and discovering the goodies in our baskets. Then we colored some of our own eggs - in which we did NOT involve Brannen at all. He merely posed for the picture. We then went to Grama and Grampa Fullmer's house and ate and colored some eggs there. Kelly helped Barry for the day - building- to make Grama Marge a nice room for her arrival at the end of May. Fun Fun!
Ohhh - I feel a sugar rush coming on!
Brannen LOVED to find the eggs and put them in his basket. All the kids were great to help him.
Checking out all of our loot!


See! We even caught the Easter Bunny before he left! Wow! We are amazing!!!!

Haircuts!

The baby had to have his first haircut this week. Made me kind of sad. First haircut. The boy is growing up. It was really time to cut it though. Rae kept putting it in ponytails of all kinds. He did have the baby mullet going - much like Maura.
He was such a good boy while I cut his hair. Played on the bathroom counter and looked at himself in the mirror. Thanks for the tip Bekki!
Handsome man! Posing so very well!
I can't believe how much older it makes him look! It is crazy!
So Rae has been bugging me to arrange to get her haircut too (right Aunt Jennie?!?) So when we got back from Spring Break I called awesome Lexi and Rae got a new do. It looks so great! Rae is such a cutie! However, I kinda cussed Lexi for making my 7th grader look 25!! She looks older too. She was teasing Brady and Reese a bit last night - and I realized - only a haircut. 7th grader she still be! At least for a couple more months!

I did get my haircut too. It is about the same as it was - just a lot shorter. I couldn't get a decent self-inflicted photo - so you'll just have to wonder. I'm sure you'll be up nights. : )

Holloman Air Force Base

Of course, we had to go visit Corey's base. We enjoyed seeing where he worked and walking around the planes a bit.
Brannen loved Uncle Bingo (Corey called himself that in a message on our answering machine -he was quoting a movie - but I'm afraid it stuck. Uncle Bingo he will be.)

We are tired and ready to go home! Long drive, but worth the fun!

Swimming Fun

I recently realized that I have one of "those" kids. I have never had one of "those" kids before. You know - one of those kids that splashes uncontrollably in the pool with total disregard for his safety or well being. The kind of kid who is just wild in the pool and will fling himself around - not realizing that people are holding onto him in order to save his life!!! The kind of kid who doesn't care if there is water in his eyes or not - whether they are closed or open! My kids have all been the clingy - "I'm going to die at any moment in this vast wetness" type. So timid and safety oriented in the pool. Well, Brannen didn't get that gene at all. Summer swimming might be interesting. I'm getting many baby floating toys very soon!
Brady and Reese - the fish.
Happy Rae.

White Sands National Park

So, this was the best part of our trip! We really didn't know what to expect - and it turned out to be sooo fun! It was beautiful and cool and such clean, great sand. It looked like another planet! We had a fun time playing around and then eating a yummy picnic that Aunt Jennie packed. So much fun!

Aunt Jennie even found some sleds for us! AWESOME!
Can a girl have more fun than this?!? Without a horse - that is!
Brannen wasn't sure if he liked the sand or not. He wasn't feeling that great.
Kelly knows how to make his own kind of fun!
Those are the kids off in the distance. We finally hollered at them to not go too far. They had a great time exploring - and even wrote some big messages in the sand for us to see!
These guys really do like each other. They are both such nice kids!
Rolling in the sand proved to be great fun too. I think Brady and Rae rolled down an entire mountain of sand! Time to dump out the undies!

Space Museum

The kids had a great time exploring the Space Museum. Drew and Luke were great tour guides- they have been there before!
What awesome smiles!
Blast off!
Blast off!
Our motley crew!
Hey guys, hey guys, turn me around! I wanna see too! That looks cool! No fair!!
Very Cool!
We also went to the IMAX theater there and saw "Sharks". Reese thought they looked too close. I think she was a little nervous.