Claire's Routine

Claire is following suit, she is waking up in the night every night! So frustrating! All of our kids have done this and then starts the sleeping in our bed routine which we are NOT going to fall into this time. (i hope) We do really good keeping little babies out of our bed, with out fail they hit 2, 2 1/2 and they think they need to sleep with us. Fortunately Claire is still in her crib so she cant come in our room in the night, unless I give in and bring her in. Last night it took a couple little pats on her back and she was right back to sleep, so I don't know. Monday night she woke up crying for her sister, I said "do you want your sister Emma?" Claire said, " I want my sister Justin." SO cute! Justin just loves to hear me tell everyone this little funny, and then he says, "she means me, her sister" So funny! Wish us luck tonight!

Jr. Cheer Clinic

We have been up to our pom poms in Cheer this week, it has really been SO MUCH FUN! I have loved getting to help out a little! The girls are so cute and so willing to learn. Almost all of them have caught on so fast and easy, it is AWESOME! I cant wait to see them perform, they will do GREAT! Just thinking about it makes me EXCITED! GO TIGERS! (toe kick)
READY, OK.


Little girls posing, with BIG smiles!

We Are The Cheerleaders!
The older girls figuring it all out! They ROCKED! I will post pictures of the performance later this month!
thanks everyone who helped me out! marcie, lain, april,sara,becky!

Celebrating Spring!

We had a get-together last night celebrating Spring, new baby calves, and whatever else we could come up with! Sara and I were so pleased with our doughnuts last week that we wanted to invite someone over to share them with. We figure we made over 100 doughnuts last night and had about 40 + people come to celebrate! We had a great time, although, I am still having mixed feelings about spring already being here, I am not ready to let go of my husband yet, but I am SO ready for warm weather!
A sampling of doughnuts for YOU!



Ryan rolling some out, Sara wouldn't be photographed in her present pregnant state, she did look very cute though dipping all those doughnuts!

Some friends visiting, and a few babies!

LOTS of kids! Jaci came up to me and asked, "Aunt Mijken, why are all of these kids going CRAZY?" It was so cute and sweet! She didn't quite get why everyone needed to be BOUNCING off the walls! Thank goodness for the basement we didn't even hear any of them, except when someone got hurt of course......
Justin slipped and hit his eye and nose on the kids couch, it almost broke the skin, we would have been headed to the ER instead of enjoying the party, thankfully it was just a bloody nose and a little black eye. He was not very happy though and ended up going to bed with a house full of friends over, he was to exhausted!
He is much better this morning though, just a little swollen and dark. Ashley also got a bloody nose, she some how hit her nose on someone else's head, OH the coordination we lack in our family! She is fine this morning too, all the kids went to bed easily and with no complaints! We are fortunate to have so many good family, friends, and neighbors! I think we may have just started a new tradition!

Name That Movie

Yesterday was no school for the kids so we had time on our hands to watch a family favorite. I will give you a couple of hints: Ashley and Justin are riding horses, Emma is yelling, "Jessica!, Jess!" And it has a really great soundtrack to go with it. Give up? Its Man From Snowy River, of course! The kids LOVE this show, Ashley especially. She watched both of them yesterday and they all had a great time re-enacting it all! Funny kids!

Sundays Photo-OP

We attempted some pictures yesterday before church, as you can see we weren't very successful! Claire wanted to continue playing, Justin had a dirty face and wouldn't come to get his hair combed and Ryan was behind the camera. All of those elements combined does not make for good pictures AT ALL! Oh well, at least we took some. Ashley and Emma are both growing like weeds lately. Last week at church I kept seeing Emma's underoos because her skirt was to short so I decided It was time for some new Sunday clothes that are long enough for my long legged girls. I had seen this skirt tutorial on the Shedoeshair blog and it seemed simple enough, I actually really got going on it and ended up making 9 little skirts, a couple of them were American Girl sized. They turned out cute and my girls were MUCH more modest for church! Now if I could figure out something to do with their pants, we need to just get some shorts weather because I don't want to buy another pair of jeans this year! Emma started out in size 6's then to 6X and now her size 7's are getting to short!! Same story with Ashley! We need Spring to hurry up and get warmer!

Sunday Afternoon

Ashley had a great idea to dip some pretzels in chocolate this afternoon, they were gone before the girls even quit dipping! Yummy!

A Cook in the Kitchen

Justin was helping me make some potato salad for a (another) funeral in our little town. (I hope our elderly population doesn't all die off in one year! It is sad the amount of funerals we have had lately!) ANYWAY, I looked over to check on him and he was checking the recipe, and no, he cant read, actually he can hardly identify ANY letters, he was just pretending, it was so cute, I made him do it again so I could get a picture!
Always wanting to help!

Story Time

Today was a pajama party at story time! The kids had a great time showing off their PJ's! It was a lot easier to get ready on time too, I wonder why? Jaci got to go with us because her mom was working so that was EXTRA special! They made these cute butterflies to put on the fridge. The children were quite well behaved today actually, one of our quieter story times which was nice!

First Calf of the Season

It was our 2nd Annual celebration for the first calf being born tonight, actually it was twins born on Sunday. We had to celebrate with some yummy donuts!Ashley helping out
Ryan and Sara dipping donuts. The whole crew! Sara makes some YUMMY donuts! And we love any excuse to get together!

Rexburg in a Day

We ran up to Rexburg on Saturday afternoon. Uncle Cody was playing in a Guitars Unplugged Concert. (This man has MANY talents!!) It was so AWESOME! He did a good job jamming out up on stage and I could tell he was just having a great time with his buddies!

*Cody is in the white t-shirt on the left, jammin out!*

It was so fun to be a "groupie" for the night too! Ashley and Emma went to the concert with Ryan. Justin, Claire, and I came in just for Cody's song, and then left right after. Only at BYU-I do they allow toddlers into a concert! It was fun, Justin didn't like my hooping and hollering very much, but I just had to cheer, It was so cool! We had a good time, I love going back to our old stomping grounds. The kids loved walking around campus and checking everything out!

Emma and Justin with Thor the Viking!

Claire NOT being agreeable of course!

I am sure we have a house full of future BYU-I students! Fun times!