It was ALMOST warm enough Friday to play in the water. Justin and Emma had to try out the slip n slide.
Ash tried it once with all of her clothes on and that was enough for her. Rett is there under all of those blankies. Claire bear was streaking around so I didn’t take any pictures of her.
I think it might be time for a bigger pool;
Summer please come soon!
We are sad to be done with swimming lessons. The kids all progress so much over the two weeks and then we quit going every day and loose our awesome swimming skills. I guess I just need to keep taking them swimming. They all passed on to the next level, Justin and Claire will be level 2 and Ash and E will be level 4! The weather was cold most of the days but Friday was really nice finally! Ash is doing her favorite, the back float:
Emma;
Emma’s splash, I never got a picture of them jumping in I am to slow, but I got lots of good splashes…..
The girls LOVED their teacher he was fun for them. Ashley jumped off the “high dive” (it is actually the life guard stand) She is so brave, she loved it too! Cant wait again for next year.
We helped Ryan gather and move cows this week. I think we do this at least weekly. It is a fun family activity though. Ryan makes Ash and Emma stand in tough places and push the cows, they are working girls! Claire says she will just watch because she is scared of cows, I tell her I am too!
Ryan and his crew gathering the heifers.
It is so fun to work together as a family!
The kids keep reminding me that Rett needs his baby toys so I finally went out and got them. It was so fun to open the tote, it was like Christmas morning!
The person who was supposed to be most excited didn’t even crack a smile though! The toy I needed for him I think I got rid of…..me on one of my de-junking sprees I'm sure…..
I am going to have to buy him a new mat to lay on with toys hanging down. He loves the mobile on the swing so I think he would really like one of those. Everyone else found something they could play with too, how fun!
Even the big girls!
The kids slept outside last night, too crazy for me, but not Ryan! He thought it was great and so did the kids. It must have been a little cold because when I came out to get them up I couldn’t see any of them:
There is the tops of three heads;
They would NOT get up for me, they stayed up WAY to late I think. Bella got them moving though, what a good dog!
Our grain was getting sprayed a couple of mornings ago and we couldn’t resist going out to watch. He just kept getting closer,
and closer,
and REALLY CLOSE!
He even let out a couple of puffs of black smoke for us and then after he was done he buzzed right over the top of the house, it was so LOUD!
(HOPEFULLY no children were harmed in this fun activity!)
Church was excellent again today. We had our Ward Conference and got to hear from some of our Stake Leaders in Sacrament Meeting. Sunday School and Relief Society lessons were both about talents, I really struggle with recognizing my own, but one I do know I have is being able to recognizing others talents! I am glad there are so many talented people in our ward and community for me to learn from and for us to raise our children with. We live in a great place!
We have had a few days in a row of nice(r) weather. Still barely 70, but we will take it! We spent a little time outside this afternoon. Ryan made us ALL (including me) jump on the tramp. It was great, I should do that more for my daily exercise, it takes a lot of energy and leaves us all huffing and puffing!
We had Grandpa Telford’s dog at our house yesterday and she is a kitty eater, we (Ashley) has been frantically searching for her kittens since yesterday. She just got done telling me she was afraid they were gone and then they came running across the lawn! Thankfully the mamma kitty had moved them out of harms way! They are cute little fluff balls!
Emma and I tried to take a picture of her doing a flip, it didn’t work out to well (she thinks it looks like a summer salt not a flip). After 20 1-2-3’s and 100 pictures this is what we got:
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Way to go Emma, Claire bear kept “messing her up” as you can see! Crazy girl! We LOVE our Sundays!
We enjoyed Outlaw Days this weekend. The weather was really nice all day, it was great. We started out the morning with the parade. Our parade is the best because after it goes by once it turns around and comes back again! We love it!
I made Claire Bear wear her “cowgirl” hat all day and she did! I am so glad we don’t have any major sunburns this year! She looks pretty redneckish! Just like we like it!
Rett did awesome on his first Outlaw Days. He slept most of the time we were out and was just good and happy for me when he was awake. I kept him pretty covered because I didn’t want the sun or wind on him. He did great!
The kids participated in the kids fun at the arena. Emms and Ash felt to big for it this year. They did beg Ryan to let them do the hide race next year, we will see if they really are up to it.
Claire and Justin are racing the barrels together.
Claire on the little stick pony.
Ryan and Bobby took all of the kids over to participate. Ashley helped too.
Roping
Ryan in the Alumni Team Roping. He had a really good run and ended up third!
My good little boy, I am so happy that he is happy!
We ended up the day with a BBQ at our house. It was a fun day to start the summer, I hope it is really finally here!
