5.4.12

Track meet!

 

5.3.12

Honey was pretty excited to have her turn to have Donuts with Daddy and Take Your Child To Work Day!  She was pretty proud to take her bag of things to work on.  We picked her up at lunchtime when we met for a picnic at the park.


More pictures of the red-eared slider we found.  You can see it was pretty huge!  We took it down to the creek and let it go because we couldn't get it to eat anything.

 

 

 

 

5.2.12

LOVE the gooshy smooshy sleeping baby faces!

And here's a proud and happy girl who figured out how to pop the balls down into the holes.

 

Yep, I still make this face--can you see my four teeth?

 

 

This is the 'after' of Princess's haircut.  I took off around 4-5 inches.

 

May Day!

Yay for purple blooms and green grass! (where it was bare spots last year.)

Leaving a May basket for the neighbor:

The getaway!

Stopping to look at the big red-eared slider we found.

The guys getting the tire swing put back up while we were at the farm for piano lessons.  I wish I'd had my camera when the kids came running up from the barnyard with glee when they saw the swing was fixed!

In the morning, we had made and delivered May baskets with handprint flowers and candy at PAT.  Honey wanted to make one for herself later, I told her we were making them to give away and maybe someone would give her one.  When we got home after piano and supper, I had Princess make Honey one--she hung it on her bedlight.

She was happy, but then of course Speedy wondered why no one made him a May basket.  So Princess and Honey made one for him.  Then Honey and I made one for Princess and Snuggle-bug, which was the beginning of my trips out into the dark to cut more flowers.    Then Princess and Honey wanted to make me one, but didn't want me to know it, but they needed flowers.  :)  They sweetly left it here on my nightstand; and then each proceeded to tell me separately that there was one pack of Smarties for me, and one for Hubby.  It's so fun how they don't like to wait for people to get their gifts.

 

The Joy of Swinging and Haircuts...and the sadness of boo-boos

 

Princess and Honey desperately wanted haircuts, so of course, Snuggle-bug did, too.  I realized it was her first!  Yes, she is 3 and hasn't had a haircut yet, except the one she gave herself.  When her hair is sopping wet in the tub, it is almost to her waist!  I am going to need some tips for cutting these curls in the future!  I snipped a little off in about 4 places and she was satisfied.
Before:

So sad, she fell and re-opened a scab.  Boo-boos are quite traumatic (or dramatic) for her.  There is much hopping and not being able to walk on the injured leg and one must be ever so careful when pulling pants over the boo-boo and soap must not touch the b00-boo in the bath.

 

After:

 

 

Proud of her haircut, but that boo-boo is still being babied.

4.28.12

The whole fam loaded up in the big rig to haul another load of cattle to the ranch.  (our first trip was in the dark a few weeks ago.)  Besides the semi noise it is a peaceful ride, because when the kids have the sleeper curtain closed, it muffles their sound amazingly well!

 

Posing with the 'oil pumpers'.

Baby in the Flint Hills!

 

Sports Birthday

I was pleasantly surprised when Speedy requested a sports birthday and wanted to play ball games in the front yard for entertainment.  Easy to plan, and easy to put on, because Hubby got his whistle and organized and refereed everything!


I had most of my supplies on hand for goodie bags and invitations.


The little girls helped me paint orange, yellow and white circles of different sizes on lunch bags with spouncers.  (Isn't that a fun word?  It's those circular foam applicators.)
 

 I had just the right sharpies to add silver curves to the tennis balls; red ones to the baseballs, and black ones to the basketballs.  
I was so excited to find the pack of sports-themed pencils marked down in the Target dollar spot--it's so nice when things work out like that!


I used my Creative Memories oval shape to cut out the football invitations with brown scrapbook paper.  I stamped and cut out the sentiment and stars, then glued it on.  I used leftover strips of white paper for the football stripes; glued it on first, then cut it, which saved a lot of measuring and/or guessing.  I printed the party details on the computer, cut them out and glued on the back.

 

 

 

Speedy requested a cookie cake--I knew it would expand when it baked, but I still didn't leave enough room!  All the chocolate chips for the stripes and laces were right next to each other before baking.  There may be a better way to do this, but it was good enough.

4.25.12

Someone is scavenging for leftovers in her own highchair.

 

Lil Sugar and I rode with Hubby for a bit when he was planting milo and the others were at Awana.  Pictures never do the sky justice.