We visited old mines, saw Indian ruins and found relics, and there was TONS of petrified wood!
Here is sis in her new chinks.. gettin ready to ride with her dad in the barn. Lately she has been riding everyday!
She is doing really well, we are very proud of her!
Can you even see her behind those ears?
Here she is, our preschool graduate.. She made me take like 40 goofy pictures to get one where she looks semi normal.. I am discovering it is all about the bargaining to get what I want out of her..
Her best friends and Grandma Applegate came to see her program and see her graduate.
We went to her favorite spot for ice cream and celebrated!
Another year older and hopefully wiser.. I got to do what ever I wanted! It was great!
Don't look to close, there are ALOT of candles on that cake!
My little sunshine was so excited about all of it
She made me breakfast, because "you can't make your own food on your birthday" it bothered her I made the cake, but she didn't mind licking the bowl!
Cassidy took this picture with her camera, wanted me to pose with frosting, candles and the pudding that goes in the cake..
We went to feed the ducks.. It must be a popular thing to do on Mothers Day because the ducks were FULL by the time we got there, if you can believe that! Then we drove up north to visit our moms! It was a delightful and relaxing day!
Cody just wants to be like and do like Sis! He follows her around when she will allow it!
He quite liked the Easter Basket, not so much what was in in though.. :)
Cassidy had alot of fun looking for all of the eggs and sharing them with her brother.. Knowing very well he wouldn't be able to eat the candy in them and she would get it all!
But, who could deny the poor guy a peep? What a mess it was! But he sure liked it!
This year we colored eggs at the Thorntons! It was alot of fun to see how much the kids have grown in just the past year. Cassidy and Ryann hardly needed any help at all coloring their eggs! Austyn however, didn't WANT help, and liked to taste the dye..
It was alot of fun! Cassidy gets so excited for the Holidays, it makes them all really enjoyable!
Cassidy loved dressing up for Easter, that is RARE!
Cody slept through the whole party! But he was happy to see everyone when he got up!
We didn't win the annual egg bashing contest this year! But that was ok with me!
As always Grandma supplies the group with TONS of toys and candy!
No, not garbage bags, these bags are full of their plunder from the Easter egg hunt!
Yes, it is true, Cassidy is the proud mommy of 8 baby chicks.. Their names change regularly, but the ones that have remained the same are, Car, Truck, Scooby, Daphne, and Jani.. Sis can tell them apart, although they are all pooping machines to me.. :) Watch for eggs in the fall!
Today, sis informed me that Cody was 'boder'n' her so she put him away.. I obviously was very curious as to what 'put him away' meant.. It was really funny, he was sitting in the laundry basket full of toys, and she was coloring next to him on the ground.
He was completely content there, course he is content everywhere.
Really where does the time go? He is growing up so fast..
The weather has been so nice the last couple of days, sis and her friends couldn't wait to spend the day outside catching bad guys in the mountains.. (or.. the cut up logs that are stacked in our back yard)..
Cassidy assured me it is spring now and that the flowers are coming.. She knows because she saw leaves on a tree at preschool.
I didn't have the heart to tell her that the leaves were left over from LAST year.. She watches her strawberry patch daily though for any sign of life..
Sis was playing so well in her room one morning.. I finally decided to check on her, and this is what I found. I asked her what it was and she said "uh, mom, (in the tone of duh) its a Christmas Tree". You can't tell by the picture but it even had blinking lights.
And I thought to myslef, "ahh.. to be a kid again"..
Today is my sweethearts 34th birthday! It was really a mellow night of Chinese food (Rod's request) singing happy b-day eating a yummy chocolate cake and opening presents.
Cassidy was concerned about the candles.."whoa, uh..be careful so our house doesn't catch on fire!" Of course we can always live with Cole & Rhett if it did.. which is her plan ever since they had fire safety in preschool!
He got all of the candles out in one breath with no help from sis!
Cody enjoyed a Gerber Cookie instead of chocolate (yummy) cake. He was quite the party animal! He was really fascinated with the balloons. It is the first time he has ever seen them and he really didn't know WHAT to think of them!
Cassidy was a great help in unwrapping the presents for Rod.
I asked her what she wanted to get her dad for his birthday and she said with out even hesitating.. "a gun.." I told her that was a little out of our price range this year was there something else she would like to get him? And she said, again with out hesitating.. "how 'bout bullets". SO there you go.. She was so excited she made him name them.. ALL of them..
Rod gave his balloons to Sis, and she had SO much fun with them! Cody STILL wasn't sure if balloons were a good thing or not..
So goes another year way to quickly.. Happy Birthday Rawhide.. ;)- I am WAY glad you were born!
As soon as she saw the snow this morning it was all she could do to inhale her breakfast, get dressed and get outside!
She has been waiting all winter to get enough snow to use our sled! And even though it is all mostly melted now, she got to go zooming around the pasture with her dad!
She said her favorite part was catching air off of the mule poop hills! They had alot of fun!
