Summer is finally "almost" here!

Josh hard at work

The girls have been so anxious to just play outside. Now that it's starting to warm up a little they have been spending a lot of time outside. Tenlee love the "Flintstone" car. She drives it around everywhere! Baylee has been getting a lot better at riding her bike. I think she is ready to take it for a longer ride! I am also glad that warm weather has arrived. Now if I could just find the time to really enjoy it! Soon, very soon! Can't wait for family vacations! Here's hoping the weather cooperates!

Serenity Ranch

Mike and Kim invited us to Serenity Ranch tonight. This is a non profit farm that works with kids who are disabled to learn to work with animals. The woman who owns it is also disabled. Kiarra (my niece) works a little on the farm and they allow her to use one of their horses for 4-H. My girls are both afraid of animals so I was hoping this would help them over-come this fear. Baylee was very excited to go. They had farm animals of all kinds and even let the kids ride one of the horses. Baylee actually got the courage to get on the horse and ride! I'm so proud of her for being so brave. I think both girls learned that most animals are friendly. Tenlee loved just running around and looking at the animals. But she didn't get too close. But at least she didn't scream and run!

Baylee feeding the horse

Baylee on the horse

Tenlee having fun on the farm

Baylee and Brietta and the chicken

Where did that gate come from?

We have a gate between the kitchen and the t.v. room to keep Tenlee from running all over the place. However, when I got home from work yesterday, I just let her start running. Well, Tenlee forgot about the gate and ran right into it! It was like she didn't even see it! She is just tall enough that she ran right into the top bar on the gate. I didn't think she was really hurt until I saw that she was bleeding. Round 1 of Tenlee vs. The Gate goes to...The Gate. Ouch!

Of course anytime I have the camera out Baylee insists that I take a picture of her too. What can I say, the camera loves her!

Mmm...Waffles

For Mother's Day we made strawberry waffles for Grammy and Papa (and mommy, but she had to make them!). I have known for a while that strawberry waffles are one of Josh's favorites, but this was a first for Tenlee. It took her a minute it get started, but then there was no stopping her! Since then she yells at me if she me eating a strawberry and not giving her a bite!

Boys can dress up too!

Baylee loves to dress up. She would do this all day. It's not very often that she finds a boy that wants to dress up too. But at Grandma's house, things are different. Jaten spends a lot of time at Grandma Bella's so she has made sure there is dress up for him too. Here is Princess Baylee with her personal security office, Captain Jaten. Notice Jaten is ready for anything that might harm Princess Baylee. Baylee just continues to do what she does best, smile and wave to her adoring fans!

It's Church Day!

I'm awful about taking pictures. But doing this blog is definitely helping. However, I didn't get a picture of the girls in their Easter dresses. I'm just a few weeks late. I loved these dresses the minute I saw them and the girls are so stinkin cute in them!

We love Grandma and Papa's House!

Last weekend was the Mackay Outlaw Basketball Tourney. This has kind of become an annual thing for Josh, Ryan and the boys. Since Josh was in Montana all week, I met him in Mackay on Friday night. He played one game and woke up on Saturday morning with a migraine. No basketball for him. Poor guy.

The girls on the other hand had a great time as always. We love grandma's new house. So much fun stuff to get into! Mom has a loft in the house that looks over the family room. The girls love playing up there and being able to look down at the little people! Can you say "princesses"?!

I Need a Bigger Bed!

This is how we found Tenlee Tuesday morning. She is all over the place when she sleeps! We've tried the big bed, but she isn't quite ready for that yet. But I bet she would be more comfortable. She looks like a caged animal!

Tenlee in Relax Mode

So Tenlee is usually pretty wired. She loves to dance and sing and just be on the go all the time. But once in a rare while, she decides she needs a break. She loves to hang out and watch TV in the bean bag.

Here are our little athletes in action. Tenlee loves basketball! Playing and watching it on TV. Baylee is finally starting to show some interest in basketball too. She has actually been making some baskets now and then. However I have a feeling she would rather be on the court in a cheerleading outfit instead of a basketball uniform! Not if I have anything to say about it!

WHAT THE...?

Last night Josh and I were reminded how we should probably be more careful about what we say around Baylee. Baylee was filling up a water bottle with water from the refridgerator door. The bottle got stuck and water filled up the bottle and started running down the fridge onto the floor. By the time I got to it, there was a lot of water to clean up. I asked for Josh to help move the fridge out so we could clean up the water. Baylee came over and stood by me and said "What the crap?". We laughed, but told her that probably wasn't a good thing to say. She said ok and went on her way. A couple of minutes later she came back over and looked behind the fridge (it was a mess because we haven't cleaned behind it in a very long time). She had a disgusted look on her face and said "what the hell is that mess!" Ok, so now Josh and I are trying not to laugh, but she was so serious. So once again, we explained to her that she shouldn't say that phrase. Then Josh made the mistake of asking her where she learned that. She said "from you." That made me laugh even more until this morning at work when I got frustrated with my computer and the first words out of my mouth were "what the hell!" Opps. I have a feeling I'm more to blame for that one than Josh is!!