I was standing at the kitchen sink lamenting the fact that our basement had flooded yet again and the rain was still coming down. Ryan came up to kiss me and Sam was in the kitchen. Ryan said, hey let's see if we can make Sam leave. So he started kissing me. In the middle of his kiss, Ryan said "Sam one day your going to want to mac on a woman like me." Looking really confused Sam said..."did you just say one day I'll mac on a woman like you. Are you saying your a woman..." My day just got 100 times better. I love laughter!!!

Um, oops!

Got to the baseball game and was thrilled that there was a spot right by the field since I had two sleeing girls to carry. I specifically thought I will stay back away from the field so in case there is a foul ball, I won't get hit. After all they are only 6-8 year olds, how hard can they hit a ball? Well, this is how hard. One foul ball and $165 dollars latter, this girl has learned a valuable lesson. Got a love it! Some people, like Ryan, are just naturally smart about things like this, other people like me, get to learn the rock solid way. Just think, I will never need to wonder if it would be alright to park behind home plate. I KNOW now what happens...even if they are just little.

The kid who hit the ball was as small as Max. Who knew!

Happy Farmers!

We finally got all the garden in. We are attempting walls of water around the tomatoes and little white green houses over the pumpkins, squash and melons. It just doesn't stay warm enough for long enough up here, so hopefully it will help.
The girls absolutely love to be in the garden. And the boys love to build tunnels and dams in the rows of water. We literally spent all day; from 8-4 out in the garden. We love it. And it got in just in time for the rain! Now please don't hard freeze.

Garden girlies

Emma is in a stage of wanting to wear "simming soups" , "reotards" and "dance" all day. Today she changed her clothes seven times before lunch. She went from a swimming suit put on backwards so that it looked like a wresting getup, to "dance"(tights, leotard and tutu) to clothes, to swimming suit to ...well you get the idea. She got in her "dance" and wanted me to dance with her. So blastin the radio to "You belong to me" by Taylor Swift, we danced all around. She looked up at me and with her huge blue eyes, said mom "I pretty". then while doing her hair she said "mom, I princess." Oh how I hope she always feels as good about herself as she does right now. I know this is next to impossible, but it truly is a life lesson about how we view ourselves. I realized today that at one point, I probably felt that way about myself, because no one had told me I shouldn't. So to all my girls out there, You are pretty and you are a princess!!! Love you just the way you are!

{Baseball 2010}

We are loving baseball this year! We finally got signed up and it only took us three years to figure it out. Baseball in Montana is intensely competitive, but unlike Utah, we have yet to have parents yelling at coaches. Yeah! I really like the friendliness of Montana. The boys love their coach... Max

Caleb


Duggout!

Caleb up to bat!

Their coach is Ryan. He was lucky enough to get both boys on the same team, so there was no fight about whose team he would coach. He was a little hesitant to coach at first, but has loved it just as much as the boys.

Max up to bat!

The cheerleaders on the sidelines!

We have a lot of fun watching them.

Noah who is pretty much anti-sports, even said..."that looks like fun." Maybe next year we can even get him to play.

{I wake up to...}

This right outside my window and the sun streaming in!
Such a feeling of contentment each morning. Love it! So much so that I have started running outside each morning before the kids wake up.
I usually wake up to this beside me. At some point during the night, she usually finds her way into my bed. I am such a deep sleeper, that I hardly ever know when she comes in until morning, when I wake to her. She is such a joy. We have taken to calling her shadow! She follows someone around all day, and don't even think about leaving the house without her...she finds a way to go with whoever is leaving...we really don't mind though, she is so even tempered and patient and quiet that we usually don't mind her around, in fact we love it.
Love that Mara!

Happy Mother's Day

So I was in the kitchen making pie crusts for my delicious mother's day dessert of strawberry pie, when Mara walked in and quite matter of factly stated that I was not to go look in "Sam's broken room" because "there are flowers hiding in there." Chuckling just slighly, while trying to remain serious I said. "Mara you shouldn't have told me, I like surprises." "Well!" she said without missing a beat. "I said they were flowers, but I didn't say which kind of flowers"
Then later when the kids were getting out of the bath, Emma was supposed to be getting her pajamas, but wanted to wear a leotard instead. Caleb was trying to get her to take pajamas, and as she came to her dad she said in a very distraught voice "Dad, the boy took my reotard(leotard).
Hope your mother's day is as great as that!