Awards Assembly

The last day of school means awards assembly! I cannot believe my kids have completed 2nd and 4th grades!! They both had a great year and had the BEST teachers!

Braden (middle, stripe shirt) waiting along with some of his classmates while their teacher talks about what a great class they were!

Getting his awards from Mrs. Pierce. She is absolutely the best teacher! Both of the kids have had her for 2nd grade and I pray she is still there for Kelsee to have! Braden was awarded with a Reading Award, Superintendents Honor Roll all year and the class Citizenship Award!

Trying to get a sneak peak at his goodies!

Kaylee ready and waiting for her turn!

Mrs. Adair bragging on what a great student Kaylee is!! Ok, there has to be 2 BEST teachers because Mrs. Adair is also one of them!!! Kaylee got a Reading Award and Principals Honor Roll all year long! She had a a great year!!

Something was funny apparently!

Braden received the best boy in Music class for his class!! What a great honor!!
Both of the kids had a great year! We are very blessed to have such great kids who love to learn!! I cannot believe my kids are now 3rd and 5th graders!!!
Time for Summer to Begin!!!

Little Olympics

I am so far behind on blogging!! Summer is in full swing and you would think that would give me more time to keep up on things.....WRONG! That just means 3 times the work with 3 kids in the house all day now and also means baseball/softball almost every night! The kids had their end of the school year activities the first couple weeks of May. They began with Little Olympics. Both kids did very well and had a great time! Here are a few pics!

Kaylee (on the far right in the pink) running the 50 yard dash. She got 2nd!

Slater, Kaylee and Sydnie getting ready to run the 100 yard dash finals

Kaylee and Evan....2 man relay partners for the past 4 years!

Braden (in the orange) tugging against the biggest kid in the 2nd grade!

Braden got a lil wet on that one!

I can't believe this was Kaylee's last year to participate in Little Olympics. On to real track and field next year!

Easter 2011

Easter started off pretty quiet around our house...well as quiet as being woke up at 7am by a 7 month old can be! Kaylee and Braden left on Thur to spend the weekend with Nana, so it was just us 3 to get ready for church. Kelsee woke up with a yucky eye...it was all matted shut and gross!! Once we got it clean, it seemed to bother all of us more than it did her.
All dressed and ready for church on her first Easter! Nana, the kids, Aunt Joyce, Aunt Nancy and Uncle Eddie met us at our church. We were so glad to share our new church with them on Easter Sunday! We all came back to our house and were joined by Uncle Randy and Aunt Carol Ann for lunch and hunting eggs. We had a great time with Dale's family and really enjoyed having a family gathering at our own home! Hopefully we will have the room (SOON) to do many, many more!

The Easter bunny came to visit while we were gone to church! This is one of my favorite pics of all 3 of my kids together!!

Checking out the goodies! A lil scared with the top left pic! :) After egg hunting the kids went out to "not shoot eachother" with their new guns....that only lasted about 15 minutes before 2 wet kids had to come in and put the guns away!

Doing some hunting! It was so different this year for them to be hunting alone....this is the first year we have not spent with my family...

Kelsee was not sure what she was doing outside in the cold and why am I "helping" Daddy pick these things up! She did find a pretty purple one that became her BEST friend!
I loved getting to expose my kids once again to the true meaning of Easter, spend the day with family, watch the kids get excited about the simplest things, and finish off with a nice relaxing evening with the most important 4 people in the world to me!
Not spending the day with my family was hard, but had a great time with my in laws, kids and hubby!
Hope all of you had a wonderful Easter and isn't it wonderful when you think of the HUGE sacrifice that was done for us and we celebrate it by hunting eggs....never really understood that!

School Spring Program

The Spring program at school was all about Rock-N-Roll. Our new music teacher is doing a great job with the kids and I have really enjoyed watching them in 2 WONDERFUL programs this year! This was a big hit since we have not had one at all in the past few years. Kaylee's class dressed up like Elvis or 50's Rock N Roll and sang songs like Blue Suede Shoes, Braden's class was to dress like they are going on a date and he sang I Wanna Hold Your Hand. They all did great!!

All ready for the program! Don't we have an AWESOME Elvis! Thanks to Wyatt's infatuation with Elvis, we had access to a costume!

The 4th grade.....Kaylee did SO GOOD on her speaking part!!

2nd grade....Braden didn't act too excited to be there, but after said he had a good time.

And She's Off!

This past week has been very crazy at our house....we replaced the floor in our living, dining, kitchen and hall (well still finishing it up actually!).....and in the midst of all of this we have a motivator!!! Kelsee started taking crawling steps a couple of weeks ago and now she is motivating all over the house. One day she crawled back to Braden's room and then just sat back there and LAUGHED!! It was so cute! As cute as it is....she is quite the lil stinker too! :) She has managed to attempt to crawl into the return air vent (the cover was off due to the project), get herself stuck under the kitchen chair many times, get into the kitchen cabinet, get stuck behind the couch and almost escape out the front door! And all this was this week!! She has been so funny to watch trying to learn to crawl on these slick floors...except when she tries to pull up on something and face plants it into the hard floor...:( We are planning to get a large area rug so I am sure this will help her lots! Anyway, just had to get in a quick update of our HUGE milestone this week! Here are a few pics of her that I had to take off my phone cuz my camera battery was dead...Getting into that cabinet

Pouting cuz she is stuck under the chair!

Happy Birthday Kaylee and Kaitlyn!

Once again....I am LATE on this blog!! Becoming the story of my life!! :) Kaylee and her best friend, Kaitlyn, decided to do their birthday parties together this year. Having winter birthdays, they have not been able to have a swimming party, so we found out if you rent a room at one of the local hotels you can use the pool for a party....so pool party/hotel sleepover it was! The girls were able to invite quite a few kids to swim, but due to being in a hotel room were limited on the number that could spend the night. The girls had a great time planning the event and I think just as much fun at the party!

Swimming in February????? Don't mind if I do!! I think all of their friends had a great time and Macy and Kaitlyn even decorated the window! :)

Presents, Presents and more presents!

The birthday girls, Wyatt with his hot tub beard, and Kelsee had a lil too much fun!

Yummy cake time!! If you look close at the cake on the side you can tell it didn't fair too well making the trip to the hotel! We salvaged it and it still tasted GREAT so all was good!!

Slumber party isn't complete without snacks and Pop Rocks mixed with Coke!!

Enjoying making flower clips! And time for some relaxin for the birthday girls while Macy gives them a pedi!!
I have to say it was a pretty easy and fun party for all of us!!! Happy 10th Birthday Kaylee and Kaitlyn!!

"Snicker" the Goat

Well, we did something Dale and I both swore we would NEVER do!! Let our daughter become a GOAT SHOWMAN!!! Yep I said it!!! Kaylee has said since she was about 2 she was going to show a goat. It was always sort of a joke to us, but she never gave up!! Every time we would go to a cattle show she would drive us crazy until we would take her to see the goats! Dale fought it for a while, he even bought her a heifer and tried everything he could to get her to show it, but like most other times....she won! Last summer they found the prize goat! Unfortunately 3 days after we got him he died having his horns surgically removed. :( But that didn't stop her!! Oh no....we got another one! Kaylee quickly fell in love with "Snicker." We were very proud of her being very eager to work with him no matter what. We kept the goat at her friend, Hannah's house. This helped alot because the girls had a great time working together. Anyway, we made it to show season with Snicker and surprisingly she got in the ring and showed her little heart out! She showed Snicker at the County and the District shows in Enid and then we let her decide if she was ready to take him to the big show in OKC and she was more than ready! She did so good, I think both Dale and I were completely shocked!

Her first show! This was the County show in Enid. She did an amazing job showing him....he didn't do quite so well placing. He was last in his class...but she didn't care! (Needless to say Dale and I know NOTHING about getting a goat ready for a show, but we (mostly he) learned ALOT and hoping it pays off with the next one.) Yes, I said next one!

Northwest District Show in Enid. Here she placed 9th out of 15....better, but we are shooting for higher next time! Once again, we were VERY pleased with the way Kaylee showed Snicker and she was up and ready everytime it was time to do something with him.

A few pics from Oklahoma Youth Expo in OKC. Kaylee completely was in love with Snicker. She did amazing with him. Dale and her went a day before I brought Kelsee and Braden and he said she just jumped right in there and did everything with him and even led him around without Daddy going with her! If you know Kaylee you know that is a HUGE thing for her to do!! We were so proud of her we bought her a lil good job gift. She has been wanting a "blingy zebra" belt for quite a while so we surprised her with one right before she went in to show. Snicker had quite the personality. He was such a sweet goat. Perfect for her to learn on!! I just hope the next one is half as sweet as he was!

Our big girl in the ring at a BIG show! Kaylee did great!! I think Mommy and Daddy were much more nervous than she was! :) Snicker did not make the cut for his class, but she was still able to "show" him for quite a while, and that was plenty good enough for her!
After the show came the dreadful part (for Mommy and Daddy anyway!). We had to take Snicker to meet his new friends to go to his new home. Kaylee grabbed him up and was ready to head over. I don't think Dale and I could have ever imagined what happened next....she walked him over there, took him into the pen with LOTS of other goats and took his halter off all by herself. She stood outside and watched him "meet" his new friends for just a few minutes and then was ready to go get Dippin' Dots! I think Dale and I both were ready to cry at any moment, but held it in since she was so strong.
I am not sure words can express how proud we were of Kaylee for all she did with Snicker. We are sure going to miss that lil guy!!! Now to prepare for the next one!!