Hare Easter Party

This year with the Hare family, we had our Easter party at Randy's sister's house. It was such a blast! The kids had so much fun. Bea and Caren put money in eggs, and the kids try to get the egg with the most money in it. It is the golden egg! Bea hides it really well too. It was fun!

Emma wanted that golden egg SO bad!!! I had to remind her to get other eggs too, or else she wouldn't get anything (one of the big kids usually gets it).
My pictures are backwards, but here is Naomi enjoying her candy.

Daddy helping Briallen enjoy her candy!

Here are a few more of them on the egg hunt:

AND........ Emma found the golden egg!!!!! She was so happy! It had $10 in it! Lucky girl.

This is the kids before the hunt, excited and ready to go.

Bundy Easter Party

This year we had our Dave Bundy Easter party early. We went to Davey and Marylynn's property in Littlefield. We also had the Newt Bundy family there with us. There were lots of fun things to do.

There was an Easter egg hunt,

Skeet shooting,

Paddle boating,

Canoeing,

four wheeling,

and a lot more... It was great to just sit around and visit, and let all the kids play with their cousins. I think everyone in the Cliven Bundy family was there too (minus a couple spouses)! Ammon and Lisa surprised us all and showed up, and Lance and Penny were there too; it was so good to see everyone!

Good little babysitter

The other day the kids were all playing in the back yard, and Briallen wanted in the swing. Emma wanted to push her, so I went in the house for a little while. Emma came and got me to show me something, and this is what I saw:

A tired little baby....hehe..... so cute!

Milking the goat....

For about 5 years Randy has been milking a goat so that our kids can have good, healthy milk. Our awesome neighbors down the street are an older couple who can't drink all the milk, so they let us have some of it, and Randy and the kids go down in the mornings to milk her. They absolutely LOVE to milk the goat, and they cry if Randy ever does it without them. And Randy truly enjoys the time that he gets to spend with his girls. He is such a great dad!

This is them leaving the goat. We live at the top of the hill.

Natalie & Naomi love to feed the animals. They are getting some of the dry leaves to feed them.

Randy has been teaching Emma how to milk. She actually does pretty good.

This is the girls feeding the baby goat some grain.

I am so glad that we can give the kids a little bit of farm experience. It is my dream to one day have a farm and raise my children the way I was raised.

My little Mozart???

The other day I was cleaning the house, and turned around, and this is what I saw.... My little 13 month old baby sitting at the bench playing the piano. It was so cute! She was even looking at the music.....hopefully she will grow to love to play the piano.

Check it out!!!

Hey everyone! My little sister Bailey is starting up a little business making bows and accessories. She is such a go-getter! She decided she wanted to do it just a couple of weeks ago, and is already up and going for the most part. And her bows are cute too. She also does FREE SHIPPING!! I just thought I would help her out by telling everyone I know. Go check it out! www.cutesybowsnthings.blogspot.com .

Naomi's new hair style

Well, after the 3rd time of Naomi finding the scissors and cutting her own hair, I got the hint that she wants short hair for now. It's not the hair cut I would have chosen, but it's not horrible either. My cute little baby. She looks just like I did when I was her age, and I actually think she looks a little like my mom's toddler pictures too.

My lovely "prickles"

Last night I was playing on the computer. Emma came in and pointed at this picture, and this is a little how our conversation went:

Emma: Mom, this is my favorite picture of you guys, I really like it.

Me: really? I like this picture too.
Emma: I can’t even see your prickles (freckles) in this picture.
Me: Nope, you can’t, huh?
Emma: Yeah, I don’t really like prickles. I wish you didn’t have them.
Me: You do?
Emma: yeah.....(thinking)..... there’s gotta be a way to get rid of them........ You would look prettier without prickles.

……..Haha! How funny. It was so hard for me to keep a straight face, and not laugh hysterically. I hope she learns to like them, cause there is a good chance she will get some too….hehe. So cute!

Sisters!

My girls have so much fun together! I am so glad that they can get along. Briallen is still a little young to keep up with the others, but that won't last too long. I am grateful that my sisters and I get along so well also. I have such wonderful, fun sisters and sister-in-laws. We have such a blast together. Thank you to all of you for loving me and my dorkiness. I love you! I hope that my children can grow up with the same relationships that we have.

Big imagination...

Emma loves to pretend. She always makes up stories. I remember my sisters and I making up stories when we were little. Well, the other day, Randy was working out in the garage, and Emma was out with him. Pretty soon she came in the house with this "get up". She told me that she needed a whole bunch of food because her and her dad were going to go to Salt Lake. I don't know why she needs the helmet and goggles to go to Salt Lake, but she was really excited about going. What a character!

Birthdays, birthdays, and more birthdays....

On December 30th Briallen turned 1! Natalie turned 4 on January 2nd, and Emma turned 5 on the 4th. I am about partied out after having Christmas and birthdays all in a row. We had a good time though, and of course, the kids loved it. Happy birthday, my beautiful babies!!!

My little ballerina princesses

My girls are really into ballet lately. They all love to dance, (including Briallen). Their Grandma Carlene gave them a movie called "Bella Ballerina" and they love to watch it and do all of the moves. They are getting pretty good at it. Natalie is into it the most. She wears her leotard and tutu all day every day. And if I can pry it off of her to wash it, she will put on her swimsuit as a substitute. She always says she wants to be a ballerina.

Emma's emergency dentist visit

Emma has been complaining for a week about a tooth ache. She had been to the dentist twice already, and all they tell was that she was getting a molar in the very back. The second time I went I questioned several times because the pallet of her mouth was swollen. And she had woken up with an eye infection one morning too (which I know means there is some kind of infection). The dentist was pretty positive that it was just a molar, but my gut kept telling me something different. I didn't know what to do until 2 days later, Emma was complaining more than ever. I looked in her mouth again, and lo and behold, the swelling had turned white. I called the dentist, and he told me to call a pediatric dentist. When I called him, they told me to come in right away (it is a 30 minute drive, and I had to find a sitter for the other 3 kids too). I was so nervous, I prayed the whole way to town. When we got there, he took one look at her, and was shocked at how abscessed her tooth was. He gave me a few options, but pretty much said that if we didn't get it taken care of within the next day or two, she could be hospitalized with IVs and the whole thing (Very critical). I chose option one, which was take the tooth out now. Emma was SO scared! He gave her the highest dose of laughing gas he could, and got to work. Once she was numb and everything, it took less than a minute to get her tooth out, and she was pretty calm the whole time. I want to bring some laughing gas home.....hehe. It was pretty brutal. He was jerking every which way to get it out. When we were almost home, I asked Emma how she was feeling. This was her reply: " My tongue is thinking about going up in there (the ginormous hole)......it went up in there already once. It is really thinking about going in there..........I'm not thinking about it, but my tongue is." I just thought it was so cute, she was such a trooper the whole time, I am so pleased with her. And I am grateful for the dentist that caught the infection and fixed it. We are so blessed that we caught it before it was too late.