cherries

Grandpa having fun picking, thank goodness we didn't have to help with that.

Cleaning and de-steming (cold job)

Cienna loved runnning the pitter! But after 3 coolers full of cherries we were all getting a little tired!

Delaney moving a little slower than when we started!

Dave and Kay went out to Washington to help Hali move and came home with 3 coolers full of cherries. We all spent about 2 hours cleaning, steming and pitting them. The kids had a lot of fun! Now for the good stuff cherry jelly YUM YUM!!! And grandpa wants cherry pie filling I guess thats ok too!!

How Many is TOO Many?????

6 that is the answer to how many is too many! That's right folks we have 6 Dodge pickups!

Yes I know there are only 5 pictured the 6th is just too pitiful to take a picture of! I think that I have a husband who just has to buy things with wheels, these are not the only pickups we have mind you we also have toyota's too! He claims he needs this many for all his employees but last I checked we only have 4 so I don't know where the rest fit in??

I had nothing exciting to post and this is what I came up with to update my blog, I hope you all can sympathize with me!!

Family Photo Shoot!

Here are a couple of the photos that Hanna took for us this morning they turned out great! I'll post more of the family in my next post!

These Girls Should Play the LOTTO!!!

Last week between the town and the school there was some grant money for new sidewalks around Burlington. Each day for a week if the kids used the sidewalks they put their name in a jar, on friday they held the drawing and Delaney's name was picked for a new bike, she even got to go to Walmart and pick out any one she wanted! What a lucky girl! It worked out perfect as hers was getting to small. Last year about this time we attended a bike safety rally in Basin and Cienna won a bike as well. Though it is a little big for her right now. She is nice enough to let mom ride it! What lucky girls, what else could be better!

unicycles and bicycles

Joel just decided that he was ready for a 2 wheeler and took off riding with NO help! He is growing so fast!

Delaney on her unicycle she has been riding since she was 5, she now wants an extention so she can be high off the ground! Little Dare Devil.

Cienna has been practicing so she can ride it too! With a little more practice they can both be circus performers! Every Mothers Dream. It is so much fun to watch them grow and learn new things.

Happy Mothers Day???????

I thought that I would get to have a nap, the kids were all being so quiet and good or so I thought?! Delaney came in with a marker and told me Joel was coloring on the wall! Blue marker on his freshly painted white wall in his room! Is he still alive you ask--- yes barely, he kept telling me "I didn't do it" saying this with a blue streak across your face I say QUILTY! I tried to scrub it and my final thought is I guess I'll just repaint that spot. That is the last time I get to nap, and yes dad was watching them but he was asleep too! Some babysitter!

pigs and chicks

Just a quick update on how big the pigs have gotten! Not the cute little babies we brought home in Nov. They should be ready to butcher in about a month.

Our neighbor thought that she would try to hatch some eggs. So she let her brother in law keep them at the school in his science room for all the kids and parents to enjoy! It was fun watching the chicks peck their way through the shells! I am not sure how many hse ended up with but we saw at least 19, they were so cute!