A Lazy Sunday Afternoon

So I was sitting at home just watching tv feeling kinda lonely, knowing the kids all were busy with their own families and then Steve called......and Riley came to spend the night with me!!  We went to the park and Riley rode some of the riding toys ..... not really they just bounce but he had fun!  This is the park across from my house.

 When we finished at the park he had a "really good idea" to go to the river and throw rocks in the water.  That is what his papa and I used to do with him last summer.  So while we were there I called Randy and let them talk. 

 Here he is with his lttle pile of rocks, he had some big ones but he threw those in "for his papa" and would just giggle when they splashed water all over him!

 After throwing rocks in the river he went to the play ground by the river and went down the slide about a hundred times!!  He loved it!

GIDDEYUP!!!

Jordan and Riley are such good friends!!!  We spent the afternoon one day last week at Mandy's since the boys hadn't gotten to play recently and they had a blast!!!  They run through the house squeeling and laughing and chasing each other!!!  Here are a few pictures of them riding the rocking "elephant" ..... yes,elephant, not horse but it didn't matter they loved it!!

 Bailey was feeling a little left out and wanted in on the fun, so Jordan let her have a ride with Riley.

More Easter Pictures

After the Easter egg hunt as the family was comming in I took a few more pictures....

Tianna, 11yrs old and a young woman is growing up so fast!!!  She even got sunglasses, the ones she's wearing, and ear rings in her basket

 

 Dallen is 10 yrs. old now and is playing baseball and really loving it.  He has a sense of humor that is so funny and will catch you off guard...you really don't expect it from him he is usually quiet.

 Brandon is 8 yrs. old and loves to play baseball also.  He is also the "class clown"  he is quite the little comedian.  He did magic tricks for his talent show and everyone got to see his funny side.

 Jacob is 4 yrs old and quite the handsome little guy.  He loves to play ouside and ride his bike, he just got a new one and his dad says that when he takes off his training wheels he will let him get a dirt bike!

 Jordan is a little cutie!  He is 2 yrs old and so sweet.  He knows his nana likes eyeore and tells his mom that it is nanas favorite....and he is right!  He likes to play kichen and fix food for you to eat.

 Riley is 2 yrs. old and a little sweetie.  He loves the "cars" and "cars 2" cars and that is een how his mom and dad got him pottie trained...he got a new car everytime he went to the pottie!

 Bailey is 11 months and such a cutie!  Look at all her hair!!  She has started crawling and goes everywhere and gets into everything she can reach....She is like a little vaccume cleaner!

               Here the boys are inside checking out their goods....have to see what all candy you get!!

                                   Joe and Jacob counting his eggs to make sure he got all of his.

 One of my favorite things about getting together is watching my boys as they put their heads together and talk and laugh and tell jokes.  Here they are actully looking at dirt bikes on Joe's phone.  Joe just bought one and  Stephen would like to so they can go riding together.

                                                                    Stephen and Joe

Easter

Easter was such a great day!  Randy got to be home for Easter!  After church on Sunday Mandy, Joseph and Stephen with their families all came for dinner.  We had ham, corn on the cob, funeral potatoes, rolls with honey butter and mississippi mud for desert.  After dinner the dads and Randy went out and hid the eggs or the Easter egg hunt.  Here are picture of the boys while they were waiting to be able to go out and find their eggs. 

                                   
                                                  Jordan, Dallen, Brandon, Jacob an Riley
Tianna in her sunglasses hunting her eggs.  Each kid had 25 eggs, 1 golden egg (with $2 in it).  They seemed to enjoy the hunt!!

               Jacob found one of his eggs in a littl spout on the house!  Look at all those eggs!!

        Brandon found one of his eggs by the deck in the snow...yes we still had snow on the ground!

        Jordan was finding his eggs and he was so happy!! He would run go pick up another one!

                             Riley found a lot of his eggs in the snow mound on the back deck! 

 Bailey got her eggs and would shake one as hard as she could.  She would just shake it and shake it til it popped open and all the candy fell out on the ground, then she tried to pick it up and eat it.

                                                  Dallen got some pointers from his dad. 

                                        Jacob had a pile of his eggs and was still finding more

                           Dallen found all of his eggs.....even his golden one in record time!!

 All the kids after the egg hunt with their baskets of eggs. Back row left to right: Dallen, Tianna, Bailey.  Front row left to right: Jacob, Jordan, Riley, Brandon.

Spaghetti Faces!

So today when I went watch Riley and Bailey Ivy told me that she had spaghetti and that they both liked it, just to please take their clothes off of them before letting them eat. Well, I did take the clothes off and it was a good thing!! Here are the pictures I took.  Bailey is such a mess!!  She even picked her bowl up and was getting ready to dump it out.  I had them sitting on a towel in the living room. If you look close you can see the sauce on her face, hands, legs and belly! 

 Brandon was holding her up she was standing but she didn't want him to hold her arms up, but I was trying o get a good shot of her!

 Riley wasn't to bad, he had sauce on his hands and all over his face and a little on one of his shoulders, don't ask I don't know how it got on his shoulder!!

                                        So I just took them both and popped them in the tub.

Brandon's Talent Show

Today I was invited to attend Brandon's talent show.  I have to say it was really good!!  These little kids got up in front of all the parents and another class and shared a talent with us.  Some of them played the piano, a few played the violin and viola, and some did tricks with the basketball, but my favorite was Brandon's, he did magic tricks!!  And he was A----MAZING!!!! 

                                      Here he is doing a card trick with Mrs Ricks, his teacher

                                           In this one he is making a pencil levitate....so cool!!

At the end of the show they all shared their talent of singing.  They sang us two songs that they had been working on.  Such a good show!!!

Jordan Sings and Dances

So, Jordan LOVES to sing and dance!!  The last time I was there he sang all the primary songs to me that he could think of!!  I love to here him sing and watch him do the motions to the songs.  One reminded me of his uncle Stephen, when Stephen was little he sang the song I am a Child of God and the phrase with parents kind and dear Stephen sang it with parents kind of near.  We always got a chuckle out of that, well, this particular day I am watching Jordan and listening to him sing Book of Mormon stories and he is doing all the hand motions, and he gets to the end where it says give this land if they live righteously...well Jordan sings it give this land if they live right to sleep!  It was so cute I got quite a chuckle out of that!!! 

 Then he started singing head shoulder knees and toes and do as I'm doing but he made Mandy do it with him!  And the little girl Mandy watches (Briley) too.+

Tianna's FieldTrip

A couple of weeks ago I got a phone call from Tianna, she was at school and she wanted to know if I could be a chaprone for her fieldtrip to the Idaho Museum. I told her I could and so the next day I met her group at the Museum and it was so fun and very informational

ok, these are the kids I had in the Gonzalez Group...only we are missing one girl for the picture, I think her name was Katie, but she was missing most of the time!!  I kept up with these eight but for some reason all of us were always looking for Katie!  Tianna is the third girl from left on front row, the prettiest one in the whole class!!.

It was a display of dinosaurs.  So interesting,  I would love to take the younger boys to see it, I just know they would love it!!  They had bones and teeth that you could touch (replicas) and I know they would love that!!