Our great little helpers

When I came in from helping Dave in the garage, Caden was cooking dinner for us! :) He had emptied my lazy susan cupboard into the oven. He was pretty proud! He loves to help me cook-especially stir anything on the stove.

Kaylee is a sweetheart! the other day she decided to surprise me and unload the dishwasher. The only problem is she couldn't reach the cupboard so she decided to stack them all up so all I had to do was put them away. I walked into the kitchen and saw this stack.. She is pretty skilled!

Aspen is a great help too, but I don't have any pictures of her helping. She loves to vacuum and sweep, and loves to help me cook. Lets just hope they stay this way!

My favorite time of day!!

I seriously love my kidos to death... especially when they are sleeping! They are so peacefull! We put our kids to bed pretty early for a couple of reasons.. 1) its good for them, keeps them healthy and happy. 2) for my sanity. 3) So me and Dave can have some time together-which is usually me sitting by him while he does homework, but there is no interruptions which is nice. The other night I went to check on them to make sure that they were asleep and this is what I found.

Briggs is so sweet! He loves to rub this blanket on his face while he is going asleep.

And then there was Caden... He has all of his babies layed out and usually his tractors too and he has to have them all tucked in and cuddled!!

I dont know what it is but it I really love nights when they are asleep! :)

Great farm hands!!

My dads cows are in the middle of calfing so yesterday morning we decided to ride around with my dad to check them. It was cold with a super cold wind and we came upon this little calf who had been born within the hour or so and it was all covered in mud and literally freezing to death. Its dang "teenage mom" heifer my dad called it wasnt taking care of it. So we loaded it up in the truck and took it to the office under a heat lamp and the heater. We wiped off all the frozen mud and tried to get it dried off. The poor thing was just shivering! Its tail was frozen stiff and one of its ears. Caden loved it!! He jumped right in and helped grandpa rub it and clean it off. Aspen said "mom, I'm scared!" she said she was scared it was going to jump up and get her, but I think she was scared it was going to die. It took a while for her to see that it was going to be ok then she liked petting it and helping clean it off. After a few hrs we gave it a botttle and got it up. It was doing much better and we tried to take it back to its mom. It had quite the ride on a calf carrier on the back of the truck, but its mom wasnt interested so we had to pen them up in a little pen together, hoping the mom would take care of it. Aspen named it "Sunshine" and we had to check on it last night before we went to bed then after some heart felt prayers from her last night, she was ready to go check on it first thing this morning. Sunshine is doing good. Aspen was so happy!!

My dad is sure a good sport toting me and all my crazy kids around, but they sure had a fun day. Way better that just sitting around listening to their mom nag them!!

Caden helping grandpa

Aspen cleaning it off. This is about as close as she would get. Barely in arms reach.

Classic Skating

Kaylee won a pass to Classic skaing from school so for her date this month she wanted to go there, but not with just her and her dad, she wanted to make it a family date, so we all went. The kids had SO much fun! You pay by the hour there so I figured no way the kids would want to stay more than an hour, but I was way wrong. They would have stayed for hours. It was so weird walking in there!! I was having some serious flash-backs from my teenage years... eying the hot boys and hoping they would ask me to skate during the "Snowball!!" I kept wanting to grab Daves hand and make him skate with me! :) It was weird to be taking my kids there!! By the end Kaylee had about mastered the skates and was doing super good.

Dave helping Aspen with the skates.. she didnt really get the hang of them.

Kaylee and Dave
I think kaylees helping dave around.




Aspen was a pro on the scooter. As soon as we gave her permission to go we hardly saw her the rest of the night! She just went around and around the whole time. She did way good to0. I skated around a few times really fast just for fun and I would look back and she was right on my tail just smiling at me.

Dave and Caden. He was so cute. He didnt have a care in the world- he just went around and around and didnt care that he was surrounded by other people. I dont even know if he knew there was anybody else out there.

Dave, Kaylee, and Caden heading out.

Thanks for the great date Family!!