Farm and Ranch

A little while back I went out to the mail box to get the mail and in the bottom under all our incoming mail I found this...

She found a Farm and ranch living magazine at my dads with an insert to subscribe and with out saying a word she filled it all out, got her own money and was sending it off. I got a real laugh at her and her independence!!

Her order form all filled out. Complete with signature :)

Her money.. it was 2.95

Not to bad for a little girl. She knows what she wants when she sees it and figures out a way to get it- all by herself !! I didn't tell her I took it out of the mail box. We called and ordered  it for her and she had the funniest face when the subscription came and I had Dave give it to her. It was a super excited look but also one of concern.. wondering if she was in trouble! :)

Living aquarium

We went to the living aquarium with my sister Jessica and her kids and Melanie with her little one Asher and Emily's kids.

Kaylee and Aspen and Alexa and Heath helped feed the sting rays. Kaylee and Aspen well, and Alexa were pretty nervous, but when it was all said and done they liked it.

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Caden with the big anaconda snake. That was his favorite part.

All the kids.. We had quiet the crew!

Caden petting the sting ray

Kaylee loved to pet them. She may have well swam with them with how wet she was :)

My sweet sis in law Melanie and her cute boy Asher before they moved away  :(    He LOVED the water!! He was going crazy trying to get in there!

There was something really cool in there...

The kids had a blast! Thanks for taking us mom!!!

Memorial day weekend.. yes, I am that behind!!

Yes, I am super slow but I was looking through the pictures and decided I really needed to log these great pictures..

In our agreement with Camp Floyd we committed to helping Memorial Day. Our family was in charge of showing off the pioneer era games. We all had to dress up and show people the things that people did for entertainment. It was just a few days after Briggs had his tonsils removed so Grandma Snyder was nice enough to be Dave's wife for the day and help so I could stay home with Briggs.

Grandma Snyder, Kaylee all dressed up and playing with their hoop game and game of grace

One handsome Daddy with his beautiful pioneer girls

oops.. :)

Me and Briggs joined them for lunch

On the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend we went on a little road trip adventure and visited a ton of family graves in the county...

First we went to American Fork and visited my grandpa Gibbs (My moms Dad)

He ran a ski lodge in Alta and designed this Alta snowflake. Super cool guy!!!

Next we visited Daves Grandparents (Susans mom and dad)

Then Daves Grandma.. His dads mom

Daves half brother that died as an infant.  (Love how the headstone did say son of Billy- that was his dads real name and he hated it so he legally changed it to William, but scratched out the "ly" on the headstone so it says Bill)  :)

One of Daves Grandmas husbands

Dave and the kids by grandma Dodson and half brother baby Cary

Daves Grandpa - his dads dad

Dave and the kidos by grandpa Snyder

My friend and brother in laws sister. She died in a car accident when I was in high school and we were very close.

The poem on the back of her headstone. Love it!

Me and the girls with Mindy

Kaylee wanted to trace the team ropers on the front to keep.

Daves mom has an aunt that died as an infant and in buried in Eureka so we try to go out there and clean up her spot and visit her.

Kaylee found a snake -it was dead.

Aspen liked to supervise.

Caden playing with the dead snake Kaylee planted in a tree to scare people

Briggs was really thirsty I guess.

Cleaning up her grave spot

Caden found a stink bug that he was keeping his eye on.

Kaylee with her pretty rose that she was saving for my friend Alexas grave.

I think they were ready to be done..

The kids

Everyone but me.. just the way I prefer when it comes to pictures :)

My best buddy back in the day. Alexa.

Me and Kaylee. This actually creeped me out a bit. Getting my picture taken with my daughter who was almost the same age as I was when Alexa and I were riding bikes together when she got hit. Its hard to believe its been that long ago. I still remember as if it was just last month. Now to have a kid that age and seeing her with her best friends. It seems like I was way older.

Wild horses

So Kaylee has this serious love for horses. Actually is more like an obsession. Especially wild horses.  When we went camping at the first of spring there were some brood mares turned out to pasture in a field on our way and we decided they were wild horses. Kaylee was so excited to see real life wild horses! Then she started watching a movie called horse crazy where these kids hear about wild horses in Nevada and they sneak out with out telling their parents and try to catch one to bring home.  One day Kaylee was acting kind of off and I didn't understand some of the things she was doing. She didn't want to go to activity days, she was mad I made her bath, and some other stuff. Then Aspen came to me and told me Kaylee and Caden were packing to go look for some wild horses. I found her note to us and her and Cadens backpacks were all filled up with everything they might need. It was hilarious!! I did tell her she couldn't go without me and she was really bumbed, but she saddled up twix and me and the kids rode the four wheeler and packed a lunch and went in search of  the wild mustangs by our house. We didn't see them but Kaylee was glad we went looking. I thought we cured that curiosity.  Then a few weeks later I came home from exercising around 7 in the morning and no Kaylee. This note was on the kitchen counter..But only Kaylee, no Caden

So, yea she was gone looking for mustangs to catch one and take it to the ranch to train it. I loaded up the other kids on the wheeler and we went out looking for her. I assumed I would find her right away on the trail up there, but I didn't. I was searching for a good 30 mins, getting a little frantic and mad and completely scared. The other kids were crying because I was going too fast and they were scared and sore from the bumps.  Finally when I was about recruit more people to come help me search and tell Dave to come home from work to help and I got a call from our house phone. It was Kaylee. She started walking then decided she needed to go potty so she came back home, but instead of coming to our house to go she went to my parents across the street. That is when we went out looking for her. She decided she better come home and when she got here we were gone (you know.. looking for her) So she turned on a movie. After a while she decided to call us. I was so relieved and furious at the same time!!!!  I think she hopefully learned her lesson.

This is when we went looking for them together- eating our picnic  Sorry, these pictures are all out of order.

This is the funniest part. A few weeks after this ordeal I was cleaning out her desk and found this hidden at the very bottom under everything.. her packing and to do list.  At least she is prepared.

Love her double check marks.

My favorite one...  Don't let mom know! I laughed at that one... Only because Ive had time to recover and get over how mad and scared I was.

More of us when we went out looking for them together.