Kaylee got her ears pierced

All Kaylee wanted for her Birthday was to get her ears pierced. She got these ear rings years ago and had it set in her mind that she wanted to wear them on her Baptism so it evolved to Kaylee wanted to get them  pierced to have pretty ear rings to wear. 

All ready, not even scared.

Ear #1, not even a flinch. She did great.

Ear #2, a little flinch now she knew what was coming :) She did super good.

So excited to finally have then pierced.

Caden thought it was his turn next, but we are mean and wouldnt let him :)

Kaylee has done really good to keep them clean and take good care of them. She loves that now she can take them out and switch them around.

Kaylee tuned 8!!! Her first friend party and her day - April 24th

Kaylee wanted her hair in curlers for her birthday... Here she is eating her birthday breakfast of Fruit pancakes..aka...Crepes. Yummm!!!

Headed out the door to school looking all cute and old on her 8th Birthday. She is growing up and getting so Beautiful!!

This was her little Birthday party at the hunting club with my family when we were having family dinner.

Kaylee wanted a "pinto horse" cake, but she doesnt really love cake so we went with rice crispy treats and I was in a hurry because the bus was going to be dropping the kids off in 5 mins so its not the best, but her and all her friends loved it.

Aspen and Caden helped me decorate the house for her party.

All the girls from her class were able to make it. When they first got here we did a little craft- making some bookmarks or whatever they wanted. Some turned out super cute!

Then we played a fun relay race where there were teams and they took turns running to the balloons, popping them, getting the bubble gum inside it and blowing a bubble before they could tag the next person in line. It was hilarious!! Some of the balloons were super strong and wouldnt pop!

Poor Keira, her balloon was the worst. But she got it and did really good.

Kaylee blowing her bubble. It was fun to watch and I think the girls liked it.

Then we played the classic pin the tail on the donkey.

Kaylees BFF spinning her to pin the tail.

Singing Happy Birthday to her

All the friends. From left to right:  Mckayde Davis, Arllee Collard, Aspen Watterson, Kamry Boorman, Kaylee, Bailey Mckinney, Keira Stewart, Aspen her sister- her very BFF! :) and Brylee Allen. They are all super cute girls and Im glad Kaylee has such good and cute friends!

Later that night we had our little party with her and Grandma Snyder came out. I made her favorite and really only cake she likes- Banana Cream.

More from her friend party.. Aspen bonking her on the head with her present.

Lighting her candles with Grandma Snyder in the back.

She had a super fun birthday and hopefully had a good day. She received a lot of things to prepare her to get baptized. We Love her so much and are so proud of the sweet girl she is turning in to. She is growing right up on us and learning so much. She is still a great help to her younger siblings and loves to help me around the house. Especially cooking.She is very independent and when she decides she wants something she figures a way to get it done- She is also very creative. Quite often she will wake up and fix breakfast for everyone- eggs. waffles, all sorts of stuff. Her newest thing is making No bake chocolate fudge cookies by herself. She does really good cooking and is super responsible. We love her so much and look forward to seeing her grow and learn more and more.
We Love You Kay-Kay, Kaylis, Kaylee (her nick names)

Aprils Dates with the girls

For April dates with the girls they wanted to go ice skating. It was Dave's turn to take Kaylee and they had so much fun. He said She got the hang of it really good. She got home and told me she went 33 laps around the ice ring all by herself, plus a couple at the first holding her dads hand. but, whose counting?  :)

Trying not to smile while showing  off.

And off she goes, leaving Dad in the dust, or ice slush, or something...

Hangin in there with the big kids!

The next week was mine and Aspens turn. After Kaylee told her how fun ice skating was, that was what Aspen wanted to do. It was a little rough for her at first and we made a lot of laps holding hands, then she got brave and held on to the wall. :)

But then after about an hour she got even braver and did it by herself. She did really good as long as she wouldn't try to look at or watch anyone else.

What a big girl!

At the end one of these walker skater things became available so she wanted to give it a shot. They helped a ton and she did really good on them.

Thanks for the dates girls!! We sure love you!!!

Briggs caught himself a chicken

Briggs was so proud of himself for catching a chicken by himself!

His brother telling him good job

Trying to jump with the chicken, almost losing it!

And then wrestling with the chicken... yes, the chicken is in between them! Don't worry, it escaped and jumped off right after I took this picture. :)

Kaylees Baptism Announcement

Kaylees baptism announcement - She is too excited!!

Easter Camping -Lots of pictures-

Easter weekend we went camping again this year. Its probably the tradition the kids look forward to the most. I think they are mostly excited to get out camping since its usually our first trip out for the year. Plus, they love doing all the egg hunts in the field. The past few years we woke up to snow on Easter so were expecting that this year, but it was beautiful!! I don't know if we have ever had such great weather! We loved it. We had so much fun and it was great that Briggs is getting old enough to play in the dirt the whole time. Since it was so much fun and great memories made and Easter all combined there are lots of pictures! I tried picking only my favorite ones, but still had a lot, and since this is my scrap book, Theres a lot!! :)

We took Sage and Twix with us and they were so funny. At first we tied Twix's front legs together so she could walk around and graze, but not run away. But then when we let Sage off her leash to run and play Twix would go crazy trying to stay by her so we decided to untie her legs and let her follow sage. She followed her every step! They were hilarious. The poor pony has a serious identity crisis and thinks shes a dog!  (Until Alexa brought her horse up and then Twix liked her because she would stop to eat, not like our dog. Then Alexas horse got her hobbles off and the next thing we know the 2 horses were high tailing it back to the farm. Dave jumped on Kaylees little motorcycle and Alexa on hers to chase the horses down. They were going full speed and barely caught them before they hit the highway- a good mile or more away from camp. I wish I could have seen Dave hauling butt on a little motorcycle trying to catch a free running pony! :) She was running fast almost keeping up with Alexa's Barrel horse that was going as fast as Alexa's motorcycle would go in 5th gear! It was crazy and I'm glad they didn't get hurt! its funny now to talk about it, but at the time poor Kaylee almost ran half the way down the road thinking her pony was gone for good! Also glad they didn't make it across the highway and chance getting in an accident.)

 Twix with her hobbles on

Kaylee, Caden and their dad shooting guns

Caden driving the wheeler. He actually did pretty good.

Kaylee flying her kite

Caden flying his

Aspen flying hers

Dave and Briggs getting ready to go for a ride with my brother Ruger (Riley)

Briggs spent a lot of time trying to drive the toys himself.

Caden on the Easter egg hunt with my family.

Kaycie, Caden, Kaylee, and Cody looking for eggs.

Now that is a messy boy only parents could love! and we love him!!!

Family picture after the egg hunt

Kaylee with her haul of eggs.

Briggs found one with candy and was content and just sat down and ate it.

 Kaylee looking for eggs

Aspen and Austyn. Austyn was a sweetheart and every time he found a girl color he would give it to Aspen. :)

Briggs is debating if he should stick his arm down in that bush to get the egg he sees.

Aspen, Caden, and Briggs playing in the dirt. They spent a lot of time excavating Kaylees jump for her motorcycle.

Caden with my moms heap of dog Chewy

Briggs loved playing with Sage.

Caden showing us the sweet bug catcher uncle Dan gave him. He caught a lot of stink bugs and kept them in his container.

Ooops, don't let Amy see Briggs on top of her truck! :) see what a good mom I am, make him smile for a picture before I get after him for being on there.

Kaylee was the "puller" while people were shooting. It was hard for her and had to jump on the thrower to get it to release. Sometimes it would launch her backwards, but she was tough and kept at it for a long time!

Getting her balance before she jumps.

Briggs played and played like this. He was in Heaven being able to play outside in the dirt all day long.

More playing fun

Caden showing us the stink bug he caught.

Now for Easter morning: Kaylee left the Easter Bunny a sparkly pencil and a note  so the Easter Bunny left the kids this nice note.

Briggs with his Easter Basket

Caden with his Basket

Aspen with her stuff

And Kaylee with hers.

The Easter bunny was kind to them, but he must have been busy this year or too tired or having a brain cramp because he forgot to hide any eggs. Oops :)

The boys sleeping so cute together.

Aspen chillin' by the fire.

Caden caught him a tractor in his bug net.

Kaylee and her goofy faces by the fire.

Now that is one handsome boy, snow boots and all !! :-)

That sucker from Gra Snyder kept him busy for a while!!

Grandma Snyder was super nice and came out to do an egg hunt for the kids and Dave brother and his family ventured out the the boonies to do it to. It was a good time and Grandma Snyder spoiled them.

Briggs looking for eggs- hes getting the hang of it now and knows there is candy in the eggs.

Daves long long time Best friend Dan came out with his wife Deej, and son Carson. It was so fun to see them and be able to visit for a while. They were even nice enough to hang out for a bit and have some dinner with us. Dan helped Caden find the grand prize egg, but then Caden didn't want it and was giving it to Briggs, who didn't want it either and ended up giving it to Deej. They were super awesome and brought each of the kids an Easter gift! They are too good to us and the kids and love seeing them when we can.

Uncle Dan helping Caden find the big egg.

Deej helping Briggs

Dan, Dave, Briggs, Caden and Deej

Kaylee with all her eggs, with Mike, Karra, and Adi in the background.

Aspen with her stuff.

Kaylee loved having Twix there to ride whenever she wanted to. Twix would get a little grumpy when Kaylee tried to ride her away from camp- probably more mad about leaving Sage. Then Kaylee got smart and figured out how to get on her by herself. So she would get off and walk her through the field for a while, then jump back on and Twix would go back to camp good. Sometimes Kaylee could get her into a trot and some times a lope for a minute :)

Briggs riding his truck.

Oooh, tricky boy!!

Caden and Dave went for a wheeler ride and hike one day looking for elk sheds (We saw some elk roaming the field we were camping at at night the night before) and they came on this little camp site with this little bench and stopped to eat their lunch.

Briggs looking for more eggs.

Caden found one!

The Snyder crew heading out for the hunt. 

We had a super fun weekend and cant wait to get out camping again. Soon!. Emily and her family came out and played with us during the day, and Amy and her family Came out on Saturday and camped, My parents were gone high school rodeoing most the weekend but made it out when they could. Then more family off and on. It was a blast! Thanks everyone for making it a fun weekend!