Pooped out little bumble bee!

All that stinging must be harder than ya think!!

My friend Pam bought Madilyn and Trixie matching dress up!

Landon decided he wanted to wear the bee wings, but Madilyn wasn't going to let him wear the wings without the matching skirt!

If it weren't for the face Ronald would have been VERY upset.  The other day Landon kept trying to put on Madilyn's sandles.  Ronald wouldn't have it!  He actually PAUSED his basketball game to "kick some butt"!  He's not going to let his boy be a fairy...not as long as he can help it!

a TERRIBLE TERRIBLE mother

I'll have you know!!  RONALD is the one that is always rough with the kids!  The kids LOVE it when they get to restle with dad.  And dad loves it too because he can't be as rough with mom as he can be with the kids! 

What can I say, I didn't grow up with a bunch of wresting boys!

BUT for some reason, its always MOM that hurts the kids! 

Yes, I'm the one that ran Landon into the piano when he split his head open and should have gotten stitches!

AND the one that caused this pretty bruise:

all because I was being the NICE mom by and lettting her help me push the grovery cart even though I should have made her stay in becasue she sprayed my pledge all over the watering can while sitting in the cart!

Sheesh!! Why is it ME that beats up the kids??

The Last of the Pictures! :(

Unfortunately this will be my last post with pictures for a while...a VERY LONG while I'm afraid. I let Madilyn look at the pictures on the camera while we were riding in the car. Its common for her to play with the camera so I didn't think much of it. When I got it back from her it wouldn't open due to a lens error!! When I asked her if she touched the big circle (the lens) she innocently said, "I pushed it REALLY hard!"

Needless to say, now I'm going to have to buff up on the writing skills because, especially in a blog,

"A PICTURE IS WORTH 1000words!"

 ESPECAILLY to grandmas and grandpas!!

(good thing they'll be here in just a couple weeks!)

So...here a a few pictures I have not yet blogged that are still on the memory card:

Forgot my camera was still set in black/white. But this little goober has the greatest little smile and is SO mischievous!!

Madilyn has SUCH an imagination, and I don't know WHERE she got it from!  Ron blames it on me.  But I never came up with anything on my own when I was little...I didn't need to, thats what I had big sis for!

This smile makes me laugh everytime I see it!!!  Anytime Landon sees a camera he comes running to it saying "CHEEEEEEEEEEEEEESE"

His latest thing has been to jut his jaw over to the left side so his teeth don't line up.

  It makes it even worse that he only has THREE bottom teeth!! 

We'll thats all the snapshots for now...I've decided to drag out this post into a few others..so keep watching!

MILLY'S!!

Sometimes farming actually has its perks!  This rainy cold weather has made it too wet to chemigate

(aka pump weed killer/pestisides through the pivots). 

SO...we made a quick one day trip down to visit Phil, Camille, and their new baby -

BRIDGER. 

HE IS SO STINKIN' CUTE!

(and a dang good little boy)

The original plan was to take off early Tuesday morning and spend the day in UTAH! We'll Ron just couldn't miss morning basketball, and its probably a good thing because we only made it as far as Idaho Falls. Ron had swapped the snow tires for the normal ones, but didn't get them balanced very well. SO instead we spent the morning walking around the greenbelt and down town Idaho Falls while the car was in the shop.

It was actually pretty fun. Madilyn loved it. We've never done it before, and I doubt we ever would have!

Idaho Falls Temple

Before we got back on the road we grabbed a little brunch for the ride!!

This kids traveled amazingly well! 

Madilyn didn't ask for the TV to be one ONCE the entire trip and Landon took a good nap!

We finally got there and even Ronald enjoyed the little guy! :)

Landon got to test out all little Bridger's new toys!

YEP!  They passed inspection, especially his bouncer!

but then again, he'll climb in any bouncer

-as long as the other mom's don't mind!!

By the end of the afternoon he was EXHAUSTED! But would NOT take a nap!

Madilyn loved holding the little guy!

 (AND giving him kisses!!!)

Once the basketball game came on, we took the kids to the park across the street so the boys could enjoy the disapointing game! 

I tried playing with Landon...

down the slide..

 and on the swings...

but he had more fun just plain running around...

and climbing! He's turing into an even bigger monkey than his sister ever was/is!!

...maybe not?

She's still one crazy monkey herself!  She tried out the monkey bars for the first time and did AMAZING!! BUT this mom's too big of a chicken to let her go completly by herself!

Madilyn had a blast playing with Aunt Allison and bossing HER around!

We had a great time, and hope Camille and Phil did too! They all seem to be doing great and adjusting well to their little addition!  We wish we could see them more often!  

This Kid Cracks Me Up

Madilyn got some new shoes a couple weeks ago.  A few days later we were playing on the stairs at Grandma Hunting's house.  After clearing 5 steps to the bottom of the staircase she said

 "WOW!  These shoes can really jump!!"

***

"Mom, I have a feeling."

What kind of feeling is it?

 "Its making me sleepy!"

***

The other morning I was telling Madilyn she needed to go to the bathroom becasue she had just woken up.  Because she didn't want to go by herself she said,  "I need some company mom".

***

Madilyn always has to sleep with a gazillion books and toys.  Ron put her to bed and commented on everything and told her how messy it was.  She said, "I know dad! But I just need them."

***

Madilyn has 2 favorite colors.  She does not like blue and she does not like red.  She really likes purple, but she still kind of likes pink!

A Video Montage!

Here are a few videos for your viewing pleasure! (Mostly for grandmas and grandpas!) There are really about four different ones so don't let the length scare you! (The last one is much longer than the rest.)

The frist two are rough housing with dad! I'm AMAZED nobody ended up crying! They only seem to get hurt when it MOM rough housing!!

Madilyn finally learned how to peddle her bike! This was the very first day she figured it out. She's gotten MUCH better since then. In fact today we went for a ride around the school. She LOVED it so much she was mad she had to come home after 45 minutes!!

The last one is the longest. I hadn't realized she had all of these nursery ryhmes memorized! I had to get it on camera for the grandparents in Texas! Of course she didn't do as great the second time when I had the camera going. But still not too bad!

Needless to say I'm proud of my kids! They are at such a fun age together and are growing up so fast I LOVE LOVE LOVE IT! Everyday is an adventure with them. I've learned I just need to sit back and enjoy each minute and not always stress about doing the next thing on the list.

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Gardening Time!

We've been anxiously awaiting some nice sunny warm weather so we could get our garden planted! It looks like its a good thing we took advantage of it when we did!  Its been cold and rainy ever since!! 

Getting the ground ready! and of course landon has to be in the middle of it!

While Ron worked the ground the kids and I had a fun picnic lunch outside!

Our garden area is so big this year that I couldn't fit it in the picture!!

T-Tape:  This year instead of using a sprinkler we are trying out some t-tape.  I already love it! Its like a big soaker hose.  You have one main hose at the base of the garden then along each row you attach a "soaker" hose that has an on/off valve.  You only water the rows that need it!!  Here, Ron and I are trying to figure out how to attach the clamp at the end of the rows.

 Landon is becoming quite the michevious little bugger!

We got to use this handy little planter from Ron's grandma!  It was a life saver!!

The kids "helping" mom plant the tomatoes, melons, and pumpkins on day 2!

We had to take a break inbetween planting to mow the lawn.  Landon LOVED helping dad!