Who Is Not Afraid To Fall!!

Baylee!!

I was feeding the baby when all of a sudden there was a loud screaming from the back yard where the kids were playing. I ran outside to see what was the matter. Now I know most of you can't believe that because I normally don't run when I hear my kids crying. However, I know their cries and this was a serious one. When I came back in carrying the injured child this is what I found. Baylee sitting on top of the high chair. Instead of grabbing her and taking her down, I called for Raygen to get the camera. She thought she was something else and has been climbing ever since!

The Pressure Is On!

Raygen was a little camera shy when it came to do this trick. Every time I had the camera off she would do it perfectly. So I had to sneak and try to get it without her knowing I was video taping her. We had a good time laughing together!

More Floor!

Balancing Act!

Raygen's Front Flip

Tumbling Raygen!

We took lots of short videos of Raygen. This is one of her tumbling!

Flying High!!

Parents are not usually allowed in the gym but this last time they let parents come in for the last thirty minutes and take pictures. Raygen loves to do gymnastics and is a natural. Jack came with me to watch and had a great time with his sister.

She loves to do the balance beam. She can do a cartwheel and a back walk over.
Jack liked to swing on the bars. I think its funny the little girl in the back round trying to lift her mom on the bar!

We enjoy watching her! The only down fall would be what happens to our couch when she practices. However, she has started a gymnastics club with all the cousins and school friends and is teaching them different tricks. It is cute to see how organized she is with it!

Where Can You Fall Asleep?

My pictures are a little out of order. So this is how the afternoon went. It was a nice spring day and we were all busy working around the house. I realized that I hadn't seen Jack in a while. Now in my defense when we are working children tend to disappear. So I really don't know how long he was out sleeping in a plastic container on the trampoline. Raygen said it was a long time! She is helpful that way. I was grateful he was in the shade and it was spring! So after taking pictures to document what wonderful parents we are, we decided to move him inside where he continued his nap.

The lesson here is that:
It is better to sleep in a plastic container on the trampoline
then to help the family clean!

Baylee has hair!

Baylee is growing up so fast. She runs all over the place, yells for the kids, throws a pretty decent fit for her age, and has enough hair for her first pigtails. She only kept them in for a few hours and I couldn't decide how I felt about them. It was so cute and tiny on her and yet on the other hand she looked all grown up! We have so much fun with her. She has an amazing sense of humor and loves to tease the kids with her love. She will pretend she is going to hug them and just before she reaches them she turns on a dime and runs the other way laughing! She is good free entertainment and her siblings have decided to keep her!

Rylee gets her ears pierced!

I finally got this to upload!!! Rylee was a little nervous about her ears getting pierced but, once her dad got up there and held her she was able do it! I told her this would be nothing compared to the trip to the dentist. Way to go RYLEE!!!!!

Shark Reef

Our school took a field trip to the Mandalay Bay Shark Reef. It was my favorite field trip this year. We had a real good tour guide and all of the water we were surrounded by was relaxing. We will definitely come back! Next time we want to take the dad!

Can you tell which one of my kids still likes to take pictures?

None of my kids would touch the sting rays. Finally at the last moment I talked Raygen into touching it with one finger. I had also managed to talk Rylee into it but she touched it faster than the camera could take a picture and she said she was not doing that again. Jack wouldn't even get his hand in the water. According to him "It's gross!" He is all boy except for touching gross stuff!

Baylee loves her big cousin Andrew! Tracy and I joke around about it being her first little crush!

Jack is such a good boy and had a lot of fun seeing all of the fish and sharks!

Doing the Dishes!

My husband loves to help! So, while I was doing the dishes I asked him if he could wash up the baby. The next thing I know she is in the sink right next to me taking a bath and grabbing the clean dishes! The problem with this is now every time I do the dishes she is going to want to help me just like she did today!

As you can see she is not interested in coming to me when I was all done. She was enjoying herself!

Thank you Daddy for the help!!!!!

Baylee's 1st Ponytail!

I know it is slightly ridiculous and it stands straight up but, I just couldn't help myself. Everyone at school loved it and she was none the wiser. She left it in all day long! I don't think she reach if she wanted to. I will probably do this again.

Baylee's Balloon

Baylee turned one and for her birthday present we put the kids to bed and had some play time with her. We had all of her toys out and her little tent but, the thing she liked best was one of her siblings balloons. She became very good at it. We have enjoyed this past year with our new little addition! This is also a video of the first time she walked more than two steps!

Easter Morning

One of my favorite things about Easter morning is the crazy hair and this year none of my children had it. I was slightly disappointed. However, Baylee got some leg warmers in her basket that made up for it.

This picture shows off her new leg warmers that shows off her fine thighs!
This egg comes with a story. The night before we were at my mother's house when they were coloring eggs and my children helped. Well Jack was working hard when his egg broke and he was devastated. My mother went over and helped him out and put one of those plastic covers over it. He held it tight the rest of the night and took it home with us. We carried the sleeping boy in from the car and tried to take it from him. He started to cry and wake up, so we gave it back to him. We safely took it from him a few hours later. Well this picture was taken the next day when he found it and as you can tell he was very excited. I was slightly worried how I was going to get him to forget about this egg because as we all know this egg won't last forever. I think the candy coma helped him to forget!

Rylee is so sweet and would have taken a picture with every little piece of candy or toy she received.

Raygen assisted Baylee in the finding of eggs!

Baylee also found her love of candy on this day.

The addiction to sugar starts at a young age! I believe that's when I fell in love with it.

They are all growing up so fast!

Easter Egg Hunt

It is always amazing to me how fast a baby learns to hunt for eggs. Baylee caught on quick. They let them out by age groups and the funniest thing was when an older cousin (which will remain nameless) came and was picking up a pile of eggs in front of Baylee and Daisey Jensen.

My older kids are so fast I hardly see them, let alone get a picture of them. Rylee did pretty well for herself.
Raygen is my climbing child that will find all of the high eggs!

Jack, I mean Superman, is sweet when it comes to sharing with everyone!

She never did find out what was inside of the eggs. I figured she could learn that
next year. She was just happy taking the eggs out and putting them back in.

Coloring Eggs!

Taking pictures of this event can be some what stressful. Tracy was outside doing yard work and we only had about thirty minutes to color the eggs and clean up. My pictures of the other kids are not so good because I was holding the yellow dye that Baylee was using with one hand and snapping pictures with the other.

Raygen takes her time and does very intricate designs on her eggs.
Jack loves to use the egg tools and is very patient while waiting for the eggs to turn a dark color.

Rylee loves to make eggs for the whole family and even did one for Merik our dog.

This is the yellow mess I mentioned earlier. Her hands stayed yellow for two days. I think Baylee enjoyed splashing in the dye the best.

Overall the kids enjoyed designing and coloring the eggs. They had fun and that's all that mattered. Now looking back at the pictures it doesn't seem so bad.