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.

We are not BOSSY!!!!!!!!

Yesterday Tracy and I were in the garden working with all of our kids. We sent them inside to have a little quite gardening time and maybe have some grown up talk while we were at it. Well, as usual when Tracy and I try to have grown up talk our oldest child loves to come and be a part of it. When we tried to make her go back inside to supervise the little ones (mainly the baby) she started to complain about how they never listen to her. I said that she was the typical BOSSY oldest child (something I know a little bit about) and they don't like to be bossed around by her. Her reply was our favorite. She said, "I'm not BOSSY, they just don't listen!" Well isn't that the truth. Tracy and I think it would make a good bumper sticker.

I WON the 7 year Battle!

Let me start off by saying that I am well aware that my mommy battles are far from over but, I had a victory the other day. My sister Taylor was over and she came in to tell me that mom was on her way to pick her up. Rylee was standing right by me when she said it and tried to repeat Taylor but said something completely different. Then I told Rylee what Taylor had actually said. As Rylee has done in the past she started to argue. (I know this may come as a shock to many of you that know her) Well for some reason I went along with this petty argument and after a few short turns back and forth she said and I quote "Mom I am not going to fight with you because I know that the mom ALWAYS WINS!!!!!!!!!" I about cried!!! It only took 7 years. I gave her a big hug and kiss and told her how much I love her! I am so grateful for Rylee. She tests me in so many ways but all in the same moment she is one of the most loving people you will ever meet!

Rylee and Zoe's Ear Experience!

So let me start off by saying we were going to wait until our girls were twelve to get their ears pierced. Then Rylee came along and decided to start asking us when she was about four years old. We were sticking to our guns and waiting! BUT! If you know the history behind Rylee's teeth you know it has been devastating. The poor girl has had caps done at two and just this past year had to have a tooth pulled and was put to sleep for that. Well 7 caps later and I don't even know how many filling she had to have another procedure. She needed a baby root canal! So we made a bargain that if she had her tooth done and sat for the dentist and kept her mouth open that she would show that she was responsible enough to get her ears pierced! She prayed about it and decided to go for it! She came home from the dentist very excited and I was very proud of her! We then invited her cousin Zoe to join us and her mom was very excited!

I love this picture of them and I am glad they went together and made this fun memory!

There was a little hesitation...
Daddy to the rescue!
Both of the girls did NOT cry. I had told Rylee that I cried like a baby!

This is why dad had to come to the rescue!

It's Raygen's 10th Pshchedelic Birthday!

I would just like to thank Raquel for all the help with the parties over the years!

It is fun for a bunch of little girls to party with someone that is full of energy!

We had a disco ball and flowers hanging over the dance floor!
Then they played twister!
People have often said Raygen is like me when it comes to opening presents. These pictures prove otherwise. She got excited and let it all come out!

Baylee stayed with her dad a good part of the night.

Did I mention we also tie-dyed shirts!

Don't tell Raquel I put this on here! (She told me not to.)

I think she looks cute!

Raygen was surprised by her cake!

I baked a tie-dyed cake and it was absolutely amazing! The pictures don't do it Justice. The colors were so bright and I did it all while she was gone. When we cut into the cake everyone was blown away by the colors! I decorated with chocolate icing so it seemed kind of boring and then she got her surprise!

It was a long day but I love doing things like this for my kids. Raygen has been such a blessing these past ten years and I love all of our girl talk we have now! Now if we can just figure out how to slow her down because her dad is not doing so well with the transition into women hood!