Wildlife...we're in the country now!

With show jumping in our backyard too!!
These two opossums ran straight in between our yard and the neighbors yard...for a slow moving animal, they ran fast!

Kaitlyn painting her jump poles...

Ruby is a known food hog, it is flooring us to see she allows Sweetie to share her food! If she hogs too much Sweetie simply pulls the bucket away and Ruby tolerates it!!

JUMPING...we finally have the jumps built!


And now HIGHER



Larry caught this neat shot and claims Ruby is smiling....Not so sure on this :)

A cute shot by Kimberlyn....of Kaitlyn riding Sweetie. Kimberlyn wanted to take pictures of Kaitlyn jumping Sweetie....KAitlyn did jump Sweetie a few times before the camera lady arrived, she also bit teh dust a few times and was DONE being dumped! Sweetie doesn't have MUCH of anything to hold on too! She had fun though!

Another cute shot by Kimberlyn...something about her angle, it's sweet!

Lost 1st tooth, got bang trim and rode bike w/o training wheels...what a day!!

May 14, 2009

So the day started with Kimberlyn looking precious as ever hopping on the school bus with a vase of three red roses she picked at the store for her wonderful teacher. She saw a vase at CVS when we ran to grab milk before dinner. She insisted we go back to the store and get Mrs. T flowers. For no good reason other than she saw flowers and wanted to get them for her teacher. Her teacher is the type that deserves flowers for no real reason everyday! We are blessed. NO!! I didn't get that picture, silly mother! I won't ever forget the sight though!

When the kids came home we had snack and headed to get hair cuts! It was a bit longer of a wait than most would like with FOUR kids, but all in all it went well.
Kimberlyn's lose tooth looked ready to come out and while she sat on my lap I begged to pull it...YUCK...I hate doing that job. She naturally wouldn't buy it. So I played and told HER to pull it and then we got some papertowel to help grip it. At first she wasn't touching the tooth barely and claiming it hurt and wouldn't come out. I was cheering her on and then saying she couldn't do it teasing her. About the third pull, she really got a good grip and after she did it there was a "spot" on her gum~where a tooth was missing~ ah, I screamed so loud! I knew it was ready to come out, but never thought she'd PULL it out THAT fast! We definitely provided some great, free entertainment that day in the salon!

Later that evening as if it hadn't been a big enough day...while Robby and I were at the Middle School orientation- side note I'm not old enough to have a middle schooler and I am not ready eaither. I do think Robby is ready, nervous and now even a bit excited after seeing the school! Back on track....while he and I were gone Kimberlyn convinced Daddy to take her training wheels off her brand new bike! And away she rode into the sunset! So I pulled in the driveway stunned!! I do believe she slept hard that night! She woke bright n' early and was super excited that the Tooth Fairy came to our house the next morning!

What a proud little girl!
Riding into the sunset...love it!
The TOOTH!!
The new smile! Gorgeous!

Marvelous May Memories!!!

May 6, 2009
St. Louis Cardinals Baseball Game
The 5th graders from two local schools joined up to sing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" - it was a fun evening!
Robby is the fifth kid in from the right in the bottom row.

The Arch...now that was cool!
The kid with the ball cap on is our neighbor Lucas...he and Kaitlyn are in class together and run for hours on end playing on the weekends too...