Dagen's Kindergarten Graduation

WOW! I can't believe I now have a 1st grader. It makes me feel so old! Okay enough about me let's talk about my boy. Dagen's program was so cute. He did his sign language and actions to the songs so well. I was so proud of him. This year has gone by so quick. And to be honest I have actually liked having him around the past few days. However I can't wait for Logen to start preschool this fall! Dagen I want to let you know how much I love you and how proud your dad and I are of you. You have grown up so much this past year. I always say I am excited for you to start school all day, but I know deep down I am going to miss you like crazy while you are gone. You are the best helper with your brothers. They look up to you so much. Keep up the good work you are going to do great in 1st grade.

Here are a few pics of my little man!

What a heartbreaker, he is so handsome!

Wow, he is really getting into it!

Dagen and Mrs. Barber - she is the best teacher around. He has really enjoyed school this year because of her. Thanks so much Mrs. Barber we love you!

Here is some pics from when we went for a ride on Saturday with Logen and Graden. Dagen wanted to stay and play with the other kids at the cabin.

He has such a sweet and innocent smile. But what lurks behind it is a bit scary!!!

I think he was a little bit tired. Mouth wide open, I hope no bugs flew in!!!

Long Time No Post

We went and got our family pictures done last week and I love the way they turned out. Thanks Brooke, you did an amazing job. The kids just wanted to play and did not want to pose, but Brooke got the job done. I went through and picked just a few of the MANY to post. Here they are:







WARNING IF CUTS AND BLOODS MAKE YOU WEAK DO NOT SCROLL DOWN!

The day after getting our pictures done, I was at my softball game and got hit in the eye with a ball. I had to go to the ER and received 2 layers of stitches. There were 4 stitches on the inside and 8 on the out. It doesn't look too bad now and the stitches blend with my eyebrow. Makeup covers the bruising so you can't tell too much. My eye was so swollen the next day I could only open it half way. But all the swelling is gone now and I am doing great! I love this sport!!! Really I do and can't wait for our next game this week. I missed both the games last week since I was injured in the first inning of our first game. Sorry ladies, I will try to make up for this week!

This was waiting in the ER for the doc to stitch me up!

This is getting stitched up!

All done!! Not too bad, I was scared to death to get the stitches. When I was younger I had stitches in my finger and they didn't get me all the way numb before starting and I was afraid the same was going to happen again. I know I can have three kids and deal with that pain, but to get stitches I was afraid. I am such a WIMP!

This pic was taken two days later. That was as wide as I could open my eye. And there is no makeup on it either, but it still doesn't show the coloring very well. Oh well, it was a phone camera so I can't complain too much.

Spring Break a Couple Weeks Late

Okay so spring break was a while ago and I have been going to post the pics, but I have just been too busy reading everyone elses to update my own. So over spring break we went up to the Dinosaur Musem at Thanksgiving Point. The kids had so much fun. We also went to the movie to see Monsters VS. Aliens. So cute, I was really surprised that Logen actually made it through the whole movie with only one bathroom break. He usually gets bored and has to keep moving around. That's why we buy treats right? So here are some pics from the museum. Enjoy!



Dagen and Morgan playing in the wet sand


My Boys sitting on a dino

Dagen and the shark. The other boys wouldn't get near it, they thought they were going to get eaten!

The boys digging for treasures, or bones!

Thanks Morgan for going with us and helping with the boys. We are glad you came!

Purse Giveaway

Spring is here and what better way to welcome it then with a cute new handbag! Go to this blog and check out all of the cute purses, wallets, and cosmetic bags. Leave her a comment about the styles you like and you will be entered to win the zebra handbag. It's easy just do it!!!

Happy Easter

We had a super busy weekend. On Friday Grandpa Clive and Kris stopped by with an Easter treat for all of us.

Saturday morning we got up and went to the Annual Easter egg hunt at the ballpark. It was raining but the kids didn't mind. I took Graden, Chad and Mark took Logen and my mom took Dagen. I didn't get any pics of this, I guess I didn't want my camera to get all wet. But they had a great time. At the end of the hunt they had people walking around with extra eggs for people. They did too many this year, or maybe the rain scared everyone off.
We then went to Chad's cousin Kim's house for another easter gathering. Everyone takes prizes (candy or toys) up early so they can hide them in the woods behind their house. We all got a list of things to find and off we went.

Graden searching for his prizes - he was having so much fun in the mud!!

Dagen having a good time. He really had a great time doing all the activities this year.

Logen ran out of the woods too fast. I guess there was an available swing and he needed to get on it first.
We had a great time at Kim's. Thanks for hosting this every year. Sorry we had to run out so fast.
After Kim's, we came home and Chad sold his motorcycle. YEAH!!! Not really now he wants to buy a different one. Boys and their toys.
We then went down to my moms. The kids colored eggs, went on an egg hunt, then went on a treasure hunt. After all that fun, we finally got them to eat something.

Dagen coloring eggs. I forgot to get my camera out before the other ones got their eggs colored.

Logen looking for eggs.

Graden vacuuming after looking for eggs.

Dagen looking for eggs.

Waiting to go on the egg hunt.

On Sunday the kids woke up early wanting to see what the bunny had brought them. Can't we ever sleep in around here. Anyway, we got up and let them search for their baskets.

Aren't they adorable!?!?

Dagen looking in the oven for his basket.

And then in the closet.
Dagen found everyone's baskets. Logen's was hidden in the office on the chair under some stuff. Graden's was hidden in the laundry basket under the clothes waiting to be folded. And Dagen's was hidden in the video game bag behind the TV. After finding all the baskets we decided to get the kids fed, bathed, and dressed before sending them out to find the eggs that the bunny left behind.

Graden finding eggs

Logen finding eggs

Dagen finding eggs

After we found all the eggs we put the new trampoline mat on so they could go play on it. They had a ball jumping on a tramp that wasn't broken. Then it was off to Grandma and Grandpa B's.

We then went on a prize hunt and found some neat stuff.

We played with the horses, jumped on the tramp, and visited with everyone.




We had a fantastic Easter and hope that everyone else did as well.

Kindy Car 500

Dagen had his Kindy car race yesterday. They did a sweet little program and sang some patriotic songs. It was so fun to watch him with all the hand motions that they had learned to go with the songs. He is getting way too big way too fast. I recorded the program with the video camera so I didn't get any still shots of them singing. But here is the car that we worked really hard on.

It took us nearly three weeks from start to finish. Although we didn't spend every waking moment on it, just when we had some spare time we would play around with it. He wanted an Optimus Prime car (which is a semi).



Here is Taite and her car. She had an apple truck from Wyoming. It was too cute.



They all got a key to their car and a drivers license so they could go on a road trip. They visited several national monuments and learned interested facts about each one. They had such a great time.


Also, Dagen lost another tooth last night. We actually had to be aggressive at getting this tooth out since his new tooth is coming in behind it the wrong direction. So we had to get it out quick. He was a bit mad at us, but now he doesn't care because the tooth fairy brought him some money. Thanks for being such a brave boy Dagen.

We are so proud of you. You have grown up to be such a handsome, smart boy. I loved watching you in your program. You did such a great job. We love you!

Interesting....

Yesterday we decided to paint Dagen's Kindy car since it finally stopped storming. So we went out and got it all painted blue. Logen kept touching it and got blue paint all over his hands. I scrubbed as much as he would allow so there was still some on the sides of his fingernails today. So this is how our conversation went from here:

Logen: Mom, can you open my finger?
Mom: Why do you need your finger opened?
Logen: Because there is water in here and the fishies need to get out.
Mom: You have fishies in your finger?
Logen: Yeah, and they can't breathe in the water in my finger, please get them out.

Interesting, I don't know how to get those darn fishies out of the water in his fingers. Does anybody else have this problem, it is new to me so I don't know what to do to open that finger up so I can get them out. Kids say the darndest things! Love ya Lo Lo!!!

Dagen Lost his 1st Tooth

It has been a very long month or so trying to get Dagen to wiggle and tug on that little tooth! We would ask just to look at it and he would start squirming around. On Saturday, we asked if we could look and he closed his mouth real tight and wouldn't let us. He finally decided to let us look at it and we tried to pull it out. He started crying and ran into the other room. He came back a bit later, calmed down. Chad went and got a piece of dental floss and tied a slip knot on it. He told Dagen that we are going to put it on the tooth and then Dagen could pull it as hard as he felt comfortable with. Dagen went to tug on it and the floss slipped off the tooth. So Chad did it again and he tightened a bit tighter. He told Dagen to start pulling on it. Meanwhile, Chad was tugging on it at the same time and POP! that little tooth came right out. He cried and cried saying that it hurt. Well Grandpa asked him later if it really hurt or if he was just faking. He said it didn't hurt but he just didn't want to have a hole in his smile. But he is still adorable even with a hole in his smile. He was so excited in the morning when he discovered that the tooth fairy had brought him money. He said that he is going to be so rich by the time he is done losing all of his teeth. Maybe, but mom and dad are going to be so poor by that time also!!



That hole really isn't all that big little buddy! I can't believe that you are old enough to start losing teeth. You are growing up way too fast. Love ya little man!

A Tribute to Gracie

I actually linked over to this site from Miriam's, but I thought it was definitely something everyone should read. I read this blog from beginning to end in just a few hours. This family has been through so much. A true roller coaster experience. The Gledhill's really make you realize how precious everyone is. Read Gracie's story here.

Purse and Minky Blanket Party

Hey All~

I am having a purse party by Lux and Lavish. Which is also my sister in law. She has some great purses at unbelievable prices. Also she carries wallets and cosmetic bags. So come check out her fun purses. Remember you can never have too many purses!!

Also there will be Marla Roo Minky Blankets. If you haven't seen these blankets you better come on over and see how cute they are. They are the softest blankets ever.

The party will be on March 21st from 1-3 p.m. at my house. (Email me if you need the address. bringfam@comcast.net)

Hope to see you all there!

P.S. Click on the names to visit there websites. Also I do have links on the bottom of the page under favorite links.

Dagen's Bday Pictures

Dagen had a family party and a friends party. For the family party he had a Super Mario Brothers cake. We had the family party a couple of days before his real birthday because my brothers were leaving for a snowmobile race that weekend.


Opening Presents

Blowing out Candles

So if you follow our blog you know that I always make the kids pancakes for their birthdays and let them blow out a candle. This year Dagen wanted blue pancakes. YUMMY!

For his friends party we went to Jumpin Jacks then back to our house for dinner, presents, cake and ice cream. We had 18 kids for all this fun. Dagen had a great time and really enjoyed being the spotlight. Everyone wanted to play with him and he didn't mind that at all! I have a ton of pics from Jumpin Jacks but I am only going to post a couple.

Some of the boys at Jumpin Jacks

My boys and I going down the slide!

Blowing out candles on his Transformers cake

Opening more presents

The day before his birthday it was Wacky Wednesday at school. And this is a pic of Dagen and Taite before school.

Dagen and Taite playing with playdoh and water colors


Taite

Dagen's water coloring