Clayton is a good builder. Give him some boxes and he will keep the kids busy.

Sandi and the kids were her for a few days and brought Clayton to join in the fun. We had several late nights, including 5am that is just to late when you have kids that get up early.

Well we were going to go to the football game, but it's too cold. We made pizza and had a family night, watched Pete's Dragon. It's wonderful to have friends and family, but it was nice to have a down night with just the 4 of us.

Teaching them how to shoot, survival skills. They both hit the pop can.

Kelsie



Growing up so fast. When we were canning pears several ended up in Kelsie's tummy.
The dog is her buddy her name is Dasie.

We were busy canning peaches and lots of other yummy things. Ryan built shelves out in the pumphouse for me to put food storage on. I am so excited, he has been busy doing lots of honey do's.

A week with Sandi and the kids !!!!!

This is a link that shows all the fun we had this last week. Trips to the storybook park,Elba park with 13 kids, horseback riding, a new swing set that showed up out of no where, bull riding, a carnival and lots of other fun things. link is under construction... up and going soon i hope :)

The Wood reunion

It was so wonderful to see everybody. I haven't see some since Grandma Ebby's funeral in 2006, saw a few others in 1998 at Jim and Ebby's 50 wedding anniversary but must I haven't seen since 1989 at Jack and Ardie's 50 wedding anniversary. So 20 years and some of thses guys weren't even born then. Mom, dad and Clayton weren't able to go because they will be leaving in the morning to drive to South Carolina to watch Ky graduate from Basic Traing for the National Gaurd. Since mom couldn't go I had orders to take lots of pictures.

Family get together in bosie

I hope I get these labeled right if I don't I hope somebody will let me know.top photo Emily and Claire right Alyssa and Georgia and baby Joel
left photo Sandi, Ardie, Garrett, Erin
Kelsie Ardie Sadie Kelli

This was the final take on the cake.

snack, orange, panties, banana, sadie's first shopping list. Sadie wrote this by herself age 4.

What do you think? mom what would u put on top layer?

Girls Night

We had a lot of fun with our girls campout in the back yard. Ryan was gone Jared and Jaxon were gone so we roasted hot dogs marshmallows and slept in the camper. The girls thought it was great, mommies included. We stayed up late talking then made cookies the next morning. It was great!! It has been getting busier for Ryan but that comes with the job. Weather has been crazy cool to hot and back to ok. We are trying to decide how many summer activities we should get involved in???? Not quite ready to ty myself down yet.

Easter

Here is a little bit from Easter. The girls had fun coloring Easter eggs, we used different type of colors they were kinda messy.

Never a dull moment

Having kids means never having a dull moment. Kelsie started this week out a reaction (it got worse than this) to something when Ryan took her to the doctor she also had a sinus infection that was going into her ears so she is on med. Today I was at the doctor and am now on med too. Hopefully we can keep Ryan and Sadie well. As you can see Kelsie is also coming up with her own since of style.

Happy Birthday GG

Cousins

Sadie(4) and Kelsie(2) with cousins Macady(4) Lily(2 months) Jaxon (5)
It has been a busy few days. Watched Gingers kids on Thursday and that just wasn't a good day it started out at 5:30 am and ended around midnight. Then Kelsie was up at 4 and back to sleep as my alarm was going off at 5:45. Worked all day Friday then Saturday we followed Ryan up towards Sunvalley, he needed a ride home. Sunday trying to watch conference and get Ryan ready to leave Monday for 3-4 days. Monday Ryan took off. I worked all day, today I worked part of a day but still didn't get home till almost 5. Fed kids dinner and went to see Ryan's parents before they take tomorrow, Candace is have back surgery on Thursday. Well that brings me up to now, girls are sleeping and I need to so that I wont be grummpy.

How big we are now

Sadie 3 ft 6 1/2 inches 42 lbs Kelsie 2 ft 5 inches 31 lbs

We had visitors.

We had visitors this weekend Papa Don and Uncle Ky came to visit. Ky leaves April 13th for bootcamp and then AIT. The girls helped him do some training with pushups. We haven't seen them since Thanksgiving. The girls enjoyed waking Ky up, I think he liked it too. Sadie wanted to show Papa Don all her new movies(4 of them), he didn't object. The weather kept them from leaving as planned so they watched the girls while I worked monday.

Sadie's Birthday

Wow I can put video's on here too. I am so excited.

Newest addition

I did it I agreed to get a dog. We went and got her Sunday. She is really sweet and very good I just hope it stays that way. Yeah a not so good picture of me but oh wells. I guess this suppose to be about our family not just the kids. We also got a 10 gallon fish tank for Sadie's birthday. With 11 fish, 2 catfish, 2 shrimp. Some of which we have lost already.

Springbreak Continued

Owen(7) MaCady (3) Erin (4) Jaxon (5) Kelsie (2)
Sadie (4) Garrett (4)
Wow we got a picture of all the kids, movies are a great thing sometimes. The last day before Sandi and the kids headed home Ginger brought her two out. They love to play the more kids you have the less you have anyone left out. I am so glad the girls have cousins their age.

Springbreak

Kelsie, Erin, Sadie enjoy a game of dress up. Sandi made the long trip to Idaho again and brought the kids out to play. It was wonderful to have them here. Mom called and asked if she had reached Grand Central Station, I told her no that it was the City Zoo. Looking forward to the next time we can get together.

Kelsie on her 2nd birthday! We took the kids up sledding, it was fun, we had family from Texas here they never see snow. I am getting this figured out not as hard as I thought. Well not enough time in a lunch hour to eat and play on the computer for very long. I'll have to add the rest later.

A Quick note to all

I want to thank Ginger and Rosie for encouraging me to do this. I hope all who see it enjoy being able to keep up with us and our growing kids. I won't be able to do a full show of all that I have missed in the last 4 years. But as I come across cute things I will add them.

Getting things going

I hope this thing works. It is about to drive me crazy.