Brantner Bunch

Ryleigh Jo

2009-06-19T14:10:00.000-07:00

Ryleigh Jo was looking at my blog and she said, "Hey mom you skipped MY birthday." oh yes I did, so here you go Ryleigh Jo.
For her birthday she had a High School Musical party with her friends. It was fun they played games had cake and then we still had almost an hour, so I put on the movie and they loved it, it was so funny to hear them sing all the songs. Then for our family she wanted to have a wii party, so all my family came over and we made them all play wii with us.

She got a bike for her birthday, she was getting a bit big for the little 12 inch one she had, ha ha.

She turned 8 this year so we had another important date for her......

Am I Back?

2009-06-15T13:12:00.000-07:00

Well I do still have a blog!!! I figured out how to erase my Christmas background, now I just have to find a new one or maybe I'll just go with the boring no background. Hey at least I'm blogging right? I have so much to catch up on. Maybe I will maybe I won't Ha Ha! School is out for the summer that's a good thing. At least I have no excuse now because I don't have a job keeping me busy or anything, oh wait are three little kids a JOB????

Christmas

2009-01-01T17:06:00.000-08:00

Oh Christmas is over HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

I know I know I'm slow here are a few things we did for Christmas fun.

We decorated a princess gingerbread house. I found this at smith's and the girls just loved it. It's really cute.!

We found a Purple tree to decorate for the girls room. Purple and pink with everything princess.

SNOW!! We played in the snow. The first day it snowed the girls were out making a snowman. Gary loved playing in the snow with them. He was helping them build a snow fort and Kara put a bucket of snow on and said, "Wow it's a miracle." It was a fun day out in the snow. We decorated our house and Christmas tree. Kara had fun this year putting all the ornaments on the bottom of the tree. She also wanted to keep all the candy canes for herself. Oh yea, this year we made Kara hang the lights on our house.

We had lots of fun parties and enjoyed our time at home together. We saw Santa at grandma Chewey's house and Kara loved him. She sat right by his feet and kept saying "Santa, Santa, Hi Santa." We were able to get some good shots for a Christmas card, NOT!! It turned out funny though. This is how our family is, Ryleigh Jo being silly, Shandee being happy, Kara screaming because she didn't get her way, Gary screaming at the kids, and mom, just smile and pretend our family is normal.

Sorry this is such a long post, but it is a month Worth's of memories. It was a good month. It was a busy month, but it was fun.

TAG

2008-11-28T18:17:00.001-08:00

o.k. here is is my 4th picture in my 4th folder

KARA.....this was the first day of my summer vacation. I wanted to spend the whole day with the kids. We actually had a fun day at the park playing and we went and got a slush!!

Since this is a picture of Kara and I am way behind on my post (I know I know sorry Amy) I think I will tell ya about Kara's birthday.

It was October 27th. We went the Saturday before to Logan to Firehouse pizza to eat then we went to the pumpkin walk. It was a lot of fun she really loved it. All my family was there, but Dizzle and Tate of course!

This was her favorite one because it has elephants in it. I don't know what is up with elephants lately, but she loves them she got 4 of them for her birthday and she is an elephant for Halloween.

And on her birthday we just stayed home with her. We got her this little red car and she loved it, she sat in it practically all night. Then Gary's fam came over. She is such a fun little girl, she has such a fun personality. She is already talking and she says the funniest things. I love it. I can't believe my baby is 2! We love you Kara!!

Halloween

2008-11-09T07:25:00.000-08:00

I love Halloween!!! We had so much fun this year! We carved pumpkins, painted pumpkins, and loved the trick-or-treating!! I need to learn to do a slide show because we had so much fun pictures, but here are a few!!

Ryleigh Jo was "Miss Riverside" she loves dressing up and looking beautiful. Shandee was a "Rock Star" she came up with it all on her own. she had a guitar, but it got heavy. Kara was an Elephant! I had bought her a princess dress, but she said "No I'm Hate it" so we looked all over for an elephant costume, we found one ,but it cost a lot so we printed a picture and she took it over to grandma Vickie and said make it, so she found one on e-bay for $3.99, YEA!!! she loved it, she would say, "Trick-or-Treat, I'm a elephant"
Ryleigh Jo had a few fun things at her school, They had a costume parade during school and then they got to paint pumpkins for the pumpkin walk they do every year. Her class did rock stars, it was cute!

My Sister

2008-10-06T16:26:00.000-07:00

Eight years ago today my sister passed away. I can't believe it has been so long ago. It seems like just yesterday! I think about my sister everyday. Today is a day that I seem so remember her the most.

I bought some flowers, so Sunday I went with all my girls to the cemetery to put them on her grave. It is interesting how none of my girls have met Brandee, but they seem to know her. We talk about her a lot and I hope they will know her when they see her again. They always like to hear stories about her.

One of the hardest parts about loosing my sister is thinking about the what could have beens. How we could have done things together with our kids, how she could have been an amazing aunt, and so on and so on. I really believe that she is still really a big part of our lives, I know she would not want to miss out on all the things going on in my life. I have felt her many times. The day Ryleigh Jo was born, I was in labor for over 24 hours and I know that Brandee was having one last little party with her niece before sending her to me! I feel her when we are all together as a family laughing and talking, I know she is there with us. When my brothers have gone to temple I know she is there. I really miss her and wish she was still her to do all the fun sister stuff with me, but if she has to be gone I am glad I can still feel her with us. I know she has been there to protect me many times too.

This is a picture of us in the hospital with my sister when she was fighting her cancer. She was in the hospital for exactly one month. I tried to go visit her every day and I would bring my little brothers with me when I could.
This is a really scary picture of us rocking out before a concert that she dragged me to. I loved going places with her and she always had fun things for us to do. I think we went to a Def Leopard concert!! She also took me to the Phantom of the Opera.

I really miss my sister, but today was just a really hard day! I know it is hard for my whole family. It is something that is just so hard and you never want to have to deal with loosing someone.

Shandee's Birthday

2008-09-19T17:12:00.001-07:00

My little middle is 5!!!! Shandee is such a fun little girl! She talks so cute and we just love having her in our family. She has her grandpa Cleve wrapped around her finger. She just loves doing everything with him and she always has. Happy Birthday Shandee V. we love you!!!

Shandee had her birthday on Wednesday. Since our families are so busy and Gary works nights we decided to have her family parties on the next two Sundays. So I was worried that Shandee would feel disappointed and not have a good birthday. I asked Gary's sister if we could have Shandee's cousin sleep over on Tuesday. Whenever Shandee is talking about her she says, "My best friend", so Audrey slept over and we had tons of fun making cakes and getting ready for her birthday.When I got home from work we were waiting for Ryleigh Jo to come home from school so we could open presents and have cake and ice cream before Gary had to go to work, Shandee asked if she could go outside and I said sure you can it's your birthday you can do anything you want on your birthday. When I went to call her in I could not find her I was looking for her when my mom called and asked if I had lost Shandee, my mom asked her if her mom knew where she was she said, "It's o.k. it's my birthday I can do anything I want on my birthday and I wanted to come to grandma's house!"
Then for a present from grandma and grandpa they go the mall to get a build a bear. It was really cute and Shandee got a horse that she named Ariel. As soon as she was done she said lets hurry home to show grandpa.
Shandee had a great day for her birthday. It turned out to be a really fun day and she was just wore right out!!

TAGGED

2008-09-18T16:32:00.000-07:00

Why 4?? This was really hard for me to think of 4 on each thing, sorry I'm lame in my answers.

I also just wanted to thank everyone for their comments on my last post, it really helped me. Sometimes when I'm blogging I feel like I'm just bragging and it is dumb, but I was really glad that I was able to post my feelings and get such a great response back from others, this is why I love blogging. Thanks everyone for being such great friends!!!
O.k. here goes............

4 RANDOM THINGS I LIKE ABOUT MY HUSBAND
1.His cute little butt
2.That he works nights so he can be with the girls while I'm at work
3.That he makes me feel like I am the most beautiful woman in the world (I know I know he just wants to get laid)
4.That he relates ever thing anyone is talking about to a movie (I had to grow to love this about him)
4 MOVIES I COULD WATCH OVER & OVER
I could watch almost any movie over and over because I don't remember them, this drives Gary crazy ha ha
1.Dances with wolves
2.The hot chick
3.The man in the iron mask
4. The little mermaid(and I DO!!)
4 T.V. SHOWS I WATCH
1.Judge Judy
2.Ellen
3.Friends(even though I have seen every one and know what will happen)
4. reality shows!!!
4 PLACES I'VE BEEN
1.Jamaica
2.Mexico
3.Navoo
4.Florida
4 PEOPLE WHO EMAIL ME REGULARLY
1.My Mommy
2.My sister (Kresta)
3.Comic shop (aaaahhh Husband)
4.My brother on his mission
4 OF MY FAVORITE FOODS
1.Cheetos
2.fruit
3.chocolate
4.fiber one bars
4 PLACES I WOULD LIKE TO VISIT
1.Hawaii
2.heaven(to see my sister, just for a visit though)
3.France
4. Rhode Island???
4 THINGS I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO IN THE UPCOMING YEAR
1.Ryleigh Jo getting baptized
2.Christmas
3.??
4.??
4 PEOPLE I HAVE TAGGED
1.Sheila
2.Cindy
3.Sara
4. Does anyone else read my blog???

Expressing my feelings

2008-09-16T20:22:00.000-07:00

O.k. so a few things have happened with my oldest daughter lately that have been bothering me and I am wondering if I am teaching my daughter all that I need so she is acting the way I hope that she will.
I teach primary and I was sitting in front of Ryleigh Jo's class and I heard a little girl say to her that she should not be wearing that dress, that it was really in modest and her mom thinks it is bad to wear something like that. The dress Ryleigh Jo had on was just fine, it was a cap sleeve, anyway, after that Ryleigh Jo came and sat by me and was really upset. It makes me sad to think that people are judging that way at such a young age. I try to teach Ryleigh to be nice and to mind her own business. I know that they are just kids, but it made me realize how much kids act like their parents, they are just saying what they hear in the home. because this little girls parents are always making comments and judging people and it really bothers me.
Then today I was watching her at dance practice and some other girls from the other class got finished early so they were watching them finish dancing. I was enjoying myself watching how silly she is and how much fun she was having, then these two girls started talking about her. They were saying that she should not be a dancer and she doesn't know what she was doing(This is her first year) it really made me sad, then they just kept going on and on about how she acts weird and she's a pet (i guess that meant teacher's pet) and just some really mean things and I just sat and listened as the tears trickled down my cheeks. I know they are just kids but it just makes me so sad. I know it is only going to get worse as my kids get older, and grow up. I don't know if my heart can handle three girls growing up. Anyway my biggest thing is that I just hope that I can teach my girls how to act nice to everyone, because I don't want anyone to hurt over things my kids may have said about them. And I know it happens and I am still working on it because kids are just so honest and they don't know how hurtful words can be. Why is parenting so difficult?

Dancing

2008-09-09T18:49:00.000-07:00

Ryleigh Jo and Shandee started dancing class today. I had been debating if I really wanted to let them do it. But after Shandee did cheer camp and just loved it I decided to give it a go.
Shandee goes at 3:00 for an hour and Ryleigh Jo goes at 5:00. So I have to hurry home from work to get Shandee back in town on time and then go and get Ryleigh Jo. It is a little hectic, but that's o.k. I guess that is what my Tuesday's will be from now on. Running back and forth.
Shandee was really excited she said she had a lot of fun and can't wait to go back next week. Ryleigh Jo said it was really hot and she just don't know if she can do the splits. I think it will be fun for them, I'm excited. Now we just have to get them cute little outfits to dance in and I also need to find ballet and tap shoes. I told Ryleigh Jo she should use her money to buy the ballet shoes and she said she would use $2.00 of the dollars and I could buy the rest. If only they only cost that much, oh well they will have fun times!!!!

Back to School

2008-08-31T10:20:00.001-07:00

Good bye Summer!!

I have dreaded this all summer!! Yes it is time to go back to school and back to work!!! I had a wonderful summer staying home with my kids!

We had a lot of fun, but it is time to get back to working life. Ryleigh Jo was excited to start 2nd grade!! She has two teachers this year. Mrs. Reeder and Mrs. Kirby. She had a really good first week. She had Mrs. Reeder last year for 1st grade, but I asked her how she liked her other teacher and she said, "she doesn't yell at all like I thought she would!"

Shandee is sad to have her big sis gone all day, she runs out when the bus comes home and says my favorite sister is home. She says Kara is mean to her and she really is!!

We had a few last minute fun things before school started. My friend Amy and I took our kids to Salk Lake to the Children's museum and to the gateway to play in the fountains. They had a ton of fun running around the museum it was really cool!

Ryleigh Jo loved the grocery store. Shandee loved feeding the horse and the ball thing where you shoved balls into pipes.

Kara loved it all, they had this little cute tree house!

We took the front runner from Ogden to Salt Lake, it was kind of a lot of money, but it was really fun for the kids. They definitely want to do it again! Thanks Amy, Chaz, and Jace!
Then my family went to Bear Lake! It was a ton of fun. The girls loved it. We have never taken them before, so it was great! Gary loved building castles and Kara was a great helper!! And since my sister Kresta stalks my blog and LOVES to be on it here are few pictures of her,(oh shoot I don't have any of her, I'll have to get them from my mom) and by the way I kick butt at 500!!!!
This is my "happy" sexy brother and you can see part of Kresta, man I need better pictures!!Notice the attention to detail!!Ryleigh Jo and Amanda (Sorry Ashlee, yet again no good pictures!!!)

Last, but not least the old Box Elder county fair!! We went to the parade, LAME!!!! Then we took the kids to ride rides for $1.00 we have never went on wed. night before, but Gary had the day off, so we braved the crowds. It was really not that bad! My brother Dylan and niece Ashlee's pig made it this year, so we watched them show their pigs. They both got blue ribbons. We didn't really go back that much until Saturday night we went and ate and then picked up the girls pictures. Every year Gary makes sure they enter a picture. Shandee got a purple and Ryleigh Jo got a blue.(Dang, my pictures of the kids at the fair are on my mom's camera too)

Oh yea we went to the rodeo Thursday night. It was family night my parents took us it was really fun for the girls, I'm not really in to that sort of thing,but the girls love it!

Cute cowgirls and cowboy(Just tilt the head)sorry I'm stupid!!!

Sorry this post is so long, but I guess that is what happens when you don't write forever and a lot of things happen. I will try harder to be a better blogger!! And I have tons of more cute pictures I'll have to learn how to do a slide show!! Thanks for reading!

catching up

2008-08-12T09:31:00.000-07:00

Well I guess I need to post to tell everyone what we have been up to. I honestly thought people didn't read my blog, but I have had a few people tell me I need to update. I am really not that great at this, but here goes. We have been having a great summer!!! I'm way sad it is almost over!! We have been swimming a few times, we had a family Reunion there are a few pictures. It was a Hawaii themed party. It was a lot of fun. We also went to dinosaur park, but it was way too hot, but it was fun to be with cousins.Ryleigh Jo and Shandee got to do hi-stepper camp. Shandee just loved it. She came home and kept doing her dance over and over, she also tried to teach Kara. Ryleigh Jo just did it she said it was o.k. Then they got to be in the kid's parade for wheat and beat days.

We also did a little family vacation. We went to park city for a couple of days. We just got a hotel room and swam and shopped a little. The girls had fun swimming. It rained one day and we swam in the rain, it was fun. On the way home we stopped at the Layton Hill's mall and they had this play area and there was a channel 5 desk, they loved it. It had a camera on them so they could see themselves on t.v., it was silly!!
Well we have a few fun things planned this week, Brigham pool, Bear lake, a sleep over at grandma and grandpa Atkin's house and of course the FAIR next week.

P.S. Here is a cute pic. of Kara cleaning!!! Yes I will lend her to anyone, she also does windows!! She actually makes more of a mess than help, but she is dang cute!!!

SUMMER!!!!!!

2008-07-08T14:22:00.001-07:00

Yea summer is here!! I know now it is 1/3 over, but I am finally blogging about it! We have a had a great summer so far. We really have not been doing much and that is the best part!! We stay home and have fun together as a family. Here are a few of the things that we have done!

Shandee got her tonsils out. Everything went great. I was really nervous, she was my first child to have a major surgery. She talks different now, which is funny. She did really good!

We have had a few swim days outside. We put our slide to go into the pool and Kara loves it. She will go out in her clothes and try it out if I am not watching her too close. We got a new slip and slide. We are having fun. I'm not sure if we will do swim lessons this year, but we might. We have not gone to Brigham pool yet, but hope to soon. When we are not outside playing we are inside having fun too. The girls like to help me cook. One day we made Cinnamon rolls, Kara loved the frosting.

We went camping with Gary's family to Lava. I'm not much of a camper, but the girls had fun. They had a camper for us to stay in so it was not so bad. We went 4-wheeling and it was really fun,(I don't have pictures of that yet) Kara and Shandee both fell asleep on the 4-wheelers. It was a long ride like 2 hours and it was kinda scary with Gary driving. We also went swimming in lava and they dipped in the river a little bit. Kara loved it. I think that is all of the camping we will do this summer!!

One day I took the girls to the Tree house in Ogden. It was a lot of fun the girls loved it!! They have such fun things to do. Kara loved dressing up and playing with the babies. Shandee loved the play house with a fridge and table and food. Ryleigh Jo just loved running around playing with everything. I might go again and ask my friend in the ward to go with me. It was a lot of fun.

We had a good 4th of July, but I think I will end this post and do the 4th later, this is just too much!!! And sorry I do not know how I rotated those picture, just tilt your head, they are cute!!! Hope everyone is having a great summer!! I know I am!!!!

My Monster!!!

2008-06-06T19:50:00.000-07:00

Yes!! That is a good way to describe her! Kara is not even 2 yet and she is terrible. I thought I would share a few of her shinning moments!! It's a little too quiet, so I go to check on Kara. She is sitting on the table, yes she knows how to move chairs so she can climb on the table, she is poring all the syrup out onto the table and all over herself!!! So I clean that up and put her in the tub. Then I put her in new pj's only to find her a few minutes later putting finger nail polish all over her legs nad hands and pj's. Then one day I find her in the bathroom, yes I try to keep the door closed, but it's a little hard with 2 other sisters, she is poring out all the body wash all over the floor and tub!!! So I put her in a very bubblie bath. Then one day I came home and Shandee had white stuff all over in her head. She said, I'm "GAY"(that's how she says gray) like grandma" I asked her what happened and she said Kara pured powdered sugar all over her head!!! AHHHH what am I to do with this child. She also enjoys dumping out chips and crushing them all in the carpet. And don't even get me started about when we go outside.... She finds all the puddles. One day Gary was out with her and I went to watch what they were doing and we couldn't find her, she was across the street in the neighbors driveway throwing rocks. She also loves their horses and tries to get in their pen!! I don't know if I can survive this child!!! 3 is the charm I think not!!!

Bye Bye Tate

2008-05-17T11:49:00.000-07:00

O.K SO THIS IS WHAT THE POST WAS SUPPOSED TO LOOK LIKE!!!!!!! I wasn't finished and accidentally published it instead of saved as a draft hopefully it looks a little better!! And I might do spell check too!

Goodbye Tate!! I know he will be a great missionary and I am soooo excited for him. I will miss him ton's,but know it is for the best!! Love ya tons little brother!! o.k. so he pulls that face a lot!!

Tate is gone to the Mtc now!! I can finally have an extra minute to update. Since his call we have all been very busy trying to fit in a bunch of fun stuff before he left. I guess I'll start with when he left and work backwards. HE went to the MTC on Wednesday May 14. He was really nervous and it was really hard saying good buy to him. I know he will be really great and this is what he is supposed to be doing, but we will miss him. He came over that morning before Ryleigh Jo went to school to say goodbye to the girls. This was really hard for him, because he is really close to them and will miss them a lot, they will also change a lot in 2 years. Ryleigh Jo and Shandee cried and Kara was sad too.

Who looks more sad Rylegh Jo or Tate?

Ryleigh Jo did say that she wasn't going

to get baptized until Tate gets back, but

he said she should and sent pictures and

maybe he can baptize a little girl like her

in California!

Shandee cried when she was going to bed

and said I don't know who I'll watch (t.v.)

with now!! She will miss him, but I'm not

sure she knows how long 2 years is for sure!! Kara is not sure what's going on

yet either!! Now when we say

where's Tate she says "Tete bye bye"

He was set apart as a missionary on Tuesday night. The blessing was really good. It promised him a lot of really good things. After the blessing we went to my mom's house for cake and ice cream (Some one's birthday I guess)
There's that face again!
His farewell was on Sunday the 11th. It was also Mother's day. His talk was really good. He is quite a silly boy and he sure had people laughing, but he also did really good, and I know I felt the spirit. He decided to try to do his testimony in Spanish, because most people do it when they come back , so he thought he would try it before. It was good.
I forgot to take pictures on this day Opps!!
He went to the temple on April 19th! He was very excited to be able to go. It was really a great experience. He asked me to be in the prayer circle with him, because he gets to have his big brother's do stuff for him, like blessings and Archie baptized him, so he thought it would be good to have his big sister do that with him. I was glad, it was great and I really felt the spirit and I really felt like Brandee was there to be with Tate on his special day!!

This is everyone who went to the temple,

and those that came over when he came

out! Then we went to eat.

We had a cinco de Mayo party for him. It was really fun. We invited all the cousins and had some really good Mexican food. We also tied a quilt that he had to have for his mission. Everyone that was there tied at least one knot in his quilt. Then we had a pinata and they played basketball. I think it was really fun to be able to spend time together as a family.

One thing he wanted to do before he left was go on a family vacation, so we all went to St. George for a few days. (Archie and Kresta didn't and Gary because he had to work) It was a lot of fun. We just hung out and played together as a family. On the way down we stopped at the Manti Temple. Tate went to snow college and he used to go to the temple just to walk around the grounds, so he was really excited to be able to go inside. It is really beautiful and the wood work is awesome. When we got to St. George we just did fun stuff. They went golfing a few times and we went mini golfing and swimming a lot at our hotel pool. We also went out to some really great restaurants. We played at the park. I went shopping. We also went to the St. George temple. Then on the way home we stopped at the red cliffs for a picnic and some hiking. It was so much fun to be with the fam!!

Dead bodies in the pool!! We always

do that whenever we get in a pool.

We have done it since we were

young, dumb hu?

This is us golfing. I kicked everyone's butts.

My dad said I cheated, but they were all

just mad they got beat by a girl!!Not much more has been going on. We had a few busy weeks and now school will be out in 9 days and I get the summer off to spend time with the kids and just have lots of fun!!!! Sorry this post is sooo much reading, but I just had a lot so say!!! Thanks for reading!!!!with my girls and have lots of fun!!

Catching up

2008-04-11T18:39:00.000-07:00

So its been awhile since I last posted anything. Just been a little busy I guess. Not really doing anything. Thursday was Gary and I's anniversary. 9 years. We went to Park City to stay over night and go shopping. It was really fun. We stayed in a condo in Midway that Gary's parents got for us. It was really nice. Then Friday we went shopping at the outlets. My parents kept the kids and it was really nice to get away just the two of us. I took my camera to get lots of pictures and my battery was dead, oh well.

We also had a really fun FHE the other Monday. Ryleigh Jo said she wanted to be in charge, so I said that would be great. Come Monday she informed me she wanted to "Clean the World" so here we are with our garbage bags cleaning our part of the world. It turned out to be really fun. She was running up and down the ditch picking up all the beer cans. That was what most of it was.

We have just been enjoying our time together as a family. Gary is a great husband and father. And I couldn't ask for better kids. Yes, they fight and are quite a hand full at times, but I love them. I love being a mom and doing all the fun things together. Here is some pictures of Kara with her daddy. I got him trucks for his skateboard for our anniversary and Kara helped him put them on , then went and skated with him. He loved it. He don't have skater boy's, but hopes one of his girl's will turn out to be a skater.
Then here are some pictures of my dad and little brothers-ok-Younger brothers playing chalk with the girls. Oh yea I forgot to mention the way exciting thing that happened with Tate. He got his mission call. He is going to San Fernando California. He will be leaving on May 14. One day after my B-day!!!! He is really excited. The girl's are really going to miss him. Whenever Kara sees him she yells "TEEEET" It's so cute. Dylan also had a birthday he turned 16.Not much else is happening around here. Things are going good. We are happy.

EASTER!!!!

2008-03-26T16:05:00.001-07:00

Here we are doing the egg coloring thing. Kara thought it was really fun to make her hands all pink. The girls had a lot of fun doing this. Gary also really likes to color eggs, he is really creative and we had some really fun eggsThen we went over to the huge riverside Easter egg hunt. This is usually a lot of fun and the girls get a lot of eggs. This year they didn't do so good. Ryleigh Jo just ran around and only got 4 eggs and Shandee only got 2, Kara did a little better with dad helping her. Luckily their cousin got like 30 eggs, so she shared. It was still fun.

Then we went to see the Easter bunny. Notice Shandee is not in this picture. I would like to lie and say she was scared of the bunny, but actually we stood in line forever and when it was our turn I could not find her. (She went back to grandpa's house with him.)

After the hunt we went to my grandma's house for a cook out. It is really fun because I get to see most of my cousins that I don't see very often. This was all on Saturday.Then on Sunday the Easter bunny found us and the girl's got lots of chocolate and some fun little toys. Then they had to find the eggs he hid outside. Kara was just happy to be outside!

Then we went to church. These are the cute dresses that my mom made for the girls. They really didn't want to get their pictures taken. Ryleigh Jo had to give a talk in primary. I was writing it about Easter and she wanted to know if she could talk about Brandee (Her aunt) So I let her help me write a part in the talk about Brandee, it was really good. After church we went to Gary's family and them mine for awhile. It was really a great Easter, we did a lot and had a lot of fun.

Disney on Ice

2008-03-19T14:39:00.001-07:00

We took our little princesses to Disney on Ice on Saturday. It was soo much fun, I,m glad we decided to go.

They all dressed up too. Ryleigh Jo was Belle, Shandee was sleeping beauty and Kara was snow white. The show was so cute. Ryleigh Jo was very quiet the whole time and didn't say anything, that means she was really happy. Shandee

was so excited each new princess that came out she would scream their name, and Kara would wave to each princess as they were leaving and she would scream every once in a while. She was really good the whole time. Daddy wasn't too sure it was that much fun, but he went anyway! What a good daddy we have he loves watching all the princess shows with us!

Kara Nicola

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Kara is our baby girl. She is 17 months old. She was born on October 27, 2006. We named her Kara because Gary wanted to use a comic book name and it was the only cute on I could agree on. It is the name of super girl. We got Nicola from my great-great-grandmother. She was an Indian.

Kara is so much fun to have in our family. She is a good girl. She loves her big sisters. It seems like she is growing up way too fast, because she wants to do everything her sister's are doing. The third kid is definitely the hardest. I had heard having two is not too bad, but when the third comes it makes everything harder, and it does!! She can get into so much trouble sometimes, she is by far my hardest!! But we love her!

She is already starting to figure out that she wants to go to grandpa and grandma's house. Grandpa is having a hard time juggling 3 girls, but he does a good job, they just love him!!

We call Kara "KARe bear" She loves playing with her sister's and all the fun toys we have. She also is becoming a daddy's little girl. They spend all day together while I am at work, and she is sad when he goes to work at night. We are so glad Kara came into our family we just love her cute personality and it is fun to hear her start to talk more and more.

Shandee V.

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Shandee is our little monkey! She is 4 years old. She is so much fun! Shandee loves horses, for her birthday she got three barns and about 50 horses! She really likes poneyville too. She is also a really good big sister, even though Kara and her are about the same size in clothes and shoes. Shandee is taller. Shandee is going to speech once a week at fielding. She is struggling with her "D" sounds and "SH" she was really having a hard time one week when we were practicing saying dog and duck, she told me she was just going to start saying those words in Spanish. She is really a funny girl

If there was one person Shandee would want to spend time with it would be grandpa, She just loves him! He does everything she tells him to do. He is really good at being her horse.

Ryleigh Jo

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O.k. So I thought it might be a good idea to kind of introduce and talk about each of my kids a little bit, for those of you who may not know them very well. And hopefully if I can add some cute pictures of each of my girls.

Ryleigh Jo just turned 7 on march 7th. she is our little princess! She is such a good kid. She is in the 1st grade, her teacher is Mrs. Reeder. She loves going to school. She is such a social butterfly, (Unlike her mom) She loves making new friends and she really tries to be every one's friend. When she was really little we were kind of worried what might happen to her because she would walk up to complete strangers and start talking to them. She also is doing really well in school. She really likes to read. She loves Junie B. Jones chapter books. Her teacher said she is on a 3rd grade reading level. She is also a good speller (unlike her mom) I wonder where she came from? My brother always said 2 dumbs = a smart!! Anyway, she really is a good girl. She is a really good big sister and she is a good helper at home.
Ryleigh Jo loves to play polly pocket and brats, she just got a play house for her birthday. She also really likes anything princess. I thought it was a phase she would grow out of, but she still really likes it. For the past 4 years on Halloween she has been a princess. She also really loves going to grandma's house!!

Starting my blog

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Hey, I thought I would give this a try. It will be fun to keep in touch with friends, that I havn't seen for awhile. It will also be fun to show off cute pictures and things that we have been doing. I'm not too smart on the computure, I had to have my good friend Amy Help me a few times, and I still don't think I can do everything she showed me, oh well I'll give it a try for awhile it will be fun!