Mother's Day Card

Gabe made me a card for Mother's Day but he didn't dare give it to me until today. He gets really embarassed about all the "mushy stuff". But it was so incredibly cute, that I had to share it with everyone. And since Gabe never checks the blog, I think it will be alright. For those of you who can't read his hand writing, it says, "Dear Mom, Thank you for everything. You are very special. Your heart is as pure as a fresh water spring. Your eyes shine like twinkling stars in the midnight sky. Your voice is so pretty you call birds with it. Your so funny I love your jokes. Love, Gabe age: 10 4th grade"
I have to admit that I laughed my head off when I read it. I think we have a budding poet in our midst!!

My Little Ray

We had a fun day today at the Fun Park in Logan. Gabe brought his friend, Colton, and we had Auriana with us. But my favorite part was doing the portrait both with cute little Raygen.

Just a Reminder. . .

The past few weeks my counter tops have been full of cups of dandelions and various other "flowers" that Ridge has so proudly brought me. Today after mowing the lawn I guess dandelions were a little scarce so he started bringing me the flowers that are planted on purpose. Though I am ashamed to admit it, I cussed him for picking mom's flowers and told him to leave them in the flower beds. His cute little face dropped and his eyes filled up with tears as he said, "I'm sorry mom, I just love you." As I watched his tiny body walk away the thought entered my mind that in a year or two, the little cups of flowers will no longer sit on an already cluttered cabinet. I know that all too soon I will miss that small face looking up at me full of pride as he hands me a handful of lovingly selected weeds, hugs me and says, "These are for you, Mom!" So I have decided to enjoy each and every flower brought to me, regardless of where it came from. Because while my flowers will grow back year after year, my cute little boy will only grow up.

Hail Storm!

We have had a very wet spring so far. The other day we had a pretty good hail storm going on. Gabe and Raygen wanted to go out and play in it. I told them that it hurts to play in a hail storm. They didn't believe me, so I decided to let them figure it out for themselves. They had a lot of fun running around screaming like feral children.

Dance!

Well Raygen finished another year of dance. She performed in three dances and the finale. It was a lot of fun to watch her. She is really learning the dance moves and likes to be on stage. We gave her a bouqet of flowers and so did Aubree and Brianne! She got a cute dancer jewelry box from her teachers. We also got to see Ashlee perform in a lot of dances including her solo. She did an excellent job! This was her last year of dance so we were even more glad we got to see her! After it was over we took some pictures of them. Raygen took a picture with her friend, Abby, who looks a whole lot like Brooklynn! It was a fun recital and we are so glad Tyson is working in Montpelier right now so he was able to come too.