Real Family Pictures... :)

Alyssa graduated from the beloved PHS this year and so all the siblings and their families made it back to help her celebrate. It was a super fun trip and I was so happy we all made it back. It gets harder and harder the more we expand and the more established we all get in our own families. But glad we were all able to make it happen. Congrats Lyssa! 

A friend of ours came and took our pics as we were all home and it was pretty fun, but I love taking pics! As stated previously. :) But she did such a great job and they turned our really well and I was so happy with them. So here are some of them... 

And they lived happily ever after.....

muah ha ha ha 

A day in Dayton, WY

On Brian's weekend off we decided to go to WY and visit a super cute little town. It's about an hour from hardin and I've decided it's on my list of top 5 towns to live in. :) we found a park that was awesome! There was a dog play area, awesome playground, fun trails, and a raging river. (The water level was really high because of spring run off)

So here are some pics from our little adventure. 

She was being so breave crossing all by herself. :)

Look at the tall dandelion! 

This is a real action shot! You can see the stream of drool from his mouth blowing in the wind! Ha ha 

This picture makes me laugh because this is what it really is like. For every 100 pics like this we get 3 where everyone is happy and looking. Well at least pretending to be happy. 

The boys and their baby blue eyes can't stand the sunlight. Squinting is all they do, even behind the sunglasses. 

We found some snow on the way home. Madi had to go play in it. Mason and I watched from the car. 

Brian had to play too. I've decided boys will always be boys. I think he was collapsing the snow into the stream running below it. 

While these types of adventures are nice I am quickly reminded why we don't do them very often. It was fun when everyone was cooperating and happy but when one gets cranky it's very tiresome and quickly makes the moment seem like a chore rather than a vacation. Ha ha ha

Little ones make everything take much longer and some things much harder. But I'm trying to remember to enjoy the journey and not get to discouraged.... But we are still working on that.....

Probably a bad time to blog as we are traveling to WA and the M&M's are having a scream fest in the back. Amazing how they feed off of each other. When one gets mad it makes the other upset and then pretty soon they are both crying and I want to cry. 

We will be there shortly so until then I will pretend it's a happy car full of joyous family members signing happy songs. :)

Family Pics!

Lets go back in time like 5 years..... For our anniversary we were given a tri-pod. Awesome right? Well I used it twice and then packed it away in a nice safe place for future use. Fast forward 2 years and we moved.... Well tri-pod was lost and no where to be found. While I was pretty positive we couldn't have lost it, I had no idea where it was. Fast forward another 3 years and we moved again, and lo and behold we found the tri-pod. 

So I say let the fun begin. And Brian says, really? fun? ha ha ha

I forced my family into doing a very short and painless photo shoot. It really honestly lasted maybe 10 mins. But now that I have found the tri-pod, and I have this awesome camera, we shall be taking many more of these great family photo shoots.. So feast your eyes on what our family looks like now. :) Minus the cat.. Panda doesn't go outside. Maybe by Christmas her and the dog will be better friends and we can all be one happy family in one room for a pic. :)

Take one: EPIC FAIL as I sat right in front and blocked the view.

Much better as we can see everyone now.

The best one we got because the dog got put inside... We were less scared of her taking out the camera.

Madi did this one all by herself

Hard to get the Mason man to smile. It was right after church and he was ready for a nap.

The girls!

I love this picture. Brian ran fast to stick Mason right in front during the last timed shot.

And some more of my cute children having fun in the beautiful sun.

Yes, I still love feet pics.

He thought he was being oh so funny

She can now pump on the swings all by herself and it makes everyone this happy! :)

Water always makes everything more fun

A look at the back of most of our house... Never got around to finishing the tour of our house... Maybe someday I'll finish that one. We need some flowers or something back here... Something with color!

Farewell!