Working with Daddy!

Today we took the day off from school to go on sort of a field trip. Colton is learning about operating heavy equipment and we will be going on a hike.   For now Carley, Stetson and I are just watching and getting eaten up by Bugs! Ouch !!!

Our first Light Sussex chicks!

We incubated eggs from our own hens! I put 21 eggs in and only 4 hatched! We'll do better next time though. I am thinking a few of them just weren't fertile as our hens were really young! Anyway.. these four little guys are thriving! I guess they can't stay in the bathroom forever, so hopefully we will get something built for outside soon!

The kids are loving this new excitement! Can you tell?

Homeschool Day

Today we had our first day of PE, with a certified PE instructor! The kids had a blast and wore off a ton of energy. 

The highlight of the day seemed to be the "King Snake" that Colton brought for show and tell.   The kids crowded around him to touch it and Colton loved answering all their questions. 

Then Stetson found a cricket and was letting it crawl all over his shirt and thought it was so funny!  Can you see it??

Happy 4th Birthday Stetson!

I seriously can't believe my baby is four!!  Can I say we are out of the toddler stage?  I think it's safe to say now that ALL THREE of my kids can wipe their own butts! We had been talking to Stetson about this issue for weeks before his birthday and so the morning he woke up the first thing he told me was  "Now I am four, so today I'm going to wipe myself"  and HE DID!  Praise the Lord, he finally grew up! :)

This baby photo is probably the chubbiest photo I have of him at around 5 months. I don't hardly remember him being that chubby as he wasn't THAT chubby for very long. I'll post one of him underneath that doesn't even look like the same baby! lol

Here's a little collage of the happenings from yesterday!  You can see how excited he was to be four and to have his best friend's over to play. They were all still talking about it in church this morning :)

                                                               (click images to enlarge)

The bottom middle photo he was explaining "this is the best birthday I ever saw!" 

Indoor photoshoot with Stetson Travis King

This little guy has a b-day next month!  This wasn't for anything special but I ended up getting a few good shots that I may just blow up for his bed room wall :) We were up late waiting for Daddy to get home and decided to play with bounce flash while he was comfy and reading a book on Mom's bed.

He is too cute and these shots show is personality just perfectly!

Colton turned seven!!

Appologizing in advance beacause I'm going to load a whole lot photos of one child!  The one who began this whole journey called "Motherhood" which I absolutely love and enjoy!  He is the one that caused my heart to melt for the very first time.... I could stair and stair and kiss and snuggle for hours on end! Thank you Lord for giving me such a beautiful baby who is growing into such a handsome young man of God :)

 Then and now....... 

We had a few or our new friends over, it was crazy and hectic but the kids had a blast!

They got to fee the baby calves, ride horse and roast marshmallows! 

 Sean stacked up a nice new fire pit and brought hay bales over for

everyone to sit on. Kinda feels like camping right in our back yard! 

 I tried to make a snake cake.. it wasn't as creative as I was hoping it

would be but everyone seemed to think it was pretty cool. 

 He opened most of his presents out by the fire, yes, in the dark! So, with that said.. I 

didn't get very good photos of the present opening. Anyway, he had a blast and that's what counts! 

He's already asking when he'll be 8!!!! haha

working with Daddy

Last Monday we were able to join Sean at work while he did some testing.  The kids thought it was great fun to "go to work" and help out.   It's always fun when we get to see some long horned cattle and a cave.   I had to bring the camera of course and I even captured a hawk that was down in the cave trying to cool off. 

 The boys are the ones that spotted the Hawk!

Stetson had to wear his work clothes he said "Mom, I have to wear these pants 'cause I'm going to work!"

 and yes..... we all wear silly hats in the hot Arizona sun :)

 putting on masks so they can watch Daddy crush rocks.

 always a dirty job..... 

 local ranchers run cattle all over the place... watch out for Cow pies!