Happy Birthday Boots!!!

I can NOT believe my baby girl is 5 today! Everyone told me after she was born to cherish EVERY moment, because they grow up so fast..... There have been days in these last 5 years, that I wished so badly that'd she would grow up and get out of one stage or another and there have been days that I just want to do something (I'm not sure what exactly) to keep her small! We been doing some pre-k/kindergarden work with her and this past week we talked about birthdays and why they are special. We looked back through pictures of the last 5 years and picked out some favorites to post.........

Boots was born at 1:12 am. She weighed 7 lbs, 10 oz and was 20 inches long.

Boots and Daddy riding Pepper after we moved some cows.

This child LOVES her animals! This was her kitty Harold.

Nappin' with daddy.

She was helping daddy carry posts and they took a break to throw sticks in the pond.

She still loves bath time.

We went to the zoo on her 3rd birthday with Jeremy's family.

Jeremy took her floating in the creek beside our house in the raft she got for her birthday.

Grandma Terry, Boots and Grandpa Eric holdin' baby chicks at Orschlen.

Her first fish!!

Ridin' Chica with Grandpa.

Holding her baby brother.

Playing with Baby Huffington. (Yes, we did let the donkey in our house sometimes.)

The Snow White dress she got for her 4th birthday.

Her favorite chicken, named Princess.

She was helpin' her Daddy work cattle.

She got to be a flower girl in her cousins wedding.

Helping mama make cinnamon rolls.

We had her 5th birthday party last weekend. This was her Spirit cake.

Some of her cousins and friends who came to her party.

Bethany's horse pinata.

We are enjoying our little girl so much these days. She can be such a handful sometimes and such a charmer at others! She is spending her days being a wonderful helper and big sister, a princess and a horse. We are so thankful that the Lord blessed us with an amazing little girl and can't wait to see what the next days, weeks, and years hold!

My Babies....

We finally got moved into our house, and are enjoying the space! Here a few pictures we've taken in the last few weeks. A couple are from a trip we took to Kansas City for our nephews birthday, and the others are from our new place......

Cody in the play place at Niko's birthday party.

Boots feeding her cousin, Rylee.


This is a very rare moment! This kid hardly ever stops moving!


Jeremy and Stewart keeping me from making the bed. Stew trumps EVERYTHING in Jeremy's mind!

My two babies looking at books. I love these moments!

Pure LOVE!!

The other day was the first nice day since we've moved, and we finally got to go play outside.

The creek out behind our house.

Stewie acting like he is better than everyone else!

Cody James in his mudders.

A Post I Forgot To Post!

Here are a few things that have happened since the last time I've posted......

*Jeremy and I had our 7th anniversary the 13th of December. *Jeremy's parents celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary the 19th of Dec. We pulled of a suprise party for them on the 4th of Dec. It was a fun time to celebrate with some of their friends and family.
*Christmas was a fun/busy time for us. We had our little family Christmas on Christmas Eve morning. (Thanks Santa for coming early!) We drove to Hutch to spend the evening with my dad's side of the family. Christmas moring was spent with Grandma Bernie (my mom), then we had dinner with Jeremy's extended family. That evening we did gifts with Jeremy's parents. Here are a few pictures.......

Gifts from Santa!

Grandma Bernie's place.

Jeremy's parents opening there anniversary gift from all the kids.

*We found out right before Thanksgiving that the ranch Jeremy was managing, and the the house we were living in, were being sold. So we moved, once again. We are in a temp. place right now and will be moving again sometime soon.

*It snowed 17 inches here last week, which made Jeremy's work not so much fun. Bethany enjoyed the snow. Lucky for her she has such a nice Daddy who would come home after dealing with it all day and the go back out in it to play with her. Cody and I got out a few times. It was the first real snow that he could "play" in, but it was so deep, all he could really do was just stand there. Here are a few pictures we got...................

This is how he spent most of his time outside.....

She talked her Daddy into taking her to the playground almost everyday!