Science Fair

We all survived the science fair this year. I hated the science fair growing up so I am very thankful that Ryan loves it. A few weeks ago Vanessa came home with a paper saying for the 3rd graders they were going to have an egg drop and you had to package the egg so it wouldn't break. I laughed at Ryan and Vanessa and said good luck. So one night Ryan and Vanessa got prepared...

Step 1: they put a raw egg in a ziploc bag so that it wouldn't leak everywhere if broke.

Step 2: Put the egg in a pair of nylons with knots at both ends

Step 3: Put the nylons inside of a punching balloon (it was tied so that it stayed in the middle of the balloon

Step 4: Put a weight (dirt) on one end of the balloon so that it would fall that way.

Step 5: cross your fingers it worked....

here is Vanessa and Ryan looking at everything after the drop.

Here is The drop

Well sadly it didn't work but happy to say that it just had a teeny tiny crack in it. They know what to do for Trista's now :)

Easter 2010

We cannot believe that Easter has already come and gone. Time is going by way to fast. I thought that you would like to see how our Easter was...We got up to some very excited girls seeing that the Easter Bunny had been to our house (he hides our eggs and leaves a couple of goodies, the rest is from mom and dad).

This is Trista and Vanessa at my parents house, my mom loves hiding eggs for the kids this year there was still a little snow on the ground (yuck).

Natalia was so excited to find eggs on her own even the ones high :) then later to discover there is candy in them she was in heaven lol.

Natalia, Trista and Vanessa at my moms with presents...later my mom brought out big presents the big girls got pogo sticks and Natalia a wagon with blocks. We now laugh because the pogo sticks are Ryan and I's because my mom bought them at a store going out of business and bought them to big and the kids can't use them. I am lucky to get them to bounce. What a work out that is for sure :)

Natalia loved her presents...yep those are blue drum sticks behind her. That was her dad's idea since we discovered how much she has used the Wii drum sticks and even broke one she plays with them so much so these are getting well used now...yep and a bag of cookies lets just say they are gone now :) she is defiantly her mother's kid "Cookie Monster"

Here is our adorable girls easter morning. The big girls got new shirts from Mima a few days before and thought it would be great to match since we were going to my cousin's house for Easter dinner later that day. Easter was a blast.

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Crazy Week

So of coarse the end of spring break poor Natalia got sick but then luckily she got better for a few days because Monday my dad had gone into the ER with Congestive Heart Failure. So Monday and Tuesday Natalia and I spent the day there with my parents and my sister. Tyler was there for awhile then left to go run the crew for my dad. Luckily with med's he came home Thursday (when I say home I mean back to his camper with his shearing crew for another few weeks, disadvantage of being shearing season) and is trying to take it easy.

Wednesday Natalia and I stayed home while Ryan and the big girls went to the hospital. Natalia was so sick all day all she wanted was her drink and cartoons all day poor little thing I hate kids being sick. She is better now :)

Yah! I love picture's and it was school class pictures and the fun individual picture day. I didn't get a picture of Vanessa she leaves way to early in the morning for me to think. Here is Trista getting ready to go to Kindergarten and Natalia who also got to go to the school and get her pictures taken. Can't believe how fast the girls grow.

Natalia hates getting ready (she hates her hair done) but she sure loves how she looks after. I love she has almost enough hair for pig tails. She loved going to the school with mommy but when it came time for the pictures no way! So I bribed her and gave her my chap stick to yep we'll have a chap stick in the picture but thats ok with me.

Spring Break 2010

So after we got tons done around the place the first part of spring break we decided the second part we would go visit Grams and Pops. The girls were so excited and what a great trip we will take the 2 hrs and 45 min. drive vs the 5 + hour drive anytime. The girls could watch 2 DVD's and be there. We were all so excited to get out of Carey and out of the snow and actually see green grass and flowers starting to grow.

The girls informed Pops that they were coming for their hair cut appointment. Vanessa has been wanting for awhile to cut her hair short she hated brushing her long hair. So after a lot of talking with her dad (who did not want her to cut her long hair) Vanessa, Pops, Auntie Lisa and Mommy won and Vanessa got her hair cut.

Here is Vanessa after her hair was cut she was so excited and has done something with it every day. She says the next step is a trip to see Auntie Lisa so she can get a perm in it because she wants it curly all the time. Poor girl was cursed with her mothers straight hair.

This was Trista after her hair cut (she just wanted it trimmed and layered because she likes her long hair)...she is trying to teach her Auntie Lisa chess but it was like trying to teach her mom pointless lol.

Natalia couldn't figure out what all the hype was and what Pops was doing to her sisters hair. Nope Natalia didn't get a hair cut she doesn't have enough to cut yet.

This is Vanessa's hair before she got it cut.

She told Pops what she wanted him to do to her hair and he said ok and started cutting she was so scared and wondered if she had made the right choice.

Thanks Grams and Pops for a great couple of days we had a lot of fun. It was so fun to see Auntie Lisa and Mark, Kristi and Jackson also :)

Big Girl

So I was getting ready to put the baby stuff away in the shed and I have done this before and every time I do Natalia insists on swinging in her swing which she is so not little enough for anymore but she loves it and sits in there for so long and when she is done swinging then she has to dig out her baby dolls and they have to swing also. It is so adorable I love it.

Natalia is a big girl now in the girls room and loves her bed. Thanks Grams and Pops for the bed :) She loves being big.

Look at this adorable "I'M A BIG GIRL" smile

Christmas in March

So in Ryan's family I always laugh and you have to love them. We did not see Ryan's siblings for Christmas this past year with his parents move and everything it just didn't work out. So here it is in March and we had a family dinner one night in Twin and decided after dinner to let the kids play at the Arctic Circle play ground to get them wore out to sleep on the way home. Well we all figured what a great place to have Christmas presents in the parking lot out of the trunk. It was so much fun you gotta love moments like these ones you will never forget.

Lisa's present to the parents

This is all 3 of our girls and Lisa's son Casey (he is 7 months older than Trista)

Opening presents in the parking lot