Our Days Around Here

Our days around here are usually crazy ones! With four small kids it is bound to be that way...


Tre and Gentry head off to school, but not without hugging Coy until he freaks out and wants left alone.


Gentry is only nice to Coy when she is leaving for school. For some reason she all of the sudden wants to hug and kiss Coy when any other time of the day she is running after him with her claws out.


Bridger is usually always happy in the day. The other day Gentry's Snow White wig came in the mail and I had to see what it looked like because she was still at school. So Bridge was my guinea pig, but he didn't care one bit that I was trying the wig out on him. He thought he was pretty funny. I laughed so hard at how calm he was with it on his head. He didn't touch it one time, he just left it alone. He is a goof!


Coy is my mischief maker around here. He gets bored when the kids are gone. For some reason he has a thing with my mascara and almost every day he gets into it and eats it and paints himself with it. So here is what he looked like after a great mascara snack. And if you think he is dirty, you should see my walls, Gentry's bed, and my mascara tubes!


While the kids are gone is when I get all my baking and cleaning done. I usually bake bread once a week and then finally, I made my own butter! I was so excited, it was so easy and it actually tastes really good! I was quite proud of myself, and I know pride is not a good thing, but come one, I was excited! So see Gini, it isn't hard and it does turn out yellow!

First Annual J3 Ranch Rodeo

Casey had a ranch rodeo at his arena Saturday. It was a lot of fun. They had six teams consisting of four guys and had four events; team branding, trailer loading, ranch doctoring, and muley roping. I didn't get any pictures of the muley roping, it got too dark for my camera by the time we got to the last event. The cowboy's families came out to watch and there were a lot of people who came out.


This was during the first event, team branding. There were two teams at a time going for this one.


A lot more people than we expected showed up to show their support. There were a ton of kids there so they all had a blast. This is only a few of them, there were more behind the hay and watching the rodeo. They were everywhere. Casey joked that next rodeo he will charge by the kid instead of each contestant!


Gini and Renae Jaques kept score, along with Bud and Amy.


Mike Pearson, James Pearson, and Dustin Wells were all on Daniels team. During the trailer loading, they had to rope the calf and get it loaded into the trailer, and shut both latches on the trailer in the shortest amount of time.


...almost...


Ah, and it is in the trailer.


There was a big hole in the ground that was a magnet for kids. Coy especially loved this hole and played there the entire rodeo. He was a gray little dust bomb by the time we left that night.


Dustin Wells and Daniel


Mike and Dan during the calf doctoring event.


Samantha loved playing in the hole too. She was covered in dirt because Coy kept throwing it on her, little stinker. But she just kept playing and never flinched, she is so cute!


Bud and James looking over the final scores of the night. Jesse Jensen's team took first place. It was a pretty fun night.

Family Pictures, Finally!

Makala did our family pictures for us the other day. She does such a great job! She actually got my squirmy little kids to look like halfway calm children! They turned out so cute, I am excited. sorry there are a lot of pictures on this post, but there were so many fun ones I tried to put on as many as I could.





Coy wanted to throw dirt so bad that when Dad got mad at him it broke his heart. Dirt was way funner than pictures!










These pictures were taken toward the end, and Coy was done. He didn't want to stand when he could run and play with all the neat horse stuff that was at the Parkers. Dan was having a fun time trying to get all the boys to sit still!























All in all they turned out great! Thanks Makala, you are the best, they are way fun.

Gentry Lu

I took Gentry to a pediatrician yesterday who specializes in childhood behavior and autism. I have started noticing things about Gentry the last little while and wondered if she had some form of that. After talking to the doctor yesterday and while she sat and evaluated and watched her for over an hour, she told me that she was 90% sure (not 100 because Gentry wouldn't talk to the doctor so she had to watch and listen to they way she interacted with me and the toys in the room) that she has PDD or Pervasive Developmental Disorder. In other words a high-functioning form of Autism. This has killed me the last few months since I have really noticed it, but I know that it will be okay. I know that if we get started on therapy with her now that she will be able to deal with it when she gets older. It is just extremely overwhelming right now especially when I have two babies younger than her. But I know that Heavenly Father knows her and our needs and he will help us through this trial and to learn to deal with it. Gentry will always be Gentry! The doctor told me that she would always have her little Gentry quirks, but I think that will be just fine. She is quite the little girl, and she is always making us laugh. We love her to death and wouldn't change a thing about her!

My Little Clown

I love when babies get their little personalities. All of mine have gotten theirs really early and I love when they hit about a year and a half. All the things they do are so funny. They are discovering everything around them and how to use it and they are discovering who they are. Coy is right in the middle of that stage right now and he makes me laugh everyday. Here are a few pictures I have taken of him the last few days....


Gentry got a new dress from Grandma, and Coy HAD to wear it. The funny thing was he didn't just wear it for a second, he had it on all day!

I put Gentry in the tub and then walked out of the bathroom. When I came back in this is what I saw....


Clothes, diaper, and yes, shoes all still on. He thought he was so funny!

The Fish Hatchery

I decided it would be really fun to take the kids out somewhere a few weeks ago. It was finally beautiful outside and Daniel was studying for finals. So I figured that we could go down to the fish hatchery that is just a few miles from my house and let the kids play and see the fish. What a trip that turned out to be. I realized that with 4 little kids, even the smallest, simplest outing is a big production! We got to the fish hatchery and I tried to get everyone to eat first. Of course Coy was right up to the table anxious for lunch. Tre joined him a few minutes later but there was no Gen....


Gentry didn't want to eat, instead she climbed up a tree and then got stuck! I had to climb up the tree and pull her out! It was a good thing Ruth came, I thought I could do it by myself, but after Gen got caught in the tree and Coy wanted to run in every direction, I realized I was crazy!




We went down where they have a big window that looks into the water so you can see all the fish. The kids thought that was pretty fun and didn't want to leave. We stayed there for a little while.
















Gentry thought the fish were pretty neat. She had to show "granny-D" all the fish.


There's the sturgeon they have down there now. They used to have two great big ones that were almost 100 years old, but somebody threw poison in the water and killed them. People these days, I really don't get it.


This is what I looked like packing all my little munchkins around. There was a big bus of older people that were down there also and I must have been quite the scenic attraction because a lot of them took double looks!

Time Flies

I am horrible at keeping up with my blog. So here is my attempt to kind of catch up. I didn't show any Christmas pictures because I was as big as a house in all the pictures as I thought I was majorly overdue with my 4th baby. But this year has flown by thus far! I can't believe it is basically May! Time flies! My house is quite the crazy zone as of late with the addition of my fourth baby! I now have a 5 year old, a 3 year old, a 1-1/2 year old, and a 4 month old! Life is crazy but it is fun at the same time. At night when Daniel gets home and plays with all the kids and I sit back and watch them tackle and wrestle each other, it is so fun and I don't want them to get old. But then as I get ready for church each Sunday and by the time I have them in the car and I am red faced, hoarse, and exhausted, I find myself desperately wanting them to get just a little older. Funny how that works! The joys of motherhood I guess, but here is just a few bits of this year so far.....


Just when I was sure I was never going to have my baby and he was going to fossilize in my stomach, Bridger came January 5th two days before Gen's birthday. I thought I was due December 17th so we were a little off on my due date. And good thing I was so late because he was tiny at just 5 lbs 6 oz and 19 inches long. He was so little, it was crazy! I was sure I was going to have a monster, but he was not that.


It is crazy having four kids already! I must love the utter chaos.....it is crazy but kids are fun. I can't imagine life without them!


Bridger was so small when he was born. I have never had one so tiny so it was really different. He seemed so fragile, and newborn clothes absolutely swamped him.




Bridger was so tiny compared to Coy. It seemed like I had my very own David and Goliath. Coy has been really good with Bridger, a few rough ups, but most of the time he is really soft with him.


Gentry had her birthday in January and she turned 3. She could have cared less that day, I had to wake her up right when the grandparents got to our house so she wasn't in the best mood for it until we lit the candles. She looked like quite the scruff that day, but that is Gen, she is quite the girl! She is fun, and always looks like a wild child!


Gentry is quite the big sister. She is quite the mother to the younger two but she keeps them entertained so that is a big help. She is coming out of her shell a little more and talks a lot more lately. I am glad to see that she is finally sticking up for herself and can hold her own.


Coy is my happy, yet mischievous little guy! Don't let his sweet little smile deceive you! He is always happy, but he LOVES to torment his big sister! Those two battle all day long and he is always taking something from her or touching her then running away laughing as she is following right behind screaming at him. He is a little ham! Just when I think I can't take anymore, there goes Coy acting like a little weird thing and the only thing you can do is laugh. He is our families clown.


Tre had his birthday in March, and I can't believe how big he is getting. I really don't know what I would do without that boy, he is the biggest help to me! He is so good about helping with the babies and getting the diaper bag ready when we go anywhere. Thanks bud I love ya! This year for his birthday he had to have a fishing cake. He got a fishing pole and he was pretty anxious to try it out......


So Grandpa Karl took him out to test it. To his surprise he caught a pretty big fish, I was pretty amazed and needless to say, he was quite proud!


My little man is pretty fun....he loves his tongue and he is ALWAYS sticking it out!


Bridger was blessed in March, he is still a little guy but he is getting bigger.


Wyatt with Coy when us girls took the kids to temple square on our way to see our other sister Angie. That was quite the busy trip and since I have quite the herd of little ones, I had to have the bigger kids help me keep tabs on all of them! Thanks to all of my family for their continual help! I would be batty without them.


Coy thought the bike in the museum was pretty neat. He plopped down and didn't want to leave.


In the museum there was a children's section where it taught you to dance. The kids dressed up and danced with it, but Gentry would not leave. That was her favorite spot!


Not only were the kids strutting their stuff but here is Gina showing off her sweet dancing moves for us! It was quite the show!