Tre is 6!

My once "little" boy....



Has now turned 6! I can't believe how fast time flies! He is sure he is pretty big now, and hates if anyone says anything about him being little. He is quite the kid! He is so much fun to have around and he is my biggest helper I have. We love ya bud!




He wanted a shark cake this year for his birthday. The nice thing was, it was super easy to do and was so fast!


He was pretty excited about all his new birthday presents and the fact that he is now 6. He informs me that he is basically "grown up" now!

Busy, Busy, Busy!

It has been so busy the last few months! Here are a bunch of pictures of what has been going on lately. They start from most recent and then go back before Christmas. I am bad at keeping up. Bridger's and Gentry's birthday were just last week, so with Christmas and New Years and birthdays it has been crazy!


My mom bought Bridger a bouncy ball house for his birthday. Here is a small look at the disaster it was trying to get it set up. Bridger liked all the paper and packaging best to play with, which worked out since his brothers took over everything he got.


Bridger doesn't really get to enjoy the ball pit all to himself. He has to share it with everyone, and usually he gets bounced out. But thank you grandma it was a hit, you did good!


Gentry opening her presents. She was so excited! She told me that Santa came and brought her presents. She hasn't quite figured all this out yet!


At first Bridger wasn't sure if he wanted to eat his cake. He wouldn't even touch it. But that only lasted a few minutes and as you can see he devoured it!



He was the biggest mess!


Bridger got a train for his birthday cake. It was simple but cute. It was super easy too.


This was Gentry's cake. I thought it turned out so cute! I was excited.


The kids decided to go outside one morning to help dad with the chores. They hurry and got dressed and headed out. The boys looked somewhat normal but then came Gentry...


she also dressed herself to go outside, I bet you couldn't tell! She looked AMAZING so I had to take a picture!


This is the best picture I got on Christmas of all the kids together. It was crazy that morning so I was having a hard time taking pictures and helping the kids. But every night this is part of our bedtime routine and I think it is so cute!


I didn't forget Bridger, during reading he thinks it is a little squishy so he always looks at the books on the floor.



Bridger loves playing in the bottles and sippy cups. This is a re-run of last year when Coy was his age!


We made gingerbread houses right before Christmas for FHE one night. They were pretty proud of their houses. It was a lot of fun.



The kids enjoying the first and only snowfall we have had. As you can tell it wasn't much! But kids don't care, they will play in whatever they get.


We were late for the temple one night and the kids were going to grandma's house. I ran in the back to grab my coat and when I came out Coy had gotten into the diaper bag and dumped the powder milk all over Bridger's head. Coy made sure the the first snowfall we had happened in the house too! (It was the same day!)

Coy's Big #2

I can't believe Coy is 2 now! He is getting so big! He is pretty fun, and has the cutest personality. He can be quite the little mischievous stinker from time to time, and he gets into EVERYTHING he is not supposed to while giving you the "I am doing something naughty" grin. He makes me laugh (most of the time) and he loves to play with and torment his brothers and sister. He is quite the kid. Happy Birthday bud!


This was Coy's bat cake. I thought it turned out so cute, and he was so excited when he woke up from his nap and saw his "birf-day tate!" He just sat and looked at it for a little bit and had to show everyone when they came over.


He was pretty excited about his birthday. He wasn't a hundred percent sure what was going on, but he loved that everyone was paying attention to him.


He had just finished opening presents and him and Gentry played with them for a while before the fighting started. Those two can't play for longer than five minutes before starting to beat on each other! Gotta love kids.


He was one proud little bugger with his goggles and new helicopter that night before bed. I love how easy it is to please when they are so small!

Halloween

All the kids were pretty excited for Halloween. Tre was Mega-tron, Gentry was Snow White, Bridger was a bat, and Coy was Scuba Steve (notice the flippers and shorts). Coy was scared of his Halloween costume, (which was an elephant) but he wanted to wear goggles so I thought of Scuba Steve. He loved it.


Gentry loved her costume after I battled with her to put it on for school all morning. But once she went to school and came home she didn't take it off all night.


Bridger was my vampire bat. He really didn't care about the whole Halloween thing but he was a happy boy that night.


Coy thought dressing up was pretty fun after he wasn't so scared of his costume.


I know this picture is blurry but I wanted to get his flippers from behind because they wouldn't stay on straight and they looked hilarious!


Tre and Aiden were pretty tough transformers!

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.