WF'ers Hard at Work:

Here is my shout out to all you WF'ers out there! Oh, you know who you are! This is a long hard day on all the guys, but ultimately, this is what they are doing and trying to accomplish. I won't go into details, I know family people read my posts around the dinner table and would be bound to be sick, just kidding, but I will spare you the details: Jake on the branding iron:

My girls always love to be part of the action. If I would have let them over the fence, they would have probably helped out a great deal! But I know how cowboys feel about little kids running around when things are getting done:

I am not sure who is winning this match, Hoss or the calf, kinda hard to tell, you be the judge:
(I already know the outcome, so you can't ask me)



What? It takes 2 cowboys to put 1 calf in a chute? This is just proof to all those light bulb jokes!



Gitter Done!!!

It really is a long day!

Another one of those moments, looks like a lot of talking to me: (but there really was working going on)

Cy-you can try to hide behind Hoss, but I will get a picture of you!

One of my favorite things:

During the summer, this is one of my very favorite views. Jake takes the girls and I with him quite a bit to go change water. We all love it. Tai has her own shovel to help and Teya just makes a mess and throws dirt clods. For easter, Jake and I gave the girls Hello Kitty rain gloshers (aka irrigation boots). This was Teya's first pair and she loves them already!
I even bought myself my own pair last year, i think they might be the cutest pair of "irrigation" boots I have ever seen. (the inside lining is pink). Teya loved stomping in the dirty water:

Tai decided to stay behind with Grandma Paula at her house and have a bath. Teya and I went with Jake to change the water:

I am still wierded out by how Teya can sit, I think she might be double jointed. Many people can sit like that sort of, but try putting your feet in the direction hers are. This is one of her favorite positions as she throws rocks and dirt:

Teya loved walking around in the water. Once I showed her that she could walk around with her new boots on, that is all she wanted to do, she pulled me all over the field:

Easter Dresses

I found these at Christensen's in Richfield. I probably spent a little to much for them, but they are so cute!

My little Top Model:My little Miss Attitude, wouldn't let me take her picture:

Easter Morning

My girls loved their easter baskets. They each got a new coloring book, crayons, a book, and a small treat! Thanks Easter Bunny!! ;) ;)

Cute girl

I just thought Tai looked so cute this day! We kind of threw this outfit together. She wanted to wear the pants with the shirt (that didn't match) so we threw on the jacket, and wa-la!

Favorite Things Party 2009

We had our second annual Favorite things party this year at Bree's house. For anyone who doesn't know what it is, it is a spin off from Oprah's Favorite Things. We each choose an item/items that is one of our favorite thing that cost approx. 5-8 dollars and we bring enough of them for everyone at the party. We get together and laugh, dine, laugh, share gifts, and laugh!!

Don't be fooled by this picture, we are all sitting calmly smiling: This is the real us, laughing, goofing off, and just loving being away from our responibilities:

Here are some of the favorite things items that I got this year: (summer pitcher, Country Time lemonaid, recipies, Cadbury mini eggs, chapstick, sanitary hand wipes, swiffer dusters, ceramic bowl, potatoe peeler, gum, notebook, post-it notepad, mechanical pencil, pillow, nail polish, toe seperator & lip gloss)

This was the favorite thing item that I brought for everyone! I LOVE gerber daisy's!

Miss Mess

My mother-in-law appropriately named Teya "Miss Mess"! This is ANOTHER one of those moments where I got on the phone and Teya had her way with a bottle of Petrolium Jelly! In her defense, our Pediatrician told us to try rubbing it on the backs of her hands because she has such dry, red, itchy skin to try to lock the moisture in. She just didn't catch on to that's the only place we rub it into! So here you have it:

I feel like I am constantly walking behind this girl cleaning up mess after mess. Kind of gets old!

Easter egg hung 2009

My friend invited me to come to Richfield and go to the Easter Egg hunt. There were so many people. The girls had fun. Got lots of candy, and hey, it was outside, who can beat that?

Teya was pulling a little bit of attitude that day:Gotta grab fast before the other kids got them:

Tai filling up her bucket:

Teya found an egg filled with jelly beans. She was so nice to share one with sister:

The party even came with an easter bunny you could get your picture taken with. The girls didn't really know what to think of him:

2 Dancing Girls

The girls have found that they LOVE to dress up in Tai's dance costumes and dance around. I always knew Tai loved to do this, but I am so surprised that Teya loves to do this. It is so cute.

California Here we come! (again)

Well I did it! I booked our trip to San Diego! I have the biggest tummy tickles right now! We are going with our friends Aaron & Suz, and we are taking all the kids and going to have a blast!

We will need our trusty map of Sea World to make sure that we see everything, not that Suz isn't the best guide ever, but it makes us look official and the kids love to look at them:

We will probably hit "the" burger joint. Although I have been craving a steak burrito from somewhere, I have no idea what it is called or where to get it, I only know that you get them in San Diego and "Miker" aka Suz's dad Mark knows where it is:We are flying on Jet Blue:

Going to hit the beach, hopefully the weather will be nice:

And did I mention Sea World? Tai has already asked me if she could swim with Shamu. I feel really bad that she is still like 18 years away from her dream coming true of swimming with Shamu (you know after marine biology school:) )

Tai's soccer game

After she got kicked in the head:Daddy/Coach Quarnberg consoling her:

Tai's number 1 fan- Grandma Paula:


Daddy & Tai- What a great team!

Seriously Unattended:

So here is what went down! Jake stayed home from church to put Teya to bed, she was having one of those tired days. So they both got to have a nap. After lunch I decided to lay down on my bed and the girls were in there with me, or so I thought. I also thought that Jake was watching them-boy was I wrong. I didn't really get to sleep, but my eyes were closed and all the sudden I hear Teya by me and I wake up to this (this close to my face). She had gotten into my scrapbook equipment and scrapped her face! I started laughing so hard, so I bring her out to Jake who is laying on the couch. He started laughing even harder than I was. What am I going to do with this girl? Never a dull moment! Don't let these eyes fool you- she is a mischief maker on all accounts!

Tai's first Soccer game

Tai is number 9! She got so tired running around, but she did so good!

For Angie and Hadley

This post is dedicated to my friends Angie and Hadley who loaned me some Scentsy samples to smell to figure out what ones I wanted to purchase. My girls always play with them when they go over to their house, but I wanted to show the random places that I found these samples and what they were being used for (in addition to smelling good):

They are great for Princecesses to be put on:

They are great building blocks to stack up as high as you can reach:

They are great additions to your food storage and pantry:

And apparently they are great tasting, which would explain why Teya put them in the pantry:

(Sorry Ang, I didn't know Teya could open them by herself until it was to late, hopefully this is the only one)

3rd and 6th at Nationals

Our whole goal in going to California was to Compete at Nationals. Our girls did so good! Our Level 1 squad took 3rd and level 2 took 6th. I am so proud of all these girls, they worked so hard all year long! Thanks for a DYNAMITE year!!!!