Happy Birthday to Me

For my birthday, Jake took us up to Grass Valley for a picnic (prepared by me). We let the kids play, had lunch, and enjoyed being outside. Oh of course we changed the water while we were there!I had to take some pictures of the clouds that day! They were so pretty. I am not really sure what that means when they look like that, but I sure would like to know. My little irrigation girl!

Teya had a fabulous nap!

This cloud was the coolest ever. You can't see it, but it had a rainbow right by it.

Teya sliding down the dirt hill on her bum!

I thought this was kind of funny. Tai found some shade!

My girls really play good together!

Happy Birthday to me!

SUPRISE!!!

For Jake's 30th birthday, I threw him a birthday party at the park. We had some of our closest friends over to BBQ and just have fun! I did it!!! It was a suprise, he didn't know a thing about it! The guys warming up the BBQ's!
Jake and I- just a couple of 30 year olds!
The 30 year old clan: Braydan, Nate, Travis, & Jake!

This is me as a 30 year old:

This is my official day out of the 20's. I think I look the same. I got my hair done the other day, so that may look different, but as far as I can tell, nothing has changed.

Happy Mother's Day

I got the cutest gift for Mother's Day from Tai. She made it at school: It was a card. The flower is her handprint.

This was on the inside. Miss Melissa wrote what Tai told her about me. I laughed pretty hard at some of the answers: I don't want my little girl to grow up!

Fun Outside

Along with warm weather comes another one of our favorite things to do. I send the girls out to collect rocks and sticks while I go inside to retrieve the water colors. The girls love, did I mention LOVE to paint the rocks and sticks. It is one of the cheapest things that entertain my girls. You can find the watercolors at Walmart of 96 cents. They each get their own and they have so much fun. The will do it for hours. The best part is they get to collect the "Prettiest" rocks that they can find and decorate it themselves, all while sitting outside on the front porch!

Miss & Missy Attitude

As a parent, you just "KNOW" that you never acted like that when you were a kid. But in all honesty, I think Jake and I both had attitude! So sorry to our parents for that- but I think we knew it was coming (especially with two girls). Which makes me just a little scared for the teenage years.

Here is Miss Attitude herself: I have heard it all now!!! I was helping Tai pick out her clothes one day and I randomly grabbed some levi's for her to wear. I handed them to her and she started to freak out. I said, "what is the matter, put your clothes on." She said, "I don't like those, they have ABC's on them." I was like "WHAT?!!??!!" So she pointed it out where the ABC's were, and said that she wanted to wear her heart ones. Holy crap! She is only 4 years old. Are they allowed to do that already? It makes me VERY VERY scared for the teenage years! Sorry again to my mom! :)

just chillin'

Another fabulous trip up to change the water. Jake done and left us to hang out by the truck cause Teya fell asleep (as she always does) 5 minutes before we reached our destination. So Tai and I played in the water and Tai took some fabulous pictures. Sorry Teya missed out on most of the running water, but she did wake up and we let her play for a while.

My girl

I love it when my girls give me a hug for no reason at all! I had let Tai get out of her car seat as we were about home and she came up to me and gave me a big hug and a kiss on the cheek! I told her to hold that thought and I snapped a picture! What a good girl! (P.S. the car was stopped)

My Own little Dynamite Cheerleader

A couple weeks ago Tai got to come try out to be on the Dynamite Firecracker's Cheer Squad. All the girls tryed out in groups of three. Here she is about to do her cartwheel:

Doing her cheer that we taught her:

The girls doing their jumps:
Me and the other coaches were the judges this year, so we got to sit right in front for all the action.

Cheering as a group:

Dancing as a big group:

This was the sign that we posted on the door, there were 4 different squads, but here is Tai's name & her teammates:After they got done trying out, Kellie's husband Brock got a flatbed trailer and some bales of straw for the girls to sit on and drove them around town. They cheered, stopped at Walmart and danced,and finally they arrived at the bowling alley, where we bowled and ate pizza.

Tai loves the older girls, and they all love her:

Easter Egg Hunt

This year, Grandpa & Grandma Quarnberg hosted an easter egg hunt. The kids had so much fun running around their HUGE yard collecting eggs. Teya, Tai, Kempton, & Ramzy-hopefully next year Karter can be there to complete the Quarnberg Grandkid clan:

Teya doesn't really like to wear dresses, so here she is running around in her diaper, and she doesn't even care:
The eggs were so cute, they were fish, flowers, fairies, and sea stars. Of course one of my girls found the Nemo egg.

Grandpa out helping (since he helped the easter bunny hide them)

Tai's Last Soccer Game

Tai had her last soccer game this week. It is kind of sad, the kids were just getting to where they knew what they were supposed to do. Tai has been pretty funny about it. She would go out and play for a while and then come over for a waterbreak/timeout or to say that "my legs are really tired!" But she was a good soccer player, she was always chasing the ball and right in the middle of things. She usually ended up on the ground, and even got kicked in the head/neck a couple times, but she stuck with it and had a really good year. She can kick the ball and chase after it- that is pretty big! :)

During our last game, Tai wanted to try being goalie. Coach Daddy helping her get the HUGE goalie shirt on:Coach Daddy giving her some pointers:I guess where there isn't action on your side, you still get to have a rest/time out: At any given moment, you would find these two chillin on the side lines. Katie and Tai would always run over to us as parents for a good job hug, or just to say they were tired and needed a rest:

Coach Jon Mason & Coach Jake Quarnberg; they really had a good time and the kids loved them:

(but I think they are secretly glad it is over)

Tai going after the ball:And again, going after the ball. This time, out of the goalie box:

Tai and Daddy-what a great team!

Tai was so excited about her metal: