Babies and Bulls

My Shelby girl is almost 7 months! I don't know where my newborn went. I swear she was just here yesterday. At least she still feels little. She might be growing up, but she sure isn't growing very big. I love the photo below of her and the "baby bull bottle". She has 2 teeth! I have forgotten how cute new baby teeth are. Which reminds me, Rian lost her 3rd tooth. One on top. I spent yesterday morning trying to convince her to pull it. It was just dangling and I couldn't stand it anymore. But, I resisted doing it myself and after a bit, she finally did it. Kenni told her today that she has such a cute smile now.

If you look real real close, no, a little closer, you can see a tiny bit of hair.

Our alf alfa. With a few weeds thrown in. And some of my trees that I love. They are looking so good. They line the whole road.

Kenni is the only one that really dares to get out and play with Marcus. There is nothing like a little girl and her bull calf. (don't worry, he won't be a bull for much longer). I timed this shot perfectly. He just barely looked up from his bucket at me so I took it real fast. So cute.

aaaahhhhhh.......

Double aaahhhh........

Rian getting chasedWe had a blast riding the horses in the arena the other night. My horse pictures are on my phone and I haven't sent them to myslef yet but this was taken right before. Again, Kenni is the one that loves to ride the most. Then Graci. Rian has kind of lost interest in them. I think she is a bit scared since she fell off a couple years ago.

Today in primary Kenni told her teacher that her dad didn't want to marry her mom (me) because I didn't have blue eyes. Brian teases the girls and me because mine are mostly green and his are blue and the girls all got his beautiful blue eyes. So somehow, she came up with him not wanting to marry me cuz mine weren't blue. I am glad he changed his mind and decided he could live with a green eyed gal. Kenni also almost literally bit my head off this week twice for calling her Kendell. So, let that be a lesson to ya'all. Don't call her by her real name. "Don't call me that! I HATE that name! My name is Kenni!" Crazy Hair do's.

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday Rian! She turned 7 yesterday! I took off early yesterday morning and met my mom with the girls in Beaver at the cheese factory then we came home. It sure is great to have them back. I missed them a TON. They had a party for Rian Friday at Kims house then yesterday she came home to a fun surprise:

Yes, a cow. Brian had called and arranged to get him from a Dairy close by so on Wed. I ran out and got him. The girls have been calling him Marcus. Don't know what their cousin Marcus will think about that. They have been having fun with him. He sure is a cute little guy.

She also got a Transformer, (she has been wanting bumble bee), Monopoly Junior, a pink ctr ring, a purse from Kim, money, and her birthday doll. We had a fun day and today we will make her some cupcakes. Kim comes tonight with the kids because Marcus has soccer camp at BYU. So it will be fun to hang out with them this week.

Lost

I feel kind of lost and out of sorts because Rian Kenni and Graci are at Kims house for a week. They have only been gone one day, and I can't believe how much I miss them. There were times when I would think that it sure would be nice to have a day to myself to get everything cleaned and projects done. Now, I realize that I would much rather have them here and have things take me longer and have a cluttered house than a clean one. I just miss them. At the same time, I know they are having a great time and I guess it is good to miss them and hopefully they will miss me and we can all appreciate each other more. Sure made me know more than ever that I love to be their mom. On the bright side of them being gone, it is also fun to just be me, Brian and Shelby. Reminds me of the days when it was just the 3 of us when Rian was a baby. I think Shelby likes 100% attention from us. She has been so happy and laughing at everything it seems. Every Sunday I get feeling down and kind of sad thinking of Brian having to go back to work on Monday. I was feeling even more down tonight knowing my girls won't be here either. Then he suprised me by telling me he had taken tomorrow off! I love it when he does that. He was going to wait till morning but I was getting sad. So, tomorrow should be good. We want to get our stuff done around here, then go to lunch and we have the rodeo committee barbq tomorrrow night.
We had a great Kleinman family reunion at the Old Pinery this past weekend. I will post a few pictures I took. (I mostly did video). We had a great time seeing all my family that we don't see too often. Candice and I cooked the first night. We made navajo tacos and laughed and laughed because we had about 50 extra scones. It was pretty funny. We planned a little too well I suppose. We had such yummy food and it was just a really fun weekend for me. The girls went home with mom and dad and Kim and Carl and then in a couple weeks after the Torgersen reunion, Kims kids will come home with us and spend the week. We are doing a kid-swap.

Trae and Shelby

My sweeties and Camille who they love so much.

Oh, my Sissy Lou and her dad. I sure miss that little tyke.

I forgot about our little friend. Before we left on our trip, Brian had to get hay from the stack over to the horses. He started moving bales and two little heads poked out and about scared him to death. They were raccoons! He had to kill one :( but caught the other and brought it home. They were just babies but still pretty vicious. Me and the girls hiked up above our house a bit on the mountain to let it loose. He sure was cute. Too bad they aren't as nice as they are cute. I got to pet his little hand though.