Spring 2012 

Part 1

Before

After

This is the first year we have tried to really garden here at the house.  It was a HUGE success!! This is the big garden where we planted green beans, peas, tomatoes, cucumbers, squash and zucchini.  We had a small area too but we have done that before.  I am really proud of how well the garden went and can't wait until we plant again in the Fall!

Junie B. our ghost of a cat!! I looked out onto the porch and saw her sleeping like this on the swing and it was just too funny to me!  She was flat on her back like a person!  She spent most of this spring over at the Harbins because Jake chases her if she tries to hang out in our yard?! She would come eat and sleep on the porch at night after we put the dogs up and then disappear again before they got loose in the mornings.  She is back home more now because we have been out so much working in the garden and hanging out on the porch. 

Every nine weeks there is a reading reward at NES.  In the past they have been pretty insignificant until the end of the year and they try to do something big then.  This year there was a new reading coach and she did an AMAZING job!  She had wonderful rewards for them each nine weeks and the whole school went to the Rodeo at the end of the year!!  We got to go meet them at the Rodeo so Ty and Haley really enjoyed seeing all the cowboys and bulls too!  This is Brock waiting for the bus Rodeo morning.

Another shot...he is growing up way to fast!!

When Brock was about the same age as Ty I got a picture of him on this same tree with a cowboy hat on.  It is still one of my favorite pictures.  So this is Cowboy Ty...he LOVED the rodeo and says he wants to be a bull rider when he grows up...he actually says he wants to ride his motorcycle to the arena to ride bulls... just what every mother wants to hear!?  Maybe we could think of a really dangerous place for him to live too!? LOL!

He is so sweet and was so patient with me as I got him to pose all different ways...

then when I got done he requested we do one silly one...

It is my favorite one!!!  It is so him in every way!!  I sure do love that little boy!!

My sweet Haley.  She said this was as cowboy as she was getting...braids and Uggs!  I think my Hoover side is coming out in Haley! Lol!

Ty and Vivi Ruth before it started.  She is so precious!  We will use this picture at their rehearsal dinner some day! LOL!

And one with the whole group of siblings!  Haley loves all babies and really loves Miss Vivi!

One with the rodeo clown.

Watching the show