This, That, and the Other

We have celebrated a few birthdays this month, my mom's (May 8th), and the ones that I have pictures of are my nefew Triffens (May 17th) and mine (May 18th).

Triffen turned 3 and had his birthday at the Deaver park. His mom thought up the CUTEST way to serve the dessert! Triffen asked for John Deere tractors.. and that is what he got!

I don't think there was a better was to serve dirt! 

The Birthday boy!

 Triffen had his own tractor with his own dirt in it to eat. I didn't get a closer picture, but you can sort of see it!

 The next birthday was mine! The morning of my birthday Erik was trying to get Lauren to tell me happy birthday, and she was acting all shy and wouldn't tell me! My sister had called me to wish me a happy birthday and Lauren asked "who was that, what did she want..." I told her it was Lila and that she told me happy birthday. Erik again said, Lauren tell mom happy birthday, and Lauren without skipping a beat said "Lila already did!" Lauren finally by the end of the day was able to tell me happy birthday (only once) without feeling so shy! My mom always makes our favorite meal, and this year I chose chip beef gravy on toast (I think I choose that every year)! It is one of my Grandma Asay's specialty's, and I absolutely love it! Lauren loves birthday parties and was so excited for the cake and candles!

 Lauren and I, she is keeping her eye on the prize!

 Lila and Sawyer!

 Serving up the cake and ice cream! Don't ask me what H.B. is doing with Sawyer!! Haha!

 After the party we went to the living room to talk, and we had the door open and my mom's "pets" came to the door! She has had chickens for over a year now, and just got these 3 chicks from a neighbor who hatched them for school and didn't want them anymore. My mom has a chicken book that she has been reading and read that chickens make good pets! She is trying it out on these 3 because they don't mingle with the other chickens and keep to themselves. Every night the chickens come to the front door and my mom carries them one by one to the back breeze way were they sleep for the night!

 My mom trying to catch her pets!

 Here's the girls and "Hawk" my mom says she thinks this one looks like a hawk, so he shall be names Hawk!

 That same night my brother Jacob came with his new truck to show off his skills! Jacob just recently started this new job, and I don't know much about it. I know it's a big vaccuum and he can clean up ditches, graineries,  and he does a lot of clean up for oil companies, and I am sure much much more! It was kind of neat to see this big vaccuum work!

 Jake has a remote around his neck and controls just about everything on the truck from that!

 My dad "Farmer Dave" watching!

 Getting ready to clean!

 This pressure washer is also controlled by his remote on his neck! With the pressure washer he is breaking things up so that it can be sucked up.

 Lila and Sawyer watching the action!

 The ditch is clean! Atleast that part of the ditch was clean!

 My mom working, while my dad stands and watches!! He is a slave driver I tell ya!

Sawyer @ 7 months

Yesterday (5.17.11) marked the day that Sawyer is now 7 months old! HOLY COW! At 7 months old Sawyer knows what she wants and... that would be mom! I am not saying this to brag, I am saying it because it is true! She is a little turkey and knows what she wants and knows how to get it! You want to know how I know this.. When I come to pick her up after I have been at dance practice she sometimes starts crying in the arms of my mom or dad right when she see's me, then when they give her to me, amoungst the tears and the crying she starts to smile. Rotten I tell you, she is rotten! Like I said in one of my last posts, I am going to take advantage of her likeness to me and go with it! Sawyer has attained quite a temper! At this age I am going to blame it on teeth, because she isn't her normal self lately, but then again maybe this is what my little monster is turning into!! sigh

Sawyer's likes:

*Mom

*to growl

*ice cream, Grandpa Jolley introduced her to that!

*Lauren, she is always happy to see Lauren in the morning when she wakes up even if Lauren is still asleep

*patty-cake, and being sung to

*veggies, fruit must be too sweet or sour becuase she always does a full body shiver when she tries it!

*outside

*Lauren's toy car seat, the box of wet wipes, a little bin that once held files. She likes hard things lately and can entertain herself for quite a while with them!

Sawyer's Dislikes

*Riding in the car

*bottles

*sippy cups

*naps during the day! This little one does not need to nap longer than about 30 minutes 3 to 4 times a day! She is for the most part pretty good about playing on the floor so i can manage to get the things done around the house, but sometimes I wish she would be sleeping at those times so I didn't feel so bad about just leaving her on the floor!
*her nose being wiped. She has had a cold for about a week and her nose is a constnt run. When ever I get a kleenex to wipe her nose she turns her head away from me as far as she can. Then we I get to her nose she shakes her head as fast as she can!

She is such a smiley girl, and Erik seems to think that she smiles more than Lauren did at this age. I think it is her chubby checks that make her smile so memerable and CUTE! I am sure Lauren smiled this much but we sadly start to forget.

Some pictures of our monster precious baby Sawyer!

I think it is so sweet when she rubs her eyes :)

"tummy time"



Baby it's warm outside!!

Finally, some warm weather! It has been so nice to get the girls outside! A little sunshine can make the day go by alot smoother! It is so nice to get out and get some fresh air, it is times like these I wish I would have bought that double stroller last year at the garage sale, or I wish I had a bike with a wagon attachment for the back!

(The first pictures that uploaded were the inside pictures, so we will start with those!)
Sawyer has taken a liking to Lauren's toys, and Lauren is a little concerned! Lauren try's to play with her but can get defensive at times! Oh the joys of being a big sister! As for now Sawyer doesn't really mind Lauren taking things away from her... but I see a change coming soon!

Here Lauren is holding her "little people" away from Sawyer so she can't get them!

 Poor picked on little Sawyer..

 And the older sister who can't seem to share!  And check out her fancy shoes! haha, Lauren is a shoe gal! She loves, loves, loves shoes! When her cousins from Casper where here, she was excited to see them and right after hugs were exchanged she went for their shoes to try them on!

 Lauren's got a lot of learning to do in the sharing area. However, today when I was trying to get my last paper of the semester written Lauren was a very big help with her little sister! Sawyer has been kind of crabby lately, at this age I blame everything on teething, but she can be quite the little monster when she wants to be. Anyways, today she didn't want to sleep, be put on the floor or anywhere else than in my arms. Lauren tried to entertain her every once in a while, and would sing, dance, and play peek-a-boo with her so I could focus for a few minutes!

Now onto our adventure to the warm outside world! My two precious daughters enjoying some sun!

 These pictures were taken quickly so that I could ensure that Sawyer was not going to fall off of the little bike! She did have a good grip on the handle, so she wasn't going anywhere!

 In the words of aunt Lila, "what a cheese ball!"

 Lauren was looking for flowers, a.k.a. dandelions! While she was doing this she was singing a little song, "flowers, flowers, where can they be. flowers, flowers,, where can they be." You get the point! Erik was really happy to see all of these "flowers" pop up, and I am sure he will be heartbroken to know that Lauren was picking them ;)

 Lauren with a handful of "flowers"

I hope everyone has been enjoying the sun as much as we have! 

Mother's

My dear Sawyer has thrown me for a complete loop, she is a total momma's girl. When I say that I mean she can be completely happy with me and then I pass her on to someone else and she starts to cry like they just pinched her, they hand her back and she instantly stops. She won't take a bottle, but sometimes she will after some protesting. She won't take a pacifier. She is just the complete opposite of Lauren. Once you think you have a child figured out, we go and have another and they are nothing the same! Well, I have been stuggling with this (Sawyer being a momma only girl) and it is sometimes can be of an inconveinance. But as I was getting ready this morning the thought came to me, you're going to miss this Lacey. Today as I was talking to a mother who had teenagers she said, "oh but isn't it great to be needed like that." Yes, yes it is! I just get a little selfish at times I guess, like when I want to go to Billings to go shopping or even Cody I decide not to because Sawyer does not like to travel and it isn't always the easiest to cart her around from store to store. It would be so much easier to just leave her with one of her Grandma's who adore her as much as I, but she just won't stand for that! So I guess in the mean time I will save money by not going shopping whenever I feel the need to! I will try to enjoy this while it last's. I remember when Sawyer was first born and we were still in the hospital, the thought came to me that Sawyer was going to be her Daddy's little buddy and that she might be a tom-boy. So maybe this is her way of getting all her loving in on me before she's Daddy's little girl! Being a mother is so rewarding, but it has its times of trials. There are days that I want to kick myself, and know that I should probably be the one sitting in time-out, but somehow we make it through! I love that children are so forgiving. Lauren can forgive me with in seconds, and I am grateful for that quality!

I am so grateful for the women that I have in my life to be examples for me. I am so grateful for my mom and her willingness to serve! I have had many people, older and young, tell me of what a great 5th grade teacher she was, and some even said she was their favorite! I think singing folk songs in her class is what a lot of people remember! I happen to know that she was a great teacher, because she taught me! When I was up at Girls Camp lots of people talked about my mom and how fun she was, and how she made Camp fun for everyone. My mom doesn't ever like a dull moment and so she is always trying to lighten the mood and make things fun! My mom is a very kind and thoughtful person, with a touch of sarcasm! She is so supportive and wants nothing but the best for children! She is so active, and I love to be around her because it makes me want to be more like her. She can watch her grandchildren, rake the lawn, cook lunch, do an activity with the kids and still have more idea's up her sleaves all in one day! She loves to go on "adventure walks" and we as kids loved it and now our kids love to do it with her too! What can I say, she's my mom!

The last 4 years I have been blessed with having Debbie, my mother-in-law in my life. She is the most giving person I have ever known. She let's me go "shopping" in her food storage room and has saved me 1000's of dollars by letting me do that. She is an amazing cook, and feeds my family every Sunday evening a wonderful meal, and then usually sends us home with somethings delecious for the next day! Enough can not be said about her willingness to give. She loves her children and grandchildren and wants nothing more then for them to be happy! She is always willing to watch my children, and takes great care of them! She can also sew anything! My family has benifited from her making us blankets, curtains, mending jeans, christmas stockings, and many more things! I really should be watching her every step and learning as much as I can from her, but I dont',  I just sit back and enjoy it. She really has given my family so much and I can not thank her enough!

Oh, and another thing about Debbie... she doesn't like to have her pictures taken! I had to search hard to find these pictures, and even had to steal one from Kimberly's blog!
Again I am grateful for the women in my life and the joy that they bring into my life! Happy Mother's Day!

Easter and more..

This is mostly a picture update of our Easter weekend! We had a great Easter weekend and got to see some family and enjoyed a few Easter egg hunts and birthday parties!

We started off dying the eggs. This sounded much more fun than it really was, but we did it any ways! Lauren didn't last very long, and I had some brown eggs that didn't dye very well.. like I said, we did it anyways! And that dang easter bunny even forgot to put the eggs out that we dyed!

Then on Saturday morning 4.22.11 we went over to the Byron park for the Easter Egg Hunt. She didn't want to get a picture with the easter bunny she was a little afraid of him! She was so funny, when they said "go" she just started running aimlessly around the field! We found a wopping 3 egg's!

Then after the park we loaded the girls and Triffen up in the car to this cuties birthday party

Lilli :) She really likes baby Sawyer and always likes to hold her!

Lilli's mom Amanda is possibly the most creative person and made these cute little chicks.

These cute little chicks are eatable!! and so so YUMMY!! Their cake pops, and most definitly enjoyable!

 The kids did an egg hunt at the party and Triffen is quite the egg finder! When I told his mom she said " that's my little chicken chaser!" haha!

 After the birthday party we went home, and decided we didn't want to be cooped up in the house anymore so we went to the park!

We also got to see our family across the mountain who we LOVE LOVE LOVE!

 We had a great weekend full of family and fun, and most of all we were reminded of our Savior and all of the things he has done for us and the blessings that we recieve from his sacrafice.

I hope everyone had a great Easter weekend!

Sawyer, Six months and Sittin' Pretty!

Sawyer was 6 months on Sunday 4.17.11, and on 4.11.11 she descovered she could sit! When I showed Erik he wasn't too impressed and said "she sits just like that on my lap".... Well anyway I thought it was quite the acomplishment!
 She is an amazing little girl, and is very much a momma's girl. In ways I like it and in ways I don't! For example she will be sitting on someones lap and I walk through the door - she starts to fuss and make lots of noise; and at church when someone else is holding her while I teach she fusses and acts likes she is hungry and as soon as they give her back to me... she is fine! But we roll with it and it all works out!

She still has all that fabulous curly hair, and everyday it turns lighter and lighter!

She still does not enjoy car rides!

She gets more rolls on her legs and belly daily! Erik told me today "why don't you drink more water so she can have some skim milk." haha.. can do dear! What would we do without husbands!

Sawyer loves her sister and Lauren loves her back! There is nothing that makes me feel happier when I see Sawyer's eyes light up when she see's Lauren and laughs at everything Lauren does! It is such a great blessing to have these two girls in my life, and they make me think about the simple things and how blessed we are as a family to have each other!

 It is so much fun doing her hair!

 Sitting outside on the bumbo :)

 Getting some sugars from Grandpa Steve!