Princess Sadee's birthday

Princess Sadee had an awesome birthday party a couple weeks ago and both

girls were invited to come and celebrate. They counted the days down to their princess party for over a week. They were SOOO excited to dress up and party!

Here are Princess Sadee and Princess Holdyn

Opening presents!

Decorating cupcakes...of course Kimber just ate tons of frosting and

the 'sparklers' as she calls the sprinkles.

Princess Emmie painting her nails

Here are a few princesses gathered for a photo

Princesses Kimber, Sadee, and Holdyn

Thanks for inviting them Sadee....they really had a super great time!

Happy Birthday Grandma Baker

I'm a bit late on this but Grandma Baker had a birthday this month and we all had a blast at her party!! We all helped to decorate her house so that the party was ready when she got

home from work! It was GREAT!!!!

The girls LOVE to go to Grandma and Grumpa Baker's because they

have the FUNNEST backyard in the whole world!

We couldn't have a true Baker Birthday party without buttering the birthday girls nose!

Brenda made an AWESOME BTS Cake! DELISH!

Partying it up in the backyard!

Kimber gave grandma her jar full of lady bugs for her birthday.

There were about 35-40 lady bugs that she put on grandma's roses to help

eat the little bugs. She was so super excited to share her ladybugs with grandma :)

Hope you had a super-duper happy birthday Grandma Baker! We LOVE You!!

Couples Retreat in Pine Valley

We had a wonderful opportunity to get away for a couple of nights with some

amazing friends!! We've been wanting to get together for a long time and we

finally made it happen....thanks to Andee!

Here is the group.

Kandice/Dave, Jill/Ben, Kate/Erick, Andee/Lars, Whitni/Jared

Andee showed us her sweet skills at stuffing mallows in her mouth.

Here is Lars glassing for wildlife....Jared is also quite the turkey caller ;)

Jared, Ben, and Dave roasting hot dogs.

Kandice showing her true self! LOVE this girl!

Lars cooking up some delish venison burger.

Andee strutting her stuff.

We did lots of relaxing and chatting...here are whit and me in the hammock.

Me, Kandice and Kate

A few of us went shooting... the AR-15...super fun!

Me plinking the targets with my .17

Andee and Lars.....I wouldn't mess with them!

We all went to the lake and had some great fun catching a few

lil trout.

Ben and I took a walk downstream and did some flyfishing....great fun!

Here are all the couples....Andee and Lars....

Ben and Jill

Whitni and Jared

Kate and Erick

Dave and Kandice

The guys also tore up the mountain on the 4-wheelers and dirt bikes.

These pictures are all out of whack, but it sure was a great weekend!

We don't know how many more times we will get to hang out with Whitni while she is feeling okay. We are trying to take advantage of every chance we get. Thanks Andee and Lars for the use of the Cabin... it was a FABULOUS weekend!

Holdyn's Preschool Graduation!

I had to find a picture of her first day of preschool (Above) to compare with

her last day (Below). What a cutie pie!

Holdyn did it! She is an honorary Preschool graduate from

the infamous Crazy Grandma's Preschool!!

I just liked this picture in front of the house, the sun was in her eyes and she kept giggling that she couldn't open them!

Here are the graduates (Except Dominique...he wasn't in town for Graduation)

MaKayla, Holdyn, Emma and Tyler. They will all start Kindergarten

in Fredonia this fall!

Here is Holdyn accepting her honorary awards and diploma from

Crazy Grandma herself!

Holdyn and Tyler became good friends during preschool!

Thanks Crazy Grandma for doing such a wonderful job!

Chickens, chickens, chickens!!!

Yep, we've started our farm. We now have 7 chickens....3 of which are layers...and the girls LOVE getting the eggs!

Here is the coop that Ben whipped up the other afternoon...what a handyman!

The hens lay their eggs up in the top left corner...there are doors on each side so we can grab the eggs from behind and the chickens can get in and out the other side.

There they are....3 hens named, Brownie, Stripes, and the black one is Pumpkin, the others have yet to be named.

Here are the girls rounding them up. So far we are loving them and having lots of fun with them.