Raisin' us some Rednecks!

We moved to the country almost 3 years ago and our kids Love it!!!! We believe in the right to bear arms, although we think their should be more regulation on who has the right to bear arms but that's a whole different blog. Anyway......we believe in teaching our children about guns, how to use them and how to respect them. To do this you start at an early age, you allow them to see, feel, hold and shoot them. By doing this you remove the curiosity they have of guns! Chet has his conceal and carry license so he can legally carry a gun and I hope to get mine at some point.. So we took the kids outside today and let them shoot our air rifle.

Owen has shot before but I think he is just now getting the strength and coordination to do it and enjoy it and boy did he ever......................

Chet had him shooting at a can and he was hitting it! It amazes me how much he has grown up! He's making his daddy proud because he's on his way to being a true redneck! He hit the can standing up several times but then had a little trouble keeping it steady so daddy got him a chair and then he was hitting one after another about 25 feet away from him!

Katelin got a turn too but she was more interested in playing with and finding the green bb's, which she called marbles! She now has her "marble" collection in a cup!

And watch out boys.......my girl is learning to shoot a gun! Rylie is a pretty good mixture of tomboy and girly girl, probably a bit more girly girl though but she does enjoy doing all these things especially riding 4 wheelers. I'm pretty certain she won't be taking any crap from any boy, she doesn't take it from anyone else.

And my Evie......he's not ready for shooting guns...........yet! But it's always good to share his sweet face with the world (or at least the teeny tiny population of the world that reads my blog). I have no doubt he will be jumping right in with the big boys before we know it!

And to anyone reading this and feeling concerned about us having guns in our house.......I promise you, even though we teach our kids about gun safety, we keep all guns and gun paraphenalia put far away from access of little people!

Spring is in the air!!!

We usually do homework right after school but not today..............it was way to nice out so we played outside


How pretty is she??? Rylie is starting to look so grown up!
And I love this pic of Owen...he has a real smile not his usual fake one!



Katelin wanted to sweep the porch for me!

Evan's first time in a swing and he loved it! Obviously this was Katelins swing but he doesn't care that it's pink.

Playing outside and they wanted to sit in my van.....this is kind of a scary glimpse into the future, I am in no hurry to get to the point of Rylie driving and Owen going along for the ride (hopefully he won't be hanging out the window then)!!!

My sweet little Katelin!

Look at that face! How could you not LOVE it?!?! My heart seriously melts everytime I look at it!!!

What's a girl to do.......

when she has a pretty pink pair of cowgirl boots but no horse???

She finds the next best thing....................

Daddy



A Correction, an update and a disclaimer!

Correction:

Well my correction is for those of you who read my "all about me" post...........I said I have never lived anywhere but Kansas..........this is incorrect. I was born in Missouri and lived there until I was nearly 5. My mother pointed this out to me. And while I knew this I guess since it was really before I have much memory it just didn't register in my mind while writing that post.

Update:

The update would be on my sweet little Evan...........he now has two itty bitty teeth starting to pop through his bottom gums. Which is exciting because it is a new milestone but he is breastfed and well need I say more!!!
He also has began to roll, now he has been able to roll over since about 2 months but now he rolls everywhere. I sit him in the middle a room, he falls over and works his way around the entire room, it's just too cute!

Disclaimer:

This is my disclaimer......I have 4 amazing little people in my life. I love them all with all of my heart. I love them all equally however differently too because they are all different and unique. This being said, I try to give equal time to my kids on my blog but that doesn't always happen and I want people to know that it is not because I favor any one kid over any of the others. Evan is a baby so he is changing every day and he is with me pretty much 24/7 so he has his picture taken more than the others (trust me all the kids were paparazzi status they're first year of life unfortunately I didn't have the blog for all of them but I do have the photo albums to prove it.) Katelin is very busy and will often refuse to have a photo taken and I will usually respect her request. Owen is in school half day and often in his own little world and Rylie is in school full day and often at her friends house so while she's usually happy to pose for a picture she just happens to not be home a lot of the time. So if you ever start to think "boy, she seems to like this one better than that one" please know that couldn't be further from the truth.....i'm without a doubt they will all have their times when they get more face time than the others but I love them all more than any words or any number of post could ever say.

Daddy's Little Helpers.........

I have to admit that daddy is the "fun" parent, not that i'm never fun but when I have my mind set on getting something done........well, I want to get it done and that is easier to do without a lot of little helpers.

Daddy, on the other hand, is so good about letting the kids help him do whatever he may be doing and the kids LOVE it.

Daddy especially loves it when I bring home some foreign made.....piece of .....well I won't finish what daddy says but you get the point. Anyway, when I brought home a cubicle shelf for O's room the other day you can imagine what came out of his mouth........it was, however, one of those opportunities to let the kids help! Notice the look of intense concentration on Owen's face!!! If you remember my recent post of Katelin, the drill, and the doll.....well this was a better supervised use of a power drill for her.

And some of you may be surprised to learn that Chet is a bit of a clean freak! I am not so much......I keep a pretty clean house but I do have my areas of "stuff" and I have 4 messy, crazy...ummm I mean beautiful, wonderful kids and I get behind and the things I want to get done just doesn't always get done especially things such as vacuuming the mattress......yes you heard me right, I said vacuuming the mattress! But don't worry, my husband, the clean freak, takes care of that.......why???? He doesn't want to sleep with all of our dead skin cells..........and I agree when it's put that way, sounds kind of gross so i'm not complaining but I think it's funny.............

A work of Art!

Here is the painting Rylie did for her teacher Mrs. Kroh, it was her  birthday and she wanted to make something for her. Maybe I am biased but I sure think this girl has some talent!!!!

This next picture is a very special picture for a very special reason.............

I don't know exactly why but Owen has always had a little bit of a disconnect with his dad, almost like he was a little intimidated by him and he kept a bit of an emotional distance from him. Just recently there has been a complete turn around with him. I don't know what it is but he absolutely adores him now and wants to be with him all the time and talks to him about everything. I am so happy that they finally have that complete bond. He came home from school the other day and was so excited to share the picture he drew of him and daddy playing xbox.

Playing Dead!!!

You may remember me saying how my sweet little Evan will play dead...........well I thought you might like to see for yourself...............

He's pretty convincing, huh??? The little stinker, scared me half to death the first time he did it!  He got daddy one time too! He seriously lays there staring into space not moving a muscle.

He's usually pretty quick to get a mischevious little grin on that sweet little face I absolutely adore!

And notice his unbuttoned jammies, well daddy changed his diaper that morning and he will often leave him unbuttoned because he says he likes the freedom...........well I think he gets frazzled trying to rebutton his jammies but doesn't want to admit it. I will hear about posting this one from Chet (love you honey!)

Now my sweet little baby is only 6 months old, however he has outgrown almost all of his 6-9 months clothes. They are tight on him and in reality he should have 2 more months in them but he won't so I had to go shopping and buy him some clothes that fit, which means I was buying 12 months for my 6 month old. This is one of my favorite new outfits...............

Man..........do I love this little chunk of mine, he just makes me smile sooooooo much!!!!