Concert/Easter/7th Birthday

Brooke's spring concert was here and over before we knew it. Her teacher is the best we have had at Mission Valley since the kids have been in school. Brooke sang two songs. Usually the teacher has them sign while they are singing. It seems to keep the kids busy and involved. Tim and I have to learn sign before the concert because she is always practicing. She treats us like her students and we have to sit in front of her while she instructs us. The pressure is on because she is hard on us if we don't get it after a couple of times.

Brooke sang God Bless America and My Flag. She did a wonderful job and we are proud of her. ASPEN, this dress will be coming to you before we know it. Brooke keeps growing so fast that most of her dresses are already to small. I made this one the Saturday before Easter for her.

Easter egg hunt at the city park. The kids are always looking forward to this hunt. It is nothing but candy. The disappointing thing is we are down to just Brooke participating. What has happened to time???? Notice Brooke still is toothless. We still can't see a tooth coming in.

Tim and Cassidy at my sisters house Easter morning. It was a little chilly. Of course, Christy has a big yard and the bunny covered it all. Regardless of the weather Cassidy is wearing her flip flops. Sometimes when it really cold she wears toe socks with them to keep her piggy's warm. She loved her toe sock but they are almost all worn out. Easter bunny brought her a 6 ft poster and t-shirt from her newest love in the world, Twilight. Tim and I are constantly having to stop what we are doing to listen to her talk about a scene from one of the books. Can you say "obsession"?

This is Brooke right before giving up. In fact Brooke went in before she found all of her stuff. As you can see she had hidden her hands because they were frozen. Later the sun did come out and we were able to spend time outside before the rain moved in.

Dylan's 1st turkey. He didn't have school last Friday and wanted to go hunting. He took his best friend and disappeared for about 1 1/2 hours. Before Tim and I could get to work he had call to rub it in to his Dad that he got a turkey. He saved the breast, legs and thighs. I was a little skeptical but it was good. He has gone several other times since then, but came home empty handed.

Tim and Dylan after another unsuccessful turkey hunt. As you can see, Tim and I have a chauffeur everywhere we go.

Cassidy playing in the front yard with the girls at Brooke's party. The ball she has in her hands comes apart and you put a water balloon inside. It has a timer, you set the timer and pass it around. When the timer stops a pin comes out and pops the balloon and you get wet. It popped on Cassidy when trying to put it together yet all the girls had a blast playing. As you can see Cassidy is maturing into a beautiful lady.

Brooke opening gifts from her friends. We had a beautiful day, around 75 degrees and NO wind. Yipee!!

Brooke with her group of friends for her birthday party. All of them stayed over night. Lets just say, our house was crazy. That many girls, whew, that was a handful. We fill like Brooke is tall but when looking at this picture it doesn't seem that way. Aunt Mel and Shea see what you have to look forward to with girls. Boy parties are much easier but I guess you won't know what that is like.

Just a Typical Wines Week!

This is what happens from being cooped up inside due to torrential rains. We have gone from snow to rain and still cold. Can't wait for it to be over. Cassidy is always trying to pick us up so they came up with another way for her to pick Dylan up. She was so proud of herself! Although she could only hold him for a couple seconds and about three tries.

Our Baby is no longer 6. It is hard to believe how time is flying. She got this hat from school and proudly wore it all day. We had our family birthday dinner the weekend before and she requested her "No dishes meal". You dump the food in the middle of the table and dig in with your fingers. It had cajun shrimp, Keilbasa, potatoes, corn cobs, onion, garlic, lemons and crab boil all cooked in one pot. She had requested this meal for three years in a row. Yum! Yum! You can't tell from this pictures that she is missing two teeth. "All she want for Easter is her two front teeth". Brooke gets to have a sleep over this weekend with her girlfriends. Joy! Joy! What will Tim and Dylan do? Aunt Debbie says that she is going to TeePee our house. For those of you who don't know what this means it is when she brings toilet paper down in the dark and throws it into the trees so it droops. Not just one roll it is several. The trees look like they have stredded paper hanging from them. Pray for Rain!

This is what a common morning looks like before school. Brooke normally comes down and gets dressed in from of the stove. Cassidy just happened to join her and it looked cool with both of them in blue. We are SOOOOO sick of this stove. Not that we don't enjoy the heat it produces but we are tired of bringing in the wood and being stuck in the house. Most people have already planted their gardens, we haven't done anything since Dylan has tilled it.

Cassidy, you got to love her. She wanted to go get her friend Autumn to show her a Youtube video she found on Twilight but didn't want to walk and Mom nor Dad would drive. She asked Dylan to start the mower so she could go pick her up. By the time Cassidy got the mower out of the garage and around the back Autumn was in the yard and Cassidy missed her. When she turned around to go back to the garage the mower ran out of gas. Dylan had to go push her back.

Dylan's newest love!!! Tim bought this guitar for him at a school auction. It was brand new and donated by a music store. Every free chance he gets he is trying new sounds and notes. Tim and I are amazed at how well he has picked it up. He has even written his own song. He calls it, "His Stairway to Heaven". It's really a cool song. Though he changes it up constantly. He tries several different picking styles but his favorate is picking the strings. Some song titled Hey there Delialah that he heard in Montana while visiting his favorite Uncle and Aunt. Thank you Mel and Kainaan for being there for him.

Tim's beautiful blondes. Cassidy has taken to sitting on Mom's lap so Brooke wanted in on the action too. Cassidy and Mom have a very tight relationship, in fact, over Easter my sisters kept giving her a hard time about being attached to my hip. Every time I turned around she was there mostly because she wanted to help in the kitchen. Tim loves to watch us wrestle and giggle. Cassidy thinks she can take her mom but mom won't give her the chance. That is right now. Soon......who knows.