Beasley Meadow

Here is what happens when you go out of town and have over 3 inches of rain when you're gone.

I added the little curvy lines through the yard for the effect and it was to tempting not to.

While I was mowing I was waiting for a snake or something to slither over my foot. The rabbits like to make little nests in this long grass, I was hoping not to run one of them over. Hate to make a mess in the yard. :)

This picture is mainly for Maria. She is out of town for a couple of more days and loves details, here is a close up for you Moosh.

One really good thing about letting the grass grow long is when it gets cut it sure looks good.

Speaking of looking good. Here is me and my 7 horses. HA! That's how I roll!! No, so seriously, I have a question for anyone who mows the lawn. What goes through your head? Do you imagine yourself racing? I race, race who? I don't know, most of the time I race the neighbor mowing his lawn, it makes it better when they have a head start. Weedeating the yard is even better. Have you seen the professionals weedeat a yard. To get that good I need to upgrade my equipment then I'll be able to compete.

Another thing I like to do when I mow is leave the kids balls around the yard, then I kid them back and forth. I would suggest only doing this if your yard is fenced in otherwise that game doesn't last to long.

Growing up we had a dog....you know where I'm going with this. There is nothing worse then running over some fresh doooo and having the strong aroma stream through your nostrils... (how's that for writing?) then puking a little in your mouth. I miss having a dog sometimes, but I don't miss that.

Well I hope you enjoyed this totally random post. Chau! Ryan

Maycee's preschool program...

We had so much fun at Maycee's little preschool potluck dinner and program. They sang about 4-5 little songs with actions. We know most of them, as she's been singing them for the past week or so. Maycee is our little singer, she is a good singer too. It's so cute, when she's being really serious, she tries to sing with an abravo (sp?). We almost didn't think we were going to make it to her program. We had tickets last night to Wicked, luckily the show was at 8, so we had plenty of time.

We are happy and sad to see summer come. Happy for the warm weather, and time off, but sad because the girls will miss their teachers and friends. We feel so grateful they have such a wonderful school system here and fantastic teachers! We love Miss Kristie and Mrs. Anspaugh, and we'll miss them this summer!!!

Buster Brown

So, we had quite the week with Carter since we've been home from St. Louis. Between his high fevers and cough, which led to breathing treatments, to worrying about him needing a couple of his front teeth extracted, it's been a bit stressful. Last Thursday we found out he needed to have his central and lateral insisors extracted (one came in backwards) and therefore has been a problem for the other (abcesses, ect...). So Friday morning I took him to Target to get some shots of the little guy before his mouth was about to be transformed for a long time. These are some of the pictures. He was way over due for some snapshots. Anyhow- he's been on these breathing treatments this week, so they cancelled his extractions because of it.....YEA!!! I'm so thrilled about that. I've just never been real settled about the idea of missing those 2 front teeth at such a young age, and his abcesses are gone now, so I'm hoping we'll be able to just wait it out and see!!!

My cousin - Captain Trevor Hall

My cousin Trevor Hall is a Captain in the US Airforce. He is a year older than I am and has a young family, like many of us. Trevor works for the Air Force flying the huge cargo planes (C-130) and this past week, he was hand picked to fly the plane that brought in first aid and food into the country of Myanmar that was hit so badly last week with a cyclone. A mission like this has not been done in that country for over 45 years! MSNBC caught our Trevor on camera! Way to go Trev, we are so proud!!!

Trevor was phone interviewed by Fox News about the devestation in Myanmar.Here is the link:http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&streamingFormat=FLASH&referralObject=349063&referralPlaylistId=949437d0db05ed5f5b9954dc049d70b0c12f2749

Off to the Temple again.....

Well, it's been 2 months since we'd been to the temple, so we were off to St. Louis again to attend. We had a good drive there and when we arrived our friends the Taylor's were there and waiting, particulary Trinity, waiting for the girls to show up so they could all go swimming. So all of my "4" (including Ry) got their suits on and they were headed for the pool. I am the camera man, no swimming for me. I'm not very fond of hotel pools myself, admit it, you can't blame me!!!!

At the temple

So to continue with the story.....when the kids got out of the pool and baths, Carter wasn't feeling well at all. He had a high fever, not fun at a hotel. We don't like him to get fevers because his have a tendancy to spike at any moment and then he goes into febrile seizures. NOT FUN! So Ryan had to run to the store to get some IBU and Tyl and a thermometer so we'd be able to monitor him in the night. We went on this temple trip with 3 other familes, so we can swap kids while in the temple. I wasn't comfortable leaving Carter with someone else, in case he had an episode, so Amanda and I stayed at the hotel and watched all the kids while everyone went and were able to do a session together. I was bummed to not be able to go, but it paled in comparison to how I was feeling about Carter's situation. His fever did break in the middle of the night, but then reoccured this afternoon on the way home, so he's all doped up again. Poor little boy! He was so happy to be home this evening. Tomorrow is Mothers Day and with Ryan in the Bishopbric, he has to go, but I may have to stay home with all the kids, fun day for me :) We'll see how tonight goes, the kids and I may just go for Sacrament Meeting. Here are some pictures of the kiddos at the temple. It wasn't cold, but I wish it would've been sunny!!! Happy Mothers Day to ALL!!!!

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It's not Christmas, but she still needs her front teeth.

Madyson finally lost her two front teeth. Thank goodness for the school nurse, she pulled both of them. Madyson wanted her to pull them because she would put them in a little plastic treasure chest. In fact one day Maria went to pick her up at school, she went through the line of cars and when Maria got to the front no one knew where Madyson was. The teachers outside didn't know, they paged her over the intercom in the school. Maria was nervous, almost to the point of freaking out. The teachers were giving each other worried looks, that didn't help Maria. Then she come strolling out of the school with one of the first grade teachers. She was in Nurse Diana's office trying to get her last tooth pulled, it didn't come out that day. So Maria made sure she knew next time Madyson went into the nurse's office. Sure enough the next week she came out with the smile you see above.

For those who are interested, the going rate in our family for a tooth is $1.00.