Kirstie's 20th Birthday

On April 13, Kirstie turned twenty years old. She is no longer a teenager. We didn't celebrate her birthday on the actual day... but we did celebrate it on the 17th.   

Amanda, ( me ) Kirstie, and David. 

EmmaLee, Kirstie, and David

Mom, Kirstie, and David

This is mom and Kirstie trying to get David to smile. 

April, Kirstie, and David. 

Rebecca, Kirstie, and David. 

And my Dad went over and finally got David to smile, while Mom snapped a picture. David has a really nice smile, it just goes away when you pull out the camera. Kirstie didn't have a cake but she did have a strawberry desert that we didn't get a picture of. She liked all her gifts. 

Dad's Fifty-third Birthday

On the fourth of April... My Dad turned fifty-three. It funny to think of my Dad as that old. Even though he's getting older, he is still a lot of fun. His birthday was fun as well. It was on conference weekend, and Easter. But one of the really fun parts... was shopping for him. I'm not a really big fan of shopping, but the gifts we bought him are awesome. Here are some pictures of his great birthday... 

Dad, before all of the presents were opened.

David, Kirstie, and Dad

EmmaLee and her Dad

Mother and Father

Dad with his new portable toilet.

April, and Dad

Amanda, ( me ) and Dad

Rebecca, and Dad

So then we had the cake, It was chocolate with cream cheese frosting. And we had fifty-three candles on it, plus four sparklers. The cake was so hot. It looked like we had a fire on the cake, here is a picture so you know what I'm talking about.

Blow em' out Dad!!!

He was almost able to blow them all out. But the sparklers don't usually go out, and they kept bringing back the other candles. But for all the candles there were to blow out,,, he did a good job.

And this is April, trying to figure out hoe to use the new toilet. 

April's New Look

Around the first week of April... April, ( my sister not the month ) decided that she was fed-up with her hair, so she decided to get it cut. At first she was planning to have it just a few inches long, but left it a little longer then that. Here are some before and after pictures.

And after the cut...

She loves have less hair now. But the funny thing is... is that she spends more time on it now then she did before. I looks really cute when she spikes it. The pictures above are of her hair before she spiked it. She loves her new hair. :)

EmmaLee's art

So some of you may know that my little sister, EmmaLee wants to be an artist when she's grown up. For only being seven years old, ( going on eight in September ) she's already pretty good. Her favorite thing to paint is animals, and she does better at them then I do, and a lot of people mostly are. LOL!!! So the other day we cut up a pineapple and had the top of it left over. Well I decided that it would be fun to paint those leafs. And EmmaLee wanted to paint too. So she grabbed the cantaloupe and began to paint it. And she took some pictures of it... here they are...

side one

Side two

side three

side four.

Now I know that something round doesn't really have sides, but these are the four different designs that she did. GREAT JOB EMMALEE!!!!!

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Okay so as most of you know... Two of my sisters are married. And just yesterday my other sister Kirstie got engaged to her boyfriend, David. I didn't get any pictures of them yesterday, so next time David comes here I'll be sure to take some, so you can see them. Not much has been decided yet. If you'd like to see some older pictures of them you can look at some of my older posts, like in my January posts, entitled "Christmas." And I'll not forget to post newer pictures of them as soon as I can.

Spring

It's now Spring!!! It's one of the most beautiful times of the year. Everything is going green. Little baby animals are being born, and human babies too. The cold is gone and the time to were shorts and swimming suits has been getting closer.

April's friend Teirssa came up last week because that was her Spring brake. They were very happy. I've taken this week off to be with my friends, ( and family ) I'm making a birthday party for my friend Ashlyn. And I have the help of another friend, Paige. And all I will say about it is that it'll be very fun.

So I'm hoping that the rest of you have a lovely and fun Spring!!!!

March storms

So March is here. I've always loved March. The past weeks have been so warm that we thought we'd have an early Spring,,, we were wrong! The other day, these large dark clouds began to circle around. April and I went for a walk and it began to rain. We didn't think much of it. We gathered our friends and went to the Rodeo grounds to play with our dogs. It started to rain a bit harder, and Ashlyn, ( my very good friend ) and I went and ran in it, loving the long lost rain. Then Kirstie and her boy-friend David drove up and told us that there was a large storm coming our way, so we sent some of the dogs home with her and started on our way back home. Well, to try and make a long story shorter than it has been so far I'll skip to the point. When we got home it began to rain some more, the big storm never hit, or at least it waited a while, like three days, while. So today and yesterday it was snowing and it was a lot of snow. There was enough wind that not much of it stuck to the ground. But it was still snow.