playin' in the mountains with the doggies!

Mothers Day, Fathers Day & Bunnies in the Kitchen..

Mothers Day

 Chandler wrote: You are a great mother even when it's hard.

Fathers Day

Tanner's little breakfast he brought Andres in bed, 

a bowl of grapes & a baby cucumber with some ranch to dip it in. 

Hee hee hee!

Bunnies in the Kitchen

 I like this one.. it looks like Commander Hare is telling Thumper a secret!

bunnies.... and a sad morning.

On Friday after school we ventured out to look for some bunnies to bring home with us and we found some! Each of the kids picked one and they are oh.so.cute! We've been smitten in love with them ever since.~ Here's the cellphone pictures right after we brought them home. The kids are on cloud 9!

 Marcus chose a mini rex bunny and named it Thumper!

 Sydnee chose a mini holland lop and named it SugarBaby!

 

Chandler chose a mini holland lop and name it Commander Hare!

 Tanner chose the smallest one of them all, a tiny little mini rex and named it

Black Ninja!

*This morning Marcus came in my room crying uncontrollably.. he found tiny Black Ninja dead. Poor little bunny rabbit. He'd been acting sick the last couple of days. We wondered since he's so much smaller than the other three rabbits if he wasn't being able to get enough water. We took him out and nursed him with his own water the last two days and yesterday we decided to put him in his own box with his own food and water. I guess he was already on his way out. He died sometime during the night. One by one.. the rest of the kids came in to our bed and cried for the loss of tiny Black Ninja. Tanner felt so bad.. tiny Black Ninja was his very first pet. He said, I couldn't wait to come home and play with him after school today and then he didn't want to go to school. We told him that tiny Black Ninja went up to heaven and we'd see him again someday.

Looks like we'll be having a little burial service tonight.

I need a jump start...

I’ve sat down to post one of many overdue topics several times and subconsciously I really don’t want to and end up snooping around blog land for kitchen re-do inspiration amongst other things. 

Sydnee’s friend brought her little pet bunny she just got for her birthday to school on Monday and ever since she’s been driving me nuts for a bunny. EVERYDAY! Chandler really wanted one a couple of years ago and we thought about it but never got one. Truth be known, I’d love a bunny too. I’d love a handful of bunnies. I’d love some chickens and goats and a mini-farm too! My first answer was no way, because of course we don’t live on that mini-farm that I so wish we did..  but after all the constant little bunny notes and asking me over and over and over again, I just decided to look some up on the classifieds. They are so cute… no wonder she wants one so bad! Tanner & Chandler want one now too! This got my wheels turning… I called Andres to ask him if there’s any way we could figure out how to turn our existing suburb home on a small lot into the mini-est farm ever and make room for some bunnies. I’m seriously considering ripping out most/all of my grass in the backyard, extending the back patio to run almost the full length of the house, building a very small sized barn and fencing off the rest of the side yard area for keeping small farm animals. Oh how I’d love me some chickens and goats to go along with those bunnies. I think a cow named Millie and some horses would be great too, but those would definitely have to be on a larger farm.  My back yard is already pretty messed up from our two little ponies huge dogs so why not take it a step further and intentionally make it a place for animals.

Anyway, that’s just a small portion of what’s been on my mind lately. It’s full to the brim! Full of ideas, of things I desperately need to get done, of all sorts of stuff! One thing I can say for sure is… I am tired of this ups-y downs-y weather we keep having, I can’t seem to get the temperature right in the house. I’m always cold, like right now to be exact. OH! And my laundry is crawling up the wall. Hooray!

Today I need to: (this was Thursday)

*Finish this blog post

*Easter preparation

*Costco run (outta T.P. and other things)

*Make two dozen cookies for Relief Society tonight (ended up buying them @ Costco instead)

*Share my thoughts on what's helping me to build my foundation @ Relief Society

*and all the other regular things... like making lots of trips to and from the school picking up kids on different schedules, help with homework, take the boys to music lessons, etc.

I can't believe it's been almost a month since I went to Tanner's little singing program at school. He was so excited for me to come. They've been working really hard on all the songs for quite some time now and he couldn't wait for me to see them sing "The Tooty-Ta" song. He kept telling me that there was a part in the song where I'd have to participate! So there we were... my Mom and I singing and doing the Tooty-Ta dance amongst an auditorium of other parents and grandparents! I gotta say.. it was fun!

Here's a link to the Tooty-Ta song. We're going to do it with our family for family home evening one night, it's sure to stir up some fun & laughter!

  I think somebody has a crush on the cute little girl sitting next to him!!!

  The Tooty-Ta Song!

Today it’s Friday..

The sky is blue, the sun is shining & I’m happy!

It’s the kids early out day & I’ll be picking them up soon!

We’re going to look for some Easter bunnies!

Hopefully we’ll find some to bring home with us.~

Tomorrow we’ll be coloring Easter eggs, making decorations for our Sunday Easter dinner and making a bunny hutch for the yard (if we find some bunnies of course).

Sunday, we’ll celebrate Easter all day long.

Church

Easter Baskets

Cook the Ham & Make Homemade Rolls

Play with & name the Bunnies

Easter Egg Hunt

Watch this Special Easter Message

Each Share with One Word How We Can Become More Christlike

Enjoy Easter Dinner with Family!