Holly shaves

Holly is exceptionally observant. She gets to take baths with her dad on occasion and apparently has noticed him shaving. Today she took the shaving cream can and would pretend to put shaving cream in her hands and then she would pat her cheeks like she was putting shaving cream on like dad! She's a mess!

Lindsey's Birthday

Lindsey got to leave school early on Thursday and skip completely on Friday to spend her Birthday with one of her favorite people...Grandy! She had a lot of fun, she got a cup cake birthday cake and got to open most of her presents there. She got a lot of clothes, and some CD's from Grandma and Grandpa Rasband, and a new quilt from Grandy and Grumpa. It was really neat because Grandy had it special made from Sister Tree in Lubbock. It has all kinds of different textures on it and the stitching is hand prints!

Kyle's Birthday

Kyle had a great birthday this year. We got to go to West Texas for his and Lindsey's birthday so mom and dad made him wait for his present. It didn't even take him 12 hours from the time we walked in the door to hang his present on the wall! He's pretty proud of his deer this year!
(I do have to say though the bow makes the deer a little less manly)

Holly and Grumpa!

Holly loves her Grumpa so much, I think she would follow him to the moon and back. Which is funny because she's very much a mommy's girl and dad is an okay substitute when he has to be. But she loves Grumpa! We got to go visit Grandy and Grumpa this weekend and Holly was thrilled to see him again. She really loved going to the ranch with us because Grumpa let her drive the truck. She had the hazard lights going and everything! She even managed to accidentally step on the air horn button (that's what he uses to call the cows up to eat) which made Grumpa's job a little harder because all the cows were waiting for him to feed them at the gate. He didn't seem to mind though, it's awfully hard to get made at someone who is so willing to give you kisses! She really loved getting to see his cows too, she can now tell you that what a cow says..."oooo" (no M yet that's a little too hard)

Lindsey walks!

We are so proud of Lindsey! She has started walking with a little cane! It's just a starter cane and they will lengthen it as she gets used to it. She is so funny she screams and cries until we tell her how good she's doing and then she smiles and is so proud of herself! What a mess she is.

Lindsey's B-day!

Well tomorrow is Lindsey's Birthday but since we are going to Grandy and Grump's house we let her have her big Birthday present tonight! We had the worst time shopping for the kid, what do you get her??? Well, we found a really cute pink arm chair and she loves it. Unfortunatly so does are little sister and we are having the worst time explaining to Holly why it's sissy's chair!

Helpful Holly

Holly has recently discovered the "joy" of house work. She used to follow me in to do the laundry and watched as I moved the clothes from the washer to the dryer. Then she started picking up anything I dropped and tucking any clothes that were left hanging over the edge of the dryer neatly in. Now she has to help, I'm to take the clothes out of the wash and hand them to her, and she neatly places all of the clothes in the dryer and even gets to put the dryer sheets in for me. This has become her routine and she now yells at me when I try (how dare me) to put the clothes in the dryer my self. She has also decided she needs to help with he dishes. So the other day I pulled out the step stool and let her stand up with me while I did the dishes. She even got to put the clean dishes on the towel after I got done washing them. She was so proud of herself. But it looks like once she gets to do something she thinks she needs to do it every time. Tonight while I was cooking dinner she came in the kitchen and started throwing a fit. I couldn't figure out what she wanted when she went to the pantry and attempted to get her step stool on her own. Needless to say I got the message! She was so helpful and put all the dirty dishes in the sink for me so that we could wash them later~