My Mom

My mom rocks. She is such a fun mom (& grandma)! My kids call her "Grand" because she IS grand!! She is always the life of the party and everyone loves her. She does so much for her family. Mom, I want you to know that I appreciate all that you've done for me, way too numerous to mention. Thank you for being YOU. You are THE BEST and I love you!! Happy Mother's Day!!!

10 Years!!!!!

Well, it's official people. Lane and I have now been married for 10 whole years!! I can't believe he's stuck with me that long! I can imagine I'm not exactly the loveliest person to live with. And I can't believe how fast time has gone! The years have flown by, and we've been through some good times and some bad times, but mostly good! I am grateful to Lane for all that he does for me and our kids. He is a great husband and father, and friend. It's nice to be married to your best friend! I hope he sticks with me for another 10 years and more! I love you, Lane McBride!!

Wolves

Well, we went to Yellowstone yesterday, and for the first time ever, we saw wolves!! Twice! The first time, we drove around a corner and saw just a few cars off the road, and were very surprised to see a pack of at least 6-7 right next to the road! Now just for the record, I am deathly afraid of wolves, and it didn't help that some people were OUT OF THEIR CARS, and when Lane got out, I just about died! The second time, we saw a coyote harrassing a wolf trying to eat an elk. The coyote kept sneaking up behind the wolf and biting it in the butt, and the wolf would turn around and chase the coyote away. Good comedy! Last thing of all, we saw Old Faithful. Weird though, we didn't see any bears at all! We always see lots of bears on opening weekend. Overall, beautiful weather, more animals than people, first time seeing wolves, this one will go down in history as one of our most memorable trips to Yellowstone! I was going to do a slide show, but this way you can click on the pictures to get a closer look!

There are 3 in this picture, one black. You can see how close to the road they were!


There was a white one, too.


Here is the coyote sneaking up behind the wolf.


Here you can see the wolf dragging the elk. Fun.


Just too cute!


Woohoo!!


MOM! Just let us watch it!!


Time to go...


Bye!

Easter

On Saturday morning we woke up to see that the Easter Bunny had been to our house! Then we went to Great's house for the traditional egg hunt and lunch. We went to Dairy Queen for dinner with Great & Grandpa, Sydney & Chad, and Deb, Gordon & Bree. It was lots of fun! Thanks guys for such a fun day! On Sunday we did an egg hunt for the kids and they flew the new kite that the Bunny brought.

My cute little bunnies!


The kids with "Peep" (Great)!


Easter egg hunt!


Our cool new kite! It looks like Grand's baby, Azul!

Happy Birthday, Mason!!!

Today my curly-haired baby boy turns 3 years old. Where has the time gone?!
On Friday we had a family party for him with Great & Gpa, Gma Rose & Gpa, and Megan, Jaxon & Courtney. Of course, the theme was Cars!

One of the things he got was a new "big boy" car seat. He had fun trying it out on our Conference drive Saturday!

Last night Mikayla lost a tooth, and he tried so hard to get a tooth out, too! Don't grow up too fast, buddy!

I love this little boy more than words can say, and I'm so grateful that he's ours!

Spring!!!!

Don't you just love Spring?! Well I do and this post is dedicated to my favorite season. All of the little birdies this morning must have known it was the first day of spring because they were everywhere, and I love their songs! We've had Meadowlarks for a couple of days (one of my faves!), and we've had fun watching the Doves & Robins & Geese for a while, but this morning I saw the first Finches, Red-winged Blackbirds, and Yellow-headed Blackbirds! Those Yellow-heads have the ugliest song, but they are pretty birds and I love to see them because it means it's officially spring! We have yet to see the elusive Mountain Bluebirds, though. And I can't WAIT 'til May when we get our little Hummingbirds back! Here is a pic of the snow that we still have around as of today (boo)! But, how appropriate was it that we saw our first flower today, a purple Iris! It is tiny but we'll take what we can get around here!