Brazilian Blowout/ Storm

Here is our trampoline after the storm. You can also see what it did to our shed, and our poor, new little tree.

OK, so these are crappy, uncropped, unfixed pictures, but you get the idea. I had a Brazilian Blowout done by Tammi G/T at InBloom. Above- my hair wash and air dried before.....

My hair washed and air dried, and after a bike ride outside in high humidity.

Above- the back before- air dried.

The back- after- air dried. I still have a few waves. But, NO poof. My hair is not puffy at the moment...and it didn't take me 40 minutes to get it that way.

I was very happy to see one of the last baby toys go to Halle Buckhouse. Marie got one more good bounce out of it for you Halle!

Marie likes to dress herself, even if both legs go through one opening. Not that I'm much better at hair, but she did her own hair as well.

No, I didn't learn how to take good photos. Luckily, I have a neighbor girl, Allison, who is great at it! She took these pics of the kids.

Marie 20 months.

Eva 8.

Luke 3 1/2

Travis 6.

Lego-maniacs

I realized that other little lego-maniacs probably would like to look at things Travis has built. I will just keep adding to this post as he builds!

He got this "Road Rescue Dodge" (953 pieces) from Grandma Tree and Grandpa Gerry for his birthday. Took about 6 hours for him to put it together. I hope Luke likes Legos and will get out of my hair for 6 hours?

He got this Toy Story lego set from Uncle Adam and Auntie Sheena.

Travis 6th birthday

I don't often do pictures of cakes without a kid...but look at how awesome this is? The cake was $30, the lego candles $15!!!!! No, I did not make this...obvious to anyone that is aware of my cake decorating skills.
Travis in lego heaven. We had a girl scouts thing going on, so the party wasn't until 4pm. Otherwise, I like to have parties in the morning so I don't have to hear about it all day long. For example, the cake was delivered at 10am and Luke said for the next 6 hours "Mom, I'm reawwy hungwy. Hungwy foe Wego cake."

It was so nice and hot out that I told the kids they could take their shirts off if they were too hot. It was a "red neck" birthday party.

So red-neck that we didn't even bother to get out chairs for the kids. We just let them run around and stand at the table to eat.

Watch cute, little Marie....watching the cake so sweetly. Not touching it, not grabbing anything...

Until I turned my back!

Chris, (yes Chris Hanson that I'm married to) he says "I've never actually wanted to eat one of my children. But, I could just eat Marie up she's that cute and sweet." Agreed.

The Easter bunny brought her this stroller to push babies in. In case she wasn't cute enough.

And, not only does she have Chris and I wrapped around her finger, Marie's also got the older kids smitten. You've seen pictures of Luke's cars that he creates at the bottom of the stairs. This time he's reading books to Marie while they travel. Hopefully he's not driving?

Eva reading her books. Travis says he wants us to have more babies because they are just so cute! He asks quite often actually? He must have forgotten the part with me eating and puking that it takes to get these cute things?

Gerry-Buckhouse It

Ever wonder where we get the term "Gerry-Buckhouse It?" Just look at the toddler in the milk crate on the front of the 4 wheeler. RIDICULOUSLY safe, I'm sure. Watch out Sheena, he'll Gerry-Buckhouse Halle too! Ha! Marie loved it and was actually very safe since they were driving as slow as my jog. And then grandma Tree tells me that the "blanket" Marie is wrapped up in is actually a leftover piece of fabric from the dog house. GERRY-BUCKHOUSED to the max!

We also "Gerry-Buckhoused" some sausage. There are many Gerry-Buckhouse things that are actually quite great! Like making breakfast sausage from scratch.

Marie with pretend baby halle

Marie loves her babies. Might have been the first time I've ever been so weak to buy a kid whatever toy they wanted in the store. It was just too cute seeing her walk around Fleet Farm with this baby carrier.

Luke's sour cream water

This is a good way to keep things away from little sisters...

Getting in the Easter mood

What better way to get in the Easter mood than seeing 2 gals in their Easter best? They wore it to Palm Sunday at our church since we'll be in Hankinson for Easter.

I'm not sure Eva ever picked up a doll? Marie loves her babies. This is baby Malia (baby's name at daycare.)
This picture is from the end of March. Grandma Tree was ready to leave, the big kids were outside and Marie always wants to go out with them. Marie is laying out her snowsuit and trying to get it on and trying to put her boots on and crying "bye, bye"....I wasn't going to take her out. Grandma couldn't stand it, and we all know how Grandma hates the cold. Marie used her cuteness and Grandma guilt got the best of her!

Luke is hard-core when it comes to golf.

Saturday, April 16. This is the reason for the tights that Marie is wearing in the first picture.