My husband is an old man. His name is Randy.

Randy just keeps getting older and older.

Despite that, I still love him. 

And so do our girls.  They love and adore him.  He loves and adores us.

They also love candy.  You can totally see that they expect to get some from him.

Here are some attempts at family pictures on Randy's birthday (May 7th- yes, I'm very late).  I noticed that  I always squint with my left eye in pictures.  At least these ones.  I've never noticed that before.

You get the point.  I think we gave up. 

Thank goodness Randy asks for ice cream cakes.  They're so easy.  

I have had a few thoughts lately.  I loved Randy before we got married and thought he'd be a good husband and father, but really I didn't know that he would be for sure. It is such a blessing that he is a good husband and father.  He is so good and patient with a house full of girls.  He really loves the kids and me, and I am so grateful for that.  He even lets them do things like this to him:

And this:

Seriously- that's patient.  =)

Some things I love about Randy: 1) He's a family man.  He doesn't feel like he has to go out with friends every night. He likes to be with us.  2) He's dang smart 3) He is a hard worker 4) He is passionate about things like stars and planets and bikes and computers and science... I'm sure there's more.  But when he's passionate about something he just soaks up all the info he can about it, and he gets so excited about these things.  It just amazes me with what he can do and remember when he's excited about something.

This is a typical morning of sending Randy off to school in the morning.  The girls' ritual with their Daddy.  

I love you Randy!

Oklahoma Breakdown.

So I guess THIS is what Oklahoma Breakdown really means.  =)  Here are some pictures before and after our storm we had this week.

Randy and I spent all morning one saturday playing "catch-up" on weeding.  We got it all done, and the thing looked beautiful!  This was that day.  Probably a couple of weeks ago.

See that huge, disgusting worm Mya was holding?  Its the size of a small snake.  

This helps to give perspective on the size of our Zucchini plants.  

Happy Gardner.

I love that shirt.  And that girl.  =)

AND... After.  So sad.

Here are some of the house after our storm.  Surprisingly the tree didn't break any windows.  The Hail did though.  It got 2 of our windows pretty good.   And our siding.

Randy with the chainsaw- he's just missing the beard now.  That would have been perfect.  =)

Poor place took a beating, huh?

Funny

I was going through pictures and thought that I'd post a bunch of random ones that I think are funny.  

Mya LOVES to get dirty.  She gets about 2 baths a day.  I thought that Kenadi and Emma were messy/dirty kids but Mya wins as the most dirty, messy, kid- EVER.

Emma's hair after I took it out of a hair-do.  Just a ring of "fro".

Kenadi and Emma like to sleep in weird places.  One night they slept in this box.  They didn't even sleep the long way, well, Kenadi did and Emma slept the short way.  All night.

Emma has a mind of her own when it comes to what she wears.  She wore her Halloween shirts at least once a week for about a year.  And she RARELY matches.  I gave up.  I think it's funny now.

Boo!  If you go down the camera roll, you see the side shot, and then the next shot with her giving you one of her funny faces.  She has some really funny faces.

This is what the wind can do to you here.

So, this one's VERY weird, I know.  I decided to post it for 2 reasons.  1- the girls like this picture because they think that it's me in the sun.  2- I have a couple funny pictures of Randy on here later and i hope that this compensates for it so he doesn't feel like he has to get me back.  =)

Emma and Kenadi like to make silly faces for the camera, which is cute, but I really liked that Emma was trying to ride that tiny horse.

I know that I've posted a few of these already, but I still thought they fit in this post.  The cousins eating the marshmallows out of the Lucky Charms cereal.  They succeeded before any adult found them!

Redneck teether.

Randy wearing Kenadi's Rapunzel hair so that I could braid it.  I think he looks good as a blonde, don't you?

This cauliflower was funny because I harvested it in the beginning of January.  Right after they did nothing all summer.  It was a surprise to me that they were actually doing something!

A few Mya messes.

Somebody's car.  Notice all of the statues screwed into it.

I found these after Randy shaved his beard off. I guess he was trying a few different looks.  Scary, if you ask me.  He reminds me of that guy on Rudolf (I think) that sings "Silver and Gold".  Know who I'm talking about?

Ok, one last horrible picture of me to make up for Randy's pictures.

These are proof of what Mya looks like after about EVERY meal.  I pretty much feed her in nothing but a diaper.

Well, I have more posts to do.  I'll try to be better now that school's out!

We now have a SUPER SIX year-old!

 You might be wondering where I've been.  Well, I've been spending my time homeschooling, and so our blog has been pushed to the side.  I get to spend my day with all three of our wonderful kids, which is a blessing, but also VERY time consuming.  =)  Obviously.  I have to make sure and get the milestones written down here though, and Birthday's are some of them.  SO, our little Kenadi is not so little any more.  She is now 6!  Every year I'm amazed that so much time has passed already.  All the while, time passes so slowly for the kids.  They are already excited for their next birthday's, and Christmas, and Halloween...  Emma asks me at least once a week to put the lights up outside the house and get the tree out.  She's been wearing Christmas dresses too.  She has never quit wearing her halloween clothes. I see orange and black leggings, a "boo" shirt, halloween jammy's, all the time.  Oh well, it's cute on a 3-year old.  So, back to Kenadi's birthday.  She has been riding a bike that was way to small for her, so she got a princess bike, complete with the baby carriage/basket on the front.  It was funny shopping with Randy for it.  He was cringing the whole time, couldn't believe he was buying such a girly bike.  Well, Randy, you are in a family with all girls (other than yourself, of course).

 Little Kenadi LOVES it though.  She is so happy with all of her girly things.  She is definitely a girly girl.  Her birthday was nice because we got to watch one of her friends.  He came over and helped her enjoy it more.

 Kenadi and some of her gifts.

 Mya had to stand on top of all of them for some reason.  It's her new thing, I guess.

 Lucky for me Kenadi wanted strawberry shortcake for her birthday cake.  Whew.  That was much easier than decorating a cake.  

Kenadi is smart, active, and full of laughter.  She loves to tickle, make jokes, and play pranks.  She makes us laugh.  She is my little helper around the house, and looks out for her little sisters.  She is good at dealing with Emma, who doesn't share very well, and Mya who ate all of her Easter candy.  I love that she understands (for the most part) that they are younger than her and still learning.  She is full of hugs and kisses, and writes the best love notes to Randy and I.  She loves her friends and her family, and makes our family better.  Oh Kenadi, we love you!  Happy Birthday!