Happy 6th Birthday Rylie!!!

Today Rylie is 6 years old...I can't believe it!!!  She has grown up so much this year!  She can read, she can add and subtract, she can ride a bike, and she even has her first loose tooth!  She walks into Kindergarten all by herself...she won't even let Parker walk her in...she can even fix her own hair!  She is getting way too independent!  It is all going way too fast!

Rylie makes every day a special day!  She is very funny and very quick on her feet!  She is the girliest girl I know...but at the same time, she falls in the tadpole pond at the soccer field at almost every practice trying to catch one!  She has a heart of gold and she worships the ground her brothers walk on!  She is the biggest daddies girl I have EVER seen, but she loves doing the girl thing with her mom too!

I never imagined when I held her in my arms for the very first time that not only would I love her more than I ever imagined possible, but that I would have so much fun being her mom!

Happy Birthday Rylie Kate!  Thank you for all the joy you bring into all of our lives!!!  We love you!!!

Rylie's First Concert

Rylie had an early birthday present this week...she got to go see her favorite singer in concert...Taylor Swift!

Of course I liked this present because I got to go too!!!

Here we are at Red Robin...we had to stop at one of her favorite places for dinner!

Did I mention the bonus in this birthday present...Sammi got a Taylor Swift ticket for her birthday too!

Here the girls are walking to the Staples Center...they were so cute!

Did I mention how excited they were?

Here we are just before we went in...

Since this was for their birthdays...we didn't hold back!  Our first stop was for glow sticks and programs...then on to the t-shirts!

Yep...I got one too!

The girls were so cute...taking it all in!

We were pretty far up...and even though there were screens, they loved using their binoculars!

Rylie loved Kellie Pickler, but when Taylor Swift came on stage...well...let's just say that it was a moment I will never forget!  The look on Rylie's face was priceless!  She insisted that we "practiced" Taylor Swift songs for the week before the concert, every time we were in the car...and it paid off!  She and I love "Our Song" any way...but there was just something about singing it with Rylie at the concert...it was the best!

Rylie LOVED all of Taylor's sparkly dresses!!!

She even moved to a small stage just below us...the girls loved the view they had of her then!

Sammi took a cat nap in the middle of the concert...but she was up and at 'em by the time Katy Perry came on stage for a song with Taylor!

We all had a great time!  It was so much fun taking Rylie to her first concert...and I think she liked it too!  Happy Early Birthday Rylie Kate!!!

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter!  We hope you are having a wonderful holiday...and that you haven't been "rolling" around as much as we have!  (The 6.9 earthquake near Mexico had us feeling like we were rocking on a boat earlier!  Oh wait...now they are saying it was a 7.2!)

So it seems like the older the kids get...the faster they decorate the Easter Eggs!

We think it took us longer to set up than it did to decorate the eggs this year!

Rylie even did some art work on her eggs!

Parker wasn't too sure about that color!

Mason looks at egg decorating as a science...

Rylie LOVES Easter!  She has been on a count down for weeks!  All of the kids were up and had their baskets found before 7 a.m.!  Rylie found hers in her bed next to her Big Bear!  She couldn't believe that the Easter Bunny went in her room while she was sleeping!

Parks found his in the cereal cupboard...his favorite place in the kitchen!

Mason found his on the top shelf in the laundry room!

Parker even got Mason an extra little present for Easter since he hasn't been feeling good.

Rylie got matching dresses with Elizabeth and Felicity...so she and I got our "girls" in their Easter Dresses and we fixed their hair...one of our favorite things to do!

Aren't they cute!

Here we are with our "girls"

Rylie has a plan...today she and Elizabeth are twins, tomorrow she'll match Felicity!

After it got a little warmer, we went out back for an Easter Egg hunt.  To Shane and I, there was one egg that was more obvious than any of the others...aparently Parker didn't see it...

...neigher did Rylie...

...Parker and Mason couldn't see it...

...no matter how hard they looked!

Mason FINALLY saw it...believe it or not...it was the last egg to be found!!!

Me and my kiddos!

Did I mention how much they LOVE looking for Easter Eggs?

Shane and the kids

They found all the eggs in probably 5 minutes...the moral of the story...aparently we need a bigger house for the baskets to be hidden in...and a bigger yard for the egg hunt!

Yeah...Parker all the way!!!  Happy Easter!