Easter Egg Hunt 2012

Easter is always a big party every year with the McGarry's and this year did not disappoint!  The Francis family drove from Vegas, Wacy was home from his mission, Kat has entered the family, we are complete this year.

 The kids all ready to dye their eggs.

 Macy was really into it this year and colored at least 7 eggs on her own.

 All the egg hunt loot.

 A bunch of my favorite people.

 More of my favorites

 My most favorite!

 We kept the egg hunt inside this year.  Snow put a damper on outdoor hunting...seriously lame!

 Everyone gathered to see what their eggs had in store for them.  (Notice cute little Krew walking around--love that boy!)

 Dad awaiting his fate...

 Logan and Whitney

 Macy popping packaged air with Uncle Matt, she ran away before this officially popped.  Scaredy pants!

 Macy getting some prizes.

Brigham is officially rich.  :)

My little cuties Easter morning.

March 2012

This month at the Ricks household:

Brigham lost his first tooth! He was eating a crescant of all things that loosened it enough to come out.

 We visited Grandpa's farm in the middle of calving season (Logan checking cows below) (Kids bending Grandpa's gate above)

 We deemed this little guy as the cutest calf on our visit.  :)

 Ashtyn turned 11.  Holy moly!

 She got gifts, donuts, chocolate milk and cake to celebrate and we also went to the movie "Lorax" at the theater.  She got to go to dinner with adults only at Applebees with Grandma and Grandpa McGarry and her parents of course.

 Haylee turned 9! Really, where has the time gone?  We had cake on FHE night for Haylee's bday and also sang to Brock, Zack, Ashtyn, Krew and Kelli who had March birthdays too.

 The morning of Haylee's bday.  We woke up early to let her open gifts before school.  There was no way she was waiting until after school!  Grandma had taken Haylee and Ashtyn out on a Grandma date for their birthdays and bought Haylee this cute dress she is wearing.  I have to put limits on her wearing it too much. ha ha

 High heel shoes an a peacoat were also on her list.

 She got all dressed up complete with a fancy hairstyle and took donuts to school to share with her class.  After school we treated her to her first pedicure.  She was in heaven!  For dinner she got to eat out with Mom and Dad all by herself.

We can't believe how fast time is going with these little ladies!  Happy Birthday girls!

February 2012

We have a little Valentines tradition where every year we go to a hotel as a family and spend time together.  The past few years I have had to leave early due to ear infections, sad babies etc. so this year we tried something different.  I had the kids pick a name and they turned into secret Valentines where they tried to do nice things for one another or leave secret treats for them.  They had fun doing this for each other.  I did 14 days of Valentines for Scott and left him a treat or something with a note for 14 days.  It was a lot of fun.  Scott let me get a pedi (he may or may not have come with me).  We gave each of the kids $5 to spend at the dollar store where they picked out gifts for their Valentine and then gave to each other for Valentines day.  It was fun to see what they picked for each other.  They know each other pretty well.  :)  We also had a family night together where we played fun games and spent time with each other.  Hooray for a month that reminds us to Love.  :)

Macy and Brigham checking out their Valentine gifts

 Ashtyn and Haylee got spoiled too.

 Playing a Minute to Win It game.

 Cupid's Arrow game.  I rocked this game...Scott was sad I was better at it than he was.  ;)

At the end of the month Brigham got to bring home Benny Bear from Kindergarten.  He had so much fun.  He really loves Kindergarten and learning.  It is fun for him to finally get to be like his sisters. 

January 2012

I am behind I know, I have been busy and I look back at the photos and realize why I haven't had time to blog.  This all happened in January alone.  I am exhausted just looking back at the photos!

 Haylee got to babysit her class pet, Angel, the lionhead bunny this month.  The kids had a lot of fun.  She was hard to catch and spent a lot of time under Brigham's bed.  They also don't smell very nice.  I was happy to get her out of my house after the weekend.  ;)

 The girls wanted to do a drill team fundraiser where they got to dance during half time at a Madison basketball game.  Above is my niece, Shaylee with the big red flower in her hair (3rd in from right).

 Haylee is on the back row to the left of the girl with the white headband.

 For some reason I only got a rear shot of Ashtyn? hmmm, maybe I did video on the rest.  She is the one with pig tails.

 Macey wasn't old enough to participate but she had a lot of fun seeing Shaylee. 

We got into painting this month probably due to cold weather and being stuck inside.



I decided to paint a stencil on one wall in my bedroom.  At the first picture if you look really close, I had to draw the stencil with pencil and then I went over it by hand with paint.  It took forever, but the result was exactly what I wanted and I am still loving it.

 Macy must have wanted new carpet but to her dismay we were able to get this gallon of popcorn butter off the floor.  What a mess!!! 

Macy also discovered Toy Story this month.  She loves any Toy Story movie and talks about it constantly.  When she saw Brigham's pj's she started wearing them as much as she could.  Good bye princess jammies, hello Buzz Lightyear.  She also still loves her princess movies and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.

{New Years}

 New Years Eve was a lot of work and we managed a lot of play too.  With Aunt Jenny passing away a few weeks ago, Mom inherited some big pieces of furniture that my parents had to try to fit into their house.  She got a huge entertainment center that we thought measured 12 feet (someone else did the measuring) so the only place that was large enough to fit it was in their family room.  Some brick had to be taken out in order for things to fit so Scott and Dad hammered away...

 The kids vacuumed and swept...

 and the entertainment center was put together...wait a minute, it is only ten feet?  So it could have fit on different walls, and we didn't need to knock out all the brick?  Blast, well too late now.  Grrr.

 This baby literally took 8 hours to get put together (including brick demo).  Sheesh!

 The day before was spent putting this desk together in the office.  Aunt Jenny didn't go for small furniture; everything was done right. 

 In the midst of all the moving, furniture building and chaos, we managed to fit a New Years Party in there.  We started out the night with a bubble gum blowing contest.  I really don't know who won, Brittni had some great ones, Haylee, Kelli and I were also contendors.

 Poor Brigham didn't know how to blow a bubble but he put in a valiant effort.

 We played a game of Bingo.  Brigham did not have a very good card and quit during the middle of this game. 

 With a lot of convincing and pep talks we got him to come back for another try.  Grandpa cheered him on and rubbed it in when he got one but Brigham ended this game victorious.  Priceless and not even rigged.  He actually won and this was a much needed win since he has only ever won twice in his entire life.  Phew!, the night could go on with happiness.

 It is never a party if you don't break out the Wii.  We even got Brittni to dance so next year it is our goal to get Whitney up there too.  Pump Up the Jam nearly killed us all.

 Our family loves this game.  There is never a dull moment.  See Logan all sad about something?

 and Mom having a laugh attack that went on for several minutes.

 Then Wacy joined us with his girlfriend and her family who were visiting from California.  He lost this round and was not happy!

 Since we had worked moving stuff around and assembling stuff all day we thought we would make midnight really be 10 o'clock but we managed to last until the real midnight and here are ALL of the kids (that's right none of them crashed) celebrating the New Year.

Happy New Year everyone, may this year bring many more great memories.