"You wanna kiss Too? There ya go, theres a little kiss"
"Hey, Kid, "
"Thanks!!"
Aren't they Adorable? This is the part about raising cowboys who wanna play baseball. Normally the boys would have the chore of feeding these cute little guy's but baseball has given me the opportunity to be the exclusive feeder, with the occaisional help of a short attention span three year old cowboy. we've had quite a challenge getting these three little guys to survive. they are the only three out of a lot. 
And, here is Lilly. She's getting big. Every time I go out to feed the doggies she comes over and nibbles on my sleeve and hair until I finish feeding them and spend a few minutes rubbing her neck and chin. She's turned into a real softy. I always look forward to feeding the doggies just for the time I get to play with Lilly. 
He's still stuck on the whole concept of a valley, and occasionally asks me about them. 
2. Saturday Morning we all Load up and drive down through Capitol reef and out to Aldridge and the clay hills
3. We enjoy Grandmas absolutely delicious fried chicken, macoroni salad, baked beans, potatoe salad, and wonderful homemade pickles.
4. the kids play in the dirt with the buckets and shovels that the Easter Bunny seems to always bring a day early.
5. Look closely and you'll find the source of her complete joy. Yes, the Easter Bunny brings bubbles, too.
6. And kites.
7.And then, in the midsts of the playing the egg rolling begins. This year the three youngest went first. They seem to figure out quickly that it's fun to watch the eggs roll clear down the hill.
8. Then the older kids all grab their eggs and begin tossing, rolling, throwing, hucking, lobbing, and dropping their eggs down the hill.
9. And, when they each finish with their dozen eggs they run to the bottom of the hill and pick up the unbroken and mostly intact eggs and throw them back up to the people at the top of the hill. Occaisionally an egg war is fought, but all in fun. also, occaisionally a raw egg ends up in someones dozen and always seems to hit someone.
10. As the moms all stand around taking pictures and dodging eggs thrown by sons who can't help but do a little target practice.
11. And then it's back to playing in the dirt and catching lizzards.
12. Running down the hills
13. and rolling down the hills. This goes on for quite awhile. There's just something about a soft dirt hill that gives hours of fun.
14. For the older kids as well.
15. While the parents all sit around visiting and holding babies
16. until the babies are to worn out to handle any more fun. and we pack up and head for home.
After all, The Easter bunny still has eggs to hide in copius amounts for the kids to find on Easter Morning.
O.K. It's hard to tell in these pictures but this is the weirdest snowstorm we've ever had in Wayne County. The snow flakes are actually falling vertically. Weird huh? Usually, they fall horizontally. At least that's the way it usually works here. One day last winter Roger called home from work, He works anywhere from an hour to three hours away from home, and he asked: "how'S the weather?" . I told him it was snowing, and he asked how much snow was on the ground. With out hesitation I replied. "I'd say we have a Wayne County foot of snow out there. " He started laughing because he knew exactly what I meant. first of all. It can snow all day long here and the majority of the ground will only have, at the most, an inch of snow on it. That's not a foot you may be thinking. Well.....no it isn't, but that snow has to go somewhere, and it's usually sitting in drifts of a foot or more all along the fences, or other likely drift spots. and not only that, when we do get an inch of snow, It lasts as long as any other places foot of snow. AND,It seems it never melts until June Rolls around and we are all wearing shorts and flip flops even though the temperature still only reaches Oh...... maybe 40 degrees, if we're lucky.
So, Yeah, you're looking at a Wayne county foot of snow. 
