Memorial Day 2014

We enjoyed a family hike to the petrified forest in the "badlands."  It was the perfect length for the girls and we all had a great time.  It was so good to be outside and enjoy nature.  It is a tradition to pick shale lilies to put on the family graves in Star Valley.  We miss that tradition being in ND.  We were so surprised to find this shale lily on our hike! It helped us remember family members who have died.

Macy, Adrie, Mommy with Jentry, and Emry

Daddy and girls by the "weird" rock

Petrified forest

Shale Lily!

Emry's 5th Birthday

Emry's German pancakes (her birthday breakfast choice).

 These are the fairy cupcakes she has been planning for a year.  Mommy stayed up late making the intricate wings. 

Emry, Macy and Adrie with their fairy wings from the party.

Emry has been planning this fairy birthday party for months. She loved having her little friends over to celebrate!

Here is the Happy 5 year old Birthday Girl!

Adrie is 3!

This is the "pink bunny cake" Adrie requested for her 3rd birthday. She is such a happy girl and a joy to have in our family. I love this sweet 3 year old!

Emry and Adrie next to the stuffed animal zoo Clay made. This is awesome!
All the stuffed animals have a home

"I'm three!"

Mommy and her big belly with birthday girl. Adrie is three and three weeks to go until she is a big sister! She is sooo excited to be a big sis!

Birthday Time!

Macy is 7 years old! She chose a "Winter Wonderland" birthday party.  She invited several friends from school.  We played pin the nose on the snowman, made penguin and snowflake crafts, had a dance party, ate "snowballs", "snowmen noses," and had a hot chocolate bar. It was a blast!

First Day of School

Macy is a 1st Grader now!

She looks like a real first grader after knocking out her front tooth over the weekend. It was a little loose, but she whacked herself in the mouth at a park. It was traumatic! 

Emry was feeling pretty sad that Macy was going to school and she was not. She can't wait to start joy school in a couple weeks. We will miss Macy when she is at school. The girls play constantly together.

Monkey bars are Macy's favorite!

Macy did great at a brand new school! She was a little nervous because she doesn't know a soul. She was brave and will do just fine!

Summer 2013

Wow, what a summer!  Here it is in a nutshell: We moved to North Dakota in June, the girls and I spent a week in KS in July, we had both grandmas visit here in Aug. We terrible miss Pinedale and our friends there.  We have enjoyed getting to know our new area, setting up a brand new house, camping, and meeting new friends and neighbors, vacationing, whew! It was so good to get to see a lot of family this summer.

camping trip at Lake Tschida

This is a pike I caught

My Grandma Pokorny's birthday party. It was a very long drive, but it was so nice to be there.

Macy and Grandma picking blueberries in KS.

It was so fun to spend a week at Grandma and Grandpa Pokorny's with all the cousins!!!

This water park was a blast!

Reptile Gardens in Rapid City

This giant tortoise was cool until it started walking on Macy. She backed up and fell right into it's pond! She was not a happy girl and was soaked up to her waist!  

This cave in SD was really cool. We had a fun day with my parents. 

It was a special treat to have Grandma "Honey" and Aunt Stacey here for a week. These are the slippers she made the girls. Adorable!

Christmas 2012

Christmas in Kansas!

 We had a great Christmas with the Pokorny Clan in KS! It was fun to all be together...my whole fam! We went to a zoo the day before Christmas and it was really cool! (and cold..burr). The cousins had so much fun at Grandma and Grandpa's house. They had a blast playing together!

Christmas morning was so much fun with everyone there. The kids ripped through the presents fast. Emry was thrilled with this guitar! It was the only thing she asked for. Macy loved her camera and plays with it everyday. Adrie loves her princess"sleekie bag" (sleeping bag.)