Bikes!!

Taycee is getting so big and the weather is so nice! We have been teaching Taycee to ride her bike without training wheels. She is doing pretty good but she would be content to ride with them for ever I think. She is learning on her little bike and in our back yard. She can make it from one side of the yard to the other. She is going to have to learn to use her handle bars before we take her out of the back yard. She is not sure about the turning. She will get it because hopefully we will get to ride our bikes a lot this summer. We are getting so excited about summer. It comes and about cooks us then the next day it is snowing and it freezes us. What a confused season???

Yes it really is Spring! Not every day, but we are grateful that we have had a few days that resemble springtime. It is a wonderful time of year...all of the new birth and Easter. We are very blessed to have our family so close that we get to enjoy our grandchildren and children part of everyday.
The grandchildren seem to love life on Abnormal Acres as much as we do. You never know what you will find within our fence lines...!

Nan

Taycee caught her a baby goat to love!

Rosie is a first calf heifer and she had a heifer calf. The Abnormal Acre branding should be a good time this year.

Life at Abnormal Acres

Easter at Grandma and Grandpa GUNNER's!!!

What a good day! We all were able to be together and just have fun! We all met for a late lunch and then had to take a few hours after to recover from all that food! Then came picture with the KIDS! Yes I do think we are crazy. They were quite a sight to see. None of them would cooperate at the same time.

Grandma and Grandpa Gunner did a spiritual Egg hunt out in the trees. The kids had fun and I think Grandma Gunner enjoyed it as much as they did! Oh and for those of you how are not aware, The Gunner's are a.k.a Donna and Jodee Bassett!!!

Then it was time for the big kid games!!! We tried a new and I think we will blame that one on Lila. It is called moose moose! Wow that is a wild one! I think it would be a great one to try out the next time the Matt Bassett Family comes to visit!!

Updates from the Walkers

Well now we have finally updated our blog so that any time that any of us write on the blog it will now say who it was that wrote it.....

Maybe it will be less confusing??? We will see!

Well I just wanted to share with everyone a some of the things that have been going on at our house. Taycee, Ryan, and I are really getting excited about Easter. We have been doing fun crafts and Taycee is a natural! I found the cutest idea in a book Dondee gave to me. It is an Easter Tree! I am not sure if a picture does it justice. But it is so fun to do. I was out doing yard work and my neighbor had a tree that was growing through the fence so I cut it off and was about to throw it away well I didn't and it became our project. Taycee colored the eggs and I stamped names on them. Then on Easter The kids will be able to decorate their own egg with stickers.
We are so glad to be spending Easter and Post Easter with the ones that we love.

Conference Sunday!!

I just want everyone to know I gave you enough time to post something especially the ones with picture from this weekend! But you didn't so here I am...
It was a super fun day of being together and listening to uplifting speakers. It was even good with all the kids. There are 9 of them now and sometimes it is hard to keep them all quiet for that long. I had gotten an E mail from a friend of mine that had a conference pack attached. So I decided to make each of the kids that are old enough a folder with their name on it and their own stuff inside. We all played conference bingo!! What a sight! Dad and Josh each had 2 sheets and were the rule enforcers. "I think they cheat!" hah Erin? and poor Erin every time she would get a pretty good start on hers one of the kids would bump it and she would have to start over. At lunch the kids and a few of the adults got to go out and see the baby goats. Lunch was yummy! Dondee made her famous chicken, and Sam and I made won tons and Egg rolls, Brit made some pasta that was good enough to fight over! I was so stuffed that I thought I would not eat for days but then Jodee made his famous popcorn. It was a great day of getting to be together and even learning a little something!!!

Birthdays and Family!!

Wow I can't believe he's one! He is getting so big I think He day before his birthday he had a huge growth spurt. We had a birthday party at DFS. It was so fun I made cup cakes and decorated them to look like basketballs and baseballs. They turned out cuter then I thought they would. Then I got to spend the rest of the day with Dondee and Britany. It was fun we worked on making some pages for a bulletin board at the church. They turned out so cute. I will post a picture of the board when it is all put together. And how lucky am I. I got to go back over on Friday. Dondee had a crazy day and so I came to watch kids so Dondee could do her thing and Josh and Erin could go to the Temple. The kid were realy good. Then after Dondee had gotten home the big kids decided to go and play out side and Joe agreed that that would be a great idea. They all headed out side. A few min. later Dondee went out to check on the kids and found Joe Running and splashing in every puddle he could find. That might not have been that big of a deal but unlike the big kids he didn't have shoes on. Dondee was talking to him about how he needed to ware shoes and not play in the puddles and he commented back "oh cold", and "pants WET"!!! it was so funny. It was a long day but very enjoyable!

These are more pictures of from dinner at Mallory's and Lila's!!

I had to post these pictures. They are just so funny. This is Sunday lunch at Mall & Lila's House. It was fun!

Can't beat this, can you? I love that they are friends. I had a few cousin/friends growing up and lucky for me I still got them. Family is such an amazing blessing and maybe at times a curse. I guess each helps us grow into the people that our Heavenly Father would like us to become.