Taycee's school is out!!!

Wow Taycee's last day of preschool!!! It is so crazy! She started at Absorka Head start in 2007 When we lived in Lovell. She moved to the 4 year old class in 2008 and now we live in Worland and she just finished her last day. She is going to start kindergarten in the fall. It feels a little crazy that she is already going to start into school. She is very excited but also very ready for summer. She is getting so big and such a good little helper.

These pictures are of Taycee at school. It is the last days that I could volunteer and I have been really bad about taking pictures of her. I don't normally get pictures of her at school because I am not there.

At school I learned the right way to set my place at the table. (even if I won't do it at home)

I like to read stories! But like it even more when mom reads to me!!!

My Friend Ariceli!!

(Greg, Colin, Gaberial, Andrew, Taycee, Ariceli, Nicole, Allison)
Standing in line after the potty break!

Working hard to Write my name! (Taycee Walker)

It is play time at school and I am Taycee the cowgirl and I am singing!!!

If you look close you can see me at the top of the tower. I am a princess and i am defending my castle so LOOK OUT BELOW!!!!

Branding at the Preator's!!!

The day didn't start out as early as planned because we had to wait for things to dry just a little but the sun decided to shine what a nice day!! We all had our jobs and the kids even helped. Haden kept the calves out of the branding area and Libby kept track of how many bull calves there were. Ryan loved being outside and was helping by waving his bottle in the air and yelling on occasion. Josh's job was to keep the calves coming and he did a great job. There was not many calves but we were all there to have a good time and get some work done. Of course I had to make sure that those boys new that a girl can do anything they can do and was doing an ok job until this one calf got an attitude. I wont go into details but I ended up with a pretty good bruise on my face.(it was worse then it looks in this picture) "I got some pretty funny looks at church the next day." There was also a pretty good save done by Tyler! A calf got in were the kids were and so he went to save the day, the calf tried to jump through him and Tyler caught him mid air. AWESOME TYLER! You are our hero!!!!! And after all the work was done we got to enjoy some wonderful food! Thanks Jeanie for the great food and Norman thank you for letting us come out and enjoy the day with you.

TIME OUT!!!!!!

Yes we are all crazy and had so much fun together! Not only did we get to spend time together but we laughed and cried and laughed some more. Family is such a blessing!!!!

What a fun weekend we just had! We went to Time out for women!! It was so fun to be together and the speakers were all just awesome. Our Time out started Friday. On Friday we had the pleasure of hearing some songs from Hillary Weeks. We also had the opportunity to listen to one of the greatest violinists I think in the World, Jenny Oaks Baker!! Not only was she good but FUNNY!!! We started Early on Saturday to be at the metra by 8:15ish (that is Bassett time)! We were uplifted and learned! We laughed and we Cried and then laughed and cried some more. It was nice to listen to people that have experienced the things that we are going through (to some extent) and handled it with grace and optimism! Such examples!!! All of the speakers from Friday had written books so that will be fun to read some of those. For those of you who have never been to a time out for women you should definitely give it a try. It is so fun to be together as a group of women. If anyone wants to learn more about it or see when it is coming to your part of the world here is a web site to help!! http://deseretbook.com/time-out

Meandering thoughts

Well, what can I say...all the pictures I have taken recently(and not so recently) are still on the camera, so I threw in one from this summer. Yep, here they are the fearless leaders on the horses from retard ranch. Just sitting around being frustrated today. 3 of the 4 short people have the stomach flu and after spending two nights awake with them, they shared with me. Apparently it has been long time since I've had a fever, because I really didn't remember it being this bad, but such is life. We are just enjoying the Wyoming spring of hot and cold, rain and snow. The kids are so excited for all the mud:( Joe and Rylee have found their way into those muddy little puddles twice and have been covered from head to toe-I try my best to be stern but they look awfully cute covered from head to toe, with Rylee saying "Joe pushed me into the puddle and then jumped in!" It may be a true story, it may be wishful thinking. The pile of laundry that needs folded and the dirty dishes in the sink are not enough to coax me off my chair today, although we did go move our little herd-nearly complete for the year, we are short one calf and I'm guessing two baby goats.....life on the Abnormal Acres never is boring.

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.