Happy Birthday Haley!

She is so cute!

When I went down to Henderson for Keira's birthday, I took Haley's birthday/baptism pictures too. She did really great. It was so cold and windy that you could see the goose bumps on her arms in the pictures.

Haley turned 8 on April 16th. She will be getting baptized in May. She changed her date just for me. We are going on a trip and would have missed her special day. Thank you Haley for changing it, we are so excited to be there. Haley is such a sweet girl. Haley is full of life and not afraid to do anything. She loves to be with her family, cousins and friends. Ellie and Carson love spending time with Haley. She is always so nice to play with them. We love you Haley and hope you had a wonderful day!

BIRTHDAY PARTIES!!!

They were having so much fun.

Pirate Island is a fun place, the food just isn't that great.

These are all such good boys.

Carson wanted to go to Pirate Island for his birthday. I thought it would be so much easier to take everyone there instead of being at our home.....I learned a very good lesson...It is too hard to keep track of 11 kids in a busy place. I thought it would be slower at 11:00am but nope the place was packed. The kids all had so much fun. I was so happy to have some of the Moms stay and help. I could not have done it without them. Thank you!!

Noelle

Haley

Keira

They all got books from Nana and Papa.

ARRRR MATES!!!

He was so excited!

My mom put together a fun birthday party for all the kids. We had 3 birthdays to celebrate. Carson had a Pirate table with hats and swords, Keira had a balloon table, and Haley had a T-party table with fairy wings. The kids had so much fun and all the decorations turned out so cute. Thanks Mom for making this such a special birthday for all of them!! They loved it!

Ellie was so excited about the cupcakes!!

This was Carson's Birthday cake. It was all neat and nice and we took it over to the club house and it fell apart before I even got a picture of it. My family helped me try and put it back together, I guess he had a ship wreck cake! Carson still thought it was neat.

~ EaStEr ~

Ellie and Carson were so happy to have there Nana and Papa here. Ellie loves her Papa

The women, we are missing my sister in-law Delena

So sweet. Ellie has a huge piece of candy in her mouth!

Easter eggs at Papa Mac & G.G's

I sure love this guy!

Little Ellie was having a nap!

My whole family was able to come down for Easter. It was so nice to see everyone. The kids had so much fun. I can't decide if Carson really understands the Easter bunny thing.... he gets the part where he gets candy thats for sure! Ellie and Carson were so excited when they woke up because they knew they got to find there easter basket. We were going to make them wait to find them since we had 9:00 am church but Carson was too guick to find his in the tub. We had to help Ellie find her's in the pantry. I sure love doing this Mom thing. I love to see how excited they get!

Keira is the BIG OnE

It was really fun taking Keira's pictures while we were there. She is so cute. She was good for the first few and then she was done. She is terrified of the sound of water and there was a huge waterfall behind us.

I think this one is my favorite!!!

Happy 1st Birthday Keira! We love you!

We were so happy we could be there for Keira's birthday. We had a lot of fun.

Keira is a true Grieve. She is allergic to about everything. She can't have any dairy, including soy so she couldn't have a birthday cake so they gave her a cookie.

She was so excited, I think when she threw up her arms it blew out her candle.

An X-ray, Cast and $256 dollars later!

I was bugged they put a green cast on her instead of pink or purple! Heck, she is a girl!

Here she is! Poor thing! I feel so bad that I waited 5 days to take her in. I was hoping it was just bruised and she would get better! They took an x-ray and she has 3 broken bones in her hand. I showed Carson what he did to her, I think he feels bad but doesn't really understand the damage he did to her. He knows that if he even hurts her a tiny bit she is going to live with Jon and Delena till he learns his lesson. She has to have this cast on for 8 weeks. Yuck, she is going to really stink! I was quite surprised that the bill was only $256. I was expecting over $500. I guess we lucked out.

I got the real story from our neighbor about what happened. He said he watch Carson throw Missy out in to the street and she landed on her front paws and face. She layed there for about 10 seconds just kicking, when she got up and ran to the garage, that is probably when I heard her screaming. I never thought it would be like this, Carson and Ellie have always been so loving to animals. It must be because she is so little and they think they are the boss and can do whatever they want to her. I can't wait till she is bigger than them...oh how the tables will turn! :) I really have to watch and make sure Missy doesn't get her revenge!

HaPpY BiRtHdAy AsHlEy!!

Today is my really good friend Ashley's birthday! She is such an amazing friend. She is always so kind, thoughtful, willing to help out anytime. She is so good to my kids too. Ashley is such a great Mom of 3 boys! She is always so paitent with them. I really have so much fun with Ashley. We love spending time with Ashley, Nate and their boys. We are so happy that we have such great friends! We hope you have a fun day!! Happy Birthday Ashley!

PuPpY AbUsE

Her right paw is twice it's size!
Left Paw

Right Paw

Poor Missy!! This has been a very stressful 11 days! Missy has been doing pretty good. She sleeps about 6-7 hours before she cries to get up and go to the bathroom. The poop thing is driving me crazy! I though they should have some kind of schedule but she doesn't. I don't have it down yet. I am trying to get her to go in just one spot in the back yard, I know I have only had her for just a short time but I'm going crazy!!

I have really had to watch Carson and Ellie with her. Ellie just loves on her too hard and all the time. She will pull her or grab her by her skin, cheeks, anything she can get ahold of. She still layes all over her so I am afraid she'll smother her. Carson is good with her unless I am not watching. (so he thinks) He will knee her or kick her, he'll pick her up and throw her. He will stuff her in her kennel and lock her up. It's like he is playing house and he is the boss and makes her do whatever he wants to her, which hurts her in the process.

Yesterday I was out back doing the fun thing of picking up poop and the kids went up front and Missy followed. I was coming around the side of the house and I could hear Missy screaming. I ran into the garage and she looked like she was pinned under the car. She was still screaming when I finally got her out, she was shaking pretty good, it took her a minute to calm down. She can't walk on her paw still this morning and it is twice it's size. Of course I asked Carson what he did to her and he said nothing.....then said he drug her on the road and made her get a drink out of her bowl which means he shoves her nose into her bowl. I have no idea what he did to her but they are both grounded from her. I told them that if they aren't nice that I am going to give Missy away to Noelle, she would be nice to her. If they continue to be mean to her I talked to Delena and she said she could go stay with them for a day and maybe that will show Carson we are serious. I never thought they would be like this to her.

I hope Missy's paw is OK. I don't want to take her in. $$$ If it isn't better tomorrow I'll have to take her in!!