Oh...it's been a while! Trying to decide if keeping up with my blog is even worth it or not.  I know I have very few followers.  What's the point if know one even follows my blog anymore.  Thanks for all those that have enjoyed it over the years. 

Happy 13th Birthday Clayton!

 Opening presents!

Clayton wanted money for his birthday,

but I still wanted to get him a few things.

He got a new football, and some church

clothes, along with is his favorite soda,

candy and gum!

 

 I made Clayton a yellow cake

and then put strawberry danish, and

whip cream on top!

 Make a Wish!!!

 Money, Money, Money!

Clayton had a big bag of

candy bars, he loves chocolate!

Brenden talent show

Alaina Rocks!

I had to share this. Alaina was so excited, she got

a 100% on her spelling tests 2 weeks in a row!

She also gave me the funniest

but cutest mother's day letter,

I thought I would share as well.

It's reads with spelling errors and all..lol:

"Dear Mom, Sometimes your mean and sometimes

you are nice. Pop is not very good for you sometimes.

You make my life feel perfect sometimes.

Thank you for helping me with activity days.

You are wonderful, terrific, and special.

I appreciate you for the things you do for me.

Thank you for washing my clothes, thank

you for ficksing dinner sometimes.

thank you for picking my clothers for

school in the morning, thank you

for putting my blankets on at night.

Love, Alaina

I love you soooooo much."

I love this sweet litte girl,

so much.

she is so smart and loving. She

brightens my whole world

and makes me laugh!

Well the herd is still growing, this is our future

Lamacha herd Sire. His name is "Shinny Nugget"

aka "Shinny" His mother was Nugget and his

grandmother was Shine. He is now 3 weeks old

and we are bottle feeding him.

Our Goat Herd is Growing!

This is our newest little goat. His name is

"Glacier". He's a bit timid and we are trying

tame him. He seems to like Alaina alot! Maybe

Alaina doesn't seem so intimidating to him

because she is so small.

They are really cute together. This will

eventually be one of Erin's pack goats!


Update on Glacier:
No Longer timid, he is now very tame
and he is always up in your face wanting
attention. He follows you around
like a puppy dog! :)


Happy Easter 2012!

We did our traditional VanDyke family

Easter Egg Hunt in the Desert!

Cainville Wash.

 They had a blast sliding down the

clay hills on card board boxes!

 The dogs loved climbing all the clay hills too!

 Finding Easter eggs.

 Grandma Marielin Helping Alaina

reach an Egg!

 Brenden ran out of room in his

basket for eggs, so he started filling his

pockets and shirt with them!

 We had a great laugh, thanks Brenden!

 Mackay thought he was to old for egg

hunting, but he still found a few pieces of

candy lying around!

 All the little girls and thier eggs!

Alaina with her cousins Jacelyn and Reagan.

 Clayton and Brenden

with thier cousin Jayden.

 Then they had fun smashing and rolling

all thier boiled eggs down the clay hills!

 Brenden's Easter basket.

The boys each got a hot wheel car

and a lego set.

 Claytons Easter basket.

 Mackay's Easter basket!

Alaina's Easter Basket! She got a coloring

book with markers and she loves her

new jelly shoes.

Easter Party for My niece Lilly!

 Brenden, how cute!

 This is my niece Lilly, she had a great

birthday party with the cousins!

 Clayton

 Alaina

 My niece, Reagan.

 This was the funniest game! They had to put on the hat,

scarf and gloves and then unwrap up a chocolate kiss before

the next person could roll the dice to a 5 or 6. Then if the

unwrapped the candy they could eat it.

They had a lot of fun with this game.

 Wow, Brenden...that's alot of Jelly beans!

 What's the matter Clayton?

 My niece Sabrina.

 Reagan,  with a mouth full of jelly beans.

 This game was absolutely hilarious! They had a

cup of a jelly beans, that they passed around. They could

eat the jelly beans if they got the same color, but

if they got 2 jelly beans that were different colors

 they had to hold it in there mouths until they got

2 jelly beans that were the same.

My sister in law and I were laughing so hard

we had tears in our eyes.

 Then we colored Easter eggs.

 Reagan thought she was so funny,

she made a little boy egg and she

was gonna smash it! :)

 Reagan's Eggs!

 Alaina's Eggs!

 Clayton's Eggs!

 Brenden's Eggs!

 Lilly's Eggs!

 My sister in law made these,

cute little bird nest! Cute idea, huh?

 Happy Birthday Lilly!

She got these really cute feather earings.

 She got 3 rolls of duct tape! she loves

making wallets and purses with them.

We were teasing her, because she was being so slow

opening her gifts...so we told her she loves the box! :)

She was so happy to get a box for her birthday.