I'm going to miss him

I adore being a grandma as most of you know. There is nothing better than the sweet smell of a new baby. And when they start smiling and cooing at you. When they snuggle in your arms and look up at you with faith that you will love them, take care of them and teach them.

I"m so thankful that all of my grandchildren live so close by me. I'm having a hard time accepting the fact that our newest grandchild, Colby Lincoln will be leaving us for 4 months as his daddy will be working in California for the summer. I will miss his giggles, his smiling face, his chubby cheeks and even his spit up on my shoulder. He's an adorable sweetheart and his Papa and Mimah will miss him terribly but we know his mamma and daddy will post pictures on their blog as he gets bigger and starts doing new things. Troy and Kori and Colby are leaving on Wed. and we will miss all of them a lot. I want each of my grandchildren to know how much I love them. I live for them and look forward to seeing them as much as I can. I keep telling each one that they can't grow any more. That they have to stay small and they just laugh at me. They are at such a fun stage in life. They ask so many questions and want to know why to everything. I hope I can be an influence in their lives and someone that they can look up to and love being with.

My Oldest Son

Jared was brave enough to take his girls camping last summer to the Tucker reunion all by his self. He loves camping and wants to make sure his girls enjoy the same things he did when he was a boy. Kristi wasn't able to go so he took the opportunity to spend some time with his girls all by his self. Jared works two jobs and works many hours each day so he cherrish's the time he has with them.

Jared is here helping his daughters decorate their Christmas cookies.

Jared loves being a daddy. I know he learned all of his wonderful traits of being a father from his own dad. Jared plays such an active role in his childrens lives. He has done so since day one. Changing diapers, feeding, bathing, watching them when Kristi is working, playing and reading to them. The girls love their daddy so much. I'm so proud of him and love watching him as he tends to his kids. I love you Jared.

Colby Lincoln Pyne

I"ve wanted to take this picture ever since Colby was born. We now have a 3 generation Grandfather, Son, and grandson. It makes me tear up seeing this. I wish Grandpa Pynes hand could have been included on the bottom. This picture was taken on Colbys blessing day. April 13th, 08. I love the song "Daddy's Hands" and this picture reminds me of that.

This picture was taken on April 13th which was Colbys blessing day. His daddy gave him a beautiful blessing to help him in his life as he grows older. Mom and dad are so proud of their little sweetheart.

I took this picture on a night we got to tend Colby. He's getting to be a little chunkers. We sure are going to miss seeing him over the next 4 months.

Grandma and Grandpa love watching Colby. He's getting the fattest little cheeks.

The Funnest Easter Ever

Shana and I made this Easter bunny cake for dessert. Everyone seemed to love it.

Happy 1st Easter Colby. Next year you'll be running around finding your own easter eggs. You'll see what a fool your Mimah makes of herself with her bunny ears each year..hahaha. But the other kids all know it's what I do. They expect it now.

Here are the little Easter egg hunters. Colby, Gentry, Makinley, Brayden and Daxton. They're ready for the big hunt. Happy Easter to my little sweethearts.

Here are all my great kids. They're the ones producing my darling grandkids. I sure love each one. I hope they'll keep the grandkids coming because we need a few more in our house. There's Troy and Kori, Jake and Shana, Kristi and Jared. Love you guys!!!

What a beautiful day for a fun Easter egg hunt. The kids could hardly wait but we made them pose for this pre-hunt picture. It's Colbys first Easter so we had to have him in on the action. Get ready set go!!! Go find the eggs!!!

Gentry is in amazement at all the eggs and candy she collected.

Makinley found her a blue egg. I wonder what's inside?

Daxton and Makinley are on the hunt looking for that golden egg.

Daxton won the "Golden Egg". It was so cute because he was with Gentry and Kristi was telling them to go look in this one particular spot. She had hidden the big egg under the wood shavings and put a piece of candy on top of it. Well Daxton took the candy off and gave it to Gentry and then he saw part of the golden egg showing. He grabbed it and held it up and said "oh awesome!!" It was so cute. It had lots of candy and a $5.00 bill inside. He made out all in all with about $11.00 out of the hunt.

It was a beautiful Easter day. Here is one of our kites that made it up really high. It was a successful kite flying day as you can see from the pictures.

Daxtons cheering Papa on. Hoping he'll have enough energy to run with the kite. Go Papa Go!!

Brayden loved his sponge bob kite. His face was beet red from running so much.

Jared's trying to get Makinleys Dora kite to get ready to fly.

Daxton had a ball trying to get his kite up in the air. He was running so fast and was out of breath.

We spent the afternoon at Shanas. She made a wonderful dinner for all of us then we went and hid the easter eggs at the school. We had so much fun watching the kids run around looking for all the candy and eggs then we spent time flying kites that we bought each of them. They loved it as you can tell. Thanks for all my family for making this the best Easter ever for me. I love you all so much.

Braydens First Time Skiing

This blog brings back so many memories of when my kids were small and I taught each one how to ski. Brayden slept over on Monday night and awoke in the morning all ready to go. He's been waiting for this day for a long time and I was the privledged one who got to take him skiing for his first time. I was getting ready in the morning and he yelled "come here Mimah." So I went in the family room and this picture is what he had made all by himself. He laid everything out perfectly. I thought that was pretty clever. The night before we went we had rented him some skis and I think he tried them off and on about a dozen times that night. You could tell he was so excited to go. The first run down a young man who was teaching a private class stopped and gave Brayden an Edgy Wedgy to put on his skis to hold him in a snowplow position. He gave him a 3 minute lesson and went on his way. He did it again when he was us on the next run down too. It was so helpful that Brayden was skiing the rest of the day all by himself. He went down hills that I never thought he'd go down his first time. He was such a trooper and Mimah had a smile on her face the whole day. Papa kind of ski'd on his own so we didn't hold him up. He did great too for his first time in several years.

Here's Papa and Brayden in the parking lot of Sundance Ski Resort. It was a beautiful spring skiing day. I've never seen a kid so excited to finally go skiing.

This is the final result. After two runs he was completely skiing on his own. In fact I told him it was his turn to lead and he took me into some trees. We didn't quite have enough umph to get up the hill so we had to back out. We laughed so hard. Needless to say he had no fear. Ok..I have to admit I was a real dummy. As you can tell I only posted three pictures. Well, I had charged my battery up in the camera and got up there and had forgotten the card to take pictures. GRRR...I was so upset. These were taken with the memory card in the camera so I was lucky to get those. Next time I'll get more pictures though. I'm so glad I got to spend this day with Brayden and get to help him on his first time skiing. I look forward to next year and getting the whole family up there.

Troy---Our Monkey

Do you think he escaped from the zoo? We caught Troy entertaining the grandkids today with one of his funny faces. I wonder if Colby will grow up to look and act just like his daddy..hahah.

I love you Troy Boy!!!

I'm So Proud!!!

Could I ask for anything more than this? I've been waiting for so long to take another "grandma and grandkids" picture. We were all together today at our home for dinner so I thought we better do it today. Each one has their own little distinct personalities. Brayden is 6, Daxton is 4, Makinley will be 4 next weekend, Gentry will be 2 in April and Colby is 2 weeks old tomorrow. Heavenly Father couldn't have blessed me more. I'm so happy and honored to be their grandma. I hope and pray they will always love coming to our home and hanging out with us. They are the light of our family.