What I really enjoy.

These are my very favorite things in life.
(Outside of my family, of course!)
* I love reading biographies.
* I love to travel and see the world.
* I love art of any kind.
* I love trees.
* I love planning.
* I love antiques.
* I love Sees Bourdue candies.
* I love different cultures.
* I love documentaries.
* I love dates with my man.
* I love being at home.
* I love taking a nap.
* I love giving people nick names.
* I love being a stay at home mom.
* I love family dinners.
* I love being together as a family in our backyard.
* I love hot dog/smores dinners.
* I love china dolls.
* I love pets that are outside.
* I love making up new words.
* I love seeing my husband do cute things that make me giggle.
* I love being in the woods.
* I love miniatures.
* I love free time.
* I love being weird.
* I love swinging.
* I love American Idol.
* I love making good dinners for my husband.
* I love holding the remote.
* I love the rain.
* I love knowing that I can be together with my family forever. This life is only a test. What will I do with it? Hopefully what my Father in Heaven wants.

Piper Dee Barron -ARTIST

This is Piper at her art class. She does so well with her teacher Anita Robbins. It has been a blessing having her take the classes. She has improved leaps and bounds. Anita claims that she is her "prodigy". Good job Piper!

The Land of the Big Sky!

Can you tell that I like these SKY pictures. I thought the clouds looked cool and Boston was kind enough to pose for me. Thanks son!

Easter Preschool Craft

It was my turn to have Piper's preschool at my house and for our Easter Craft, we made these cute baby chicks with some of the egg shells from our chickens. I thought they turned out cute.

Five Years Old and still smooching!

Piper loves the blanket that I made her when she was born. It has always been to comfort in falling asleep. As she says, she loves to SMOOCH her special blinkly. It warms my heart when I see her do it. Precious girl.

Featuring PIPERDEE!

I had to post these cute Sunday morning pictures of my Piperdee. I liked how her hair turned out, so I asked her to step outside for a picture. I liked how Blue was in the background enjoying his Sunday morning munching some grass.

Pack Meeting!

I was so proud of Boston at this pack meeting! He was awarded his WOLF rank. He did a great job and did it in record time! Now, it is smooth sailing until he is 9 and starts to work on his Bear. The boys also entered a cake decorating contest at the pack meeting. (I must admit, I helped) we made a SWEET rocket cake and it turned out really cool!

General Conference Art Piece

This year while I watched our world wide church general conference, I worked on this fun project. I bought an old hand made toy box from my neighbor at a yard sale. I thought it would be a nice addition to Pipers bedroom and decided that it needed to be "girlafied". So while I listened to conference, I painted the toy box with flowers. It was a total blast and kept me listening to the prophets words while I worked. I love making things. I hope it is a treasure for Piper. I love you baby.

Bubble Rescue

Yesterday I witnessed quite a sweet/dramatic scene. Piper had gotten a new bottle of bubbles from preschool and she was in the backyard with Sarger blowing bubbles. They discovered that Annabelle, our cat, was afraid of the bubbles and they laughed at that. Later in the day we were in my room and I looked out and saw that Annabelle was chasing a tiny baby bunny. It was trying to kill it. Piper quickly jumped up and ran outside with a determined look on her face. I watched her as she ran after Annabelle blowing bubbles to try and save the bunny. She, Sarger and I did our best, but in the end Annabelle won and killed the bunny. Piper and Sarger just sobbed when they could not save the bunny. It was so sweet to see how much they cared.

Tribute to Easter 2008

This year we had a great Easter. We did the basket thing (of course) and had a big Sunday meal with ham and potatoes (a big favorite of Quincey's). Daddy surprised me by bringing me home some Easter Lilies for the table and we hid, I mean, the Easter Bunny hid about 150 eggs all over our backyard and in the woods. Every year Daddy can remember some of the eggs that the kids missed and he reminds them that they are still out there. Days after Easter Piper came running into our bedroom with a colorful egg in her hand, SO excited that she had found one of the last eggs. She opened the egg only to find it filled with ants! That was kind of a let down, but I slipped her a stashed piece of candy that I had in my closet to make it all better. Family times are totally priceless. I love our home and family.

What you talkin bout Momma?!

I had to post this picture of Piper because it cracked me up. I took it on her 5th birthday out in the front yard. I pulled her aside and told her that I wanted her to pose for a five year old picture and this is what she did, so I snapped it!

I love Koi!

This past week Piper, Sarger and I went to the pet store and picked out 6 new pet Koi for our pond! I am so excited and hopeful that these little three inch fish survive and grow so that they are beautiful and big just like these Koi in the picture. I did some research and it is okay for Koi and Catfish to live in the same pond. We stocked that pond with 150 catfish about two years ago and we have never seen them since. They just hang out at the bottom of the pond eating and hiding from us. Our hopes are that we can train the Koi to eating from us instead of being afraid of humans. The plan is to everyday go out and hit a pipe under the water to alert the fish and then throw the food in. The theory is that they will get used to it and one day come up as soon as they hear the pipe. We think that would be fun top do. I wonder how long it will take to train them? We shall see.

What? Cat's eat baby chicks?

We got 4 beautiful new baby chicks this spring to add to our chicken collection. Two black and two white silkies. We didn't have them more then one day when our beloved cat Clarisse went in for the kill and ate one of the white chicks. We were horrified and felt dumb for not thinking about that possibility in the first place. It turns out that Clair also injured the other white chick and a few days later she died too. Daddy built a cat proof cage and then we put them in the screened in room for safe keeping. We still had the two black ones. Then this past Saturday Piper looked outside in the screened in room and noticed that Clair had a black chick in her mouth. Daddy ran out and got the chick from Clair and then chucked Clair out of the screened in room. The chicks cage had been left open by a sweet two year old boy that will not be named. The little chick seemed to be okay, but as we looked at the other chick, Daddy noticed that this chick was not okay. He picked it up and it just seemed lifeless. It was barely breathing. It was sweet to watch how much he cared for the tiny chick. He rubbed her chest trying to stimulated her heart to keep beating. He kept her moving so that she would not fall asleep and die. He was late for a church meeting and needed to leave. He handed the chick to little Piper and told her to keep petting the chick and loving her and try to keep her alive. Piper did just that. She was so worried about the chick. Piper let us know that she had said a prayer for the chick and she hoped that Heavenly Father would help her to live. Soon the chick was chirping, then opening her eyes, then flapping her wings. I am so grateful for this sweet experience for Piper. Her faith in prayer has grown so much. Two days later now the chick is still alive and it looks like she will live through it. When she was first found, no one could have convinced me that she would live through that. I thought she was too far gone. It was cute to see Daddy and Piper be so loving and caring about the situation.

I'm a fan!

Taggart and I had such a fun experience this last weekend. We got to attend a Gladys Knight fireside. Gladys joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in 1998 after her married son and then married daughter along with their families joined. She noticed the difference in her small grandchildren who were praying, reading scriptures, and attending church weekly with the family as small as one and two. She was impressed. She investigated the church, asked all of the questions and then prayed for guidance to know what was true. She was baptised and then her husband also investigated the church and received his answer that it is indeed the true church here upon the earth and was baptised. We were blessed to hear amazing singing with a 100 person choir in the background, Gladys sang and directed the choir. She, along with her husband bore amazing testimonies. It was one of the most enjoyable evenings of my life. I am so proud of her for the great work that she is doing to help spread the gospel of Jesus Christ to the world. I know that is is true and I pray that those who are searching will not stop until they find the path back to the Father.