Memorial Day Weekend

We worked on our house the entire Memorial Day weekend (Friday thru Monday). We sure got a lot done. All of the exterior walls are framed and stood. Now we will start working on the interior walls. Sure is great to finally see something happening out there.

On Sunday afternoon we went up to the mountains to eat dinner and have marshmallows with Bub and Missy. It sure was good to get away from the work for awhile.

Our dirty little "Raga muffin"

Paddle Fishing Trip

Friday, Saturday and Sunday we went camping at the Missouri River Breaks with Lea's entire family, Bub & Missy, and Travis & Walt Earl. The main highlight was the paddle fishing. Lyla got to play with her cousins and fish with her daddy.
Lea and Lane both caught a paddle fish, but I wasn't there to get any pictures of Lea's.

Mother's Day

We had a good Mother's Day. We finished backfilling around our house. Then we went out to dinner at the Black Diamond in Belt with my folks and Bub and Missy. It was quite tasty and Lyla was a pretty good girl. For Mother's Day, her Aunt MeMe helped her get some flowers and sign a cup. It was pretty darn cute!

Branding

Dad branded his calves the first weekend in May. This was Lyla's first branding that she would have remembered. We weren't so sure how it was going to go since she has been around them since they were born, but she liked it. She had to be there to pet every one. She even got to help brand one, hold one with Lea and ride the very last one (Papa and her named in Ralph)!

Lyla's First Hair Cut

Lyla got her first hair cut yesterday by Aunt Me Me. She has gotten several pretend hair cuts in the past. She did really good, but got squirmy towards the end.

Snowmobiling

We finally took Lyla snowmobiling this year. She has been "Scared of Snomobiles" every since Lea started his snowmobile in the barn. It was really loud, lots of dust and smoke. So since then she has been scared and didn't want to ride. Needless to say that when we were done that day, we could hardly peel her off of it. It was tons of fun. She really liked it and we even got to take the dogs for a run. Wasn't a real crazy or long ride with Mommy pregnant though. Lea even took her on a little jump and she thought that was really cool.

Easter

On Easter Day, we went to Bub and Missy's for lunch. The Easter Bunny stopped and hid eggs before we got there so Lyla could find them and she sure liked that! And Lyla, Uncle Bub and Aunt MeMe were playing with Play Doh.

Lyla and her cousin Olivia from Billings. Lea's family stopped by to visit Easter morning.

Easter morning, seeing what the Easter Bunny brought.

On Saturday night we dyed easter eggs (Lyla's first). Thank goodness we only had 10 to dye. Grandpa and Grandma Ridgeway came over to watch.

Lyla decided to play out in the yard in her panties and snow boots, how appropriate!

On Saturday, we met Landon & Joni at the fairgrounds in Stanford for the Easter Egg Hunt. Lyla wasn't quite sure what to do, but she did get 5 eggs!