FEAR as a factor . . .

Do you believe in using fear to make your kids obey?  Think about it.  I remember when I was a little girl, my sisters and I would tell our little brother that the 'CARPET SHARKS' would get him if he didn't stay in bed.  It worked about two times and then he was over it. 
Anyway, I am telling you this because our neighbors found a badger in their backyard and had DWR (Game and Fish) come and try to capture it.  We don't know if they got it,so I am using FEAR as a factor to make my kids obey.  I told them about how mean badgers are and that they could really get hurt so they need to 1) ALWAYS tell me where they are going, 2) Shut the door so the badger can't get in and 3) Pick up there toys so the badger doesn't take them. (I know the last one is a stretch, but they are REALLY scared.) 
So mean mom or not, I'd like to thank the badger that may or may not be alive for scaring my kids into obeying.  (At least for today)

YARD WORK . . .

OK,so I have NO pictures to share. I was too busy actually working.  My kids on the other hand, well... here is the story.
We (meaning Green and I) have been working in the yard trying to get rid of all of the gravel in our dirt that is soon to be grass. We have a makeshift strainer made from a screen protector to shift the dirt and rock.  Our backs are sore, our moods are a little tense, needless to say we were very tired.  So we get the brilliant idea to have our kids come out and help pull weeds and pick up rocks.  (After all why do you have kids if not to have free slave labor?) 

The kids come out and help for about 2 mins.  After they pick the top off of two weeds and maybe kick a rock they decide that they are done.  Me being me, I try to help our low spirits by singing a song. My Song:

Wadsworth children sang as they picked up rocks and rocks and rocks,

Wadsworth children sang as they picked up rocks and rocks and rocks.

They cried and moaned and swore they'd die,

Some of them even shed a tear and cried.

Day after day they sang as they picked up rocks and rocks and rocks  AND rocks.

For all you die hard Primary fans you know the tune.  So if you drive by our house and see headstones in the front yard you'll know that there we buried all hopes and aspirations of having our children ever help with anything!!  RIP

Graduation Day May 8, 2010

We are now the proud family of a Bachelor.  Green talked the talk and got to walk the walk.  We went to Laramie, Wyoming on the 7th of this month and had a real adventure when we finally found our motel.  Talk about DUMP!!  If I were more of a woman I would have slept in the truck.  Anyway on Saturday we went to the UW campus and got to cheer while our daddy, husband, son, grandson, and son-in-law recieved his diploma.  Green's parents and grandparents went with us and so did my mom.  We really have a great family that is so supportive and kind to travel for a day full of graduation fun!!!  Congratulations honey!! 

You can now move your tassle to the other side of your cap!

Hats off to . . . .

These cute little hats are from ferrytailbows.blogspot.com.   I LOVE them.  Ok, I know it is getting warmer, but the thought of just pulling these little cuties on my girls' heads and NOT combing their hair is too irresistable.  My little willing models either squint or look daized.  I guess they come by the latter naturally.  Here are my sweet girls in their new hats.    LOVE THEM!!

They are out there!!!

YEA!!!  There are other mother's just as crazy as I am.  I love meeting these mothers because it makes me feel like I am not so utterly alone in the world of WILD family fun.  I just read the blog of one of these wonderfully crazy ladies and I knew that Heavenly Father had sent her here just so that I would have a friend that feels just like I do.  (Or a lot like I do)  Wow!!!  Thanks so much for great friends.

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, "What!!  You too?  I thought I was the only one."  C.S. Lewis

Kindergarten Round-Up

Last night was Kindergarten Round-Up here in our neck of the WILD west.  Blue was so excited to have us come and watch him preform.  What an actor.  He gets it all from his father, but if it makes us rich I can handle it.  We went to different centers with him and worked on our reading/writing, cowboy math, had a play and even learned a line dance.  Must say that all the ballet I took came in handy.  I was tearin' it up.  (Not as much as some people, YOU know who you are)  Fun was had by all little buckaroo's and their parents.  YIPEE!!

Green was headed to work after "wranglin' cattle".  I know he looks thrilled, but it is just the 4 hours of sleep he is coastin' on.  All work and no play makes Green a tired man.

Curly Hair Do's and Don't's

Green is very particular about how he would like his girls to look.  He hates it when their hair frizzes up and flies all over the place.  I don't like it either, but I know a perm is NOT the solution.  Anyway he wanted me to perm the girls' hair.  Brown's went really well, as it is all cut one length, but Red has that A line bob where the back is shorter than the front.  Needless to say her perm was much harder to do.  Here are some pictures of their hair now that it is permed.  Oh, there is a picture of Blue thrown in too because he felt left out.  Enjoy.   Happy 31st birthday to our favorite Aunt from Green's side of the family.  We LOVE YOU!!!