playing baby

Hi again! Here is another video I enjoy....mainly because they are all playing together nicely. Brooklyn has a great imagination and it amazes me how sometimes she can get her brothers to play along in her game and enjoy it. Zachary is jealous and wants to be a baby too. The funny thing is this morning when I was posting this the boys were watching the video and then they both took off downstairs to this same room to play baby themselves! I went to go check on them and they were both in this same box thing at the end of the bed acting like babies! Cute!

Move over Jonas Brothers, or Naked brothers, or any other brothers band out there!

I love this video on so many different levels. I love how "into it" the boys are. They are so completely busy with drumming that they don't even smile, because you know...they are just too cool to smile, yet I know they are loving every minute of it. I love how they seem to be keeping the beat while exploring the different sounds. I love that Zachary doesn't have any pants on because Pete told me they kept falling down to his ankles. Lots of famous drummers drummed pant less. I love the part when Zacky starts bobbing his head like he's rocking out. I love that they stood side by side with wooden drum sticks and hit only what they should and not each other! I love that they are having a great time at their Grandma Joe's house with their Dad for the weekend and that I had time alone at home! And of course, I love the close-up of my sweetie at the end that just kind of sums of everything. He loves music and his dream is to have a musical family somehow. He might just reach that dream.

Maupin, Oregon

Have you ever heard of Maupin? Well, that's where we went last Saturday with all the activity day girls in my ward. It was a two hour drive from Bend, but it was worth the money in gas to get there because we had a fantastic day at the Swan's ranch. We met the most wonderful sister from the Madras ward who lives on this ranch and since it is the lambing season, we got to go check it all out. The day started out by waking Brooklyn up at 5:00am to get ready to go. The lambs would be waiting for us to feed them their breakfast! We picked up a few of the girls on our side of town and then met the group at the north end of town to caravan our way to the ranch. I had never been to Maupin...why would I have? It's in the middle of nowhere! But I was surprised by the beauty of this area. Sister Swan greeted us and brought us into her house to explain a little about the lambs and the girls got to help prepare the formula and pour the bottles. They helped feed the lambs that needed bottles and watched Sister Swan administer some shots and learned a few interesting facts about ranch life and the work involved in caring for animals.


Here is Brooklyn feeding a lamb her bottle.
She LOVED holding this lamb.
Here she is holding another lamb. She was concerned about it since Sister Swan would be giving it shots in a minute. She knows all too well about getting shots since she just got her own at the doctor's office a few days before....four of them! So she was sympathetic. She told the lamb not to jerk her leg or she would get a bruise...she was speaking from experience the wise child now offering advice to the lamb!
We walked about a mile across this terrain to visit a very old cemetery that they take care of on their 19,ooo acre ranch. People that once owned the land in the 1800's are burried there. The girls got to pull a handcart and surprisingly they said that was one of their favorite things they did that day.
They got to do many other activities this day and we left the ranch a little tired, sunburned and happy.