Happy Easter!

Ahhhhhhh……our first decent family photo in ages!

Yes, I realize that Caroline had just been crying and still has red eyes, but somehow pinching her brothers hair gave her enough grin to pull it off.  And Peyton is a little overly fake ‘can-we-please-get-this-over-with’ looking.  That’s why I said decent photo….not great!

We had Grandma and Grandpa in town for Easter this year and it was an extra special time since Peyton prayed a prayer of salvation asking Jesus to live in her heart!

THERE is the Caroline we all know and love!

Soccer Season

Grant was back at it this spring with Upwards Soccer!  We decided to try the Corinth league this year which is smaller, so gave a wider age range of kids.  It was a much more talented group of boys this year and they had a lot of fun!

Even the girls enjoyed the games!

Caroline’s Easter Program

This year’s Easter program proved the point that the Deffenbaugh’s may just have TWO show girls on our hands!!

Miss Caroline had a blast singing all her best songs with her friends!

Here she is with her sweet teacher, Miss Misti:

Enjoy!

Rodeo Day ‘09

Each year our church sponsers a community event known as Rodeo Day.  Tons of fun!!!!

Lots of food, fun & games!  The kids loved the mechanical bull and snow cones the best!

Grant the Engineer

Grant’s love of creating things and Legos has really netted some neat things – one of which is his very own imperial star fighter (from Star Wars)

This is all from his imagination – not a kit – just using Legos that he has.  He is amazing!

*Sad side note:  after several days of building this ship he dropped it and it broke into a million pieces!  He was barely consolable!!  Poor guy!

OH NO!!!!!!!!

Ok, bad news….I found my first gray hair today.

I know that to many of you this is nothing.  I have really held it off for a pretty long time, comparatively.  But today she just stood out like a sore thumb to me and there was no ignoring that I had one – just one – gray hair coming right out the top of my head!

Again, I think that I will be fine.  Now that it is clearly documented I will head to the bathroom and pluck said hair from my head.  But I was really thinking about my poor mother!!  Mom – I know that it was a rite of passage when your baby started having babies.  But what is it like to know that your baby now has gray hair!??!

The Leprechaun Trap

One of our school’s kindergarten traditions is having the kids build Leprechaun Traps to try and (obviously) catch a Leprechaun!

Ended up, she never did “trap” the Leprechaun at all, but he did go into her trap and steal her gold, replacing it with candy, and then went on to mess with the classroom pretty good!

I see a pattern here!

The Pig

I have heard reports from a neighbor friend of mine that she has seen a giant pig/boar roaming our street.  I chalked this up to too much wine and assumed she couldn’t tell a dog from a pig!  I stand corrected….the big doings here the other day was a very large pig in my front yard!

I was trimming bushes in the front when I heard the dog next door going ballistic.  Not that that isn’t common, but I looked up none the less to find this HUGE pig about 30 feet from me…and Caroline smack dab in between us.  He was just standing there looking at us but his nose was going a mile a minute and he was grunting.  I have no training in “what to do about a charging boar” so I ran & scooped up Caroline and kept my distance.  He stood there for a long time – sniffing her princess car and milling around – until the boys caught wind of his presence and came flying in out of nowhere.  I was running and screaming not to get too close (what on EARTH would I do if it attacked us????) but I think all the commotion caused it to take off into the woods behind our house as I snagged a quick pic.

It did have a collar on, so it must belong to someone and be a pet.  But seriously – its size rivals some of the largest dogs I have ever seen!!!!

Well that made for a fun day!  And Jess, I’m sorry, and I will never doubt you again!

Happy Birthday Peyton!!!

March 7, 2009 — Miss Peyton is 6 years old today!!

We started the day with her opening gifts from all of us.  She got a Wii Pet Dogs game from Grant, a whole box of Barbie clothes from Caroline, and a new “girly” Guiter Hero guitar and microphone stand from Mommy & Daddy!

We then had to get ready for her friends to come join us for a Rockstar/Karaoke/Freeze Dance party!!!!

Each girl got a guitar to decorate….

…even Caroline!                                     And a tattoo

We ate guitar cake and pizza

and the girls rocked the day away!

Happy Birthday Peyton!!!!!!   You ROCK!!!!