Cows and a Little Cowboy

Owen is such a little cowboy.  He love to be outside.  He loves his little farm and every and any little thing to do with it.  Cowboy boots are a HUGE part of his every day life.  He wears them everywhere….and if he could..he would wear them to bed. I love to watch his little face light up when you talk about the cows and he can tell you stories….oh yeah….lots and lots of stories about his adventures in rustling the cows on his grandpas ranch and whenever there is a new birth…Owen makes sure that “Craig” knows about it so that it can get tagged.   (Owen age 2)

 

 

This fence is what separates the cows from the Higgins back yard.  Owen doesn’t believe in separation…..

 

 

 

He thinks he is one with the cows…..or should be

 

 

 

 

Even a sweet face like this one…

 

 

 

So when a brand new baby was spotted lying down next to mama cow, Owen got real excited and wanted to go check it out…the baby got up real fast…see the new calf in the distance…

 

So off he went with his dad to check it out…the excitement was almost to much for him…

 

 

the closer they got…

 

 

 

 

Well the more spread out the cows became and the mama cow became more protective of her calf…

 

 

It was a long disappointed walk back for a “Little Cowboy” who was unable to get close…

 

 

Papa soon distracted him into rounding up the chickens and trying to get them back into the coop…

 

 

Owen is a great round-er-upper of chickens…me..not so good, I was told to move back and out of the way…I was interfering with the round-up!

 

Owen will be a great rancher and farmer when he grows up…oh wait a minute…

He already is…

 

 

 

This cowboy makes me smile….

He reminds me of a couple of other cowboys I know….

THIS WILL MAKE YOU SMILE!

Hope this makes your weekend! Unfortunately it shows my age! I remember my mom just loving these girls....AHHH sweet! Makes me want to get up and BOOGIE!

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Special Sunday

Sunday was a special day for the Higgins family.  Our sweet precious new arrival (well sort of new arrival) Kinlee Linn Higgins was blessed by her father in our Sunday sacrament meeting.  You see in our church, worthy priesthood holders are invited to gather around an infant and in this circle they place hands upon each others shoulders and one under the baby.  The father (my son) a worthy priesthood holder pronounces a blessing upon his child and gives her a name which she will known as throughout her life here on this earth.  It is a very sweet and special time for a father and also those who come together in celebration of the birth of a new child.  Brad, (my son) did a wonderful job in his blessing of his daughter.  It was emotional.  He is a kind man.  A good father, and a good husband.  I am proud of him.  I love him.  He was once my baby.  Even with my wonderful camera I could not capture the love and emotion through a picture.  

 

 

this little stinker would not wake up so that I could take her picture!  I will have to go back and take other pics.  It will make her mad to have to get dressed up again LOL.  I just could not get the lighting right, no flash, then I used the flash then no overhead lighting then overhead lighting, shadows everywhere!  I just couldn’t get it right.  But…in the end, it didn’t matter.  She is beautiful in any kind of light!

Look at those cubba wabba chunky monkey cheeks!  I could kiss them all day long!

 

 

 

 

AHHHH she does wake up….. only to eat again!  Sleep and eat….sleep and eat….that is all this baby wants to do!  Can you tell she is a healthy baby!

 

 

 

 

Saturday the day before her blessing day she anticipated having so many people want to smooch those adorable cheeks…..

 

 

Once in a while I could capture a teeny tiny little smirk…before…

 

 

 

A full out cry of PICK ME UP MOTHER AND GET THAT CAMERA OUT OF MY FACE OMA! hehehe

 

 

 

AHHHHH thank you mama….

 

Once again, thank you Brad and Tera for such a beautiful grand baby girl to spoil and show off and take millions of pictures of so that I can make my blogger friends crazy!

love and hugs….mom

Brooklyn Annice Lytle….6 yrs. and holding!

 

Yesterday my daughter had a hard time getting Brooklyn out of bed to go to school…

Daughter: Come on Brooklyn it is time to get up, today is your helper day at school and tomorrow is your birthday! (April 7th)

Brooklyn: You mean that today is the last day that I am 5?

Daughter: Yes Brookie today is the last day and tomorrow you will be 6!

Brooklyn: Uggghhhh (you know how 5 year olds can groan) Mommy this time has gone by way to fast! I want to be 5 for a little bit longer…….

This child is a very willful child. She has a very vivid imagination and loves to play by herself. Although she loves for you to play with her and play make believe she is very independent. She is much like her mother. Though her mother would never admit to it. But I know….because I am the mother of the daughter!

Sunday will be her birthday party…..daughter (Natalie) said that they are having a petting animal party. Yes you heard me right…..A petting zoo on wheels is coming to the house, setting up camp in the back yard with about 30 different petting animals for all the little ones to play with, feed and pet. 

Won’t that be fun to clean up after LOL! To be honest with you, I think my daughter has lost it. You know…”IT” went up and left after giving birth to one Brookie Cookie…..what most often said child wants…..said child gets. LOL

How can you refuse this face?  I can’t!

 

 

 

 

 

Watching this one grow has been so much fun…remember the saying what goes around…..comes around…..?   well……………

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Where did this baby go???????  Ahh she turned into a princess!

 

She hasn’t changed much….just as sweet and just as cute as ever!    We are so blessed to have so many princesses in our family.

Brooklyn is such a little clone of her mother …and the scowl!  Wow she got that from her mama too!

 

 

As sweet as this face can be….there is a little stinker behind it!  But not today…I won’t show you that stinker today LOL…

 

 

Yes Brookie, the time has gone by much too fast…

Thank you Natalie for giving me such joy and such beautiful grand daughters.

I love you Brookie Cookie….hugs and kisses….Mema

Happy Birth-Day to you my sweet daughter.  My mother always called and congratulated me on my children’s birthday because she said as mothers we should be given the same celebration as the child……for giving birth to them, so again Happy Birth(ing) Day to you Natalie.

Cant wait to see you all this summer!