Monday, April 30, 2012
Day 2 Moab Utah
Day 2
This was probably my favorite day. We spent the majority of our time in the dirt so everyone was happy which made it a great day! We drove to Goblin Valley, had a picnic lunch, then got busy climbing running exploring hiking hiding pretending and just loving everything about this place. I think my boys could of stayed for hours and hours and hours. I'm already trying to figure out how to get there again this summer.
Family Vaca 2012
We needed a break so we headed down to Moab for a few days over spring break. The weather threatened to be horrible, and I almost gave up the night before but I'm so glad we went. We had a great time!
Day 1
Our first stop was this little Dinosaur Hike just outside of Moab. It was only about a mile but the boys loved it. A perfect place to climb and explore and get dirty and even find dinosaur fossils!! This just got us more excited for the days to come. After this we headed into our hotel, did some swimming and then got dressed and walked around Main St. We found a great pizza place for dinner and got to eat outside on the street. The boys were wonderful and we had a great night together!
My Birfday
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Who says White Boys can't dance?
So Trace has been in break dancing for about 5 months now. I knew a dance class was inevitable with him a long time ago. He loves to boogie and shake his thing :) He goes every Monday for 45 minutes and as learned quite a few cool moves.
He loves the wood floor. It is very conducive to sliding, chillin and just a good dance floor. So he says :)
He loves the wood floor. It is very conducive to sliding, chillin and just a good dance floor. So he says :)
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Sunday Sunday
We have 9am church. Which should be enough said..
That leaves me a LONG time to 'entertain' the troops and keep everyone happy and getting along. So I decided to take turns having the older boys help me make dinner. This will occupy one of them for at least an hour, give me some one on one time with them, plus some good visits and chat time. So far they love it. I ask them about mid week what they would like to make so they are totally on board with the assignment once Sunday comes along. Kayden chose chicken enchiladas for his first time. They were delicious!!
Trace chose homemade bread sticks and...........
That leaves me a LONG time to 'entertain' the troops and keep everyone happy and getting along. So I decided to take turns having the older boys help me make dinner. This will occupy one of them for at least an hour, give me some one on one time with them, plus some good visits and chat time. So far they love it. I ask them about mid week what they would like to make so they are totally on board with the assignment once Sunday comes along. Kayden chose chicken enchiladas for his first time. They were delicious!!
Trace chose homemade bread sticks and...........
Spaghetti and meatballs. He is definitely a texture phobic so getting in the raw hamburger meat with eggs was pretty much his limit. But he did great!
Hopefully by the time they leave the nest they will have a few good recipes down :)
Finally!
We had a blast out in the once a year snow storm. The boys were rolling in it like it was gold! They didn't seem to feel the cold at all. We built a snowman and a really cool ramp on the side of the house that the sleds would fly off of. Now it is ice and even faster :) Chris came home and we put 4 miles on the four wheeler pulling the boys around the neighborhood :) Wish we could have a few more of these this season.
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Another Project!!
I've been looking for a Hutch/Curio type thing for my kitchen for probably a year. Once again I won't afford what I REALLY want so every once in awhile I check KSL. I found this beauty for $50!!!! My hubby didn't think it would work.........
It was missing a corner and was pretty scratched up. Really dusty and old and broken glass, rusted out hardware and some water damage but I liked the basic shape of it and knew it could work with some lovin.
A month later it is finally in my kitchen and the hubby agrees it looks great!! He did all the patching of the corner and scratches, I took the top and sanded and painted it, he took the bottom and sanded and painted it. Then after we got the paint all looking great I took after it with a big sandblock and ruffed it up. Always feels weird to 'mess up' a good paint job :)
I made a trip to Hobby Lobby and found these super cool new nobs, love them! Some are white and some are brown but they work, right. The non matching...matching idea?
It was missing a corner and was pretty scratched up. Really dusty and old and broken glass, rusted out hardware and some water damage but I liked the basic shape of it and knew it could work with some lovin.
A month later it is finally in my kitchen and the hubby agrees it looks great!! He did all the patching of the corner and scratches, I took the top and sanded and painted it, he took the bottom and sanded and painted it. Then after we got the paint all looking great I took after it with a big sandblock and ruffed it up. Always feels weird to 'mess up' a good paint job :)
I made a trip to Hobby Lobby and found these super cool new nobs, love them! Some are white and some are brown but they work, right. The non matching...matching idea?
Monday, January 2, 2012
The Boys Room :)
A few months ago we casually brought of the idea of moving Kayden and Trace downstairs. They seemed pretty excited so I jumped on board of getting to do a new room! I looked and looked for bedding and ideas and didn't want to spend much money. In the end it came together pretty well. I got all the furniture off of KSL and re did it, Chris is so super handy man that he did all the shelves and paint and cool stuff like it was no big deal and it turned out great. Here is what the room was before.....
Just a sad mess of a storage room where I'd throw things in and then shut the door. When company came I'd go in and organize and get it straightened up but that didn't last too long :)
We cleared everything out, made a trip or two to DI and de cluttered a few things which I always love. Chris and I would put the boys to bed then head downstairs til late, super late. Okay he stayed up really really late and I usually bailed before midnight :( We had it all done in about 2 weeks!
They were super anxious to see what was behind door #1!!
I had this crazy idea to bolt/glue/whatever a huge piece of sheet metal to a wall. It seems like they are always wanting to hang or glue or tape stuff to their walls so I figured I'd just give them a huge magnet board, like the size of an entire wall! I had the idea and Chris made it happen, beautifully. Then I figured what the heck let's add a nice shelf too :) It never ends with me I'm sure he is thinking.
He added closet shelves too which are super handy with all the little Lego and cars and books they have.
Chris found this super cool ceiling fan at Home Depot like 3 days before Christmas and totally splurged to get it. The light is a globe and the boys will lay down and try to find their way around the world :)
We had found some really cool magnet game sets at the Idaho State Fair this fall. My boys loved them and I had to pull them away from the booth. When we got home I hopped on Amazon and found some for cheaper. It's a 28 piece set of different shapes and designs and they can put them every which way to see if they can get the marbles from the top to the bottom. This has provided hours of entertainment so far :)
These were their old beds. Okay my brothers old beds 20 years ago :) A fresh coat of paint and a few more boards to sturdy them up and we have bunk beds now!! They love them and besides the fact that kayden tried to jump off on day 2 and smacked his head into the fan, and cut it, so far so good.
They love their new room, which also came with a new bathroom since they are downstairs and for me it came with them doing more of the cleaning and laundry since they are on their own:) So far they are holding up to their end of the deal so we'll see!
Just a sad mess of a storage room where I'd throw things in and then shut the door. When company came I'd go in and organize and get it straightened up but that didn't last too long :)
We cleared everything out, made a trip or two to DI and de cluttered a few things which I always love. Chris and I would put the boys to bed then head downstairs til late, super late. Okay he stayed up really really late and I usually bailed before midnight :( We had it all done in about 2 weeks!
They were super anxious to see what was behind door #1!!
I had this crazy idea to bolt/glue/whatever a huge piece of sheet metal to a wall. It seems like they are always wanting to hang or glue or tape stuff to their walls so I figured I'd just give them a huge magnet board, like the size of an entire wall! I had the idea and Chris made it happen, beautifully. Then I figured what the heck let's add a nice shelf too :) It never ends with me I'm sure he is thinking.
He added closet shelves too which are super handy with all the little Lego and cars and books they have.
Chris found this super cool ceiling fan at Home Depot like 3 days before Christmas and totally splurged to get it. The light is a globe and the boys will lay down and try to find their way around the world :)
We had found some really cool magnet game sets at the Idaho State Fair this fall. My boys loved them and I had to pull them away from the booth. When we got home I hopped on Amazon and found some for cheaper. It's a 28 piece set of different shapes and designs and they can put them every which way to see if they can get the marbles from the top to the bottom. This has provided hours of entertainment so far :)
These were their old beds. Okay my brothers old beds 20 years ago :) A fresh coat of paint and a few more boards to sturdy them up and we have bunk beds now!! They love them and besides the fact that kayden tried to jump off on day 2 and smacked his head into the fan, and cut it, so far so good.
They love their new room, which also came with a new bathroom since they are downstairs and for me it came with them doing more of the cleaning and laundry since they are on their own:) So far they are holding up to their end of the deal so we'll see!Happy New Year!!
One of my best memories growing up was running in the street on New Year's banging pots and pans and yelling. So we figured why not!!! It was hilarious and the boys loved it. Have a great new year!!
Christmas 2011
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We had such a wonderful Christmas this year. I think one of the highlights for me was attending church. I'm sure Christmas has fallen on a Sunday before and that I've attended Sacrament meeting but for some reason I don't remember. This year it meant so much to attend church on the Savior's birthday. I couldn't think of a better way to celebrate and try to keep Him the center of our day. We are so very blessed with so many things, I am humbled each day by the love our Heavenly Father has for us.
Clark Planetarium
We made a family goal over the summer to memorize all of the Articles of Faith. We printed them each out really big and put them on the boys wall in their room, then each night before family prayer we'd recite it a few times. And before school started we did it! All 13 and I was so proud of the boys. Even Brooks could get a few words in on each one, more than I thought he would. We decided when we were finished we'd go to the Planetarium downtown. We'd never been so we thought it would be a good incentive to help us :)
A few weeks before Christmas I got an email with a Groupon deal that was $49 for a family of 5 for an annual membership. I checked prices and figured it would cost us almost that much to just go once, so we bought the membership and wrapped it up for Christmas. I think we definitely hit it every few months as it was 'totally awesome' as Trace said after our first movie.
We hung out in the cool store for almost an hour just experimenting and playing with all the cool science toys and books.
The kids got to be real astronauts and walk on the moon!
We decided to make an afternoon out of it and we hopped on Trax. The boys (expecially Brooks) were very, very excited to ride a train and pretty curious as to all the 'different' people they saw downtown.
A few weeks before Christmas I got an email with a Groupon deal that was $49 for a family of 5 for an annual membership. I checked prices and figured it would cost us almost that much to just go once, so we bought the membership and wrapped it up for Christmas. I think we definitely hit it every few months as it was 'totally awesome' as Trace said after our first movie.
We hung out in the cool store for almost an hour just experimenting and playing with all the cool science toys and books.
The kids got to be real astronauts and walk on the moon!
We decided to make an afternoon out of it and we hopped on Trax. The boys (expecially Brooks) were very, very excited to ride a train and pretty curious as to all the 'different' people they saw downtown.
Christmas Eve
We had a great Christmas break. So sad to see it over in fact. School begins tomorrow and while I think the boys are excited to go back and see their friends and I am sort of looking forward to a routine again, it has been nice to be able to relax and not always be looking at the clock for drop offs, pick ups, lessons etc. This year we got to stay home and relax together. I wish we had a white Christmas but other than that it was wonderful. We made a nice ham dinner on Christmas Eve and tried to make it 'fancy.'
We spent most of the day playing games and just hanging out. The boys were thrilled to pull their dad over on the old broom handle game :)
Brooks had his first 'real' arm wrestle and thinks he is the strongest one in the house now :)
Trace got a new game called Headbandz for his birthday a few weeks ago so we played that for awhile. You have to guess what card is on your head by asking questions to everyone else. It was a lot of fun and easy for the kiddos to pick up on.
Then we got ready to go to bed! The boys wrote this letter which I thought was hilarious. They were even more excited when 'Santa' wrote back and told them Oreo's were acceptable, seriously why wouldn't they be right? The boys thought they needed to be home made and we just didn't get to it that day.
They laid out the Oreo's and carrots and milk and were asleep by 9 :)...............
We spent most of the day playing games and just hanging out. The boys were thrilled to pull their dad over on the old broom handle game :)
Brooks had his first 'real' arm wrestle and thinks he is the strongest one in the house now :)
Trace got a new game called Headbandz for his birthday a few weeks ago so we played that for awhile. You have to guess what card is on your head by asking questions to everyone else. It was a lot of fun and easy for the kiddos to pick up on.
Then we got ready to go to bed! The boys wrote this letter which I thought was hilarious. They were even more excited when 'Santa' wrote back and told them Oreo's were acceptable, seriously why wouldn't they be right? The boys thought they needed to be home made and we just didn't get to it that day.They laid out the Oreo's and carrots and milk and were asleep by 9 :)...............
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