The Latest...

There has been a lot going on lately so I thought I would post a few highlights. I am not good at blogging on a regular basis so you will just have to enjoy it all in one lump. Enjoy... THE BIG 29. I celebrated my Birthday over the course of a few days because I was busy with Enrichment night on my actual Birthday. Every year I request a Dairy Queen ice cream cake. I let the kids pick it each year. This year it was between a unicorn, Hanah Montana, or Elmo. Brigham won so I ended up with an Elmo birthday cake this year. I was Delish! I got an outdoor swing and a fun garden decoration for the big day. Thank you everyone for the Birthday wishes!

Here we are with all of Rexburg at the annual Air Show. It was really hot but the planes were fun to see. I am holding my niece, Michelle and Whitney is also in the picture. These two planes were fun to watch. They would do cool tricks and get really close to each other which was pretty crazy. I am happy to report no one died which Scott felt might happen so we all lucked out. The girls were really sweet and got up and made Scott and I breakfast for Father's Day. We got toast and Diet Pepsi and a thing of tic tacs. I am really big on no pop in the morning so they must have thought it was a special occasion. They thought of it all including napkins with cute flower decor they had made. Scott was a good sport and ate his toast. I couldn't down all the butter on mine and had to fake it. Scott and the kids. Had to capture a moment with them on Father's Day before church.

All the neighbor kids thought it would be a good idea to plant a garden in the sand box. I gave them seeds for corn and peas but warned them the plants probably wouldn't grow. They were entertained for a good hour doing this. I may just stock up on more seeds.

Wii Fit

Scott started calling around today to try to find me a Wii Fit for my birthday (June 24th). Figured he better get a head start since they are hard to find right now. Fred Meyer came through for us so we have been playing Wii all night. It is a lot of fun. This is Brigham playing downhill skiing. When you can get your hands on one, I highly recommend it. It is fun and a good work out too. It has been awhile since I have hula hooped...I am sure I will be feeling that tomorrow! I will say it is slightly depressing when they add some weight to your Mii because you are too fat according to their calculations. I am sure none of you will have that problem but it looks like I have some work to do.

Thank You Stimulus $

We decided we were going to use our stimulus money to go toward food storage. Today we spent 3 hours at the cannery canning flour, oats, spaghetti, milk etc etc. This wall of storage is a year's supply for one adult plus a 3 month supply for 5 people. We are heading back in July (the next available date to dry pack) to do another years supply. Hopefully we can pack 5, one year supplies in our little storage room so we can say we are officially done with our food storage. This is a good start. We are grateful for the extra cash flow so we could finally get going on more food storage. What did you decide to spend your stimulus money on?

Memorial Weekend

We debated on going camping this weekend because the weather wasn't cooperating but were happy we did. It was a great weekend. We went to Cave Falls in Ashton and it hardly rained. The kids found a lady bug and it was great until it "pooped" on Ashtyn. They were very willing to pose and I got some great shots of them in the wilderness being all cute and happy. It amazes me how kids can find things to do with absolutely nothing. They were acrobats, fairies, bad guys, and gold diggers for the day. We also played hide-and-seek which can prove tricky in the wilderness. There are only so many rocks and trees one can hide behind. If you are a cool Dad, you hide on top of the camper where no one can find you until they hike a mountain and see you on the treck down. The first night we camped out, Haylee decided to get sick on us and threw up all over in the camper. We used up all of our water bathing her and getting things cleaned up. (I am sooo grateful we invested in a camper, I can't imagine what fun that would have been if we were in a tent) We went home the next morning since we were out of water and filled up and went right back out again. We went to Twin Bridges this time so we didn't have to travel too far. It did rain the entire day so we spent the day in the camper watching movies and we took a break and went swimming at Heise. Ashtyn and Haylee braved the rain for awhile and perfected the art of sharing a log to stand on. Here is everyone under the awning of the camper trying to stay dry. Brigham found his Tarzan rope and entertained us by yodeling while he whipped around and acted like Tarzan. Anytime you want to go camping...give us a call! We will be ready to go despite the lame weather. It only took a day to get everything through the laundry, glad that is over!

Branding Cows

We spent the day helping Dad brand the calfs and vaccinate the Cows. The kids enjoyed it with the exception of Haylee who thought it was a little too brutal for her taste. She gladly went and helped Grandma make lunch while the rest of us helped Dad. I didn't do too much but babysitting should count for something. Check out the slide show. Please note I am not a horrible mother...Brigham is in a t-shirt and Brock was in a nice warm coat. The weather was nice, Brock just didn't want to take the coat off.

Check out my Slide Show!

Painted Purple, Tickled Pink

We finally took the plunge and painted the girls room purple. They have wanted their room painted since we moved in two years ago but we just never got around to it. Not only did we paint, but we moved their bedroom downstair so we could make their current bedroom an office upstairs. They are loving their room and I am loving an office. My house feels so much bigger now that I don't have a computer desk in the kitchen. Some day I am either going to to change the curtains with something pink or I have thought of running pink ribbon down it to give it some color...that is the color they had before so they don't really work with the purple walls. Under the Sisters make Best Friends vinyl, I am going to put several framed pictures up of them together. Scott gets the best husband of the day reward. I came home from work to a finished closet. I didn't even ask him to get the shelfs up, he just did it on his own. There was also dinner made when I got home. It isn't even Mother's Day yet so I was pretty impressed. Thanks Scotty, I really do appreciate it!