Chubby cheeks and birthdays!!

So I'm finally getting around to my Idaho Falls trips that I took a couple weeks ago....all that I have to say about this pic is "OH MY GOSH...HOW CUTE IS THIS BABY"? This isn't from any of my trips, but I had to throw it in! Do you want to bite her?!? I did...and I do!!

We were having a moment, we had a few of them while I was there!

My sweet Gracie on her blessing day! I think that Hailey would have gladly brought her home with us...where Gracie was, Hailey wasn't too far away!

You thought when I was talking about chubby cheeks I meant Gracie didn't you?!? Nope...get a load of these babies!!LOL We tend to forget that we're wives and mothers when we get together...love her!!

This was the first stop of many for my Kourtnee's birthday party...the mall of course! Nice glasses ya goofs!!

We braved the mall with many, many kids!!

Michelle took all of the girls to this cool ice~cream place called Sub Zero. You got to pick what flavor ice~cream you wanted in liquid form..then your addition(in my case cookie dough)...then they froze it right in front of you! It was pretty wild..they all loved it! By all, I mean me too! I don't have any pictures, but the last stop of the night was a movie.(Bedtime Stories) It was too fun...thanks for inviting us baby girl...I hope you had one heck of a 9th birthday!!

No post would be complete without Bradley and his gangsta pose! He was walking around all weekend with this stance saying "wowd"! Translation..."word"! What can I say...the boys got moves...cute little dude!

Getting ready for church...ya right!! They were playing the Wii and it was all I could do to keep their attention for the 30 seconds it took to take this pic!! See the remote hanging from Hailey's arm?!?HAHA

Bottom line...we always have a blast when we go visit Michelle and her clan! There's never one minute where we're not laughing our heads off...way to go Idaho!!

There is an appropriate time to brag...right?!?

I realize that a lot of you have been in my house already...but I wanted to brag...just a little bit about my hubby!! This room was like a blank canvas when we bought this house...I mean just sheetrock walls! When he informed me that he was going to attempt doing the kitchen from start to finish, I about died!! Now...don't get me wrong, Dave really is one of the most talented people I have ever met! He is literally capable of anything...but I was skeptical still. Well...as you can see, the skepticism was all for not!! I think it's pretty safe to say that this is gorgeous! I do realize that it doesn't fit just anybody's taste...but you can't argue that he is amazing!!!! He walked through the front door with a pile of wood and turned it into this!! There is one part that isn't finished, and who knows when it ever will be! I don't know if you can see it, but the counter to the right has no granite...why you ask...we still haven't been able to match it and that's a lot harder than it sounds!!!!
We didn't want to pay for a slab, but wanted something that looked equally as nice, so Dave came up with the plan to do granite tops with a travertine bullnose that he sanded by hand to give it the rounded look! He designed the backsplash and all of the moldings as well. Sometimes I wonder if he really has a clue how multi~talented he is....as a matter of fact I know he doesn't... he's too modest! Anyway...I just wanted to brag for a minute and let Dave know(even though he will never read this and would be embarrassed if he did) that he's the best, and I continue to be amazed and dazzled by him!! Love ya babe!



This pic is just an honorable mention because it's my favorite room in the house!!haha

Oh...the old toilet paper in the bum trick!!

I wish I could say this was a joke!! Nope!!

This is a random post...but I thought this was too good to pass up!! During Ry's birthday party...out comes Abbi with toilet paper stuck in a place that will remain a mystery!!haha Good thing she's only three...but don't think for a second that I'm not putting this on here for blackmail when she's 16....Poor girl! Better than being an adult and having your dress tucked into your underwear right?!?

13 on Friday the 13th!!

So...I have been a major slacker on the blog front lately! I'm back and ready to go, so here is the first of many events that have taken place recently!! Here he is in all of his glory!! It seems like yesterday that I took these pictures! What happened?!? I wanted to put a lot more pics on here of Ry in his younger years, but I have been given a limit...something about embarrassing him! I don't know...all I heard was blah, blah, blah!!
We always take the kids out for a back~to~school dinner the night before the first day of school. This was the night before Ry started kindergarten.

Just a boy and his machinery!! What would he do without this?!? Shorts?!? Those are nice and safe...what were we thinking?!?

Ryan and Brock...his best friend from Kindergarten! Yes we had a bird...yes we killed it on accident!! Not pet people!!

Me and scanning...we don't get along!! Pic of the kids in Chicago at the White Sox game! So fun!!

Again with the big boy toy!! Gotta love em!!

Ryan and Brock.

Finally the party! This is about 1/2 of the boys that came to the party. His whole baseball team came, but I was a slacker with the camera! Can you tell that I made Blake come over for the picture?!?haha! Ryan decided that it's not every day that a kid turns 13 on Friday the 13th...so he decided that he wanted to watch a scary movie for his birthday. They watched a movie, ate...played Rock Band, ate...played World Tour, ate!! Man...boys can eat!!!!

Once they polished off the pizzas........

They had a fair amount of root beer!!!! It was so fun, and I'm glad they all had a good time! Note to self for next time....more food and pop!! Happy 13th Ryno!!!!

Five Lucky People

...can win something made by me! Here's how it works: The first five people to leave me a comment get something made by me just for them. It can be anything I want, I get to choose. It can be silly or serious, edible or not, but don't plan on anything alive. There are a few rules involved (aren't there always?)

1- I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!

2- What I create will be just for you.

3- It will be done sometime this year (Don't expect grand things if it takes a long time. I'm just lazy!).

4- You have no clue what it's going to be. (The choice is mine! --insert evil laugh here--)

5- I reserve the right to do something extremely strange and/or silly.

The catch is that you must repost this on your blog and offer the same to the first 5 people who do the same on your blog. The first 5 people to do so and leave a comment telling me they've posted on their blog win a hand made, super creative, possibly lovely, whatever in the world I decide! Be sure to post a picture of what you win when you get it!

Employees and immediate family members (those that reside in this house) are not eligible to enter. Void where prohibited. No purchase necessary.

Come for prayer!!!!

I'm sure you're wondering where I'm going with this one!!!! The other night Abbi was playing school....and these were her students. I just barely got rid of half the toys in this house by the way, and I'm thinking that I missed a few!! Anyway....we were all waiting for Abbi to come for prayer and she was taking her own sweet time. Of course the natural reaction of any nurturing mother is to get mad right?!? Well.....I thought she was ignoring us while she continued to teach her little school lesson to her very attentive pupils!! She finally came down the stairs after about 3 minutes and said "Sorry.....I had to teach them to kneel down"!! Um....I felt about an inch tall! How cute is that?!? She took all of that time to make sure every last baby...animal....Dora...ect...was kneeling down with the rest of us!! Good on ya Ab's....we must be doing something right?!? Either that or she just came that way!!
This picture is for entertainment purposes only!! Their faces were covered in white powder from a doughnut feeding frenzy....and they were laughing at who knows what!! They have their own kind of humor, they have since they were tiny! One of them says something that none of the rest of us really understand....and this is the result!! I wish that I had half of their zest for life!!!!

We have new neighbors!!!

Ok...this is crazy!!!! These deer have been here for so long that I'm thinking of naming them! They are living in my back yard underneath our big tree. I think one if them is hurt...so they have taken up residence for a while. As far as I'm concerned they can stay...I love watching them. The first picture is in my neighbors yard about 30 feet away from where we were standing...and the rest of them are in my yard! Anyway...just though I'd share being as how usually when we see a deer, it's dead and bloated off to the side of the road!! I prefer them this way!!