Sweet Baby

NO I DID NOT have another baby...
but one of my good friends did...
and we LOVE him!!

I love both of these pictures.
You can definitely see how much my boys love this little guy.
Unfortunately I didn't get a pic of Kinley holding him.

Chop Sticks

We love Mongolian BBQ!
The food is great!
The atmosphere is fun!
The people are fabulous!
But the chop sticks rule!!!

Summer Fun 2011!!

Summer fun 2011 !!
Above is me and Ty on the new St. George carousel.
Below is Kinley on the carousel. We love it!
I love this picture of Kinley.

More fun at the main street splash park.

Above and below are the kids playing in our back yard.
When you can't leave the house we make our own fun!!!

Below is the Kinley and Ty with some friend at a play date.
They all posed so cute for this picture!

Notice Jeremy and Travis are missing from this post. All of these times where when Jeremy was at work and Travis is a teenager so he doesn't like to hang out with us much.
Happy Summer everyone!

Sweet Deal!

Oh how I LOVE sweet deals!! I went to Krumpet's today intending to score on some 4th of July decorations....and I TOTALLY DID!!!!

I got the above pictured items (9 to be exact) for....
wait for it....
A grand total of........................
$14.21!!!
Oh ya baby!!

My total before the 75% off discount was $53.49. I saved $40.12!

LOVE SWEET DEALS!!
LOVE KRUMPET'S!!

Too Busy!

I've been entirely too busy lately to catch up on my blog! I was recently called to be the Primary President in my ward. This is a HUGE calling. It's taking up a ton of my time and consuming a lot of my thoughts. I have also been potty training Ty. Believe it or not it has been successful this time! YAY! And I have been crafting my life away! Check it out!

Headbands and Hair Bow for Kinley!!

A group of my friends have started having these AWESOME jewelry parties! I have gone to one every weekend for about 6 weeks now. The lady has all the stuff needed. She sets out the beads, chains and examples. You just go and make what you want then pay her when your finished! It's fun and super cheap! Plus you get to make jewelry to match your wardrobe. It's been a blast!!

This is the jewelry Kinley has made for herself.
She made a different piece each time she got to go with me.

This is my set. It all started with the watch band.
Then I made an additional piece at the other parties.

I made lots more earrings and needed a place to put them...
so I made this frame!
I LOVE it. I also made most of the earrings hanging on it.

McKinley needed and earring holder too.
This is hers with her baby picture next to it.

I have been working on crafts to auction at our family reunion.
This is one I came up with made from pages out of a book.

And of course more earrings and earring holders for the reunion.
I LOVE the purple polka dot one. I'm tempted to keep it. :)

I have also made these super cute rag wreaths.
I've had so much fun making these!
I chose these three to keep for myself.

And these four to be auctioned at the reunion.
I'm tempted to keep the purple, pink & blue on for myself too!
What is with me liking purple lately?
I have always hated the color until recently.

I thought I would throw in a picture of my kids entertaining themselves
on our new trampoline since I craft so much lately.
This trampoline was given to us the other day from a family in our ward.

Thank you Fife family for being so generous!!

We LOVE it!

That's it for now. I guess since the reunion will be over this weekend I will have to find something else to do to entertain myself. Maybe I should work on being a Mom. I'm sure my kids would agree!

My Tiny Dancer!

This is McKinley after her very first dance recital!
Above is a picture of her and the two other girls in her class.
Below is my tiny dancer in her adorable pose.

We had so much fun watching McKinley dance. She is a born dancer and she can shake it like no other so we knew we had to get her into a class somewhere. The unfortunate thing is all the dance classes cost more than we felt we could afford. Well I went to ladies night at the Boulevard a few months ago and there was a lady there promoting her class. She only charges $20 a month and her costumes are inexpensive too! We LOVE it! And Kinley has a blast!!

Mini Vacation

Sorry no pictures. I am a slacker but here is an update to read.

Last weekend we went on a mini vacation with our family! We never have the funds to go on a real vacation like we want so this one had to do for this year. My sister, Cody, and her family went to Lagoon over the weekend for a dance competition and invited us. We took her up on the offer and made a weekend out of it!

On friday we went to Delta to spend the night. Saturday morning we got up and headed to Lagoon taking my brothers kids with us. We had SO MUCH FUN!!! We spent all day at Lagoon watching my Nieces dance and enjoying the rides. What a blast! Sunday morning we got up and went to the Zoo! Ty LOVES animals so we couldn't wait to take him to see them live and up close. Too bad the Hogle Zoo sucks. I was not impressed but I don't think the kids knew the difference.

Here are 15 things I learned over the weekend.

1. I forgot how much fun Lagoon can be.
2. If you give your teenager a little bit of freedom at Lagoon he will have an absolute blast!
3. If your 3 year old is being brave do not freak him out and take him on a scary ride.
4. My kids LOVE to be with their cousins.
5. My 5 year old daughter is a dare devil. She rode all the kid rides and a few of the adult rides. She even went on rides that she didn't care for just cause her cousins wanted to go. I was completely impressed by her!
6. It feels good to find and return a lost child to his Mother.
7. The Hogle Zoo sucks right now. They don't have very many fun animals.
8. My sister can be brave with a little prodding.
9. I LOVE to spend time with my family!!
10. Children have complete trust in their parents. It is wonderful to realize how much they love and trust you.
11. It brings me COMPLETE JOY to watch my kids have so much fun. They had permanent smiles at Lagoon
12. My husband still makes me laugh! I love him dearly.
13. No matter where you are it feels like home if you are with family.
14. I still love the classic carnival rides. Tilt a whirl, scrambler and bumper cars are my all time favorite!
15. It's refreshing to relax and enjoy a few days of pure fun with my family!