What We've Been Up To....

It has been a while, I know. We have been doing some really fun things this summer but for some reason I just can't seem to remember my camera. Every time I get to where we are going I remember that I FORGOT my camera.

A week or so ago we went with my family bowling for FHE. The girls had so much fun bowling. They just loved being able to throw the ball down the lane by themselves. Rex would try to help Briley and she would tell him that she could do it herself. She had a hard time throwing it hard enough to get all the way down the lane.

Tabrie did very well all by herself, and for only bowling a couple of times in her life she didn't score too bad. I of course forgot my camera but Janeal was there so she did take a couple of pictures of my kids for me. Thanks Sis!


Last Thursday we went to the spray park with some friends. We went pretty early so it was kind of cold. Tabrie had lots of fun and the cold didn't seem to bother her much. Briley only got in for a few minutes and said she was too cold so she went to the car and got dressed. We had to get back so that we could go to Rex's company picnic. The girls had lots of fun there too. They gave all of the kids squirt guns and they had 4 big jump houses for the kids to play on. I wish I had pictures to share but again I forgot my camera.

Just yesterday we went the Chuckars game with my family. My girls really seemed to like it. I thought that they would be bored to death at a baseball game. Briley can entertain herself anywhere so she just sat there and talked to herself and played by herself. Tabrie loved watching the game and was pretty into it. She kept asking questions and was bummed when we left a little before the game was over.

We have been having a great summer! I can't believe that school will be starting in a little less than a month! Where does all the time go? I have already gotten all of the girls school supplies and I've started thinking I need to get them school clothes. I think that I am just in denial that school is going to be starting again. I hope you all are having great summer!!

Summer Time Update

It seems like I have been such a slacker on posting lately. For some reason I have been kind of busy lately. I have been working a lot and on my days off I try to take my kids out to do something fun. We have had a couple of picnic with friends, gone to the free movies, and gone for bike rides. Briley learned about a month ago to ride her bike without training wheels. She was very quick to pick up on it and now she is wild and crazy out there on two wheels!
We have worked on our yards lots and made a lot of progress. We have finally planted our grass. YEAH! We have finished our swing set area which we filled with rubber mulch, it was kind of expensive but it is so nice.
Our flower bed is full of weeds and so I spent the whole day on Saturday weeding, I got a nice sun burn on my legs and I couldn't walk normal. It hurt pretty bad so, I guess I learned my lesson about sunscreen. We are so excited about this weekend we all love the 4th of July, the girls love the fireworks and the parade. Rex's cousin always has a huge BBQ and fireworks show the weekend after the 4th and that is always tons of fun. My girls really look forward to that too. There is always a slipin' slide, lots of kids, and the fireworks are awesome . It is so nice to finally have summer here. I just love summer! I hope you all have a great hoilday weekend!

Sunday Drive

We wanted to go on a Sunday drive so we decided to go Wolverine Canyon. We loaded up in the car and drove up there for a couple of hours. I had not ever been up there and either had the girls so we were excited to see what we were missing. As we drove into the canyon the girls noticed a little waterfall and they were so excited to see more. We didn't see anymore waterfalls but it is a beautiful area and it was only about 30 minutes from our house. We got out of the car and Rex told the girls that he would take them for a hike up this little hill. I guess we haven't ever taken our girls hiking before because just going up that little hill was so great for them. They had so much fun on that little hike they just kept talking about it the whole way home. They asked us to take them camping, hiking, and fishing next weekend. I am not sure that we will be able to go next weekend but we are planning on taking them very soon. We don't have a Trailer anymore so we don't do much camping, I hate to tent it. I think that I could handle going up there for a night and I know that my girls would love it. We just need to get a few more things done in the yard and then we can take them camping. :)

Were Making Progress!

I am so excited that we are finally making some progress on our yard. This last weekend we sprayed all of our weeds with round-up (I really hope that they die) we have so many that it pretty much took us all day. We have very little cooperation from the sprayers. They kept getting clogged and not spraying and we kept having to stop to go clean them out. It was a long a day to say the least! We finally got our plants that we bought weeks ago planted in our flower beds, my parents came over and help us with that part. Thanks, Mom and Dad we really appreciate the help! I just hope I remember to keep them watered so that they don't die before we get the sprinkler system up and running. On Tuesday we rented a pipe puller and we pulled the pipe for our sprinkler system. I am so excited that we actually might have some grass before the end of the summer. (I am sure our neighbors are excited too!) Rex said that he hopes to have the sprinkler system done by the end of Memorial Day but, the weather isn't supposed to be very good so I guess we'll have to see if he can get it done!

Pictures

Last Thursday I took the girls to have their picture taken by Chantri. She did such a good job with the kids. She was so patient and cute with them. She posted a few of their pictures on her blog. You can click here to go to her blog. I am so excited to get to see the rest of the pictures. She got some really cute ones of the girls and she was so inexpensive and very easy to work with. I love the ones that she posted, I just can't wait to see the rest of them! We did a Simply Unique session. She has a different one every month they are very fun and inexpensive so be sure to check out her website for more information. :)

Our Weekend

We had beautiful weather on Saturday and we didn't even get a single thing done in our yard. :( We decided last week sometime that we need to get a new truck ours is really old (1979 to be exact) and just not economical, plus it is only a single cab and we have 4 people in our family. Rex had decide that we need to get one of 3 kinds of trucks so we set out early Saturday morning to test drive. It took us all day but we did finally get a new truck. Wow, was it a long day! I am so thankful for my girls. They had to tag along with us to all of the different car dealerships and they were so good. I am so blessed to have such good kids. I couldn't ask for better children, they are such a blessing to me. I had a wonderful Mothers Day, the girls were so excited Sunday morning to give me the gifts that they had made at school. Those are the best gifts, the ones that come from the heart. I loved what they made. Tabrie had planted some marigolds in a cup and made a sweet little card. Briley made this cute little thing that said "I love you this much" it was a heart with yarn and little cut outs of her hands you pull the hands to opposite sides so it looks like arms stretched out. I am so grateful to be a Mom and the blessing it is in my life. I couldn't have asked for anything more in life. My family is such a wonderful blessing to me. I have a wonderful husband who is so sweet to me and two beautiful girls. I think I am the luckiest girl alive. :)

Sorry for the lack of posts

I am sorry that I have been such a slacker. I don't really know why but it seems I have been kind of busy lately and just haven't been blogging much. We are trying to take advantage of the nice weather and get things done in our yard. The weekend before last we went and bought a whole bunch of shrubs and bushes for our yard. Then this last weekend Rex did some more work on the patio and we got curbing. The girls and I had a little service project that we did Saturday morning for the Modern Woodmen Youth Service Club that I am the leader of. We had about 10 kids and 7 adults come and help us plant flowers at Life Care Center. It was a fun little project. We went to Pizza Hut afterwards, then Tabrie got to go to a birthday party at Bear Buddies, that is a cute little store. Afterwards we headed to Twin Falls for a meeting I needed to go to for the Youth Service Club. We stayed over night in Twin (the kids love staying in hotels). We spent Sunday morning looking at the sights in Twin (watching people base jump and going to Shoshone Falls) then we headed home. We had a good weekend! I just love spending time with my little family. It was so fun to be with just them all weekend. Sorry, it has been so long since my last post I am going to try to get back into the swing of things.

Sickness :(

On Saturday we went out and enjoyed the nice weather. Rex went dirt biking and then he came home and worked on our patio. We are doing pavers which I never thought would be as much work as they turned out to be. We went to bed Saturday night then in the middle of the night Rex started feeling sick. I got up and took the girls to church Sunday morning. When we came home and Rex was still not feeling well at all. (He couldn't even get out of bed and had a way high fever.) He was still super sick all day Monday so on Tuesday morning I called and made him a doctors appointment. He went to the doctor and found out he had INFLUENZA. :( He still isn't feeling all that great. Poor guy! He said that the medicine has help quite a bit, but he still isn't feeling 100%.
I was supposed to be going with a bunch of my friends to Salt Lake for a girls weekend, but I decided I probably not go and risk getting everyone there sick. The doctor told us influenza is highly contagious and you are a contagious 48 hours before you ever feel sick. BUMMER! So, instead I get to stay home and take care of a sick little girl. Poor little Briley woke up this morning with a fever so we called the doctor and got a prescription for all of us for Tamiful. I am just hoping that Tabrie and I can stay healthy and not get it! I have decided that should own stock in Lysol! I hope you all have a great weekend!

FUN!!!!

This last weekend was so nice, we spent the entire weekend outside. We got the girls a swing set for Easter and we spent the majority of the day Saturday putting it up. The girls were so excited to be able play on it. Of course the weather here is so crazy, when we woke up Monday it was super windy and the weather just got worse from there. It ended up snowing on Tuesday night and was pretty cold and windy yesterday so, needless to say they haven't been able to play on it much. It was pretty nice out today so I let them go out and play. They had so much fun! They have really missed having a yard. They are so excited that we have somewhere for them to play this summer. We are hoping that the weather will get nice sometime so that we can get our sprinklers in and get some grass planted. We have someone coming to do some curbing this next week so, we are crossing our fingers that it will be nice enough to get that done. I just wish that we didn't have to worry about snow showers in April!!!!

Fun Idea

I was on a blog and I saw this idea and thought it was so fun I just had to share. The idea was for a Family Fun Day, which she got from the Family Fun magazine. What you do is let each person in your family pick an activity to do that day and you go and do all of the activities that each person picked. I think that this is such a fun idea. I know my girls would love this (I'm not sure I would love what they picked) they love to spend time playing together as a family. On this day you are supposed to forget about work or other things that need to be done, because this is just supposed to be a day of fun. I think that we are going to try this very soon, it sounds so great. I love to spend time with my family and this is a great way to make sure that everyone enjoys the day. Thanks so much for the fun idea Jessica!

Food Storage?

I have been thinking a lot lately about food storage. I have heard on the news about a truckers strike. I was talking to my friend and we were talking about how a truckers strike would really affect us getting food to our local grocery stores. We depend on them to bring goods to us from all over the country. We have no idea how long a strike like that would last and I am thinking I am really not as prepared as I should be. I need some motivation to build up my food storage. I always try to go to the big case lot sales and stock up, but with the cost of everything going up it seems like you don't get nearly as much and you are spending more. It seems like everything has gone up in price. I am really looking forward to watching conference to see what the Prophets and Apostles will stress. I know that it has been stressed for a long time to get your food storage and I am glad that I do have some, but I don't think I am nearly where I need to be. It always feel really good when the storage room it full and I don't have very much room left on the shelves, but then as the days go by I take from my food storage and I forget to replace what I took. If anyone has a good idea on how to build up food storage and keep track of what you take so you can replace it let me know. Thanks!

Finally A Sunny Day

My girls were so happy that it was a sunny day today. They were dying to get outside and ride their bikes and play. I was happy to let them go run off some of their energy. I went out with them for awhile but I thought it was COLD so I didn't stay out long. Isn't it funny how kids won't admit that they are cold because they just want to keep playing. I am glad to see the sun, it reminds me that spring will be here someday. I just hope that the warmer weather is here to stay. (but I watch the weather so I know better) I have never had spring fever so bad! I think it might have to do with the fact that I am dying to get our yard started and to get the swing set and playhouse up for the girls. Oh, well no sense worrying about it too much I can't do anything about the weather.

Spring Break?

I feel really bad because this week was spring break and we didn't do anything fun for the girls. Although, Briley was in heaven because Tabrie was home to play with her everyday this week and she wasn't "bored". The weather stunk! It wasn't spring weather at all! It was cold and windy pretty much all week. The only sort of fun thing that we did was go to Artic Circle for lunch on Thursday. We went with Janeal and another one of my friends and her kids. The kids really enjoyed being able to get out of the house and play. I just don't love the food at any of the kid friendly restaurants so I have to talk myself into going to any of them. I am also so scared that my kids will get sick from playing on the toys at places like that so I don't like going to them very often. I am hoping that the weather will get warm soon so that we can start taking the kids to the park for picnics and to play outside on the toys . We got them a swing set for Easter so it would be nice if the weather would warm up so that the ground will dry enough that we could put it up for them to play on. I have spring fever so bad, I just hope spring like weather will show up soon.

Recipe Group

Janeal and I have been thinking that it would be really fun to have a recipe group with all of our blogging friends. I have talked to a couple of other people who are interested. Janeal has a post with more information on what we want to do on her blog. Click here to go to her blog and read the post. If you are interested be sure to leave a comment with the day that will work for you. We want to see how many people are interested. I think that this will be a fun way to have a girls night out and get to know all of our blogging friends a little better. :)

My Little Gamers

I have always wondered if my kids are the only kids who love playing games. My girls ask every single day if we can play a game. We of course don't have time to play games with them every time they ask. We do try to play games with them as often as we can though. They love all games, but their favorites are Princess Uno, Princess Monopoly, and Chutes and Ladders. They are actually quite good at them too. It is so fun to watch them get excited when they win or they do something that will put them in the lead. I love games too! It is so fun spending time with my little family playing games and having fun together. I love my girls so much, I am so glad that they are a part of my life. All of the things that they do throughout the day that are naughty are all worth the "I love you" at the end of the day. I am so grateful for my daughters and hubby they are the best!