More house pictures!!!

Not too much new stuff going on, but here is the front porch with the slate, it isn't grouted, but i had to post it anyway cause i just love it!!!

The front still has more painting to do on it, but they added some more white, and actually the stairs are painted white now woo, but they added that darker grey on the bottom there and i just LOVE it!!! I told Ryan i want more of that color!!! I would have done the whole house that color, but ryan didn't trust me!!! =) So, we are trying to decide what to do still with the darker grey and we have a marroonish red color going to accent it too!

Fireworks!!

Here we are doing fireworks, this is Saturday night with my parents and Ryan's parents together. Jackie and her kids came into town for a couple of weeks and we have just been having a lot of fun. Matti loved the fireworks, but Sophie well, the top picture is her and kenzie sitting on ryan's mom holding and "comforting" the baby telling it that it isn't scary and that fireworks are fun! Sophie just kept saying "no more mommy, no more again". It was really cute, but really sad. Maybe next year they both will love it!

Hospital visit!

We were at a baptism a couple of weeks ago(i know this is late), and we were heading out the door and i heard this unfamiliar bloody murder scream.......it was Sophie! She had been playing with the door going out, which those are huge and heavy, and she had smashed her finger in the hinge part. Ryan got there first, and as i come running over i just glanced at her finger and we ran out the door saying "oh great, broken finger, hospital trip here we come!" and grabbed matti and ran. Luckily we weren't that far away from the hospital, but this picture is us waiting in the hall way for our turn. She had smashed really good. I don't like that kind of stuff too much but ryan said that her finger was smashed, twisted and bent upward. Well, to make a long story short, we got in.....finally, got x-rays, then doctor, and no broken finger!!! AMAZING!!! By the time the doctor got there her finger had straightened itself out, and was just swollen! They wrapped up her finger in tape and dosed/doped her up with tylenol and codien, and sent us on our way. We then went and got her medicine at walgreens and waited there for an hour and a half and got home finally at like 11:45!!! Fun night!!! I love this picture cause it just shows how strong my little girl is!! She was crying of course, but she really was just kind of whining more than crying! If it were matti that happened to, it would be a whole different story!!! =)

My little laundry "helper"

Dangit i suck at turning pictures around. Oh well.....this was so funny i had to post it. Matti wanted to help me do the laundry so this is her reaching into the washer and getting what she could and then throwing them into the dryer. Then she decided that she couldn't get to the rest so she got inside and finished the job! What a great helper she is!!

Matti had to take this yucky medicine a couple of times a day and still is taking it, but at first i had to bribe her with the old trick"if you take it good for so many days i will take you to the zoo" and it actually worked. She stopped complaining and i had to hold up my end of the bargain. This day was funny though. I went with my sister and sister-in law and we went and ate lunch first and it rained the whole time. About 5 minutes after we were done eating it cleared up and got all sunny again. so we decided to go try out the zoo. We were there for about and hour and half and about 5 minutes after we left it started pouring again. Thankyou weather for cooperating for us just while we were at the zoo! It was fun!

Ryan's 31st Birthday!

My hubby turned 31 a couple of months ago....i know i am soooooooo behind on this blogging thing!!! A couple of days before his birthday i asked what kind of cake he wanted and he said jokingly he wanted a twinkie cake so of course i had to do it even though he was joking. And then i also had to make a chocolate one for the rest of the family who are all HUGE chocolate lovers.

House pictures ....and a duck!

Here are some finally updated pictures of the house. We did a blueish grey in the front room, and a grey in the kitchen and master room and bathroom. The pictures don't really do it's justice, but that is the best you are going to get for now!! I am in love with it!! It has been a LLLLOOOOONNNNGGGGG journey building it, but i am finally seeing the end result and it is soooo worth it. The odd picure of the grass looking thing is acually a duck in my front of the yard sitting on 7 of her eggs. Odd place. My dad actually was pulling a bunch of tall weeds around the house and was almost done before he realized the eggs sitting there. What a good mommy!! you keep those eggs warm!!!

Justin's birthday

My brother Justin's birthday was on April 30th. He was turning 36 this year.So this is us at his grave site letting go of 36 balloons that had letters and pictures and anything you wanted to put in the balloons for him. The day was a really hard day, but doing this part at the end was actually a lot of fun and more of a celebration just the way he would have wanted it. LOVE YOU JUSTIN!!

Kindergarten registration

This was fun and NOT fun for me realizing that my little girl is growing up and going to kindergarten in just a couple of months. I am really excited for her, but i am going to have a hard time cause she is such a good helper to her mommy. I love my little matti. She had so much fun doing all of the centers that she didn't want to leave. hey, i just hope that she says that about school! =)

Hunting for candy!!

We had two easter egg hunts, one at both grandparents.....you can only imagine how much crap they got!!! =) it sure was a lot of fun though this year with both of the kids knowing what to do and me being able to walk around and enjoy taking pictures of it all.

ATTEMPTING the easter thing!

My friend Emily and i got tegether and she showed me how she makes an easter bunny cake every year. That was quite the experience too.....i suck at frosting cakes.....the kids sure had fun decorating it though!! Or in other words eating the candy, however you want to put it! =)

Here we are ATTEMPTING to dye easter eggs......first time went pretty well, except for sophie spilling the blue everywhere, but then one broke and i realized that the eggs were not done yet, so my mother in law put them all into the big pot again and cooked them again. We then had to re-dye them again in which sophie spilled the green all over.....after that spill, my patience was gone so we were done!! hey,it was fun while it lasted?=)

Coyote say what?!!!

So there was a random knock at the door yesterday and it was one of my neighbor's from the ward and he asks if i know what is in my backyard.....um....no....so he tells me that there is a coyote in the back. Sure enough after looking for a minute, it was right in front of my face!!! But by the time i got back inside it had moved back a little, but for two days now we have been watching this coyote out in the field behind our house. That was so awesome of my neighbor to come by. He said that he thought i would like to see one. Ummmm....yeah!! my husband goes out hunting these guys, and i just had to look in my backyard!!! =)

Silly Sophie!!

I know i suck at reversing pictures so they actually make sense, but this one was when we were over at ryan's parents house and she was just relaxing on this chair with the massage thing going. She must have been there for at least 10 minutes like that!!

Sophie, Sophie, Sophie.....what can i say about her? She cracks me up!! The other day for her nap i heard her playing before like she always does till she falls asleep, well when i went to wake her up i found her like this......she was NOT wearing that dress before she went to sleep!!! Her favorite thing to do is play "Barbie" which is her word for dress up!! She loves to even sleep in her barbie dresses i guess!! =)

early rising, waiting, and fun times?

This week both of my girls had to get tubes in their ears. That was quite the adventure. They had to wake up at 5:30 ....which they have NEVER had to wake up even close to that. And then when we get there all it was was just a bunch of waiting. We waited in the lobby for like an hour and then we moved to the next room and waited there for like an hour, and then they took each kid at different times to the back and did the surgery which only took like 10 minutes! And then for each kid we had to wait some more for 30 minutes in recovery!Awesome!!! Kids LOVE to wait! ....actually, i am so blessed with patient kids. I even had nurses tell me that i have good kids. It wasn't as bad as i thought it would be, but i am so grateful that it is over and so grateful that grandma came with us! i could NOT have done it with out her!

This picture is one of my favorites.....here it is about 6 o clock in the morning . OBVIOUSLY, they are loving the early morning .......and waiting.

Sheet rocking....and a happy mom!!

This is picture is my bedroom.....with out walls it looked a lot bigger.....but i am still soooooo excited!!!

This is the hallway showing all of the bedrooms.

My family or main room and oh how i love the windows and all of that lighting....soooo different from the darkness in the house we are in now.

And now my awesome kitchen.....to the left is a pantry...not pictured, but one of the best parts about my house. A PANTRY!!! Where i can store food!!!!