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!! =)