It's Been a Bit

It's been a little bit since I posted last.  I'm just gong to tell you it's because I have no life and really nothing to blog about, until now.  Well okay not really even now, but I have a few pictures, so I am going to blog.  Deal with it.

 First up, my new birthday board.  My mom saw these at Porter's and thought it would be fun to make them.  So she cut the wood and we made some.  I did it to match my M&M theme kitchen.  Are you feeling it, can't you just taste it?  Whatever.

Second, Sunday Jason took us on an "adventure".  If you read my blog you know what that means....well take that back, you never know what that means.  This time we went to pick asparagus.  Yeah, who knew that it grew in the "barrow pit" (for all of you Idahoans) aka ditch, aka, side of the road.

 The boys loved getting out and hunting for them.  Really they just like to see if they can spot field mice, snakes and throw sticks in the canals. Boys!!  They were very tasty though, the asparagus, not the boys!  

Last Twin Falls Idaho Public Library got a grant, so they brought in author Brandon Mull.  Dillon is like his #1 fan.  He has read all of his books Fablehaven, Candy Shop Wars, and Beyonders.  Dillon's awesome mom (that's me FYI) got all four kids down there early so we could have seats, and stayed for the presentation he did.  Then I stood in line for like ever, so that Dillon could get his books signed, and picture taken with him.  Jason came halfway through standing in line, so I left him to deal with the crowds and took the other three kids home.  Anyway this is the picture of the momentous occasion. 

Easter 2012

Easter has come and gone already?  That just seems crazy!  Like most other weekends if we can we leave to someplace else we do.  Easter was no exception.  We decided to spend it with Jason's family in Blackfoot.

 We shopped on Saturday, because I love shopping anywhere but here.

 Then Saturday night we decorated eggs.

 I think I have pictures of all of my kids at this age decorating eggs.  I love it they are so funny.  They always think it is fabulous, and make a huge mess. 

 Truman and Dillon are at the age were this egg stuff is serious business.  I guess I should just be happy they are still at the age that they are willing to do it.

 Elleree had to throw one of her usual temper tantrums, complete with foot stomping.

 Oh yeah and they love to lick and eat them at this age too.  Crack me up.

 Here is the finished product.  Pretty impressive wink wink.

 Sunday morning was a frenzy.  Trying to find all the Easter baskets that the Easter bunny left, and getting ready for church by 9:30.  Kill me now!

 Beckett's baskets were not hidden very well.

 The kids as always got spoiled, but not in the way they wanted.

 The Easter bunny brought stupid things like shirts, flip-flops, and only a little candy.  Thank goodness for Grandma Ann who made sure they got plenty of toys and Grandma Kay who made sure they got plenty of candy.

 Here we are in our finest.

 Speaking of candy Grandma Kay put together an Easter egg hunt for the kids. 

 Jason's brother's family came, and so did his sister.  My kids love spending time with their cousins.

 They played some basketball, with a soccer ball.

 Played some games of the IPad, IPhone, pretty much anything they could get their little hands on.  It was a pretty good weekend, if you ask me. 

Last thing.  I finally got done with my wreath.  This is what I was Plasti-dipping a while back.  I wasn't sure it would turn out at first, but after I spray painted the stars I don't think they look too bad.  I only Plasti-diped the card board stars so that they would be water proof.  I was to cheap to go and buy a bunch of metal ones to make it.

Spring Break 2012

Spring Break was awesome this year!  It went by way to fast, I needed more time.  The first part of the week we had Allison and her crew here for about five days. 

 The kids played and played.  One day we did a scavenger hunt for family home evening.

 The kids had to look up various scriptures that told them where the next clue was. 

 Each clue had a prize, these are a few.  

 This is to give you an idea of how big Eli is.  He is the same size as Elleree.  He is two and she is four. 

 Aside from losing Beckett, and an assault on Rylie the visit was pretty uneventful. 

 We did some shopping.

 We cut out some patterns.

 But mostly we just hung out and spent time together.

No comments on how awesome I look! I think I need to always wear make us.
 I love seeing my sister.  I am going to miss her a ton when she moves, and I wont get to see her as often!

The last half of the week we drove to Grand Junction to visit some of our bestist friends the Nouna's.  They moved there about the same time we moved here.

 We went to this place called Banana's.  It was an arcade, miniature golf, bumper boats......  The kids got soaked on the bumper boats.  This is them trying to dry themselves off.

 Elleree liked the bouncy stuff.  They had this huge slid that she could go down.  She cracked me up.

 The older kids got board with the bouncy stuff real quick and soon moved on to miniature golf and other fun stuff.

Elleree is a good little poser. 

So her and Jason had a good time with my camera.

This one is my favorite though.  She got this fake phone from the arcade.  Jamie and Tanya's little girl Morgan would walk around pretending to talk to each other.  I love that she has her hand on her hip. 

Another day we went to Colorado National Monument.  It is only a few minutes from Grand Junction and has some great trails and sights.

We took a short hike, Beckett screamed for most of it.  I am going to get him comfortable using this pack that they gave us.  Even if it kills me, and everyone else around who has to listen to his screaming. 

There is my family with Independence rock in the background. 

Here is a picture of the boys and there pal's. We miss these guys so much.  It is so nice having such fabulous friends.  I realized that I didn't get any pictures of Jamie and Tanya.  I will just have to go and visit them again in their new house. They are moving to where Allison is moving from.  Small world.

Elleree's 4

That's right my baby girl turned four today.  Oh how time flies.  It was not that long ago that we brought her home from the hospital. 

 Then it was not long before we had to take her back to the hospital.  

Elleree got so sick, I thought she was going to die.  I have never been so scared in my life. 

 Thank goodness we got to take her home after only two weeks and she has never looked back.  Now she is four years old, and healthy as can be.

 Now for Elleree's cake, she had to have a Tangled cake and I could not let her down.  I think it turned out pretty well.

 Allison and her kids were able to be here, and my parents too.  A little pizza and Kool Aide, life is good.

 Dad looks pretty good right?  He of coarse couldn't have pizza so this is his chicken and fruit dinner, which he had to share with the kids.

 A very happy little lady.  What did you say, that cake looks freaking awesome.  Oh go on.

 She got a ton of Lalaloopsys from everyone and a house from us.  She love, love, loves them. 

 She played with them.

And played with them some more.  She had a great birthday.  

We love you sweet thing!

St. Patty's

Mostly I haven't posted lately, because I am a little frustrated with my camera myself and my abilities with my camera.  First of all I had some really cute pictures of Peyton's birthday party that we went to a couple of weeks ago, but apparently it matters whether you take your picture in RAW form or not. To make a long story even longer I can't put the pictures on my blog because I have no idea how to convert them.  Second, the pictures I do take I feel like a 2 year old could take them.  They are worse than if I had just used auto.  I have been reading a ton of things on ISO, aperture, shutter speed, white balance, and everything else.  As you can see by the following pictures, it is doing me no good.  

Anyway we had St. Patty's day and Jason went all out.

 He made green waffles, but you can't tell because I am such an awesome photographer.

 The kids loved them. 

 Isn't it funny how just the color of something can change how excited they get about things.

Jason also made us Corned Beef and Cabbage, which he has never had before little alone eaten.  I love it, but I never did like it when I was a kid and my mom would make it.  That is exactly what happened with my kids.  Of coarse they don't like anything, Jason wasn't a big fan either.

 Moving on, I had this great idea for a 4th of July wreath I was going to make.  I was going to dip paper stars into this Plasti Dip.  It coats anything in plastic.  It has some real potential I promise.

 But alas, I don't think it is going to turn out. 

 So then I just started dipping things in the stuff, like this cloth-pin.  Don't ask why, just go and try it yourself you will understand.  It reminds me of the time Jason go us some liquid nitrogen.  We spent hours freezing anything we could think of.  We would spit in it, put coins in it, what every we could think of.  It's just good fun.  So if you can think of something that needs dipped in plastic, just let me know!

My next project was cross-stitching this awesome dish towel.  It is my family, in case you were wondering.  Yeah, the guy that looks like a child molester/hippy is supposed to be Jason.  Beckett didn't turn out so great either, okay none of them did jeez.  I got these cute little patterns from here so I thought I would try them.  Not so much cute when I try to tweak them.  Oh well!