New

Since we haven't seen some of our family members in a while, here are some of the "new" things at our house...
Taylor got her hair chopped!!! She has been waiting for this lovely event for at least 8 months. Usually I let her cut it every other year after the dance recital. This past year I asked her to wait until the college did their Locks Of Love event at cosmetology. Well, I waited to hear information about the event and didn't hear or see a thing about it so I had a friend cut her hair. Taylor LOVES it. Side note - found out the Cosmetology department did their big thing this Saturday. Not too happy about that. They sent home info to all the schools but the one my girls go to. Sweet. Not happy at all. We stopped by the cosmetology department and I let them know I wasn't too pleased about it, dropped off Taylor's hair -over 16 inches worth- and they let my girls get manicures. But Taylor missed out on all the other fun stuff they did for those who donated their hair. grrr Next time I guess. Rylie wants to grow her hair out and Taylor will grow hers again. :)

And this "new" thing is for Mary - I still don't like having my picture taken so much, but I've lost a little weight lately and the other night Mary bugged me enough on facebook to get me to post a picture of myself. So here it is Mary,
Now, I still have plenty more to go. My hope is that by the end of March I can lose 10 more pounds and go down one more clothes size. I'm pretty darn happy about my progress though. It's very exciting. I haven't been this size since 2005-2006. And really, I'm probably in better shape this time around too. I workout 3 or 4 times a week and eat SO much better. My friend and I are planning to do a 5k this summer too. Who would have thought I'd want to run a 5k?

So, I've gone from this - hiding behind my kids......to this

And because they wanted their picture taken too. Here are my girls. (Pyper was taking her MUCH needed after church nap.)

The Basement

Here it is folks - the few rooms that are finished.

Taylor has been waiting and waiting for her room to be finished. Well, on Saturday the carpet was finally installed! She (and me too) was so excited about it. She just laied on the floor and rubbed her hand over the carpet. :) Sunday Taylor was sick so we didn't do anything more down there.

Here are pics of the office. It needs to be put together, but you get the idea.

Yesterday Garth and I got the dresser from the warehouse and put the head board up in Taylor's room. Today I got her bed skirt and tonight Taylor and I made her bed. So guess where she's sleeping tonight...in her room!!!
One HAPPY girl! We still have plenty to do in there to really get her set, but this is all she needs for now.

So there you have it. A new post and pictures of the basement. Don't fall over, I'll try to be better. But I make no promises.

And because I have beautiful kids :)
and this picture with Aunt Vale is cute. :)
These are pictures from Christmas break. No pictures from the cabin for quite a while now. VERY sad. VERY big mess. VERY depressing.

Halloween

Finished getting the rest of the outside stuff up today! Looks pretty good I think.

Found this gal at the dollar store. Taylor suggested we put her up there.

And here's the front door. I'm not sure Camryn really likes the spiders.

Crafty With The Girls

(Don't be shocked, a new post, I know)
Today the girls and I got a little crafty. I love Halloween and decorating for it. Last night we put most of our stuff up inside the house (still have to put up my spider webs and spiders outside) and I thought it would be fun to make our own Halloween blocks. So here they are...

Taylor and her "BOO"

Rylie and her "WITCH"

This is my "SPOOKY"

The girls had a great time making them and I think they turned out pretty darn cute. Some friends in my ward are making these WAY CUTE Halloween subway signs (as soon as she posts it on her blog-red couch recipes-I'll link to it). I think I just might have to make one for myself. :) I have the cricut at my house right now and I'm having the best time with it. I've made signs for the studio and I've used it in the girls dance scrap books. I love that little machine!

p.s. I do have other things to blog about, Heber Creeper, time at the cabin, but I haven't made time to blog about them yet-obviously. I plan to though, really. ;)

Dino Mania

The weekend after the 4th, Jared and Liz and the kids came to our house for a fun visit. Madeline is in love with the PBS show Dinosaur Train and Jared and Liz decided to have a fun little dinosaur trip. And when you think dinosaur, you think Carbon County, right? Well, okay. maybe not, but you should. :) (also, the main exhibit in Vernal is closed for remodeling) We headed on over to the CEU Prehistoric Museum and had a good time there checking out all the skeletons and other fun stuff.Then we headed over to the Dino-Mine Adventure park where the kids had a great time sliding down dinosaur tails, swinging on the swings and playing on the monkey bars. Only bad thing that happened that day was that Liz left her camera there. :( So all her pictures from the day are gone. Poop!!

After a night of good food and styrofoam picking (hehehe), we left the next morning for the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry. ( Taylor is MIA. She went with Grandma Bonnie to the Scottish Festival that day.)checking out a replica of a dig site

so strong!

The visitors center is the most exciting part about that place. If you have older kids, the rock walk is good, but with all the little ones we had with us, there wasn't that much to do there. We ate lunch at one of the picnic tables and then jumped back in the van to head off to the Museum of the San Rafael. Only to pull into the parking lot 2 minutes AFTER they closed!!! Grrr. Sorry Jared and Liz. Next time I guess. :(

On our way back home, we stopped by the farm to show Madeline and Bradley the chickens.that Madeline is such a poser :)

When we got out there, Neil was moving some dirt and came across a bird's nest in the rocks. Very cool.
Thanks for the visit Jared and Liz. We had a great time. We love it when people come our way every now and then. :)

4th of July 2010

We spent the 4th up at Scofield this year. We had a great time. I love being up in the mountains. Scofield puts on their 4th of July celebration called Pleasant Valley Days. Vendors come and set up in the park, they have all sorts of activities through out the weekend and have a fun parade. This year I talked my girls into doing the Little Miss Pleasant Valley Pageant. I love to show off my girls and their talents. Taylor played the piano and did an amazing job, and Rylie did her solo. It was a little tricky for her because the stage was SO tiny, but she did her best. Rylie ended up getting second attendant in her age group. Way to go Rylie! So Taylor and Rylie got to ride in the parade in the Little Miss float.cutest girls on there, I think

Here is Camryn at the paradeand here is Pyper at the parade :)

The girls had fun playing with their cousins, riding the 4-wheelers and riding the horses. (looks like a missed a picture of Rylie, but she rode too.)Taylor LOVES the horses, but ever since she was thrown off Bo, she's been a bit afraid to ride. She's finally getting to the point where she doesn't have a breakdown when she gets on a horse now. She loves to go for rides and it's great that she can ride without a lead. Big girl. :)

Guess who actually got on a horse too...what the? (love you Vale) :)

I hope all of you had a great 4th of July weekend!

The Manti Pagent

After our weekend at Mom and Dad's house, we took off the next weekend and joined Em and Darren and their girls in Fairview to go to the Manti Pageant. It was a fun weekend. The girls played and went on adventures. Pyper even had a little fun in the dirt.We went swimming in Ephraim, had yummy food and saw the Pageant.
Garth and I haven't seen the Pageant since we were dating. So that means this was the first time for the girls. Taylor enjoyed it, Rylie slept through it, Camryn was awake the whole time going from person to person and Pyper was awake through most of it. Funny girls. It wasn't too cold and really, all the girls were great. Thank you Emity and Darren for inviting us. We had a great time!