My Reward

I just finished unloading and loading the dishwasher in 8 minutes flat so I'm rewarding myself with some time to blog. We had a full weekend. We finished the soccer season on Saturday. Then we worked and cleaned and did 1 of our 20 things on the To Do list. We cleaned out the garage. I'll spare you the details of that project.

I still have a garden that is in dire need of being planted. My seeds are fine but the starts I bought on Friday need to get in the ground. Plus the raspberry starts Sariah got for me 2 weeks ago need to be planted.

Samantha lost another tooth. The tooth fairy forgot to come last night. Samantha was really bummed. Sadie went to nursery at church yesterday. She walked in and Tom and I walked out and that was that. The nursery teachers said she was perfect. She has been wanting nursery for along time. She never really new it existed until yesterday but she new there had to be something better then mom and dad's boring Sunday School classes. She was right!

Seth is in T-ball. I promise we really are not those over involved people that have their kids in everything. We just need our kids to try different things out and then stick to what they love.

Trey is a super 4 year old. You can see below a picture of his birthday. He does pretty good going to all the soccer games and such. He is gearing up for next year when he can play.

Seth in soccer

Samantha in soccer


Seth in T-ball getting some coaching from dad

Samantha's team. 3 players were missing

Seth just graduated from Preschool on Friday
We celebrated at the new Logan Chuck A Rama/He knew his mom would like that idea. I did!

Girls spending alot of time on the 4-wheeler

Boys in the bath

We got some bees. Tom is brave, only got stung 4 times.

The boys on the farm. American West Heritage farm

Trey's birthday!

Breakfast at our house.

Next Up

This next group of 5 pictures is from April, when my older sister and her family came to visit from Washington. We packed tons of fun into their week stay.

Ice skating.

Nephews Forrest and Spencer doing the Flowrider in Ogden

If you look in the back you can see the Ogden temple. This may be one of the last pictures of the temple in it's current state. It's going to be completely updated in the coming year.

Roller skating.

My sister Sariah with alot of kids. Four of them are mine!

I Have Missed You...

...And I know you have missed US!

I have been a little busy as everyone is. Just life in general. I have missed updating the blog. I just cleared 300 pictures off my camera from March until this week. I have over 20 to share but tonight I'm just doing the first 5 because I should get to bed. I'm such a better mom when I get decent sleep. Life has consisted of soccer, piano, school, rental stuff, chickens, reading, bees, trampolines, cleaning a little, folding alot of clothes, family get togethers, and more soccer. I'm getting a little antsy because soccer is crowding my garage sale time. But it's worth it because Samantha and Seth are loving soccer. They have grown so much this past 6 weeks. They are dynamite at the games. Seth is one of the top scorers and Samantha runs her little heart out. (They are on different teams) We love going to their games. Below are just some extremely darling pictures. You will also see the amazing chicken coop my talented husband built. CHickens! That is another story. We bought chicks then realized it makes more sense to buy hens that already lay eggs, so we went out and bought 4 hens. They lay the most beatuiful, gigantic eggs but they are mean, chick-slaying hens. We have lost 2 chicks by the hens pecking them to death. The first one lost was pure inexperience on our part, the second chick lost was because the little critter went on the wrong side of the partition and got pecked. Anyways it has been a learning experience. We went from 11 chick/hens to now 9. Goodnight!

Such a fun age. This picture is fun because I have the same pose of Samantha at this age.

Samantha with cousins

Our awarding winning coop....at least it should be.

I'll post some of the boys soon!