So cute...

Here is baby Caleb's first swing adventure at the park. Let's just say he loved it!!!

This was at a park in Park City...I just can't resist his giggle and smile!

Pillows...Pillows...Pillows

So, this is what has been occupying my free time. I have found a hobby that I must admit is addicting. This is the story. My good friend Emily has these great pillows on her couch that just screamed to me...meaning I love them. So when I moved and kept my same "brown" couch I knew I had to spice up our "earth-toned" house with color (Don't get me wrong I LOVE my house, but I LOVE color more than the average person). Thanks to so many helping, we have painted the kitchen YELLOW and I have decorations accenting it and now the pillows do that too. I have fallen in love with sewing. I'm not a perfectionist and the best part is these pillows don't require an expert. The lines are intentionally crooked and the patterns are crazy. That's why I loved them. I just thought of what I thought would be cute and I'd start cutting and hope it turned out the measurements I wanted. I picked tons of coordinating fabrics and non coordinating fabrics and tied them all together.

Here is my first pillow (the small one propped up against the plant). Then the other two larger pillows in the making.

This pillow was one I did make a mistake on, but now one would ever know, because the prints and lines are just crooked. I love it!

The other fun about these pillows are the fronts have the prints and patterns and the back would have one of the solid coordinating prints.

I told you they were crazy!

Don't be alarmed I still have to sew up the bottom on them (hence, the not a square shape!) I just couldn't resist showing you all my new found love!

There are some earth tones to help hold all the brown colors together in the room. But then out comes the RED, YELLOW and TURQUOISE BLUE. I even used a few embroidery stitches on my new sewing machine...Some worked...some didn't! But either way, it looks so cute.

Thanks to all who helped. This really is SO much fun!!!

Another one bites the dust...

Let me introduce you to some of the most fantastic ladies in the whole world! These are some of my old roomies from Utah State University. We were able to get together to celebrate the upcoming wedding of Camillle...the gorgeous one in tie-dye. :) (*Becks - we were bummed you didn't join in on the fun! And to Missy who lives TOO far away to join in the fun.) But you were GREATLY missed.

Camille, Me, Desiree

Miss, you will get a kick out of this story. So did you know that Des has "bee's?" Did you know that she has a booth at a Farmers Market selling honey? Did you know that she has been attacked by bee's while "harvesting" them? Did you know that she is getting chickens? Well, let's just say you missed a wild night of hilarious Des stories. We are insisting that she shows picts on her blog to update us all on her adventures in bee raising, chickens, and nothing other than singing with teddy bears in her backyard!

Stevo and Emma

Me & Des

Emma, Sarah, Camille

Desiree, Me, Sarah, Emma, Camille, Stephenie

I must admit I lucked out with some of the most talented, inspiring, spiritual ladies as roomies for college. It was a great night to catch up on life for all of us. Thank you ladies for being such great friends and being sincerely interested in all of our lives. It was so fun to hear all the different talents, jobs, careers, mothering stories, etc. Camille is our dancer, she has the grace and elegance that I would dream to have. I had to have her do a few dance moves for me because I used to love coming home to Snow 302 to see her dancing all around. Des, as I mentioned above is just a pure riot to be around. She is our little "farmer" now! She has a little boy now and you can tell she just LOVES being a mom. Sara is simply beautiful, inspiring and the most famous of all! She sings, does concert after concert, records cd's, and has the most beautiful baby girl. She is one inspiring gal www.sarahsample.com. Emma has always had a great smile. She just makes you happy by being around her. She has become a wanted home decor lady- she's super talented. It was so fun to listen to her stories of decorating. Man, I need her to come visit my new house to give me tips! She's even doing Camille's bouquet...where was her talent 8 years ago when my wedding needed serious tips? Oh, well! Stevo is a the next in line with the kiddos like me. She has two girls and they are beautiful. I am SO happy she has joined us back in Utah. I missed her too much when she was in Cali. She's a genius and a nurse...I couldn't be happier with having her back!

Anyways, it was a GREAT night to just soak in all the wonderful friends I have been blessed with. Thanks for sharing in the great night together. It was fun to think how far we have all come. To all graduate from college! Even though several of us married off early on. It's just great to reunite with dear friends to find us still living the faith. I love it!...Missy I hope you know I took the time to post today just for you! Even if I am about a month behind on all my other posts! Enjoy. I even took the picts just for you- We miss you!!!

Haircuts!

I know some people don't agree with cutting baby hair, but I have a sister who INSISTS on chopping off my babies hair. I know that it's time when the hair becomes TOO long. Thanks to Shandra helping me finally realize that this crazy hair does look more silly than normal. As you can tell Caleb's hair was growing like old man hair, uneven, long, and thin. This morning after cutting Jareds and Jacobs hair...I finally gave in...

The funny hair in the back....

The cute face, but the super short hair in the front.

AHHHH...he has NO hair! I haven't been able to take a cute smiling picture yet to show how this bald head makes him look super chubby! Okay, now listen I tried to simply even out the back with the rest of his head, but it looked even more silly because the very front is SUPER short. So I decided to just go short all the way around. Goodbye little newborn hair.

His long curly locks are gone! It's growing on me, but it's like we have a whole new baby. Alayna blurted out..."He's a bald baby!" Jake has remained calling him "Baldy baby!" or "Mr. Baldy!" He no longer will have his funny hair. But now he will just be chubby and bald! He's still so cute though...I'll take another smiling picture when he wakes up from his nap!

I can't believe it!

We have a THUMB SUCKER!!!

I really can't begin to tell you what I think about this. I figured it had to happen to one of my children at some point. This just seems like an impossible habit to break! AHHH
(*If you're wondering the fabric in the background is on my bed not his! ha ha ha I didn't want you thinking he had flowers in his room!)

I must admit this thumb sucking thing is a little adorable...I just don't think it's adorable in public or when your FIVE! Caleb is such a good baby so I shouldn't complain about this! :)

Calebs Blessing Day

**I am SUPER behind on blogging...I have at least 10 posts needing to happen...But I don't see it getting any better either in the next few weeks. I just think that life at the moment is a tad BUSY...it might be the 3 kids, house, mini-vacations, summer activities, etc. But I just wanted to post a few picts from Calebs special day. Thankfully I was able to type up all the wonderful things from this very special day.**

This was a great day. Thanks to all who came to share in the day. We are just loving our little guy, Caleb!

Isn't he SO cute! I just LOVE this happy little smile.

This is his sweet face he has always had from the day he was born. We love you baby!

A small detour on the Staycation...

This house is the house we grew up in. It was my mom's grandmothers house on Park Street. (I need to ask a few more questions to actually document all the details.)

We lived in this house until we moved to Riverton when I was five years old. Just right before I started Kindergarton. It's in a neighborhood just a cross the street from Liberty Park.

Salt Lake City Cemetary - Still Staycation!

Finishing a quick savavenger hunt for past family members, prophets of the LDS church, pioneers, etc.

All fighting over the first drop of water we found in a few hours. We didn't pack nearly as much cold water as we should have considering it was SO HOT!!!

Who knew statues of lions would keep these two busy for several minutes! (Jake and Isaac)

Staycation - Part Two

-Salt Lake City Cemetary-

Waiting to discuss all the rules of a scavenger hunt. But then plans changed...so we all walked around together!

Krista showing us her grumpy face because she didn't get her way with the scavenger hunt. I must admit it did sound fun to run all around a cemetary. But something about lots of kids hinders that a bit!

No bathroom in sight! She really had to go, so I decided to put on a diaper! Funny huh.

"Staycation 2009" - Part One

Staycation...a word or not a word? Well, according to the dictionary it is a word...def: A staycation (or stay-cation, or stacation,or staykation) is a neologism for a period of time in which an individual or family stays at home and relaxes at home or takes day trips from their home to area attractions. Staycations have achieved high popularity in the financial crisis of 2007–2009 in which unemployment levels and gas prices are high.
Common activities of a staycation include use of the backyard pool, visits to local parks and museums, and attendance at local festivals. Some staycationers also like to follow a set of rules, such as setting a start and end date, planning ahead, and avoiding routine, with the goal of creating the feel of a traditional vacation.

-PART ONE-
Let me explain...My family had planned a camping trip up to some place called "Main Canyon" (NO TOILETS- ugh!) well we thought we had out thought everyone to have Riley go up early and set up a tent to save our spot before the 24th of July. We were wrong. People had thought that idea up way before us, because all the spots were taken. So after VERY disappointed husbands, and I must admit not so disappointed wives (well minus Krista) we were OKAY with staying home on something Todd called a, "Staycation." So after one trip and activities were canceled, it didn't take longer than just a few minutes for us to think of things to do here at home.

On the morning of the 24th we watched the parade in the morning all lazy like in our pajamas. Then we packed a lunch and off we all went. Our first stop was at Liberty Park to enjoy all the people left over from the parade and Tracy Avery. It was free, so why not go see a site when it's free, right? Besides the HOT HOT weather and not really any birds, it was enjoyable.

The kids lining up to see how big they are compared to the birds.

A half family picture taken courtesy of Conner...We were watching the bird show...well the two bird show, I think that's all they brought out. Oh, the really funny thing about this bird show was they very subtly (NOT) discouraged any child from every wanting a bird. It was hilarious!

Grandma Lou enjoying the heat with the grand kids...Yes, Jacob is wearing the monkey again! He just runs way to fast!

Staycation...

Looking at birds...

Chubby Everett!

Chubby Caleb...trying to catch up with his cousin.

You just have love Little Ms. Kennady!

Making Pies

So last week my sister had a ward missionary party called, "Pie in the Park." So one lazy afternoon we decided that we should make a pie. Well, as we started looking at recipes SO many looked delicious. Well after about 5 hours of making pies, and five pies later we finally finished. The sad part was when 7pm rolled around not one pie was even cool enough to have taken. So pretty much we spent a WILD pie making afternoon for really nothing...other than enjoying 5 pies all weekend long.

This is a Toll House Cookie Pie...Yummy...if you leave the nuts out! (Sorry mom, I know you disagree!!)

The favorite of all...Lemon Meringue...Oh, my delicious!! The other two pies were a chocolate cream pie and a coconut cream pie in a graham cracker crust...let's just say they were so good. Thanks Krista for the spontaneous afternoon...we kept saying, "When I woke up this morning I had no idea I'd spend 5 hours baking pies!" These are the days that make life wonderful living by family and living spontaneously!

What kind of faces do your kids make?

So, have you ever kept your eyes open to watch your kids pray? Well, I must admit that I have before and this time I couldn't resist taking pictures of these little boy faces. This was the same night while we were watching the twins. What great moments we have of these cousins! The "boys" had no idea I was taking pictures during the prayer!

Jacob, Sawyer and Logan

Really, I was hiding the camera they had no idea I was taking pictures. They are so funny!

Here is a little video for your pure entertainment! Seriously, it was SO funny to watch them pray. I'm just impressed they can keep there little bodies kneeling! Now, Jared did know that I was recording...hence the silly things he was having the boys say! So cute...ENJOY!

Here's to a Happy baby!

What a happy little guy we have! Let's just say that this happy little guy is making his 2 month-sleep deprived mommy happy. I have sent him up to his room and he is sleeping like a champ. Let's just say I am no longer seeing the 2AM and the 4AM hours any more! What a dream come true. We love you our little Caleb.