Dustin's da' man!

So, it has taken 3 years of BEGGING and PLEADING, me drawing up plans, taking measuments many times, leaving reminders all over the house, and nothing was convincing Dustin of the great vision I had for our family room wall. Then I pulled out the best weapon a girl has....tears. My built-in was done in one week. Thanks Dust for all your hard work! Your amazing!

Here is what we had before. Blah. Boring. Hated it.

And it begins...

Jace helped me paint it. I am thankful that shelf will be covered by a door.

Almost done...

Yay!!! The final product!

I think he hated every second of this project. The words that were coming from that garage won't be written down on here. He said he would NEVER do another one again. I am hoping by the time we buy another house, he'll have forgotten about that though.

Bear Lake.....Again.

Just wanted to post a few more pic's of Bear Lake.
This top pictures of Dreyton and Jace is them riding on the train that take the kids around the campground. Notice that they are sitting faaaaar away from the girls next to them. i asked them why and they said "Cuz at the playground we told those girls that we only speak spanish, so we didn't want to get too close to them and have them hear us talking". I guess they didn't want to play with the girls earlier so they faked speaking spanish, the whole rest of the time they would speak jibberish and then laugh at each other. The girls would tell them to stop and they would so "Noooo....only spanish."
I love Ky's face in this pic. I like Dustin's too. He looks so ticked off.

My cute little J-man

More pictures of the cool bikes that the boys spent the evenings in. They zipped around everywhere! By bedtime they were exhausted.

I would put sunscreen on the boys every day and then they would go and play all day. By the end of every night this is what Dreyton's face looked like. It had a layer of white dirt. He looked like a zombie!

Bear Lake

So, we've never been to Bear Lake before and DESPERATLY need a getaway. So, we packed up our bags and headed to the KOA Campgound for the week. We stayed in a cabin, Dustin said it was smaller than a shed, but I kept telling everyone it was our 'luxury suite''. I made the boys stand in front of it to show you the 'massive' size. The boys were so confused why it didn't have a bathroom in it...but I told them it was all part of the adventure. Then they thought it was awesome and wanted to go as much as they could. We had SOOOO much fun up there. None of us wanted to come home, it was hard leaving. I LOVE our little family get togethers. The boys didn't fight once! Getting away is just a good reminder to them that they really do love each other. I think we'll make a yearly traditon.

They had teh funniest bikes that you could rent. The first night we got a 6 seater, but in this picture we got a bench seat that fit three and then shoved the Jace and Ky in the basket in the front. It was so fun cruising around town in it, picking up shakes and eating them as we pedaled (I should say, as DUSTIN peadaled.)
Every time we got a bike, this is how Ky reacted. He LOVED them!

Each night we rented the boys a banana bike. They would haul butt around the whole campground loving every minute of it. Each night they were completly exhausted.

We had to get a little mini-golf time in. The boys each had a list of things they thought we had to do, this was one of them. Lyckily we finished each of their lists by the last day.

We hiked to some amazingly beautiful springs in Paris Idaho. I'm scary without my makeup on, but I love the look on Ky's face. He looks pissed.

These natural springs were amazing! I've never seen anything like it. We are stangin right were the water pours out of the ground. 10 feet behind us is bone dry. The spring is raging out of a crack in the ground. It was so beautiful there.

Kyson's just happy he isn't in the water. He HATED being at the beach or pool.

We took a long torturous ride (for my neck anyway) to an ice cave. It was 90 degrees outside but when you duck into a crevass, it opens up in to a huge room full of ice. It is freezing in there...like being shoved in a freezer. Ky is scared of the sounds of water too, so the dripping noises made him nervous. Me, Ky and Jace hung out outside of the cave taking pictures of each other while Dust and Drey explored.

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Another fun day at the beach. The weather was perfect! I love this picture and seeing the happiness on the boys' faces. Taking another bike ride. Ky is our bobblehead hood ornamant. He's looking back wondering what we were all laughing at.

Our 6-seater bike. The first time we rented one, we got chased buy a dog. Me and the two boys held out feet in the air and were screaming/laughing so hard. Dustin was pedaling as fast as he could go. I thought we were going to tip over on the turns. That dog was FAST! It nipped Dustins feet a couple of times. It was hilarious!!! I bet we looked so funny! The boys think it was the highlight of the trip! We laughed about it the rest of the week.

I love my little fam so much! It was so fun to spend time with them. No sports, no friends, no tv or internet...just us. Dustin is always so stessed at work so it was nice to have him relax for a bit. I can't wait to do it again next year!

Picture Catch-up OVERLOAD

I finally decided to update the blog with pictures. They are all in the opposite order of what I wanted them to be...but oh well....I have know clue how to change it. So, anyway, here is what we have been up to:

This is the before pic of the bench I made:

Here is the after:

Took the fam to a Grizzlies game. Stayed in a hotel that night and the boys swam all night and morning. So fun!

The cutest boys in the world!

Ky got super super sick with influenza. Poor little guy. Thankfully he recovered after a couple of weeks. He passed it on to me and I am still recovering from it....and its been over a month.

I had a birthday. Number 27...again. Yes, Jace hit me over the head with the present as hard as he could. Yowzers!!!

Ky has learned how to fly.

Jace gave himself a sweet haircut. He said the bangs were in his eyes...not anymore.

Ky has only seen the dog through the window. This is a shot of the first time I opened the door.

For Valentines day I love to do different things for the kids to show them I love them. This year, while they were sleeping I hung about 100 hearts from their ceiling with sayings on them. Then there was a path of hearts leading to a surprise. They looooved it.

Jace is soooo smart and loves reading books to Kyson.

We got a visit from Jaren and looooved having him here.

Dust had a birthday.

Me and Dust had a weekend in Park City. I didn't take any pictures while we were there, but we were stopped on the way home for about 2 hours while a wide load came by. So, we took tons of pictures while we were waiting.

Asa celebrated her 1st birthday.

My cute sis at the party.

The New Years party.

Hanging with the Rowley boy cousins.

Christmas 2010

Jace snuck under the tree and added his name onto every present

Only the best snowman ever. And maybe the smallest.

On My Mind

I know I should update with pictures...but today I am just writing a few things that are on my mind instead.
-Today was such a good day. I had Sharing time at church and it went so great. Dustin is out of town for a bit so I was worried about having to do sharing time and have a sceaming baby and doing the whole church thing by myself. I rely alot of Dustins help at church. But it ended up being so good. I had 3 friends come and take Kyson from me so I didn't have to worry about him the whole time and sharing time was so much fun! I loove loooove love being in Primary. The kids are so awesome.
--I want to know what is up with the bald greeter lady at walmart. Why does she greet everyone except for me? In the 5 years I have lived here I have not once got a "Welcome to Walmart" or a "Have a nice day." She'll greet everyone around me but not me. Weird. Very weird.
--I have two favorite times of the day. The first one is in the morning when I am eating breakfast with my sweet little angel boys that could do no wrong. I love listening to them talk and laughing with them. The second favorite time of day is nightime..when I am putting my monsters to bed and I am done listening to whining, crying, tattleing and teasing. aaaahhhhh....the sweet sound of silence.
--Why do people (and when I say 'people' I am meaning all the boys that live in my house) think that throwing clothes on the floor is as good as putting them in the dirty clothes hamper?! Do I enjoy scouring the house on wash day looking for dirty clothes? No...I don't. Especially when I find little boy socks on the fan in their room or underwear tucked in corners or 4 pairs of shorts on the opposite side of the bed that I sleep on (I'm not naming names on this one ok Dustin).
--I am liking my new haircut.
---I like the Dustin doesn't get mad at me very often for being such a HUGE backseat driver. Maybe he thinks that I am such a good driver that he enjoys learning from the best. :)
--I love love my family get togethers. We have so much fun and I am so sad that my sister is moving across the country and that my parents are leaving on a mission. They are always so willing to drop everything and watch our boys for us, and then spoil them rotten when they see them. My dad is full of funny songs that the boys LOVE to learn, he wrestles with them, he hikes with them, chases them around pretending he is strange Uncle George,and gives them way too much sugar. My mom always plans activities for them so they are never bored, she never spends money on herself but will spoil the kids with everything, she knows the likes and dislikes of each grandkid and plans activies around that, and the best thing is that she sits and will just talk and listen to them. She makes them feel like everything they say is so important. What am I going to without them for a year and a half? And it totally sucks that Becky is moving. I love having her so close so it will be weird not knowing when I will see her again.
---I love the new bark collar we got for the dog. :)
---I wonder where we will be in 5 years. Dustin wants to move out of country. I use to think that sounded like a great adventure, but now I am feeling old and like the feeling of being settled somewhere for my kids' sake. I guess I wouldn't mind trying it out for a few years though.
---What in the world did I do to deserve Dustin. He is such an amazing person!

Well, guess that should be enough rambling. I have some pet peeves I'd like to add to that list, but we'll leave those for next time.

Cutie

Look how cute my little Boston boy is. Ok, the hat is huge on him, but isn't the pompom on top so cute.

SANTA!!

We made our yearly visit to Santa in Delta. It is always so fun! I think this is the first year that Jace didn't cry! Jace was really upset while standing in line this year. He is very worried that he isn't going to get what he is asking for. He REALLY REALLY wants his own Mountain Dew for Christmas and a piece of coal. Yes...coal. So, when your son asks for coal for Christmas...what do you threaten him with?

Dreyton was excited to ask for a Nintendo Dsi...but goofed up and asked for the Ds instead. He wanted to cry afterwards. Good thing we can write Santa letters to clear things up.
Ky with Santa.

My sweet baby.