Helpful Kate

This is just a cute picture of the kids hugging each other before we headed over to my aunt's house in Springville for a SUPER YUMMY Thanksgiving dinner! I love it when they give each other hugs or walk around the house holding hands.

Remember how in my last post I said how Kate loves to be helpful? Here is one way she helps out. Unloading the silverware from the dishwasher is Daylen's job. As soon I say "Daylen, it's time to do your job." Kate comes running to unload some silverware, Daylen on the other hand...

As you can see she can reach the drawer to throw them in, but she can't put them in the right spot.

All finished with a nicely disorganized silverware drawer. So I guess it would be more accurate to say Daylen's job is putting the silverware in the right spots after Kate has unloaded them from the dishwasher.

Random Acts...

I know it's been awhile...sorry mom. Here are some pictures of the kids. Not much has been happening lately so here are some random acts of life in our home.

Daylen and Kate were running around the living room wrapped in their blankets one night before bed.

Our little cookie monster...she has a sweet tooth like her daddy.

Kate loves to be helpful. Daylen asked me to button his jammies for him so Kate immediately took the task upon herself to help him out.

Daylen came to me one day with his blanket draped over his head like this and said, "Look mom, I'm Mary!"

The other morning Brad went in to get Kate out of bed and found a little ballerina instead. Notice the crazy hair, I finally got Kate some ponytails of her own, she still just has a little tiny one on the top of her head. Some day she'll have hair...**sigh**

Hope you enjoyed a gimpse in to the every day life of our family.

Lately...

Daylen likes to make faces for the camera.

Daylen has been so funny lately. Not always so much the things he says, but how he says them and his facial expressions while saying them. This kid has such an expressive face, I love it! Like this morning when I came into the kitchen and Daylen saw me for the first time and says all excitedly, "Hi mom! How are you this morning?" Or when Brad comes home from work and we sit down to eat dinner and Daylen asks, "So how was your day today?" or "What did you do at work today? Did you eat lunch?" He has been talking nonstop lately, too, he's a little motor mouth.

Coming May 11, 2010

New Project

Brad found this log bed on Craigslist a couple of weeks ago. I went to look at it and it was in pretty good condition, it was the lighter log color and it had a few pen marks and scratches, but other than that it looked nice. So we decided to get it. We got the bed, the mattress and box springs, and the bedding (not what you see here) all for $75! I wanted to get a before picture, but thought about it too late so you just get the after. We went to Home Depot and got a deep mahogany minwax stain which requires little prep work. Brad went to work sanding it down, applied 2 coats of the stain, and this is what we got!

We're really happy with the way it turned out, now we want to stain our dresser and night stand to match it. (And we really need a bed skirt, my mom made our quilt and we have been using it since we've been married.)

Dance Competition

My little sister, Lori, had her first dance competition at BYU! She competed the waltz against all the other 184 students, and did pretty good! They got a couple of call backs. We went to watch and cheer her on, it brought back so many fun memories of my dancing days at BYU. I was in her same shoes as a freshmen, competing the waltz in my very first dance competition and my partner and I won 2nd place! I realized how old I am getting though, I didn't know anyone there, not even the teachers! Just the heads of departments. It was a fun night, way to go Lori!

BYE BYE SUMMER

It's sad for me to think summer is really over.

But when I see this outside my window...

there's no denying the truth.
Winter is coming.

I wish my camera could have captured

the colors better. The mountains are

absolutely BEAUTIFUL right now.

The yellows and reds with the white snow,

these pictures just don't do them justice.

You'll just have to take my word for it

BEAUTIFUL!

HURRAY!!

(I couldn't get him to look at the camera, he wanted to look at himself.)

Guess who is potty trained!!

DAYLEN! Give him a hip hip hurray!

I kept saying I would potty train Daylen after we moved.

Well, we moved so I was out of excuses.

The hardest part was convincing him to wear underwear.

For the first 2 weeks he would pee almost every time

in the toilet,but he refused to poop.

He wanted his diaper for that.

I finally convinced him we were out of diapers

so if he wanted to go play at the park he

had to put underwear on.

That did it.

This was Labor Day, and he's been in

underwear ever since.

He had a couple of poop accidents,

but I blame that on the diarrhea.

He has never wet the bed, never had a wet accident.

It's been 1 week and now he even goes

by himself without even telling me!

He's been awesome.

Yeah for having only 1 in diapers!

Little Miss Kater keeps us laughing.

She loves to eat and has resorted to licking her plate clean.

She also drinks everything out of her bowl because its

just easier than using a fork or spoon!

Come Again?

Actually I think my exact words when the

bishop gave me my new calling were

WHAT? REALLY?

Are you SURE?

Curious yet?

WARD CHIOR DIRECTOR!

Huh?? Me?? Ward Choir Director?

Yes, I love music.

Yes, I have music in my background.

Yes, I have sung in choir.

Yes, I was in band all growing up.

Yes, I play the piano, though not well.

BUT, choir director? REALLY?

Yes apparently.

Never in a million years would I have expected this.

Here goes nothing.

Aloha Run

Yeah! We finally have the internet again! We just got connected last night, I feel like I've been cut off from the world, but I am back. Now that I am back I can post pictures from my very first 5K run! It was the Aloha run in Mapleton a week and a half ago. Namifiers sponsered it, so I actually didn't even think about doing it until the night before. Rachel and I decided to do it together, the only time I can run with her is when she is pregnant, that way I can't slow her down. Brad ran it pushing the kids in the jogging stroller and still killed us. I hadn't run in about a month so I was a little nervous, but we jogged the whole time and felt good! It was just a small race so I never found out what my time was which I am bummed about. We didn't even think about wearing a watch, but we think we did it somewhere between 40-45 minutes. It was a fun experience!

I put Miss Kater's hair in her very first ponytail the other day. 15 months old and barely has enough for somewhat of a decent hairdo. It sticks straight up, but I thought she looked cute!

Home Sweet Home

A few pictures for your viewing pleasure.

We are slowly getting unpacked.

We have accumulated quite a bit of "stuff"

over the past 3 1/2 years.

We really hope the dead grass comes back.

Family Room

Kitchen

Entry Room/Front Room

Master Bath

We love our new home, I am just so anxious to get all boxes out of my sight!

Can it Really be TRUE??

We don't have to eat all our meals on the kitchen floor anymore?

Or live in a house with no toys? (Although soccer is much easier with no furniture!)

Remember how 2 weeks ago I posted how excited we were to have closed on our brand new house? Yeah. Well, 2 weeks later we finally get to move in to that house which has been so generously holding all of our stuff just waiting for us! We have survived an absolutely crazy, nightmare of 2 weeks, living in our house with just our bed (thankfully), computer, and piano. Paper plates, bowls, and cups have been our friends, creative juices have flowed to help us come up with dinners, with the help of friends and family, and lots of getting out of the house activities. We have overcome it all and actually will get to live in it now! (Good thing since my family is coming to bring Lori to school TODAY!) I will post pictures as soon as I can!

P.S. I do not plan on moving again for a VERY LONG TIME IF EVER.

P.P.S. If you plan on moving soon take my advise and use a financial institution, DO NOT USE A MORGTAGE BROKER!