How does your garden grow?

Saturday we had fun planting a little garden. It isn't much because we really don't have anywhere to plant a garden. Big pots are pretty expensive, so I got the idea to use storage containers, drill holes in the bottom, and let the kids paint them to decorate and add little personality to them.

I should have thought this through better and put a tarp down on the kitchen floor. Luckily, we didn't have too many mishaps.

Guess what Jared painted? Yep, his favorite...WATERMELON!

Rachel is painting carrots on her garden container.

We planted tomatoes, beans, peas, and some squash.

Jared sacrificed some of his fishing worms and put them in the soil.


I hope something grows...At least we had fun!

Eavesdropping

Today, I was out shopping with the girls. We were walking down one of the aisles and two ladies were standing there talking about their children and the differences between boys and girls. One of moms said, "Girls are just drama". I didn't know Ellie was listening when she exclaimed "GIRLS ARE NOT DRAMA!" We had already walked passed them and I didn't turn around to see if they had heard her but she got a laugh out of me. I thought was pretty funny that she was offended by their comment.

Later, we were looking for a new bathing suit for Rachel. Ellie wandered over to the training bras and picked one up. I told Ellie to put it back when she said "Why mom? I don't have big ones yet?" That was not the response I was expecting. I wish someone had taken a picture of my face at that moment. Oh Ellie...you are only 4! What will the teenage years bring?

Waiting for the bus

The last couple of days it has rained and with the rain, out comes the worms. Big ones, long ones
slimy short, fat, juicy ones, itsy, bitsy, fuzzy wuzzy worms. Jared & his friends Hunter & Austin have been collecting them for a few days now. This morning at the bus stop he had all the kids helping him find the BIGGEST worms they could.

I think they found a few...
Jared is trying to save the worms to go fishing. I'll let you know how that goes!

Crazy Day

Last weekend my brother & his wife came up to get their books and take care of a few things to get ready for Spring Semester. They are coming up to BYU-I for this semester so Sonja can graduate sooner. Saturday morning we all went to campus to get our books, when they told Sonja she was no longer a student at BYU-I, even though she was able to register for her classes and planned everything around coming up here for Spring. Long story short...she had to petition to reinstate her as a student. I will let Sonja tell the long version of the story on her blog.
Then we decided to head up to Mesa Falls. It was about an hour drive and we got withing 5 miles of the falls and the roads were still covered in snow and there is no way for us to get to them. HUGE BUMMER!
We didn't let that stop us from having fun. We got to the bottom of the mountain and fed the fish. It's amazing how long you can be entertained by fish. There were a ton and we even saw a couple of pretty big ones. But then we started to get rained on. So we got back in the car...

The gang.

Jared wanted to catch one with his hands.


So did David...

Aunt Sonja & Ellie


It looks like Alysa is standing in the creek.

We weren't ready to head home so we headed back to R mountain. David, Sonja, and Alysa hadn't been hiking up R mountain yet and we had so much fun the last time.

It's not a very fun hike to the top but it's worth it.


Ellie taking a break. Ellie wanted to be one of the big kids and kept trying to climb on all the rocks. I think she made my heart stop a couple of times. She is a little dare devil.


I guess Jared wanted to let everyone know he had been there.


Having fun with daddy...even though Rachel's face doesn't show it.

I wonder how long he would be able to stay up there?


I thought this picture was pretty cool. Rachel is looking over one of the rocks.

David being a ham.


Alysa on top of the world. I love the sky in this picture.

David...

There are only a few trees up on top.

The weather finally let up and I got some pretty pictures.

This was a tiny tree growing out of one of the rocks.

The sun was just starting to set as we headed down.

Time to head home...

What a day!

Fuzzy Math

The Hollywood Video store near us is going out of business. We went in to check to see if we could find any cheap DVD's, Blue Rays, or Wii games. I was looking at some Blue Rays when I noticed the sign.
Orig. $25.99
60% off
Now: 12.98
Huh? I didn't need a calculator to do that math.
I asked one of the employee's what the actual price was. The conversation went as follows...
Him: They are $12.98
Me: Then why does it say they are %60 off, that's 50%.
Him: (Rudely) It doesn't matter what it says, they are $12.98!
Me: Do you know your signs say they are 60% off (They had about 5 signs that said 60% off)
Him: THEY ARE $12.98!
Me: You are really good at FUZZY MATH!
Then I put everything back we were going to get and walked out of the store.

I wasn't trying to get a BETTER deal, I was just trying to clarify which price was correct and make them aware of the mistake on their signs. DON"T GET AN ATTITUDE...I DIDN'T MAKE THE SIGNS. I just did the math!

This is today....

I couldn't believe my eyes this morning when I looked outside and found this...

And it's still coming down!

And the wind decided it didn't want to be left out either!

This was Saturday...

After doing a few Saturday chores, we headed out on a LONG walk. The kids got Mc Donald's gift cards from Grandma Denos for Easter, so we thought it would be fun to walk there for dinner. The kids also wanted to stop by the Dollar Tree because they had some money from doing chores at Grandma Mayfield's house while we were down visiting. It was about 4-5 miles round trip.

The kids found lots of branches, sticks, and pine cones to play with along the way

The weather was SO nice, we had a lot of fun at the park.

Ellie spent most of her time on the swing

Jared found a lady bug...it's on his jacket by his elbow.

Ellie tried the monkey bars

We played by the river, we had a contest who could throw rocks the farthest. Daddy won of course.

We finally made it to McDonald's & the Dollar Tree, the walk back seemed a lot longer but it was great to get out & enjoy such a NICE day.

Kids Bloopers

Ellie: She has been calling the Easter bunny the "Mister Bunny" & pine cones "popcorns"

Jared: Last night his Uncle Kyle was teasing the kids about "who" they liked. He asked Jared "So, how many girlfriends have you had...2..3...?" Jared said, " NO, WAY MORE THAN THAT!" (I think we need to have a chat.

Rachel: Yesterday she asked me if I believed in the Easter Bunny. I avoided the question by asking if she believed in the Easter bunny. "Well, I read your blog..." Oops, I guess I had left my blog open one day and she was read it. She also noticed that we had the same candy that the Easter bunny had left. I guess the Easter bunny failed this year!

BUGZ LIFE

Jared had is 1st grade play Thursday night, "BUGZ". Can I just say it was SO stinkin' CUTE!

The kids were all dressed up as different bugs, fireflies, dragonflies, spiders...Jared was an Army Ant. All of the kids had speaking parts with adorable and sometimes humorous songs with dance numbers. I was very impressed with the entire thing. It was funny to watch Jared...he is such a ham. You can see him mouthing other peoples lines & creating his own dance moves. ha ha It was great to watch Jared's friends too!

This was all of the first grader's.

Here are some of Jared's friends & sisters. What a fun night.


If you want to check out a couple of video's go to my family blog. I tried for 3 days to get them to upload onto blogspot but it only gave me a headache.

Too late to stop now

This morning I was feeling very ambitious. I started organizing all those spots that seem to accumulate miscellaneous stuff, like the junk drawer or craft closet. You know how you buy more tape because you thought you were out but really you had 4 of them just buried under all the crayons or you buy more googly eyes for the kids craft projects because you can't remember exactly where they were put and it's just easier to buy more than to dig through all of the crafts. Well...I think I took on a bigger project than I was anticipating. The entire upstairs in now covered in fabric, scrapbooking stuff, beads and whatever else you can think of. It's too late to turn back now, but I REALLY want to rewind a couple of hours and talk myself out of being productive today.

In and Out

As we headed home Monday we ran into several storms. It was raining in California when we left and it snowed from Cedar City all the way home. We stopped at David & Sonja's house on the way home. We got some In & Out Burgers. I am torn about In and Out being in Utah. I love that I don't have to drive 10 hours to get a delicious burger, fries, and shake. (I learned a new menu item after eating there practically my entire life. Did you know they make neopolitan shakes? That is going to become a new favorite.) But palm trees don't belong in Utah! Plus, I think it takes away from the novelty of In and Out burger. I guess I don't mind that much because we supported it.
After picking up some In and Out we headed over to David & Sonja to watch Chuck while we ate. The food, episode, and company were awesome. I'm glad we got to see David & Sonja, even if it was short. We were literally in and out. I guess we will be seeing a lot of them in a couple of weeks as they are coming up next semester to BYU-I.
The storm got worse as we got back on the road. It took us an extra 3 hours from Orem to Rexburg. But we made it back safely. Back to reality...

Easter in California

I know, many of you didn't even know we went to California for Easter. That's because it wasn't planned and we went on a whim. My dad called Friday afternoon because he had found out we all had a 5 day weekend (which we already 2 day into) and asked if we wanted to come down. We debated for about 3 hours, even took the kids to see the movie "the Spy Next Door". I asked the kids if they were willing to take the long drive for such a short visit. They were begging to go. They started packing their clothes before we had made a decision and even started packing Bill's clothes.

We headed out around 8:00pm on Friday night, drove all night...got to California around noon. I have to apologize to all my friends in California for not getting together with anyone. It was such a short trip and it was Easter weekend so I assumed everyone was busy with family. As soon as we got there we showered and went out to lunch. I was SO excited about going to lunch because we NEVER eat out. It is one of the many things we have had to eliminate from our budget. My mom and I got a chance to go shopping. Which was fun, I always love the one on one time I get with my mom.

The kids got to dye Easter eggs with Grandma.
Colin...ahem...I mean the Easter Bunny got a little creative this year by taping candy to the walls. He even put a stash of candy in the grandfather clock and then locked it.

Rachel's basket is overflowing! She had to dump it out and head back for round 2.

Ellie wasn't so fast. She made sure she liked the candy before putting it in her basket.

Daddy helping Jared get to some that were a little hard to reach. I just realized they are both wearing red shirts.

The kids made out rather well. Grandma & Grandpa helped the Easter bunny out A LOT!

After the Easter egg hunt, we had a huge breakfast with everything from Waffles with homemade strawberry syrup, hash browns, corned beef hash, bacon & sausage. Oh man I am getting stuffed just listing the stuff we had.
Then we watched General Conference. It was a wonderful General Conference. Lots of great talks, with a lot of reminders and new resolutions for myself to bring me and my family closer to the Savior.



Jared begged to go in the pool. It was only in the 60's and the pool was definitely colder than that. He actually played in the pool for about 20 minutes. Although he kept coming out because it was so stinkin' cold!

Sunday afternoon we got to feel the 7.2 earthquake. The kids were playing and didn't really get to feel it but they saw everything swaying. Earthquakes don't usually bother me, it's just the fact that there have been so many BIG earthquakes in such a short time span. There have been a couple of times since being back in Idaho that I have been startled by the heater coming on or a truck going by thinking I was going to feel another one.

Sunday evening we were able to go and visit with Bill's family. We got to go over and see Amy's new house. I am so happy for her and love the progress she is making on it.

We headed out early Monday.

Even though our trip was short, we sure had ourselves a fun adventure filled with lots of great memories.