Another Trip to Utah

This month has been a busy one, Seth was studying to take the bar and it was hard to really focus on studying with us in town, so I took the girls and we headed to Utah for a couple weeks so he could study and then take the test in peace. We had so much fun seeing all our family and enjoying the cooler weather.

(The girls love Uncle Paul)

Sienna & Krew on one of our many swimming adventures... we LOVE cheetos!

Megan & Ty, we took the kids to the pool right before bedtime to tire them out a little bit..

My girls had so much fun playing with all the cousins, Meika kept telling me that she has lots of friends in Utah. So cute!

We got to spend a lot of time with Seth's family as well, but I don't have any pictures... we have a fun sewing day and a girls sleepover...sorry there are no pictures!

My Craft Spot

I am so excited about this new blog I started, a place for me to post what I am creating or just to blab about other peoples wonderful projects...hopefully this will save my husband a little from all my craft talks... (maybe)... So PLEASE go check it out... I made my first tutorial and am so excited to share it...

PiNk LiTlLe lAdIeS

Our Fourth of July

We had such a fun fourth, we woke up and got our 4th attire on and headed to the Boulder City Parade...(Seth stayed home to get some studying done) The parade was SO fun, it was perfectly uncrowded... and the floats were very small town lamo-ish... (which was really kinda cute) And then the second half of the parade they call it a "water parade" but it is really just a huge water fight. Most people Came prepared with buckets and buckets full of water balloons, squirt guns and even tanks of water with hoses attached... the floats that go by are squirting TONS of water and then everyone watching is doing the same... Perfect Plan for a parade thats held during such a hot month.

After the parade we headed home for lunch and some swimming in our little kiddie pool... followed my a nice nap. After our Naps we headed over to our friends house for some Yummy Dinner, more swimming and jumping on the trampoline. We then loaded up in the car and headed to a GREAT fire work show in boulder city... We were so dead tired by the end of the day...

New stylist in the house....

I guess Meika thought she needed a hair cut so she grabbed some little scissors and snuck to the bath room...the next day when I was doing her hair I noticed that she had some funky hair pieces....the other side was cut even shorter than the side pictured below.

Here are the bangs she cut all by herself! Awesome huh!

I wasn't sure if I wanted to just leave her hair and just put it up everyday or to even it all up... I decided to just do it... So here is the new do. She cried herself to sleep once she saw it, but after she woke-up she decided that she LOVED it!

Here is Meika after church doing some attidtude poses. So funny!

More Sewing

I found this cute fabric that I was planning on making myself a much needed new church skirt, but ended up making a cute little dress and skirt insteadt.

This cute little girl is my niece Reagan... this skirt was so cute with her chubby little legs hanging out.

Sienna is such a doll, I love her smile in this picture, what a cheese ball! I think her little dress turned out so cute, I think I need to make a few more of these!

NiNe PatCh QuiLt AlOnG

I am doing a quilt along, and I am WAY WAY behind... I have 12 squares done. 58 to go! I wanted to show off what I have done so far because I am just so excited about it, and think it is going to be so cute draped over my big red couch.

Here are some of my favorite ones so far....

If you want to join the quilt a long take a look at how cute the quilt is at

CRAZY MOM QUILTS... I can't wait to snuggle up with mine!

Happy Fathers Day!

wE loVe yOu SeThIe!

A Cute Little BOB

Sunday Morning I cut Sienna's hair into a little bob and I think it looks SO CUTE! She loves it because she gets to wear her hair down all the time now. She says that its a "Prince" haircut... ( I think she means Princess though :))

Today I saw her flipping her hair with her hands... This haircut is perfect for her.

Tonight during baths Sienna ended her bath like this...Her big cousin was playing with her and accidentally made a very tricky little knot. It took a good 15 minutes to get the comb out and Sienna was very frustrated the whole time.

Fun in Utah

The girls and I went to Utah for a week and this is what we did....

CHILLED
Stone & I hung out in the car after a fun birthday lunch with the Ballstaedt Girls

PLAYED AT THE PARK

Meika & McCall

CUT LOTS OF HAIR
Krew with Yummy cookies in his little teeth

PLAYED OUT BACK AT NANA & PAPA'S HOUSE
Meika, Ty, McKyna, Sienna & McCall

GAVE LOTS OF HUGS!
Sienna & Krew- When we got home Sienna told Seth that krew is her best best friend. SO CUTE!

We had so much fun spending time with our Families... we sure do miss out on a lot of fun being so far away from them. Thanks Papa & Nana for hosting us at your house!

I am AWESOME!

For a while I have been talking to Seth about how much I needed a family car because I was ggeting tired of having to throw the kids into the truck and last week he gave me permission to do whatever I wanted (but said he wouldn't have time to help me because he is busy studying for the bar). So I did!
On Thursday I put the truck up for sale and on friday I sold the truck (which wasn't starting at the time...read bottom for more details).

Then on saturday I looked at a a TON of (crappy) mini vans and bought ( a pretty decent) one...ALL BY MYSELF! It was like a complete switch-a-roo.. got paid cash for the truck then paid the cash for the van! Awesome! Seth was pretty impressed with my quick deal making abilities! We are LOVING the van and I really feel so blessed that it all really worked because for a while there I was thinking that maybe I made a really bad decision to sell the truck and pay cash for a van.

MoRe DeTaiLs: Just a little side note about selling the truck... On friday two guys called wanting to see the truck so they both came and were looking at the truck forever. With the guy who got there first (Carlos) we started the car a few times and he was looking all over the truck then Doug asked if he could start the car and it wouldn't start!!! What the freak! So they were both like.... huh? and of course I was like.... huh? But I told them, hey its really crazy its not starting but sorry I am not taking a low price because it was just starting I will have it looked at and fixed before I take a low price. Doug's telling me he thinks Carlos did something to it so it wouldn't start... and Carlos is just playing dumb... well long story short Doug pays me almost full price for the truck that is NOT STARTING and then today tells me that there were two unplugged something or others that he is guessing Carlos unplugged. Isn't that crazy!!!

It''s so QUIET!

Its 7:05 pm the girls went to bed at 6pm and Seth is at school late tonight, I am now taking a break from playing Rock Band (yes all by myself! I am getting pretty good at the drums...). Now I don't know what to do with myself! I guess I will go play some more Rock Band, maybe the guitar this time. Anyone bored and want to come play?
Its so weird for it to be this quiet!

Polka Dots

A few months ago my darling little girls cut up their fitted sheet so I was left with a DARLING top sheet. I have done a few fun things with the sheet...Made a tent for our play fort, made a pillow case dress and today I made a cute little skirt. It was a nice easy Sunday sewing project... with two little Princesses you can never have enough skirts!

Our New Chore System

I have been looking for a good chore chart that worked good for us and have tried a few that failed and then I saw this idea on someones blog and so we tried it out and..... WE LOVE IT! So I thought I would share it with all of you encase anyone else is looking for a good system.

The system is centered around these pictures that you take of the chore that needs to be done. You take the pictures and label them and then lay them out each morning so the child can see them. Once a chore is finished they place it in their basket. If all the chores are in the basket at the end of the day they get a stamp or sticker for that day on their chart.

Here it is all set up, my girls each have their own 3 jars... tithing, savings and spending, and then their basket with the pictures in it.

On Saturday morning or Friday night after they have had a chance to finish fridays chore they get paid for all the hard work, or pay you for your hard work. We decided that we will pay them 10 cents per day that their chores were all complete. (we will increase the pay as they get older...probably) For the days that all of them weren't complete, and I had to do some of the chores, the child has to pay me for doing the chore for them... so I would get 10 cents from their spending jar. Its like they hired the maid for that day.

This is the chart

We have really loved this system, hope its useful to others as well.

A Day at the Lake

Yesterday my friend and I packed a lunch and headed to Lake Mead to play in the water. We stopped and asked the people at the toll booth things which beach was the best to play at and so he gave us directions to a nice SANDY beach.... we drove past this area a few times looking for our sandy beach but decided that this must be it.. (we were a little confused by the mans description of the area). We parked our selves on this not so sandy beach and spent the afternoon playing in the water.. the kids had such a blast... The water was so clear you could see the bottom of the lake. Look at these little baby ducks , the kids fed most of their lunch to the baby ducks.

Here the kids are floating on their "raft"

Meika found this thing (I am pretty sure it is an avocado seed) that she was sure is a duck egg and claimed it was cracking open and the baby duck was coming out.

Look how cute her little sad face is.

Meika and Cooper playing, you can tell by the way Meika is standing that she was giving Cooper a little bit of attitude right before I took the picture and stopped to pose.