Conference Weekend

(I love this picture of the First Presidency leaving the conference center)

I absolutely LOVE Conference weekend, its a chance for the family to be together learning from our wonderful leaders. It is really such a uplifting time for me, I always learn so much and am always given a little boost from the great speakers. Here is the link if you would like to watch it, it is on saturday & sunday morning and afternoon. You can watch it live on your computer or on your t.v.

It has been fun getting our kids to listen, last conference I put a bowl of little candies up by the T.V and if they heard someone say temple, prophet, pray or scriptures they got to run up and grab a candy.

We will be in St.George spending time with family over conference weekend, I hope everyone gets a chance to watch a little of it!

~All About Meika~

A lot has been going on with Meika lately....

She lost ANOTHER tooth, and now has a cute little space on the bottom.

She started Preschool, and it LOVING IT!! She has a few little kids from her primary class in with her so it makes it really fun!

....And she celebrated her 5th birthday last week!! I can't believe she is already FIVE, time sure does fly by... She is doing a nice pose before heading off to school, she was so excited to take some treats to share with her class.

We celebrated by having a few friends over for a chef party, it was so much fun! We made little pizza's, decorated cupcakes, made donuts and even ate some cake! We were all very stuffed by the end of the party.

Seth and His Car

(Long Post feel free not to read, mainly for journaling purposes)

A month or so ago Seth was driving this cute little car around in 115 degree weather with no AC, because is was going to cost $1400 to fix it. After using my car as often as he could to drive to work he decided that he wanted to sell this car and share my sweet little mini van. So he put it up for sale and of course didn't get very many interested buyers.. (no one wants to be driving around with no AC in vegas) He lowered the price and got some interested buyers, he brought them in to sign the Bill of Sale and get the title and couldn't find the title!?! ( This was really funny to me) So he told them that as soon as he found it or got a new one he would let them know. Called the DMV they had sent it to the wrong address and were going to mail it to our new address and it would arrive in 7-10 bussiness days.

Had some new interested buyers, they gave him money to hold the car for them until he recieved the Title. The next day they called wanted to buy the car without the title and just get the title from us once it came... Seth agreed, wrote up a contract (saying that he would have the title by the end of the month or would refund the money and she could return the car) and the car was sold.

Well 7 days go by and no title, so he calls the DMV, and of course, they mailed it to the wrong address AGAIN!!! So he has to refund the money.

She brings the car back (after a million annoying calls and texts to Seth) and to our suprise has fixed EVERYTHING!

-new brakes

-fixed the leak

-fixed the air conditioning

-Cleaned the engine

-Touched up the paint

-fixed the engine light(which had been onf or the last 2 years)

Seth paid her $200 for the parts, which is nothing compared to what it would have cost to have all those things fixed.

Seth & I were talking about how funny this was, how it was this really annoying event that I was so bugged at Seth about, but it turned out to be such a great blessing. We have been so abundenlty blessed these last few years and this is just one more thing to add to the list, I know that our Heavenly Father is aware of our needs & wants, even if they are as simple as hating arriving to work covered in sweat! :)

Brave Little Girl

Saturday Morning Meika was taking a bath and we were talking here is how our conversation went...

Me: Wow, Meika your tooth is so loose, we should pull it out.

Meika: Who, you?

Me:No way thats so gross!

Meika: Dad?

Me: Oh no way he would be so grossed out!

Meika: ......Okay hand me a tissue.

I grabbed a tissue and the camera and this is what happened next!

Isn't that Hilarious!! Seth and I were dying laughing when I showed it to him...

Look how little it is.

She was so proud of herself, and was even more excited to go to bed so the Tooth Fairy would come.

We made a little pillow to hang on the outside of her door (I heard the tooth fairy is really lazy and didn't want to have to deal with sneaking in under pillows).. there is a little pocket on the hangy thing for the tooth and money swap.

When She woke up the next morning she came running in to tell us the Tooth Fairy had come, but she only left money! The money and pillow had purple glitter all over it, so Meika told me that, "The Tooth Fairy is really REAL!"

Two Really Loose Teeth

(Sorry for the gross picture)
I can't believe that my little baby is old enough to have loose teeth. Her two middle bottom teeth are getting super loose, you can see they are not even by her other teeth anymore. I think I need to make something for her to put them in for the tooth fairy... Sounds like a fun project. Does anyone have any good ideas for dealing with the whole tooth fairy thing?

Swap Meet

I was talking to my friend, Catherine, about the Swap Meet that The Nester did and we thought it would be so fun to do one with some of our friends, so.....

Wondering What to Bring?
~2 or three household items you no longer want and if you have time, a finger food or dessert to share.

The Nester explained it well when she described what to bring to her party, so I will just use her discription...

"If you are like me you have a box of stuff in your coat closet or in your hutch that holds some houseware items you just don't use. Maybe that stuff is too good to sell at a yard sale for .25 cents but not your style. Maybe you just don't have a place for it. Bring that stuff. If everyone can bring at least 2-3 items that would be great."

EXAMPLES

Vase

Lamp Shade

Decorative Plate

Fabric

Mirror

Photo Frames

Pillows

"No clothes, no books {unless they have to do with decorating} no toys--but wouldn't it be fun to have a swap for all of that stuff too?"

So if you are interested in coming please leave me a comment with your e-mail so We can send you an invite and give you more information about how we are going to do the swap...

Six Years and Counting

This last friday Seth and I celebrated our 6th anniversary, it is so crazy to me how fast time has gone by.

Here are six things I love about sethie:

1. His Smile

2. His kind heart

3. His Piano Playing abilities

4. How much he LOVES his 3 little ladies.

5. His dedication to supporting his family

6. I love that he LOVES to be with me!

I feel like we have been so very blessed these last six years, I couldn't have asked for anything more. I love you Sethie!

Ballet Started this Week!

Meika started dance this week and LOVED IT! Its so fun to see her really enjoying something, last fall when she did soccer it was such a chore to get her there and she would constanly ask me when they were going to go on the stage. Doesn't she look so big?

He's Back!

We are SOOO excited to have our Daddy back, he has been so busy the last three years with school and work that we rarely got out to do fun family adventures. Last Saturday we enjoyed having Seth join us on a trip to Lake Mead to feed the crazy fish.

Seth had fun looking at all the boats and dreaming of having his own one day.

Okay so if you haven't been to feed the fish at the docks, you are seriously missing out! There are TONS of fish, this picture doesn't show off how many fish there really are. When you walk to the edge of the dock the fish start swimming over, then when you throw them food there are so many fish you can barely see the water, they are crawling all over each other...They are really ugly fish, but we had so much fun watching them inhale the popcorn.

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.