SPRING

I was talking with a friend a few days ago and she sent me to the cutest blog. The lady on this blog holds a monthly craft night. We decided to start having our own Craft Night. Yes, we gave it a title although their are only two of us. We did this so that it actually happens. We had so much fun laughing and talking. She is a lot more creative than I am so it was nice to have her there for her opinion. This is what we ended up with. I think they turned out pretty darn good! Especially for not really knowing what we were doing.

Lindsay's

Mine

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY KATILYN

HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Katilyn

Katilyn is the fun and exciting Aunt in my children's lives. Katilyn has lived in Utah for the pretty much my children's whole lives. So when they get to see her it is always the most exciting thing ever! She moved home about 9 months ago but is still working long hours and going to school even more than she is working. It is still so much fun when we get to see Aunt Kati. She has taught my children so many wonderful things about life and for that I am grateful. I think I have the only 2 and 5 year old that have memorized EVERY girls camp song that there is. We love you Katilyn!

BAKING ROLLS

My mother-in-law makes really yummy homemade rolls. A few days back she was making them and they looked so good. I decided I would try and make my own rolls from scratch. I love to cook, but I have never made rolls. For Christmas I received the World Wide Relief Society Christmas Cook Book. I started looking through there to find a good recipe. They are really yummy but I need to learn how to make them look more like crescent rolls and less like big bread blobs!

MOMENTS THAT MAKE IT ALL WORTH IT

Mom's really need those moments that just make you realize it is all worth it. A few days ago Paislee wasn't feeling well and just wanted to snuggle most of the day. I had a few things I really needed to get done before Jordan got home so I told her to sit with Rylan and I would be right back. I got busy and then a friend called and I started talking with her. When I get on the phone with her time really flys by. As I was still on the phone I noticed just how much my children love each other. Rylan let her sleep on him for a good while. Pictures like this say words straight to my heart!

TRYING TO BE CRAFTY

I am so not a crafty person. I am the kind of person that sees something crafty and BUYS IT!!! My husband on the other side sees something crafty and says "I could make that so easy!" He usually is right, he is a very crafty person. Me on the other hand, not so much. We have really been trying to live on a very strict budget, so I am learning to make things I would never in my life think about making.

We will start with the hearts. I bought these hearts about two years ago at Tai Pan. When I bought them I thought about how cute they would be with our names on them. Well, they surely sat in my craft room for the last two years and when I pulled all my Valentine's decorations out I decided it was time.

The church bag! I have really needed a new bag to take to church, but with everything I take, I needed a extra large bag. I found one that was just okay, but it was $60. I couldn't even think about spending that on a bag right now. So, off to Walmart I went. I bought a pattern, material and lining all for under $20. With much help from my mother and much frustration I made my extra large church bag.

Last but certainly just as painful, the plates! I am now in the Young Women's. I have to teach once a month and I am very intimidated by teaching. Sunday was my first lesson and I thought if I give them something really cute they won't remember what a bad teacher I was. So I came up with a quote pulled out the Cricut and went to work.

As you can see I am not the craftiest person, but I am trying. My work is not perfect, but as I do more I start to do better. I can honestly say I do NOT enjoy being crafty, but I do enjoy learning.

STRONG WILLED

I have really been struggling with my beautiful VERY strong willed, Paislee. She is so sweet and at the same time will look you in the eye and lie to you. She is almost three and you would think she was sixteen. If she is going into a room and you turn the light on she turns it back off so that she can turn it back on. She wants no help with anything and it is always her way or no way! I am now in Young Women's and I think our lesson was a direct message to me. She talked about how these girls have been saved to come down to earth at the most trying times. She spoke of how our young women are going to have to be STRONG WILLED so that they can over come the adversary. These girls are going to have to stay close to their Heavenly Father so that they can listen to him and know how to return to him because this world keeps getting worse and worse. I never once thought that I should be grateful for my daughter being so strong willed, I looked at it as Heavenly Father punishing me for all the trouble I gave my parents. Now I look at it as a hugh blessing to know that my daughter as the attributes to overcome this wicked world and return to her Heavenly Father. Sometimes we (I) really need to look at the bigger picture of our struggles to see God's plan for us. He really does know all.

SUPER BOWL

Jordan and I have had the Super Bowl party at our house the last few years. We love having everyone come hangout and it is another excuse to cook lots of fun stuff. This year we decided to do taco's! I asked Cody to throw me a pillow when he was headed up stairs and he ended up thowing down both of our love sacks!!

THERE'S JUST NO WAY

I was feeling a little old when my sweet little boy Rylan turned five. Then today these boys went to their first HIGH SCHOOL dance and I am feeling REALLY old!

This group of boys have been best friends sense Kindergarten, and they were 4 when I went to my first Sadie's dance. There is 12 years between Cody and I and now that Cody is 16 all I can think about is what he was like when I was at his age. My friends just loved him, he was the only 4 year we knew that could hang out with us until midnight or sometimes 1am. My friends and I spent a lot of time at my house and he was always right there. He never missed anything and the truth is we all loved him hanging around. I am so glad that Cody love's High School as much as I did. Cody and his girlfriend, Breezy were broken up for a little while and so his friend Katlyn asked him to Sadie's before he decided he just loved Breezy so much!

RYLAN'S 1st CAVITY

I took the kids to the dentist a few weeks back to have their teeth cleaned. Paislee had beautiful teeth and Rylan ended up with 2 cavities. So today I had the wonderful pleasure of taking my son to the dentist to have his first cavity filled. They gave him some laughing gas to help relax him, and he sure enjoyed it. He was trying so hard to talk and once he realized that we couldn't understand him with all the stuff in his mouth he just laughed and laughed. He kept asking me to hold his hands and I kept telling him I was. After about 5 times of me telling him I was holding his hands I pulled are hands up so he could see that we were in fact holding hands. He started to laugh again and then told me yet again to hold his hands. Needless to say he was a hoot on the laughing gas!

When it was all over he got to choose a toy!!!

A DOGGY DOG NIGHT

We have had some difficult times the last few weeks with dogs and when our German Sheppard starting loosing her hair I thought the drama was starting again. I am not talking about a little shedding, I am talking clumps of hair left through out my house. I was starting to worry the other dogs might be picking on her. I told Jordan if she is sick she is in big trouble because we can't afford to take her to the vet. I asked Jordan to brush her out and see if he can determine what exactly is wrong with this dog. I went up stairs and about 30 minutes later I was in shock. There was a whole other dog laying on my floor.

This morning I took about 10 minutes before I showered and brushed her again. I got a pile of hair about the size of a cat!

I now know why Cruella Deville wanted a coat made out of puppy fur, it soooo soft!

BALL TIME

We had the Bouncy House a few days and one night I could hear Rylan telling Paislee to hurry up before Mom sees what we are doing. As a mother that is never a good thing to hear! I walked around the corner and saw this:

They had taken all the balls from the ball bucket and thrown them in the bouncy house!!! I couldn't help but smile.