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Easter Festivities

Man holidays are more fun when you have kids(or A kid in our case!) On Saturday morning we woke up and Shawn had hidden Easter eggs all over the house for Brooklyn to find along with her basket. It was hilarious to watch her find her eggs and see how excited she got each time she found a new one! Once she found her basket and eggs I talked Shawn in to going to the City's Easter egg hunt and may I just say - What a bust! - We got a whoppin two eggs with a little candy in each! I could not believe the amount of people that were there! Needless to say I don't think we'll be going again! After that my Grandma's family got together at my aunt's house for lunch and an Easter egg hunt, then on Sunday we got together with my Dad's family for dinner and yet another Easter egg hunt! Brooklyn had enough candy to last her two years until I disposed of it!!! This is a pic in her sweet new helmet! My Grandma found us a bike with a baby carrier on it at a yard sale and Brooklyn absolutely LOVES it!! So the Easter bunny brought her a helmet in her basket :) Now we're riding in style (and safety)!!

Findin' eggs

Cracking them open to find the good stuff!

We hope everyone had a wonderful Easter like we did!

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Saturday we drove out to Page for my Great Grandma's 89th birthday party. While we were there Shawn took us (Me, Brooklyn, Kortney, and Ian-Kort's boyfriend) on an air tour of Lake Powell. It was amazing!! We had a lot of fun!

An aerial view of the dam.

This is a picture of "the rock" that Shawn landed us on top of. He then hovered over to the edge and let us know what it would feel like to fall off of a cliff as he put the helicopter into a nosedive! I thought Kortney was going to pee her pants! Good thing we had headsets on to muffle her scream HaHa!

Even though Grandma Toni is my grandma's step-mother, she is still my grandma. So we took the opportunity to get a five generation picture. I'm sure Grandpa Great would be proud!! We miss him soooo much!

All worn out after an exciting day of fun!

Thanks Honey for the awesome flight! and thanks Denise for hosting Grandma's party, it was great! Now if Brooklyn and I can get over this crap we both have, we should have a pretty good week since Shawn will be home!!

Valentines Day

For Valentines Day this year we played it low key. We made Valentines cookies, ordered take out, and stayed home and enjoyed a movie together. It was actually really nice!

This is Brooklyn's flower from daddy. She loved it and wanted to carry it all over the house!

Yummy, yummy cookies! Brooklyn would only lick off the frosting and then want another cookie, man is she my child! The frosting is the best part!!

This is the movie we watched (thanks Tara for the recommendation) it was AMAZING!!!! We both absolutely loved it! Shawn immediately got on the phone and told all of his family to watch it! We will be adding it to our DVD library! It seriously is a MUST SEE!! There is not much else new going on. It is a beautiful day outside so I am going to try to convince Shawn that we should take the four wheeler out for a ride, so hopefully I will have four-wheeling pics soon :)

The downhill slide...

It all started last Wednesday. I took Brooklyn to see the elk in Springdale, by the time we came back she had a horribly runny nose. I figured it was a mixture of allergies, since Shawn's family is terribly allergic to hay and the elk were eating it, and teething-she's cutting five teeth right now, three of them being molars! By the time Friday morning rolled around I knew it was not just allergies or teething. We had been up most of the previous nights with extremely high fevers, horrible coughing, and trouble breathing. So Friday morning we took her in to the InstaCare. We found out that she had double ear infections and croup (sp?)! We were also heading up north friday afternoon to the Hunt Expo (for Shawn) and shopping (for Me) and also to the Draper Temple open house on Monday. The doc said she would be fine to go, so with meds in hand and a shot in the leg, we headed up the road. Friday night she had another horrible night but, we still made it to the Quilted Bear in Draper by 11 am. For those of you who have never been to the Quilted Bear, you need to go! It is filled with tons of cute stuff! Needless to say we spent our entire time there and were just finishing up by the time Shawn called to have us pick him up. We did a bit more shopping at the mall and ate dinner. During all of this Brooklyn acted great, but by the time evening rolled around she was acting miserable again so at about 7pm we decided to head for home, in hopes of having a better nights sleep at home despite driving until midnight. Brooklyn was extremely happy to be home and I am so glad we came home, I was disappointed that we didn't get to go to the open house, but I don't think it would have been a good idea taking her while she was sick anyways. This week we have been busy helping Shawn's parents remodel their deli before the season starts. We have been working our tails off every day, but it's going to look great by the time we're done so I guess it'll be worth it! Brooklyn is feeling MUCH better and is actually eating again and I am so happy to have my sweet little girl back instead of the miserable monster she has been! Also I am going to be purchasing a portable hard drive soon, does anyone have any suggestions? There are so many out there, I'm not sure which one to buy, so any insights would be great!

Mission Accomplished

Well after much procrastination I finally painted my cabinet and hall tree black! and I must say they both look much better and now, currently match all the other furniture in our house!

Unfortunately the influence of this site has forced me to believe that I now need to refinish these dreadful eyesores in hopes they will find new life!

I have ALWAYS absolutely HATED our bedroom furniture so a couple of years ago I decided to atleast ditch the matching headboard and make my own. But, now that I have decided to refinish the matching pieces I am rather disappointed that I gave up on it so soon!

Oh well nothing I can do about it now! So, I was thinking of painting them an antique white and then rubbing stain into the crevices to add age and character, what do you think? Also I was thinking of maybe painting the headboard an accent color, maybe a deep red??? Any creative suggestions would be much appreciated! Notice the cute little bed bug, I made that too ;)

Organizing scraps

So after spending countless hours and days organizing all of my downloaded scrapbook files I can finally make sense of what I have! Yaayh!! This was a huge accomplishment for me. Before organizing them, I just had one scrapbook file where I stored everything I downloaded in the folders I downloaded them in - so I had no idea what was in each folder unless I went through them one by one and opened them all. Ridiculous, especially considering how freakin large it is. After insight from this sweet little freebie I now know exactly what I have!! OCD-tastic!! It seriously is so exciting to me each time I open my Scrapbook file and see all of my nicely organized files... backgrounds, embellishments, ribbons, etc.!! I know I'm pathetic, but I don't care. I can now scrap pages and know I have just what I want on each page, instead of wondering if I have something else that will look cuter on the page! So here are three pages I scrapped today...

This one was actually from a template so it wasn't too difficult.

And these two I came up with myself

Yaayh for me! :) Also I was going to give project 365 a try and after trying to find something interesting to take a picture of each day, I gave up. What can I say my life is dull and ridiculously boring! Oh well, maybe I'll try again next year. But, in my search for Christmas tree photos I came along this pic.

I made a paper doll for each of our nursery kids to put on the bulletin board (can you tell which one is Brooklyn?) lol! Thanks to my wonderful cricut machine! They are so cute! and speaking of cuteness, I'll add this last pic :)

All dressed up and ready for church (or more like nursery!)