Our new favorite activity

My bike finally came last week. YAY!!!! We got a trailer for the kids from my cousin which is amazing, cause I had been looking on craigslist for weeks. Then Pres and I ran out and bought Noah a special baby helmet (for his little head) and Daddy a bike for an early father's day present. We have taken a bike ride almost every day since we got completely equipped. The kids love it and enjoy playing together in their double trailer. And i'm realizing that my legs are not quite as strong as they use to be. The hills in Rancho are absolutely killer.

It's finished

So after a couple practice rounds I finally finished Presleigh's dress. I didn't use a pattern, just the picture from my last post. Didn't it turn out so cute!!! I think I saved myself about $30 making this on my own, and it looks the exact same. Sorry about her crazy hair. I didn't brush it yesterday:)

We took the kids to the park and had a picnic last weekend. It was really cold, and not a very good idea, but the kids enjoyed it. Noah decided that he wanted to steal Presleigh's sandwhich. This boy eats like crazy. Everytime he sees food he freaks out screaming until you give him some. You'd think we were starving him or something.

This happens just about every night. The kids help daddy with the dishes. So cute!!!!

Be Clean

The other day I was reading in the book "Way to Be" by President Hinckley. I love this book and it's simple lessons. I decided to read the chapter "Be clean" and I was surprised to se a paragraph about friends.


It reads:
" I have never forgotten that lesson, which leads me to urge you to choose your friends carefully. It is they who will lead you in one direction or the other. Everybody wants friends. Everybody needs friends. No one wishes to be without them. But never lose sight of the fact that it is your friends who will lead you along the paths that you will follow. While you should be friendly with all people, select with great care those whom you wish to have close to you. They will be your safeguards in situations where you may vacillate between choices, and you in turn may save them."


Oh my goodness how I love this. I always heard "choose your friends wisely" growing up but haven't thought much about it as an adult. We do need to use our best judgement when choosing our friends and who to be close to. These friends will not only influence you but they will influence your children as well. I think a good question to ask yourself is "would I want my kids to be friends with these poeple?" if the answer is yes, then you're good to go.

I am so grateful that we have found such amazing friends here. What a blessing it is to have people around that influence our family for good.

Dress inspiration!!!

Ok so this little girl is wearing the dress that I want to make for Presleigh to wear in our family pics. It's actually a shabby apple dress, but it costs like $40 and heck if i'm paying that for a toddler dress. So i'm gonna hack it.

So this is my practice one that I made. I used some different material and tried a few different things on it just to play. I wanted to do a sleeve instead of the little ruffle sleeve, but I think i'll try a cap sleeve next time. These pictures don't really do the dress justice, it looks really cute on her. I'll let you know how the real one turns out.

New Hair and a Bow tie!!!!!!!!!!

It had been almost a year since I had gotten my hair cut and almost 2 years since a color. I decided to get a little crazy and cut some bangs.

I made Noah this cute little bow tie. I love it. He looked so cute on Sunday at church with his big ol bow tie. Now I want to make him some suspenders to go with it.
I'm working on a bunch of projects right now because I just scheduled our summer family pictures with this photographer. I need to make Noah a new tie, bow tie, and suspenders. He also needs a birthday onesie and hat. I'm making Presleigh a dress, which is sort of stressing me out because i'm just making it up, which i'm finding isn't the easiest thing to do. I also need to make a couple headbands for Pres and I. I love family pictures!!!!

My birthday present fiasco

K, so Wayne got me this beautiful bike for my birthday. He ordered it offline a few days before my big day. I was so excited when I went behind his back and looked through his e-mail to find that this was what he had picked out for me (I had told him that I wanted a bike). So a couple days after my birthday the company he ordered it from told us that they didn't have it. Total bummer.

So we looked online some more for the same bike. We found it at a different store at a discounted price so we were extra excited. They sent the bike and we were able to track it, so I knew exactly when it was going to arrive, and I waited at the house all day for it. It took 2 weeks but it finally got here. I looked at the box it came in and it showed a picture of the exact same bike only it was in the men's version, so I was kind of confused. But whatever, the receipt showed that it was the women's model so I went about my business. We when it was finally time to open it up, I was completely disappointed to see that they had sent us the wrong bike. Can you believe it??? How annoying!!!!!!!! I was thinking that maybe they would let us keep the one they sent, for Wayne and then let us order the one for me at a discounted price, but they said they would have fedex come pick up the men's bike and they would send out the pretty blue one for me the next day. We didn't hear from them for a couple days and I was a little worried but then last night we received an e-mail from the company explaining that they don't have the women's model. How annoying!!!!!!! So we've been desprately trying to find the same bike online somewhere and haven't had any luck.

Isn't the whole ordeal so rediculous. I think I need to pick out a different bike, but it's really the only one I want:(

Playing catch up!!

We've had an eventful couple of weeks, and i'm just now getting around to posting about it all.

First, we went to Utah at the end of April to celebrate my mother's big 60th birthday. It was kind of stressful trying to make it all happen since Wayne was in the middle of a deadline for an audit, but we made it it all worked out. Wayne spent the weekend at his parents and I took the kiddos and met my family in Park City for a girls weekend. It was so nice to be able to see my family. Presleigh was loving her Makka (grandma) and her aunties. We had a great time!!

We got back just in time for my 25th birthday! It was such a nice day. Wayne brought home my favorite pizza and 25 balloons and then we went out and bought some P90X, more on that to come. We also went to a yummy yogurt shop. That following Friday my friends surprised me with a little birthday party. We went to dinner at my favorite place and then went to a kareoke place. One of the funnest places ever! We sang our hearts out for about 3 hours:)

So here are the last couple weeks in pictures.


This was Mother's Day before church.

Presleigh with her "Baby" aka water balloon.

Wayne and I on my birthday

My mother and her four girls in Park city. Don't ask me why we decided to take the photo right after we woke up, but this is the best one I have.

My sister and my mother

My quilt is finished!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!