Thumbs up to all you Mothers out there!

Last weekend we babysat my brothers three kids, Abby 6, Chase 3, and Brooke 10 mo. We went from having one dog to having three kids and two dogs! They are really good kids and we had lots of fun with them, but it was still a lot of work. Breakfast for five, bath time, diaper changing, bottle feeding, nap time, entertaining, lunch for five, Is it three already and I am still in my pj's!, oh feed the dogs, poopy diaper!, and baby peed on the floor while trying to get her in the tub, Dinner time already! Abby wants to watch her movie, but chase wants to watch his.... and only one T.V., Brush teeth, say prayers, hurry find Abby's blanket! Shhh listen the house is quiet... oh crap it is six in the morning already!! In a nutshell all of you mothers are amazing!! I called my mom that weekend and asked her how in the world did you raise six kids?! She said " I don't really know, I just did! Jeff was a huge help although once the weekend was over I didn't really feel like I had seen him! We had fun making play dough, and flubber! We went to parks and got ice cream cones. One funny story, we were at a park that is right on the main street of Heber. Chase needed to go to the bathroom so Jeff took him over to the bathroom at the park, but it was locked so while Jeff was looking for a good tree for chase to pee behind. Chase was busy taking his pants off, and peeing facing the passing cars on main street. It was so funny all we could do was laugh at him! The weekend really made me realize the selflessness that motherhood is. It also made me appreciate this time that Jeff and I have to just spend together. I am so excited for the day when we have a family of our own, but for the time being the weekend was great birth control for me! I don't get quite as jealous now in Relief Society when it seems like every girl in there is holding a baby, but me!!

Bathroom remodel

For my birthday Jeff remodeled our half bath that is just off of our kitchen. When we first moved in to our condo I told him that I would love to do bead board in there one day. He was such a sweet husband and did if for my birthday! It took a lot of work and is still not complete, but we are almost ready to paint! It is so nice to have a handy man for a husband. He even taught me how to do some of the stuff along the way. He let me tear out the base boards, pound out sheet rock and I even got my hands on the nail gun! He was so patient with me and even though he could do it faster and better he took the time and patience to teach me. When we started pounding out the sheet rock, I asked him why we had to do that, he said, because that is how my dad does it! His dad has taught him so much and it was really fun getting to watch him use all of those skills. When we tore out the sheet rock I thought it would be fun to write our names on the wood behind it, 2011 is a estimation of our departure from the Cache Valley! I snapped some pictures through out our project. I will post some more once the project is complete!!

The adventures of Lucy

Lucy making the leap over the gate that keeps her in the kitchen and out of trouble!
What she does to keep herself entertained once she makes the journey over the gate!


Her sweet innocent face after her wild adventure! Secretly I hated those blinds so I am happy I get new ones!

We can't keep her locked up in the kitchen anymore while we are at school and work cause as you can see she just jumps right out. She now gets free roam of the house. She has actually done very well with her new found freedom, other then the incident shown above!