look at those fists~!

Here are some of the things happening at our house! One of my favorite things to do is when I bake cookies I take a spoon and snitch some from the oven when it is still dough, but warm enough to melt the chocolate!! Yum! Faith has two teeth and is a teething monster! She got so mad when I was giving her a bath and I had to turn the water off. She clinched her fists and made a mad face, screaming!! She does this when she wants me to pick her up too. I just let her throw the temper and tell her "I don't think so!!" She has been pulling herself up on the couch too. Hannah was walking at 9 months. Faith is walking if you hold her hands so we will see! Last night we let Faith cry herself to sleep (this is the third night) and of course when we get rid of one another one comes in... Hannah came crying in saying her ear was hurting. I looked in it but couldn't see anything different then when I normally look in it *We have a cool thing to check ears* and so I gave her some ear drops and she went to bed. This morning she seems to be fine. Faith loves playing with her toys. I can't believe how my baby is growing up so much. Kelli I love the picture you took of Brooke and her naked, wrinkly, little baby. It reminds me of when I would hold Faith ready to give her a little bath and she had the cutest little body ready to grow into!

Trash to Treasure

Today my dad came down to watch the kids so my mom and I could go to the temple. When we came home I decided to go through this box of Trent's late great- uncle Frank. I found a lot of letters he had written to his wife. You can tell how proper the time frame was just be reading his letters. He also saved a TON Of comics about WWII which I gave to my dad since he is a big history buff. I found cuff lings. buttons, badges, hats, purses *of his wife*, China *which even matched some I found at my great uncles house many years ago and saved* It was fun looking in this time capsule. I am glad I was able to save it before they threw it away~! I wish somehow I could find a journal about him or make one to put all these pictures in. I have really gotten interested in family history and have met a lot of distant cousins on facebook. I have met a 70 year old man who is related to the Coe's on facebook who lives in Ireland. He was telling me how he goes to Normandy and that his late wife had once written on the Berlin Wall before it was torn down. He was a child during WWII and has been telling me all about it. I can see the good that the Internet does provide, otherwise how else would I have ever met this person along with many others. I also have met my 4th cousin on my mom's side of the family among many others. We both get out our genealogical records and trace back how far we are related, we also keep trying to find more people. It really is a small world! I know the church has been asking people to type in names onto the Internet. I saw it in the paper and wonder if anyone knows any more information because I would love to try that.

This Easter we went up to my sister's house and had an Easter Dinner. Three extra people came making it a total of 21 in her house. Faith loved playing with Lincoln, and he would give the saddest face one minute, and the next a big smile. Faith looked like she wanted to eat him. That morning the kids watched " An Easter Dream" and did the little family home evening lesson our ward gave out last year with Easter eggs. Scott and I tried to see who could put the eggs in their eyes.... pretty hard work I must say.







Turners.... Yes I was meaning to pull that face.. thanks for asking! *Scott you were supposed to pull a face too but looks like your squinting so it stays put*
By the way Kelli, I Was doing the dishes Erin was just snitching candy out of your kids Easter

baskets

Conference weekend we always go to my grandpa DeYoung's house after the last session. We have done this ever since before I was born. This year we played the games that even I hear Joseph Smith played- Stick Pull! Let's just say I kicked my sisters trash, even though she likes to say she won. In these pictures I was trying to do it with bare feet so my little brother gave me his charlie brown honkin shoes to use, instead of my heels. Then later my little 15 year old brother Sean kicked everyone at leg wrestling. I think my favorite part of the day was watching my brothers try to beat up my cousin Raymond. I think even one time Raymond gave his best shot and through something in Scott's drink LOL.... ah the love of a family!

For preschool today we made Carrots out of Cheetos! The kids loved it. You just get cake decorating bags that are clear, add the Cheetos, and tie a green ribbon around it!

Another cute idea is to make birds nests. What you have to do is get chow main noodles and make them like rice crispy treats . You can add coconut and then add your Easter egg candy and peeps! you can add them on top of cupcakes for fun!!

The last couple of days when I go shopping I stick Faith in the little cart with Austin. She loves it!! Today is her 8th month mark!! She is getting big. She loves to cry when I leave the room until I tell her "it's ok" and she starts laughing. She puts everything in her mouth, unlike my other kids! She loves to watch people eat and then wants some. She grabs my bird nest on my table and tries to eat it constantly. She loves playing with her siblings. We went to kiddie kandids to get their pictures taken with cousins, and the lady said "BURGERS" and it scared Faith. She threw her hands back and was scared the rest of the picture time! She know has a little bit of hair to put a curler in it! When hannah was this age she had pigtails on the top of her head.

Photo collage By Lyndee

This last week my little brother Ryan came and stayed the week with me. On my birthday some of my friends got together and Shelley made me a cake to die for! The cake was so good!! On Friday my friends took me out for a day of fun! Thanks for making my birthday great! I took my brother and kids swimming at the Lehi pool. They loved it! Hannah made " student of the month" at her school!

I LoVe,LOVE my new slipcovers. My friend Shelley does slipcovers and her talent amazes me. She changed my old (dirty) couches to this:

BEFORE:

AFTER

She also made the pillow covers, this picture is hard to see because it was taken with my phone, but I love the material on the pillows it is so pretty.

She has a website where you can check out her work: http://customslipcoversbyshelley.blogspot.com/


I have decided that I really like these types of fabric now. Maybe I should go to the Sewing Class at enrichment from now on and learn something!!!


#1 Damask- Love the black on white

this would be pretty as a pillow on a bed or something. oohhh! Shelley you and April will have to show me how to make pillow cases ! I think this could be my new hobby.. (Yes a pillowcase. I don't sew~)


#2- Paisley




#3 Toile-



Love the Red!

Reminds me of my blue dishes that my grandpa almost gave to DI after his brother died. I was wrapping them up and asked If I could keep them!! I did and now my mom is "borrowing" them on her shelves!

Other material

Ohh for a bench chair !!

I think I have some new favorite things too! I love the color yellow and orange lately. Today while shopping my sister and I saw this really cute orange teapot it was cute. I also saw a purse a while back that had cow print on it with red handles. However, I think this giraffe one is Awesome! Love it... Crazy how much things can change. I used to make fun of my sister in law for loving animal print and now I am starting to love it! *Well some of it.*Shelley also had a foot chair with giraffe print. It was amazing!! Other things I now like that I used to not are "witch shoes" I call them. The pointy toe shoe! I also love the grey "pinstripe" shoes!

Today I met my mom and Sisters to go to some craft/home decor stores. I swear everything is out of stock! I want this shelf I have in visioned so I drew a picture of it for the lady at Scrooge & Marleys. Normally those stores have EVERYTHING She told me they have a guy that will make them. They are the cheapest shelves I have seen and normally have them. However everywhere we went everything was gone! Must be spring and everyone is out shopping! I am so pooped! We only went for an hour and a half to three different stores and I am so tired. On the way I noticed the Haunted Lehi Hospital was torn down :( Thanks for meeting up with me Mom, Kelli, and Erin. It was nice having a girls day!

26

26 years

26 memories of my child /teen years:
1 My friend Clint Carver, and I playing Barbie’s and watching superwoman
2 Playing night games with the neighborhood friends (Elmore’s, Johnson’s. Johnson’s, Bakers, Jones, Carvers, Dispensa’s, Robins, Rosers.)
3Playing on rollerblades with friends (cops and robbers, hockey)
4 Sleep over with Tennis’s (Abbey always had a taco ready for me when I came to play)
5babysitting (Burrnetts, carters, Aarants (ALWAYS remember the horror babysitting story there aka guy in the truck), Watts (Doing their hair and make up and telling ghost stories, same with Burrnetts)
6 My best friends Kim and Crystal
7 Girls camp
8 watching Alfred Hitchcock movies with Kim
9 Sleep overs on the tramp with bakers
10 making huts with Watts
11 riding bikes with Jones’s
12 jumping out of the tree in the field landing on bobbed wire
13 Chad carrying me home after stepping on a nail
14 playing outside with siblings, sleeping outside and climbing the pole to see the drive in movie playing
15 Dad going to war, getting baptized when he came back
16 when Chelsea died
17 my first kiss
18 playing school with crystal
19 playing Barbie’s with Kelli, Erin, Chelsea Harvey
20 watching “IT” with Chelsea Harvey
21 neighborhood parties
22playing tricks/ being silly in high school with Crystal. High school Teachers.
23 flirting with Chad and Kelli’s Friends
24 Getting my license
25 graduating from high school/ party with Heather Houston
26 too many friends and memories I can’t name…

26 memories of my adulthood:
1 Terrence telling me to go to Dixie
2 Meeting Trent at the Bloomington Caves in his truck!
3 Making the first move to kiss Trent
4 My Wedding Day!!!
5 The roses, love notes, and all the good things Trent would leave me
6 Becoming a mother for the first time
7 For all the hard trials, came great blessings. Made me the woman I am today.
8 The Many funerals I have been to
9 Having my children and seeing them for the first time.
10 Being Pregnant
11 going on a cruise with my sister
12 Trent helping me cope through trials by going to the Red rocks in St.George and burning my list of hardships
13 being proposed to
14 fun friends /roommates and the fun things we did at Dixie College
15 watching Lady and The Tramp with spaghetti up on a mountain ledge
16 meetings of love.
17 Washington tr and Ashley/ Ogden apartment
18 Becoming friends with those I wasn’t friends with from high school.
19 b becoming friends with those I met in other states/ countries (Amanda, Lachele, Heather, Philinda, Krystal )
20 Becoming friends with my siblings. (Scott – March 25, 2006)lol
21 Moving to Utah County
22 Becoming friends with my EM friends
23 being pregnant with faith
24 being a preschool teacher
25 buying a house
26 my fourth pregnancy.

I am now the age of the women I used to babysit for. Time really does go fast. Thank goodness I have older friends, siblings, and husband to keep me young! JK