Cute pics of the babe!

yea, It's a baby!!! These are the cute ultraSound pics. The bAby has its hands up by its face. Maybe it is sucking its thumB. We are sO excited. now just the long wait until julY!

House for sale

I'm putting this link up for a friend. They have a gorgeous house, an amazing lot and an awesome neighborhood. Believe me, if I had the money, I would buy it. So here is a link to their sale blog. Check it out or pass it on to someone that might be looking to buy.

http://stealthishome.blogspot.com/

Spring is coming

Spring is pinwheels!! Austin and James had fun all afternoon with them. Who cares if it is still cold outside---pinwheels mean spring is coming!!

Cheese, anyone?

Ok, funny story. I got behind one morning and had to take a shower after my kids were awake. So, I put on a cartoon and jumped in the shower. Shouldn't be a problem, my kids are zombie like in front of the TV. I get out, about 10 minutes had passed. Here comes Austin running into my room "Emergency! Emergency!"
So I follow him to the family room and there is James. Reclined back in the recliner, gnawing on a brick of cheese! He wanted a snack and decided to help himself. He pretty much chewed on every edge of the cheese.

Guess next time it could be worse, maybe I'll try harder to shower before the boys are awake!

a saturday

I asked Cam for my birthday, if he would get and install some cabinets in our little laundry room. So he agreed and a few Saturdays ago, we had some time. So, Cam said he would do the cabinets.

Here he is hanging some of them. The whole process took a little longer than planned because we had to remove the ghetto shelves that were in there. In the process of removing them, discovered that whoever put them in used a TON of drywall screws. Which means to get those out you leave a 1/4 to 1/2 inch hole in the drywall. So then we had to fill the holes. Then decided that if I was ever going to paint in there, I should do it before the cabinets were up. So I painted. Then we finally got to the hanging of the cabinets as seen below.





This is the after pic---doesn't it look great. You would really appreciate it if you had seen a before but I forgot to take one.

Now, while hanging the cabinets, we needed the boys to kinda stay out of the way, so James was playing with some Styrofoam blocks from the packaging of the cabinets.

I was ok with it, it was keeping him busy.

Then Austin decided he wanted to play too. He thought it would be fun to break pieces off and pretend it was snow. Ok, nothing a quick vacuuming can't take care of, right??

HA! They really got into it. There wasn't a piece of Styrofoam left that was bigger than 2 inches. Ok, we had to vacuum for quite a while to get it cleaned up. But hey, sometimes the mess is worth the peace while finishing a project.

Albertsons is at it again

Alberston's is doing their part to stimulate the economy--so I am also doing my part :)
After a little shopping trip today, I spent 29.34 and came home with $137.26 in food. I also have a $10 coupon to use my next time at Albertson's.
I got:
10 fruit snacks/fruit rollups
3 Betty Crocker Muffin mixes
7 boxes of GM cereal
11 cans of Progresso soup
4 Betty Crocker cake mixes
2 Betty Crocker brownie mixes
2 Pillsbury refrig. biscuits
1 Nature Valley Granola bar


Not bad for a beginner. At least we have some "psychological" comfort food to add to our food storage.


This is James, my shopping helper. (I'll use the term "helper" loosely).
He wanted some of my protein shake--he is totally sporting the "Got milk" mustache.
He says he looks like Santa!

Cute hooded towels

There is a great giveaway on one of my favorite boutique blogs. They are giving away a cute hooded towel and a gift card to Olive Garden. Go enter--why not. Who doesn't need a free dinner to Olive Garden. And while you are there, check out some of the super cute bows and bracelets. (I would have some but, they boys just don't like wearing them :)
Maybe if the next baby comes in pink, then I will be into the bows!
http://simplyluluboutique.blogspot.com

Good Luck!

Instantly Older

So in a society obsessed with always looking younger, there is one thing that will make you age---instantly.
Cam experienced it last night. Being called to serve in the bishopric of an LDS ward, makes you older...fast.
We had some major revisions of ward boundaries in Kuna---it ended up effecting something like 7 out of 10 wards and they created 2 brand new wards. Little Kuna, now has 13 wards. Our boundaries were changed so we are part of a different ward now. AND... Cam has been called to be the 2nd counselor in that ward.
So he is old at 29! and I am a bishopric widow.
Crazy life.
Guess I should have known something was up when the first question we got from the Counselor in the stake presidency was "Is your life pretty comfortable right now?" WHAT KIND OF QUESTION IS THAT?
I think we are in for some growth and learning---but for the better of all of us. I'm excited and nervous to get to know another ward. We do have about a third of our old ward coming with us, so that will help. Now it's kinda like we moved, again---but I don't have to unpack any boxes. Hey, that's not so bad after all :)

Mom's reminder

"If you are still in the process of raising children, be aware that the tiny fingerprints that show up on almost every newly cleaned surface, the toys scattered about the house, the piles and piles of laundry to be tackled will disappear all too soon and that you will--to your surprise--miss them profoundly."

Thomas S. Monson

Where does the time go?? James and Dad (James was 10 months old---now 2 1/2!)

Austin at about 9 month (now almost 5!!)

A Follow up Deal

I stumbled on to this today. If you spent $50 on Proctor and Gamble products before Jan 31, you can send in a form for $120 on coupons from them. So, if you by chance hit the last Albertsons sale and bought a bunch of Pampers Diapers, then you could do this. Check it out!
http://www.pgeverydaysolutions.com/pgeds/en_US/jsp/EDS_Page.jsp?pageID=Year-of-Savings

I hope it works. I can always use a jumpstart on couponing!