Talented Momma (part 2)

Mom painted us a shower curtain, cause I was to lazy to ever get around to it in the last eight years! I just love it! It makes the bathroom complete and the girls think it's awesome!


Here are some close ups of some of the butterflies









And this is how the rest of the girls' bathroom looks. I've posted it before, but now you can see the full effect! Isn't it cute with everything finished?! She is wonderful and I love all the things she makes us!





THANKS MOM!

Halloween 2011

Sierra's pumpkin (or mostly mine, whatever)

Autumn's pumpkin

Logan's pumpkin


Sierra was an Angel

Here is Autumn the Cheetah

And last,but not least, Logan the Chef

After Logan's school parade

Meeting our ward at the park for a Halloween kickoff party

These girls had a great night, and I had so much fun with them. The weather was really nice and they didn't complain about walking or anything. We had fun while James passed out the candy at home. Sierra even got to go out for a little while, and collected a whole FOUR pieces of candy! Then I was mean and made her come back home to go to bed before we got "too far away" (down the street) so I wouldn't have to bring her back screaming. Best not to push it with her. All in all, the had a blast and are still trying to finish off the candy. They are pretty nice and offer to share just about everything with me and James. Ha ha! Love those girls!

my babies play

Payson, Utah Temple Groundbreaking Ceremony

Isn't this BEAUTIFUL?! Today was such an exciting day here in our usually quiet neighborhood! I think we are all bursting with joy at the reality of the temple coming to our area, starting NOW! The groundbreaking ceremony was this morning, and Elder Dallin H. Oaks presided at the site. It was nice to listen to him tell about his history with payson, and to listen to the other speakers as well. The girls even listened pretty well. It was really wonderful to be able to take the older two girls to the stake center up the street from us and they watched it happening as it was just going on a couple of blocks from our house! It was pretty cold but luckily the rain subsided for the most part, but we did not have tickets so weren't in the cold, thankfully. The girls wouldn't have lasted. It was so awesome to be a part of this wonderful day in history! I am thrilled at the announcement of this temple and I already feel so blessed to be able to watch it go up. I hope to be able to volunteer my time to help with whatever I can, and eventually attend it often!

Here is the site. It was hard to try and take pictures after it was over and there were a lot of people walking around, but here are a few. I wish I would have been there to take pictures of them shoveling the dirt!




You can see the top corner of our church meeting house on the left side of these two pictures. It will be right next door to our church, and just around the corner from our house!




People waiting to cross the street after it was over.


As you can see the traffic was probably the most this town has ever seen! It was so awesome to see people all over the place and walking with their little ones, umbrellas and all! There was definite excitement in the air!

This is the street the temple will be on



side street


right off my street



I plan to take and post more pictures as the progress continues with the temple! Have I mentioned, I am so excited?!

Rascal Flatts

James and I got to go to the Rascal Flatts concert in salt lake about a week and a half ago! We forgot to take or normal camera, so we just took a few with James camera. Sorry they are pretty blurry. It was great once we got there. We just took forever because of traffic, accidents, lane mergers, etc... and then I was grumpy cause I was starving and needed to go to the bathroom on our way. James made it all better once we got there. He found me the nearest restroom and bought us a yummy dinner. I was pretty excited to be on a date with my honey, but I was a little worried that we were going to get home way too late for the babysitter since the concert started late. We didn't get home til almost 1 a.m. and I called to let the parents and the sitter know, but I still felt so bad. I just gave her all the money I had. The traffic was down to one lane for the majority of the drive home too. We learned a few lessons that night, and I sorta felt like I ruined it for James with my grumpy mood, but he doesn't let much get him down! He is wonderful, and I am blessed to have him. It was a fun out of the ordinary date, that's for sure!