Helping Dad

The kids can't get enough time with their dad, especially during the summer months when he is so bust mowing lawns and working at the Hospital. This day, last Saturday, the 22nd, the kids were eager to help wash the lawn mower. Matt was so nice to give me some time to work on a project inside without the kids, and this is what he thought they would love to do. He was right, they did love scrubbing the grass off the mower and spraying it with the hose. But unfortunately the eagerness of helping wore off after about 10 minutes, when they realized it was work and not play!

Matt's 30th

Matt turned the big 3-0 on the 17th!! Can you believe it?? I can't! That makes me sad because I know I am only a few months behind him then we will both be out of our 20's. It is a sad time!! But we sure don't feel old! I remember being small, like 8 or 10, and thinking that the ladies that were in the Primary as leaders were old. Well now I am one of them and I sure don't feel old. For Matt's birthday per his request, my dad smoked us his "Damn fine burgers" and we had all the toppingd to go along, lettuce, tomato, cheese, bacon, avacado, ketchup, mustard, and chipotle mayo. We also had potato salad and chips. It was even nice enough outside that we had our first outdoor BBQ! It was wonderful. For his gifts he got golf balls, tees, 2 pair of jeans, an itunes gift card and a new ladder from my parents. He was extremely excited about the ladder and can't wait to use it. Of course he like the golf stuff from the kids, we call that "the usual" the gifts that he always gets when you don't know exactly what to get him. Matt's usuals include: itunes gift card, anything golf, socks, gift cards to the movies, 5 Guys Burgers & Fries, Famous Footwear, Cal-Ranch, & El Vaquero. At least we know he will use that stuff. We had planned on going bowling as a family to celebrate, but both bowling alleys were packed full of people so we weren't able to go. The kids were very sad about that and are still bugging us to go. We had Rupe's ice cream for dessert on the way home. It was great!! Happy birthday to the best husband ever. I am sure glad we get to spend forever together! Love ya!

Father's Day

 

For Father's Day the kids and I created a candy poster for Matt that included snickers, extra gum, 100 grand, sweetarts, payday, mounds, and some other candy bars. We also gave him these cute sodas. I made the ones with the ties and the kids got the other ones in Primary. I thought it was funny that we had come up with the same idea to give the dad pop. I found the idea online at How Does She, I love that site!

We also visited the grandpas and gave them similar posters and pop as well. It was a hit and I felt like the kids were able to contribute this year so it felt like it was from them a little more than me.

Matt's Birthday

Matt turned the big 29 yesterday! Whenever he has a birthday it helps me get mentally prepared for mine in the fall. We are getting closer to 30 and that scares me a little bit. Anyways, Matt is a wonderful husband and father and we all love him so much an appreciate all that he does for our family. We hope he had a wonderful days and that he knows how much we all love him.

His parents had us over for dinner last night and we enjoyed ribs and cheesy potatoes and strawberry shortcake. It was so good, one of Matt's favorites. Tonight we are celbrating with my parents and having Steak and baked potatoes and cheesecake. (Matt's choice dinner) Happy Birthday Honey!!

Snow, Snow, Snow

Matt has decided that in addition to lawn care in the summer he will be doing some snow removal as well. He just has three buildings he is doing right now, but when it does snow he has to get up early to get it done. Some mornings when he has to be to work, he leaves to do snow removal at 4:30!! That is really hard for Matt. But it gets him going for the day and he seems to enjoy it. With all the snow we have gotten the last few weeks I think this Winter is going to be a cold and wet Winter with lots of snow. I think we have more now than we got the entire year last year.

Matt had to work on Thanksgiving this year so the kids and I enjoyed turkey without him. I was a little bummed that he didn't get to spend it with us, but I guess everyone has to take a turn working holidays. His family had a Thanksgiving dinner the night before so we (the kids and I) got to have 2 dinners and enjoyed every minute of it. We had received a bad snow storm earlier in the week and the roads were horrible. I was a little nervous to be on the roads by myself with the 2 kids, but we made it home safely, it only took us 3 times as long as usual.

The day of Thanksgiving I went with my mom out to my grandparents house and once again enjoyed good food and company. Matt was able to join us later in the afternoon once he got off work. We were all stuffed as we played a few games and visited with each other.

We put our Christmas tree and decorations up the next day, no early shopping for me!! The kids were eager to help decorate and are excited for Santa to come. I am almost done with all my shopping and I think I will enjoy the month of December not having to be in the busy stores. We are excited for Christmas to come and then the arrival of our new little baby. I am already counting down the weeks, I think more with anticipation than misery. I am feeling good and staying busy. Can't wait for all the Holiday fun to begin!!

Scrapbooking

I just got back yesterday from a weekend filled with paper, brads, ribbon, stamps, eyelets, ink, staples and pictures and it was so fun. I went with my mom, my sister and a close family friend of ours to a place in Lava where we stayed the entire weekend indoors scrappin til our hearts content. We arrived on Thursday night and unloaded all our stuff, it was a miracle we got it all into one vehicle. Our overnight bags were so small compared to all the stuff we took along "just in case" we needed it for scrapbooking. We stayed up until about midnight getting things organized and ready to go before heading to bed. When we woke up we went straight to the table to start on out projects. I completed an 8x8 album with 20 pages from our Cruise to Baja and also did 23 12x12 pages mostly of the kids. I stayed up until 3 in the morning Saturday and got quite a bit done. Towards the ends of the weekend I hit a creative wall and couldn't' seem to get anything done. Everything I started didn't end up working or I didn't like it so I pretty much looked through magazines and watched everyone else there work. I was still pleased with all I got done. My goal was to get the 8x8 book done, so everything else I accomplished was just a bonus. We had a great time with lots of great food and made some new friends. There were about 25 women there scrabooking and sewing. It was a great getaway and a great birthday present! Thanks for letting me go Matt while you watched the kids!!

When I got home Matt asked if he could go golfing in Buhl with a friend...how can I possibly say no after he watched the kids all weekend so I could go. Nice timing Matt, you knew I couldn't say no!!

Today I have been busy getting the house back to normal after a weekend with just Matt and the kids. No matter how hard he tries he can't seem to keep the house out of shambles while I am away. So today I am working on 10 loads of laundry and picking up many toys and garbage that was left lying around. It will sure feel good to have a clean house once again!

Sickly, you may not want to read this

Something is in the air around our house and we have all been not feeling very good. It started on Monday night when Paige threw up in the middle of the night. Gross!! I thought maybe she had eaten too much junk, or something that upset her stomach and didn't really think much about it after that. She only threw up the one time and seemed fin the next day. Well Parker spent the majority of Thursday night/Friday morning throwing up...all over my carpets!! I was not happy about that. I tried to tell him the next time you feel like you need to go, run to the bathroom. Well not even 5 minutes later he runs into my room first and starts gagging, then Matt grabbed him and ran him to the bathroom. WHY!!! Why can't he just go in there first and then come in and tell us he doesn't feel good. I don't get it. Well we finally got smart and just put him in bed with us with a bucket right beside the bed with a towel over the sheets so that Matt could help him immediately. What a long night, Matt called into work and got the day off (sick day...might as well use them) and was home Friday to help out with the clean up of sheets, towels, and floors! Well good thing he was home because I caught the bug and wasn't feeling well the entire day. After having my face in the porcelain thrown a few too many times Matt called in another day. (he is so great about helping out). I still felt yucky in the evening, I don't get sick that often, but when I do it is awful. I felt so horrible and I knew that I had to get feeling better for the sake of my family and all the things I needed to accomplish this weekend. So I asked Matt to give me a blessing. Matt and my dad were able to give me a blessing. I felt so much better, just peace of mind knowing that the Lord would bless me through my faith. I was able to get some sleep and woke up this morning feeling so much better. Still not 100% but quite a bit better. We were able to get the house clean and work on a few projects. It felt good to have clean house after the whole week we had. Fresh smelling sheets and clean floors sure are nice. I decided that I really like having Matt home on Saturdays, too bad that won't hardly happen. I am hoping that I am back to normal tomorrow for church because I have sharing time. I am also hoping Matt escaped the bug and won't be sick in the morning because there is nothing worse than a sick man!!!!

Father's Day

Happy Father's Day and Happy First day of Summer!! (I hope the summer things means that it will quit raining and start being nice!!) I was looking at a few web sites the other day and instantly fell in love when I saw these. I knew that I had to make them for Father's day here at our house. We are having a get together with my family this evening and also going out to visit Matt's dad and I thought these would be a fun little treat to celebrate the dad's in our life! I was surprised how easy they really were, a little time consuming because I had to make cupcakes, brownies, and cookies, but they went together really quickly and turned out sooooooo cute. I think they turned out quite well. I do have to give credit to Bakerella for the idea. I sure loved it, if you have never visited her site, give it a try, it might inspire you to try something like this out one day. (http://bakerella.blogspot.com) Oh did I mention they taste great too!!

Now I would just like to say what a great dad Matt is to our kids. I really am so lucky to have such a great husband and father to my children. He helps me out so much with them and plays with them and makes them laugh. I just love to hear the sound of my kids laughing and knowing that they are happy. Matt has taught Parker so much and I know he looks up to his do so much. I am glad that Parker has a good example on his life of what a great dad should be. I love you Matt, Happy Father's Day!

Arggggggg!

No I am not a pirate, but very frustrated! Matt started mowing lawns again a few weeks ago (He has a side job of mowing residential and some business lawns) and I am excited that he has something to keep him busy and make a little extra money. But today wasn't one of those days!! While he was trimming a lawn here in town an elderly lady in a mini van drove by just as a rock flipped up from the trimmer and shattered her sliding door window!! What horrible luck! He told her he would do what he could to help out with the costs, well it ends up being $340!! What the *@*#!!! Don't people have insurance for things like that! I was pretty upset, because when a semi flips a rock on you and breaks your windshield you don't go chasing them down to get them to pay for it. Your insurance pays for it. Well whatever, Matt talked to a guy that sells insurance and said that if they turn it into their insurance more than likely the insurance company will come back after us to pay for the cost of processing the claim and the cost of the repair. So it looks like we are going to have to pull the money from off of our money tree and pay the bill. I am sure that the older couple has more money than we do, for sure now they do. I can say that we (Matt) is looking into contractors liability so that if something else like that happens, or worse, we will be covered. What a crappy day, and to top it off I have horrible allergies and can hardly breathe thru my stuffed up nose. Why do bad things happen to good people!!

27!!

I can't let the day go by with out saying HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my great hubby Matt. Today he turns 27 and I just want to let him know I am thinking of him and Love him so much. He is working all day today, bummer!! But we took him out to dinner last night! He already got his season golf pass so that is pretty much what he gets every year for his birthday! He will enjoy that and use it the entire summer. He has already been golfing 5 or 6 times!

5 years ago today!

5 years ago today I was so excited to be going ring shopping with Matt. He had just gotten home from his mission (about 3 weeks before) and I knew that we were going to get married. I was thinking we would look at some rings and then in a week or so he would propose. Well when he came to the house to pick me up that evening he surprised me by popping the question before we even left. He had gone and picked out the perfect ring already and obviously I said yes!! 6 weeks later we were married and it has flown by! I am truly so lucky to have met Matt and to have him in my life. He is the most wonderful husband and father and I am so grateful to him for all that he does to support our family. I know he has worked so hard with his schooling and working 2 jobs, he isn't home much and I know it is as hard on him as it is on the rest of us. He treats me so wonderfully and I know he loves me. Sometimes I don't tell him enough that I love him, so this post is for him I LOVE YOU MATT!!! Happy Valentines Day Babe!