HOORAY for Nursery!

Yay, I've been waiting for this Sunday for several months now. Kate is officially in nursery! Wahoo. I'm not sure who was more ready . . . me or her? She's so fun and starting to talk a lot more. She loves Lucy so much and wants to do or have exactly what she does or has. I'm beginning to see that we need multiples of everything, one just doesn't seem to work. She loves books and dolls and is always toting around one or the other. Lucy filled me in after church about how Kate did in nursery. "Kate had fun, but she just cried a little bit so I helped her." So sweet. She's such a great big sister. Here's a pic of Kate before church, she did not want to smile, as you can see. And notice the next couple of posts too. I've been a crazy blogger tonight!

Thanksgiving in Oregon!

We made it to Oregon for Thanksgiving again this year! We had so much fun. Sadly, I didn't take very many pictures. Lucy had been talking about going for weeks before. She loves to go to "the Oregon" as she calls it, but she especially likes to hang out with Grandma & Grandpa. We stayed busy while we were there. Nick did a lot of hunting with the boys in the wee hours of the morning. My Mom and I started an adorable quilt. And pretty much we just partied! We went ice skating and had lots of fun. Lucy was so excited to go . . . but after about a half an hour of the skates and cold, she was ready to get her "skaters" off. She did great though.
Kate had fun trading off with Grandpa & Uncle Brian going around the rink!
We had to go cut down a Christmas tree too! I can't remember a year we haven't done this. Such a fun tradition. And it wouldn't be the same without being drug around on a tube behind the suburban with a tow rope!

Lucy with my cousin, Jordan. Check out his sweet stitches above his eye. He crashed the night before ice skating. Poor guy!
And here it is . . . our beautiful Christmas tree. Sadly, all of our Christmas decorations are in Lewisville, so we made do with what we had! The girls are getting so grown up . . . I can't believe it, wish they'd just stay little girls forever! They are so much fun.

Jon Schmidt Concert!

A couple weeks ago we were able to go to a Jon Schmidt concert! It was AWESOME! If you ever get a chance to go, GO. He is a great performer and entertainer. Nathan and Alisa were able to come with too, we had so much fun. He even played his "Love Story Meets Viva La Vida" with the celloist guy. If you haven't heard it, check it out on youtube, it's amazing! After, he signed books and CD's. I got some sheet music, so I was excited! Now for a piano . . . maybe someday.
It was neat to meet him. Lucy is holding up the ball that he threw into the audience and Nathan caught. He gave it to Lucy and Jon signed it, she thought it was so cool! Good times.

Balanced Rock

Yesterday, we went on a little drive to "Balanced Rock" in the Salmon Falls Creek Canyon, near Buhl. It was so cool. It is just a giant boulder sitting on another rock. It is about 50 feet high and the base is only 3 feet by 17 inches. Pretty amazing that it hasn't fallen over! We took the girls and hiked right up to it. It was lots of fun, here's some pics . . .

Some pretty amazing rock formations! Check the post below for more on the last month!

A Very Random Catch Up

Here are some pics from the last month or so. Most recent to oldest. This is how Kate just woke up from her nap today. Isn't she so sweet?!

More of the cute fairy princesses on Halloween!
Our Jack-o-Lantern
The trick-or-treaters. Lucy loved this. Nick, not so much. Haha. No, we had lots of fun!
And here is Lucy on her last day of swimming lessons, "jumping off" the diving board. She was so proud of herself and actually did it several times. She really did improve a lot from the beginning and she LOVED it!
Kate checking on Howdy. She loves the horses. I'm pretty sure "horsey" was her first word.

So these next few pics were from a trip I took last month to Las Vegas to Charlyn's wedding. I was able to ride down with Char's brother and sister, and then home with Becky & Brad. Thanks again, guys! Charlyn was one of my many AWESOME roommates from Rexburg. Char's always been a great friend and example to me. Love her to death.

The beautiful bride and husband on the wedding day!
It was so fun to see everyone at the wedding. Char, Becky, Morgan, Diane, and Erin were all able to be there. This is a group of us in the Bellagio. Yes, I'm husbandless. Thanks for watching the girlies, Nick! What an awesome husband!
Me and Morgan, she has two adorable little girls too! Funny- I have SEVERAL good friends with just two little girls.
Becky and I. Love her.

Sorry for the enormous post. I feel better though, now that it's done!

Sneak Peek . . .

My hard work paid off . . . I must say they make pretty darn cute fairy princesses! See them in the Virtual Costume Parade on Make It and Love It, HERE.

Happy Fall

Nothing like a peanut butter & jelly sandwich picnic in the leaves.

Just chillin'.

Cutie. Finished just in time.

Already!?

Yes, it snowed a couple nights ago. This picture was after it all about melted. We probably had four inches. I was hoping we still had a good month before that happened!
Lucy started swimming lessons yesterday! She has been counting down the days. The pool is only a couple blocks from our house, so that is nice. She loved it and had so much fun! Lucy is a lot of fun these days. I can't believe how much she has grown up lately. She's my buddy. She's pretty tall, and everywhere we go people can't believe that she's only 3! Lately, she's been really into playing "house" with Kate and her dolls. It's so fun to listen to her make conversation. She definitely keeps us laughing!

Catching Up

It's been a while. Things have been crazy the last couple months. We have done a couple horse shows this month, one in Blackfoot and the other in Montana. Nick couldn't miss. We had fun, but were sure worn out afterwards. My parents came and spent some time with us, WHICH WE LOVED!!! Lucy can't get enough of them, she even went to Utah with them for a few days. We are finally getting settled into our place. We are really enjoying it here. Nick is getting back into the groove of school and doing well. The girls and I are keeping busy with fun things around here, it's been way nice to actually live "in town" for a change. Okay, I'll admit it . . . I AM A COUPON FREAK! There, it's out. So it's nice to be so close to all the stores! Anyway, that's another post in itself. Maybe someday. Oh, and I have to add that I WENT SAILING last Saturday. And it was pretty much AWESOME! Somehow I didn't get a single picture, darn it. Next time. Thanks Womack's for the great time! Lucy can't wait to play with "the boys" again. Wow, this post is really random, so I’ll stop. Here are some random pics to go along with the post. Later.

Lucy ready to go down the river at Lava Hot Springs!

And there she is with Alisa and Nathan behind!

Nick driving Bomber at the fair in Blackfoot.

Lucy and Grandma at Shoshone Falls, near Twin.

In our new backyard. The girls love the playhouse and swing!

Kate with her flower and headband, she does everything just like her big sister these days. =)

CORN, CORN, CORN

We have corn coming out of our ears! Haha. I know, I'm a dork. But seriously our garden has been giving us plenty of veggies to eat breakfast, lunch, & dinner. My parents are here in Lewisville with the girls and I while Nick is in Twin Falls at school. We have been eating corn on the cob like crazy and I love it! (The only good thing about the end of summer.) We have frozen about 18 DOZEN ears of corn. A lot! We have had tons of cucumbers, beans, swiss chard, peppers, beets, lettuce, corn, and the tomatoes are coming along. Gardens are sure a lot of work (especially when your husband decides to plant 15 rows of corn), but when they begin to produce it's all worth it! Here's some pics . . . The process . . . Some of the bags we froze . . .
Horses enjoying the leftovers!
On another note- Nick is doing well with school and we are still getting stuff moved. One of these days we'll be settled! But for now we are enjoying my parents being here and spending time with them! We've had lots of visitors this last month, it's been great!

It's Happening!!

Nick starts in the Nursing program on Monday. We are excited and a little nervous at the same time. It will be something new and different! He bought all his books for the next 4 semesters and that alone about wiped us out! We will be moving to Twin Falls, where Nick will be attending the College of Southern Idaho. All Lucy can say is "I don't want to move to a new house!" We'll be back often enough, I'm sure! She and Kate are getting lots of rides in on Howdy to make up for the time we'll be gone. They sure love the horses . . . good thing! We went to Twin Falls this week to look for housing and finish up some last minute things before Nick starts. It was a bit of a stressful trip, but we took a break to go see Shoshone Falls and have a picnic. It was beautiful and the girls had fun having a break from the car.We'll keep you posted on the move. As for the Europe pictures, they're still coming, things have just been a bit CRAZY!

A Failed Second Attempt

Poor, poor Kate. Today Kate had surgery on her eye again, this time in Salt Lake. We took her in in hopes that they could insert a tube that the last doctor wasn't able to. No luck. The poor girl has a lack of duct work on the right side. It's just too bad they had to torture her like that . . . for nothing! And let me tell you, she was NOT a happy Kate coming out of recovery from surgery. This time she was much more swollen than last time, her poor eye was completely swollen shut. It was huge and puffy. She'll probably be black and blue in a couple of days. The doctor was very disappointed that the surgery didn't quite go as planned and wants to see her when she is 3 to try a different procedure. We left Lucy at Benson's during the surgery and when we went back to pick her up she saw Kate and said, "Daddy, I think we need to take Kate to the doctor, look at her eye!" So cute. She's always so concerned about Kate's eye. I won't put the sad, pathetic pictures of the little girl on here. It'll make you want to cry. But the swelling has already improved a lot, she can somewhat open her eye . . . and she has a smile on her face. :)

Trip of a Lifetime!!

I just got home from a trip to Europe with my Mom and Janelle. It was an AMAZING experience. We were able to do and see so much. I flew into Munich, Germany and met my Mom and Janelle, who had already been there for a week. We were able to see some of Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and Italy! It was a blast. We had some fun adventures and interesting experiences. I don't have the pictures yet, but will put them up here when I get them . . . all 3,000. Just kidding . . . maybe. My Dad and Nick were gracious enough to watch the girls while I was gone. They all seemed to have survived. It was a great trip and I'll post more soon!

Zoo Fun!

We had a great time at the ZOO in IF last week with Nathan & Alisa, as you can see . . .

Summer Fun

We've been very busy around here lately. We went to Utah for a few more horse pulls and had fun there. We stayed with Karen & Dave and had a great time, thanks guys! The girls had a great time playing, of course. Nick was able to shoe a lot of horses while we were down too. He has stayed very busy with horse stuff this spring/summer. My Mom & Dad came up after dropping off Brian at BYU. We had a fun time with them! Lucy always has a hard time when they leave. Wish we lived even just a few hours closer!! While they were here we celebrated my Dad's 49th birthday, next year is the big one!!

We also went down to Lava Hot Springs and had a lot of fun tubing down the river and enjoying the hot springs, of course.

We also went to the "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" production they had in Idaho Falls. Nick's uncle played Joseph! It was amazing!! I'll have to get those pictures. The girls always have fun at the Splash Park in Rexburg!
We had a great 4th of July. Took the horses in the parade in Menan, sadly we have no pictures. Right after the parade got over we headed down to Utah for another horse pull in Lewiston. The horses did awesome! Nick placed 2nd in the HEAVYWEIGHTS! That was real exciting. My Mom & Dad came with Janelle and Brian and Nathan & Alisa also were there! We watched fireworks after and then made the trek back home. Here's a pic of Nick and Lucy on Howdy . . . And here's the best I could get of Kate for now. She's become quite the little walker and is into everything!! She makes life exciting.

Can't Wait!

It won't be long before I get to use this beauty that came in the mail a few weeks ago! My Mom, Janelle, and I have a trip planned to Europe just a few weeks away. Wahoo! I can hardly wait. While I'm there we plan to do some of Germany and Switzerland. My Mom and Janelle will be there a couple weeks longer and will do France and such. Anyone been to Switzerland? Or Austria? Any suggestions of 'must-see' places or neat things? I'm sure it will be amazing no matter where we go. And we will have some awesome tour guides. My aunt & uncle are living in Germany right now, so that will be so fun to see them and have them show us around. Mom & Janelle, see you in Munich!

Kate's Birthday & More . . .

So much to blog about! Our internet has been down since we made it home from our trip to “The Oregon,” as Lucy calls it. But first I have to write about Kate’s eye surgery. The procedure went well. However, they were only able to get a tube in one eye, darn it. But that eye is doing great and is clear! When they went to put the tube in the other eye, as suspected, there was no lower duct there. So they tried to just make a duct with a probe, in hopes that it would stay open. The doctor said the upper duct was very tight, so he used his biggest probe to open it up. Poor girl, doesn’t sound fun does it. Well both eyes were doing great after surgery and no goop for one whole week. But now the tubeless eye is back to “normal”. The doctor that did her surgery has referred us to an Occuloplastic surgeon in Salt Lake to figure out what our next step is for that eye. I guess the good news is we are half-way to being there! Kate came out of surgery and anesthesia quite well and after a quick recovery we hit the road for Oregon ( I know we ARE crazy). Both girls did great for the trip, as did both horses. Yes, we couldn’t go somewhere without horses and a 36 foot horse trailer. That would be way too easy. The morning after we got to Klamath we headed over the mountain to a horse pull in Jacksonville. Nick and the horses did great (I think they pulled 10,000 pounds . . . awesome) and we were on our way back to Klamath to make it to Brian’s graduation. It was fun to go back to good old Henley. He plans to start at BYU next week. Not much of a break for the poor guy. We enjoyed a few more days with the fam in Oregon and then had to come back home. We celebrated Kate’s first birthday while we were there too!

She’s becoming quite the busy little girl. I didn’t think it was possible but she may be busier than Lucy was. Wow. Between the two of them, I feel like I never stop. Kate is beginning to walk and will soon be running, I’m sure. Then I’ll really be in trouble! She loves to empty out anything she can (drawers, bags, cupboards, etc.) and is in the toilet every chance she gets. Kate loves all the animals around home . . . until they get too close. Then she has a panic attack. She’s like me, I guess! She loves to climb up and watch the horses out the window. Kate is such a sweetheart.

The day after we got home from Oregon, Lucy had an eye doctor appointment. They just never end! The doctor that did Kate’s surgery wanted to look at Lucy too. I decided I'd get outside and try to attempt a little weeding in the garden before we went. Lucy came with me and Kate was napping. I'm weeding away, and all of a sudden I hear Lucy screaming. She somehow was attacked by the fence. I think she was pulling on the wire and it came back and hit her in the face. I ran over and she was holding her eye. Oh no. I was sure she'd poked her eye out. Anyway, she scratched herself just below, barely, her eye and down a little. I figured it was just a minor scratch and cleaned her up. Then it was time to go to the doctor . . . and NO GLASSES! We could not find them anywhere. She had them on earlier, but had no idea where they went. So we were off to the doctor with no glasses and her eyelid split open. Great. The doctor obviously asked what happened to her eye, and checked it out. He looked through his thing, and said that the wire had perforated clear through her lower eye lid. Lovely. He was more concerned about that than her crossed eyes. Poor Lucy. Anyway, he told her to keep wearing her glasses and put her on an antibiotic eye drop. We go back to see him tomorrow about the cut, which is doing much better. Long story, but makes me laugh now (I wasn't then).

We went to another horse pull last Saturday in Utah. It went well and we'll be back for two more this week. Any Utah friends that want to come, we'd love to see you!! Karen & Dave and their kids were able to come to the pull last week, which was great! Lucy loves to play with their girls. We also got to meet up with George & Karen Boone and Jordan & Meghan and their girls! It was great. This is who we stayed with while we were in Florida a couple years ago. They are the greatest. George & Karen are out here from Florida to visit their kids. It was so fun to see them and visit! Sadly, I have no pictures. Well, this is getting to be incredibly long. As you can see, Brian took some cute pics of the girls while we were in Oregon. Their dresses are from Marianne, aren't they so cute!!? Thanks Marianne!

And Crazy Aunt Ga! Love ya Janelle. It was so fun to be home and see family. Wish we lived a lot closer though, that 12 hour drive just doesn't seem to be getting any shorter!

Tomorrow's the Big Day

Kate goes in for her eye surgery tomorrow. Poor thing. Hope we can get the problem fixed . . . and have no more goopy eyes! Yay. Then we are off to Oregon to see my family! And my little brother graduates, crazy! Here's a cute pic of Kate today . . . we couldn't seem to catch her smile.

Mesa Falls

Yesterday we took a trip up to Mesa Falls by Ashton. It is always such a beautiful place to go. It's so pretty up around there. (I'm jealous Morgan!) We took Nathan & Alisa along with us, I hope they don't get sick of our adventures. And trust me they are adventures with two little girls! We got there and it started pouring rain. So we waited a few minutes until it was only sprinkling, then we walked down to the falls. Just after we took a few quick pictures by the falls it started pouring again. So we all huddled under a tree and Nathan entertained us with a couple of stoneflies. Thank you Mr. Shannon. We made it out and found a nice firepit to roast some hot dogs. It turned out to be nice and we all had fun!Lucy has broken her glasses AGAIN! You'd think they could make those things a little more sturdy for kids!

SPLASH PARK!

Yesterday the girls and I went to Rexburg to the Splash Park! It was so fun. Nathan & Alisa came with us, too. We have never been and the girls enjoyed it. Kate probably more so that Lucy, surprisingly. It took Lucy a while to warm up to the idea of running through the fountains and going down the slides. They also have opened up the old carousel, so Lucy of course loved that! Had we know it would be her favorite thing at Disneyland, we would have just drove to Rexburg! Just kidding, Disneyland was a blast! Anyway, it was a beautiful day. Seems like it turned from winter to summer in a day! It's super hot today and I love it!

Awesome- Watch This!

This is an arrangement by my favorite, Jon Schmidt, combining Taylor Swift & Coldplay songs. So amazing! I could listen to it over and over all day. He is extremely talented and so awesome!

A Rough Week And . . . A Lovely Weekend!

Yes. Lucy started throwing up on my birthday and did so for about 5 days. No fun. The poor girl had some nasty flu bug or something. None of the rest of us got it thank goodness. It was all we could do to get her to come outside with us one day and play bocce.

Lucy was doing better so we went to Utah with a team of horses for a horse pull on the 16th. Lauren, my old roommate, and Skyler and their little girl Cali, met us there. It had been a long time since we had seen them and so it was way fun to catch up! Becky and Brad also came! Lauren & Becky & I had a great time reminiscing about the good ole days and had lots of good laughs. The girls loved the parade before the pull and got lots of candy. Nick did great in the pull and we all had a fun time. He even got the "Horsemanship Award"! Go Nick. He has big plans for several more horse pulls this summer. Hmmmm. We'll see. I didn't get any great ones of the horse pull. Sorry Nick. I was busily trying to manage two crazy girls. But here's Jet & Andy.

The girls when they finally 'crashed' at the very end of the horse pull, of course. Needless to say, I didn't catch a whole lot of it.

Just when we thought Lucy was getting better, she started throwing up again. So sad, she was so completely worn out and weak that she just layed on the couch all day for a few days and slept. She definitely wasn't her usual self. I think I got to hold her last week more than I got to hold her since she was a newborn! She's definitely not a cuddler. So that part was kind of nice for a change. She finally started feeling better the middle of last week, gratefully, because we had a trip to Yellowstone planned with Becky & Brad! It was such a blast! And Nick had never been there, so that was exciting! Can you believe that? I sure can't. Crazy. To live less than 2 hours from something so amazing and never go!? We camped and spent two nights and saw a lot of the cool sites. Nathan and Alisa came up on Saturday and it was fun to have them there. We saw "Old Faithful" of course, and several other geysers, waterfalls, and hot pots. We also saw Yellowstone Lake, which was still quite frozen and "The Grand Canyon of Yellowstone". So amazing. It was probably my favorite part. I thought it was better than the Grand Canyon. Not as deep, but the sides were straight down and beautiful. Wow. Okay this is getting really long. But we had tons of fun! Thanks for coming with us Harrison's! You guys are great. Now we're looking for where to go on our next camping adventure. Any ideas?

Here's Nathan & Alisa with Lucy while we were waiting for Old Faithful to spout. Thanks for being such great entertainers for the girls all the time!

Lucy roasting some marshmallows at the campfire!

Becky & I

Lucy & Nick at Tower Falls

That there is a black bear.

Lucy loved camping and was so sad to leave!

Happy Mother's Day Kim!!!

Just wanted to say Happy Mother's Day, from Nick, Lucy, and Kate. We all love you so much and appreciate everything that you do for us. You are such a good example to me and the girls and I love you so much for the great mother and wife that you are. Thanks for everything.
Now we have to get ready for Kim's big birthday on Thursday. She is going to be the big 25!! Man that is old!

Happy Birthday Daddy!

Nick turned the big 28 today! We had a fun little family birthday party. Tomorrow night we'll have a party with all Nick's family at Brock & Abbie's house. Abbie is Nick's twin sister. The girls loved helping with the cake and presents. We had a late party because Nick was out I.V.ing one of the new colts til late. We've had 4 new colts in the last couple weeks! I need to post pics of them. They're so cute. Anyway one of the colts has been real dehydrated so Nick has been taking good care of it giving it lots of fluid through I.V. Just takes lots of time. Anyway, Happy Birthday Baby! We love you!

Sorry for the very blurry picture!
Kate thoroughly enjoyed this . . .
And so did I because it kept her busy for 30 seconds!

CANADA!!

We are in Canada. And it is lovely. We are up for some horse business. Haha. I'm always up for a trip to Barnwell! I'm sure the rest of the fam is very jealous. The only thing that could make it better was if Grandma were here. Hope she gets home soon. We came up to Edmonton today after the horse sale. We even made it to the West Edmonton Mall-- the LARGEST MALL IN NORTH AMERICA! Yeah, anyone jealous? They have every store you could ever imagine. And an indoor amusement park, ice rink, waterpark . . . it is enormous. This was actually my second time at the mall, crazy . . . the last time was probably about 15 years ago. And wouldn't ya know we had to leave Idaho to get some nice weather . . . in CANADA! Seriously. It's been beautiful.

Washington Trip

Last week we were in Washington . . . where Nick did some horse business. (If you can believe that). Haha. Nick worked hard, while the girls and I played and enjoyed the sites of Northwest WA. Nick shod lots of horses (for those of you who don't know what this means, I wouldn't of, he put shoes on them). It was a fun trip to get away! On the way home we even got to stay at the Osborne Resort in Moses Lake . . . it was FABULOUS!

These turkeys were hilarious! This was at Hovander Park.

A huge, neat barn at the park.

Checking out the ocean
Birch Bay . . . Kate loved the rocky beach. She stuck everything in her mouth.

Yep . . . that's a chicken walking on the beach! Funny. Lucy was as confused as the rest of us!

Lucy did a lot of this.

And she loved watching these little guys . . . they were pretty funny. We were supposed to come home with an empty trailer . . . but no. That would be too easy. Instead we brought home two more horses, a pig, and a goat. Yes, crazy I know.

My Old Dress

On Sunday Lucy wore one of my dresses that I wore as a little girl. My Mom saved it in the attic all those years! Lucy has about outgrown it but she always gets lots of comments on it when she wears it to church. As you can tell, she didn't want to cooperate too well . . .

Happy Easter!

I got fabric a couple of months ago to make Easter dresses for the girls and finally got up the courage to start them on Friday. Crazy I know. So here they are, after a couple really late nights. I had to call my Mom several times for directions over the phone. Thanks Mom! Anyway, I think I better go get started on next years . . . Hope everyone had a great Easter! [This last pic is of Lucy with her new puppy, Sadie. They are such cute buddies.]

DISNEYLAND!!!

We had an awesome trip to Southern California, where we met up with Grandma & Grandpa Bailey and Uncle Brian. We went to Disneyland and California Adventure, and then went south to San Diego! Lucy loved Disneyland. Her favorite rides were Dumbo and the Tea Cups. Surprisingly, Lucy was just tall enough for all the "big" rides. The height requirement is 40 inches and she is about 39.75, but with shoes she is 40 easy. So we took her on Splash Mountain and Thunder Mountain Railroad and the Matterhorn, but for some reason she always wanted to go back to Dumbo! She had so much fun and hasn't stopped talking about it since. Too bad she probably won't remember the trip . . . I guess that just means we'll have to go again!! Thanks Mom & Dad & Brian for the GREAT time! Here are tons of pictures . . . scroll quickly.

The famous pic you must take before going into Disneyland!

Lucy loved the carousel- she could've just rode it over and over.

Lucy loves Toy Story and was so excited to see Woody . . . that is, until we got up close!

Lucy with Uncle Brian (her glasses broke, this is what they keep her from doing, poor girl!)

Even Kate had fun!

On Dumbo!

And the Princesses . . .

This was probably the longest line we waited in to see the princesses. Lucy loved it! It wasn't quite as scary as Woody and Jesse.

On the Riverboat, Mark Twain

At the petting zoo. I had no idea Disneyland had this, but Lucy had fun!

Standing on the "L" outside California Adventure.

The teacups with Grandma & Grandpa.

The girls takin' a break.

Saying goodbye to Grandma & Grandpa before they left for their CRUISE! We still had another day at Disneyland with Brian!

Having a FUN time!

SWEET shades Lucy!

On Huck Finn's? island. Lucy had a great time running around. We about lost her on several occasions. Not on purpose.

We spent awhile at this treehouse. Lucy would run up and down and around and wave at us on the bench everytime she past. She made it up and down surprisingly fast by the end!

After Disneyland we went down to San Diego and dropped Brian off with the Guest's. Then we headed to Ahlstrom's before going home. On the way home we got to stop in Las Vegas to meet up with Char (my old roommate) and her boyfriend for lunch! It was great to see her and meet her man. Then we stopped for a break in St. George and walked around the temple grounds and saw the home Nick's mom lived in growing up.

We enjoyed the weather and can't wait for it to make it here! It was a great trip- thanks Mom, Dad, & Brian!!!

So Stinkin' Cute!

I made this diaper & wipes case yesterday (when I should have been working on Easter dresses), and I thought that they turned out great. You want to make some? Go here- Make It and Love It. She gives a great tutorial and has lots of other great ideas. And she just put up another GIVEAWAY today . . . go enter!