house progress

Here is our NEW home in progress.

We hadn't been there for a few weeks,

and when we were there last all that

we saw was the foundation. So we were pleasantly

surprised when we went for our frame tour

this past week and saw this much finished!

Exciting to see it take shape.

They were starting shingles on the roof this week,

and sheet rock inside on Monday.

Stucco coming soon as well.

We will continue posts of the progress,

especially for grandma and grandpa :)

who are to far away to see it up close.

to STAY or to GO

The question is when you have this many yummy treats sitting in your kitchen, what do you do with it all? A lemon cake, homemade chocolate pie, mint cookies (from my VT) and left over cupcakes from Ash's party. It's just so hard for me to just throw any of it out!

And if all this isn't enough, Quinn brings home a box of fudge, from one of his hometeaching families. I just don't have the will power to throw it all away. I wish a little fairy would come in the night and get rid of it, since I can' t seem to do it!!!

A Logan Party

Unfortunately I didn't take very many pics from our trip to Logan

(I think LeAnne was better at picture taking than I was).

We finally made it up to see my brother Jason's family

and their new home in Logan. They have a beautiful home

that they have redone quite a bit and changed to look fantastic!

We hung out for a bit and then LeAnne invited the neighbor boys

over to babysit, got some pizza's for the kids and then us ADULTS

went out to dinner @ the fabulous Cafe Sabor.

Then we picked up an ice cream cake to celebrate one last time,

for our Ashy Boy.

Jason and LeAnne-

thanks for the wonderful hospitality, great conversation,

and celebrating a little with us.

And Ash thanks you for the present...

the potato heads are a BIG hit, even more so with the older two :)

forgot this one

I had to include this picture.

It was funny I was looking for Ash and found him with QUinn doing THIS...right up his alley. Ball heaven for this little guy! Such a funny shot!!!

our baby is NO BABY anymore!

Our favorite thing to call Ash has been,

baby ASH.

but THAT won't fly anymore, because our boy is 2 now!

We started off the day with (what else)

donuts.

Ash is funny because he gets all excited

to have it in front of him,

but then he hardly even eats it.

That is generally the same with all sweet treat.

After the kids got home from school and

we had lunch & play time at the Del Taco,

(because it has a playland), and wasn't McD's

we came home to

OPEN PRESENTS
gifts at this age are somewhat, especially when you already have a boy and girl (who have too many toys as it is). What do you add to the collection? Mom thought of a few things that ASH just LOVED!
ANYTHING mickey mouse made him smile :)
He also got a trike,

a basketball hoop

he is all about balls!!!

Later in the day we headed to

Jungle Jim's with some of QUinn's family.

Ash LOVED all the rides

even the roller coaster.

I wasn't sure about this one, because it does go pretty fast.

You can't see his expression on his face, but he was laughing and thought it was soo fun!

some of the rides were hard to get a clear shot of, as they zoomed by.

oh what fun

And what else for dessert, but Mickey Mouse cupcakes

Fun for all!

another GREAT lesson from Ame

After a lesson in Primary, Ame wanted to make her OWN lesson for FHE, to teach us what she learned. This is what she wrote. What a thoughtful lesson, with interesting detail. I am so glad she LOVES to do things like this, and wants to teach all of us such important concepts. What an incredible example AND big sister!

going back a bit...st patrick's day

So I was downloading pics from my camera and realized I haven't updated happenings around here for a while, so this is a bit of our St Patrick's Day WILD celebrations. I was actually watching my friends kids that day, so I tried to be a little creative (for the kids sake). There are endless possibilites with GREEN food coloring :) But mine were pretty pathetic! GREEN jello, bagels with GREEN cream cheese, GREEN leprechan drink, GREEN grapes, rainbow fish
and GREEN rice crispy treats with rainbow sprinkles.

THAT was our green fun,

expect for the surprise Kaipo found when he went potty the next day:)