Update on the girls

These two munchkins seem to be changing all the time, I can't keep up with them! So I thought I better write down a few updates:).

Becca

Has been saying such grownup things lately, Nathan and I try to hold a straight face. Here are a few things she likes to say.....

We were all sitting up to the table to have dinner and Becca says..

"Sooo I had a fun day" she says this a lot lately so she can dive into to telling us all she did. She will ask Nathan at night to ask her about her day, it is so cute.

Anytime I ask her to clean up her toys she responds with...
"I'm so very tired mom" and does a fake yawn! She thinks being tired somehow gets her out of cleaning, it has yet to work:). She uses the word very a lot, Like this one "mom...I'm so very hungry".

Nathan comes home for lunch a lot now that busy season is over. Becca likes to be like him, so when we go outside to ride bikes she will give me a kiss good bye, and say "I have to go to work now mom, I'll be back for lunch". She gets a very serious look when she says this, and then rides away on her bike and comes back one minute later to tell me the same thing as before. :)


Rachel

Has finally learned to walk! And thinks it is the greatest thing!

She loves me to read books to her. Her favorite book is "Good Night Moon." She will walk around with it all day. She is constantly walking over to me with her book and she opens her arms for me to pick her up and read it to her! How could you resist that!? It is so CUTE! AHH!

She loves to growl! It is so funny! She is always growling, apparently she gets this from me. She likes to wrestle with Becca, and lets out big growls!

Anyway here are a few pics I took of them because they looked so cute!

A new YOU living room makeover!

It all started with me wanting to sell our couch, and then it turned into me just changing the whole living room altogether. I liked it ok before, but it just never felt like me. So I went a little crazy:) I wanted a couch from Ikea because there slip covers are MACHINE WASHABLE! Brilliant in my opinion especially when you have children. We already had a white chair from Ikea that I loved for that very reason, it always looks clean YEA! So the other deal going on at Ikea right this very minute is this.... If you spend a certain amount on living room furniture you get an Ikea gift card in return!!! So because I bought a new couch I got 100.00 from Ikea! YEA again! So anyway I bought a new rug coffee table, lamps and pillows, all thanks to my gift card. I sold my old lamps on KSL (I love that sight) for 70.00, and my old couch for 480.00. I put the money I got from those items towards my new living room. I then painted our armoir and put new hardware on it. So the total amount I spent on my new living room was.........!!! 86.00$$ Fabulous! I am still in the process of making new art work for the room, and making a sofa table for my lamps, but it is just about done! And now here is a before pic of the same room, and the lovely results (I think:) of the new room!

Before Picture of room and armoir

The painted armoir

Mothers Day

So on Mothers Day Nathan had to lead the music in church because that is his calling, and he loves it. So I was out in the hallway with the girls, and it was so cute to watch them! Anytime when we would sing a hymn Becca wanted to get up and dance with Rachel of course wanting to follow, by the end of the meeting Becca had all the kids in the hallway dancing with her (I think the parents thought I was a bad influence:). After church the girls went down for naps, and then my parents and brother Alex came over, and my Dad made dinner! And Nathan cleaned all of the dishes:) Which Nathan usual does anyway. Then we went outside on the patio and just talked and played out by the water fountain. Then Nathans mom and dad came over for a visit. We felt pretty spoiled to have both sets of parents come to our place, I think it should have been the other way around. Anyway Happy Mothers day a little late to all of you Women out there, mothers or not :). I feel so grateful to have 2 wonderful mothers in my life! I just love you guys and appreciate all you do! Here are a few pictures from the day.

Family Pictures!

I am so excited to have these! I have been wanting family pictures for so long, and finally we got them done YEA! Thanks to our good friend Travis Richardson. It was so much to fun, thanks again! You should check out his website! http://www.travisjphotographyblog.com/

I posted a lot on here because we just could not decide we loved so many. Tell us your favorites!

Things I LOVE about Summer time!

Now that I have kids I seriously have gone back to loving Summer like I did when I was a kid! I just get so excited for the girls to wake up from nap time so we can go be outside in the warm sunshine, and play on bikes, and eat Popsicle's and watermelon! YEA! And as soon as our pool opens, we will be in it no doubt just about everyday! I just have so many fond memories of being a kid, and a lot of the best memories include summer time! My sister, little brother and I use to play for hours on end in our sandbox growing up, we would fill it with water and play play play. Riding bikes all day! Bryn I don't remember how old we were but I think for one summer straight you could find us on our bikes everyday! Night games! Oh I loved night games so much, good times:). Disney Land was a summer vacation we did about every summer, and I still love it! Any who as I started writing this post I thought it would be fun to post some pics of me from when I was younger of summer activities, these are not flattering pictures but hope you enjoy!

Disney Land! A major summer favorite! Guess which one I am in this pic.
I am pretty sure that is chocolate all over my face!

I never could pull a normal face in pictures when I was little! This was in our backyard
I believe this was in middle school, and that is Bryn Dahle, and Jessica Burton, with Simba Bryns dog. I loved sleeping outside in the summer! Who didn't?


This was at Del Coronado Beach! I love that place, and I loved this trip because it was just me my mom and my sister so much fun!