What have I been up to?

All last week was packed with stuff going on. Saturday night we had family movie night and we watched 'The Game Plan' cute movie! Lindsey & Alan dropped their kiddos off. We watched them while they went on a cruise. The kids all got along great and I just had to learn to let some things go for the week. I took a few pictures of some of the fun stuff we did for the week.

Saturday while I did hair Paige took the kids swimming. They had so much fun & were nice and tired when I got them home! The night before Kennedi, Kelsey, Samantha, Bridget, Presley, Paige, Tatum, Sydney & I all went out for a girls night out. Mike and Cody were on the father and sons camp out! We ate at Ruby Tuesdays and then went to the mall. The girls had so much fun, Kelsey looks forward to girls night out every year! Cooper and Carter were suppose to go on the camp out too but, Cooper had a really bad cough & Carter fell off the kitchen counter the night before and had a concussion so no camping for those two.
The weather was so nice we spent a lot of time outside. Roller blading, coloring with sidewalk chalk, bubbles, riding bikes and collecting rocks, leaves, sticks, flowers and so on!
It was cute how every morning Caleb would want to get dressed and go to school with Carter and Kennedi. I found Cody's old back pack and every morning I had it ready for Caleb. Caleb is one happy kiddo he would sing 'best day ever' from Sponge Bob all day long, so sweet!
Presley came to play and we had so much fun painting and playing with play doh.
Our ward had a primary activity so I took all the kids and they had so much fun!
They worked on Mothers day cards and drawing Sponge Bob. Coloring and reading books really seemed to keep them quiet during church. I was so proud of them all we didn't have to take anyone out the whole meeting.
One more kiddo to wrestle didn't seem to slow Mike down one bit!
They had so much fun jumping on the trampoline, playing on the swing set, holding the bunnies and riding the quads. And we can't forget all the dressing up they did. All the little ones took turns wearing the shark costume and chasing the others.

Feelin' Crafty!

Well these last two weeks I have gone from organizing everything & weeding out lots of stuff we just don't use to making cute stuff! Cara made some of these darling flip flops last week & I had to do the same. Old Navy has cute flip flops & right now they are 2 for $5 great deal! I also have been making hair cuties these clips are not done I still need to put rhinestones on a few. Just thought I would share the fun!!!

Let's get out of the heat!

This weekend we decided to take a little road trip up to Payson. The weather was so nice in the high 80's! it even started to rain on our way home. We had some very yummy Mexican food and then found a beautiful park with a lake. It's on Main Street, you can fish and see ducks and next time we will have a picnic. I was so sad I didn't bring my camera!! The kiddos did not want to leave they were having fun throwing rocks in the water and Cody made his own fishing pole.

Memories!

Cousins
After reading Lindsey's post about the toys she loved
when she was younger made me start thinking
about the same thing and just all the fun things
we would do with cousins.
I'm sad I have no pictures of my Allen cousins
on my computer and we did so much with them.

Growing up we would go over to the Allen's or they would come
to our house, we loved to play neighbors (this was really house and dress up)
but that was what we called it. We loved to trade toys before leaving each
others houses and we never liked to leave and got pretty
good at hiding. One time Brooks made it all the way to our house, my dad was not happy!
We would walk to Smitty's and always get yelled at for running
across the golf course. Stacy, Paige and I would walk around and act like we were shopping.

Our other cousins we spent a lot of time with was the Evan's my moms
sisters kids. Oh, I have so many funny stories of the crazy stuff we did
together. Paige, Stacey and I going door to door trying to sell stuff (anything)
or the time we thought we would walk to Taste Freeze! It took us forever
and we only had a dollar so we all three shared an ice cream sandwich. We
got in so much trouble, after that we could never come up to visit Grandma
all together. She paired us up with different cousins, I went with Michael and I
remember having fun and not minding being with Michael. But, my only complaint
was he loved to snuggle! I even asked Grandma if she could get him a teddy bear!
Another time we searched the house for spare change and talked Aunt Cheryl
into taking us to "Castle Rock" I can't remember but I think that was the name.
I could go on and on!!!
Cousins are great I'm so happy I was so close to mine and have such great
memories! I hope my kiddos will have a lot of wonderful ones too!!


Do you have cousins close to you?
What fun things did you do with them?


I can't believe this but I did not have one misspelled word-this is a first!!

The Color Pink

I found a bunch of cute stuff and decided to post it just for the heck of it! My friend Cara has two cute little girls and she is always trying to think of things to do with her house. I thought this pink table would be so perfect for her kitchen. Not that many girls can get away with pink but girl you could pull it off.
I think this bed is so beautiful and elegant! I wish Mike was up for something a little different then our boring brown furniture!
Who doesn't love to look at girlie things! I love all these fun pink and very girlie rooms.

This last one is just fun! A pink grill and bra and panties hanging out to dry!LOL!!