SU....SUPRISE!

Rachel woke in a great mood thurs morning (my moms bday) and threw a spontanous trip together for my moms birthday. With in 4 hours Rachel, Faith and I got rid of our kids, convinced our hubbies to take over for the night, got meals planned, grandma in on the surprise and we were up in payson just in time for a fabulous BBQ dinner! It was great seeing moms reaction, and fun seeing grandma play such a great part. This was true girls night! We played cards, had fun girly chatter late into the night (i think grandma took the later hour better than i did) we woke had a fantastic breakfast, enjoyed the weather outside on the porch and then it was time to go back and get our children. Back to reality! HAPPY BDAY MOM, YOU DON'T LOOK A DAY OVER...35! LOVE YA

LOL!!!!

A few days ago Justin and I were talking and we were trying to figure out what Paris wanted for lunch. Justin says to her do you want a wiener and Paris kinda giggled and I said a "wiener" is another funny name for "hot dog" daddy likes to use. And as the conversation was happening I thought, wonder how long that one is going to take to come back around...


TONIGHT Justin was using the bathroom and not shutting the door in true manly fashion & Paris walks down the hall...
Paris -daddy why are you using the hall bathroom?
Daddy- I dunno it was closest.
Paris (kind of stutters)-Well when your done "hot dogging" it come to my room!
& walks out!

Reality In Perspective

So Paris loves to take pictures of anything and everything, as we were leaving today she was snappin shots and took one of me. When I went back to look at the picture my first thought was holy crap I'm HUGE! MIRRORS ARE SO DECIEVING! Then my second thought was seriously I don't think I was any bigger than what I am NOW when I HAD PARIS! And then putting time into perspective, I am just about 6 months, if this was my pregnancy with Paris this would be over in 9 WEEKS! Then reality hits and they are watching me pretty good this time, so I will probably go full term, which means I have 19 weeks to go! Man I'm gonna be GIGANTIC!

TAKING MATTERS INTO HER OWN HANDS

I swear I have been doing nothing but clean this house for the past week! But here's the deal... Justin has only 2 jobs around this house, dishes after dinner and trash when its full! Well he has been home "sick" the past 2 days and he thinks that in titles him free of EVERYTHING! So after dinner last night he didn't do dishes and I didn't do dishes! Needless to say they were still in there the following night (IT'S THE PRINCIPLE) so Paris decided that she was tired of seeing the dishes in the sink & piling up so.....

We didn't even know till we heard the water running and we went in there to yell at her to turn it off! She just turned to me and said I LOVE YOU! DANG SHE'S CUTE!

SWIMMIN BY END OF SUMMER!

For the past couple days all I have been doing is cleaning and trying to organize this house, which seems never ending! Paris, needless to say is quite bored and sick of sitting in the house! Faith and the boys left to Pine so we thought we would go over there and use their pool while they were away! And yeah as this is normally not something exciting to post about, this time it is! Paris was so eager (and has been begging me) to try swimming with out a life vest or floaties! Since the water had been too cold for me to get in this is all she has been getting. But today was hot and she was by her self in the pool and I thought now would be a good time to see what she can do!

Well the first couple times she swam to me she kind of panicked, but with in minutes she was swimming almost no problem! She was awesome! By the end of the hour she was swimming by herself to the noodle in the middle of the pool!

WOW I am shocked! By end of summer Jonah won't be able to leave her behind on the step! Way to go Paris, Mommy couldn't be more proud!

Follow up to name post

So the names have been narrowed down to three...

RYDER is on top but,

River and Hawk are still in the running!

Thanks to you all who have played along and gave your imput!

YOU ROCK SUCKA! (lol)

(for now) FOR THE MOST PART, ITS DONE!!!!

I AM SO PROUD OF MY MAN! We have always talked about how we would like to be productive and remodel a ran down house, well we got the oppertunity sooner than we thought! Because we have never attempted such a chore we were a bit reluctnant to take on the challenge not sure we could do it! And as it certainly hasn't been easy it has really done us BOTH good to do the labor work! AND A HUGE THANK YOU MY DAD, KAREN AND DAMON (& Justin really did get a lot of volunteers to help us out) TO BRAD & EMMY, JESSE, JOSH, REX & LU (and girls) JOE, TYLER, RYAN, todd!Mara & faith for babysitting! I MUST SAY THOUGH THE" MVB" (most valuable brother) GOES TO BRAD (& Emmy) they were the first ones there and the last to leave, I think the first weekend we worked on the house they spent probably 30 HOURS in 3 days! And just about the same on the 2nd weekend ALL THE WHILE NEVER COMPLAINING & A SMILE ON THEIR FACE! "that's what family is for" as Brad would say while sincerely meaning it! WOW our THANKS just isn't enough!



FLOORING- 15OO dollars

PAINT FOR AN ENTIRE HOUSE- 1000 dollars

FAMILY THAT IS THERE TO HELP - *PRICELESS*


OH and Justin has found out just how to turn me on! Nothing is better than watching Justin sweat and not by playing sports! ; )