Little Dixie!

Kris and Andy took us to what they called, "Little Dixie..." I don't know the real name for it. It was just in the hills right above St. George and there was really easy climbing. We had a good time climbing around and looking out over the city. It's too bad that the rain came and cut our outing short. We will have to do it again next time! Jack loved it.

Happy Easter!

Kris and Andy. The only pic I have of them

Coloring Easter Eggs!


Hunting for eggs with cousins



What a haul!! All he wanted was the candy!

We had fun during Easter this year. We made the annual trek down to St. George with my family. Lauren stayed home due to studying for her finals, but everyone else was there including Jon's girlfriend Taylor and Kris's FIANCE Andy. That's right... Kris is engaged!!!! They are getting married in August and we are so excited!! They are a cute couple.

Our trip was fun, except for the rain on Saturday which caused us to move the family picnic to a nearby church. I don't think the kids minded. They found the nursery room real quick and we were still able to have an Easter egg hunt on the church grounds.

Jack loved staying at his cousin's Courtney's house. They really had a good time together. I don't think I saw him at all on Saturday! He loved coloring Easter eggs, finding his basket, eating all his candy and we tried to talk about Jesus over the weekend so he starts to learn the meaning of it all. He also loved going hiking on Friday night before the storm came. Pictures of that in the next post. I love Easter. Now, if only this **** snow would stop!!!!

New Kitchen!

BEFORE


AFTER

We moved into our house about a year ago. We love our neighborhood and everything, but our house was definitely a step down from where we moved from. We built our first house and we really didn't realize how nice it was to be able to choose your own things and have everything new. When we bought this house... to put it nicely, it was trashed. I don't know what the people who lived here before we thinking, but we seriously had our work cut out for us. We loved the floor plan and did get a really good deal to be able to repaint the ENTIRE house (the walls were DARK brown, pea green and purple) and recarpet and tile the entire house before we moved in. Otherwise, we would not have bought it.

So, it has been a work in progress. After we moved in, we were so sick of painting and everything that we really haven't done anything on the house in about year. (Besides work on the yard... That's a whole other story). But, lately we have really been bugged by a few things in our house. Mainly our kitchen. Our house was built with the cheapest things possible and the cabinets in our kitchen were no exception. They were white-washed oak and had stains and just were really gross. We finally decided to bite the bullet and just restain them. I don't think we really understood what we were getting into... It took us about a week and I don't think I showered the whole time. I think they really look good though!! One thing down... about 50 more to go and the house will really be ours!

Fighting Like Cats and Dogs...

This is how Zoe and our kitty spend most of the day! I don't know if they will ever be great friends, but hopefully they will learn how to tolerate each-other! Zoe is growing so fast and getting so big. I am actually excited for her to get big and a little calmer... hopefully! Jack really does love her though and they are great friends already! The kitty is such a whiner, but I love her anyway.

New to Young Womens....

I was just called as the first counselor in Young Womens in my ward. I am a little freaked out because this is totally out of my comfort zone, but I am really excited. So, I am coming to you, my friends, for advice and ideas. I know that you are all much better at stuff like this then I could ever be. How my ward does it is each presidency member is in charge of a month. We teach the lesson on fast Sunday and are in charge of all the activities for the month. So, I am in charge of May. The theme is Divine Nature. I was thinking about having a "Girl Power" month and tying it into being a woman of God. What I am in need of is a video/song montage of girl power... You know what I am saying... I hope it would be to a churchy type song and show women being amazing.... old, young, moms, carreer women, athletes etc... Has anyone seen something like this?? I have found a few that would work on YouTube, but they aren't really fitting my vision of what I want for the lesson. So... any ideas?? Also, if you have fun ideas for activities... let me know!

Good Example?

I have little ears listening to everything I say these days. Case in point: Sometimes my patience wears thin when training Zoe. I admit that sometimes my temper gets the better of me and I yell various things... I better watch my mouth because today Jack was yelling at Zoe and this is what he said:

"ZOE! STOP IT! RIGHT NOW! I'M GOING TO FREAK OUT!"

HAHA!

Big Boy Bed!

Boo hoo. My little boy is all grown up. I know that we are a little slow in getting Jack out of the crib, but since we don't yet have number 2 on the way, I thought I should take advantage of the bars on the crib and the fact that when he is in there, he stays there! We were lucky and Jack never tried to climb out of his crib, which is why it took us until he was 2 and a half to get him into a bigger bed. So, I was really dreading giving him the freedom to move around on his own and I was also a little nostalgic about the whole thing. I can't believe how fast the time has gone. It seems like just yesterday I was counting down the days until he was born. Now, he is sleeping in a twin bed. Sad.

We finally decided to just get it over with this weekend. We set the bed up on Sunday and so his first night was last night. We did the whole nighttime routine and settled him in. I was so nervous about him actually sleeping that we borrowed a camera baby monitor from my sister and bro in law. They won't need it for a few months (but Shannon is due this week!). Anyway, we set that up and came down and watched as he sang himself to sleep and there he stayed ALL night long! It was really fun watching him go to sleep on that monitor. We might have to buy one for ourselves! I was nervous again about naptime today, and although he had more trouble than last night, he is up there peacefully dozing as I type. I'd say it was a success!