United States Navy

It's official!!! Kevin is now Property of the United States NAVY!!! We are so excited for this new step in our lives and we can't wait to get it going. It seems that everything takes a rather long time to get going with the Military. We are still waiting to see what schooling and job Kevin will do, so we will keep you up to date with that news. As of right now we aren't sure when he will leave for Basic training but we should be able to have a normal family summer together. Which as most of you know we have never really had a NORMAL family summer. We are excited to have an Idaho Falls 4th of July!!! ( I'm totally biased, everywhere else has lame 4th of July's) :) We have been to our Nation's Capital and New York City for the 4th and both were hot, muggy and raining, you couldn't even see the fireworks, because the smoke would just hang in the air!!Also, to go on camping trips and family reunions!! It should be great fun! Thanks to everyone who has helped us on our journey to the Navy and for all of the advise!! We love you all!!!



* Here is a picture of Kevin with some of the stuff they gave him... lol... I'm not gonna lie, the Navy doesn't have the most attractive uniforms... but I think he's pretty good lookin!!

Project!!!

We started re-finishing our piano about 2 weeks ago! Here is a picture of when we first got the piano. It looks so sad... note the bench that's what we just worked on..

We started with the bench, I thought it would be the easiest to do. We had to strip off the old stain, sand, re-stain and put on the gloss coat. It took forever!!! Really it wasn't to bad the worse was getting the old nasty junk off. Here's a pic of how the bench looked after we got done stripping and sanding it.
Here is the after! We did a black stain and a super high gloss! I think after we get the whole piano finished it's going to look sooooooo much better! I can hardly wait! Although... the piano is going to be not so much fun.. :(Now the bench with the piano! It looks so much better up against the piano. Now comes the fun part of doing that whole piano!! Wish us luck!

Slumber Party

So, I get the kids in bed tonight and I can hear them messing around in their room. They do this every night so I wasn't to surprised that they hadn't passed out. After about 20 minutes I decided that I needed to go in and settle things down again... this is what I witnessed....
Honestly, this melts my heart. I love my kids with my whole heart and I'm so grateful for the things that they teach me every single day.

-Yellowstone-

Kevin's parents and our family planned a trip back in February to go to Yellowstone in May. We thought it would be great weather by then and so we planned it out and set off!! I kept looking at the weather reports for this last weekend and it never looked very promising but we decided to tough it out...

Friday night we got up to our camp ground and set our tent up next to a great pile of snow. We had a heater to put in our tent and 2 cans of propane to keep warm, we thought we would only need one... well, the first tank ran out at about 11:30. Grace climbed in our bed at about 2 in the morning and really Kevin and I didn't mind... she kept us warm!! The next tank ran out at about 5 in the morning. Right after the last of our heat we had to pull Eyan into bed, then Grace freaked out, jumped out of bed and threw up. By this time, Cahlin had woken up. We all got out of the tent and went for a 2 hour joy ride. It was great, we couldn't get warm enough in the car!

We did enjoy having our very first true camping experience as a family. Cahlin got to roast his first hot dog and experience a S'more for the first time! He had so much fun, it was lots of fun to share this first with Grandma and Grandpa!

On our morning ride, we saw a bear chasing down a herd of Bison!!! We couldn't believe it! It was so amazing to watch. We got a video of it, but we were driving and it gets a little shaky, so sorry! But enjoy it's extremely cool to watch!




Then we headed to Old Faithful to see all the geysers there!



After the Geysers we went over to the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone... it was amazing! I had no idea something like that was in Yellowstone. It was breath taking. We forgot our camera in the car for that spot. Great! The next stop was Mammoth Hot Springs... my 2nd favorite spot! Holy cow!!! Yellowstone is freaking awesome!!! We've got to go back!!! Here are a few more scrap pages from our trip.... enjoy!!!

*****MEMO******

I just wanted to let everyone know that we have more than one updated post up! We didn't want anyone to miss out! Kevin always worries that not everyone notices more than one post! So, for Kevin's sake please, note all posts that are recent!!! Thanks all!! :)

Dancing Disappointment

Usually I have to say that I don't really like Dancing with the Stars I think it's kinda old people.. ish... so, I have never really been a fan of it. I'm more into the type of dancing that you see on So You Think you Can Dance. But I noticed before this new season of Dancing with the Stars came on that they had quite a few people that I liked on the show. Melissa from the bachelor, Shawn Johnson and a few more. I had never really heard of Chuck Wicks because I'm not a Country music type person. But I totally loved him!! Anyways, He got kicked off this last week.... :( sad. He really wasn't a very good dancer but he was SO funny and I always loved his jokes and his presence. Just thought I'd give a lil shout out about it... does anyone else watch this? Who do you think will win? :) Have a super Monday!!! BTW, it's MAY!!!!!!! WOOT!!! Happy May day!


Here's one of my favorites of his dances. This was probably his best one tho. Enjoy!!

Fort time

After a great day at church we decided to have a family bonding night... we made a FORT!!! We haven't made one of these since Cahlin was like 18 months! It was tons of fun, Kevin gets very serious about his forts and so it usually is a long process to get going. He ended up not going to crazy with it, but it turned out good enough! Eyan just loved it, he had a great time crawling in and out and through the chairs, he also had fun caving it in!!!

Before

4 blankets and all of our chairs later...

The boys wrestling inside

This was Cahlin's hair after his adventure!!! Isn't he the most handsome thing EVER!!!!