Family Reunion

This weekend we went up Logan canyon to our annual Israelsen family reunion at the cabin. It's always so fun to go and visit with cousins, some I hadn't seen for more than 6 years!


And I guess since I still can't organize my pics in the right order, we'll start off with a pic of our front living room that is finally all done. A little bit of a tight squeeze with our monster big couches, but we made it work.

And on to reunion fun. Here's Brooklyn eating some of Makayla's candy...

And making noises...
...and being cute.

Showing dad her candy loot from the candy grab.
The candy grab...insanity.
This was one of two tables completely full of candy!!

And the candy cannon, always a favorite. Who doesn't like watching candy shoot out of a big cannon and hearing the big loud BOOM!
I don't know if we somehow missed the other events like the fishpond and the craft/games or if they just didn't happen this year. Kind of a bummer. But we still had an awesome time!
I wish I had taken pictures of the Logan River...it's higher than I have ever seen it in my 18 years living here. In the back yard of Glen's cabin the water comes within a few feet of the cabin. And it's a pretty big yard. The river is literally flowing through it. It's crazy!! And along the road up the canyon the river is within inches of coming onto the roadway. I really should have taken pics. Maybe this next weekend. We are tentatively planning a Bear Lake trip. So we'll see if it's still as high then.

A Place to Call Home

The last 2 weeks have been a little chaotic around here. With all sorts of little surprises with the new house, unpacking, moving things around, cleaning and cleaning and cleaning...I haven't had much free time. But here's a little peak at what we've been up to.

And it appears my pictures have loaded in backwards order...so we'll start with Makayla's dance class. She is in LOVE with it. The pictures are kind of crummy cause I was taking it through a window, and trying not to look like the geeky mom taking a million pics of her kid. Especially since no one else was taking any pictures...hello!? It was super cute, I don't see why they weren't.
That's Makayla on the left. She's the youngest in the class by about a year. They didn't have enough preschoolers for her class, so they put her in with the older kids, and she keeps up great!


Kind of a dark one, but it's my fave.

Getting ready!
And here's some house pics. This is the before of the living room, with all the previous owners stuff still in here.
I painted the bottom part a nice chocolate brown. Now we have furniture and pictures and everything in here, but I haven't taken pics yet.
This is the AFTER pic of the downstairs. We got some couches and a rug. We LOVE it, plus it's the coolest room in the house, since we don't have AC.
This is the before pic.
This is Jason in the middle of painting our bedroom. I don't remember what he was laughing at. Probably me being a picture nerd.
The room was so dark. It was kind of cool, red marbled look, but just not our taste. Plus they did a horrible job and there was red paint all over the crown moldings and baseboards. So we did a nice light green and still need to go over the trim. But it looks SO much better already.
This was the before.
There you have it. Jason is painting the garage, which was just drywall and looked icky. But that's boring and driving me nuts, so I didn't take any pics of that...:)
We still have boxes everywhere and some in storage...we'll be unpacking for probably the next two months the rate we're going...ugh.
And now, I'm off to watch Toy Story 3 with Makayla instead of unpack another box...see what I mean? I just can't bring myself to do it.

At The Zoo

With only one really good sunny day last week, we took advantage and went down to Hogle Zoo with Ashley. We had a blast! Now, the zoo isn't really anything that great, it has a couple cool things, but we like to go to St. Louis zoo when we go visit Jason's fam, and nothing really compares to that. Plus, that one is free! But this is still pretty fun to go spend a day.




They are both getting so big. I was still pretty nervous just sitting Brookie there, but Makayla played her big sister role well, and held her pretty good.

Towards the end of the day she started to get tired, so she got a lift from Daddy. Even though it was like 80 degrees and it probably didn't feel that great having a kid on your shoulders when it's that hot.

Brooklyn just chilled in her stroller and had a good time.
This was what I wanted to do...lay in a pool.
My faves.

My other faves!!
The kiddos were so worn out by the end of the day, they snoozed all the way home, which is rare. Next time, it's slumber party with aunt Ash!! Makayla talks about it alot!! She sure loves her aunt Ashley.

A Day in the Sun

We have been soaking up the sun the last 2 days. It has definitely NOT felt like June around here. We have sun for most of the day, then in the late afternoon it gets FREEZING!! What is up with that!?
So while the sun is out and hot, we are out playing!

We went down to Willow Park for the annual Cache School district cookout. And the sun was out for about 15 minutes, and then it got SO COLD...so we only stayed about 40 minutes, then left.
Swinging!! They both loved it!

Then we played outside in my parents front yard the next day.



Bike riding!! Makayla has mastered the big wheel. For the longest time she couldn't reach the pedals! Now she's cruising all over the place!

Bring on SUMMER!!!

Lately

We've had a bunch of things going on lately, trying to get ready for this new house, and all that goes with it...
We decided to take Makayla's bed and sand it down and paint it white, so it would be all cute and ready for her new room. It turned into quite the project, and took most of the day, since half the bed we ended up having to do by hand. We got one coat of paint on, and it still needs one more, then it will be done! Jason sanded, I painted. It rocked.




This was Makayla trying to block Brooklyn from coming outside. I couldn't resist. It was super funny.
We also realized that we will now have two separate living rooms, one upstairs and one down. And since we only had one set of couches, you see the problem. We didn't really want to move in and be sitting on the floor, in an empty room. So we took advantage of some really super awesome Memorial Day sales and bought a new sofa/love seat set!! We love them. However, it was the ONE set of couches in the store that did not come with cute pillows. So any pillow suggestions would be greatly appreciated!! Thank you in advance. ;)



So I guess that's it. I thought we had done something else, but the last two weeks are a jumbled mess in my head. All I have to go by are the pictures I took, and I didn't take very many unfortunately. But guess what...we will have 2 guest rooms and couches now for people to come stay!! So DO IT! But maybe sometime after July...;)

Rice Pudding and two farewells

I have rediscovered my love for Rice Pudding, and have made it probably way more lately than I should be, seeing as how me and Makayla are basically the only ones that eat it! Can you tell that she likes it? She needed two spoons to get the maximum amount of food in her mouth at once.


Then we celebrated Jason's birthday on the 15th! He was kind of spoiled this year! ;)
And...I did not give him a candle, that was thrown in a gift bag to throw the weight, and keep him guessing. He's the biggest snoop, and a reaaaally good guesser.

and my poor mom in the background a day or two before going in for surgery on her arm.


My dad's last game as head coach of Sky View's boys soccer team. 16 plus years, it was finally time to say goodbye. He will still be coaching the girls team.


And perhaps the saddest farewell of all. We sold my little Honda Civic this month. I seriously cried when I watched it drive off down the street, with someone else behind the wheel, never to return...sheesh...I'm gonna start crying again. Who knew someone could be so attached to a car!? It was my baby, it carried my first baby for the first 2 years....lots of awesome memories in that little car. She took good care of us for 10 years! So long old friend.

A Litte News

So...this will be our house soon!!
Hooray!!!!!!!!!
We are kinda a little bit excited.