The fourth of July

Alright well these pictures are very out of order but don't worry I will guide you through

This is the only happy picture of Grant during our little firework show outside our house he and Lincoln soon went inside and stayed there they wanted no part in the fireworks.

Lincoln checking out the loot.

Grant so excited for fireworks... he just didn't know how much he was going to hate them. Poor guy.

Jackson LOVED every minute of it and our neighbors bought a bunch so he stayed up until 11 watching them. Ben even let Jackson light a couple

On the morning of the 4th we went for a bike ride except first we had to get past these, excuse us geese can we get through?

We stopped for a water break and a silly picture

Grant is such a sweet and sour boy but when he is sweet he is really really sweet and it definetely shows in this picture

Jackson riding ahead

Love this boy he is such a cute boy!

On the saturday before the 4th our ward had a dinner this is me and my faith in god girl LOVE HER!!! (ps if you ever go thrifting take her she is amazing)

Jackson and his best buddy Christian.

Stinky pie the Linky pie he is just fun and can you believe he will be 2 on Monday?!?!?!?

All the kids getting dirty together and hopefully none of them got in the poison Ivy

HOT DOG TIME!!

so sorry

I have to apologize from the bottom of my heart, didn't know it had been so long since I have posted until I saw my last entry and my kids look little! Crazy how they can grow so much in 3 months. Well I guess the other reason for the lack of posts is because since summer hit there really hasn't been much going on other than hanging out at the pool EVERYDAY. I think God knew that if he sent me here in the summer I would have never bought a house here in the south IT IS SO STINKING HOT AND HUMID AND YOU CAN NEVER COOL DOWN UNLESS YOU ARE IN THE WATER! so that is why he sent me to Georgia in the Fall the most perfect time of the year. BOO all I can say is I miss summer in California, but I love the rest of the seasons here in the south.

So here it is my catching up super speed method.

We have this little room we found behind Jackson's bathroom it is about 8 ft by 12 feet and we call it the secret room so we decided it would be a pretty good hideout for the boys so this is mostly taking up ANY spare time Ben has.

This first picture is the entry way ... this use to be a closet in the bathroom but yes our secret room has an entryway in case you have to say a secret word before you enter.

Here is a before picture to show you all the ac pipes we had to move around to get some ac in this room

This picture is all the pipes mostly out of the way

This pic is even before we started anything. It was so gross and tons of insulation everywhere

This is what the boys and I do while Daddy works.

Atlanta Temple open house

We had the opportunity to go to the Atlanta temple as a family, they renovated the temple and it has been closed for the last 2 years and luckily we got to go and tour it before they rededicate it. It was so neat to show the boys what the room looked like that Ben and I were married in, they thought it was so amazing and they loved the baptismal font with the 12 oxen they said that was one of their favorite parts.

There was also some pokemon card trading with cousins
and cute little Lincy pie cheesing it up
And all the cousins!

And some Very Very handsome boys

easter fun!

Today seemed like it lasted forever and the sad part is it's only half over.. Just one of those days, I did get a lot done today so I am not sure what the deal was! Then we got Easter treats in the mail and made everyone smile! This is just the beginning of a fun Easter filled weekend! I hope you all have a wonderful Easter:)

Creatively made

Alright it's time for the inveiling....

I have started a new blog called creatively made.... Many of you want to know how to make some of the things I have made so I thought I would help you all out!

check it out! www.creativelymade.blogspot.com

I KNOW YOU WILL LOVE IT!

Spring Break

We Had such a fun Spring Break.. In fact it didn't even feel like spring break because I didn't get sick of the kids:) We spent most of the week with my friend Wendy and her crew ... Thanks for entertaining us Wendy!

Monday: splash park, Got super duper fried!!! OUCH!

Tuesday: Library, Gym, pizza with Wendy and kids

Had to throw this one in of Linc... A-dorable!

Wednesday: Grant's Birthday, Movie (gullivers Travels) the kids were awesome in the movie theater... think we might be regulars at the movies this summer!!!

Thursday: Park day and prepare for Camping! woo hooo

Friday: Camping!!! we had so much fun camping and the good news is the boys want to go again, we really enjoyed ourselves thanks to Wendy for setting it up! There were 4 families total and the kids had such a good time, and got along for the most part other than the normal Girl drama with tweens it was great!!! Grant was so cute he couldn't wrap his head around that we were staying there to sleep it was a dream come true for him, he could have stayed there all weekend!
filling up for water guns!
AH YEA!!
Even Pinky pie enjoyed himself
The TENT
Roasing marshmallows and hot dogs and if your a kid, any stick you can get your hands on apparently needs to be on fire:)

all the boys!!! yes there were 4 girls as well but none of them were mine
this was Lincoln's favorite chair he took over it... it was a very pretty pink.
Chess game and hot chocolate... nothing better than that for these boys
Grant talking about doing back flips, so serious!
Jackson and his Best buddy Christian, Thanks Christian for being such a good guy and always including Jackson!!!

Breakfast, pancakes, sausage, oj and bacon!!

Lincoln driving us to the field for baseball! We arrived safely.... this is how you do it Georgia style!

Ben found this cute little frog in the yard almost mowed him over. The boys were squealing like little girls, but were sad when we had to let him go.

Grant turns 4!

My sweet Grant turned 4 on the 6th of April, He is such a sweet fun boy he keeps us on our toes and loves to learn new things. He has a mind of his own and is very independent He likes to do things but only on his terms. He is so happy to be 4 although it seems like he has been 4 for a year now and seems like he should be turning 5. We love him so very much and are so grateful to have him in our family!

Birthday party at the park

Wendy doin the thing she does best!