More of Gracie's visit!!!

Our princess Shirts I was talking about earlier!! They LOVED this project!!

Look at Ava's awesome coloring skills!! I am impressed!! I have a little artist on my hands:) She went out of the lines a little but it looks pretty good!

Maykayla's shirt!!!

Gracie's shirt!! Gracie and Makayla got to antsy to wear theirs so they didn't want to finish!! And you can tell on both of theirs that I had to help and add a little color ;)

I think this is were they had the most fun!!! Play-dough while wearing their princess shirts, what more could you ask for :)

HI!!!!

Makayla is trying to give me a scary face.....does this sweet face scare anybody.....nope didn't think so ;)

We love you Miss Gracie!! We will miss you!!
Love, Mike (I know he scares you but he forgives you, hehe) Liz, Ava, Makayla and Jaker Boy!!

Gracie came to stay with us!!!!!!!

So my best friend Julianne was admitted into the hospital 3 weeks ago because her placenta is slowly ripping off and she was only 24 weeks along!!! She is hanging in there but you can just imagine all the stress she must be under!! We are just hoping that little miss Layla can hang in there a few more weeks!!

We were lucky to have her other little girl, Gracie, come up and stay with us!! She is so smart and sweet and is just a blast to have around!! She amazes me at how smart this girl is, so just turned 2 a couple of days ago and she has known her ABC's for a while, what a smartie :) Anyways, we have been having lots of fun while she has been with us we are sad that she has to leave us but I bet she is so excited to see her daddy :) Speaking of daddy...can you imagine what he must be going through too?? I has got to be mamma and daddy and we all know how hard each of those responsibilities are but to combine them.....WOW!!! Praying for this sweet family!!

So in these pictures we made smoothies, which Gracie loved!! We also played on the playground for only about 3 or 4 hours...lol ;) We also colored Princess shirts and we were of course watching Beauty and the Beast while we colored!! And we also had a blast playing with play-dough, but those pics are coming later! We went on a scavenger hunt outside and we found lots of fun things, you should have seen the girls...they had their magnifying glass looking at everything, it was a lot of fun and you could tell the girls really enjoyed it. I was bummed cause i forgot my camera on our walk but I have great pictures in my head :)

Over all, I think we had a pretty great time and I hope that Gracie will want to come back and see us soon!! Thanks for coming sweetie and you will be one missed little girl around here ;) Love you Gracie!!!!!!!

Jaker Boy was trying to eat the wood chips and Gracie would come over and save the day :)

Ava showing off what she can do!!

This was really funny in person....they played this little game...Gracie would talk to Jake and Jake would take out her binki and then put it back and that repeated over and over and over again!! Again...really funny in person!!

Good thing Michael was at clinic with the car or we would have had one noisy parking lot ;)

They were such good little buddies!!! Makayla has found a new friend...we will add her to the other 2...lol!!! If you know Makayla, you will know what I am talking about..hehe :)

I wanted one picture with this sweet girl but she wanted to go and play...can ya tell ;)

She LOVED our smoothie we made!! She drank it all gone...that a girl :)

She was calling Jaker over with this stick like he was a puppy, haha!! And yes...Jaker totally fell for it,he crawled to her every time :)

I love my family!

Wow...I am so overwhelmed with this home sick feeling tonight!! I just want to let a tear or two but I just think I will look crazy :)

I was thinking a lot about when I grew up in Georgia, and in lots of ways I would love to forget some things...don't we all...but the good definitely out weighed the bad. See...the wonderful thing about the south is that even if you take away all of the wonderful people and their sweet hospitality, the feeling of just being there makes me all giddy inside!! I absolutely love that feeling and the person I turn into when I am back home! Michael has a hard time understanding that, he says that I have lived in Utah for about 8 years now so I should call this place home ;) but honestly my heart and soul will always be in the south :)

I couldn't help but look back on my childhood today as I was doing the dishes. It was very bitter sweet for my family, but I think a lot of our experiences that we went through strengthened us in some way or another, big or small. I look back all the time and just wish that I could go out our the pond and go fishing or the times that Chelsea and I would go out front and build the best fort ever. I miss the feeling of our ward. I miss the lemonade stands that Chelsea and I would make and the fact that we only made a profit because of our sweet neighbor:) I miss when Michael would chase me around the house with craw fish. I miss the tomboy I used to be. I miss how I was never afraid of anything and how much of a dare devil I was. I miss the relationships with the missionaries we had. I miss having to get in the bathtubs every time there was a tornado warning. I miss all the friendly faces I would see everyday and all the sweet spirits in my life. I could honestly go on forever about what I miss about Georgia but most of all, I am so thankful for the relationship that I have with my family. I think the way we were brought up, made us the wonderful family we are today. We may have stupid issues with someone at some point but over all each and everyone in my family will drop everything in that moment to help out another sibling and I am so blessed to have that comfort in my life, and as hard as life was and as much as we went through, it was the happiest time of my life and I am so thankful for those memories. I love my family!!!

Hippity Hoppity Easter Sign!!

So, I was down in Cedar City with my wonderful sister in law and we made these!! I love how they turned out!! I have been wanting this since I was married but never managed to have any time, so almost 5 years later I made one ;) We made a sign that spells Spring and I will post those pics later, super cute as well!!

hey, look what I made Art Board!!

I have seen these around and have been wanting to make some for the kiddos!! I am loving these so much and was completely shocked at how easy these were to make!!

I went to Home Depot and bought an 8in. width board for about $10 bucks BUT I will be able to make 3 signs so you are looking at about $3.30 for the board! I bought white, pink and green paint which all together it cost around $1.50! The vinyl about another $.50! The most expensive part was the clamps on the bottom to hold the art work. You need 5 of them and they come 2 to a pack, so you will need 3 packs. I went to Robert's Crafts (any craft store will have some version of them) and they were $2.99 a pack. They go on sale every now and then but I really wanted them so I just paid for them so, for me, it was another $9, but you can get them o sale if you plan it out. So this board cost me $14 and I am so happy with how it turned out and so are my kids!! Now I just have 2 more to make :)

My kids door signs!!

K, so I have been wanting to put signs on my kids door for a while now but have just lacked the time!! So, after Makayla and Jaker Boy went to bed last night, Ava and I had a lot of fun making these door signs for their bedrooms. They are very simply but that is what I like ;)

Jake's sign cost me ruffly $1.50!!! I got the wooden circle at Hobby Lobby. It was $.99 but it was 50% off so I got it for a whopping $.50!! The scrapbook paper was another $.50 and the vinyl was about another $.50!! I just mod podged the paper on the wood sign and cut the vinyl and placed it where I wanted it then took a distressed ink pad and took it around the edges and voila it is done!! So simply but cute!!

I really like this one!! This one cost me about $2.70!! I bought the wood plaque at Hobby Lobby for only $2.00! It was on sale, of course!! I painted it pink which was about $.20! Then took a cutip and white paint and dotted it all up :) Then finally the vinyl which cost about $.50! The girls saw this and said...."Oh my goodness mommy, it is beautiful, I love it!!" Ahh....just the reaction I wanted!!

Cowgirl up!!!

This one of my favorite pictures!!

He did what I thought he would....eat rocks, should make for an interesting diaper later :)

Another favorite!! Little Miss Makayla loves going for rides with her daddy!!

Jaker Boy taking it all in.....and about to fall asleep!!

Yep....she was dressing Max Puppy up with hay....looks good on him ;)

She realized I was watching her!!

Our little cowgirls!!

Dave doing what he loves!!!

Daddy hanging out with his proud little boy!!

Jake's first horse ride!!

Is he too scared.......?

Nope, you made daddy proud :)

Making a pile of hay for the horses....

Come and get it horses :)

Savanna trying to keep the hay from blowing in her eyes!

Ava thinks she is soooo strong but she didn't realize that Dave was helping her ;) We will let her think she is super woman!!

Best Buds!!

They were trying to do their mean faces!!

And their funny faces :)

Savanna was driving all by herself.....scary!!! Just kidding, she did do good!!

Amberlee pulling Dave cause the hook fell off the 3 wheeler, how sweet is she :)



We had so much fun in Cedar with Dave, Amberlee and Savanna!! They are always so welcoming and sweet every time we are there and they always show us a good time!! Me and Amberlee had lots of fun making crafts and trying out new recipes, pics are coming soon, while the boys played around in the shop like they always do :) The kiddos had way too much fun cause they didn't want to leave!! It is always hard leaving there!! Love you guys and can't wait to come back soon :)