Beautiful Girls

I was taking pictures of Kim for an audition.  And this cute little girl peeks out the window to look at her mama . . . 

My beautiful pregnant daughter . . .

A Delivery

Our washing machine broke down for the last time . . .

Lowe's delivered . . . 

. . . this beautiful new washer dryer set.

Oh, happy day!  Clean underwear for everyone! 

Graduation

Marie graduates from elementary school.  Can it be possible?! 

Dirty Hobby

My adventurous son coming home from a day of caving . . . 

Toes

I am usually very conservative about the color of my toe nail polish in the summer.  But . . . 

I took a friend for pedicures to celebrate her birthday.  I had picked out a very beautiful pink color for myself.  At the very last moment when she was about to brush the first stroke of polish on my toes, I said, "Wait!  Paint them blue!"  And them she added cute little flowers too.

They make me smile every time I look at them.  I may never go back to pink again.

A Broken Arm

With 7 children you might think that we have had several broken limbs at our house.  But this is the first.  Justin jumped from a box trying to grab the top of the jungle gym.  He missed.

The x-ray . . . 

A New Hobby

Todd decided he wanted to add a few more more beehives to our property.  He decided to collect swarms. Here is a swarm up in a tree.

Todd puts on his bee suit.

Carries a box up the ladder into the tree.

Sweeps the bees into the box with a broom.

Closes the box.

Puts the box into the back of the truck and drives home.

He puts a new beehive box out.

And pours the swarm into its new home.

He collected 4 total swarms this spring for a total of 5.  More honey this fall!

Square Foot Garden

A new project for 2012 . . . 

A Chair

A Friend was moving to a new house and didn't have room to take this with her.

Ta da!  I recovered it!

My kids are so excited to not sit on a cold metal folding chair when I cut their hair now!

Institute Choir

I kind of thought we had seen the end of Thomas' choir performance days.  But no.  He's been hanging out at institute choir.  I really enjoyed watching him perform again.

Adding a Name

I finally got our family picture hung on the wall.  I use the term "I" quite loosely here because, in reality,  it was Todd who did the work after I explained to him how much I wanted to get it up on the wall.  And reminded him about several of the last times when I attempted to hang something on the wall.  That's all that needs to be said here.

It was hard to place it at the right height.  I felt like it needed to be lined up with the top of the sconces.  Because I like things all even.  But then everyone would have to strain their necks to look at it.  So we settled on placing it here.  It really needed something more.  It needed a project that would allow me to forget about all the things I needed to get done that day and do something I wanted to do instead.  I think this story sounds familiar . . . 

 The project consisted of a trip to Hobby Lobby, black paint, a paint brush, and some sand paper.  And an afternoon painting letters and scuffing them up a little to look old. 

I am much happier with the picture placement now.

A Letter

A letter came in the mail today from . . . 

 Thomas read the letter . . .

This is what it said . . . 


You are hereby called to serve as a missionary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  You are assigned to labor in the Mexico Villahermosa Mission . . .