Peterson Family

January and New Years

2012-01-15T16:24:00.000-07:00

New years we had dinner with Janae dad and the rest of the family it was fun!

Chuck and Remi

Grandpa Kallen cuddling with Hudson

Scott and Cheyane playing prince and princess at preschool

At our house you can't leave anything out or a little mouse named Hudson will get to it.

His face is pink because he was "Helping" me paint

I started taking a cake decorating class at Michael's it has been so much fun to learn some new skills!

cutting the top off the cake so it is flat and that way they will leave my cake alone because they get to eat the top.

My first cake

My second cake

Josh got the fish tank stand all done so we moved the fish over last week it was a lot of work we filled 14 5 gallon buckets with water fish sand and rocks!

Half of our fish in the bucket, they were not very happy the purple fish on the left of the pic has disappeared so hopefully he is still alive in there.

The other half of the fish! Our starfish is HUGE he is bigger than the bottom of the bucket!

This is what the water looked like when we first put it in there it was impossible to see but eventually the sand settled

And this is what it looks like now.

Some of our fish

We tried doing a retake of the kids pictures and Hudson's they turned out better but not as good as I had hoped, but I let them play at the park after.

We went to the fun park last week it was fun their favorite part was dancing in the skating area because no one was in there.

I thought it was so funny Hudson would put both of these on his ears and pretend to talk on the phone. My favorite thing he does now is he plugs his ears and then talks and laughs and likes to listen to me and see if he can still hear me, What a silly kid.

Christmas

2012-01-14T23:15:00.000-07:00

Christmas eve was SO MUCH FUN! We had lots of family over and some good food! During the day josh wanted to watch football all day so I set up another TV in the kitchen so the kids and I could watch Christmas movies with Jaxon aren't they cute!

After dinner we decorated our ginger bread house.

Allie and Cheyane

Chuck and Remi

Hudson helping us make the ginger bread houses except he just likes to test the candy and make sure it tastes good!

We acted out the nativity it was a lot of fun!

The three wise men Paul, Adam, Kallen and little sheep Hudson

Chuck was the donkey and boy he was a fantastic donkey if I must say so myself the girls letting him practice! ha ha ha

Mary (Remi) Joseph (Josh) Donkey (Chuck)

Doesn't Mary look beautiful!

The Shepperd's (Tia, Linsey, Allie, Ariane) and their sheep (Hudson)

At the sable with baby Jesus (Dolly)

The Beautiful Angels (Hailee, Cheyane, and yours truly)

and last but not least the producer (Grandma Nae) Good job thanks for putting it all together.

Allie, Chuck, and Tia

After the Nativity we played Christmas bingo and opened some Christmas eve presents The kids all made everyone hand print ornaments so I decided to make Janae one too! I love her reaction in this pic it makes me laugh! Isn't it beautiful!

Presents from Santa

Hudson's Car

Remi's puppet show and Cheyane's doll

Remi coming out to see what Santa brought

Cheyane so excited!

Yes they are looking at it and no they don't look excited but trust me they were, I think they were in shock.

Hudson went right up and got into his car!

Remi checking out her puppet show

Cheyane and her doll and shoes

putting on their first puppet show

He LOVES his car

I love how excited he is!

Oh yea I made Josh one too!

My cute girls!

so excited for her toothbrush and watch!

Glitter nail polish

After we opened presents we went to Ariane and Adams house for breakfast and it was DELICIOUS!

CUTE!

For Christmas I made Kallen a photo book and he LOVED it he still talks about it and wants me to make him more of them!

Playing in Hailee's new tent

After Breakfast we went to church and then went to Dad and Janaes to have dinner and open presents

It has been a while since Christmas so I was looking through my pics and of course I find these and think oh who took these and then remembered oh yea it was me, can't get through a holiday without a few funny face pictures of yourself right....right!

me and Allie

All in all we had a great holiday Merry Christmas everyone!

Oh december where did you go?

2012-01-14T22:03:00.003-07:00

On Remi's birthday she was the VIP (she used to call it GPS! ha ha ha) She got to wear her crown and tell her class special things about her make a poster with her pictures on it and she got to be in the middle of the circle while they sang happy birthday and try to blow the candles (her classmates) down it was really fun to be able to spend the day with her and Hudson and Cheyane got to have lunch with her at school.

We went to the Salt Lake City lights it was fun we went with Josh's family we went to cabelas, quilted bear, the mall, Dinner it was so much fun!

Luckily Janae and dad invited us to their Christmas party and it was so fun they had fun music and Santa came so the kids got to sit on Santa's lap and tell him what they wanted for Christmas.

Remi said she wanted a puffet show (puppet show)

Hudson luckily just made it through without crying

Cheyane said she wanted a doll

after Allie and all the kids played duck duck goose

The girls got invited to Jaxon's party and got to make fun decorations

Hudson and I joined the party too!

We went to the grinchy story time it was so much fun! Ms Karen was telling the story when all the sudden the REAL grinch came in with her grinchy attitude and told her story it was so much fun to watch I enjoyed it I am sure the kids did too! ha ha ha

Thanks to Remi's friend Tayeshin we got to go to the fun park because they had some great discount tickets! We had so much fun!

Projects

2011-12-12T11:40:00.000-07:00

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Josh and I have been trying to finish tons of projects and I have also been doing lots of crafts and on Helena's request she told me to post them on here and seeing that she is the only one that comments on my posts I may as well ha ha ha.

My cute Christmas tree

Jingle

Finally finished all my stockings and just in time!

I made these red berry Christmas ornaments and I love them!

My photo blocks

Snowman squared

My burlap wreath

Wood presents

Let it snow

Mistletoe, sugar plums, candy canes

Days till Christmas

Give thanks

Framed Button P

Main salon wall the middle frame will have my prices

Salon window

Josh made our garage some shelves and we finally got all the tools out of there and we can park in there now! Its a tight squeeze but we fit.

Yesterday josh suprised me by finishing Hudson's room it looks so great thanks josh!

Remi's 5th birthday

2011-12-12T11:18:00.000-07:00

Remi's party was so fun we did a medieval theme she wanted a princess one but because I knew there would be so many boys. This was her invitation.

Her cute tangled cake

Cake and candy bar

We did a little photo booth it was so much fun!

Grandpa Kallen

Aunt Linsey

Jaxon

Cheyane

Emma

Ariane and Adam

Hudson and Josh

Remi and her school friend taiden.

Allie and her "friend" Brady

Katie

Taeyshin and Jessica (Remis other school friend)

Molly and Marissa (neighbors)

Will and Marissa

Taiden he is such a hoot!

Remi and Allie

Andres (neighbor)

Lisa, Emma, and Olivia (neighbors)

and their baby Lilly

Suzette and Keonie

Allie and I

Bishop Law (our old bishop Remi wanted to invite him and it was so nice of him to come)

Jaxon, Hayden, and Johnny

Grandpa paul

Grandma Nae

Princess Kallen

Ring toss

Bean bag toss

Pinata we made it ourselves isn't it pretty!

Singing happy birthday

Blowing out the candles with a little help from jaxon ha ha ha

Presents, she got so many amazing presents what a spoiled girl!

Her boy barbie she wanted! :)

All the kids!

Allie and her "friend" I love this picture!

Brady blowing bubbles for the kids while we cleaned up

Blog Overload

2011-12-12T00:25:00.001-07:00

We had a dance party last time I taught preschool it was so much fun to watch the kids!

Remi brought home a little present from school the flu she threw up 4 times in a 2 hr period we ended up sleeping on the couch and washing her sheets twice. She started feeling better after a few days of tiredness and fever. A few days ago Hudson threw up while he was sleeping. And then tonight Cheyane threw up all over....well hopefully now it is gone but we will see lets just say our washer has gotten some good use out of it lately.

The day before thanksgiving we tried making Gak I remember making it before when I was little so I thought it couldn't be too hard right? NO I could no figure out how to make it I tried 2 different ways I found and neither of them worked for us they were just slime but the girls still liked playing with it but their hands were blue for a few days after! ha ha ha

We got to go to the nutcracker with our good friends Katie Emma and Casey it was so much fun and me and the girls had so much fun dressing up We will for sure try this again!

Turkey Day

2011-12-11T23:33:00.002-07:00

We had a great thanks giving just wish we could have spent it with all of the family! We had a lovely dinner filled with 2 turkeys ham rolls funeral potatoes yada yada yada, All in all it was wonderful! Here is a plethora of photos of our fabulous day!

The girls made turkey centerpieces they were so cute!

Grandpa Kallen with all his grand kids

Cheyane doesn't like me to take her pics anymore so I always get some crazy face or the back of her head.

The girls and their cousin Hailee

We got turkey disease! :)

I decided I wanted to start a new tradition for thanksgiving so we all wrote down 10 things we were thankful for and all the kids too (Remi came up with and wrote down all of hers on her own!) We read them and tried to guess who wrote it. It was fun and I plan on doing it again next year!

Some of the things Remi was thankful for; School, family, friends, Scripture power, Jesus, food, Grandma.

Cheyane; Friends, family, Grandpa far away, school, grandma, Hudson, Hailee, church.

We also went over to Grandma Nae and Grandpa DuRees

This is Josh's "stop taking a picture of me face" but he wouldn't give me a good picture so I kept trying but this is what I ended up with.

Hudson's faceplant too funny not to post

2011-12-07T00:04:00.000-07:00

There are 3 post today! :)

Snow snow snow

2011-12-06T23:54:00.000-07:00

We have had a few good snow storms and we got to play in the snow it was a blast.

The first snow storm

The girls getting me with snowballs

Hudson and Josh were inside so we threw snowballs at the window.

Our beautiful snowman (before he had a Mohawk)

We mad our snowman a snow girl and she didn't do so well so we made her into a slide and finally gave our snowman a Mohawk apparently that's how my children think that is how boys wear their hair. ha ha ha

Our beautiful Christmas tree

Snow part 2 This time we brought Hudson out with us. He had fun until he face planted and got hit by a snowball.

Aunt Allie helping build a snowman

Snowball fight

Eskimo Remi

Still happy even after the snow incidents.

Josh turned 29

2011-12-06T23:03:00.000-07:00

Josh had a birthday and I am just getting to posting about it. We went to dinner at Texas Roadhouse (one of his favorite restaurants) His family and my dad and Janae all got to join us it was so fun!

We then went home and had some yummy cake made by yours truly don't drool over the cake too much it sure was delicious!

Josh bought himself a new bed for his birthday he hated our bed and I must admit so did I It came in this little box all rolled up and then you unrolled it cut the airtight bag and watched it grow it was actually pretty cool This is josh before we let it "grow" now our bed was big before but now that we have a 12 inch matres it is huge and we have to climb onto the bed he needs to defiantly lower the bed a little bit.

A little bit of everything

2011-11-21T22:00:00.000-07:00

Remi got to go on another exciting field trip adventure at school and I got to go with them again with Hudson, Cheyane was at preschool during the field trip again. They got to go to Lees marketplace and see all the cool things there including their bakery, backroom with stacks and stacks of bananas in their multiple freezers and fridges, they got to go back behind where they stock their milk and they got to see the trucks unloading and stacks and stacks of diet coke, and they even got to get a free doughnut! Then we went to fire house pizzeria they got to see the back area and their big fridge the fire baking ovens and even watch them through the dough up in the air and got to taste the delicious pizza themselves! It was a good time and I am always so glad when I get to go and join them. Remi and Taiden are still best friends Remi always seems to loose him and this one time she was wondering around saying "Taiden" when he got tired of trying to get her attention and grabs her hand and say "I'm right here come on Remi" ha ha ha I love these pictures it like where's waldo but with Remi, can you find her?

This kind of shows how crazy they are on the bus!

The salon is looking great we are so close to being done! Josh has done such an amazing job and I am so proud of him I have kind of let him have free reign on the wood and he has picked some very nice stuff and made it look really nice, I told him as long as you get it done and do it quickly and it looks nice I don't care! :) Its kind of hard to tell but the wood is a dark stain it is almost a chocolate color.

Tonight Remi and Cheyane got to go to a daddy activity through Remi's school. They got to go to Lowe's and build a few ornaments for our tree. Remi looked so cute with all her stuff on, Cheyane wouldn't put her stuff on.

I don't know where my kids get their crazy faces from, it sure is a mystery!

We got to go to the fun park. Josh was busy working on the salon stuff and me and the kids got sick of sitting at home and that is what the girls wanted to do! They have so much fun playing the games they don't even care that there is soft play, bowling, or roller skating. They are just like their parents, that is one of our favorite things to do.

Hudson had an accident with my straightening iron. I was getting ready I turned it on went in the other room to get dressed and I hear it fall off the counter and went running in there and he was holding it and screaming....ugh! He has a hard time staying out of trouble! He burnt three of his fingers his pointer was the worst it still has a big blister on it.

Oh yes it is that time of year! We got our Christmas decorations up it was so much fun because both the girls helped so much and enjoyed it.

The girls love to play with my hair and I must say I LOVE it too, even if they dig the comb into my head or tangle it in my hair and try to rip it out I still really like it. It is the only time I get my hair played with, and it is one of my favorite things EVER!

Don't I look pretty! They got mad that I wouldn't go like that to the store...

Cute Hudson just playing while they were doing my hair

Halloween

2011-11-21T00:16:00.000-07:00

We had a great Halloween we had the kids decorate Halloween cookies and we had a fun soup party and invited friends, family, and neighbors it was a lot of fun! We went trick or treating around our neighborhood. I loved it, it was so fun because there were so many kids running around the neighborhood. After that we went to see great grandma Shirley and went trick or treating in her little neighborhood. After we went to Josh's dad's house and trick or treated around their neighborhood I couldn't believe how long the girls went for Hudson went around most of our neighborhood but the girls did not want to stop by the time we were done me and Katie (Emma's mom) were exhausted!

Decorating cookies

Hudson didn't really dress up for Halloween but he had so many different costumes that he wouldn't keep on that I just got tired of it so he was just cute Hudson on Halloween!

we did get a cute Rhino costume from Helena but he REFUSED to wear the head piece which was the most important part of the costume without it he just looked like he was wearing gray PJ's so one night I did have him wear it and wear his knight hat and be a knight, it was pretty cute!

The girls and some of their friends on Halloween

Gracie, Remi, Cheyane, & Emma

We had some sexy visitors come to see us! (atamanchucks)

Cheyane has been horrible at taking pictures lately...this is what I get!

We went trick or treating at one of Remi and Emma's teachers house Ms. Karen they loved it!

Janae, Cheyane, Katie, Emma, & Remi

Princess Bell aka Remi

Halloween Funtastics

2011-10-28T00:03:00.000-06:00

Last week we went to a ballerina story time it was super! The girls got to dress up as princesses listen to ballerina stories and watch a ballerina dance, spend time with some of our best friends, and of course act like the crazy little girls they are!

Its the most wonderful time of the year, oh I guess that is Christmas but this really is a wonderful time of year I LOVE Halloween all the fun family activities and childlike fun!

I decorated my porch for Halloween it took me a long time and yet you can't see nearly how cool it really is...*sigh* I guess I will have to try again next year.

The pumpkin walk! Yea for all our fun people that got to come! Allie, chase, Remi, Grandma Nae, Hudson, Cheyane, Jami (one of Remi's FABULOUS teachers) and Tashian (one of Remi's school friends)

Thanks to Remi's school we got to go to American West Heritage Center and have so much fun! We got to go on the big tarp slide, which was fun but when my kids went down their they were flying and spinning around and when we "big people" went on it we went slower than a snail unless we did something crazy.

Can I tell you how much I love this girl (katie hatch my bff)

Remi didn't want to sit by her sister on our last train ride :(

Taeshen, Cheyane

Emma, Remi, & Taiden

Right after the heritage center we got to go to dad & Janae's ward halloween party, who can resist those right? Well certainly not us we had a great time!

Dad and Grandma Nae made fabulous crazy spiders!

Las Vegas

2011-10-12T01:19:00.000-06:00

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On our way home from California we stoped and spent the night in Las Vegas we have stayed there quite a few times but we usually get their late enough that we can't take our kids out but this time we got there and had time to go play we walked to the m&m place and on our way we ran into some fun people!

Sponge Bob & Patric

This was Remi's favorite he is a statue man and is pretty amazing and I don't know how he does it! He will stand there and not move an inch or blink but when you give him a tip he moves for you! Remi and Cheyane got to give him a tip and Remi even got to do it twice after begging for it! After they gave him a tip he gave them a sucker and piece of paper saying "thank you for supporting my art stay as precious as you are" They loved it.

Here is the girls in front of the New York New York the hotel we stayed in

In front of the Castle

Remi & Josh at the m&m 3D theater.

Me & Cheyane at the movie

Hudson's favorite part was the buffet he had a great time! I however did not after getting the kids all their food sitting down so josh could get his food getting my food and then taking the girls to the bathroom 3 times...uh yea I hate buffets! But at least I got a good picture of Hudson!

Lego Land

2011-10-12T01:05:00.000-06:00

While we were in California me and my family got to go to Lego land it was fun to go with everyone

My favoriate part of the whole park was none of the legos wasn't the rides but was their beautiful flowers! I had to hold myself back and not pick one I had to be a good example!

This was the first ride it was the safari ride. Perfect for our kids it was cool seeing the lego animals

My favoriate the panda bears

On our second ride the boat ride to see the lego fairy tales.

The girls got to ride their very own go carts I think this was their favoriate part.

A video of them driving their car after Remi and cheyane tried to run the guy over

The helicopter ride

Remi & Kaleb trying to climb the palm tree

Lego land also has a cool splash area the kids liked it but it was a little chilly

Josh's favoriate part was also not the legos or the rides or even the flowers but his was being able to soak people that were on another ride. He talked about it all day actually all week, what a cute little boy I have! ha ha ha

Josh loves riding the kids rides! ha ha ha

The girls loved it too Hudson even got to ride the planes with me.

The hoper ride this was Cheyane's favoriate ride I went on it a lot then convinced Jessica to take them on it!

They also had an aquarium, wan't nearly as cool as some others we have been to, but did find a few cool things in their.

The kids were good but I still decided to lock them in prison

On the fun boat ride we all got to go on

Remi and Kaleb on the camel

California Vacation

2011-10-12T01:04:00.000-06:00

We had so much fun on our California vacation with my family! We left on a Thursday drove the whole way down, or I should say Josh drove the whole way down while the rest of us slept it was great! We stayed in a hotel that we got free from buying our couch in the ghetto it wasn't too bad though besides having to cart all of our stuff in the hotel and when we were putting all our stuff back into the truck we became a Chinese tourist attraction! The Chinese people that were staying in the hotel were talking pointing and taking pictures of us. "ah those American people they have so much stuff" "Look how big their truck is" "look how many children they have" "They so crazy" "watch them put all that stuff in their truck" "we take pictures and tell our friends how crazy they are!" ok I really have no idea what they were saying but I am pretty sure I am close! They all jumped at once to help when Hudson dropped his cup.

This is the area where we stayed it was so beautiful there was nursery's and farms everywhere!

I wish I could have a tree that bloomed flowers like this!

My mom rented this A-MAZING house for all of us to stay in! If you ever go on a vacation this is the way to go! It had tons of space and loved the pool and 2 hot tubs yes I said 2! Thanks mom for making this amazing vacation available to us!

These bushes were everywhere on the property I loved them! Can you tell I am starting to get into gardening and flowers?

The grand kids had so much fun playing together! My girls had a little bit of a hard time being around crazy boys but it just makes them tougher right?

Gavin (6) Remi (4) Hudson (1) Kaleb (4) Eliza (2) Paris (1) Cheyane (3) Brody (3)

Silly Kids and no we didn't put the kids like this for pictures they were just like that and we frantically ran and got our cameras except screaming paris we planted her there! ha ha

One of our favorite things to do is play games we had tons of fun and I actually won a few games which is unusual for me while playing with my good game playing family.

The pool was a big hit! It was a little chilly but we braved it out most of the time. The boys got a little crazy This is Braydan surfing in the pool.

Josh & Hudson

Cheyane being silly

Grandma Being attacked by the grand kids

Pretty sure we could have fit a few more people in here! :)

Cute Remi ready to swim

This was one of my favorite parts, one of the first nights all the adults went into the hot tub on the roof and had a fabulous time! That white thing is the moon! Me and Helena, notice I am the tan one yes she lives in Arizona and I live in Utah and somehow I am tanner! ha ha ha just had to point that out because she was always the tan one!

Ocean

2011-10-12T00:22:00.000-06:00

We had a great time at the ocean! The kids loved running away from the waves, finding shells, making sand castles, and eating some fantastic lunch, and torching the bugs we found digging in the sand! Mom, Braydan, and I tried boogie boarding but I just boogie drowned I am terrible at it but they did pretty good! Those waves kick my but!

Remi

Hudson, Cheyane

Hudson

Uncle Braydan & Cheyane

Ok I am so sad these didn't turn out I think my lens was dirty or something smart like that, but here is our only family photo we took while we were there so please pretend it looks great! :)

Also another cruddy picture do I still get good mom points?

Playing with my camera

Cheyane & Remi

Cheyane & Josh

Grand kids building castles with grandma

Us taking over the beach

The kids running away from the waves with grandpa

Sea World

2011-10-12T00:00:00.000-06:00

We liked Sea World! We went with my mom and my brothers family, we watched all the shows rode rides got to meet lots of animal friends! The kids liked shamu!

Me, Remi, and Cheyane sat up front in the "soak zone" during the shamu show, we got most of the way through not even a little wet then shamu came buy and got us one good time and we got wet. Remi loved it but Cheyane not so much.

Me and my kids didn't go to the 4D show with everyone else because they make me really nauseous, but we did have fun in the sesame street area and the kids got to meet Ernie and Elmo. They were so funny I really loved watching them interact with the kids even when there weren't kids around they still stayed in character. The girls each gave them hugs and then went and stood against the wall to get a picture so Earnie and Elmo also glued themselves to the wall! ha ha ha I loved it!

These are the cute little penguins I think they were Hudson's favorites. We got to watch the penguins get fed it was cool they actually made sure every penguin got a certain food and a certain amount and kept track of it all!

The kings of the penguins, you could tell they were defiantly in charge.

Inside the shark aquarium

This was by far my very favorite aquarium, the turtles! It was head to toe beauty! They had beautiful fish, coral, and turtles. LOVE LOVE LOVE!

Jessica getting acquainted with the turtle! ha ha ha

Watching the seal and otter show I loved this show a lot and everyone thought I was crazy but I really liked it they danced to thriller and it was a little play they put on.

The girls holding hands with their cousin Kaleb they were so cute together!

The girls making me dizzy on their tea cup ride

Disney land

2011-10-11T14:59:00.001-06:00

Wahoo Disneyland! We took a trip to California and got to go to Disneyland it was so much fun minus getting pooped on, peed on, and surrounded by millions of people and waiting in lines for everything. But it was still fun!

The front gate

The famous mickey flowers with his cool Halloween mask.

their cool little show

We had lots of fun trying on their cool hats!

Waiting in line to see Minnie

This is what Hudson did pretty much the whole time, he was enjoying life.

One of the 3 rides we got to ride, I think Josh had more fun than Remi.

Hudson at "Its a small world after all"

Us riding the train, This is where I got pooped on and Hudson screamed because I didn't want to hold him because we were both covered in poop.

After the train ride we had to go buy diapers (because we were so prepared!) They had a fancy baby changing house where they had like 5 changing tables we got poop everywhere they kept saying "oh its ok, Why don't you move over here" as they stopped everyone from coming in to see me and my white trash experience. They then told me I could rinse out his clothes in their "cloth diaper tub" which looked a lot like a TOILET! I am pretty sure they had me wash the clothes in there as a punishment of how dirty I made their nice room. Then I pushed Hudson around in his diaper in search of new clothes for him and I had to buy him some adorable new clothes for $40!

Us waiting for their amazing sound parade this was by far my favorite part and we got to watch it twice!

This is what Hudson did through most of the parade after he stopped screaming and irritating everyone, but mostly me!

We also got to meet mickey mouse. The kids really liked him even though this picture doesn't look like it.

This is goofys awesome piano the kids loved to play with it made cool sounds with every different key.

This is toon town, doesn't the sky look fake because it is so beautiful. Nope this is the beautiful sky in California.

Playing at a little park

Cheyane getting spoiled in our limo stroller

The cute Minnie mouse hats I bought the girls. This was right after Cheyane peed her pants because we couldn't get to the bathroom fast enough. The nice lady that was helping us find the bathroom found us one of the managers and he was so kind to give her some mickey mouse pants that way I didn't have to spend $30 more dollars on pants because of an accident. We found out after I spent so much on Hudson's clothes that if you go to a place like Disney land and an accident happens like that they will buy you up to a $100 in clothes so that you are comfortable in their park.....now we know!

Silly girls

Cindy

2011-10-11T12:02:00.000-06:00

I am super far behind.... I will back track! I can't believe it has been 2 years since Cindy passed away! I miss her so much! I miss her laugh the most and her sly little smile when she was teasing. I can't believe she wont be able to watch my adorable children grow up, and brag to everyone about how cute her grandkids are! I laugh a little inside everytime someone asks me if Cheyane and Remi are twins because she LOVED when people would ask her that. Or when I hear the Happy Birthday song because of how much she loved when I sang it as loud as I posibily could! We miss you so much and think about you often, it is a constant reminder about how precious life is and how much we can not take life for granted!

This is a cute picture remi's friend Emma took of the girls at mc donalds, I LOVE it!

Hudson is pretty cool he LOVES sunglasses!

I love how they constantly say "MOM TAKE A PICTURE!!!" after they have set themselfs up in some cute way!

September

2011-10-11T00:37:00.000-06:00

I can't believe September is over and half of October! Let me think if I can remember everything that has happened good thing I have pictures to remind me!

Me, Remi, and Cheyane decided to dress up to go on a date with our handsome guys Josh & Hudson.

I have been working very hard on our lawn getting all my flowers and plants planted before it starts getting cold.....too late but I think I have done pretty good! Here is the front yard.

My little island

North of our house (still waiting for the boys to finish the fence hopefully they will do it soon it is getting cold!)

YEA!!! Josh has been working on my salon it is 75% sheet rocked! pic is from the inside of the garage this is the door to the salon.

One of the inside walls by the door

This is the wall that goes outside with the window

Hudson has become my wild man, He is so funny! He always nods his head yes to anything you say, He loves to be scared, He loves waking his sisters up in the morning, He has an obsession with shoes, He eats 24/7, Doesn't matter what you are eating he will want some, He will always say "cheese" when you are taking a picture of him, He says "dadt" a lot Josh thinks it for dad but really it is for "that" but we will let him keep thinking it is for dad, He loves his mom but will want his dad as soon as his dad leaves, He has beautiful blue eyes and dimples.

I got my temple pictures printed and I am in LOVE with them!!!

I did my first extensions I thought they looked awesome! Her hair was just below her shoulders this is what it looked like the first round. She had a few fall out and decided she wanted more put in and cut in layers and they looked awesome when we were done! Hopefully they still look good because is is in another country on vacation!

I was working on the yard the week before we left for our vacation and I wasn't feeling too well and was overwhelmed with everything I had to do so I decided to skip church and work on the yard to be able to cross it off my list....well this is what ended up happening, Remi got a huge rock dropped on her foot! Poor girl but she was a trooper and it went away in about 4 days, Shows me not to miss church!

Our grass is looking great, only has about 40% weeds! ha ha ha which I hear is normal I hope I they stop so I don't have to keep pulling them for the rest of my life. This was the first night we gave the kids the OK to play on the grass and they were loving it so I got some cute pictures!

My bike has been really temperamental lately so this was one night I finally got it all working, mostly. Everyone got in on the fun even grandpa took them for a spin!

I love this picture, I have no idea why they were all pulling this face! ha ha ha

Aunt Allie

Remi's first day of preschool. Can I just say how much I love her school! I love her teachers, I love the program, I love how they get parents involved, I just love it! I hope I can get all my kids in or I will sneak them in! ha ha

This is Remi's new friend Taden he is so adorable, he has asthma and remi is such a good friend to him and will walk with him and hold his hand. I constantly hear about taden and what they did at school! This is a picture her teacher sent me, because she thought it was as cute as I do!

They went on a field trip to the fire station, the park, and to pick apples. I went along to help them and had so much fun! Yes I am one of those crazy moms following the bus taking pictures! ha ha ha

Her class lining up to go to the fire station

The fireman was so great with them!

Remi and some of her friends in the fire truck

Him putting on all his gear

Remi trying on the fireman's hat, its pretty heavy....the things I learn in preschool! ha ha ha

Isn't she the cutest fireman?

Remi and Taden, he is quite the comedian.

Hudson came along on the field trip too, he had fun especually getting tons of skittles to keep him quite! (cheyane was at her preschool)

Her whole class

Cici and Remi

Jazele, Cece, Remi

House & kidos

2011-08-21T01:01:00.000-06:00

I guess I have waited long enough to post pictures of our house. There is still so much I want to do and touch up and change and I am waiting for but I guess this will do and I didn't really clean much before the pictures so please ignore the messes!

Front entry way

Kitchen/Dining room

Living room (the red is not as bright as it looks in the picture)

Hudson's room (his room has the most work that needs to be done upstairs it still needs the wood molding around the doors and the top of his bead board but I still think it looks pretty good)

Hallway/stairs

Main bathroom

The girls room this is by far was my favorite room to decorate I pretty much dreamed about it all the time and how it would look! ha ha ha

Master bed/bath

I have recently been working on the basement it is a long process but I am getting somewhere! The only room I actually wanted to take a picture of, the storage room.

Josh has been working so hard on the yard fencing and he has started my salon!!!! YEA!!! He has it all framed in the plumbing is roughed in we still have a lot to do but I am getting so excited that it is getting somewhere!

The plumbing for the sink

Where the window will go

Ugh the garage floor.....Josh decided he was going to pick out the color for the garage floor, which is also my salon floor. its orange if you can not tell. my salon sink is red...umm pretty sure the last time I checked red and orange do NOT go together!!! We will see what happens to fix the salon floor area.....

We finally have our yard done....mostly. There is still 3 more trees we want to get and bushes and flowers and such but if I never have to move, rake, kick rocks again it will be too soon! I raked rocks for almost 2 weeks straight every day and I am so glad it is over! We bought a truckload of dirt for our garden seeing how our dirt is 90 percent rocks and 10 percent dirt we got this beautiful looking dirt for our garden. Josh borrowed a skidster from a friend and him and the girls had a lot of fun moving dirt.

Our house

South side of our front yard where we will have flowers and bushes one day. We got our curbing done and I think it turned out really nice.

We extended our driveway and put in a nice parking pad, dog run, and extended our patio. We also finally got to set up our trampoline I bought last thanksgiving! we will have a big gate here.

Our front porch

My awesome strawberries that I got for ten cents a piece Wahoo! They are putting up a half fence in the front between us and the neighbors to the north so after that is done I will put the strawberries there.

Where the half fence and strawberries will go

Our biggest tree its a honey Lucas

Look at how pretty our fence is josh and our neighbors did a great job

The back of our house this is where my raspberries and blackberries will go

if you look really close in this picture you can see my apple tree is....ummm maybe use your imagination! ha ha

My favorite tree its my maple tree. Behind the tree is the dog run we will bring the dogs when the grass is all grown.

My plum tree

DUMM..DAH...DAH...DUM!!! We have grass Officially tonight we have found some slivers of grass! YEA! This is very exciting at our house! :) Can you see them LOOK VERY CLOSELY they are there I promise!

Last month josh had the screw taken out of his foot because it was bothering him and they thought it would be for the best. It was actually a quicker recovery than I thought he was walking on it that day and we actually went and picked up all of our trees that day (I think he did it on purpose so I would have to dig all the holes and plant them by myself...not nice, but it worked, yes I planted all 7 trees that right 7 by myself...mostly)

We had the fair last weekend I bought the girls all day passes to ride the rides they had so much fun we stayed there from noon till nine in the evening on Thursday, it was a long day but fun! We also went back on Friday and Saturday we were there pretty much all weekend. I got the girls hands done at the fair. josh and I got ours done right after we got married. I love them, when Hudson gets bigger we will get his done I really love them! Wish I could have taken more pictures at the fair but Hudson decided to give my iphone a bath, in case you didn't know my iphone didn't like that!

Hudson is getting so big he is walking since about two weeks ago and now he is running! I think I am in big trouble! He also knows 3 words momma, daddy and uh oh, that one is my favorite because he says it in many different ways and tones to pretend he knows more words! He also knows how to blow kisses and wave (I love his wave!!!) He is a very happy boy and only cries if he is hungry or tired but mostly hungry he LOVES to eat and I am constantly taking things out of his mouth that he thinks are food but is NOT and I am trying to find something for him to eat, look out growing boy here we come!

only picture I have of him walking, sorry remember broken phone and just found my camera battery charger.

Cheyane is such a silly goof! She is always one to make me laugh and smile!She is going to be going into a neighborhood joy school and is very excited I am a little nervous about teaching it because I have never done it before but I am sure I can figure it out.

Remi is still sweet and stubborn she is one of the greatest sisters most of the time expecually with Hudson! She has been great at helping me while I have been working on the yard or cleaning the house she is a really good helper! She starts preschool soon she got into headstart and is very excited I am a little apprehensive about it because it is Monday-Thursday for 4 hrs so that is a long time for me I will miss all her help, I just have to keep telling myself it will be good for her right?

I have loved cooking! Allie and I have gotten together do do some cooking nights! Dad had some extra cherries from his tree so I went and picked them (not a good idea when you have 3 tired crazy kids with you and you are scared of ladders and Hudson thinks its funny to crawl up to you on the 12 ft ladder and scare the crap out of you, in case you didn't know!) Anyway we made 14 batches of home made cherry pie filling and 2 full pies and they looked BEAUTIFUL!

Fresh cherries

Pitted cherries

Letting the "juices flow"

Cooking the filling

Allies beautiful pie decorating skills!

The girls' beautiful decorated pie

YUMMMY!

I was luckily enough to get to go to a Tim McGraw concert! Can I first just tell you how much I love tim mcgraw? I have tons of fun so I took TONS of pictures it was super fun! We also got to see The band perry and Luke Bryan AWESOME!

I don't know if you can tell how close he is when he first came out he sang his first 3 songs in the middle of the crowd, he was super close!

The girl next to me got way close and took this awesome picture of him and sent it to me!

The band perry

Well before you leave I will give you a great thing to leave on! ha ha ha (evil laugh!) Kallen got hurt by a machine at work yesterday he sure is a trooper because it looks like it HURTS and he has not even complained! They had to cut off his fingernail except 1/8th of an inch OUCH, and he got 15 stitches!

The things we do!

2011-07-27T00:04:00.000-06:00

I somehow always manage to screw up the order of my photos and I usually fix it and put them in the right order but today you will not be so lucky so we will be working backwards! This last weekend we went to Stanley Idaho with Josh's dad, sister and some friends camping. It was a long drive especially for camping but it was a lot of fun and a good getaway....well most of it. The kids were good for the 6+ hour drive except for the accident by an adorable little girl.

They all played hide and seek it was really cute until I started getting car sick watching them.

The first day we were there Hudson and I went to the lake and Josh and Kallen took the girls to go fishing on the river. Hudson LOVED the water even though it was FREEZING! I would hold his hands and he would walk all the way out to his belly and then turn around and run back laughing it was so cute wish I got a picture but I didn't have a camera.

After the girls came back they said they did not have fun fishing, I guess grandpa got a little rough with a hook that was stuck in a fish and it scared her but she got over it by the end of the trip Our Dora poles worked great! we all were at the lake fishing and none of the experienced fishers caught much but I kept catching fish on our Dora poles it was great fun! Especially because they would worm it for me and take the fish off for me all I had to do was cast it out and real it in, Great fun! I got a good shoulder sunburn and got about 50+ mosquito bites I stopped counting after 50.

We played a really fun group game called curses, great game especially with a lot of people!!! We played it around the campfire it was so much fun! We also played pit, it was a great night....until we got back to the tent and Hudson cried...umm screamed every hour then in the middle of the night Cheyane threw up all over herself the sleeping bags remi's back and more, did I mention we were camping?!?!?! The next day we found a laundry mat and got it taken care of and the next night wasn't as bad. and the third night was great! This is what the girls looked like the third night, little angels!

On the way home we stoped to eat and the kids got to sit on the big rocking chair aren't they so cute!

Sorry for so many pictures I just loved them all!

Last week we went out for ice cream for family night it was fun the girls were being very funny!

On the 6th of July we got to go to the American idol concert for free!!! Josh won tickets, it was really fun! There was tons of old people and little kids, rock and roll and country! My favorite part was when Scotty and Lauren sung me and Josh's song! And watching the girls behind us FREAK out when Scotty first came out I thought one of them was going to loose the baby out of her belly, so funny!

We were actually pretty close 10th row back right off the side of the stage.

The girls seem to be getting sillier and sillier, they wore these all day even with my trying to convince them otherwise luckily we were only going to grandma Nae's that day.

We broke out the swimming pool the girls thought they were cool "laying out" Dont they look cool?

We went to a birthday party yesterday and there was the greatest little park there for the little kids. Hudson would go belly first down the slide, it scared me the first time but he was having a ball, he sure is all boy!

Cheyane at the park

Last week we went to clean our old place and wound up just picking strawberries and watching Remi play in the rain with grandpa it was so much fun to watch it gave me a good excuse not to clean.

My moms family had a reunion at willow park not too many showed up but it was fun to catch up with all who came and the girls had so much fun playing with their cousins especially Brynlee.

Temple Pictures

2011-07-21T14:03:00.000-06:00

Here are the beautiful pictures Krista took for us at the temple let me know if you want one and what size and I will get it for you!

Things I forgot

2011-07-04T13:30:00.000-06:00

After the sealing we went to blue bird and had lunch it was very nice and I am glad a lot of people came!

Linsey & Kallen

Chris, Helena, Braydan, Uncle Sid, Aunt Lanae, Grandma Shirley

Mel Johnson, mom, Sharon Johnson

Allie, Grandma Sarah, Janae, Paul, Josh & Remi

The girls at grandma Nae's on their "bunkbeds"

A few weeks ago Allie invited us to her work mini cruize in. It was so much fun, the best part was everything was FREE! The girls got to ride on their little train ride

They got their faces painted too!

And they got to watch the cars go around the block until one of them crashed into a parked car, oops!

It finally got warm enough that the girls got to swim so we put the sprinkler under the tramp and they LOVED it! We plan to do it a lot more this summer!

Hudson playing in the little car

On the 15th of June Hudson got tubes in his ears he had 4 ear infections in 4 months and he wasn't talking much so we decided it would be best. The surgery went fine and now he is talking a lot more so I am already glad that we did it!

After his surgery he was like a drunkin starving man it was so funny!

So much to say such little time!

2011-07-04T00:03:00.000-06:00

Hudson LOVES the girls little house that they rarely play with so I guess it is good someone likes it! He is just so adorable when he plays with it I couldn't help but take pictures even though he has no clothes on.

Linsey watched the kids one night and I guess they had lots of hair fun because I found this beautiful picture of the girls, It was really cute!

The kids playing in some of the moving boxes, it works well especially when all their toys are packed!

A little sneak peak of the girls' new room their favorite thing about our house is their new bunk beds, they LOVE them! I will post more pictures when I get the house the way I want it, Its almost there just a little bit more to go!

My mom came on Wednesday the girls were so excited to see her! We love when we get to see grandma!

Cute Hudson, he is getting so big!

My mom got here Wednesday and my sister came Wednesday night on Thursday we went to Mac Park it was a lot of fun we had TV dinners and hot dogs and of course marshmallows, it was great!

I guess I haven't told all of you how much Hudson eats because my mom and Helena were amazed! He eats CONSTANTLY! It doesn't matter if I just feed him he will eat again if he sees it! While we were at Mac Park he found my moms plate of food and helped himself! It was funny watching him eat almost her whole plate even after he just ate a hot dog!

The kids loved the big sand box and climbing on the hills and trails (I had a hard time letting them go up on the hill by themselves but they were very big!) Needless to say our tub was FULL of sand!

Some of the cousins Remi, Brody, Chase, Gavin, Cheyane

Grandma with the 2 youngest cousins Paris and Hudson

After we took the pictures of all the cousins the babies were playing in the sand too then out of nowhere Hudson trusted his face into the sand. ha ha ha

Friday we went to Hyrum dam it was fun but the watter was FREEZING! My girls played in the sand and watter almost the whole time!

Friday night Josh and I had the opportunity to take out our endowments. I was so scared walking into the temple not knowing what was going to happen and if I was really ready to make the commitment. after the first initial ceremony I can not tell you the spirit I felt the calming feeling and the joy I felt for the rest of the night! We had a lot of family members and friends that came to support us it was a great relief to have them there! On Saturday we took our family to be sealed to each other. I can not explain the happiness I felt I could not stop smiling. My good friend Hillary was there to be my temple worker and it was a great relief to have her there by my side! We also had a good friend that was able to seal us and to my surprise the Johnsons from Arizona were able to drive all the way up from Arizona to come to our sealing, My mom and sisters family also came up from Arizona and my brother Braydan Came from Washington. I can not express the gratitude and relief of how much we appreciate that they came to spend the special day with us, along with many other friends and family members. I am so glad to be a part of the Latter day saint church and the blessings and happiness that we have because of the church. I keep telling josh now he can't get rid of me, I am so happy to know that now it is forever!

Uncle Braydan

The Johnsons

My cousin Krista took some pictures for us before the sealing I will post when I get them I am sure she did a great job!

Cheyane's 3rd Birthday

2011-07-03T12:02:00.000-06:00

I am way behind so I am going to try my best to catch up and finally having fast Internet I think I can do it a lot quicker than before, YEA!!! Lets see if I can remember everything. We got Cheyane a "big girl bike" for her birthday because for months that is what she told everyone she was going to get I guess we shouldn't disappoint a cute little girl can we? ha ha She was so very excited and loved it!

For her birthday party this year we had it at Mac Park in Smithfield it was a lot of fun and so much less stressful cleaning my house and such especially because half our house was packed.

We of course had to play some games so we taught the kids how to play red rover it was sure fun and they all caught on pretty quickly, even a lot of the adults got into it!

Then after the good game of red rover we played Duck Duck goose which of course is a lot of fun with small children especially because they all eventually get impatient and just all start running around.

Then we had cake it took her a while to blow out the candles and with a little help from daddy putting her face closer to the candles she did it!

Grandpa had fun helping Hudson eat some cake.

Josh of course had to help the kids open their presents. She got lots of great presents and was very spoiled!

We had hot dogs and marshmallows around the campfire it was a lot of fun!

Linsey made this beautiful balloon bouquet Cheyane loved it. After the party they let it go and we watched it float up to the sky it was pretty cool.

Over all it was a fantastic day we love Cheyane so much she is a great daughter and we couldn't ask for much more!

YEA!

2011-06-22T23:29:00.000-06:00

Well I thought the day would never come that we were finally done with building and with the whole long tiring process! I quit my job my last day was monday, Yea! We have our open house tomorrow from 4-6 and then we have a dinner with neighborhood non profit after that we will start repainting our house the colors we want! I can not tell you how excited I am for this process to be done and over with! :) We will be moving on saturday mom and helena come wednesday braydan comes friday endowment is also friday sealing saturday along with all the 4th of july festivities and cruise in stuff! YEA I can not wait for this next few weeks! I have tons more to tell you but no more time so I will backtrack next time!

Yada Yada Yada

2011-05-28T23:02:00.002-06:00

It has been so long since I posted we have been really busy with work kids and building the house, packing, funeral stuff, birthday parties and much more so here we go! This year Easter was really fun I love how excited the girls were about Easter and how much fun they are at this age. On Saturday we had an Easter egg hunt provided by grandma nae and Allie it was so much fun to watch them Remi was really good at finding the eggs I tried to help Cheyane but I am really not very good at it so grandpa ended up helping her! We had a nice dinner and it was a good day, we didn't even have to work on the house! Sunday morning the Easter bunny came and left them their baskets they got summer dresses and Hudson got an outfit and they did an Easter egg hunt the Easter bunny left for them. Then later Linsey did multiple hunts for them.

We have enjoyed the few sunny warm days we have gotten. The kids love the wagon and I like it too because they are usually really good while in it!

We went to willow park a few times their favorite thing there is the animals and the swings. Remi and I both enjoyed a swift kick to the face. Remi was kicked by Hudson, wish I would have gotten her face in the last photo.

This is where I got kicked in the face see her foot aiming towards me!

Emma and the girls had a dress up party, and went to the ball aka: living room they are so cute!

Josh and I are going to be sealed to each other and our beautiful children on July 2nd and get our endowments out on July 1st. We are very excited and can not wait for this to finally happen it will be our six year anniversary on June 10th!

Remi has been in Tavaci, a singing group and LOVES it. I think its fun for her but I am a bigger fan of dance I told her she has to choose which one she wants to do so I guess we will see what she will end up doing. She had her performance she did such a good job she sung songs such as peanut butter and jelly, celebrate America, 80's mix, It was very cute. I have a video of it when I get more time to go to dad's work to use his Internet I will upload them! Her are the cute pictures of after the performance.

Remi asking to get her picture taken

Cute girls!

Cheyane asking to get her picture taken

Hudson is getting so big he now refuses to let me feed him so now he is feeding himself and making a MESS, but he loves it! He is a crazy boy.

Like I said before I love Remi's dance she had her performance she did such a good job I love their performances very entertaining! She did pop goes the weasel I have a video of that too that hopefully I can post soon.

Sadly Grandma DuRee passed away on May 9th. She had really been getting bad since February. She was loosing her ability to talk and feed herself, she was ready to go to heaven so then she refused to eat or drink so she quickly went down hill not being able to get out of bed or even having the strength to stay awake. Thankfully we had Janae who lovingly took care of her day and night, she is such an angel. I loved my grandma so much she always spent time with me, taking me to the dollar store, having tickle fights, sleepovers, spending time with me and my kids at the park, ect...we love you grandma and we will miss you!

Janice, Evelyn, Allen, Dad, & Dale

(dad with his brothers and sisters)

All the family that attended the funeral, it was such a nice service.

Luckily we have had a few nice days and have been able to go to our favorite park!

Hudson loves the swings but he likes to scare me and lean really far forward he thinks it is funny.

The girls & Emma

The girls at Papa Kelsey's at our Friday night dinner.

I had to post this because I thought it was funny me and my flat top doll head beautiful huh! :)

The girls and the Old Navy dog! ha ha ha

I am very into letting my girls have a choice they choose what they want to eat (usually) What they wear (within reason) and how they want their hair done. The other day this is how Cheyane wanted her hair done...Impressive I know! ha ha

The girls love to make their own headbands attaching barrettes everywhere! They think it is ADORABLE (their own words) ha ha ha

Hudson Being silly

This is Hudson's favorite spot to play under the fish tank there used to be fish stuff under here until he started crawling. The girls like to play under there with him.

Hudson turned 1 on May 24th he is getting so big. I have never had to baby proof my house but now we are baby proofing because he is into everything! He is cruising around furniture and walking with help. He goes up and down the stair constantly. He loves to "jam" to music he head bangs its pretty funny. His favorite thing is when you make a tower and he knocks it down he LOVES that he laughs so hard! He is such a cute kid! He hates socks and shoes, and getting left out by his sisters. He often whines like a little puppy dog. He eats EVERYTHING, rocks, crayons, garbage. Last night we went to olive garden the waiter gave us our check and everyone treats I started looking around wondering where my treat was...a few min after wondering and accusing josh of eating my treat I realised Hudson was eating it wrapper and all. Neither Josh nor I noticed he even took it!

Josh put 2 candles on the cake I asked him why and he tried to tell me Hudson was 2...umm no? Josh loved helping Hudson blow out the candles and open his presents!

Eating his cake

Grandpa thought he needed help, he rubbed frosting all over his face grandpa thought he thought he was funny.

After grandpa got done with him.

He got quite the brain freeze from the ice cream and started screaming!

I had to post this picture because I have millions of pictures of Josh doing this so I thought it was funny!

He got tons of cute presents, clothes, balls, cars, and a mini bike.

I can not wait until I can stop posting about the house! We have an open house date of June 23 I have started packing. We only need plumbing, grouting our rock and landscaping (fencing, sprinkler system, grass, trees, shrubs) It is really starting to look good I can't wait to get in there and paint and decorate the way I want! The kids have been so good at being patient while we are working on the house and being good for sitters. Josh has been working so hard and his body is really starting to hurt I know he is exhausted and we appreciate all his hard work he has done! Less then a month left! :)

Hudson playing in his play pen

The girls watching a movie in the kitchen

Our linoleum in the laundry and bathrooms

Our master bath cabinets

Our Kitchen Cabinets

Main bath (this counter top is in the whole house)

Our rock I think it looks so nice, still needs to be grouted

Not the greatest pic sorry

Our kitchen floor, its fake hardwood I think it looks pretty nice.

Our carpet getting installed

post took way too long!

2011-04-13T22:40:00.000-06:00

We went and got the girls a physicals, I am trying to get them into Headstart its a preschool for Remi and they would come to our house to do activities with Cheyane at our home and the best part is its FREE! so well see if I ever get it together and get them applied! They liked the physicals because they got to wear the cool gowns until I broke the news to Remi that she would need to get shots! :(

Josh & Hudson

My cute girls!

This is what I get to see as I drive down the road, if you cant tell they are making funny faces at me, so cute!

Cheyane at story time with her tiger mask

ok so funny story I was getting cookies out for the girls and they were all gone except one it was a BIG one Josh had eaten 4 of the cookies and left the frosting and made one big frosting, but Remi enjoyed it!

Me & the girls

Cheyane took this picture of herself, way cute!

We are finally done with finish work! It took forever and was a big pain but we are ready to paint! We have cut glued, nailed, routered, filled holes, and caulked. (it took way longer than we thought it would!) We got to decide how we wanted to do it and we pretty much had free reign as long as it was reasonable and we used the material they provided. This is what we came up with I took these pics before we finished but it pretty much looks the same but its all finished, and painted!

Hudson's Closet

Hall Closet

Girls Closet

The girls in their room

putting our doors in (this is the girls door)

Josh's side of our closet

My side of the closet I couldn't get a good pic it looks like josh's but the shelfs are smaller for my shoes! :) Josh did not like caulking them, or painting them! ha ha ha

Our bathroom closet

our wall around our stairs, it now has a molding right under it but you get the idea

Our window seals

Our pantry Josh was using as a tool room, but its all clean and painted now! ha ha

The molding around the doors

Our backdoor

I guess I didn't get a picture of our baseboard but it is really simple you will see in future pictures, I am sure!

Josh has done amazing work on our finish work! We got all painted now we just need to do touch up work and wait for everyone else to get caught up with us! We are getting closer, the only things left to do is rock and wood in kitchen and the entry. If the weather ever gets better we will have to do our front yard too. (but right now it is snowing so it seems spring will never come!) Almost all the houses are done with finish work and ready to paint. We are still hoping by June we will be in.

Josh and Hudson taking a nap

Mom and craig came up for an all too short visit for my grandpa's funeral! They did not stay long enough! But we still enjoyed seeing them! Hudson wasn't too sure about grandma at first but she won him over eventually! The girls were Estatic to say the least!

The girls playing with Chase

At grandpa's viewing

Our family, grandpa Craig and Chase at the burial

Cutest picture! Grandpa, Remi & Cheyane

Mom, Cheyane, Craig, me, Hudson, Josh, & Remi after the dinner

Hudson is getting so big he babbles a lot he has 6 teeth. He loves music already and loves to dance or watch the girls dance. He is crusing around furnature and getting into all sorts of trouble yesterday I caught him playing in the toilet....ugh. He sure is a cutie!

On st. Patrics day the lepacron came and brought the girls some chocolate golden coins. My favoriate part was that Remi made up a story of why he came and how he left them. her story "he came in and saw that we were being good and sleeping so he THREW them all over!" ha ha ha she's so funny! I told the girls that they had to wear green on st patrics day so that no one would pinch them! ha ha I love this holday! :) I pretened to pinch Remi while she was getting dressed! Cheyane still thinks every day is st patrics day and will try to pinch you if you don't have green but she has kind of started forgetting.They crack me up everyday!

We got to play with my friend Michelle and her girls Olivia and Madison (madison is only 11 mo and is running around I can't believe it!)

The girls have been making their own peanut butter and jelly sandwiches but today they wanted peanut butter, jelly and cheeto sandwiches! Silly girls but they loved it! ha ha

Quick update!

2011-03-15T22:49:00.000-06:00

Well Hudson has become a very active crazy boy! He doesn't really crawl but he scoots really fast he can climb up the stairs and can pull himself up and cruse around the furniture, and he climbed in the laundry basket all by himself! He follows me around the whole house and I often trip over him. He eats everything he can possibly find we often call him hoover because he eats everything including the carpet I can't tell you how often I have pulled carpet out of his mouth! He is a crazy boy and keeps me on my toes!

Cheyane is potty trained! It really wasn't very hard all I had to do was take a little time out and get excited for her and give her and Remi a treat! I also got them both potty trained at night which I had been putting off for Remi. That was also really easy I just convinced them to throw away their sippy cups and put them in panties we have only had 1 accident! YEA!!!

The house is really coming together! I need to post more pictures but my Internet sucks so I will wait till I have time to borrow dad's. We have siding and our molding, trim, shelves, stairs and doors are all in Hurray! Bad part about all that is having to fill all the holes and caulk around every edge possible of the house, its a big pain in the butt! We only have to do the rock, paint, and put in the wood flooring, and landscape, and then we are all done mostly, everything else is done by sub contractors! We are still hoping May but might be into June, but if I am lucky we will be moved in before the craziness of may and June with Hudson and cheyane's birthdays and our anniversary.