ONE project at a time!!

I am SLOWLY making progress on the little projects around my house!! Here are just a few fun things I have been working on.....

BEFORE

AFTER!!

I am so excited to have an ORANGE room in my house!!

Yep... proof of my FIRST sewing project! Thanks Grandma for sharing the work load with me!

I spray painted my black candle sticks TURQUOISE to match!!

The BoYs PlAyRoOm!!

You can't go wrong with Dr. Seuss in a playroom!!

Birthday Cake and HeLiCoPtErS!!

Happy 5th BIRTHDAY Brayden!!! Wow we have a 5 year old... crazy! We can't believe our not so little Brayden is 5 years old! He is growing up way too fast! We celebrated the BiG NuMbEr 5 yesterday with his buddies climbing around the HELICOPTERS!

I don't know who was more excited.... Jeremy that Brayden asked for a basketball for his birthday or Brayden when he got a basketball for his birthday but it was a great day for both of them!!!

I have been loving this past few weeks and the energy I FINALLY have to start painting and decorating our house!! It has been close to a year since we moved in and I have just recently started looking for ideas... yep to copy!!! One of my most favorite things to do is walk through model homes and get ideas but since I live with 3 boys who would rather do ANYTHING but tag along with mom through model homes, I have found some awesome websites with some great ideas!! I wanted to share the love and pass along the blogs/ websites I have been following! Happy browsing!!!

http://www.emilyaclark.blogspot.com/

http://www.decorpad.com/

http://www.havenandhome.blogspot.com/

*** http://www.allthingsthrifty.com/***
This is my favorite website because she shows you step by step
how she makes everything so cute!

MERRY CHRISTMAS......

We can't believe how quick Christmas came and went this year!!! The boys successfully stayed on the "nice" list and got some really fun toys from Santa! Brayden's favorite gifts were his Batman castle, Lego's and his automatic Nerf machine gun!! Jack loves his "wred" barn with his farm animals and his blackhawk "coptey"!! We felt so blessed this Holiday Season to be able to spend so much time with our family and friends! We definitely missed our Elder Lindley who spent this Holiday Season in the MTC but know he is right were he needs to be! We hope all of you had a wonderful Christmas and wish you all a Happy New Year!! We love you!

DiSNeY CrUiSe 2009!!!

All 15 of us on Tortola Island in the Caribbean!

We couldn't get the boys out of the ocean... they LOVED it!

The Caribbean!!

"Formal" night with NO kids :)

Brayden admiring the view from our balcony!

Jack didn't LOVE the characters up close... he liked waving to them from far away!

Jack watched us snorkel all day and thought it was his turn!

The boys at Magen's Bay in St. Thomas

On Castaway Cay.... in front of the Flying Dutchman from "Pirates of the Caribbean"

Our semi annual Christmas trip this year was on the Disney MAGIC cruise ship!! We went on a 7 day adventure in the Caribbean!! During our week on the ship we stopped at Tortola on the British Virgin Island, St. Thomas and Disney's private island Castaway Cay!! We had an amazing time exploring the islands, playing on the beaches, being wined and dined at dinner, seeing our favorite Disney characters and to top it off being able to share it all with our entire family (aside from our Elder Zach)!! Thank you Grandma Jaime and Grandpa Sam... we love you!

FT. CARSON, COLORADO

The boys and I decided to tag along with Jeremy this week to Ft. Carson in Colorado!!! Jeremy had some training to do there but only for a few hours a day so we had plenty of time to play!!! We went swimming at the hotel, touring around Colorado Springs, we got to see the "Colorado" Barton's and of course did a lot of eating!!! We were surprised at how well the boys did on the road trip... thank goodness for the DVD player!!!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!

Halloween 2009 was a success... Brayden was a Storm Trooper and Jack was a firefighter in his RED wheelchair!! Brayden is the BEST big brother EVER and carried Jack's treat bucket up the stairs to every door for him.... it was so neat to see!!! We hope every one had a great Halloween this year!!!