Snow Woes

Excuse me for just a moment while I vent a bit, but I JUST CAN'T HANDLE IT ANYMORE!!! I need some sunshine! I just went shopping to Smith's, and came out and had to scrape 2 inches of snow off of the car. The car said it was 29 degrees outside. Can I live with you for a while Julianne? Please?!

Some funny Megan stories

Sorry about all the posts in one day, but I want to share these stories...

A couple days ago Megan came home from school and told me that at morning lunch she picked up litter. While doing that with friends, she found a quarter. Her friend suggested that Megan turn it into the lost and found (only a six year old, right?!). So, Megan went to the office to turn it in, and the sweet secretary wrote her name down and said that she'd keep the quarter for a week to see if anyone claims it, and if not, the quarter's Megan's to keep. Funny, huh! I'd never think to turn in a quarter. That good secretary taught my daughter that what she did was the right thing to do, and Megan was so proud of herself. She's secretly hoping that she's 25 cents richer in a few days though... :)

Megan started soccer for the first time last week. She's having a blast, but she's of course new to it all. So she and another girl were goalies the other day (they have 2 at a time), and while being goalie the other team kicked it right passed her into the net. Megan had this huge grin on her face as she retrieved the ball from the net and tossed it out, as if that was her purpose as a goalie. It was so cute. She was proud of herself for retrieving the ball!! Six year old soccer is not a thing to be missed...it's great!

Someone's nearing ripe old 32!!!

This Friday Brad turns 32. I remember when my dad was in his thirties & I thought my dad was young and handsome, so maybe that's what Megan and Paige think of him. I think he just gets better with age. We're so much alike & life's just good. I know that Brad's my perfect match. Happy Birthday in a few days Brad. I love you!
(Ashlie loves him too):

Saying goodbye to amazing friends

This past weekend Brad and I said goodbye (temporarily :) ) to our amazing friends, as they moved their family to North Carolina. Life has a crazy way of matching you up with incredible people, then sending you all in different directions. This move will be a great blessing to their family, but Brad and I will miss them terribly. It's strange to think that a few years ago we hadn't even met them yet. Terry & Tiffany have had us over for dinner countless times, he's helped to frame our garage and install our windows, lent us his truck, helped lay our sod, taken Brad skiing, been our good buddies on all our trips, given us TONS of clothes for the kids, been Brad's fishing partner, etc. We've spoken so much about them with family that I thought I'd help put a face with their name by sharing some photos from our Costa Rica trip. Good luck in North Carolina you guys!
Tiffany and Terry on the catamaran:

Brad and Terry after scuba diving:

Photos of our "art room"

I recently posted that we have turned what was our computer room into our "art room". A while ago we painted the room blue, because what fun is an art room with white walls, right? We put our old kitchen table in there, along with all their art and creative "stuff". I thought it was a fun touch to fill mason jars with pipe cleaners, tissue paper scraps, googly eyes, buttons, pom poms, etc., and they've had fun using it all. I'm learning that yeah, I may have all of this stuff for them to use, but if it's in a large storage bin they'll never use it. The funnest part was that Brad and I have all of this art that we did back in high school that has been sitting in our art portfolios. We chose a few that we scanned in order to make them all uniform in size, and its fun to have a few hanging up.

Our Small Spring Break Outing

Well, since Brad's not a teacher, he unfortunately has to work during Megan's spring break. But he did take off Wednesday, and we called it our "Fun Day". We went to Provo and had a good time with the girls. We went to the Paleontology Museum just across from the BYU stadium. It's small, but free and fun.




Once a year Brad gets a birthday coupon from Tuchanos Brazilian Restaurant for a buy one get one free. Kids under 7 eat free, so it makes it so we can afford to take the whole family. It was a yummy lunch! Brad's just in heaven there. It sure is a popular place -it was a Wednesday, and we had to wait 45 minutes to get in.


I found a little hidden treasure in Provo. This building has like a mini Thanksgiving Point style garden behind it. You go through the building & sign their guest book and you just can wander in the back. It was beautiful and in Northern Utah things are just starting to bloom, so I'm sure when the trees actually have leaves it'll be super pretty. They have ton of rose bushes that will bloom later too. This first photo is of this AMAZING water fountain they have in the lobby of their building.







At the end of our day we shopped for some soccer clothes for Megan. This upcoming Tuesday will be her first game. After getting home from Provo she immediately tried on everything, and even asked us to get her the soccer ball for the photo. She at least looks like she knows how to play! We'll see if she even has a clue come Tuesday. Can't wait! :)


Last weekend we were up with Brad's family & we got to see his sister Becky & her husband and kids. (I got to see my niece for the first time that's now over a year old, and the whole weekend I couldn't get over how CUTE she was!!! I LOVED her!) Our girls had tons of fun because Brad's sister has 4 daughters. It was a house full of girls! While we were at his parent's house we got to see a baby calf get born!! We saw the front two legs and then the momma seemed to be stressed that so many of us were watching, so we went back inside the house so she could do what she needed to do. When we came back out the mom was licking her baby clean, and we got to see the calf learn to stand and take it's first steps! I WISH I would've just run inside and grabbed my camera, but I didn't. This photo is of my nieces and my girls looking at a baby calf that is 3 days old. At the time we had no idea we'd get to see a momma cow deliver 2 days later!

My AMAZINGLY handy husband!

Here are a few of the things Brad has helped make happen lately. I LOVE that he is so handy. He seriously will attempt just about anything. I'm lucky!
We have a small kitchen, so our table / chairs were visible from the front room. I jokingly asked (though really meaning it) if he could maybe add on to the wall. He added 10 inches to the living room / kitchen wall & it looks SUPER!

I had some ideas to make the toy room work better for us, & he made it happen. He built some shelves for the toys (not attached to the wall so that they can be removed), and he built a little shoe rack for the girls' dress up shoes. Now my girls play dress-ups ALL the time!




We've also been painting. We've turned our computer room into the "art room". I'm excited to post some photos of it, but it's not done yet.