Really?

Word is getting out, so I thought I would post it. We played with the idea of selling our house and talked about it for awhile. Then we went for it.

Our little casa for sale...scary and totally mixed emotions.

Three days on the market and 2 offers. SUPER CRAZY!!!!It all happened soooooo fast and now we need to move.
Where? We don't know, lookin' around
When? Out by the 31st
Emotional? Yes--Defiantly feelin' the highs and lows and just a LITTLE stressed!!!!

My poor daughter

The other night while we were at a friends house, Maeley "snuck"(we saw her doing it but it was a good effort)marshmallows out of their pantry and into her friends room to share. When we went home she wanted to finish her marshmallows in her room. Then the next morning she kept asking me where her marshmallows were. I said "you ate them" and she would tell me over and over that they were lost. Being the bad mother I am I didn't take her seriously and was really only half listening.. Then she went to the pantry to look for some breakfast. That's when I started laughing

I guess she didn't eat it afterall.

Go ahead and spill on your seat

When Jace and I were first married our first "household" purchase was a dining table. After daily wear and spill after spill the chairs have become absolutely disgusting. So I thought I would post the before and after picts. I love before’s and after’s picts, don't you?

Two of the chairs had never been put together, so we actually had brand new ones when I took this photo

NEW (doesn't count)

BEFORE

Gross huh?

It looks like someone actually peed right there on the seat. Nasty Gross!!!! FYI no one peed.

AFTER

Ahhh much better. Feel free to come over and have a seat. But you can sit on the couch if you want.

The End

LOVE!!!

I think I love the carpet cleaner man.

BEFORE-- in the family roomAFTER--in the family room
See? Love....

and all the other rooms look so pretty and clean too.

Our 4th

This was our first year spending the forth at home. We are usually camping in Oregon or at the coast...or some where. However, it was a great weekend. Nice and long. Did some deep house cleaning, the kind where you clean all the windows, blinds, base boards, take everything off the shelves and dust...BTW HATE dusting. It takes forever and is back in 2 seconds...maybe I should write a blog about "dusting". But back to the 4th of July. We went with our good friends to the Middleton parade. Our friends knew like everyone in the parade... :)

The funniest part was after some of the people on the floats would throw us candy, Maeley would throw it back. She has taken sharing to a whole new level :) JK
Carson was pretty toasty so we really liked it when the firetrucks came by and squirted water on us.

After the parade we went on the lake. And at this point I have to say... I have the best husband. Carson was really tired and had a sunburn from swimming a few days before, so Jace stayed back and let Carson sleep and got everything ready for the delicious BBQ we enjoyed after we got done boating. Now really...how many husbands would do that????

Unfortunately most of the photos I took while we lit fireworks turned out like this one.But a few didn't and these are them...

More sun please

I think this summer's weather has been kinda weird, it's like warm, cold, warm, cold. But once the weather man said it was going to be hot I thought let's blow up the pool, put out the slip-n-slide and another little pool for the babies, then lets invite some friends over. So all the mommies can have a yummy lunch and let the kids splish and splash. I was so glad we did it. It was really fun. I wish I had more pictures of how EVERYTHING (bikes, popsicles, rocks, etc) ended up in the pool. Now we just need more days like this one....

Princesses

This is Maeley (of course) at her friend Livi's birthday party. It was the best little birthday party ever. Jamie, her mom, did a fairy princess party and made tutu's, and hair pretty's for all the girls and had lots for them to do. It was such a good party. Although it was no boys allowed, Carson was allowed to stay with all the princesses...photo not included :) Maeley patiently waiting her turn for Pin the Unicorn on the Pony

They were all SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO cute. Great party Jamie

Snipity snip snip

Maeley had her first real haircut at the Monkey Dooz. It is the coolest little place for little kid cuts and preteen parties. I love the chairs they sit in (girls get a pink jeep and boys get a grey hummer)

And after the cut was finished they put lots of pretty spakles in her hair. It was actually so much that I had to SCRUB her hair over and over to get it all out, but she LOVED it!All finished and super cute.

Wow...already?

Whoa, time flies. Isn't it amazing??

We celebrated Carson's first birthday. In some ways I can believe it's been a year, but in reality, it has zoomed by.....vroooooooooooommmmmm. Crazy huh?
Carson Facts:

Nickname: The Little Man

Object that calms him down: Blue and green blankie

Something always in his mouth: His index and middle finger of his right hand

Worst accident to date: Falling off the church stage

Number of teeth: 2 and a half

Favorite Food: Meatloaf

Person that Makes him laugh most: Maeley

Most frequently made comment to him: "You look just like your daddy."

Crawling or walking?: Cruising

One Stinky Quality: His very explosive poopies

Never gets tired of...: crawling up and down the stairs

Gets in trouble the most for: Being in the bathroom

I couldn't wait for him to try cake for the first time.
He seemed a little overwhelmed by the large green piece. But he ate lots...Until he rubbed some in his eye.

Happy Birthday Carson. We love you and are sooooo blessed to have you as our little boy.

oUr fUn tRip tO deNver

Maeley, Carson and I just returned from Denver and we had such a B-last!!!!!! Denver is not a location that we would usually pick as a "vacation" but it did feel like one, at least to Maeley, Carson and I. Jace has an audit job out there and was going to be gone for a few weeks, so instead of staying home by myself every night for what would seem like for-ev-a, we flew out there for 10 days. It was a prefect location, because Steve lives out there too...BONUS. We had a grrrrrrrrrrreat time and we were definitely sad to come home. But here are a few picts of our trip. Some of the days I forgot my camera in the hotel room or at Steve's so not everything (like the zoo) is on here. However, the zoo was awesome. I've never stayed at a zoo that long....the kids were soooooo entertained. So lemme tell you about it...FYI kinda long...lots of pictures, coulda done a slide show, but didn't want to...

The Morning Of: I had been on top of my game and had pretty much everything done, but while I finished up a thing or two Maeley ran around already to go asking "Is it time to go, Mom, Can we go now?"

She had her "airplane" backpack (equipt with snacks, activities and books) on all morning.

We arrived at the airport early enough just in case we ran into any problems. So with a little time on our hands we had lunch...

...played at the arcade (yuck, I let her, but in my mind all I could think of was germs/swine flu)

And finally got on board. Maeley was so excited. We have gone to pick up Jace from the airport SOOO many times and now she finally got to be on an airplain too. Even though she has flown several times before, this was the first time she actually knew what she was doing. FYI the rest of the flight sucked. Carson screamed, I was soaked from his bottle and all I wanted to do was get off. The next few days were lots of playing inside, outside....morning 'til night



One of our favorite nights was the first night at the hotel. All of Steve and Julie's kids came and we had a pool and pizza night. All of the kids were lauighing and screaming so LOUD that Julie (my sister in-law) thought she was going deaf. It was actually really funny.

I couldn't resist taking this picture. I think it's the worlds biggest wedgie and it on MY daughter. Such a proud moment....
We stayed at the hotel for a few nights and Maeley LOVED it!!! We all did.
This just made me laugh. I didn't know Carson cared so much about current affairs. Look at him read, he's not even 1.
JK

It was such a fun trip. It was like a family vacation, except for the fact Jace went to work during the day. Kinda weird. But I hope you got through all of this and are still alive. Lots of photos, I know, but I didn't include (because I didn't take the photos) the Giants game, our zoo day, the look on Steve’s face when he thought his wallet was stolen, the fun shopping and shopping bags, Julie's birthday party or any photos of the crazy Denver area drivers.