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Mother’s Day

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The children spent most of the day in a half comatose state watching t.v on the couch.
Notice they both have puke buckets nearby. Yup. They got the stomach flu or something nasty on Mother’s Day. So I went to church alone while Jon was on sicky duty. He cleaned lots of puke. 
Jon made me a yummy dinner. It was SO nice not to have to cook or clean. Well clean food/dishes anyway. I did break out my trusty Mean Green. It’s just not Mother’s Day with out having to clean bodily fluids.  My very first Mother’s Day had me running out of sacrament meeting to change/clean an amazing amount of newborn Kaylee spit-up. We may as well call that puke right? Good times. 🙂

Meanwhile some very AWESOME things happened Mother’s Day weekend. This this hot mess of crap on my counter is GONE. As Shannon would say, “It looks like your groceries puked all over your counter.” Ya. Well no more! Couldn’t be happier about it. See this hot mess has been the pantry for the last Seven months. Far too long!

See when the boys started doing demo I got a phone call from Jon asking if I would like them to build me a pantry where the weird microwave cubby hole was. Um… YES PLEASE! He didn’t really need to ask. I just think he wanted me excited about having a pantry IN the kitchen and NOT in the hallway.

Here are a few demo pictures. There was electrical, moving doors, drywall……. It took some doing to make that hole pantry sized.

If you look close you can see the master bathroom toilet through the pantry. The wall was all closed up and the drywall guy did such a great job by the time I arrived in AZ. You seriously cannot tell that there ever was a door on the other side. See there was a in master linen closet. So the boys just reversed the whole shabang (because it was a space I really didn’t/don’t need) to make the pantry. Clever boys!

So seven months later. They needed a bit of a break. They did a TON of demo and repair. A TON! They decided it was time. Time to finish the pantry. It took lots of head scratching and math to figure out the odd angle that wasn’t even as they measured up the wall.

But once all the math and cuts were made it went CRAZY fast.

It was definitely a two man job. They had to stack the boards to get them all in. So one would hold the stack up while the other nailed in the braces. Then they would drop a shelf and do it all again.

But good grief isn’t it lovely?!?! It’s HUGE! I have so much empty space. I need to get all sorts of organizers for it to keep it easy to find things and make it pretty. Right now I just have everything shoved in there. I was just SO SO SO happy to clear off my counter.



Such a nice change. My kitchen feel so much bigger now. I LOVE IT! We are slowly but surely checking off our super humungo home improvement list.



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Barry is home!

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We are so excited that Barry is home! He got home on the 19th. It was SO good to spend time with him for a few days.

Waiting at the airport for Papa and Yaiyai to arrive.

Regan was a little excited to see his Papa! And this is his Regan’s new way of to running. He grabs hold of his pants to keep them up. Underwear is just not a bulky as diapers are.

Just some random photos of us visiting while we wait for Barry’s plane.

The O’dell’s have arrived and Darin comes upstairs to tell so.

Barry is home!!!!

Kaylee telling Barry that she is 4.

Our sibling group hug. Although you can’t see me in the photo…

My parents cute family.

McKay, Barry, and Miles. All left for and returned home from missions at about the same time.

Darin and Barry our families most recent missionaries.

Barry and the O’dell Family.

Relaxing with the children.

Jon and the children walking home with the girls after church.

Our most recent sibling photo. Me the albino sibling. haha

Kaylee LOVES playing with Cassie and Jadzia.

These three had a blast on the hammock.

We finished our visit off with a movie. Regan found a new cuddle buddy and was happy to sit and watch How to train your Dragon.

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4.7.2012

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So this years photos were super fun. Shannon took us to the CUTEST park. I am already planning on going back this October for our Christmas card photo.

It was crazy, but fun doing both families. We just kept passing the camera back and forth between us and snapping random and posed photos.

These first 3 are in the FedEx van (11×14 awesomeness) on their way to the house right now! SO excited to get them up on my wall.

The rest are the others that we liked as well.

We rode the cute carousal. My two were not up for riding a horse. Luckily they had options.

On a train ride.




And to top it off I got Josh to go with us! So we got new photos of him as well. He doesn’t know it, but he’s going up on the living room wall too! Although I did his as an 8×10 so he wouldn’t harass me as much over it. Just wish I could have convinced him to hold some balloons…

We were teaching Kaylee “Elbow, elbow, wrist, wrist, wrist. “, while on our train ride/tour. If the children would have been looking at the camera this one would have been the living room wall photo. It just cracks me up.

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