Eclipse

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Did you see the Eclipse today? AWESOME!!! We were a bit bummed out due to our location. The St. George, UT area had MUCH better views of it than we did in AZ.  In fact Jon’s calender on his phone went off with a reminder to be in Parowan, UT while we were in sacrament this afternoon.
He programed that into his phone TWO years ago! There is a canyon in Parowan (30 min. drive from Cedar City) that we had planned on going to, to watch the eclipse. It’s supposed to be just a spectacular view.
Jon was funny and said that if we would have planned things out he would have driven us up to UT to see the full eclipse.
Jon helping Kaylee get a peek at the eclipse.
Jon looking while Kaylee looks at the sun even though she was told not to. Stinker.
It’s hard to see, but here is a photo of how much coverage we were able to witness. We were able to see about %80 coverage. Jon rigged this gadget so we could watch without damaging our eyes. There is a small sliver of light next to his finger. That’s all that the sun was peeking out at this point.
My Dad had a great view from his house. He rigged a lens cover for his camera and sent us these photos.
Dad was cute texting and calling us giving us updates on how much better his view was. Making us way jealous. They got this terrific shot of the “ring of fire”.
Even thought Kaylee probably won’t remember I am sure glad she got into it and was excited about such a cool thing. The next one is in five years. We will be going on a family road trip to see that one for sure!

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Father’s and Sons

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On May 5th Jon and Josh took Regan to his second Father’s and sons. Regan is going to start thinking that Father’s and sons is a Daddy camp-out with whatever man relative is around. I sort of love that. I love that we have such a close awesome family. (And/or Josh really didn’t want to have a girls night with me and Kaylee….)

We bought a new tent for the occasion. and new air beds. I am excited for me and Kaylee to go camping (with boys) and use our new toy.

Next year I will have to remind Jon to ask someone to get a photo of him and Regan together. The boys had a blast. I am excited that Jon likes to take Regan to these things. It’s so fun have set Boy time which give me and Kaylee set girl time.

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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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