New van!

I love my new van. It has leather seats and the front two seats heat up so when trevor freezes me out with the air conditioning I turn on the seats and it warms me right up. It has an automatic door for the kids to easily get into. The lights turn on by themselves when it starts to get dark. has a cd player which we have never had. It is a very big luxury for us. And lots more room and cheaper gas when we have to go out of town. The kids love riding in it. the seats are very comfortable to sit in and it is so fun to drive. Definately better than my big beast of a van i am used to driving around in. also it has the clicker from you key chain (don't know the scientific name for it) which we also have never had. So we are very pleased with what we got!

T-Ball Practice!

Just a little post Trustin started T-ball today. He had a blast. Maybe he'll become as good of a baseball player as his uncle Chase! We can only hope! He will have his first game a week from this thursday. They go all over up to 45 mins away for some of their games! We are excited for Trustin! Go Trustin Go!

St. George vacation!

This past week we decided with all the stress in our lives to take a vacation. We were going to go through St. George and through Mesquite and then go onto Grand Canyon and valley of fire. But our little car didn't work so we ended just spending three days having fun in St. George with our beast of a van. I enjoy driving it and there is tons more room it is just a gas hog. We spent like three times the gas we would have in our car, but we had a blast and were able to get groceries also. We went to the Washington City community center and took the kids swimming. They have a lot of cool kids slides and an indoor hydro tube, a river that pushes you along and just a lot of fun things. The kids really enjoyed it, and Trevor enjoyed his time going down the hydrotube. Trustin got to have a ride with Trevor down the hydrotube and thought it was a blast. Then that night we went to a movie the Lightening theif. It was a good movie, a little over the kid's heads, but it was the only kids movie that we could go to and we have to take advantage of it when we are there. We ordered a big tub of popcorn since it was the kids first movie at the theater, Aleynah was sooo excited, but she ended up just falling asleep halfway through. Then on Saturday we spent the day in Snow Canyon (named after the color of the rocks not the temperature). They had sand dunes which were the color red and petrified sand dunes which they were able to climb and just a bunch of cool places to hike. It was packed with people being easter weekend. Then we just ended staying at a hotel for 2 nights. We have found this great hotel that we always stay at that has two rooms, basically the two queens in the one room then a hideabed in the other one with a t.v. that we put the kids in and they just watch tv until they fall asleep. It works very well with two young kids who are wound up and don't want to fall asleep. We also enjoyed going out to eat, McDonald's, subway, pizza hut, arby's. So all in all we had a blast. It is so nice to get out of the house once in a while.

new pics of the kids

We thought we would take new pictures of the kids. I swear the more kids you have the less pictures you take of your kids, but I decided they are growing to fast in order not to I just needed to do it.

Temporary New addition!

So I think I have totally lost it. Between mohawks and everything else, I Should have said no to this but they were soo cute. We got two of them.We have a close friend who they will belong to, but we said we could keep them in a box in the house till they get a little bigger because it is too cold outside for them now. And my kids absolutely love them. They will become great egg layers and it gives the kids a chance to experience taking care of something, (and they will be going to a great home when they get big.

Crazy hair Mohawk

So one of Trustin's little friends comes to school one day with a mowhawk. The wife said, "It was all my husband's idea." Trevor comes home for lunch a few days later and I just happened to mention this kids hair. He said,"You should give Trustin one. I want it thin and spiky. So I thought what could it hurt. So I cut off one half of the hair and think to myself, "WHAT HAVE I DONE?" I wanted at that moment to put it all back but realized I couldn't and realized I would have to finish. I am finally starting to be able to get used to it. Although it is kinda fun to see people's reactions (it gets my mind off of our stress of Trevor's layoff.) Some people say, oh-he's just a kid, let him have fun. Others have thought my child will have no hope, and will grow up wild. I just have to laugh. It is JUST a haircut. It will grow back, and he is only five. Being married to an artist, I have definately have grown into having an open mind. One little thing is not going to totally ruin him. I used to think that you had to be way conservative and by the letter of the law. But I have seen the effects of being too controling and not allowing to make your own choices, and it tends to throw people in the opposite direction alot of the time where they hate being good. So, anyways, a little mohawk never hurt anyone and I hope that if your kid wants to be a little outside the box to let them.

cutie pie Ry!

Here is an updated photo of my beautiful baby. It is hard to tell but he has VERY blue eyes. I never thought I would get lucky enough to have a blue-eyed baby, but I got lucky and boy does he look like his daddy (or so Everyone says) We pulled out Trevor's old baby pics and he looks just like him. What a cutie!