Castle play room

We finally got to the fun part, painting the bricks!  Riann was so excited!!  Tyler said now he wants me to paint torches and swords with a shield!  I don't know if I am good enough to even attempt to do that..

Bubbles!!!

We went to my moms house over spring break.  I love it how even though we didn't have a trip planned the kids enjoy simple things...like BUBBLES!  Grandma gave them bubbles and pez for Easter.  Sadly Dominic was asleep, but Tyler and Ri had a blast!

Food storage

I have been thinking about food storage a lot lately.  I actually can't stop thinking about it and everywhere I go I am hearing about it.  So I took it as a wake up call that I really need to get some good food storage in the works.  Their are always other places for me to spend my money so I usually don't want to spend it on food storage.  But a couple weeks ago Jed said he felt strongly that we should work on it.  That kinda freaked me out because Jed normally doesn't care.  So we started with Macey's case lot sale and got things that we normally eat (mainly canned) Then I went and bought 15  one gallon jugs of water.  I thought hey this is a lot of water...great!  Then I learned you need a gallon per person per day.  So in other words that will keep my family alive for 3 days! LOL. oh well it's a start.  I'm not freaking out, just trying to be prepared if something were to happen.  My dad has had a lot of the same feelings as me so we are looking into other food storage options like The Daily Bread.  We are going to have a presentation again (we had one 3 years ago and never did anything...ooops!)  in a couple weeks so we will go from there.  It is a little expensive but I think if a large group goes in on it it is cheaper.  I am also trying my garden again.  I really can't grow anything!  I killed a cactus when we lived in St. George!! Who does that?! ...oh ya ME!  Jed said he will help me so hopefully I can do it.  I would really like to get fruit trees and start bottling but I am scared.  Trees are a lot more money to kill then a cactus. :)  But we will see how it goes.  I planted onions, peas, strawberries, and raspberries so far.  I have squash and cantaloupe planted in the house right now.  Later I am doing tomatoes, peppers, and pumpkins.  I should do zucchini just to make me feel better because people say everyone can grow that!  I will poat pic.s if I get anything!

Spring where are you??

Oh Spring where have you gone...I feel like this has been the longest Winter ever!!!  I don't think I can handle another snow storm.  The warm weather just teases me because soon after the snow is back.  Ri has been asking to swim all winter and has been wearing her swimming suit around the house.  I told her when all the snow in the mountains is gone.  She is checking on that daily.  We will be outside or at the pool a lot this summer if anyone wants to join us.  Hopefully these storms are behind us and it will warm up from here on.  I am dying to get out the summer clothes!!!  I am hoping for my kids to be able to spend more time with their cousins this Summer.  Family is so important to me and I hope I can see a lot more of them.

Dead computer??

Well I am back, for now.  My computer stopped working and my brother said its a dinosaur so it probably died.  I took it over to his house because he is a computer genius (and I know nothing) and he fixed it...well for now.  It is still really old.  So for now I am back and hopefully I don't have to buy a new computer because I really can't afford it right now.  So hopefully my old "dinosaur" computer will live for a couple more years because I am really enjoying have the internet!!!

Long or short??

I was having a hard time deciding if I should cut Dominic's hair our not. It's so cute and blonde I wanted to keep it long, but it was hard to keep it looking good especially after a nap.  Brandy did such a good job on it that I do like it.  He looks older though so that is sad.  I don't know if I should keep it or grow it out again.  What do you think? Long or short?

Dominic is 2!

It's amazing how fast time flies! I can't believe my baby turned 2 in January.  We took him to build a bear and he got a puppy (he loves puppies) and he had a truck party. His two favorite things in the world.  (other than daddy and daddy's bobcat) We made cool tracks out of play doh for the monster trucks to drive on and each kid got to have their truck and track.  It was fun. It is bittersweet that he is so big.  It seems like just yesterday we had him in the hospital with R.S.V. and I thought he would never get big and now look at him.  It just shows how you need to enjoy each day with your kids. They grow up so fast.