Our first family dinner party!

The first of MANY dinner parties! (if I have anything to do with it!) :)
Those who came were, Kathie, Paul, Keith, Lynn, Emily, & Tyler. Later that night Jake and his friend Mike came over.. and we had a big sleep over! (Keith, Lynn, Jake, & Mike) Let the parties begin fokes!

Home Makeover part 2

Kaylee wanted a princess-horse room. Yep, she loves princesses and horses. And she always says, "well mom, every princess has a horse!" So we started by painting her room 2 shades of pink. The 2nd pic shows the colors better. My camera was doing funky things with the lighting. We got the princess canopy at Bed Bath and Beyond. Our next step is to do some horsey things. Any ideas? If so, send them my way. More pics will come!

Lil' Princess Photo-shoot!

Princess Best Friends Forever! Ayden, Kate, Kaylee, & Claire trying to be "proper lil' princesses".
Wendy, Shelly, and I decided to have a princess photo-shoot. Since our girls are ALWAYS wearing princess dresses and accessories, we had to get some pics of it! Kaylee already moved away from her friends, and in 2 months Ayden and Claire are moving to Michigan. These princess friends will never be cul-de-sac neighbors again. Our plan is to put a couple of these pics in frames so they can always remember their adorable friendship! Here are a sample of these adorable princesses (and a prince).

They love each other a ton, and it shows.
Here we have; Jasmine, Ariel, Arora, and Cinderella smelling the wild flowers from the meadow.

The Band

Ok, so here is our band playing in Manti, Ut. It is the Rat Fink Reunion/Car Show.
The band name is "Plan B". For the last 5 years we had a little family band. Kyle plays the electric guitar, I played the bass, Cody sings and plays acoustic guitar, Amber played the keyboard, and our friend, Jason plays the drums. Last year I was on bed rest with Konnors' pregnancy. So, I had to take time off of the band. So we got Brent to play the keyboard, and Amber moved over to the bass. This pic is of my amazing husband and our little ones are up close cheering him on!For the record: I really miss it! It was so much fun to play in a band right next to my amazing and talented (not to mention, very handsome) husband!
Below: This was our band playing in a parade! Amber, Cody, Jason, Kyle, and I.
That was so much fun!

The Race Is On...

Ok, so Konnor used to love diaper changing time. He used to love to lay on his back and smile at me. But lately, .... not so much! Now anytime he is laying on his back, it seems as though he feels it is is just wasting his time. He could be crawling around exploring the world, but no- he is trapped on his back until his evil mother changes his bum. He is so squirmy and wiggly! He tries to roll over the WHOLE time! GRRRR! Today, I was wrestling him so much that I TORE his diaper. Who does that? Apparently, Me! I guess I just have to distract him long enough with something and then race against his attention span! Let the races begin Kon-man!

NEW Home Makeover - part 1

Ok, this may come as a shock to most of you, so brace yourselves. We loved our red wall in our last house. But we couldn't decide to do it again here in our new home or not. We wanted to do an accent wall in the living room again, so we toyed around with reds, greens, and greys. But we couldn't decide on a color for our living room. Then Kyle said, "Why don't we just paint an accent wall black! All of the light fixtures in the house are black, the kitchen, the stair-railing, etc... are all black" I said, "Are you serious?" So, needless to say... we now have a black wall.
Our first house, the first wall we paint here, is BLACK! I think we have lost our minds. What do you think?
Below is the prep-work for the paint. I taped the bottom and Kyle taped the ceiling. (9ft. ceilings)
Here is the first few strokes of paint on the wall.... wow. What did we get ourselves into?Here is the finished wall.... Ta Da....
Now the plan is to do bright RED accents in the room. We are going to put small tables on both sides of the fireplace, then put bright red lamps on the tables, with some shiny red vases on the mantle. Two matching pieces of artwork on either side of the tv too. What do you think? Any good ideas of home decor? Stores? art? Help!

Konnor's First "real" haircut

Konnor is growin' up so fast! Too fast. He is 13 months now, and so far, I have just trimmed his hair on the top and sides with scissors. (That is a scary thing too) But this weekend, I begged Kyle to help me with cutting Konnors hair with clippers. I had no idea that he was going to take the reins. Without a word, Kyle just grabbed the clippers and started going to town. :) At first Konnor didn't know what to think, but he soon realized he didn't like dad munipulating his head around with a buzzing contraption that he couldn't touch. (Hence the reason I don't have an "After" pic. He was too mad.)

Bridal Veil Falls!

When my sister Tracy came last week, we went to Bridal Veil Falls. It was a fun time even though there were a TON of people there for Memorial Day.
Here are some of the highlight pics of my cute family.
Kaylee is becoming such a little poser! (She is glowing in this pic)
My flower child! Isn't she cute?
We stopped by Subway on the way. So, we had a little picnic lunch. Here is Konnor eating some of my sandwich and giggling at the same time.
Kaylee loves to go exploring... This picture looks like it could be framed.
Konn-man chillin in the stroller.
Kaylee stepping into the freezing cold water at the falls. (Not too often you get to see a little girl playing in the water with her jacket on!)
Kaylee and Tracy in front of the falls.