The Big Reveal......

Here's our new floors:

I am really loving it. I think it has really opened up the space.

Next on the to do list:

Finish putting baseboards back on

Look for new area rug and curtains

A Nice Little Thought For The Day.....

I am loving this quote from Marjorie Pay Hinckley:

"I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know that I was really here and that I really lived."

Reading that this morning just changed my whole outlook on my day.

Happy Wednesday!

Check List

Here's what today is shaping up like:

-Make a few batches of banana bread. I've been freezing old bananas specifically for this so I could do it when I had the time. Kendle looked pretty perked up when I offered to make some today so I better follow through on it.

-Get dinner prepped. I'm making tortellini soup with homemade french bread (that's been socked away in the freezer as well.)

-Try to clean off the dining room table that has stuff piled on it from doing the floors. It's annoying stuff that really doesn't have a specifically good place to go. I hate clutter and junk.

-Try to repair my plumeria plant that Morgan yanked out from the roots yesterday. My sister-in-law Debbie brought it back to me from Hawaii last year around this time and it has been through quite a lot and still survived, so hopefully it'll make it.

-Move the last of the furniture back where it's supposed to be.

I'll try and get some pictures of the floors posted soon.

Spring Break / Easter 2010

As it turned out, our floors took a little longer than we bargained for and the kids and I ended up spending the whole spring break in Irrigon with my parents. We literally did not come home until last night, just in time to let the kids slide around on the new flooring for a bit and then send them to bed. We are so thankful for everyone who came and helped, but especially my dad for coming up almost every day and working late into the night with Riley. They just worked and worked and the floors look great! All that's left to do is just touch up a few spots and paint the baseboards and put them back on. Easier said than done though, it will probably take longer to finish those than the floor did! Ha.

I was feeling kind of lame that our kids weren't going to get to do anything for spring break, but they ended up getting pretty spoiled while we were there. A few of the fun things they did:

-Went to the "How to Train Your Dragon" movie with my mom

-Helped decorate Easter cupcakes

-My mom bought Alvin and the Chipmunks the Squeakquel which they've been DYING to watch and I think they watched it at least ten times.

-Went exploring with my dad to the river, the park, and the fish hatchery. They had so much fun collecting shells and being with grandpa.

-Had lots of yummy treats including root beer floats.

-Kendle got to hang out at the school with my mom for a while on Friday and go to their book fair where grandma treated her and Morgan to some cute books. (I think this was Kendle's favorite day of the whole week.)

-Morgan got to go the farm with grandpa a few times

-Morgan played outside every day, even when it was cold and rainy. He had a blast jumping on the trampoline, pushing the wheel barrow around, and occasionally chasing the neighbors chickens out of the yard. He is an outdoors type of boy for sure.

Every morning when I would start to hear the babies fussing, I would get up and go out to the family room and there would be my parents already feeding and changing the babies. They are nothing short of amazing people. I know they were pretty tired from helping with all of the kids this week and I think they deserve a vacation themselves. One thing is for sure, Cooper and Kale absolutely adore grandma and grandpa.

I enjoyed the parts of General Conference I was able to watch over the weekend and hope I can recap the parts I missed. I also loved this movie that played after Saturdays session.

Sunday morning Kendle and Morgan woke me up around 5:30 to see if they could go look at what the Easter Bunny had left them. I made them go back to bed for a while but finally by 6:45 or so I couldn't stand listening to them "pretending to go back to sleep" anymore so I let them get up. Here are a few pictures of them:

As you can see there aren't any baskets in these pictures. I decided to do something a little different this year. Morgan has really been wanting a back pack and since he has been kind of obsessed with the "How to Train Your Dragon" movie, I bought him a cool dragon back pack and made that his "basket" with his cool stuff inside. I found Kendle a cute Eiffel Tower bag from Forever 21 that I knew she would love as her "basket" and she could use it for piano books, going to the library, or short trips to grandmas house. I think they got pretty spoiled by the Easter bunny.

Now we're back to school, routine, cleaning house, and all that jazz.