Feeling the love!

Thanks to all those who stood by me in my moment of crisis! It was all thanks to your support that I made it through and got this baby up and running again. Now to the real reason it all came crashing down in the first place, my super talented cousin Jessica has an etsy store. I was checking it out yesterday and was totally amazed at her craftiness and I had to share it with everyone. She gave me some bum directions on how to post a link, not really I just messed it up all on my own but anyway its there now and you can all go be amazed by her abilities too!

This might be it for me

As you can see, I was trying to "upgrade" my blog and something went terribly wrong. So here is my new and improved blog, plain white with no extras! Right now I cant even figure out what I did enough to get back to the layout page so I can change my background, I am getting totally frustrated and considering giving up all together. I am sure it is an easy fix for most people so I am going to sign off, let myself cool down and see if I can conquer this thing in a few hours from now.

Chloe's dream come true!!!

It seems like I haven't posted in a while and there have just been a few small things going on that I would like to share.

Here is Chloe holding her sweet little cousin Carson, she has been waiting for this day for a long time, she finally got to hold him! Isn't he the cutest baby? I LOVE all the hair!
This is Chloe and her new friend Savannah. I say new friend even though we have known them for over 2 years now, Chloe and Savannah have just started getting along! It was a signifigant day for us- Savannah has an older brother that is Cooper and Carters age so our playdates are much more peaceful these days! We were babysitting last week and I had just painted the girls nails so this is a pic of them waiting for thier nails to dry!
 

This is another one of my fantastic collages of us in Brianhead. I didn't get great pictures (thanks to us having to wrap up our weekend early because 4/6 of us had the flu!)but it was an awesome weekend. Billy's friend invited us up last minute and it was so fun! We stayed in an AWESOME cabin with lots to do and it was only 75 degrees up there!!

P.S. Tonight I learned that you can upload these pictures straight from picasa to blogger in a snap! Way faster then when I do it through blogger-gotta love that!

check it out!!!

Remember when I said I wanted to learn how to do this? (It was just a few days ago) I totally taught myself!!! No thanks to Adobe photoshop free trial which was WAY to complicated for me, I downloaded picasa for free from google and it was super easy. I cant promise it will get much fancier but I am quite proud if you cant tell!
Oh yeah, I guess I will explain what the pictures are of now. About a month ago we went to a midevil fair with Emilee, TJ, Beau, Luke, Misty, Quinn, and Ryanne. It was a little bit lame but we all had free tickets to get in! The kids loved the jousting show (that includes Billy and TJ), I loved the food booths, and all the boys loved the paintball/ airsoft/ whatever else gun booth. We got some cute pics anyway and it was better then sittin around doing nothing!!

The best weekend ever!

You know, I like to pretend that I know what I am doing with this whole blogging thing but apparently I don't! I somehow managed to load all the pictures backwards, but it could be kind of fun, it will be our trip in reverse, so here we go! (I really wish I knew how to combine a couple of pictures into one like some of you blog savvy people out there so please clue me in how you are doing it.)
Our trip couldn't have ended more perfectly, at Krispy Kreme. I guess thats not true, I really wanted the kids to see them making doughnuts and they weren't, Billy even asked them to make some special for us and they wouldn't-RUDE!(The whole purpose of our trip to Salt Lake was to go and meet our sweet and perfect brand new neice(and cousin) Mataya. She was blessed on Sunday (right before we hit the krispy kreme) and somehow I didn't end up with one picture of her or the festivities in her favor-lame aunt-I know. So I will just say she is super duper cute and we had a great time with the whole family!)
We had 4th of July dinner with most of Billy's family and I did manage to get a picture of all the girl cousins who were there, only Mataya is missing.
Right before the BBQ we were at the Hogle zoo. This was our last activity while at the zoo, the awesome train ride, it was cute, I had never been on it before.
The boys took advantage of every photo op like this one that we ran into! Bunch of monkeys!
Seriously, the monkeys were so funny, we kept trying to walk away but we couldn't because they were super entertaining-that was my favorite of all the animals. Maybe because they remind me of my own kids. So I made Billy and the kids take a picture in front of the monkeys so we would always remember how funny they were!
Cooper being a lemur.
Chloe's favorite part of the trip by far! She was talking about Lexi and "Tataya" the whole way up. That girl LOVES her babies! She also LOVES TO TALK, she kept us laughing the entire 10 hours we were in the car.
We had a temple reservation for 5 on Friday night to take the kids to the open house. We got on the freeway in Hurricane at 12:45 and I thought we were going to miss it, but somehow Billy got us there in plenty of time! It was an awesome experience.
All packed up and ready to go. The kids were perfect angels on the way up-we stopped one time to get lunch and potty breaks. We made up for it on the way home by stopping four times between Kaysville and Springville! It took us a little longer to get home then it did to get there!
So totally out of order, I dont know what happened, but I love this picture Billy took of the kids looking at the giraffes. It was such a wonderful weekend and I am so glad we were able to go. (We almost changed our mind at the last minute) I think I am starting to annoy Billy with all my zoo talk but I cant get over how active all the animals were. We got there right before feeding time and it was nice and cool so the animals were quite happy. The Lion was so noisy and so were the monkeys. We even saw the alligator move, I was starting to doubt that those things really moved at all! Anyway I posted a smilebox because we had a ton more pictures (that I couldn't even fit in there)that I wanted to share but like I said, I need a blogging tutorial. Thank you to Melissa and Ryan for hosting us and to Lindsay for having a baby-giving us a great excuse to come up and visit everyone! We love you all and hope your fourth was as wonderful as ours!

Make a Smilebox photobook