You Had One Job

I love my Husband!  If I'm being honest I absolutely adore him.  He's not perfect.  We are not perfect. We are a real couple with real life problems and we love each other enough to overcome them, but dispute our problems, regardless of our differences I simply can not bash my husband.  I don't talk bad about him, ever.  I just love him too much and we are happy to overcome our differences.  Having said that, please forgive me for bashing on him a bit.  We were getting ready for church and the girls just looked so adorable!  Yeah, they are mine and I'm bias so I always think they are adorable, but I asked him to take my phone and snap a few pictures of the girls while I finished getting ready.  I forgot about it, but later that day I flipped through my phone to see the pictures... REALLY?  These are the pictures, I think I'll order enlargements right now. I love you Dustin, but it turns out you do have flaws. 

Party at Deb's

Troy and Sabra came to visit last month. At the time Mom wasn't really able to go anywhere so we brought the party to her and it was so much fun!  We all brought our trailers and camped out.  We played soccer and kickball, went shooting, roasted hot dogs and really just loved being together.  This was the most normal things have been for a long time.  It was so fun for the kids to play with all of their cousins, we aren't all together too often anymore.  The girls spent hours in the bathroom doing makeup.  Such a fun weekend at Camp Clark's.

Our 'REAL" Life

I have good intentions of writing about how I feel about life and what it's really like for us instead of posting a few short sentences and cell phone pics of some of the fun things we do.  Actually, I contemplate on shutting the blog down, just letting it go, but Dustin has reminded me as of late how important it is, so I suppose you will all continue to hear about our life, at least for now.  He has been looking back through our blog and I hear him tell Brinley stories of when she was a baby (stuff he has been reading on our blog) and sadly I don't remember half of them.  And so I am reminded that record keeping serves a purpose.  I never want to forget those little moments with our children as I have come to realize, that's really all that matters in this life.  We've just been busy, there is no other way to put it.  I hate that word and I hate that feeling, yet I use it all of the time.  I long for a life or a day where we can just be, just exist.  Sitting on the patio with my family, eating Popsicles (or sicles as Lunnie calls them)  for a few short minutes yesterday was probably the highlight of my week.  I long for more moments like that, but for now we're just too busy.  Here's why:

 This project has drug on way longer than I intended it to.  We have sadly become the people who can't park their cars in their garage and when people come over Brinley tells them, "we keep that door closed because it's such a mess in there."  True!  When it feels like we are living in constant chaos and our home is a construction zone I have to remember that when we first stepped foot on this lot it was just weeds, rocks and a few enormous old trees and then I'm dang proud of how far we have come, of this life we have created literally from the ground up. We are finally starting to get somewhere, to see light at the end of the tunnel.  I can't wait to have all of my major projects done so we can just be, so we can spend a few more minutes on the patio eating popsicles as a family.

These amazing garden boxes were a gift from my amazing husband.  Isn't he awesome?  I designed them and he made it happen.  We really do make such a great team!  

Look Who's a Big Girl Now

Busy Little Hands

We took our girls to one of Home Depot's kids workshops.  Dustin was great to help them, they had fun hammering, pounding and gluing there crayon holders.  

First Camping Trip of the Year

We took our trailer to Franklin Basin over Memorial Weekend.  It's so pretty up there.  The girls had a blast!  London is a handful, Brinley said she didn't get "one bit of sleep"  because London was up playing all night.   Sure love these busy little girls of mine!

Stuff I Love

 So often after it rains I look out my back window to see the most amazing double rainbow.  Can you believe that we live where we do and have such an incredible view?  

Missing Dad

Dustin went on a fishing trip to Lake Powell with his friends last month.  It's a good thing he doesn't leave us too often because we don't function very well without him.  Brinley watched him pull away out the window.  I could tell she was struggling and I found her in her room a few minutes later clenching a pendent he gave her for Christmas in her hand, just bawling, "I wish he never left!  Why did he have to leave?"  Obviously this broke my heart!  We had to try to make the best of the night without him so we stayed occupied by watching home videos, and making decoration for when he came home (Brinley spent hours on these decorations) and the three of us had a pedicure party.  Our lives were madness while he was gone, not because he was gone, just because we had so much going on, but needless to say, we were so happy to have him back!

A Broken Wing

Can you believe our baby cakes broke her arm?  Papa Randy called it a broken wing.  She was at the kid's club at our gym and fell off the couch.  She cried and wanted her "Mommy", but we didn't know even know she hurt her arm until the next day.  She wore a sling for a week or so and just had her cast for two weeks.  It was so sad to see our sweet little girl broken, but she did amazing!  We are now trying to get her to go back to using her right hand rather than her left.  

Spring '13, Where in the world have we been?

We have been busy busy!  Lora and Kemish got married this spring.  We went to Salt Lake for the luncheon.  Our girls are so lucky to have their silly Grandpa. He's not afraid to get down on the floor and play with them.

Soccer started... and ended.  Brinley did good.  It was fun cheering her on.  Of course, her Grandparent's are so good to support her.  My parents came even though it took everything my Mom had to get there, I think Grandpa Cazier came to every game and brought Grandma to some as well. Our girls are so blessed to have such great grandparents!

Tattoo Baby

If you give a baby a pen...

Pigs and Horses

 Somebody's hair is long enough to put into her first little pigs.  Ironically I snapped this picture of her doing her favorite thing, looking at the horses.  This girl loves horses and she loves to watch them out the window or walk across the street to see them.  

Itty Bitty Bed

One night I was struggling to keep London entertained while I was cooking dinner.  I talked her into going to get her baby, but when that didn't do it Brinley let her borrower he baby crib.  She tucked her baby in then climbed in right next to her.  Although this isn't the best picture, it was a sweet moment we wanted to capture.