the best non-holiday weekend

My friend said, "General Conference weekend is my favorite non-holiday weekend."  

I completely agree.  

The whole weekend is centered around food, family and the gospel.  How much better can it get?  And ours was nothing short of that.

I wrote a menu for the weekend and stuck on the fridge.  I made homemade biscuits and gravy, cinnamon rolls with cream cheese frosting and a yummy roast for Sunday dinner. 

I was hoping for warmer weather, but we still got to play outside a little.
And James didn't do any homework, so we were together all weekend!  That's my favorite :)

This is how we looked all weekend...entertaining the children during conference, while wearing comfty clothes.  Note - Porter's sweatpants and my sweatpants.  Oh, Porter is under James :)

and we're live...

We got a new camera. 

I spent the ENTIRE day taking pictures of my kids.  I wanted to catch up fast!

Enjoy :)

the best saturday ever

The Best Saturday Ever:

-Eggs n Bacon for breakfast (my favorite)

-Long walk to the park

-Played at the park for an hour while Paige slept in the stroller 

- Came home, played outside, then ate lunch

-EVERYONE took naps, including me

-Woke up, ate a snack, went to ANOTHER park

-Played there for about an hour

-Walked around Wal Mart

-Ate at a pizza joint for dinner

(where Porter threw his sippy cup across the table hitting my plate of food, and where Paige grabbed my glass spilling water all over the floor.)

-Came home, played outside in our backyard.  Geez I love living in a house.

-Baths, snacks, BEDTIME!

-Painted the storage room we're completing in the basement

-REDBOX

-Bed

*Oh and did I mention that James was with us the entire day?  No homework, no work.  It was amazing.  AND it was 75 degrees. Come on, summer!

hi.

(yes, I'm alive)

I still have no camera.  It sucks.

I jumped onto the band wagon and bought a handful of Essential Oils this weekend.  I went to one of those parties.  The sales pitch was amazing.  Anyone else have oils? (ha!)

Porter is sleeping in a big boy bed for the first time tonight.  I'm nervous.  I put pillows all around his bed.  I don't want him to fall onto the floor!

Paige is seconds away from crawling.  I think she's tired of me walking away from her.

I'm obsessed with checking out the free section of the classifieds on KSL.com.  People give away so much stuff!  I'm determined to fill our backyard for the summer.

It had to have been like 70 degrees today.  We played outside all day.  When we finally did come inside, Porter cried and said, "outside! outside!"

Oh, summer, please come tomorrow.

we were in st.george

I'm that girl who wishes she lived next door to her parents.  But the next best thing is having your parents live some place warm and exciting!  Every couple months I feel the need to pack up my babies and drive that awful long drive to St.George.  Warm weather, my mom's yummy cooking, my parents playing with my children - totally worth it.

This past week was even better because my one sister came with her kids for the whole week!  And another sister drove up for the weekend.  It rained the first part of the week, but we still had a good time.

we really missed james!  porter was so happy to see him today!
*thanks rachelle for the pictures. still no camera.

our dance parties

I like to dance, alot! I like to jump around and bust out my moves as if I'm the best dancer around. Therefore we dance at my house. This is our favorite song right now. Paige sits and laughs. Porter copies all my dance moves. And me...well like I said, I dance like I'm part of a dance crew.

(videos of our dance parties to come later...that camera isn't working. Suck.)

my wednesday

We had a friend come over this morning.  At first Porter was not excited.  But after a few minutes, the two little boys were laughing and crashing their toys into each other.

My kids napped at the same time.  I laid on the couch and watched 24.  (Quick side note - where the heck was I over the last 8 years?  Why wasn't I watching 24 with the rest of the world?!  I wish Jack Bauer was my Dad.)

Two old coworkers came over after naps.  I miss them.  I miss a lot of the gals I worked with.  They were hilarious.  But, guess what?  Totally don't miss working.

My kids make me so happy.  Paige smiles every time I look at her.  Her gurgles and coos are adorable and Porter could hold her attention for days. Porter can say so many words!  He is definitely my child.  Right when he wakes up, he says, "eat, eat" And throughout the day I hear that word a lot. 

Oh and after a week and a half of not turning on my camera, putting the whole thing in a bowl of rice, opening up all of the compartments, pulling out the battery and memory card...it still doesn't work.  But I found my old digital camera from college and the washed memory card still works.  Silver lining.