Wall Decorations

Here are some pictures of the wall decorations that my cousins Jeremy and Staci made for us while I was down there. Thanks a lot guys...they really make Tyler's room complete. They are really cute! I hope I did you proud with the way I set them up.

The picture doesn't really do these justice...the lighting is horrible. The sun coming in from the window is adding a nice glare.

These wall decorations add sooooo much to this once plain room.

Staci and I found this quote on the internet and just had to make it. Tyler has the cutest smile. It just makes you melt.

They made this one for Brandon's room. To complete the McQueen motif. Thanks again you guys. Love you!

Canyonlands and the falls

The kids climbing on "Hamburger Rock"

Stike a pose

Staci and Tyler basking in the sunlight

Playing in the water....I mean mud

Playing continued....

New Bed

For part of Brandon's birthday we decided to get him a new bed. We found one on sale at Shopko (plus I used my mother for her age to get even more of a discount). It was one of the beds with drawers underneath it...we got the footboard and headboard basically for free so we couldn't pass it up. Well, Brandon's room is not the biggest so we turned the footboard into just a storage thingy.

Brandon helped Andy put his bed together, that was interesting to say the least. It took a little bit longer but Brandon enjoyed building with his daddy.

They both got their tool sets out and away they went.

We found this cool lamp at Shopko too, it was on the clearance rack for $6 bucks! You got to love the clearance rack!

This is supposed to be the footboard, but as I mentioned before there is not enough room in his little space to have it attached to his bed. We found these baskets online at IKEA and then my friend Miranda picked them up for us.

Brandon in his new bed. He loves it. We had to put items in his drawers the first thing, right after Andy put it together while I was putting the sheets on.

The Fun Park

On Brandon's birthday we decided to take him, Aspen, and Lance (our neighbor) to the local indoor kid magnet called The Fun Park. It has an arcade, softplay, rollerskating and bowling. I bet you can't guess what he wanted to do...if any of you know Brandon you know without even thinking what he wanted to do....Bowling. We of course did softplay first, ordered some pizza and I think we as adults had more fun playing the arcade games, we ended up with over 950 tickets for the kids to split by the time we were done.
We went there because my mom had promised him that she would take him and he reminded her of that for the last 2 and 1/2 months until the day was finally here. Thanks mom for taking us...he had a blast!

A picture of all of the kids in the playland that is there. I wish it would have turned out better. Maybe I will lighten it up and see if it looks any better. It looks really good on my camera. Of course we had to get Tyler invoved.

Papa Bowling

Daddy bowling

Brandon bowling

Aspen was really good at playing with the boys. After I took the picture in the plastic bubble she took Tyler down the big yellow slide. I thought he might start crying...it is pretty tall...but he didn't. Thanks Aspen for hanging out with us yesterday.

My Baby Boy is 5! :(

My how the time flies...I never could imagine 5 years ago (yesterday) that my little 7 lb 11oz baby boy could now be a 47 lb ball of pure 5 year old energy. Andy keeps telling him to stop growing but he doesn't listen very well. I hope you had a great birthday buddy, your mommy and daddy love you.
This year for Brandon's birthday we decided to go to Golden Coral in Layton. Kind of a middle point for everyone. It was a lot of fun. There were 15 of us all at the same table. Brandon enjoyed having everyone there. They came and sang to him, but he wasn't quite sure what to think of their little jingle and as he was getting off of the chair he slipped and fell into his cake....making his shirt a very pretty tye-dyed. Thanks to everyone who came and gave him his presents.

The Birthday Cake

The Birthday Boy. Notice the lovely tiedye shirt.

Just 2 of his presents....Horton and a bowling ball piggy bank.

He also got some books.

Cool new website

So I have to thank Mrs. Gae Kunz for showing me the way to this website. It is a website that has crock-pot recipies on it. It is a blog where a lady is trying to use her crock-pot everyday this year. So far I have found a couple recipies I am wanting to try, there is a way yummy looking dessert on there, I will have to let you know how it turns out. You all should check it out, if you want to use your crock-pot that is :).

The website is...
www.365daysofcrockpot.blogspot.com

He's at it again!

Andy that is. He has moved on to painting the rest of the house. First he is doing the living room. So he moved all of my furniture to the middle of the room and started painting the walls. Brandon found it fun to have all of the furniture that close together, it made it easier to climb on. But I do have to inform you that this project didn't take forever like all of the other ones. He did it in 2 days, thats right people 2 DAYS! I think that is a record. It turned out pretty good, he is becoming a pro at painting now, he can do it pretty fast. I guess that is what happens when you paint the whole house at the same time.

My little monkey playing on the furniture!

Some Before and After shots! It is definetly darker!

The Happy Painter!