Kitchen Updates

Our kitchen is really coming along. I figured I better put up a few more pictures so you all can see the progress. The day of not having my fridge in the living room is so close! I just can't wait!

Before and After

Before and After

Our Pre-School Graduate!

Yeah, our first graduation! Kindergarten, here Spencer comes!

New Kitchen Update

So Mike and I had a crazy idea years ago to knock out the east wall to our house and add on to our kitchen. Well that crazy idea has become reality. I forgot to take a before picture, but here are some progress pictures. It is really coming along. Luckily I have the greatest husband who made a little kitchen for us in the laundry room. He hung some old cabinets, moved down the stove, installed a sink, and even our table fits. Considering everything it hasn't been that bad, except for all the dust I have to vacuum off of everything in the current kitchen every morning. Plus we have kind of gotten use to having the fridge in the living room. Grab a spoon, a thing of ice cream, turn on your favorite movie and you're good to go!

The kitchen before the exterior wall came down.

The "BEAM" that made it possible to have a large kitchen without any supporting beams coming down. Thank you Bryce, the mastermind!

This is our new kitchen. What will we do with all this space? I am sure we will figure that out! Lexi is our little Vanna White!

Our Princess is 3!

Lexi has been talking about having a princess party for about 3 months. We told all the girls that came to the party to dress up in their princess dresses. Lexi also got some new princess dresses from her Grandma Hobbs. What a perfect day!

Lexi with her favorite new princess dress.

All the princesses!

Catch Up Time!!!

So blogging is not at the top of my priority list, but here I am going to try to catch up a little. First of all I am expecting baby #3 at the end of September. It is a boy and we are really excited! I felt pretty crummy (is that a good enough excuse of why I am so behind?), but I am finally feeling better.

Should I really claim these kids?

Spencer turned 5 and won his wrestling tournament.

I went and visited Heidi in Kansas City, by myself, no kids!!! It was a GREAT trip!

We had a great Easter. What's Easter without a ham dinner, so we had Dave and our friends Bryce, Carolee and Danika over for dinner. We are so grateful for our family and Savior Jesus Christ.

You know it's officially spring when we dust off the pop-up camper and head out for our first camping trip of the season. We went to Moab for the weekend and had a great time. We stayed at the KOA which was a good thing because when we pulled out the flashlights all of them were dead. Not very prepared campers, huh! Well, we hooked up the electricity and turned on our light in the camper. We also bought a little heater which kept us toasty all night. Here we are hiking up to Delicate Arch. Spencer hiked the whole thing and Lexi pretty much road the whole thing. No matter how many times I see this amazing site it still takes my breath away.

Spencer caught this lizard and carried it around with him for about an hour. We have now named him the lizard tamer.

Our January

January was not an easy month for us. Mike's dad passed away on January 20th from complications related to pulmonary fibrosis. He was hospitalized the beginning of January so we spent almost every day there for about 12 days until he passed away. It was a hard experience, but we also had many spiritual and special moments that we are so grateful for. Here are a few pictures of the funeral.

Bill's Legacy

Taking pictures of all of Bill's grandchildren for the funeral program. What a great group of kids! 15 grandkids with 2 on the way.

Alexis and Spencer

The Funeral

They branded Bill's casket with his brand, the spur. That's a true cowboy!

I Am Thankful For My Family

This Thanksgiving we were at my parents house in Heber. It was fun to have everyone there. We decided to be daring and take a whole family picture. After a few hours of trying to figure out the right color scheme, I think it turned out pretty good. Here are a few pictures from our successful day!

Playing with our cousins at Kangaroo Zoo


Our first snowman of the season!