Out of the mouth of Babes

Ok, So I am sitting at my laptop working on some thing when Shaylyn walks over and a short discussion takes place as follows.

Shaylyn: Hey Mom, What you doing?

Me: Working!

Shaylyn: Mom it's a picture of us.( refering to my background picture on my computer)

Me: Yup it sure is. ( the picture is of the kids in the backyard)

Shaylyn: Mom it's a picture of us on Murphy's poopy grass.

Me: (trying not to laugh too hard) Yes it is.

Shaylyn: That's disgusting Mom!

Followed by gut renching histarics!!!Out of the mouth of babes!


This is the picture on my computer!

Girls Camp

ok so seriously this finally completes what I needed to catch up on from the summer.
GIRL'S CAMP!!!!!!!So it rocked. What more can I say. One look at the pictures and they say it all. We had an amazing time. The theme was steadfast and immovable. What an amazing theme to have. This time we live in is horrible and to have a theme that helps our girl's remember to be steadfast and immovable in their belief in Christ is incredible. Anyway Can you see we had a blast.I can't wait until next year. The best part of all was that I got to have my Mom come as my assistant Camp director . It brought back so many memories of my youth and the time I spent with my mom. I think it helped my mom find her inner youth too. She still cracks me up and can hang with the coolest of young crowds. The girls nicknamed her SWEET MAMA .Love ya mom...Camp would not have been the same without you.

The girl's and Brother Mason doing their service project



Saint Cloud Ward cabin kept rockin all night!!!!!!=)



Silly Girls!!


Our Bishop seriously Rocks!! The girls adore him=) Love ya Bishop Johnsten!





Testimony meeting..Tears, joy, Love...can't say much more about that.



Ok so someone had the bright idea of having a stuffing marshmallows in your mouth contest. I did not win but i sure tried!!





Saint Cloud Girls!



Stake leaders skit night



ARCHERY!!!



Bishop's Dinner the night of testimony meeting!



This is our Stake president President Pratt. He is also awesome and the girls love and look up to him also.



Playing the CUP game.



OUR THEME!!



The Girls

House Renovations/ Painting

Finally...I know! Well these are some of the before pictures. We painted and decorated before we moved in. It took forever. I am trying to keep my house clean long enough to take after pictures to post. I will do that soon.

This is a picture of my living room. I was standing in the small hallway leading to the kitchen. We painted a orangy-beige on the walls except for the one accent wall we painted forest green.obviously that is our front door. We had some of shaylyn's bedroom furniture in the living room while we did her room so ignore the white furniture.



This is still the living room but this picture shows the accent wall and the hallway leading to the bathroom. I am going to ( when I can afford it) order from my friend Beth who does uppercase living. i am going to get the wall sticker that says "Family" and put it on the top of my accent wall and then hang some white photo frames with some black and white pictures in them.



This was the master bedroom that we decided to give to our boys and we took the larger back room. If you look at the picture above you can see the entrance to shaylyn's room and the boy's room is to the left if Shaylyn's.We painted the same orangy-beige from the living room in their room too. We decided to do an accent wall with the blue which matches the boys comforter sets. When it was done it came out so nice.It looks ven better with the boys furniture in it. Once again ignore the furniture in their room. This was actually shaylyn's tall dresser and Cr and My long dresser. We just had not move it to our rooms yet.





This last picture is of Shaylyn's room not even close to being finished. We had only put the primer on at this point and I taped the border on just to get an idea of where we wanted it. We ended up doing a two tone room for her. We did a dark purple on the bottom of the wall and a lighter purple on the top. We then seperated the two with the princess ribbon border. Her room is all girl and very beautiful.

Fire Station

In July the boys from Chace's Church pack went to visit the local firestation. It was a seriously awesome time. The firefighters were so good to the kids. They talked all about fire safety and answered a million questions with smiles on the whole time. They got to see wheret he fireman slept and hear the alarm go off. It is amazing how loud it is...you certainly can't sleep through it. They showed us the inside of the trucks and set off the sirens and lights for us. They even showed us what they wear and the captain put his suit on for us even in the 90 degree outdoor heat. I thought that was awesome. One of the firefighters had a great time making funny faces with the kids too. I love seeing the firefighters interact with the boys. I appreciate everything they do for us to keep us safe. 9-11 WE'LL NEVER FORGET!!!!

CR's Birthday

Ok More from June! Cr had a birthday on June 12th and we decided to throw dad a little surprise party of our own. Makai loved blowing up the balloons and putting them on the chairs. Shaylyn helped me make the dessert and dinner and Chace helped put up the banner.Daddy was very excited and surprised when he got home because his birthday was the same week as Cub camp and he thought we would be too tired or not have the time to do anything for his birthday. SURPRISE DADDY!! Happy Belated Blog Birthday Daddy. We love you.

Cub Scout Day Camp

Ok..so to continue the catch up....Also in June we had our Cub Scout Day camp. We love day camp because it gives us something to do all day long. Shaylyn even got to go and play with the other staff members toddlers annd daughters.They did all kinds of activities at day camp. We had archery, Water play, BB gun shooting, songs, skits, games, crafts, nature hikes and tons of other stuff. Makai is a tiger cub this year which is great because he is an official scout now instead of just being a sibling and he is beyond thrilled about that. I loved watching him have so much fun. Chace is now a bear which he has been so excited about this year.I guess bears are cooler than wolves. anyway enjoy the pics.

Shaylyn's toddler group did a song/skit about Mrs. Gooniebird and her chicks.



Chace and Makai getting their badges and awards at the end of camp



This is Ranger Rick teaching the tigers how to aim and shoot the BB Gun. ( This is the tigers first year doing it so he took extra time with them. He made the boys laugh by telling them to put their butt on their shoulder. He meant the butt of the gun but it was funny just the same.)



Chace and the Water Play area



Chace and his flags on from Flag Football



Makai and his Marshmallow Blaster. You put a marshmallow in it and blow it out and it flies several feet in the air. It is actually quite cool. We had a good time blasting marshmallows at each other in our back yard with dad that night. Of course Dad was the one who loved it the most. I guess moms and dads just never really grow up.



This was a picture of all the toddlers practicing thei mrs. gooniebird song/skit.



this is the other tiger scout. Heath and Makai.



WE lOVE ARCHERY!!!!!





RANGER RICK DID PUSHUPS FOR ANY BOY WHO COULD HIT THE BULLSEYE...HE DID A LOT OF PUSHUPS. EVEN FOR THE TIGERS!!!


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