I've been wanting to paint our bedroom ever since we moved into our house. The previous owners did a sponge painting on one of the walls and I hated it. We finally got around to painting it a couple of weeks ago. Here are the before and after pictures.
Caden always wants me to draw pictures and he never wants to draw himself. Today he decided to draw Woody and Buzz Lightyear and I was very proud of him. Here's the finished product.
I have been a slacker lately and I have neglected my blog. We've actually done a lot of things in the past couple of weeks. Sorry if this is picture overload. (I stole some pictures from you Emily)
For the fourth of July we went to the Magna parade with Lucas' family. It was pretty exciting. I was glad that it wasn't 100 degrees and it lasted less than an hour. That is my kind of parade.
After we had some lunch at Lucas' parents' house, we went to Nephi and had a barbecue at my grandma Eyre's house. It was a lot of fun to see all of my relatives because I don't get to see them very often.
Lucas had to do some work in Juab county so we stayed at my grandparents house for a couple of days. It happened to be the same week as the Ute Stampede so it worked out nicely.
Caden and Halle had a lot of fun at all of the parades.
The rodeo was a lot of fun. We were daring and tried new seats this year. They turned out to be way better. We might try them again next year.
This guy in Farmington has a cute, little train at his house that kids can ride. We went there with Tad, Sabrina, Erin and Aaron (and their kids). It was a lot of fun and the kids loved it. We went to eat at Firehouse after.Yummy!!!! Thanks for inviting us!
We went to East Canyon boating today with Clyde, Norma, Dave, Logan, and Sam. It was a lot of fun. Caden and Halle were very brave and rode on the tube. I am a very overprotective mom and I thought I was going to have a heart attack, but they really enjoyed it. Caden freaked out when he had to get back in the boat. Thanks for the fun day!
Caden and Sam liked to drive the boat.
Halle caught a quick nap
Logan was practicing his surfing skills. Sam was showing how he could do it with no hands.
Caden was very brave
Sam, Lucas, and Caden
Halle was brave too!
I finally got around to taking Caden and Halle to the dentist. I've been putting it off for way too long. I thought it was going to be a disaster, but it actually went very well. Caden is obsessed with Dr. Seuss books and when we got to the dentist all of the walls were painted with Dr. Seuss characters. He was so excited and he could name all of them. He loves the book Hop on Pop and the room he was in told that story on the wall. It was perfect. They took X rays of his teeth and I thought he was going to throw up. He has a really bad gag reflex. The X rays didn't turn out very well, but at least he didn't freak out. He was very excited to wear the sun glasses while they cleaned his teeth. I was worried what the dentist was going to say because Caden has a huge gap between his two front teeth, but the dentist said they looked great and he didn't have any cavities. Halle had a fun time too! Luckily they only looked at her teeth because she would've freaked out if they would've done all the other stuff. They were very happy with their Tigger and Piglet toothbrushes and they got to pick a prize from the prize box for being so good. I am so happy we lived through it!
A couple of days ago on Studio 5 they had a lady on that is trying to cook out of a crock pot everyday for a year. She has a blog that she puts her recipes on so I decided to try some. I love cooking out of a crock pot because the end of the day is usually the most stressful because my kids are usually screaming at me. This way dinner is already done at the end of the day and you don't have to heat up your house using the oven. I put a link to her blog on the side of my blog also.
Here's some of the recipes I tried. They turned out really good. The pictures don't make the food look really good, but trust me, they were.
This is Creamy Black Bean Salsa Chicken. She made this on day 125. I put some avocado on it and it made it really good.
This is Italian Bowtie Supper. She made this on day 123. I used penne pasta because that's what I had. It called for mozzarella cheese, but I didn't have any so I made some cheddar cheese alfredo sauce and added it. I love mixing alfredo sauce and tomato sauce.
This is Pineapple Chicken and Sweet Potatoes. She made this on day 72. This was good, but I wouldn't add as much nutmeg as she did because it was kind of strong.
We went to Vegas for a small family vacation. I know that's not the greatest place to bring two young kids, but we got a really good deal on a hotel. We stayed in St. George on the way down. We thought the kids would have a lot of fun swimming, boy was I wrong. It was really nice weather up until the time that we got into the swimming pool and then this black cloud formed right on top of us and rained. Perfect timing huh?! The kids weren't very fond of the pool. They really liked the wading pool that was like 2 feet deep. They are wimps! I realized when I was looking through the pictures I took that I'm not very good at taking pictures and I usually forget to take pictures of things that I should. Here's some of the random pictures that I did take..
This is our attempt at taking a family picture at the condo in St. George..
Every time we told Caden that we were going to St. George he thought we were saying that we were going to "see" George. When we got there he kept asking us when we were going to see George because he wanted to show him his books and movies. I don't think he ever caught onto what we were saying. He was very confused.
Here's Caden by the palm tree outside our condo. 
Here's Halle by the aquarium at The Silverton in Vegas. You can't really see the fish. Caden was so excited to see the fish because he remembered seeing them the last time we went to Vegas. When we got there he had a complete melt down because we wouldn't let him play the "games" aka slot machines. He wasn't very happy after that.
Here's Caden on the shuttle from the hotel to the strip. I think that was his favorite part of the trip.
Halle on the shuttle..
Lucas and Caden by the Mirage
Me and Caden by the Mirage
Caden loved the boats
Here's Caden at the Paris Buffet. The kids decided to have melt downs everytime we sat down to eat. I can't wait until they are out of the melt down stage. I don't think that ever ends.
Lucas at Buffet
Halle was very tired.
Here's Caden waiting for the the M&M movie to start. He loved it!
We went to Circus Circus to see the free circus acts they have. We got there right as one of them was starting so it was standing room only. Halle and I got stuck by the Fortune Teller man game (if you've seen the movie Big you know what I'm talking about) Every time the man started talking Halle would freak out. I didn't get to see alot of the show so I didn't take any pictures. This is the only picture we got there. Caden really likes to "pretend" to play the arcade games. Hopefully he never figures out that you need money to play.
Our trip was alot of fun. We can't wait for Disneyland in November!