Weekend Away

This last weekend we took the family to Salt Lake for a temple trip. We also brought Lenny with us so he could see some of the guys. The weekend started out great! We came over Thursday afternoon. Friday morning I was able to clean out the car, run to Costco and get my eyebrows threaded. (If you have never had your eyebrows threaded you should try it out! I love it.)

Lenny, Jeff, Anton and his wife, and I went to the Draper Temple. It was wonderful and Jeff was able to get some better direction for the family. Sometimes reconnecting with the spirit is needed. Especially when you are feel a lot of personal turmoil or confusion.

Saturday Laurel and I took the girls to the zoo. We were able to meet up with Kevin, Shellie and Kevin who brought Lyla. A lot of the animals were gone but we had a good time anyway. MecKenzie thought the zoo was amazing. She really liked saying hi to the animals. Jenelle wasn't as impressed.

After that I was able to get my hair done! I went a bit more blonde for spring and I added a little blue underneath.

 

 

Sunday we went to church then got ready to go to the Mortensens'. Samantha came down and was able to go with us. I love going to the Mortensens'. They always have a good time and good food. Who doesn't love that?

 

Unfortunately we had some car trouble. We had to take our car into the shop. Wouldn't you know it a recall part is the part that broke. Thank goodness we didn't have to pay for it. It would have cost $2,300. We didn't get the car back till today so Jeff had to go home yesterday without us. But we will get to go home today! All in all it was a pretty fun weekend. 

Learning How To Use Photo Shop

In middle school I learned some cool things in one of those awesome photo shop programs that I knew I would never own.... well I have gotten my hands on a program... a cheap old program but a program none the less! My first project was to merge the Proclamation to the World with a family photo. AND SUCCESS! I did it.

Now all we need to do is get an updated family photo so we can make a more official one to hang on our wall. Maybe a bigger one because this is amazing. This project has inspired more projects. I am currently teaching the 7-8 year olds in Sunday school. SO I want to take the pictures of the 8 year olds with their dad (or who ever baptizes them) and merge it with the Articles of Faith and the date they were baptized. Its going to be epic! 

Cute Moments

Do you ever have one of those moments where you think, “Man, my kids are cute”? Well I have!

Yesterday I was working out in the living room and Jenelle (almost 2 years old) stood right next to me and did squats with me. Probably one of the cutest things I have ever seen. Then later in the day we were at the store and she grabbed my arm and said “love you”. Yeah… that is why you have kids. For the little moments that make you smile uncontrollably.

Speaking of which, Jeff and I had a funny argument at Walmart last night. And by funny I mean we spent more of the time laughing. I wanted some curtain to go in front of our washer and dryer. It is kind of a big eye sore right in our kitchen so I wanted to hide it while dressing the room up a little bit. Originally I wanted to get the curtains up before Jeff came home but of course I had several failed attempts. Needless to say Jeff ended up going back to Walmart with me to pick out curtains that were the right size and color. He wanted a dark brown and I wanted a pretty blue. We continued to argue about what curtains were best so we put a few in our cart so we could narrow down our decision.

Jeff made the executive decision. He told me we could get the “ugly ones” which I thought were the ones I wanted. When we checked out I was all excited because they were cheaper than I thought they were so of course I bragged a little at my shopping skills. Jeff then corrected me by telling me that was the price listed. Come to find out we got the blue ones HE wanted! Sneaky man! It was a good laugh and the curtains look great.

Gotta say, I love my family <3

 

Before

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After