Father's Day Present

I've been meaning to post this for sometime, but we have been so busy lately. Finally i decided to sit down and post it. I made Jeremy and my father a father's day present this year for father's day. I found the idea on Martha Stewarts website. Which is, http://www.marthastewart.com/. When I have time I like to check out this website. It has a lot of fun ideas. I want to thank my little sister Melania for showing me this website. I took this one idea to make my husband and father a father's day gift. i just changed it a little bit.

This was the one on Martha Stewarts website. I thought this would be a really good idea, because my husband always had belts laying around the house and can never find the one he needs. I also thought it would be good to hang ties on. So I made one for him. I didn't use that kind of a hanger though. I thought the little wooden bar wasn't thick enough, so I just bought a thick coat hanger and used mug and cup hooks. It turned out pretty good and it was really easy, so I decided to make another one for my dad.

This is how mine turned out. Not to bad, I kind of like it. I'm not sure if my husband does though. It is still sitting in the bag that we gave it to him in, and his belts and ties are still sitting on the floor. Maybe I'll just have to hang them up for him. I can't put all that hard work to waist. I just wanted to let everyone know, just in case they wanted to make one for themselves. They are really easy to make.

It's been crazy already and Summer just started!

Sorry it's been a while again. I sit down to blog, but then my internet goes out or something else happens at home. So I guess it's time for an update. My sister Tracy inspired me to blog. I figured if she can blog with dial up I should be able to blog to. I don't have dial up, but sometimes our it seems like it.

Well I'm going to have to think hard about what happened last month and the beginning of this month. Hmmm.... My brain is probably going to hurt after this. Well May we kept pretty busy. Jeremy got back from his 3 week trip May 2nd. I guess he had fun. He got to see his family in San Antonio and go to a Jimmy Buffet restaurant in Kansas City. He was glad to be home though. When he got home he jumped in to his drill weekend and only really had one day to recover before going back to work. He's a tough guy. My sister Melyni and her husband came down and they ran for the Race for the Cure with Jeremy. I didn't do it this year because I didn't have anyone who would walk with me and I didn't want to walk by myself. So I went and got some SWAG (stuff we all get) and watched for Jeremy, Melyni and Alma on the side lines. I made sure I had some water for them.

A couple of pictures of Jeremy in Kansas.
I started going to a Close to my Heart card club and scrap booking club in May. It's fun. I haven't really done any scrap booking but it is fun to go and make the cards and the pages. Also it gives me time away from my kids. I celebrated my 27th birthday (man I'm getting old) on Friday May 15th. We celebrated it by doing a Kids Run on base. Well, I didn't run. Jeremy and Tyra did. They had a lot of fun. Jeremy ran the 5K and Tyra ran the 1/2 mile. She did such a good job. She ran almost the whole way. She walk for a little bit and then picked it back up. After she was done with her race she told me she beat her daddy. I even got a picture of her beating her daddy. After that we went out and ate at Taco Bell, my choice. It was fun hanging out as a family on my birthday.
Tyra was super excited to run.
Tyra crossing the finish line. If you look really closely at this picture you will see her dad a ways behind her. "I beat Daddy!" She loves to win. Just like her dad.
Shelby can't run in the race, but it didn't stop her from running.

For Memorial weekend we went up to Spirit Lake to spend some time with Jeremy's family and see his grandma. We had a lot of fun up there. Tyra tried to fish and Shelby helped Aunt Sue with her flower bed. Jeremy and I went to our first Arena football game in Spokane. That was a lot of fun. We got to hangout with his cousins and their spouses. We love being up there, it seems so peaceful. Jeremy and I celebrated our 7th wedding anniversary on the 25th of May. We went down and helped Jeremy's uncle Lee build a bridge for our anniversary. It was fun hanging out with everyone. After wards we went back to Bill and Sue's house and they made steak for our anniversary. It was really nice. We are hoping to go back up there for the 4th of July.

Shelby helping Sue with her flower garden
Tyra Fishing
BEST FRIENDS!!!
Playing at the lake

Jeremy and his Uncle Lee The girls, Jeremy and Grandma Betty

After we got back from Northern Idaho Jeremy had to get ready for his Guard 2 weeks. He started that on the 29th of May. He got to come home the first week. The second week he spent some time in the field. It rained almost the whole time he was out there. The poor man was probably soaking wet most of the time. He is done with that until next year. We didn't do a whole lot while he was gone. We have been going to Story time every Thursday at the Base Library and also going down to Summer reading at the Grand view Library Thursday night. The girls have a lot of fun doing that. Also Jeremy's Uncle Bill stopped and seen us while he was on his way down to Utah. That was nice to see him. So that has been our summer so far. I've been wanting to go to the gym, but I've only been able to go a few times. It might have to wait till July.

We are looking forward to seeing everyone at our family reunion at the end of this month. We love going to our family reunion. It should be a lot of fun. Right now my nephews are here hanging out with us. The kids love playing together. I think they were outside almost all day yesterday. It's been fun having them here. Well I've wrote a book. So I better go now.

Some pictures~ April 2009

Tyra's Soccer certificate!!!




















Yeah for Tyra!

Tyra kicking the ball into the goal














Tyra waiting to play a soccer game





















The girls stole my bed while Jeremy was gone.














Shelby talking on the phone with her daddy

She loves her daddy

Our week in Idaho Falls

My husband was going to be gone for three weeks, so I decided that I just didn't want to hang out at home. So the girls and I went to Idaho Falls to hang out with Melyni and Nels and their families. We had a good time. We stayed the night at Melyni's house. She was so nice to let us stay there and let my girls destroy their house. Hopefully my girls didn't really destroy their house. I'm sure their house was a lot more noise. We had fun playing the Wii with them and playing with Cade. He is such a cutie. I had a good time talking with my little sister too, she is one of my best friends. I never thought I would say that until we went to High School together in Mountain Home. Nels and Rachel had to go to Salt Lake for Nels' work so we didn't get to hang out with them until Sunday evening. It was nice to get to hang out with them even though it was only for a couple of days. I packed up our xbox and the game rock band to take over there. So it was fun playing rock band with the family. Tyra and Shelby had a lot of fun playing with Nels and Rachel's girls. On Monday they played outside and even tried to help Rachel with her flower garden. Shelby picked up a sleeping (dead) mouse and brought it to me. Yeah, I freaked out and made her drop it and wash her hands. She is still talking about the sleeping mouse. Tyra had a sleep over with Hazel and Lilie. She thought that was a lot of fun.

While we were there we got to go to the handicap park. It was so fun. Everything was huge so adults can even play on it. The girls had a lot of fun. We also went to the zoo while we were there. That was a lot of fun. The girls loved it. I was surprised Shelby was actually good. I thought I was going to have a lot of problems with her. I did have her on a monkey leash though. After the zoo we went to the Earth day celebration just across the street. We got a lot of free stuff including forget me nots (flowers). The girls are looking forward to planting them this spring. We will see how that goes. It was nice to get a way from our house and animals. Now we are home and I am cleaning like crazy before my husband gets home on Saturday. We are excited to have him home, we miss him so much. I think he might miss us too. The Huge swing

Tyra Spinning, it makes me sick just looking at it.

The Scary hippo, it took Tyra a long time to go inside of it.
Shelby was excited to see the zebras

Cute Cade sleeping

The Girls ~March 2009

Shelby thought the bunny was hungry

What's New

Sorry I have updated in a while. I feel like I don't usually have anything to write about. My life isn't that interesting most of the time. Just stay home and take care of kids. That's about it.

March
So of course we celebrated a birthday in March. My little Tyra turned 5 and isn't so little any more. She is growing up so fast. We had a fun birthday party at Grandma Chick's house. Tyra invited some kids from church and some of her cousins came to the party. Her Grandma Raytha flew up and spent almost a week with us. It was a lot of fun. It was a Wall-e party with a Wall-e cake. She got a lot of really cool presents. Tyra loved it. Once again we were able to get the girl's picture taken this month. They turned out really good.

Tyra also started soccer this month. She likes it, but wishes she could play games instead of just practicing. Maybe in September she can play games. We are just waiting for the weather to warm up so we can go out and play. We have been able to go to the park a couple of times this spring, but we can't wait till we get to go a couple times a week. We love being outside in the warm weather, but who doesn't
We also went out and bought the game Rock Band to go with Jeremy's xbox 360. We all have had a lot of fun playing. Tyra is quite a singer and Shelby loves playing the drums. Jeremy and I compete over the guitar, so I told him he's got to buy me my own guitar for my birthday. I think it would be something fun to do for our family reunion.

April
Ok, April just started. It seems like we have so much going on this month. I enjoyed General Conference very much this weekend. I think I needed it. I just wished Jeremy was here to watch it with me. He always has drill weekend during General Conference. He was able to go to the priesthood section last night.
Well, we started out this month sick. It started with Shelby getting sick, then Tyra and now I have it. I was hoping to start going to the gym on Monday, but I don't know if that is going to happen. I just hope my cold goes away soon. It's not fun being sick and being a mother at the same time.

Today Shelby decided while I was in the shower she was going to get something to eat. So when I got out of the shower I see eggs and strawberries all over the kitchen floor. Shelby was dipping the strawberries in the eggs. I was not a happy person at that point. Being sick and then having to clean up a mess of eggs and strawberries was not what I wanted to do. Let's just say that the girls are having a great time in their bedroom today.
Jeremy will be leaving to Kansas this month for a school. He will be there for 2 weeks and then come home for not even a day and fly down to San Antonio, TX for another school. He will be pretty busy doing that and at the same time trying to get his finals done for college. Hopefully the time he is gone will go by fast. The girls and I are planning on taking a trip to Idaho Falls and staying there a week. We just have to see how the money situation is though. We are looking forward to seeing family for Easter. Even though that is the day Jeremy is taking off. Hopefully we will get to spend some time with family that day. Well I will quit writing and post some pictures and maybe a video, if I can get it to work. I will try to keep up to date on my blog.

2009

Sorry it's been a while. I haven't been much of a writer lately. I guess I feel I don't have a lot to write about.
Well, I am glad that 2008 is over. That year was crazy. So now it is time to start a new year. I really hope 2009 is better and not so busy. We haven't done a whole lot this month. I guess it just started. Jeremy and I spent our New Years eve and early New Years day at a church Stake Dance. Jeremy DJ's for the dance. I think he likes it. It was nice to spend that time together talking about what songs to play next and making fun of the teenagers. My mother was nice enough to watch the girls while we went to do that. Me and my mom just got back that day from Idaho Falls. We there for a couple of day to see my little sister and her cute little baby boy. I wish we could have stayed longer, but we probably would have driven them crazy. My little girls were crazy that whole time. Which has been going on a lot lately.

Shelby is going through a faze (i hope) with throwing fits. She throws them when she doesn't get her way, when she just wakes up, or sometimes I think she throws them just to throw them. She is also a screamer. Lately whenever we leave the store (walmart mostly) Shelby screams and crys as loud as she can while we are going out the door. I just worry people think that we are kidnapping her. I just don't know how to get her to stop.

Then we have a little 4 year old with an attitude. She is always trying to boss everyone around. Other then that Tyra is usually pretty good. We haven't gotten Tyra to go back to pre-k yet. For some reason she is terrified to go back to school at Grand View. She is doing really good at home though. She is reading books. Not just little pre-k books, she is reading 1st grade level books. Now if we can only get her to write her name. She is learning the days of the week and the months. She is also trying to figure out time and money. She is always willing to learn.

Well, we had a wonderful Christmas with my family. We got to see my sister Tracy and her family. That was a lot of fun. I always like to see the Moore family. They are so fun. My nephews are getting so big. My brother Erik and his family was there too. So it was a nice little Christmas day. The girl's got a lot of new stuff. Tyra got a V-Smile and she loves it. It was good to be around family. The kids got to go sledding. There uncle Tom pulled them around on the 4-wheeler. The kids loved that. We got a ton of snow at our house. My parents couldn't even get out of their drive way. The drifts were so big you could go sledding down them. Uncle Tom had a lot of shoveling to do. It was nice to finally have snow on Christmas eve and day.

Well this month is going by slow. I guess that is a good thing. We have a lot of appointments and meeting to go to this month so I'm sure it will speed up. I hope everyone will have a wonderful 2009. I will try to be better about writing.