I set aside the past couple days to clean and organize my house. Right now Mersadie is still in our bedroom and we are really running out of room. So we are going to rearrange, but as much as I really want it done, I DO NOT want to do it! So I have put it off like you wouldn't believe, and now two days have gone by and the house looks pretty much the same. Instead I have been doing some research on the internet and have found some really amazing blogs. How do people find the time to do all they do? But they have inspired me... There are a few things I really want to get better at, here are my top five:
1. Blogging, my blog is way lame compared to the ones I was looking at
2. Keeping my house clean, it really shouldn't be that hard, but it is at the same time
3. Cooking dinner, as much as I like to eat you would think I would like to make dinner but I don't!
4. Doing more learning activities with my kids
5. At the end of every day have at least an hour of personal reflection time, I would love to just sit down and read, write in my kids journals, pray, what ever, just kind of a meditation time. Right now at the end of every day I find myself wondering what in the world I did all day, I feel bad because I think I should have done more productive things with my kids and myself.

Anyway, thats what I have been up to the past day or two. Wish me luck...

Here are a few pictures from the past couple months.

My brother Tyson got home from his mission in March, we were all so excited, I can't believe he was gone two years! Carson and Mersadie think he is great, however Carson has a REALLY hard time telling Tyson and Cody (my other brother) apart. Whenever he sees one of them he has to ask "are you uncle Tyson?" or "are you CooCoo?" Yeah Carson calls Cody CooCoo, like the bird, or like "crazy" its very fitting!

I know it is WAY past Easter but I saw these pictures and realized I hadn't posted any and they are so cute I just had to share. I love their outfits (of course I do I bought them)!

The weather has finally warmed up here, and I think its for good! So we have been outside a lot, working in the yard and just hanging out. I love it, and so does Carson, he is an outside boy all the way. He has been in a very good mood lately too, just about everyday he recalls what we have done and then he will say "we had a fun day", or in the morning he will say "it is such a good day" He is such an optomist, and it doesn't take much to make him happy right now, all we have to do is go oustide and play! Today we were out in the front yard, because we put more grass seed down in the back, and he turned on the hose and filled a low spot in our sidewalk with water and then proceeded to "swim" on the sidewalk. He then took his shorts off because they were wet, then he took his shirt off because it was wet too, I thought he was amusing until he then took off his underwear because they were also wet. We live on a busy road and I can only imagine what people thought as the drove by and saw a naked boy running down the sidewalk! So we came inside and called it a night!

These are pictures from another day when we were out playing in the sun.

Creative Madness

Here is the result of my insane idea that quilting would be a fun new hobby! (Actually I really do like it, it is just a lot more work and a lot more stressful than I thought it would be.) I am so lucky to have a great husband who put up with nights of midnight quilting madness! For my first quilt I thought it turned out pretty well. Thanks to a great teacher, thanks Sue! I am giving this one to my sister for her new baby, she is due any day now. I think she is going to use it for her crib set. I guess I better get it in the mail.

This is the fabric for the next quilt that I still have sitting around, it is going to be the same main design as the one above only it is in girl colors and it is going to be a twin, which again was a more work and stress then I thought it would be. Which is why it is still not done, not even close!

I just thought I would throw this one in there, I made this cake for my dad for his birthday. It was cute and not too hard to make. I am excited to make a fun one for Mersadies birthday, which is coming up fast, oh my!

I finally put my pictures on my computer and I realized a lot has happened and there is a lot I want to share. I will just do a few for now and post more in the next couple days.
Mersadie is walking all over the place and has been for about a month now, she is not even a year old, but she has a big brother she has to keep up with. Oh and she gives great slobbery kisses and loves her dad.
Carson is still busy and loving gymnastics, although I am not sure how much his instructor loves him... He is a great big brother, he always wants to know where Mersadie is, just to make sure she is ok. so cute.

Here are just some random ones of my very cute kids!

Carson finger/hand painting

I love Mersadie's tongue in this picture, what a goof

So tired she doesn't know which end is up!

Check back soon much more to come...

New Hobby

I have started a new hobby. Quilting! Real quilting, not just tying yarn knots. I cut out about a bizillion little pieces then sew them together then sew cool designs on it, then put the binding on. There is this lady in my ward who I work with in young womens and she is a really good quilter so I decided that I would take the opportunity to learn from her while we are here. It is a lot harder and takes a lot longer than I thought it would. I finished my first quilt a couple weeks ago, it is a baby quilt and I am actually giving it away! Crazy I know. The one I am working on right now is a twin size quilt, which is A LOT harder than a baby quilt and I am keeping it, yeah! So I set up a little sewing station in my living room and I have been staying up late at night to quilt! Dustin has been a good sport about it, considering I have been obessed with finishing them. In fact he has even helped a little bit :)