What We've Been Up To

Tomato buckets, corn, broccoli, green beans, peas, onions, and peppers

Josh has to cut some blocks to finish off the corners, but other than that it is finished! Ty, Tag, and our dog Sugar

Before Pictures of the baby's room and dresser

The transformation!!

During my second trimester, I had so much energy and this crazy urge to organize everything and re-decorate the baby's room. Since I have had 2 boys, I have just kept it the same, but I was so ready for a BIG change this time around! I found this brochure of this room and instantly fell in love with the colors! I decided that I would use these colors for the baby's room and just hoped that it looked like what I envisioned it looking like! I was more than pleased and by the time I was done, I was so ready to be done! Let me just say that not much else was accomplished during this time and I am sure the kids watched way too much TV! My sister put chair rail up in her little girl's room and I loved the way it looked, so I decided to do the same. We also added base boards because there are no baseboards in our entire house, so I thought maybe we could start one room at a time! My WONDERFUL husband put up the chair rail and baseboards...he wasn't too thrilled about it, but he did it anyway! He did a great job and I had the fun of caulking, painting, sanding and filling in the nail holes. This was way more time consuming than I thought it would be, but I love the way it looks, so I guess it was worth it!

My sister, Carrie, sent me this cute crib set and the colors matched perfectly and then I found this bed set at TJ Max and it was so similar that I couldn't pass it up! Josh actually LOVES this bed set and if you know my husband, he doesn't like too many things that I pick out! I re-painted the dresser and put new drawer handles on it. I have to tell you that we found this dresser before we had Ty for $20. I re-painted it for his room and now re-painted it again, but it is seriously the best dresser we own! I wish we could find another great deal like that! The room is almost done, but I still have to hang things back on the wall and I plan on getting her name in wooden letters! I enjoyed transforming the room, but when I finally finished I needed a little break and therefore still haven't put things back on the wall! For now you get the idea! For those of you who have been waiting for these pictures, sorry for the wait!

Josh and my dad planted the garden while I was on my girls trip and we are so excited that things are growing! We had to re-plant our green beans, but other than that everything has done great!

Tag's 2nd birthday is next month and I wanted to have Josh build him a sandbox! I just thought it would be made out of rail road ties like the garden, but one of his jobs was going to get rid of these nice blocks, so he brought them home and made the sandbox out of them! I love the way it looks and I think it looks much better than the rail road ties would have looked and they were FREE!! The sand cost us $75, but the boys have been loving their new sandbox! I love it that they want to play outside even more than before. However, I need to find a good way to keep the sand outside and not all over my kitchen floor! Between the sandbox and tomato buckets, we are going to put in another garden plot for growing melons and strawberries! Josh and I both feel strongly that we will have live off our gardens one day, so we figured we better learn how to grow one. It has been a lot of fun and I just can't wait to eat all that fresh garden food! Along the back of our yard we also planted 8 cottonwood trees! We got starters from Josh's parents and they are already blooming! We decided on these trees because they are fast growing! I just hope they continue to do well!

Anyhow, these projects have kept us really busy these past few months and were some of the reasons I got so behind on my blogging! ! Next on the list is doing a post on the County Fair, but for now I will leave you with this post!

Happy Easter

This year for Easter, we headed up to Grandpa and Grandma Jensen's house. We have been getting together as a family to make a family plan and get prepared. This time we canned meat, talked about food storage, and 72 hour kits. I think we all have had a wonderful weekend and enjoyed our time together! We cut a lot of beef and canned a lot of meat. Then the kids played and played and played! They love getting on grandpa's tractor, motorcycle, and any other machine they can find. We did a Easter Egg Hunt, played cards, and ate way too much. It is always so nice to come and visit grandpa and grandma! However, I really wish the weather would have been better...too cold for me, but then again I am a big whimp! While we were here, Josh had a little surgery done on his neck. He has had this thing growing on his neck and wanted it taken care of this weekend! His mom gave him the shot and his sister, Ticia, did the surgery. We got some puss out, but there is still a big hard bump there, so we will be calling our doctor and making an appointment. My dad thinks it is a cyst, so I guess we shall soon find out. I was having a hard time watching the surgery, but Josh did great! We will let ya know what the doctor finds when we go see him.

This Easter weekend was also General Conference Weekend! It has been wonderful to hear our Prophet and Apostles speak to us and to reflect upon the great love that our Savior, Jesus Christ, has for us! I am continually grateful for his atonement and his resurrection. What a wonderful gift we have all been given and I just hope that we all will do our part so that we can return to live with him again someday! Now that I am a parent, I cannot imagine eternity without my wonderful children and husband! Josh and I watched the "Last Song" on Thursday night and this movie really tugged at my heart strings. It made me think of all of those who I love and care about and how I never want to be without them. This made me think about the plan of salvation and even though we will be separated for a time, we can be together for eternity because of the love and sacrifice of our Savior. I hope each of you had a wonderful Easter and remember the real reason we celebrate this holiday.