New House

Well it is official. We are so excited. We signed the papers on our new house today so it is ours. We are so happy to get into a bigger house. It is amazing how quickly you grow out of a house. When Gary and I first bought the house we have been in since we got to Vegas I thought we could be here forever. Well add 6 years and 2 kids into the mix and your house fills up pretty quickly. Our new house has 5 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms. Right now this is a couple rooms too many but I am sure it won't take us long to fill up any extra space there is. But I am hoping that this is the last time we have to move in like the next 20 years. I hate moving. It is just way too much work. I don't know how people can do it every couple of years. So tomorrow is the big day. I am happy and sad. Happy about getting a brand new house but sad to move away from friends. Even though we are still in Las Vegas we are going to be about 20 miles away from where we are now. I am also really going to miss our ward. This is the only ward we have been in since we came. There have been a few changes over the years with splits but basically alot of the same people. I have loved this ward and the people there have been like family. That is a very nice thing about the wards here. You are each others family since not too many people are actually from here it seems. This ward has supported Gary and I through many happy and sad times. I am really hoping that we get into just as good of a ward. Anyway I just wanted to share a few pictures. They don't have the best lighting because it was getting dark and we just have the cheap lights that the builder puts in right now.
Here is the front of the house.

The front entry and stairs.

The formal living room and dining room.

The kitchen.

The family room.

Boston and Preston's room. The one big thing about buying this house was this bedroom. You can't tell in the picture but it is huge. Since B and P will probably be sharing a room for the next few years we needed a good space for them.

The master bedroom.

Part of the master bathroom.

Well I need to get back to work on packing. I can't believe how much I still have to do. We have some movers coming to help and they are going to be here at 7:00 am.
I also wanted to add this picture of my "good" helpers. Every box I get out they have to climb into. I just thought this was a cute one of them together. I turned my back for just a minute and turned around and they were both just sitting in this tub.

Give Away

On the Knot Sew Shabby blog they are doing a giveaway for a On-The-Go Activity Crayon Bag. Anybody interested go to http://knotsewshabby.blogspot.com/ and enter to win. It looks like it will be alot of fun for the kiddos. Also if you let them know you found it on my blog I will get another entry. Good Luck if you enter to win.

Tickle Me Elmo

So I just had to share something cute that Boston did today. My boys have a Tickle Me Elmo. They don't really tickle it too much but Boston loves to carry it around and give it loves (hugs and kisses). Well today Boston was eating a cereal bar and I turned around and he was kneeling down next to Elmo trying to feed the bar to it. He was sticking it in Elmo's mouth and then trying to push it shut so that it would stay in. I just thought it was so cute that he was trying to share with Elmo. Every now and then Boston and Preston will feed each other food so I guess he just thought Elmo would be hungry too.

Little Climbers

So we have been boxing up all of our things getting ready to hopefully move at the end of this month. In the spare room we have the bed leaned up against the wall and I have been sticking the boxes in there. Well the other night we went our for just a minute and came back to find the boys like this. Well actually just Preston did the whole thing by himself. Boston needed a little help with the first box but then he did the rest by himself. Preston is a little monkey, always wanting to climb and hang from things. Boston is a little more scared to do things but always has to follow his brother. And here is a video of Preston in the act. As you will be able to see Boston can't quite get that first box.
Needless to say we have the door shut now and had to put one of those ball things over the handle so that they can't open the door. That would be just what I need to have one of them falling off of there. P.S. Thank you to all who gave me some lunch ideas. It also helped me to see that I am not the only one who gets stuck in a rut on meal ideas. I was feeling like such a bad mom because I couldn't think of something new everyday. I guess that as long as they are eating that is all that matters and there is no sense wasting time on things they won't eat. So thanks for all of your comments.

Help!!!

I need some help thinking of things to make my boys for lunch. My boys were kind of late at eating. Just up until about 2 months ago they were still just eating jarred baby food. I kind of got spoiled with that because I really didn't have to think of things to make them. I am in a major rut, O.K. so I know that everyone gets into ruts with meals,(at least I think I am not the only one) but this one is getting really bad. We do okay with breakfast and then they just eat whatever we have for dinner. Lunch however is hard for me. I have never been a big eater at lunch and usually stick to the same couple of things or I don't have anything. But I know, I know I can't do that to them. They are growing boys and I want to keep it that way. Anyway, I need help. If any of you who take the time to look at my blog see this I am open to suggestions. I am also always up for suggestions for breakfast and dinner if you have any great ideas. I am begging for easy things that don't take alot of ingredients or time. If you have anything you would like to share as far as ideas or even if you know of any good websites to go to or cookbooks that are worth buying please leave me a comment.

Thank you for your help.

UPDATE:
I also just wanted to give a little update as to what we have been up to seeing as I have not posted in about a month. Well seeing as it has been that long you can probably guess what we have been up to... ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. I don't even have any cute pictures of the boys to share. They are so much fun and I can't believe how old they are getting. They are starting to talk more and more everyday. Still no sentences or anything but it is still fun to have the say a few words. They are getting more wild each day it seems. Sometimes it is enough to drive me insane but I wouldn't trade it for anything. One excited thing on the new front. Gary and I may be buying a new house. We have signed all the papers and now we just have to get all the loan stuff done. We are really excited and keeping our fingers crossed that it all works out. It will be done, hopefully by the end of September. It is in the Northwest in the new Providence community. Pictures are sure to come as soon as we know it is for sure, until then I don't want to post too much and have our hopes up and then have it not work out.

While I was looking for the picture of our cabin I remembered we had these pictures of the boys. When we were on our way home Sunday we stopped in this little town outside of Zion's. This house just had these bulls, elk and buffalo in a field next to their house. You could pay a little money and buy food and feed them. I thought for sure that Boston and Preston would be scarred of them but look at these pictures and how close they got and they didn't even care.
Preston and my dad and cousin Rylee taking a look at the bull.

Boston feeding the bull.

I am glad the bull didn't try to eat Boston.


Preston looking at the Elk.

Me feeding the elk.

Boston chasing a chicken.

I think that this was the funnest part of the whole trip for the boys.

Zion Ponderosa

So this last weekend we went on a fun mini vacation to Zion Ponderosa. It is a new resort on the East side of Zion's Canyon. We for some reason didn't really take too many pictures so I am sad because we don't have any good ones of the boys. Anyway I am not really sure how to describe this place but they have a website that I will post at the end if anyone is interested in checking it out. If any of you are looking for a fun vacation that is not too far this is it. You have to like camping and the outdoors though because we spent the whole weekend outside. They have different options for lodging. My parents, sister and brother camped in tents. Gary and I are not so adventurous. We stayed in a little cabin. We were supposed to stay in what is called a cowboy cabin that just had bunk beds in it and you still had to go use the public restrooms and showers. But we got lucky and they had made a mistake on our reservation so we got to stay in a cowboy suite. It had a little bedroom with a queen bed. Then it had a couch with a fold out bed. It had a little kitchen with a sink, fridge and microwave. And most important to me it gave us our own bathroom. It was so nice and just the perfect size for our family. They also have huge houses that you can rent if you have more people and you don't want to camp in tents. Then they have a bunch of free stuff that we took advantage of. They had a really nice swimming pool, tennis courts, sand volleyball courts, a playground for the kids in viewing distance from all that so they can play and you can play at the same time, a little petting zoo. Saturday night they had a little free rodeo. It wasn't that great. They just did stuff on horses, but I think it was fun for the kids. Then they had stuff that you could pay for: a rock climbing wall, zip line, you could rent bikes and 4 wheelers, horse rides and a lot of other things. Of course you have all the beauty of Zions Canyon to go look at. We were not there long enough to go exploring or hiking but hopefully we can go again and try some of the other stuff. Anyway we had a good family vacation there. Thanks dad for finding this for us. We had a lot of fun and can't wait to do it again. For any of you reading this I would recommend it. Check out this website and decide for yourselves: www.zionponderosa.com. Sorry there are no pictures to show except this one of our cabin.