Little Lark

Stuart got me a kitten for my birthday!!! Here she is, Lark. I LOVE calico cats, and Whitney and Heidi drove all the way down to Ogden to get her for me. We recently found evidence of mice in our garage (which I cleaned out for Stuart's birthday), so we thought a cat is our best option! Lark is so sweet and she loves to be held. It's hard to stick her out in the garage already, but she has a nice little set-up and that's kind of the point. Thanks Honey!!!

Flowers

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Stuart's been gone camping for a few days this week, and I have been hanging out with Whitney and her girls. This is the project we took on, after cleaning out my garage (pictures to come). I think they turned out pretty cute. Sesaly wanted a picture with the flowers, it turned out a little creepy.

Cruise In

We went to the Cruise In parade with Whit and Paul (and their friends Brad and Brittany) on Saturday. It was a nice night, we saw some awesome cars, and some that probably shouldn't have been in cruise in. :) Isn't Sesaly so cute in this picture?

Happy 4th!

For the 4th of July this year we had a fun BBQ at Whitney and Paul's house!

This is the cute cake I made for the 4th! I wish I could say it was my idea, but I got the idea here. Still, I am very impressed with myself that it turned out!

Then we had fun with some fireworks while watching USU's fireworks. And a few people (Stuart and Paul) who were a tiny bit obsessed with the lighters! It was a very fun night!

Sticky

For the past week or so Stuart and I have spent a great deal of our free-time (and some of Stuart's work hours) installing wood floors in Stuart's mom's new house.


The wood floors are beautiful, but the job is very big... a little overwhelming. That's Helen in the above picture with Stuart.




Any guesses if Stuart's back hurts? :)



And this is my job.... I am the glue spreader. I should really come up with a more professional name, perhaps Professional Adhesive Applicator? But, yeah, basically I spread glue.... it's sticky and messy, I end up with glue all over my body and clothes. And soap and water alone do not remove this glue. It takes turpentine or rubbing alcohol and lots of cotton balls. :) And I've dipped the end of my ponytail twice now, so my hair is a tad bit shorter than it was - and now stays up in a bun!

Flying Airplanes

On Father's Day Stuart, Paul, Whit, Sesaly, Howie and I went up to USU to fly remote-controlled airplanes. Paul spent most of his time fixing his :) since it dropped like a rock everytime he threw it. Stuart had some long flights, but unfortunately also ran his plane into 2 buildings! :) It was lots of fun!

It's Done!

Paul was so great and came out and helped Stuart and me finish our rock wall! This is our version of a wheel-barrow. Of course the rock-wall is in the front yard and the extra dirt is in the back yard.

Paul looking strong and man-ish.

And here it is! It looks SO good!

Now all we need is another small rock-wall, more dirt moved around, a sprinkler system and then GRASS! :)

Knife Fight Anyone?

Today Stuart and I were in the kitchen and we both had some knives.... so naturally Stuart challenged me to a knife fight... below you will see our knives (mine is the smaller one)

I, of course, did not want to have a knife fight, so I quickly became unarmed :) Stuart grabbed my knife to show me how to clang the two together, and he dropped my knife. Luckily, he moved his foot in time, but my wood floor wasn't so lucky....
And the moral of the story? DON'T PLAY WITH KNIVES!!!

Landscaping!

We got some free rocks from some people in our ward, so now we are officially working on our yard! But, it's very hard work to do by hand, as Stuart can tell you! He worked on it on Saturday in the rain and got a row done! Yeah! Thanks Honey! :)

Sesaly's 4th!

Sesaly had her 4th birthday today! She had a great little party that was meant to be at a park, but got moved inside due to the rain. She got lots of great presents and even had a pinata! Happy Birthday Sesaly!

St. George!

Stuart and I went on a little weekend getaway to St. George this last weekend. It was a great little break! We were able to stay at my Grandma's condo and then we drove to Zion's every day to hook up with Heather, Justin and Helen. We went on some fun 4-wheeling trails and enjoyed the beautiful weather!

Heather, Luke (in front pack), Justin, Kaden, Celeste and Stuart (Helen is taking the picture)


This is an awesome lookout we found on one of the trails. It was beautiful!

This is looking up at where we were standing in the last picture.

We parked by this old cemetery to begin our 4-wheeling trip. There were tons of historic headstones and stories about how everyone died. This area was fenced off and had 3 graves in it. A husband/wife and brother. They were killed by indians. It was interesting to read the histories and look around the cemetery.

Some scenery from our 4-wheeler trip!

Helen, Kaden, Justin, Luke and Heather

Stuart and Celeste

Campfire Dinner

After 4-wheeling all day, we headed back to Heather and Justin's trailer to have some dinner around the campfire. Here's Heather hanging out.

And Justin...

These were what would appear to be delicious dutch-oven potatoes. They had all the right ingredients, however, we were very hungry... so Helen and I decided to stick the dutch oven directly into the campfire. I wouldn't recommend it. They were burnt. :( And although the rest of us were sickened by them, Helen ate a healthy portion!

These little beauties were made by Stuart! He makes the BEST roasted marshmallows!

This is the delicious smore I made with Stuart's perfect marshmallows! YUM!

Sand Dunes

Justin, Kaden, Stuart and I went to the sand dunes one day, they were awesome! We had to be careful though, because we didn't have the tall flags on to let people know when we were coming over a dune.

Stuart


Justin got stuck - I'm pretty sure I have a few other pictures of Justin being stuck in other places on 4-wheelers... perhaps a trend?

Justin with Kaden, and Stuart. I was there... but the only picture of me looks stupid, so it's just the boys!

Morty...

So, Stuart went camping a few weekends ago, and since I am such a baby, Morty got to sleep with me. He loves sleeping on our bed and this is him the next morning... he wouldn't get up! It was so funny, and I thought Stuart was hard to get up in the mornings! :)

Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day to all you Mother's out there. Especially to my own mom and Stuart's. We hope your Mother's Day is great!
For those of you who are easily offended, stop reading now. The rest of this post is for those like me, who hate this holiday.... as this is my 7th Mother's Day without children.
Now..... for all of us who aren't mother's...........
I wish you all a happy day also! For those of us who aren't lucky enough to have children, here are some of the things we can appreciate on this depressing day.

* Not waking up all night to crying
* Being able to do whatever we want whenever we want
* Having our husbands to ourselves
* Basically living less-expensive lives
* Not having stretch marks!
* Being able to leave the house with only our purse ... not 10 million other things
* Sleeping in
* Staying out late
* Not having to work around a child's nap schedule
* A heck of a lot less vaccuming
* Not changing dirty diapers
* Watching a movie as loud as we want without fear of waking up any children
* Let's face it, vacations are more fun without kids
* Not having to wonder if our kids are ugly :)
* Not having to wonder if we are good parents

Now I realize that those of you with children could make an equally impressive list of great reasons to have children. However, this post is intended to make me feel better on this depressing day. Oh, and thanks to Stuart for making this day bearable by not making us go to church and for making me feel special with breakfast in bed! :)