Home improvements!

We LOVE our home and area! The only room I wasn't happy with when we moved was our bedroom. It was yellow and I just wasn't diggn it. Our closet was TINY, esp compared to our last one. So we have done some improvements! I am obsessed with horizontal stripes and distressed furniture so did BOTH in our master bedroom LOVING IT so far!! Brent, being the AMAZING handy man that he is, knocked out our closed wall and is getting close to finishing it! It is going to be so much bigger and I am SO EXCITED!!!

Yellow room

  New and IMPROVED ROOM!!!!!......so far

 Brent working on the closet. This was a major reconstruction he is learnign and doing totally on his own!!! He even had to re position some trusses...don't tell any of your contractor friends!

Happy 4th of July!!

We had a great 4th of July! It started out with a community festival that our ward was in charge of the breakfast. We got there quite early since we were in charge of some food. Ate a great mean then P and M joined in on the bike parade around the nighborhood while Bennett and Brent and I watched! They had fun! We came home and ordered Pizza to eat with our friends/ neighbors and then prepared and went to a fun BBQ at the Adams. We brought a pinterest activity for the kids called the BLOB. The guys taped up plastic sheeting and filled it with water for the kids to play on without getting wet. Then it was time to head down for fireworks. We walked from our house to Porter's school and enjoyed being right under the fireworks! It wasn't even 105 degrees! It was AMAZING!!

Bennett thought the fireworks were pretty cool! He even fell asleep at the very end. They didn't even start till 10 here since that's when it gets dark. We all had a VERY LATE night!

 This is Helena's little sis that is a month older than Bennett, Can't you see we're already best friends?!!

 Mason and Dad enjoying the show

FUN times!

We continue to have fun here ALL! DAY! LOOONG!! And the days are especially long in the summer! Doesn't get dark till about 10 and the sun is up at 5 so we always have to convince our boys that even though its not dark they should be sleeping. With so many hours of the day to have fun, we try to make the best of it! 

One of the boys BEST friend since we moved here is our neighbor Helena! She and boys boys play all day long! She is convinced she is marrying Porter (even though Porter says " I don't know! Maybe when I'm older!") Porter is always protecting her and standing up for her. If she gets hurt P is there to help her home and take care of her bike. Mason is kindof the little brother that is a pest. Kindof sad sometimes. This picture really depicts their relationship. Porter is the happy leader, Helena is fighting to be next to P and trying to stop Mason from from getting too close to her. HA! Too funny! 

ANYWAY, we hooked the hose to the slide and made our own water slide! Then invited all the nighbors for our water slide and wet trampoline fun!

 This isn't a great shot. I took it over the fence but this is the boys and H dropping flowers off to our nieghbor     that they picked themselves who is always spoiling them with treats

 Brothers :)

 We are trying to do more of those pinterest activities and have done a lot so far! This one was better than we thought it would be! They spent probably an HOUR chipping out all the toys we froze in the bown of ice! TOO FUN!! Got all the nieghbors in on the fun too!

 The library sponsers shows at a an outdoor theatre and this week we got to see Presto the Magician! He was totally geered to kids and was so much fun! We went with several friends and everybody LOVED HIM! It's nice to be outside in the summer and not be dying!

 Magic show!

 Sweet Bennett!