Guess who Turns 6 !?!?!

Thats right! my sweet Tess!

Spring Pictures & Mothers Day

what a mothers day!
All I wanted was family pictures and a Sunday ALL together! I got that plus more! Nick offered to make me breakfast in bed, but I opted for a sleep in morning! While I was sleeping nick and kids made me my favorite cake and cleaned the house! I was so happy just to have him home and to be able to ride to church together! We always have to drive separate and we live ~30min from church. So that's hard.. But not mothers day! here are some cute pictures of the kids..

You know I am not much of a photographer (the cute kids make it easy and our beautiful forest.) but i love these shots! I had such a wonderful mothers day! I hope all you moms out there got some pampering! who wouldn't want to be a mom??!?!? when you get smiles like these!

Enjoy..

Top 100 things to do in your life time...

ok i didnt really make a list of 100 things to do in your life time.. but this should be on the list if i did!

Rent a trencher.. =)






nothin' like a giant chainsaw to cut through the earth for ya!























And the finished product...






a perfect hole for water and electric lines!

whats been going on...

whats been going on with us...

not much! lol!

lots of wagon rides in the nice spring weather
















dress up days with Nathan...















making pictures of brother...













Nick has been super busy and work and thats been such a blessing. But hes also been super busy with his calling.. For example this weekend he spent the night friday night camping with the scouts. Then came home ran some errons came home just in time to get ready and leave for the stake dance.. (1am comes home) Sunday meetings before church meetings after church comes home, eats and off to a church youth meeting (BYC)! I wish i was as good as serving as he was!

As for me.. I am not busy at all. Kind of lonely and bored.. its been really nice though.. in fact right now its 7:30 pm and 77 degrees. I planted some flowers and continue to dream about house plans and building.. Came really close to getting a baby goat but decided I didn't want to wake up to bottle feed it every 6 hours. Thought tessa and dallin havent stopped talking about it. I said tessa how about a trampoline in stead? or a 4wheeeler! her response was how about a dog.. WHY WHY does it have to be living.. lol! I know the animals are coming soon. I am just not ready! Dallin has turned into a terrible 2 and i am so exhausted from him! he is needy, whinny, and just plain hard! SO... maybe ill have something more interesting to write about later.. sorry. lame post..

The Tooth Fairy is going to be BROKE!

This girl keeps losing teeth like crazy! Both top and bottom out.. You can see the bottom ones are already growing in! I didnt know it happens so fast! (Grandma Susan Use to call her toothy tessa now we call her toothless tessa). i think she is losing them early because she got them early!
She had top & bottom 2 teeth coming in at 4 months!

"she thinks my tractors sexy"

Nick playing with this new toy...



















He even lets me drive! But no power steering!

Where does the time go????

This year so far....


Tessa lost her first two teeth!!!




















We play in the snow every chance we get... Its still exciting! You know for living in CO I would have thought I would see it a bit more.. its only snowed 2 times! (the first one i don't count it was more like a thick frost! lol!



































If we arent outside we are inside doing crafts and art projects.. Its probably going to take Tess all year to do this color by number!!! And look at Dallin's concentration. he LOVES tracing! pretty awesome for a 2 year old I think.. Hopefully he can correctly trace by the time he's 3! Also Tessa did the "mom" all by herself and surprised me! I am amazed every day how much she grows up!

































Nick has been gone all the time! it feels like school all over again.. I guess its just life now. We have the house plans picked we are going to build but we are going to hold off for as long as we can and save tons of money living in the little house.


Its really been such a blessing to us here! Nick is also starting ANOTHER practice in Pueblo with his buddy Jordon and hopefully opening in the next week or two! (ps if you are a 4th year and are possibly interested in CO talk to Nick! They are probably going be looking for some O.D's in the future!)

Life is good. I miss my mama! She is sunbathing in AZ this winter! I keep myself busy by the hundreds and hundreds of pictures I have got behind scrap booking! lol! Also been eating up every Jane Austin move they have at the library.. But without a doubt my favorite movie is Elizabeth Gaskell's North & South! If you have never read Elizabeth Gaskell do! Wives & Daughter is really good too!