together

We spent the week in Arizona for some much needed time with my mom, my sister and her lovely family. 

Hudson and Chamberlain were inseparable from sun up till sun down.

I have the pictures to prove it. 

Its not fun living so far away but it sure is nice when we get together.

Its all smiles and laughs and never any fighting.

We had so much fun and there is so much to blog about but thats for another time. 

As for the babies...not so much.

They like their space!

five.

Son. 

I can't believe you are 5. 

How lucky are we to have had you for 5 whole years in our family. 

You continue to amaze us with the things you do and say.

You are so sweet, thoughtful, and are constantly thinking of others.

Like the other day on our trip back from AZ. 

On your own you noticed an elderly lady needing help in lifting a sign and without hesitation you stepped right in and helped her hold the sign. 

The smile you had on your face when you were done was priceless.

You are kind, smart, funny, handsome, I can always find you with a smile on your face, you are excited about life, you are the best big brother any little sister could ask for. 

You are always helping Siri and you make her laugh and smile the most. 

We love you. 

Your 5th Birthday went a little something like this.

We surprised you with breakfast in bed and you opted to eat it at the table.

We opened presents shortly after so Dad could be apart of it since he had school (which he ended up missing just for you) and work (which he went in as late as possible to spend as much time as he could with you).

You and Dad went to lunch at your favorite place...Subway.

Then we played and played and invited Sage, True, Tanner, Whitney and the boys over for your 3rd cake and ice cream party. 

And  your 5th Birthday ended late into the evening after everyone had gone home and I could finally pull you away from the game that Tanner and Sage got for you. 

You lucky little boy.

We love you.

 Your gift from Siri was a hit. How did she know you wanted a Mario Tee!

 You were so excited to open the presents from Grandma and Grandpa Burgess.

 You wanted a Pogo Stick so badly. 

When we would ask you what you wanted you would immediately respond with a pogo stick first.

 This was the 3rd blowing out of the candles you did for your birthday week. 

This cake was sprinkle cake with your favorite blue frosting.

 Cake and Ice Cream party #1 Dinosaur Costco Cake.

Held at Aunt Suzie and Uncle Glens house in Arizona with Great Grandma and Grandpa Johnson, Tim and Shelbie and the Boys and oh yes Uncle Mike.

 Cake party #2 Chocolate Coconut Cake

Held at Grandma and Grandpa Chamberlains house in Kanab.

At half time of the BYU/Utah game (which was a slaughter for the cougs. sad day) with Mayor and Grandpa Laycook, Siri Dad and me.

last weekend and Ms. Siri

My dad had meetings in Midway last week and we decided to tag along and enjoy the scenery, I mean the pool. As always we invited Whit and the boys to come along. 

I love Midway its such a quaint little town with amazing views of the backsides of the mountains.  

We had the pool basically to ourselves and enjoyed nice weather. 

For dinner we ventured into town to one of my favorite places to eat. 

Their pizzas with the salad in the middle are the best.

It was all fun and games until around 8:30 PM (after Whit had taken the boys home) Siri started crying. 

We thought she might be tired but that did not sit well with me since the cry was a hurt cry.

We made her a bottle and rocked her to sleep when I noticed she was not moving her left arm.

I made Josh check her arm to see if it was dislocated, and to his knowledge it was not.  

We decided to go home and not stay the night. 

When we got home she cried a little and went right to sleep.

Then came 1:00 AM. When she screamed a hurtful scream and we new something was wrong. 

We watched her for about 30 minutes and took her to the ER. 

While at the ER, they took x-rays and did the put the elbow back in the joint thing and tried and tried to get her to move her arm but she never did. Finally around 4:30 they brought out the big guns...COOKIES and tried to get her to grab them with her left arm. Again we tired this for 30 minutes  with no such luck of movement.

So just before 5:00 AM they decided to cast it. She has to wear the cast for 7 days.

So there it is. 

A bright pink cast ( was it sad to say that when they were wrapping it in the pink I wanted to say that pink would not do. I mean by this time in the morning it was Saturday and after all game day for the cougs. We needed blue. But I held my breath.) and no answer's to why or whats going on with her arm. Hopefully when we see the specialist we will get some answers.

For the first 5 or 6 days her arm just laid their as if it were dead. But on the 7th day she has been showing signs of improvement and holding her bottle and using it to defend herself when tickled.

to market, to market

The past couple of Saturday's we have been enjoying the local Farmer's Market. 

We load up on such tasty and beautiful produce.

The peaches right now are sensational along with all that Utah Sweet Corn. 

Good stuff. 

You can't argue the prices either. 

We spend a few dollars to get so much more than at the grocery store and a billion times the better quality.

Chamberlain and Siri's favorite are the flavored honey sticks and any colorful flavor will do.

Not me however, I like the lemon honey, so tasty. 

Josh likes to sample the bread along with the melons and peaches. 

As much as we love going to market we only have one picture.

It helped that Ken and Sandi accompanied us one outing and when we couldn't find Sandi or Chamberlain we had a pretty good suspicion on their whereabouts.

Such a good time these two had together. 

As for today its rainy and bit fall-ish in the air, and Ms Siri didn't get much sleep last night (more to come on that strange thing).

So we will relish the sunny picture and the corn we still have in the fridge. 

Those peaches barely last a day in our home they get devoured by all.

Yep Chamberlain and Siri too. 

They are the biggest culprits of our fruit disappearing.

Pie

Today the Cave Man surprised us with a treat. 

He is a sweet eater. 

I would say he has a passion for sweet's, and he has been ranting and raving about this 

Blueberry Sour Cream Pie from Mom's Cafe in Salina, Utah for months now. 

When he stopped in this afternoon he had brought one with him. 

He actually called Mom's Cafe on the road from Panguitch and had them make a

fresh one just for us. 

What a great man the he is.

 Always full of suprise.

So today, at 2:24 PMish MST we partook of the famous pie. 

And my oh my what a wonderful pie. 

The crust was nice and flaky with great thickness. The filling was so creamy and yummy and then the blueberry topping was so sweet but not overly sweet. I'm telling you, you wont be able to stop at one slice.  

The Cave Man even warned me that I was cutting too big of slices and that I was going to regret it and I should only doll out slivers for slices. 

He was right.

This pie is good people. 

So good that is worth the drive to Salina, Utah to have some.

 Josh not wanting Chamberlain to eat his so he can have it.

 The Cave Man patiently waiting for me to stop taking pictures so he can have a bite after I have had a bite.

 Chamberlain was not so sure he liked it. 

 YUM.

2 dollar Tuesady

Me and Whitney braved the last 2 dollar Tuesday in August at Thanksgiving point and headed to Farm Country. The boys and Siri had a lovely morning, there was laughing, animal riding and of course with 4 little kids in the hot sun and lots to do there were tears.

I cant tell you how blessed I feel to live so close to family. Especially Whitney who has children the same age. It makes for great outings and lovely conversations. 

The picture above may look like a man contemplating on his horse. 

Which actually could be true seeing that Gunnar had been eyeing that horse the entire 20 minutes or so we were in line, and Chamberlain another. However, Chamberlain happend to be 2nd boy in line so his first choice was picked and so he went to plan B.  Which was apparently take Gunnars horse. He knew he was in trouble and by the time I could get over there all the horse's were taken and that was that. I think he was contemplating how he could get out of trouble for taking Gunnars horse.

Now don't you feel sorry for this little boy pictured below. I sure do.  He stood in a hot sunny line for over 20 minutes to ride the horse he did not want to ride and cried the entire time he was on it. 

But don't you worry he was all smiles .2 seconds after it was over and we were on our way to the wagon rides.

sometimes I wonder what was I thinking?

Sometimes I get this crazy itch to re-do, re-finish or re-arrange something in my humble thrift shop abode.  And this itch bugs me and bugs me while I dream and when I am awake I am constantly thinking about what spontaneous thought I have whirling around in my head. And FINALLY when I have a spare moment, I quickly tackle that thought that keeps bugging me. Sometimes it turns out lovely and I get the thrill and sweet pleasure every time I look at the item and then there are projects that were better in my head than in actual life or at least in my life. 

Take my black Headboard for instance. 

I am not a huge fan of black well I am just not right now at the moment but I'm sure when we move again I will most likely will be (depending on the wall color).

I had the brilliant idea to add some color to our room by painting it a Emerald Green like the color in the duvet. I just knew it was going to look amazing and feel so inviting.

However, I think I was wrong and I am still trying to talk myself into liking it. 

Oh well, it was a few dollars and I quite frankly am not attached to it. 

I guess you get to decide if you like it or not.

I also forgot to take a before picture of the headboard so these will have to do. 

Before

See basic black headboard nothing special. 

Now for the afters. 

 

I think if I had crisp white walls it would have been exactly what I had pictured in my head. 

But I guess I can always paint it black again, but I think for now I am going convince myself into liking it. 

Now for the wall above our washer and dryer which is located in the our kitchen. 

Here are the before's.

 Wasted space in a small house! 

I needed shelves I tell you!

And now for the after.

Pardon the blurryness due to the picture quality from my cell phone.

I only have this one picture that I sent to my mother. 

I get so impatient sometimes when I do these projects.

Like wanting these make shift shelves on the wall so badly that I skipped putting in drywall screws.

Well for a week they looked so good, held all my recipe books,  art and much more pretty eye candy things.  And then one morning after our run Josh came in the door and shut it and all the shelves and all the glass  went tumbling down to the ground. 

Turquoise glass went EVERYWHERE! 

It took us about an hour to clean up.

I hope I've learned my lesson that drywall screws do have a purpose.