Matthew's Happy Birthday and weekend.

Matthew's cake

baked mac-n-cheese
(one of the food items Matthew made for his dinner)

Last Thursday, we celebrated the anniversary of Matthew's birth! It was a crazy fast day. We ran a few errands while Matthew was at work in the morning and then brought him and his co-workers fruit pizza. Then the girls and I filled Matthew's car with balloons and wrote happy birthday messages on his car windows. Then I packed us all up for the weekend in Kansas City. Too bad we weren't going for a little birthday trip, it was so that Matthew could go to an implant seminar by his boss. That night we went to IHOP for birthday breakfast. In KC, we stayed with Matthew's cousins. We had fun getting to talk and hang out with them and the girls loved playing with both Matthew's cousin and her husband. Then we headed home sat. afternoon and stopped on the way home for a baptism of one of my primary kids. Then when we got home we did chores. Then to finish up the busy weekend, we had some friends over for Matthew's birthday dinner. Well, it was supposed to be Matthew's birthday dinner, but he made almost everything himself, including his cake. I know I sound like a mean neglectful wife, but I promise, he said he wanted to do it.

I don't have any pictures, except the 2 I posted, sorry. Just imagine a picture of Matthew with a big smile and lots of balloons.

Happy Birthday Matthew we love you! We're so glad you were born and have had 33 years of blessing the lives of others and especially blessing our lives!

Dr. Perry has arrived!

Last Friday, while Matthew, I mean Dr. Perry, was out of town , I had an old filling come out of a premolar while I was flossing. Tooth 29, to be exact. Anyway, he made an appt. for me today and fixed my tooth. It was pretty cool to see Matthew doing his thing and to actually see him doing dentistry. I must say, I was pretty impressed and proud. Such a stud! Rrrr! Don't get me going.

It was an old amalgam filling that came out. He put a pretty composite in. Now you can't even tell there was huge ugliness there.

Thanks babe! I'm so proud of you!

p.s. isn't that cool that my husband can just fix that for me?! Don't be jealous. He'd fix yours too. (Except some of you have your own dentist husbands to fix that.)

Oh, My Husband Rocks!

Girls' weekend!

Daddy went to Kansas City, 3 hours away, to work for the weekend. So we had a girls' weekend. We started off with a little trip to a park with a lake and we, of course, threw rocks, and other things in. We had a lesson on what floats and what sinks. There's a part that has cement stepping stones to walk across. It's pretty easy by yourself, a little exciting with a 4 year old. Where the stepping stones are it's really mossy. So mossy that you can't even tell it's water. I'll have to take a picture of that next time we go.

Then after lunch and playing at home, we went to Dairy Queen for ice cream! Yum!

These cones were too big for the girls, and I couldn't finish theirs and mine, so they ended up in the trash. Next time we'll share.

Then we got a few movies and after dinner, we snuggled on the couch and watched them together.

Saturday, after mowing the lawn, we went to the Farmer's market. It was okay, the girls really liked it, so I can't complain. Here they are with some squash.

The Farmer's Market was at the 4H fairgrounds. so we got to see some horses too. That's Aleah's uneasy look. We were a little too close for her comfort. (Which in all actuality is not close at all. Notice we weren't even close enough to get a horse in any pictures)

Then we headed down to Main street to take a trolley tour, but we missed the first ride and were too early for the 2nd one. Then we just sat and let the girls eat the homemade granola bars we bought at the Farmer's Market.

There was a fly disturbing the girls while trying to eat.

Then we went to the car wash. The girls enjoyed scrubbing and spraying. It probably should have only cost $2.50, but it ended up being $5.00. It takes a little longer when little people help:)

Then we had lunch at the Main Street Deli, which was very nice.

Before we left, the girls really wanted to sit on this bench. And because I'm so nice, I let them. They were making faces in the window and they thought they were so funny. I thought it was pretty funny too!

Well, that's pretty much all the exciting stuff we did. (Hey, I know, it doesn't sound that exciting, but it sure was fun just hanging out with my girls!)

I had to make it!

Last night, when I should have been sleeping, I made this cute little skirt. MADE has a tutorial for these cute skirts, and lots of others. After seeing them, my mind was going crazy with ideas and I knew I wouldn't be able to sleep. So I went to the fabric remnants, found some that would work, and went at it. It took about 2 and a half hours and it was lots of fun. It's not as cute as MADE, but today I got white fabric so I can make some more!

Temple trip.

Last Friday, Matthew and I drove down to Oklahoma City to go to the temple. We were planning to take the girls and we were going to make it little weekend family trip. During that week Grandma and Grandpa called and were making a trip up to see the dentist, so they offered to watch the girls for us. So we let them.

The Oklahoma City temple is beautiful, as all are. It was probably the smallest one we have been to, but just a special. It was our wards, along with another ward's, turn to clean the temple. So after the last session we got to clean it! I've never done that before. It was pretty cool.

Matthew and I had a fun date night walking around Bricktown and taking the water taxi down in the city. OK city has a river walk modeled after the river walk in San Antonio, TX. We had fun. I mean, we had a date weekend, what isn't fun about that?!

Oh, that last pic. is some friends in the ward who had a little car trouble on the way home. Since we know so much about cars, we stopped to see if someone needed Matthew to pull a tooth.

More of Grandpa's shirts

Grandpa, I bet you didn't know your old shirts were so cute.

You don't want them back do you?!

I finally busted it out!

I have been waiting to unpack my sewing machine until I had a place for it. I just couldn't wait any longer. The place for it, right now, is on the kitchen counter. Good enough for now!

Here's today's creation. Thanks Sha for the link to the tute. This is a summery sundress made from Grandpa's old button up shirt. Thanks for the shirts Grandpa!

And check her out, she's so fresh!

Crazy hair

After the girls' bath every night, we put their hair up in little "onion heads", a little bun on the top on their head. When I take it down some mornings, this it what the Nani looks like.

She's still so cute with crazy hair!

And voila. This is after I work my magic.

Note: if scared and quesy about spiders, don't read this post, or even look at it

Special note to Missy:

Do Not read this post.

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All sHaKeN uP and literally sick to my stomach!!

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I found this, this morning on the floor in the basement. Thank goodness it was already dead. I didn't know that at the time that I had grabbed it. I had to move quickly, 1. so the girls didn't see it and 2. so the freak of a thing didn't get away. I couldn't imagine trying to catch this thing and it jumping at me and bitting my head off.

I used a baby doll diaper to grab it and I ran upstairs like the dickens, trying to figure out what I was going to do with this thing. (of course the thought popped into my mind, "take a picture so you can put it on the blog") I also wanted to save it for Matthew to see:) I put it in a cup and confirmed it was dead. When I first saw this thing, I seriously had to inspect it to even figure out that it was a honking spider. At first, I thought it was a toy. Then I thought what kind of toy is that. I got closer, and then a little closer and said to myself, in disbelief, NOT UH!! Than I looked for something to grab it with while trying to remain calm.

The mission was accomplished, because Aleah didn't have a clue and she just kept asking my why I said, "Oh my gosh" (We don't say that in our house, because when she repeats it, it sounds like she's taking the Lord's name in vain.)

Anyway, it makes my legs weak to think about and I was pretty jumpy going back down to the basement.

You know I'll be praying like crazy that nothing eats me and my family while we are sleeping tonight!

Here's another picture with the bottom of a glass next to it so you have a better idea of the size of this spidy. The picture is a little cropped, but there is no zoom used. Seriously nasty.

Why did these things come with the fall?

Happy Birthday Kanani!!

Our baby is 2! We had a great day celebrating. We stopped by Daddy's work so he could say Happy Birthday to his baby and we had fun playing at the office. Then, Nani loves to swing at the park so we had Happy Meals at the park and we played on the swings for about 45min. Then we visited some friends and then went to the swim park. That's another thing Nani absolutely loves, going swimming. After swimming, we came home, had dinner, cake and then presents. We had a good time and we're so thankful for Nani being in our family. She brings our family so much joy, laughter and happiness. We love you little Nani!