Salt Lake Fun

This past week I had a work conference in Salt Lake for 2 days so we decided to turn it into a fun family week and go up a few days early and play. Then we decided that instead of family fun, lets just make it couple fun! It.was.soooo.needed!!!!! Nick and I went up early Monday and shopped and ate ALL DAY! We went to a new craft store I wanted to check out and then we went to my FAVORITE OF ALL TIME----Gardner Village. It's the best, you have to go! We stopped at an antique store that was super cute then on to the Gateway. Pretty much, it was my day and Nick was really good about all of it. We enjoyed ourselves and took our time and no diaper bags, fishies, cups or nap schedules to worry about=heaven! I LOVE my kids, but everything was so much chiller and yet still faster! We stayed at the Anniversary Inn in SLC that night. It's a themed hotel and we always wanted to check it out, so we figured why not. We stayed in the Swiss Family Robinson Room. In the picture above, it shows the MASSIVE tub and a fun waterfall that comes down as the shower. SO COOL!!! The bed was at the top of the tree. There was even a fish tank!! We had so much fun and obviously we were really impressed with having a nice hotel--it's been awhile that we've stayed in a place with robes and cheesecake and cider. Can you tell by our faces?! We're such nerds, but we have fun!

Tuesday we met up with our cousins Ashley and Kristy and Aunt Elaine and Grandma Thompson at Lagoon. I just happened to have discount vouchers from the school for this week. It was sooo fun to ride all the coasters and NO KIDDIE rides!!!! That sounds bad, huh?! Mind you, one of my favorite vacations of all times was taking Reag to Disney a few years back so really I'm not awful. It was just fun to act like kids and do all the fun crazy rides. The last time we were at a theme park (said Disney trip) I was 6 months preg and couldn't ride fun rides and then had Hunter a month later and we haven't been to a park since so I haven't done the fun rides in a LONG time! We had a blast, but we did realize that the seats are smaller now :) and we get sorer easier!!!! Still good times had by all!

After Lagoon, we grabbed Costa Vida and went to check in at our hotel. For the school paying for it, it was really nice too with cool perks and a great bed with a down comforter! Many of you know, I'm picky and really like nice bedding so this was fab. Wednesday I was at the conference till 3:30 then we went back to the Gateway and then to Temple Square. It's always SOOOO beautiful to be there. It's so peaceful and really remarkable how all the city sounds just disappear. We ate dinner at the Lion House inside the Brigham Young home. Then we ran over to Sportsmens Warehouse. Thursday again conference until 3:30 then we went and got this......

Yep, we got a new truck....finally!!!! We've been talking about it FOREVER! We were seriously looking before we had Hunter, but then that craziness happened. And now FINALLY here we are. We saw it the night before online so while I was working, Nick went and looked at it and really loved it. We talked and I said go ahead based off the few pics he texted me. We've been talking about it for so long that we were on the same page with what we wanted. So I called to check in with him later that afternoon and he was finished up at the bank and just needed me to go sign afterwards! So pretty much I went to sign and then saw the truck after. Major TRUST!!! We love it though and were SOOO ready for something bigger. We still have the jeep, but will use this alot too. Anyways, yay!!!

All Things Thrifty

Guess What?! I was featured on All Things Thrifty!!!! I LOVE this blog and have gotten so many ideas from it--especially my master bedroom. I have loved the colors for awhile, which is completely unlike my infatuation with RED and it all started with Brooke's blog. Anyways, I wasn't sure if I would submit, but got talked into it and now I'm glad I did! Anyways, thanks for all my SUPER SWEET FRIENDS that I LOVE AND ADORE for all your support always--not just for a dumb room, but for all the other real life stuff that is constant. What would I do without you??!! You know who you are!! :)
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Master Bedroom Remodel

I decided that our master bedroom needed a MAJOR re-haul. I knew the colors and I knew I wanted to get a King bed. How in the world we've gone 9 years without one is insane!!!! We started off going yardsale-ing looking for nightstands and lamps. Here are the lamps we found.......not exactly my style, but with a little paint they'll be great! And they were $5 each!!!!!

We found this desk at an estate sale. I already had a new black desk that was great, but I LOVED the detail on this so I wanted to get it anyways and figure out what to do with it later! :) It's solid and has GREAT DETAILS. And I got it for $33!!!! Totally forgot to take a picture before. I also found our great nightstands that are way solid and old-school looking brown, but in my imagination, they were beautiful! And $15 each!!!!!!!! I forgot to take pictures of these too. :(

Love all the drawers. We really do keep it this clean. Well, it does have 2 monitors on it, but otherwise everything stays in the drawers. We even got a wireless mouse and keyboard that we bring out to use. I wish you could see the details better, it's beautiful and antiqued with brown showing through slightly.

Cute Kiddos!

Me and Hunter during Mommy-N-Me swim time. We took the class for 2 weeks and he LOVED the water but was tired of me holding him. He would try to push away from me towards the end. He thought he was sooo brave and I'm thinking, Hello you're 2 and can't swim!!!

Reag LOVED it and was so sad to be done after 2 weeks.

Hunter thinks he's so cool with his glasses the he has to wear ALL THE TIME and yet he's riding Reag's old pink tryk! Which he totally cruises on by the way. He can't reach the petals very well, so he just Flintstones it and I swear I have to about jog to keep up!!

I went in to check on the kids before lights out and this is what I found. SOOOOO CUTE!!!!!!!!

Reag had fun doing Hunter's hair. And yes, I know he needs a haircut! :)

Reag lost another tooth!!! She's losing them faster then they can grow back in. She was so excited to have the tooth fairy come and left her a sweet note asking to keep her tooth. The tooth fairy let her keep it and still left her $2, then she lost it down the drain while cleaning it! :)

Playing the DS and Hunter just watching nicely.

LOVE these cute kids, especially when they're acting like this!!! HEAVEN!

Reagan loves her "silly socks". She has lots of different kinds. She had on these princess ones and Hunter wanted some on too so they got these. They don't match, but hey they're happy!! Nick on the other hand...... :)

Ok, so now I'm gonna post some fun stories and things they've said so feel free to skip along since I do realize it's never as funny to other people like it is to the parents!

• Driving in the car, the radio says Lady Gaga and Reag says "Lady Gaga! She's weird!" (She saw her on Oprah.) I kinda laughed because I didn't really think that she noticed those things or that if she does, that she would then put it together again later. It did give me the opportunity to talk with her about differences and how it may seem weird, but not to judge, etc. Anyways, too funny!



• Driving today and kids are watching movie quietly. Hunter sees a motorcycle outside and yells "MOTORCYCLE!!!" soooo loud we all jumped. Reag says, "Mom, Hunter made my heart stop" so calmly. Me too Reag!!



• My dad was here and he and Reag were putting a toy together and it was taking time and Reag was being super patient. Then he says he's not sure if he can do it all, it might take more time. She says "are you kiddin' me smalls?!" Oh my word, I about fell off my chair laughing!!!! Nick and I say that, but not all the time. She must store EVERYTHING we say!!!!!
  


• Hunter is really good about folding his arms and being quiet for prayers. The other night I was sooo pooped and got kids in bed and we skipped prayers and I was okay with it not wanting to get them back out again. (Not good, I know!) As I'm walking out of Hunter's room, he says "prayers, prayers". It was such a FABULOUS reminder of what's really important and how sweet these little Spirits are. A few days later at church, it was testimony meeting and Hunter was sitting there. He heard the end of one testimony and folded his arms and said Amen. He must have thought it was prayers. So like for the next 5 testimony's we all folded our arms like a prayer and said Amen. It was too cute!



• Ever since school got out, we have been super busy with extra gymnastics classes and swim lessons and family and projects, etc that I was feeling pretty good to just chill and stay around the house one day about a week or so after school was out. Reag comes over to me and says "Mom, when does school start?" Seriously, already asking?!!!!!! I couldn't believe it!!!!!!!! I've since planned more things.

Phillips Fun!

We had SOOO much fun with the Phillips'. We LOVED that they stayed for awhile and had so much fun the whole time--so much fun that I forgot to take pictures!!!!! We had Reag's party, and we shopped LOTS, the boys went fishing, we ate TONS, played LOTS of games and laughed uncontrollably--pretty much an awesome time! :) Come again soon!!!!!

Reagan's 6th Birthday

LOVE my sweet little girl. I can't believe that she's 6 already. A few nights before I got super teary thinking about it all going by so quickly. She acts so old and is so helpful all the time. I almost feel guilty since she helps so much and gets right on it when I ask her to do things. Happy Birthday Reag!

Wow! It seems like I just posted about Reag's 5th birthday and now here we are again! We decided to do a quick party last minute and Reag wanted to do a Barbie theme. We had family come and it was a FABULOUS time! We got the bounce house out and the kids played in it lots and jumped on the tramp, drove the truck, and blew bubbles.

We had pizza and salad and then enjoyed a yummy cupcake cake and ice cream.

One of my very best buddies and her daughter, Nellie came.

Awesome Phillips family--we LOVED that they decided to come and stay. We had a great time!!!!

After we ate we went to the pool in our neighborhood and had a blast!

My dad and Hunter!

Sweet cousin McKayla and Reag

Cute Amanda and Nellie!