Q.I.P. (Quilt in Progress)

I have had this fabric since February I think. I had wonderful plans for it, but it hit around the time that pregnancy really took it's toll on me. I lost all motivation to do anything with it, it had even been months since I'd been to the fabric store. I recently took my Mom to my favorite store to buy my fabric and left completely motivated to finish it so that I could start a new project with all the cute fabric I found. For Mother's Day John remembered a line of fabric I really loved and bought some for me, so I went back and finished buying what I would need to produce a new quilt. So, this morning I finally finished the top of my other quilt and I'm anxious to go buy fabric for the middle and back so that I can finish it. I am really in love with it, it is bright and springy and I can't wait to sit and look at it when it's finished!











And then I'll finish one more quilt before I get serious about baby girl things. I also am trying to dream up new patterns to make some cute dresses for my little girls out of all the cute fabric out right now. So hopefully there will be more pictures to come!

Spring is here ...

This week we finally mowed our lawn for the first time, took down the Christmas lights, I pulled all the weeds, we cut all the long grass around the house, and we put up our trampoline. I think (hope) that Spring is finally here! We bought this trampoline for the kids for Christmas, isn't that a dirty trick?? We told them we'd put it up when Spring came, but the temperatures have still been cold up until recently. If you're looking for good motivation to do homework, clean rooms, read, and be kind to each other- a trampoline is a great answer! The kids have had such a fun time and have spent HOURS on it. What a great investment. We are especially grateful to Spence & Micki for their help. Can you imagine just John and I trying to figure it out by ourselves???

The Big Three-Oh

My birthday this year was spread out over a few days. It started on Monday night, we went to Brick Oven with the kids since I wouldn't be with them on my birthday. It was so fun to have Mom & Dad Livingstone and Micki & Spencer come with us. The highlight was the guy that makes all the balloons, what a treat!















Tuesday we drove up to Idaho because John had to be in Rexburg all day on Wednesday.
Mom Livingstone came and stayed with the kids while Johnny had State Testing all week, which was so nice of her!
That night we took Tyra to Fiesta Ole to celebrate Cinco de Mayo while my Mom and Dad went out for their anniversary.
My birthday was on Wednesday. It was fun to spend it at my Mom's while John was gone for the day. I got to sleep in a little, my Dad took me out to lunch, I ran some errands by myself, and my Mom made me a birthday cake! John got home in time for us to go to dinner and celebrate my parents' anniversary May 5, my birthday May 6, and Tyra's birthday May 8th. It was fun to have Jorine come with us, but we missed Scott because he was out of town.















Last night I got to go to dinner and celebrate with some friends. I seriously have the best girlfriends ever! THANK YOU, I LOVE YOU!! Anyway, one of my friends gave me this cake which has been an excellent breakfast and lunch so far:
















I got spoiled as usual and thank you all for the cards, messages, e-mails, phone calls and gifts!


It's going to be a great year and I'm looking forward to what lies ahead this year!

Johnny's New Look

Earlier in the school year Johnny's teacher mentioned that she thought he needed his eyes checked. I've put it off for so long, but got really ambitious last week and made us all dental appts. (after three years!!) and eye appts. His eyes aren't terrible, but glasses will help him in some aspects-- especially school. I let him pick out the frames himself, pat on my back-- so unlike me! He did a great job and I've learned to really like them. He looks so grown up! He's taking very good care of them and I've been really impressed.

We had our ultrasound appointment on Friday. Everything is looking great and we found out that ....

We are so excited!