Happy Father's Day!

I wanted to wish all the father's in my life a happy father's day!

I love you Dad! I really miss you and wish we could be in Texas in the blink of an eye so we could see you today.

I love you Les! I think you are a wonderful father-in-law and I love that you can always make me laugh. You have a great sense of humor.

Now to Dave, I hope you have a great father's day. I am trying my best! You are an amazing father and we have Andrew to prove it. I love the way you can always entertain him, like you are doing right now, having a wrestling match on the bed with him. We are sorry that you have had to work every evening this weekend but we truly appreciate all the hardwork you do to provide for the family. I also really, really appreciate that you have waited until Andrew was in bed to go into work. That really shows how wonderful of a father you are, willing to work all through the night just so you can stay home and help put your son to bed. I love you!

Happy Father's Day!

Happy Birthday Bev!

I just wanted to say happy birthday to my mother-in-law Bev. You are a great mother and grandmother. I am so happy that we live close by to you. You are always willing to lend a helping hand when we need it and I really appreciate it. We love you!

I blame it on the toys...

So not to long ago my sister-in-law kind of went off about cleaning the house and her extreme dislike for doing so. Ever since then I have been doing a lot of thinking about it. I have always liked cleaning to an extent but my house gets out of control dirty about every other day. The bad thing is, I get really depressed/ upset when it is dirty. So this morning when I awoke to an exceptionally bad house (I usually make Dave help me pick up each night but we were both too tired to last night) I decided I had to figure out what was making my house so messy. My conclusion...Andrew's first birthday party. The number of toys we have is out of control. Now, let me first say thank you to all that attended Andrew's party many months ago and how much we appreciate the gifts. So after about an hour of ranting and raving about the junk Andrew has (of course all of this is in my head because I am sure my one-year old does not care) I decided I had to just clean up and throw out. So I picked up my house, which makes me feel 100% happier and I organized the toys. We have labled bins for all different things and hopefully it will be in more control in the future. I am now going to go relax in my clean house while my child takes his second nap. I will have pics of the organization soon!

And Cindy Makes Ten...

I just want to congratulation my sister-in-law Cindy in graduating high school last night. It was a great ceremony, except the dang principle talked wayyyyy to long. Thank goodness Andrew was a saint. He just sat on the little stairs beside me and didn't even think about moving. (I know you are jeoulous but he made it up to me today by being a little hellian. I had to leave Wal-mart it got so bad. I have never had to do that before!)

Back to Cindy. She is the best little sister ever! She is an amazing singer and we got to see her perform with the choir last night which was fun. She was accepted to both BYU-Idaho and BYU Provo and I am so excited that she choose BYU Provo so she will be close by. Congrats Cindy! We love you.

In reference to my title choice, as many of you know Les and Bev have ten kids (Dave being number 7). Cindy was there last child to graduate from high school! With her moving away to school they will have no more kids in the house. You would say, wow how are they going to adjust, but then you remember that 8 of the ten kids live with in 30 minutes and that also includes 22 of the 25 grandkids!

Happy Birthday Mom!

I wanted to wish my mom a happy birthday! I love you and hope you have a wonderful day! I wish we could be with you today.

Here are some pictures of the present me and my sisters, Jenny and Mandy made for my mom. Mom taught us all how to quilt. I think we were all stubborn growing up, thinking, when will we need to sew, so we only half listened. Or maybe that is just me, but luckily we could put all our brains and efforts together to make this quilt! I think it turned out great, I hope you like it Mom!


Don't worry, I am not ruining the surprise by posting the pictures, we were good and sent her the quilt last week so she already has it!

Be Prepared...and Organized

So last Saturday Dave and I were finally able to organize our basement. We had been storing Tim and Rachel's furniture and food storage, and although we were sad to see them leave, I am so happy to have an organized basement.


This is our years worth of food storage plus some. I finally feel like I can actually go downstairs and rotate what we have.

This is a picture of what looks like a bunch of boxes and trashbags under the basement stairwell. These bags/boxes are full of boys clothing size 0-12 months only! None of which were purchased by Dave and I. All of Andrews clothes are in a small plastic bin in his room. I have to say we are very blessed to not have to buy a lot of clothes because of all of Andrew's cousins but I will also say I can't wait for a Clawson to get pregnant with a boy!!!

This is the rest of our stuff. It takes up such a small amount of space in the basement and I love it! Can you tell that I love to have an organized house? Even in the space were I hardly ever go I like to know that I could find something in it within seconds.

I hope everyone has a great memorial day weekend. Dave and I started ours off right by dropping Andrew off at my sisters and staying at the Blue Boar Inn for the night. If you have never been there you have to go. The dinner at the inn was one of the most expensive I have ever had but it was the best food I have ever had!

Success!

So on Mother's Day we went to my in-laws for a little party. We all sat outside in their backyard to eat and play. In their backyard they have a plastic Little Tikes slide. Andrew was in heaven. Since then I have been searching on KSL for one of these slides. I have found a few but they have literally sold out, at the most, within 1 hour of being posted. On Saturday morning we went garage sale hunting for one but had no luck. Then we came home, put Andrew down for a nap and I got on KSL and found one. It was in Saratoga and I called and went and picked it up. The lady I bought it from said that it had only been posted 10 minutes when I called and that she received two phone calls for it while I was on the phone with her. Talk about luck. Andrew absolutly loves the slide. He climbs to the top then says "weeeee" as he slides down over and over again.


We had a great weekend of lots of sliding. Unfortunatly when I went to wake up Andrew this morning (because he was sleeping an exceptionally long time) I found his bed covered in throw up and he has been throwing up all morning. It is awful, I just put him down for a nap so hopefully he can get some rest and begin feeling better. It is so sad when babies are sick!