SUMMER LOVIN'

Until the end of last week I was HATING Idaho. 

 SERIOUSLY HATING IDAHO! 

 I hate that winter has to last so stinkin long! 

I love the snow

(now that I don't have to drive 35 miles in it

ONE WAY everyday to get to school/work). 

 I love that we actually have seasons like spring and fall!  I love the change. 

But the wind is OBNOXIOUS!

And that fact that it wouldn't get over 68 degrees was seriously killing me. 

I've realized I'm still used to having 8-9 months of SUMMER not 8-9 months of WINTER.  I hate feeling trapped in the house, building fires to keep the house warm, putting plastic on the windows so you can't enjoy the little bit of sunshine we do get during those LONG WINTER MONTHS! 

 But the last couple weeks have been

 HEAVEN

 for me! 

We've been able to spend our days outside for the most part. 

We LOVE

...the swing set

...our walks/bike rides around the school

...playing in the sprinkler

...doing yard work

...gardening

...laying out and attempting to get a tan

...being able to walk wherever we want to go (church, library, school)

Today I even cleaned the outside windows...which lead to "pressure washing" the house.  ANYTHING to stay outside and enjoy the sun while we have it!!

We're loving this summer weather and hope its lasts THROUGH October!! 

 (I know I know...I'm still in Idaho...but I can at least wish!)

*NOTE: Ronald is not included in the "WE"

The 8-9 months of Idaho Winter is in his blood!

Bountiful Baskets

Ok.  For those who have not heard of bountiful baskets its AMAZING!  Its a Co-op that runs along I-15 and has several stops here in East Idaho now.  My friend Kristin tried getting me into it about a year and half ago.  But the only stop in Idaho was over 2 hours away! :(  SO...Its finally made its way up here and there are TONS and TONS of pick up sites now!  I've been wanting to try it for months, but haven't been on the ball enough to get it done! 

All you do is

 pay $16.50

 go to the pick up site with your laundry basket

and you get tons of fresh fruit and veggies!

Every week is a surprise.  This week we got:

1. Really Big Stock of Celery

2. Swiss Chard (yah, not sure about that one)

3. A LARGE head of leaf lettuce.

4. A bag of baby carrots

5. THREE red onions

6. TWO avacados

7. SIX plump tomatoes

8. ONE large bunch of grapes

9. TWELVE plums

10. ONE bunch of bananas

11. ONE cantelope

12 EIGHT apples

I don't know about you, but I LOVE having fresh fruits and vegetables around the house!  I haven't been buying them because we have tons and tons of canned peaches and pears!  But FRESH is so much better..and this is a STEAL!!

SPLASH PARK

We had a BLAST at the spray park in Rexburg today. It was kind of a one las HOORAH before Moss' leave us for Wyoming next week. The park was PACKED.

(Probably because it was the first nice week of the summer!!)

But it didn't bother Madilyn one bit! She didn't care who was with her or who she was cutting in line to go down the slides! Landon even had a great time, although he wasn't too keen on the slide. He's rather sit at the bottom and get splashed when the big kids came down.

I think Bobi has pictures of my kids going down the slides...I already stole Pam's memory card so I'll have to sneak Bobi's next :)




Here are a FEW of the pictures Pam took for us:

(By the way, I HATE picking music...I won't be offended if you just turn the sound down!)

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Chocoholic?

Do you think he's been watching mom too much?

JUST DO IT!-my new motto

My newest decorations:

Since we got married I always wanted to have an Americana theme for my living room.  I'm finally starting on it.  This is my first little corner finished.  I'm planning on making (or finding) some throws for the couch...adding some Red/White/Blue pillows.  I'd love to replace the old curtains with Blinds or get some nice coordinating curtains instead BUT:

We've been renting this house here in Terreton for 5 years now.  Ron has been very adamant that I not spend any money on decorating because its not "our" house.  I've been waiting FIVE year to make a house our home!  We keep thinking we're going to be able to get our own place and year after year keeps slipping by us.  I wish I could turn back time and change our decisions or see what the future hold for us.  When we first moved out here we didn't know how long it was going to be for so we didn't want to buy anything.  Well, like I've said its been 5 years and we're still out here.  We LOVE Terreton its the perfect little community and I love how wide open everything is.  We're right in the middle of all the farming, yet in the middle of the community as well.  We want to stay out here and continue making it our home.  However, someday (we thought it would have been by now) we want to be able to farm completly on our own.  The problem is: you either inherit it or marry it. Probelm #2 Nothing goes up for sale out here, you just all of a sudden hear that so and so just bought such and such place. #3 Nobody, especially in this economy is going to lend a young couple like us half a million dollars to get us started! So, here we sit, waiting and waiting for a turn of events to get us into our own place.  Because why buy something now, if we get the oppertunity to buy something else this fall.  OR in my case why spend the time and money in decorating THIS old house now, when we can have our own place this fall.  I have finally decided JUST DO IT!  We won't get a place of our own until I finally get settled into this one!  We need to just enjoy what we have now and DO make it our home, because it IS our home...at least for now. 

What happens when mom's are Lazy??

This goes to show you how lazy of a mom I REALLY am!  A few Sundays back I was not ready to get out of bed...but Landon was ready for breakfast.  I got him his cereal left the pitcher of milk on the table and went back to bed-no I didn't actually sleep, but I love to just lay in bed if I can.

I finally decided it was time to check on Landon.  He should have been done by then. 

THIS is what I came out to...

THEN when I put the lid back on I noticed THIS:

That's right! he poured his cereal inside the milk pitcher!!

AM I EVER GOING TO LEARN??

(If your wondering why the milk is in a pitcher, not a jug...we get our milk straight from the dairy.  Its what Ron grew up on and won't have it any other way.  I prefer store bought milk.  The other sepearates from the cream way too fast.)

Too Much Like His Dad!

What do YOU think?

I think I'm going to be in TROUBLE...I can't handle him already and he's not even TWO!!