Rocks!

Last Friday, Isaac had a day off from school so we took the kids to the Timpanogas Gem and Mineral Show here in town. Isaac wants to be a Geologist when he grows up, so we really wanted him to have a chance to see all the rocks and gemstones. Josh's sister Melissa and her kids and boyfriend also came. It was really neat! Every rock you could imagine they had displayed or for sale. So many different beautiful rocks! They even had a dinosaur walking around:

He tried to eat Chris!

Bryce had fun, although most of the time he tried to find ways

to get out of his stroller and take off. LOL

Parker & Isaac by one of the displays:

The dinosaur came back and started munching on Parker & Bryce:

This was Bryce's favorite display. He loved the ball shaped rocks.

He kept saying, "Kick ball! Kick ball!" (He calls anything spherical a kick ball lately):

They even had some glow-in-the-dark rocks:

One of the displays:

It was a fun experience. The kids came home with bags of rocks and little rocks they won in a game of chance. After the rock show, we went up to Provo. Isaac had won a gift certificate to Brick Oven for doing so well in school. So we took him there for lunch. We had a really fun family day!

St. Patrick's Day!

We celebrated St. Patrick's Day by making a GREEN dinner! We actually made the same thing last year, and it was really yummy, so we decided to make it into a tradition and do it again! :) We made Fettucine Carbonara with green spinach noodles and green Caesar salad on the side.

For dessert we made some rainbow cupcakes! These were so fun to make! You just layer different colors of cake batter into the cupcake papers. We topped them with whipped cream (so it looks like a rainbow with a cloud). It was a fun night!

PS - Our camera has been really bad lately - hence the not so great pictures. We actually ended up getting a new one a day or two after this, so hopefully no more bad pics!

I love this picture. Bryce was so happy about his cupcake!

Our New House

I've already posted these pictures on facebook, but I thought I'd post them on here as well for those that are not on facebook. We finally moved into our new house about a month ago! It's been so nice. We still have a lot of work to do, but it's just nice to finally be here. The painting was left unfinished, so we need to go through and paint the edging on all of the walls and do touch ups. Because of time and money we had to choose one color for the whole house. We also still need to seal our grout, grout the fireplace, make a mantle, stain the banister on the stairs, window wells, a back porch, and a few other things. We'll get there!

Right now we've been super excited about our new yard and getting everything planned and ready to work on that once the snow is gone for good. We're working on getting topsoil and compost in so that we can plant a lawn and a garden. We are also going to build a chicken coop and have already ordered our baby chicks and garden seeds. Lots of fun stuff! Josh and I have been wanting chickens ever since we first got married, but have never had a good place to keep them until now. We're excited!

Here are some pictures of the new house (taken right before we moved in). I think the only things I didn't get pictures of were the kids bedrooms, the office and the pantry.

Kitchen/dining area:

Family room:

Living room/entryway:

Stairs from the front entryway:

Looking upstairs from the living room:

Master Bdrm:

Upstairs bathroom:

One view of the master bathroom:

Another view of the master bathroom:

Linen closet in the master bath:

Part of the master bdrm closet:

Another part of our walk in closet:

Downstairs bathroom: