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A Spring Surprise!!

Guess What We Have???

I'm not sure if you can tell from this picture, but we have a bird's nest.

Right by our front door next to our porch light and the crazy man eating vine.

Anyway. . . I have seen a robin sitting on this nest from time to time. Well actually. . . I've seen a robin fly away from the nest, over to our neighbors roof and chirp and chirp at me.

So. . . when we saw this nest we thought - oh dear - guess we'll be going in and out

the garage this spring. I looked in the nest several times though

and didn't see anything but a nicely made little nest.

So. . . the other day when I was reading Kami's blog,

she posted about some new residents she has at her house.

Which reminded me that I hadn't looked in the nest for a while now.

Well I did today and here is what I found.

Can you see them??? Holy cow!!! It's so cool!!!

A Little Closer View - can you believe it??

Lookee, lookee!! - adorable :)

AWWWWW. . . . .aren't they just so cute?!!! :)

So I guess we have some new residents at our house too. Guess it's back to going in and out of the garage for sure - don't want these little guys to get freaked out and jump out too soon. It's so exciting!! :)

Music Makes Music Rocks!!!

SO. . . . .What Is Music Makes Music?

Music Makes Music is a non-profit organization that inspires the next generation of musicians. They rock it at High Schools and Middle Schools with tons of high-energy, motivational, full production rock concerts that motivate teenagers and inspire them to get involved with music in school and their communities. The shows are currently featuring Going Second who perform FABULOSO songs with no vulgar or suggestive lyrics. This organization was founded in part by a good friend Josh Alfaro who use to live next door to us. It was so fun to see him jammin' on stage as a big ol' rock star!!

His band totally rocks!! So . . . if your kids get the chance, have their administrators get in touch with Josh and get them a free concert at their school t0 promote music education.

I Love Spring ❀ ✿ ❁ ✾

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I'm so glad it's spring. Things have been crazy and I'm just so glad for the idea of new fresh starts. I hope things will get better fast. It's now been just over a year that Jeff has been without work. I know it's happened in the past but it's just so hard. We are looking forward to new things this spring. We ask for your prayers and to spread the word too.

Halloween Fun

Do you know that Halloween has become one of my most favorite holidays during the year. I really enjoy it. I like dressing up and I like the decorations. I like spooking people and I love having boys at Halloween - they get to dress up so scarey - I really, really like it.

Here's some fun things we did for Halloween this year

CARVED PUMPKINS

Dressed up at work and took the kids around the office trick-or-treating. FUN

Went trick-or-treating with great friends.

Moab UEA Weekend - Most Outrageously Awesome Best-time - Utahns Escape to Arches :D

Okay so this last UEA Weekend we were invited to go to Moab with the Petersons. We had a blast. The first day we got there we went to Pot Ash and looked at all the Pictogliphs and played in all the "hobo houses" (at least that's what the kids called them) then went up and searched for fossils. It was a lot of fun.

The next day was spent at Arches. It was a lot of fun again. The kids had a blast climbing all over EVERYTHING and hiking out with us to the Arches and then again climbing all over EVERYTHING.

Then the following day we went to Canyonlands. Jeffrey got sick the night before and couldn't make it with us :( we were sad but tried to have fun still. He was so nice he didn't want to ruin the Peterson's vacation. I told him I felt like I should stay with them but didn't think it would be good to send the kids with the Petersons or keep them here. So. . . I hesitantly went without him. We had a fun time and when we got back in the afternoon he was feeling much better.

We had a blast ! ! We were very happy we were able to go.

Lasik Eye Surgery

Jeffrey got Lasik done on Monday July 13. He couldn't believe how easy it was. He said that he wished he had've done it a long time ago. And to anyone wondering if they should get it done, he would say, "Go do it!!! Go do it!! GO DO IT NOW!!!" He has been so cute. He is constantly saying - I can see better than I've every seen before. He can see the detail of someone's face when they are far away - often even better than I can. He keeps saying, It's so weird to think that I can see this good without any contacts in. Almost every night without fail, he looks for his contact case or thinks to himself, okay I've gotta get these contacts out and go to bed. LOL I don't have any contacts in.

It's truely amazing the things that can be done today. I am amazed at the things people think up. I believe that they are inspired by a loving Heavenly Father and am truely grateful for Jeff's new exciting blessing of sight.

For anyone curious of the process - come on over - he has a CD of the procedure. WOW it is amazing. I would advise you to watch it when you are feeling your best. I didn't eat much that morning and almost did a "rubber larry" in the waiting room. Poor Jeffrey I wasn't very supportive for about 15 minutes - almost missed the whole thing. I couldn't watch it.