Mini Mustangs

Keaton finished his first year of preschool.  They had a litlte program where the kids performed some songs and chants they had learned over the year, like this one...they are fish.

He did not graduate from preschool of course, he's only 3 but did receive a one year certificate of completion.

And of course we had refreshments, the zucchini for the bread was from their preschool garden!

Love my big boy!

We're still here...

Things we like to do...

Go for bike rides in front of the house.

Bake Cookies in our Kitchen

(ok this picture is kinda creepy to me)

Add some life to our bathrooms

Take silly pictures of ourselves before church

Spend time together having fun...summer time is almost here!

Easter delayed

At my parents I was spoiled with a computer that had an SD card reader in it, my computer is not so fancy, I will actually have to dig a cord out of a box to upload photos from my camera...that is my excuse for no recent posts.

Easter came and went.  It was conference Sunday we stayed home and relaxed all day.  I don't have BYU channel and didn't want to drag my 3 year old to church so I watched part of the morning session on line but got the whole afternoon session in during Keaton's nap time.

The night before we colored our eggs then Easter morning his dad came over to help him with his egg hunt.  Keaton had a fun time of course.  He did ask why the easter bunny didn't bring him more candy.  I guess the easter bunny must have really stuffed those eggs full last year.  But the kid does have mounds of candy left from Halloween still.  Well only hard stuff the chocolate has all been eaten of course. 

All in all...fun times.

Chuck E. Cheese

Keaton has always wanted to go to Chuck E. Cheese.  Well he got his wish recently when he went for his friend Trenner's birthday.  He had a great time on the rides, hanging out with his school friends and collecting tickets. 

One funny side note...he says it's Chucky Cheeses, and if I say just cheese he tells me no it's cheeses.  Driving in the car that day he told me that Cheeses rhymes with Jesus.  And it does. :)

Random

Keaton's pig mask from Farm Week at school, he has lots of other fun 'costumes' he makes for school but this one is extra funny, thought the eye lashes look a bit girly.

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Last weekend my brother and his wife went out of town for her birthday.  We got to dog-sit Toby and Tinkerbell.  It was lots of fun for us.

My house was pretty nasty when we bought it...so we've been dealing with the lesser evils for a while.  We use Keaton's tub and my bathroom sink.  But I finally got brave and thanks to the "Turbo Snake" which I picked up a Walmart, I cleaned out the drain.  Yes this is from a sink drain in the hall bath.  I got a litte bit from the master bath sink but have not braved the tubs yet.  Keaton's tub drains just fine.  We knew they weren't using that one because there was the same dead roach in it every time we visited for 4 months :)  My shower is filthy dirty it's obviously the one they used and I haven't gotten around to pulling the hair out of it yet...need a few more weeks to get the courage up.

Progress...

No i'm not finished yet and yes it's taken more than a month, but we're getting closer!

This is the before pic.

Today I pulled out that tree that blocks all views to and from my front door.   I added some flowers, hope I can keep them alive :)

Dirty living room carpet and old wall paint before

New Paint and the first half of the wood .  Its down the hallway and finished in half of the living room.  Getting closer.

Keaton's bedroom.  A little bare still but at least it's a start :)

Keaton's bath...again a little sparse but looking good.

Kitchen with the tile completed :)

It's been almost 6 weeks of long nights.   It would have been much easier if we even had a full spare weekend!

Ok things to do...

      finsh flooring in the living room 

      put base boards back on in kitchen, living, hall

      paint the doors and put them back on

      painting touch ups

      buy a bed for myself

Should be done soon.  As soon as the flooring is finished Monday, we're moving in.  The rest can be done with us in there.  I'm so exciting to have a few hours of rest soon.  Thank goodness for spring break!

Busy Busy Busy

There is never down time in our lives it feels.  My brother makes fun of me for "reading blogs" and "facebook-ing" all night long, but I have tried to explain that I don't even get on the computer  until 11 most nights so I'm not usually on that long but it is late.  The good news...at my house tile is all layed in the bathrooms, just needs grout.  Carpet is being layed onWednesday.  Once that's done we can pretty much live there cuz at least we'll have a place to sleep.  Anyway, here are some other fun and random happenings lately.

My son....he's crazy.  One day he "escaped" from bed and I heard him out playing in the other room but just tried to ignore it.  Then suddenly I hear a little 'mama?'  and he'd crawled up behind me like this....

But wait.  This is not the first time he's gotten in this situation.  For some reason he can't unbuckle himself from this car seat or at least chooses not to!

Like I said, he's crazy.

One thing Keaton loves is flags.  He's called them flags for a long time  but recently every time we see one he says "Look its the United States of America"  which often prompts him to start saying the pledge.  (thank you preschool) Along with his patriotism, he enjoys uniforms as I suppose most little boys do.  One uniform he recognizes right away is a scout uniform.  He knows he's not old enough to be a cub scout but talks about it all the time.  This week my mom took him with her to the Blue & Gold Banquet and let him wear a shirt.  He was totally elated!  He has a hard time keeping his fingers together but he can tell you..."On my honor I will do my best!"

Also this week Keaton had his last soccer game.  It's funny, his first game he did really well.  The next few it was like he forgot what to do at all and seemed to prance around the field rather than get the ball.  At practice he's good at running the drills but get out there with all those other crazy kids and it all goes asaide.  However this game he was back on top of the action.  So  maybe it was the pressure and adrenaline of the first and last games who know.  I guess you can't expect much more when you have twelve 3-year olds on the field at a time.

 This This is Keaton at mid field doing the kick off to start the second half.  He's going the right way, the other boy on his team is facing the wrong direction...a common occurance.

The boys were super excited to get their trophies.  Keaton and a friend were showing off their trophies to each other.  They were bragging "I got a trophie" as if the other boy didn't have the exact one in his hand.  Next came "Mine has my name."  and magically they each had their name.  It was actually kind of cute to see how proud they were.

The week ended with my Grandpa's 80th birthday party.  The funny thing about it is that his birthday was actually in the middle of January but since they wanted all of his children to be there they pushed it back a bit.  Which meant it really was a surprise party.  It was a wonderful party hosted by the Neal's.  The barbeque was delicious and everyone brought great sides.

 We had a little quiz about Papa's life which was fun to hear some stories we hadn't heard before. 

 Then is was time for family pictures, which need to be done much more often than it actually happens.

Keaton got to take a picture of Sarah our photographer.  It was a bribe to get him to stand in the picture.

And last but not least my mom and her siblings showing love one to another. Gotta love family! 

Thanks to my Papa and Nana Levi for starting such a great family together.  We are so blessed because of your dedication and faith!

p.s.  This new format drives me crazy...all of my words should be left justified all of my pictures should be centered but I can't seem to fix it right...and where is the spell check!