Emery's Restaurant

One of Emery's favorite thing to do is play restaurant. She wanted to on Saturday but we didn't have time to, so we made a plan and did it Sunday for dinner. Emery chose the whole menu, with a little help and made the menus as well. She called is spageti o's (spaghetti is spelled that way so it fits)

Jacks' had his own kids menu with game to play while he waits for his food. 

 She was a big help in making the food as well. 

The kids loved it, especially Emersyn. It left a messy kitchen but it was worth it. I'm not sure if the milk chocolate was bad or what happened but those ones we not good. At least we did a few white chocolate strawberries that made a good dessert.  It was a LOT of work to get everything out and ready. Maybe next time we'll do an easier menu.

Week of Projects

One thing I love to do is to re-do the decor. I like moving furniture around, painting and doing "Pinterest" protects. We haven't ever really liked the first blue we did in our house and have slowly been changing it. Since we both had a few days off for spring break we decided to tackle a few projects and I jumped on painting. The pictures are hard to see but the before blue is lighter and more like blue jeans. 

 After is still blue, but a darker one that allows our bed frame to pop. Now my next project in here is to make a quilt. 

After I finished our room Brad liked the color and said we should paint the kitchen... again... 3rd time... I did it with the stipulation that I get to paint over the mountain thing on the stairs. (I've never really liked it)

 Once we re-do the cabinets the blue will look really good. ( and the stairs look a lot better.) Eventually we will also paint the planter shelf to tie it all in. 

We moved all the kids downstairs and Cam is in Jacks' old room. Since Cam isn't into Mario we told him we'd paint this room. We let him pick the color...

 Apparently he likes glowing colors. The last color he picked was a bright green. I like this blue better and it makes the room bright. ( and apparently blue is the families favorite color.)

When we moved the big bed into Emery's room she no longer needed the end table, which gave me another project! It now matched the bench at the end of our bed. 

 I had towles in our bathroom on this shelf as decoration and didn't like it, so a cheap small project is just what we needed in here. 

 We were both sick of balls all over the garage so we made a holder for the balls. The kids have been doing a good job at keeping them in here and it is so much nicer in the garage. We started to make a bike rack and after the plans we had not working out, and the drill breaking we gave up on that idea, maybe we'll just purchase one. 

One side of the deck has a step, but the other didn't. It was a simple project but really finished it up. Maybe next summer we will re-stain it, but for now this works. 

 Jacks tried to get Luna to be the first to try it out. Luna didn't go along with that plan. 

This is an old project that I never put up and Brad let me know all the time that I didn't, so here it is. When we moved the kids room I was tired of the way the dresser was (I forgot a before picture). It was an easy fix and looks a lot better. 

 Brad cut out Star Wars pictures and made a collage on the top. Beck really likes it. A fun thing we are learning with the rooms how they are now is Beck is the messy twin. We always thought it was Camden because his area was kind of messy and Beck let us believe that. Turns out Camden just didn't have space to put his things but he is a lot better at keeping his room neat and clean. 

I'm ready for some more projects, time to look on Pinterest for ideas. 

Spring Break

It is Spring Break and the kids are so happy. With all of the snow days  it doesn't seem like they have been in school long enough for it to be a break. 

We went and saw "Beauty and the Beast" which we all loved. 

Fun times happened when Emery got sick in the middle of it and started the stomach flu for Emery. She went to bed fine and a few hours later Beck got sick all down the hall and all around the toilet before he took a bath. (How does a kid miss so BAD) The next day wasn't much more fun but then we got to go swimming with Grandma Arrington. She helped Cam and Beck figure swimming out a little bit. We just need to get a pass and go more often.

After swimming they had a sleepover at Grandma and Grandpa Arrington. They had dinner, ate snacks, played games and watched movies. I love how excited they get for time with all of their grandparents.

In the morning she put them to work deep cleaning her kitchen. All of the kids are working hard to save money for Disneyland, so this was a fun thing for them to do. 

Beck got told the same thing my mom told me ( and I tell him all the time too) to open the rag up all the way to clean better. Having it in a ball doesn't work. He was surprised my mom told him the same thing I do, I guess now he knows where I heard it from.

Emery and I finished spring break off watching Women's Conference with Grandma Barnes and all the Barnes girls in Twin. I remember watching them when I was younger with my mom, so it's fun to start that tradition with Emersyn. 

It was a good spring break and now they are back in school for the last few weeks of school. This year has gone by so fast!

Service Brings Out the Best

One thing about this ward that is good is our home teacher, he actually comes. This is probably the first time in our married life this had happened. This past month he challenged us to do more service and to recognize it in the little things we do. So we took that challenge. The kids did a great job, they helped at school, at home and in the public. It was a really good few weeks. This is out chain link of service. 

 One thing Camden did was help Emery learn to ride a bike. I'm not sure what he did, but he was out there for 2 days helping her and cheering her on. If you know Cam this is a big deal. One day she just took off and rode. With help from Cam and determination she did it. She was so happy and so are we! The first thing she said is now she can go to CSI with Grandma Arrington go ride bikes again. Now we just need to get Jacks a bike and we are all off. 

The Falls

We went to the falls last week and they are going full. It was finally a beautiful day so we took full advantage of it. We all have a little cabin fever and loved being outside. 

Lorax

In school they celebrate Dr. Seuss week around his birthday. One of the days it was dress as your favorite character and Jacks wanted to be the Lorax. We couldn't find any face paint around, and really we just hoped by the time the day came he may forget, but no such luck. We found some washable and markers and Brad drew the eye brows on and tired to call that good. Jackson however wanted to be orange, so this is what the end product was. He was happy with it so that's what mattered. Thankfully it came off  easy also. 

School Dance

 Last week the kids had a school dance performance. They have been practicing in PE for a few weeks and then performed them. It was cute to see all the kids dance, although after the first minute or so, the same move got old. They had fun and did a good job.

Emery is in the back. She has on a blue-ish green-ish long sleeved shirt. 

The boys had a partner on the first dance, which is funny to watch them not sure if they want to touch them or not. Isn't 5th grade fun? 

New Toy

This year we are planning on taking a big trip with the kids and have been saving for it. Just as we started to save for it our microwave stopped working. You don't realize how much you use one until you can't. We did borrow one for a while until ours came. Thank you appliances for not helping us save. 

Birthday Fun

The beginning of the month is Grandpa Arrinton's birthday and we went over for dinner and games to celebrate. We played Speak Out and it was a lot of fun. There is a small amount of gross to the game, mouths are nasty open that wide, but it's a hilarious hearing people try and talk this way. All the kids loved it.