Missing my "New Mexican" family :(

My family from New Mexico and my little Bro who lives in Idaho came up for a weekend. I loved every second of their visit!

My cousins who are half Mexican are in a group called ROC which stands for Remembering Our Culture. It is an amazing program that I hope someday my kids can be a part of to remember their Costa Rican culture. They had a fireside and sang beautifully some very inspiring songs in their various languages. It was so amazing.


Then the next 2 days they had a concert where they danced various cultural dances from Africa, the Phillippines, Mexico, Hawaii, Samoa and China. As well as some Native American Dances. This is the third year we've gotten to watch them. This time we were there to watch my cousins Amanda and Justin dance as well as Branda sing. The kids loved it. They love my cousins! They are pretty great!

Here is Manda and Justin dancing a Bolivian (I think?) folk dance. I loved that they were partnered togtether.

Here's Justin doing the slap dance from the island of Samoa!

After the concert we all wanted to mingle but the kids were exhausted so Greg took the mokeys home and let me ave a nice night out with my family. Where's the best place to mingle really late and you're starving? IHOP!!!

I love these women!

Aunt Molli and My sis Tina! (Tina is really impressed by the menu :) haha!)

Poor Jojo! He was so tired! I decided to try to keep him awake here! Sorry bud, I didn't mean to stick it so far up your nose!

So, pretty much I'm missing my "mexican" family right now! I love you guys!

So lately Greg and I have had our very separate projects that are our "baby." First, let's talk about mine! The GARDEN! I decided to move 3 trees and tear out a section of our yard for our garden. It's been alot of work. I've spent all week shoveling squares of sod out. It really wasn't very fun, I have the blisters to prove it! At least I got half of it done!

Then today, thank heavens my neighbor who was helping Greg with his project saw me struggling and offered to let us borrow his tiller. (angel sounds here)

So, Greg tilled the rest and then the YM YW of our ward needed to do some service so they came and cleared out all the sod for us and then unloaded some fill dirt from the back of our truck!



It feels so good to finally be done with the hard stuff and look forward to the fun stuff! Thank you little helpers!

Greg's project:

His basketball hoop! He's been working on it for over a week. My brother Joe helped before he had to go back to Idaho.


And Ethan sure tried to help! But there's only so much a 5 year old can do!

Thank you strong neighbor friends!

Greg is now in his own little heaven!

Not too shabby for half a Saturday's day of work!

I LOVE WEDDINGS

Jen got married last week. Yes, the one who had a stroke! She made it and was a stunningly beautiful bride! Greg and I were so happy to watch her and Jake be sealed in the Salt Lake Temple together. It reminded us of our special day 10 years ago this summer. Thanks for letting us share that with you Jen.







We all had a favorite thing about the wedding. We all agree we loved spending time with Miss Natalie who is so sweet! Ethan loves her! Ty kept saying, "My baby!"


Ashton loved being a flower girl! Can she smile any bigger?



















Ethan loved the food! (we all did)

And Tyson couldn't stop downing the punch! I'm not kidding, he seriously had at least 4 glasses! Iwill admit, It was good punch!

Meet Rebecca Keuster

This beautiful 4 year old girl with her Daddy is Rebecca Keuster! I'm so excited to announce that I am on the design team for her "princess room." I am so extremely excited I can't even tell you!
Oh shoot! Did I not tell you about the makeover yet? That's because I've been swamped managing the heart 2 home blog and facebook pages. So, If you're curious, go to my other blog for those pics k!
Anyways, Tina and I went over today to check out our room. Can you believe there's already a room? I know, it's crazy! They are working at lightening pace! So, I had an artist volunteer to paint a mural in her room. So excited! Yay! Ok, I need to go make some more phone calls and beg for favors. Wish me luck!

SPRING BREAK

For spring break we went with some friends to Sand Hollow in St. George. It was a blast! We took the trailer for its first camping trip of 2010! We had so much fun we want to go back as soon as school gets out. Here are some pics:

The kids loved climbing on the rocks!

Kyson on the other hand liked EATING the rocks! Poor little guy! I just want to give him a glass of water to wash that dirt down!

We took the raft out in the lake

Plum tuckered out!

Ty insisted on trying this warhead candy. Here's his reaction to it.

The boys loved the bike ride!

Ethan learned how to skip rocks! As you can tell He is pretty pumped about it!

We played on the beach!

This is what you get when you throw rocks at Greg...you end up in the lake. Poor Brooke!

And we hunted lizards. Lots of them.

We had so much fun at Sand Hollow and can't WAIT to go back!

EaStEr FuN!

CoLoRiNg EgGs!

Jake & Chloe came over and joined the fun!

Ashy and Chloe made Hannah Montana eggs!

Jake and Ethan made transformer eggs!

Ty had no use for spoons, he just grabbed the eggs with his bare hands.

This is Ty after I told them the eggs were all gone. Oh dear!

ThE bAsKeTs FrOm ThE eAsTeR bUnNy!

Easter was kind of interesting this year with conference and the snow. Thank heavens for tivo we were able to start conference a little behind! As for the snow... BOO!! We had to do our egg hunt downstairs in our unfinished basement where the chaos lies. Oh well. It was harder to find the eggs in the mess so we still had fun!

ThE eGg hUnT!

ThE HaIr!

Ashy only lets me have fun with her hair on rare occassions now. Yipee! I thought it turned out cute, even if I do say so myself!

Dinner at Grandma Penny's & Easter Egg hunt.

Congratulations Jesse!

My baby brother Jesse graduated from boot camp yesterday. Way to go bud!

He'll be shipping out in the morning to Fort Sill, OK for AIT. I'm scared for him for what may be ahead but am so proud of him for all his hard work. Love you bud!