Messy, Messy, Messy!!!!!

Want some? It's good!

My third set

Just trying to catch up and just thought I would share all my stuff with you guys. So Fun!

Here is my second set........

..........I feels so addicted now. I love digital scrapbooking!

My very 1st Digital Scrapbook Pages

I finally did it! I made my 1st digital scrapbook pages. They were super easy and fun. They are pretty simple but I think they turned out pretty good for a first time. I am sure the more I do it the better I will get and the more the pages will look better. I have been doing my original scrapbooking this last little while but I have decided that I am WAAAYYYYY too behind and I need something a little quicker to help me out. I will continue to do the "Old Fashioned" scrapbooking as well as this new super simple, quick, and fun way. It feels so good to get out of this Scrapbooking rut and get caught up. It's a big weight lifted off of my shoulders! With Taylor in the middle of finals I figured I needed to find something to keep me occupied!

The BEAUTIFUL colors of Spring

Spring is filled with magnificent colors and smells and I had to go out in my backyard and capture springs many beauties. Tulips, dandelions, and leaves, are just a few of the blossoms in our backyard. I LOVE IT!

Tayson is ALL BOY! He LOVES to be in the yard and eating dirt. He will stand by our screen door until we let him outside, if he hears the door open he comes a stomping down the hall to get outside. He will play in the dirt, eat rocks, chase the kids, and throw the balls. He is developing so much this last little while and I cannot believe the difference between boys and girls and the age that the differences come out. He is almost 11 months old and he LOVES anything that is related to boys (especially balls).

He looked at this flower for about 2 seconds and then of course attempted to eat it. Yuck!

Kamryn loves to go outside and swing on our swingset and play with her best friend Teagan (we share a backyard with Teagan). She too is growing and developing into such a beautiful little girl. She can now jump onto the swing and pump her legs till she can get "HIGHER" on the swings. Her and Teagan love to go around the yard and pick the dandelions and make beautiful bouquets.

Kamryn and Brynlee's best bud Teagan (or Teag as they like to say).



Kamryn, Brynlee, Teagan, and Pierson get along so well it amazes me. They are all best buds and love to play together. Teagan and Pierson are going away for the summer to Utah and by the time they come back home we will have moved back to Utah for good. They are gonna miss these kids so much and it breaks my heart to take this all away from them.


Little miss Brynlee is such a firecracker. She is so energetic and always on the move that it makes it hard to snap any photos of her. She is so smart and makes me laugh everyday at the new things she says and learns. She is changing everyday and I love her more and more each day! I am the LUCKIEST mom in the world to have these kids.

Sorry for the overload on pictures, it was such a BEAUTIFUL day and I had to soak it all up!

New bike, bath tub and t.v.

Kamryn has been wanting a bike for awhile now and so Taylor and I took the kids to get a bike last weekend. We let them attempt to ride a bike in the store but neither one of them could figure out how to pedal. It drove Taylor and I nuts so we decided not to get a bike. But I went to Target and saw a tricycle and decided to let the girls go for a spin and they did awesome and LOVED it. So I of course gave in and bought the tricycle. This will be a good starter bike and I think I will get Kamryn a real bike in August for her birthday.

Hold on while I brag about my little man. He is so beautiful and has the longest eyelashes that all of us women would DIE for. He is so sweet and mellow and just a joy to Taylor and I. I know every mom thinks their kids are beautiful, but I think Tayson is absolutely beautiful!

I turn cartoons on for the kids while I get ready in the morning and Tayson has to be right up to the t.v. so he can attempt to grab whatever it is he likes on the cartoon. Funny!

When boredom takes over....

Taylor is in the midst of finals and super busy and the kids and I are sooooooooo bored. It gets kinda lonely without him and so we have to find things to do and with the swine flu going around I don't wanna take the kids out. We have had 13 outbreaks in the state of Washington, 1 in Spokane, and 1 in Couer D' Alene. It is spreading so fast and I am not taking the chance of getting us all sick. So because boredom has hit I decided to whip out my camera and play. I still don't know how to use it very well and I have 4 photo editing programs and don't know how to use those either. You would think with all this time on my hands I could get it figured out........NOPE! I could use a few tips from you amazing photographers out there. Here is a picture of the girls that we took, pretty cute picture but I don't know about the pink edge. Oh well, good practice.

Smash Hit!!!!!!

I thought I would share this simple and easy recipe since my kids LOVED it and ate every last bite and that never happens.

Taco Tortilla Pizza
Ingredients:

Tortilla's (Any brand, pick a favorite. You could even use pizza dough if you would like, tortilla's were really easy though.)

Refried Beans

Cilantro

1 can diced tomato

1 lb. ground beef

salt, pepper, garlic powder

sour cream

taco seasoning

cheddar cheese

Directions: Grab 1 can diced tomato, handful of cilantro (chopped), shake or two of salt and pepper and garlic powder. Mix together and smash the tomato's just a little with potato masher to thicken up and give it a salsa look. Brown 1 lb. ground beef in skillet with onion, salt and pepper, and favorite taco seasoning mix. Next spread refried beans on tortilla, then spread sour cream over refried beans, pour tomato salsa over sour cream, sprinkle ground beef over salsa, and lastly top with favorite cheddar cheese. Bake in oven at 400 degrees for 10 minutes or until crispy and golden. Yummy!

Super simple and super delicious! You don't have to make your own salsa you could just use a store brand but it tastes much better with a homemade one. It gives it a fresh taste. You could also top the pizza with red pepper, green pepper and green onion if you would like, I just didn't have any on hand. Happy Cooking! :)

What has Brynlee been up to?......

.........well Brynlee obviously has been a little bored because of our terrible weather lately and so she has found a few things to keep her busy. The other night I bathed the kids and Brynlee was the first to get out and before I could even finish bathing Tayson and Kamryn, Brynlee came running into the bathroom saying "Look mom I have brother's jammie's". I died laughing! My poor little baby girl has no hair and if we don't curl or put her hair in pig tails she looks like a little boy, and Tayson's jammies did not help that problem at all. I saw her and thought "Oh my gosh, where is my cute little baby girl"? She TOTALLY looks like a BOY! But a cute one I must say!

She also has figured out how to put on her own diaper. This happened the same night she put on Tayson's jammie's. I was brushing Kamryn's teeth and came out of the bathroom to find Brynlee putting on her own diaper. It was HILLARIOUS watching her do it. She is too smart!

The end result, little uneven but pretty darn good. I always get a good laugh out of this kid.

Brynlee is our little jabber mouth and her new favorite treat is the colored marshmallow's or "Marshpillow's" as she likes to call them. Too cute!

Ready or not here I come......

Tayson has become so mobile lately and because of his mobility and ability to wander around the house he has discovered the stairs. Oh boy, watch out cause here comes Tayson!

Spring Fever

We have got Spring Fever here in our household! We are loving the weather that we have had the last little while. Spring can be such a tease, warm one day and FREEZING the next. We took advantage of the warmer weather today and went outside to play in the backyard. It is so refreshing to be able to go outside and breathe the crisp cool fresh air. Hearing my kids sweet little giggles are music to my ears. Farewell to winter and hello to spring!

Easter (OVERLOAD)

We started Easter off the night before by coloring some hard boiled eggs. The girls LOVED it! I know the girls look homeless but it was the end of the day and we had to undress them so they didn't stain their clothes.

On Easter sunday the day started out a little crazy! Our church starts at 9:00 a.m. and I had to give the talk in sacrament meeting (ya I know, it's Easter what the heck?). We have a hard enough time making it to church by 9:00 a.m. but now I had to be there at least 15 minutes early in order to get a seat. So, our Easter activities had to wait until after church. After church we had our neighbors take a family picture of us in our Easter clothes at the Spokane Temple. We are so lucky to have the Temple in the same parking lot as our church, it's AWESOME! I love seeing the Temple every week. Here is one of our fam pictures and the other is of course at the top of my blog. I had to pick between the picture of Brynlee sticking her tongue out and Tayson smiling, or Brynlee with a frowny face and Tayson smiling and looking away. The joys of family pictures. Here is the other picture I decided not to use.

I don't want pictures mom!

After church and lunch we FINALLY let the kids have their Easter baskets. Kamryn was dying to get her Easter basket. Their Easter baskets were full of goodies, toys, swim floaties, shoes, books, kites, and presents from Gma North, etc..... gotta love the dollar store!

Cutest Easter bunny ever!


Later on that night we had all our friends over for a BIG Easter dinner and Easter Egg Hunt for the kids. It was so much fun!

Left: Polly, Mauressa, Misty, Ashley, Erin and Me (being attacked by Tayson).

All the fella's.

Left: Tyson, Taylor, Levi, Nick, Aaron, Bryce, Adam, Nate, Beau, Shay (not pictured).

All the ladies.

Top Left: Misty, Me, Becca, Heather, Paige, Ashley, Polly.

Bottom Left: Erin, Kedra, Mauressa.

Kids (well some of them, there were way to many to get them all to sit down so I got a picture of the few that were sitting).

Left: Kamay, Kamryn, Kate, Abby, Pierson, and Teagan.

Sneaking some food and making a mess of herself.

MMMMmmmmm.............cookies!
Last but not least, the Easter Egg Hunt. I tried to get a picture of all the people but there were so many of them that I couldn't fit them all in the picture. It was crazy and so much fun for the kids. The weather was terrible (of course we wouldn't expect anything less of Spokane really) it was cold and rainy all day (that's why Kamryn's hair is wet in all the pictures).