Day lilies and family update

If you know me well, you know that yard work is not my passion. I appreciate a beautiful yard, but I don't like making it beautiful. With James working again, a little bit of the yard responsibility will fall to me (ick). That being said, we are making some changes that will make it easier to keep up.

My yard is over run with day lilies that I have to get rid of. If anyone would like some beautiful, mature plants, please let me know! We have big ones, small ones, orange, yellow, and red ones just to name a few varieties. The man we bought the house from was a day lily fiend and has many different varieties in the yard. If no one takes them I'm throwing them away. I think we have about 500+ plants that need to find a new home (that's not counting the 1,000 or so that we are keeping), so if you have friends that want them, please let me know.

These are some pictures I took of them last year because they really are beautiful flowers. I am sad to see them go but my sanity must prevail.



James started his new job last week and he loves it! We are lucky that he was able to find such a great job in his field. The commute to Pleasant Grove is kind of long for him but he goes against traffic most of the time and said its not too bad.

Since he's working now, my home projects are on the back burner but I'm excited to resume them in the next few weeks. We are moving Bridget from the room she is in to the larger room upstairs. This will be good as she gets a little older and if we add any other siblings to our family (No, I'm not announcing anything.) This room, like the rest of the rooms in this house has horrible wall paper on the walls which wont come off!!! So desperate measures and a lot of sheet rock mud will be required to make it look good. what a pain.

Easter dress fun

It was such a beautiful day that I couldn't resist trying to take some pictures of Bridget again! This is the Easter dress I bought for her and since it was so nice today, we let her wear it!



My sister is going to hate this picture but I just wanted to see what it would look like if manipulated in Photoshop and I kind of like it.

Easter fun

We had a great time this past weekend with Bridget for Easter. She's a little young to really understand what Easter means so we just had fun with her. We took her to the Fisher's cabin in Midway on Saturday to hunt for eggs and she had a great time with Mark and Makensie.



On Sunday, she woke up and found the Easter Bunny had scattered about 30 eggs (what was he thinking huh?) around the living room for her to find. Her basket had a movie (Bolt) and some other candy in and let me tell you, she was in sugar coated heaven! She had fun picking up the eggs and putting them in the basket.



We got her dressed in the dress Trenna had bought for her (the one I bought for her was a little too spring for this weather and the shoes for it were the wrong size!) and she looked so cute! I took some brilliant pictures of her in the front yard with the flowers and of course my camera malfunctioned and they didn't come over when I downloaded them. I was sad but I'm going to try again this weekend.

More photo's

While at my mom's house for conference, I forced my sweet sister into helping me more with my photography, especially since for my new job with the Sandy Journal we have to take our own photos to accompany our stories. Yikes!

Any who, Tonya helped me out a ton, like she usually does, and Trenna and I managed to take some good pic's. We wandered around her yard on the one nice day of the whole weekend. It was fun doing this with my mom and sister, and I'm going to miss Tonya even more, especially since I'm just starting to get good at this picture thing!

James got a job!!!!

Today was the best day ever! James got a letter in the mail from a company he interviewed with a few weeks ago. We've been waiting patiently (or not some days) for them to make a decision and when it took longer than they initially said, my pessimistic negative side said to prepare for the worst. You can't blame me though, I'd applied for hundreds of jobs I was qualified for to be told I should be honored to be considered the cream of the crop as far as applications then to be brutally rebuffed.

Any way, I had put it out of my mind until James came upstairs while I had Bridget in the bath (a late afternoon bath, she's still getting over a cold). He handed me the envelope but I couldn't open it, I was far to nervous! He read it and I couldn't judge from his face. I told him I would start crying if he didn't get it and then I ended up crying after all!

This was the answer to so many prayers and I want to thank all of my friends and family who supported us financially, emotionally and spiritually.

James is now employed with Horrocks Engineers and starts on April 20. We are super excited and I can't stop grinning (my face hurts, it's been a while since I was like this!)

My flowers

We were blessed to move into a house that already had beautiful flower beds (too many of them, but they are still beautiful!) I love spring flowers because they are not only beautiful, but strong and resilient. After the spring we've had, I'm surprised they are still so lovely.


Because it's a cloudy day and the light is perfect, Bridget and I decided to head out side to take some pictures of our garden!

Fun in the tub!

As is our usual family tradition, we all gathered at Trenna's house to celebrate (is that the right word?) spring General Conference. Ven, Lynn, Sheri, Scott, Aidan and Eli all came with. Erin and Jason had other plans and they couldn't come, which sucked and we missed them tons!


Saturday night while the boys were at Priesthood, Sheri put her boys in the tub so of course, Paige and Bridget absolutely had to get in with them. Let me tell you, that was an experience, a very wet experience!

Here are the goofy babies all in the tub! Bridget, Paige, Aidan and Eli hamming it up!