Kylee made the team!

Kylee tried out for the Orion Jr high Basketball team last week...and MADE IT! I am so proud of her! She is only in 7th grade so it is pretty hard for a 7th grader to make the teams! This will be an amazing experience for her and hopefully she will learn a lot!

These pics are not from the Jr High team, but from her comp team she is a part of right now!

Valentine's Day!

Since today is Valentine's Day, I figured I would post the few decorations I put up and the cookies me and the girls made a few weeks ago! :) Here are our lovely cookies in the process...And my lovely girls decorating them!My attempt at making some decorations for this holiday was the little tissue paper bouquets!Here they are a little closer! I think they turned out pretty good!

Simple as that! It has been a busy month between Bowe's wrestling, Kylee's basketball and Kaitlyn's dance! At least we did a little something for the Holiday! :)

Kylee's Glam Bedroom

My dear little Kylee is now 13!! I cannot believe it! She is officially a teenager! Happy Birthday Kylee! Now make a wish...

What did you wish for? Kylee's wish this year was for her room to be changed from the blue stripe and polka dot room into a real teenage GLAM room! So here are a few befores....I did love the blue and brown stripes - plus they took me like a whole freaking day to paint! :)

Her little partial wall with the circles and mirrors where her vanity sat and she could get ready!

We decided to keep the daybed - but we did not want to keep the cream color of it! But here is the before of the pieces of the bed (I get so excited to start that I always forget complete before pics!) You can also see in this picture, the lovely blue carpet that goes out into the hallway...not very glamorous!

And to complete the blue theme, here is the lovely, came with the house, blue blinds! So 1980's huh!!

Here is some of the shelves and such that I took out of her bedroom. Some of the shelves I had painted brown to match her room before - so those will need to change...the light pink lamp will not fit the new style, that cream colored basket is a little shabby and the bronze colored snail will just not do as is!

Here are a few more befores...her letters that were hanging on cute little ribbons in her room - brown and pink of course -and an old oak colored picture frame!

OK, enough of the befores...let's get to the AFTERS!! Here are her new hot pink glamorous walls with her lovely silver daybed and new bedding!

She loves these french memo boards - the rectangular one was a light pink little girly print - so that had to be changed - and one of her grandma's found the new round one!

You can see her new carpet in this picture...SO MUCH BETTER!! No more blue!! And her circle wall is changed to a teenage girl's getting ready station. I put up the little holders below the long mirror that hold her brush, make-up, deodorant, etc.

Yeah, this pic is sideways, sorry....but here you can see the little hand painted scrolls that I did and I added some jewels to make it sparkle!

Here is what I did with that old frame and her letters. I spray painted the letters silver, the frame black and attached a cute little ribbon. Below it is a silver metal push pin board, which I turned into her jewelry holder, just adding the same ribbon.

I also added a little jewel to the screw that hung them up on the wall - who wants to see the screw sticking out? That is NOT glamorous!

I spray painted her little brown shelves to black and her bronze snail to silver. You can see the blue blinds are gone...I do have some white drapes to hang up, they just have not made it up quite yet...

We made a cute little work/craft corner for her on this wall. A black corner desk with a black shelving unit beside it give her a lot of storage on this wall and we organized her craft stuff with this cute striped boxes from IKEA. It is perfect - now all of her scrapbook stuff is in one box, all her jewelry making stuff in another, etc, etc.!

Her cute little light pink lamp - now a fierce silver with embellishments sits perfectly in the corner! And the new large magnet board (which still needs to be hung up by my hubby) is perfect for holding her pens, pencils, scissors, and those little round magnetic cups are ideal for her small embellishments like flowers and sequins for her scrapbooking!

We also changed out her clothes closet - that used to only have one bar across - into a double rod closet! So much more room! She has a whole other closet across from this one for her games and other shelf belonging stuff!

And of course NO glam room is finished until the chandelier is hung! I love this chandelier from IKEA!

I hope you enjoyed it! I know Kylee does!!

4th of July Weekend!

OK, so this post actual begins last week - the week before the 4th of July weekend! :) Because I thought posting parade pics from both at the same time would be better! :)

My son was in the Pleasant View parade last weekend for the Weber Warriors football team! Here is Jason, just waiting for the parade to start!
And finally it began and Bowe came with the football team! I cannot believe he is going to be in High School! Yikes!

They through out footballs...Bowe took it upon himself to autograph a few with his number (well...hopefully his number since they have not been assigned numbers yet!) Silly kid!

I posted before on another post that we gave our kids the option to have presents for their birthdays or to get a room makeover...and they all chose makeovers! So I had a LOT of work to do this past week getting the room made over in time for his birthday party! Sunday night, he picked out his colors that he wanted and I gave him several options in bedding to choose from that night as well. So between Monday and Friday, we cleared out the room, took off the wallpaper border, washed the walls, painted the walls, got new carpet, painted a geometric design on the walls, touched up the ceiling and baseboards, painted the closet doors, painted the wall shelves, put together 2 new black bookshelving units and put the room back together...whew! A lot of hard work and a sore back later, we were done - for the most part at least! We have not gotten the the yellow wall shelves up yet and in the pictures we had not gotten a lot of stuff back into the room yet. There are a few little things to to...but you can see the overall jist of it! TONS better!

Here is a small pic of before...we had almost everything out of the room before brilliant me thought about before pics. Nice sports theme, but not fitting of a 15 year old high school man to be! :) (of course the Kobe Bryant thing WILL return somewhere in the room later...hopefully like behind the door!)

I LOVE LOVE LOVE Kilz paint! It will cover anything! No primer here...just one coat of gray paint and there were only a few little places here and there that I could see the red or blue through! one quick second coat and I was done!!

The lighting is terrible in this pic, sorry, but it was late. It does, however, show you a good view of the BEFORE carpet! Nice orange baby-poop-esk color!

And here is the AFTER! Much better! So much more sophisticated! I did paint some square shelves yellow that are going to be a part of the black geometric pattern that I painted on the wall...but not up yet!

You can see the same yellow color on the closet door knobs! And look how much better the new carpet is!

We did not even realize that the carpet was almost EXACTLY like the carpet we had put in the hallway, stairs and living room...see off to the left! You can hardly tell a difference! Perfect!!

Friday night we had my family, Jason's family and Bowe's friends over for a BBQ. Bowe wanted a baseball cake. So I decided to make a bat, a mitt and some baseballs! I really liked how they turned out! And everyone loved them! of course the boys did not eat any until later...since they ate SO much at the BBQ!! One of Bowe's friends alone ate 5 hotdogs, 2 hamburgers, a bunch of watermelon, chips, and pasta salad...along with some pop and water! Jeez, I am glad I only have ONE of these growing boys living under my roof all the time! Yikes!I made the baseball mitt cake a chocolate cake with Oreo cream filling, the baseball bat and baseball cupcakes are vanilla cake with vanilla cream filling for the cupcakes.

They boys were having arm wrestling contests...so naturally Jason had to join in!

(Spoiler alert...Jason won!)

I think they all had fun...plenty of food, arm wrestling, jumping on the trampoline, basketball, football in the street, frisbee, doorbell ditching some of the boys around the neighborhood and toilet-papering Bowe's girlfriend's house. Yep...pretty sure they had fun!

My little nephew Maguire even had fun!

Kaitlyn stopping to pose for the camera!

Tavin playing with the mannequin arm! Fun was had by all! :)

The next day, North Ogden had their Cherry Days festivities! Jason got up at 6:30 and ran in the 5K. It was his first 5K and he did pretty good for only starting to train about a week before! He did it with 3 of his friends and even though Jason was the last of them all, they only ranged from 24 minutes to 30 minutes...so he kept up pretty good! I was so proud of him...although I was way to tired from the day before to get up and get ready just to take some pictures....I will have to get the one he took off of his phone!

Kaitlyn rode her bike in the children's parade just before the actual parade began.

I tried to get a picture of her and I...hmm...why the crap will she cheese it up for all other pictures, but to take a picture with me, she sits there like she is bored out of her mind??? The parade finally started and Kaitlyn and Dacee were just waiting for some candy!

Bowe and the football team again!

Kylee danced with her dance team in the parade this year and she had so much fun! She even got to wear her favorite colors...black and hot pink!

I cannto believe how grown up she is looking! Boys check her out all the time and I just want to tell them..."avert your eyes...she is ONLY 12!!"

That night, Jason had to go watch the UFC fights, Kylee went to the fireworks with her friends and Bowe went with his friends, so Kaitlyn and I went up to my grandma's house to watch fireworks from her backyard. My sister, mom, Alexis and Emy were there too! Alexis was alseep the whole time, but Emy liked the fireworks...when she wasn't being grumpy and tired! :)

Obviously this new peace sign with the tongue sticking out is Kaitlyn's new signature!

The next day (Sunday) we decided to head up to lava Hot Springs. Some of our friends were up their camping and told us to come up for fireworks and some tubing down the river. So we packed and headed up! Kaitlyn sitting in the middle rubbing both Kylee's and Bowe's backs (she did the same on the way home too...man I wish I was sitting back there!)

What??? No tongue sticking out?? :) Jason, Kylee and Bowe went up to the top where it was a little more rough and tubed down. Kaitlyn and I got in when it was a little more calm!

Here is Jason!

Bowe going down one of the spills...I thought for sure he was going to tip off, but he saved it! And here is Kylee - she looked a little off center too...but she also saved herself!

Jason was having so much fun! You cannot see too good in this picture but he is yelling "WHOOOO!"

Shortly before this picture, Jason turfed it out of his tube...and Bowe is cracking up about it!

Hi Kylee!

Kylee lighting some parachute fireworks for the kids to run and catch!

And as everyone is looking up...Kaitlyn is off!

Jason relaxing from his hard day on the river! He got beat up!

Jason showing me his ouchees! His left knee instantly swelled up and turned blue!

And here is Bowe's ouchees. I did not get a picture of Kylee's, but her knees were the most bloody! Poor things! That is why I got in at the calm part!

The kids playing tetherball

The kids doing some sparklers

and watching some fireworks! It was a fun night! And when we came home, we picked Dixie up from Jason's mom's house...she was so excited to see us!

It was a long, hectic, run-around weekend...but we had SO much fun! I absolutely love my family and I enjoy being able to spend such good quality time with them!! Love you guys!