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So yes the yard sale went better than expected. And yes we will probably do another one in like 5 years when I have accumulated more stuff. We ended up with some spending cash for Oregon and a cleaned out house. So all in all it turned out well. And I am once again content to vacum as I please! :)

Yard Sale!!

So tomorrow is the big yard sale day and I can't wait for it to be over, even if we sell nothing! This is one of those new things we decided to try out. I 'm loving the fact that once it is over, my house is so cleaned out. But right now with everything piled in the living room, (as it has been for the last few weeks) I'm going a little crazy. For those of you who don't know me all that well, I'm kind of OCD about my house. Needless to say my whole family will be glad when their mom can happily vacum her floor again. Kaitlyn seems to be loving the idea because she and her best friend Lydia have decided to do a bake sale tomorrow as well. She is super excited. Her Papa already came and bought a bunch of stuff early. I hope they sell a few things. All in all we will see how it goes but at least my house is thoroughly cleaned out. Stay tuned for the results!!!

St. Patricks Day

So today at the PTO meeting Ethan told me he needed to use the restroom. After we were done and were washing our hands he proceedes to tell a lady in the restroom that because it is Stake conference day he had to wear green or else people will pinch you.

I tried to laugh quietly to myself at his misuse if St. Patricks day. But I thought it was all very cute.

So all of you beware and remember to wear green to our next stake conference. Or my little leprechan will get you. :)

Little Boys!

The other day I went to Wal-Mart to return a dress that I had bought for Kaitlyn. As we walked into the store, the lady who was helping me started teasing the boys by patting them on the head and saying "Okay did you want to return this one or this one." I laughed and said "No they are far too expensive, but we will return this dress."

As we walked away Ethan looked at me and asked "Mom am I a grocery?, because I don't want to stay here and live at Wal-Mart!" I got a good laugh out of that one and assured him that no he is not a grocery and he is coming home with me.

Kids say the cutest things! :)

After

(Sorry these 2 posts got messed Up)

Projects, Projects, Projects!!!

Before

So here a while ago I had this great friend tell me you know you would have so much more room down here in your basement if you just took out this wall. So that very night Thad and I started pulling the wall down. Little did we know what that would start. But after renting a jack hammer, rebuilding a different wall, rewiring the electricity, adding more lighting and with the help of that same great friend a lot of painting. We have the most beautiful comfortable basement imaginable. We love the extra space and the brightness from the new paint job. Thanks Gwen for the great idea and all of the help you are awesom and I love ya. :)

Quick Update!

Family Photo 2010

Hi everybody this is just a quick update to say that yes we are still here and doing well. I loved this family photo for numerous reasons. 1. It was unplanned and everyone looks great. 2. Thad and I took this picture ourselves ( we sure do love having a timer on the camera) 3. The weather was perfect and the leaves beautiful 4. Everyone was smiling and happy.

I'm posting this so you can see how big my kids are growing. I have come to realize lately that our family is growing up right under my nose. Kaitlyn will turn 8 this year and that is kind of a big deal. Thad and I can't believe we have a child old enough to be baptized. We are so grateful for our family and our blessings.

Kaitlyn Comments!

I had to get this on here before I forget. At the beginning of last month Kaitlyn got a really bad ear infection. She never misses school and missed almost a whole week. We had taken her to the doctor and were told to just watch it and that becuase of her age it would soon pass, but to give her tylonel. Well about 4-5 days went by and she just seemed worse. I would ask her something and she couldn't even hear me. So it was back to the Doctor although a different one. Dr. Williams told me it was a major double ear infection and there was so much fluid around her ear drums that she physically was having a hard time hearing. We got her on medication and soon she was feeling much better.
Throughount this process I just had to laugh and laugh becuase she kept telling me "Mom I just need one of those turny up things in your ear so I can hear you." I said " What are you talking abou?" she said "You know like the old man in UP has!" She was talking about a hearing aid. We all had a good laugh over that one.
Boy am I thankful for little kids who can always make you laugh even at a bad situation.

New Dessert

Mom and I decided to try a new dessert she found in her Taste of Homes magazine, called Peanut Butter Brownie Trifle. Doesn't the name just make your mouth water. We are going to share it with all of the guys after the priesthood session tonight.

The layers go as follows. Brownies made with peanut butter chips; along with reeces peanut buttter cups. Topped with a layer of the mix which includes cool whip, vanilla pudding, peanut butter and vanilla.
Keep layering over and over and top with cool whip and recees.

This is what it looks like all finished. It made a ton. This is a punch bowl because it was so huge. Hopefully it tastes great.

Easter Bunny Here We Come!!!

Doesn't he make the cutest Easter Bunny.

So after a long week we finally got around to dying Easter eggs. And just in time considering that tomorow is Easter. Generally we celebrate the Easter bunny on Sat. so we reserve Sun. so our kids will know that Easter is not about the Easter bunny but about the Savior. This year we decided to spend conference with my parents and let them enjoy watching the kids find all the eggs. We also saved dying the eggs with them.

We all had a great time. Who wouldn't with such cute helpers!

Early Gardning

The kids and I are trying our hand at early gardening. This will be our first year to pre-plant our seeds. hoping that we don't have to go and buy the plants later.

We hope that with a little water lots of love and sunshine that here soon we will have some sprouts.

Projecting 2010!!!

The first Project of the year began a little after Christmas. Ever since I found out we were going to be having two little boys I wanted to redo Ethan's room and make it a total little boys bedroom. Thanks go to Brittany for the great idea. We love it.

These pictures were taken at about 10:00 p.m. after we finished painting I will have to get updated photos. Because I have already moved things around. And I forhot to take the photos of the other side of the room.

If you look closely you can see tje gridwork we built on the wall out of MDF. It is awesome and I love how it turned out.

I just found the perfect rug and curtains to match all of this. I'm so excited to get them put up and then of course take more pictures.

Mostly I have to say a huge thank you to Thad my sweet hubby, who whenever I have something I want to do, he jumps right in and does whatever I ask. No matter how many times I may change my mind. Thanks honey I sure do love you!!!!

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Our kids were so surprised when one day there dad came home and loaded them into the pickup and headed for town. They soon questioned him to know just where we were going. Boy were they surprised when he said we were going to get a swing set for the backyard. I wish I had a picture of Kaitlyn's face at that exact moment. All I can say is it was pure joy, shock and excitement.

Here are a few pictures along the way.

I thought I had one from further out but I guess I will have to put that on later! But oh do we now have happy children! Which makes for one happy mama!!

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This year Thad and I decided it was time for a major upgrade to our home. Our windows are so old that you stood next to them and felt the breeze blow upon your skin. So we decided to invest in new windows and hope that they will decrease our heating bill. (At least that is the plan.) Thankfully Thad's brother Nathan used to work in the window business and agreed to help with our rather large project. I'm pleased to say that thanks to these two very hard workers, they installed 11 difficult windows in one day from start to finish. There are no words to describe just how happy I am. (Thanks Nate for all the help!)

Before

Middle

After

All in all so far we have had lots of fun and I'm sure there will be many more projects to come.
I love it and they keep me sane.

Little Twiners

I have always thought it was so cute when people had two children of the same gender close enough together that you could dress them alike. So now that I have that opportunity I love to do it. The problem with this is that I have to spend more money to buy not one but two of the same outfit. All the same they are adorable.

Kaitlyn keeps telling me she wants a sister so that she can do the same thing. Poor girl! :)

Long Time No See!!

So I wanted these pictures at the end of this post, but blogger and I have been fighting so here they are at the first.

This one was taken over Christmas vacation at the hockey game we went too.
So was this one, can you tell he doesn't like loud noises :)

This here is the soon to be missionary. Isn't he awesome.

These three are the best of pals and Calvin is the best and nicest Uncle. Most of the time I look like a bad mom when compared with Calvin.

And isn't he just a cutie!

So I know that it has been a long time for us sinceI have updated anything, but I have a few minutes now and thought I could take advantage of this time. So I will be cramming a lot of info into this post and it probably won't make much sense to anyone but me. Good Luck. There is officially one week left until Calvin goes on his mission. He will be heading off to St. Louis, Missouri and he will be awesome! It is still hard to let family go though. This week we are spending as much time as possible with him. It worked out great that this also happens to be spring break, so Kaitlyn can have sleep overs, motorcycle ride, and hotdog roasts with her favorite person.

These are our new family pictures that were takes over the weekend, almost in the rain. Thanks to Ashley and Shalene for their help. We were just glad to get one before Calvin left.

This was taken in front of the Rexburg Temple after Calvin went through for the first time. It was such a great day.

This last week we decided to get a swing set for our kids. We have debated for a long time and finally decided that it was now or never. I was amazed when Thad took over all of the research and the calling and figuring out schedules to make this whole thing work. Needless to say that a week ago the swing set arrived at our home. Of course at 10:00 p.m. Thad wanted to go out and start setting the whole thing up. I finally convinced him that it wasn't such a great idea, and we started the next evening. My dad and mom even came into town to help us out. Well it took us until Saturday to get it assembled but our kids love it. So do I because it has been keeping them so busy, especially with their spring fever. One of the nights while working on this project Ethan had gotten into Thad's tools and drug them all across the lawn. So my husband trying to be the good parent explains that his tools will get lost or eaten by our dog if left all over the yard. Ethan looked at Thad, cocked his head in a most distressed tone stated, "You've got to be kidding me!" Like come on Dad I can't play with your tools. Needless to say the two of them had a great time building the swing set. No sarcasm intend they really had a great time together. I have pictures, just not with me. So they will be coming.

My other project that I probably should wait until the pics are with me is that over the winter we redid my boys room. It was so fun and I'm so happy with how it all turned out. Thanks to Brittany for the great idea. Ever since we found out that Ryan would be a boy I wanted to do a totally boy room. Now we have and we love it.

The last or most current project to finish off the boys' room and the rest of my house is that we are getting new windows and I can hardly wait. We are hoping that by doing so we can save money on our heating and eletric bills. At any rate the windows in our home are so old that you can feel a breeze coming in when you stand next to them. So we are excited.

Summertime Sunflowers

For the past couple of years these sunflowers bloom every year and I have wanted to take pictures of my kids by them and always forget. So today as we arrived at the farm I didn't wait but went and got the camera and did it first thing.

This was out last picture and the kids were done, but I still think they're cute.

Kaitlyn 6, Ethan 3, Ryan 2 1/2 months.

I LOVE living where and how we do. We truly are blessed.





I'm sure glad they like each other.


I loved this one. (Can you see how many sunflowers we are talking about here?) They grow everywhere and are beautiful.

The Fish Incident

So I had to blog about this little incident at our home so that I won't soon forget it. Two years ago for Kaitlyn's 4th birthday she wanted a dog and a fish. Well Thad and I agreed to let her pick one of the two, she picked the dog and so we got a cute black lab dog. The next day after her birthday Grammie took her shopping for the fish. Needless to say we ended up with both. She was thrilled. Well our dog we think got stolen about a year ago and it was a very sad experience, but we still have our fish until about two days ago when I found it dead in the bowl. So I was discreetly trying to get rid of the fish before my children woke up, but Ethan woke up right as I was carrying the fish bowl out of his room. I decided that I could lie to him about the fish to make him feel better but in the long run I knew that an excuse wasn't going to last, so I told him the fish had died and that we were going to flush it down the toilet. He was more than happy to help and came and flushed the fish. What a boy I thought. So at the breakfast table I told Kaitlyn that I had bad news for her and that her fish had died. She was doing suprisingly well with the news but wanted to know what I had done with her fish. So I asked Ethan to tell her what he helped me do. He said "I flushed it." I waited to see what Kaitlyn's reaction would be and you will never guess the words that came out of her mouth. She said and I quote, "But Mom we could have eaten it." I about died laughing. This was not at all the reaction that I was expecting, but do I ever know what to expect when it comes from Kaitlyn, No. Needless to say the fish incident wasn't nearly so traumatic as I was expecting. I did have to explain to Kaitlyn that it is not a good idea to eat our pets, and that this was to small to eat anyway. I sure do love these ranom moments that make life with little kids wonderful.

Finally Here!!! Yea!!!

Ryan Evan Crump

Dad and his two boys, doesn't he look proud?


This is Ryan right before leaving the hospital.


Kaitlyn, Ryan and my dad Evan where Ryan gets his middle name.

I think Ethan likes him what do you think, sure glad we got the okay on that one.

So I know that I am really slow at posting theses pictures and that this post should probably be longer, but I only have 10 minutes before my little guy needs to eat again.

Without further ado, Ryan Evan Crump is finally here and we are so glad, me more than anyone. He was a big guy right from the get go, just like I thought he would be. He was born June 9, 2009 at 9:42 a.m. and weighed in at 9lbs. 5 oz. He was 21 1/1 in long and has a 14 in head around. To most people he probably looks like a one month old, but because that is how all of our children seem to come he is still little to me. We sure do love the little guy and are loving having him in our home. I have been asked who he looks like and I think that he looks like Ethan when he was born except that Ryan has a little bit lighter and redder hair. In fact at the hospital Thad and I kept calling him Ethan. Opps! Kaitlyn and Ethan sure do love their new brother. Kaitlyn is such a huge helper and I am so lucky that she is around. We have spent quite a bit of time her at my Mom's and we owe her a big thank you for helping us out so much. We are lucky to have family around.

Anyways enjoy the photos and there will be more to come.

Maybe Baby?

So for any of you wondering, I still do not have a baby, but hopefully tomorrow will be the day. I am scheduled to be induced in the morning as long as there is a room available. I'm hoping there is, but trying not to get my hopes too high. I was supposed to be induced with Ethan after going a week over and the morning we called there were no rooms. Fortunatly my water broke later that morning and they had to make room for me. Hence the reason I'm not going to get too excited until I'm told I can come in.
Hopefully soon we will have another cute little boy to cuddle, love, add to our family and post pictures of. Wish us luck!

Spring, Spring, Spring!!!!

Can I just say that we love Spring and are so happy that the weather appears to be getting warmer. Who knows tomorrow it could snow, but for today we are enjoying the sunshine.

Debuting Kaitlyn's new Room

So I hope you have all been anxiously awaiting these pictures. These are all of the old playroom redone to be Kaitlyn's new bedroom. We have had this room finished for awhile, but like usual it has taken me a couple of weeks to post the evidence.
The Saturday we finished her room it was really late and I thought for sure that Kaitlyn wouldn't want to sleep downstairs until the next day. Boy you think I would know my daughter better by now. Of course the instant the paint was dry and the beeboard on the wall, Kaitlyn tells her dad "okay will you go and get my bed now?" Needless to say we moved her stuff down and she was more than a little excited to sleep in her own room. I on the other hand worried about her being downstairs all by herself all night, she could have cared less. The best part about Kaitlyn having her own room is that she has taken such responiblity of her room and things. I told her if she wanted to be a big girl on her own downstairs that she had to act like one by making her bed, getting dressed and keeping her room clean. If I had known just how well that little talk was going to work we would have moved her down a long time ago. She is AWESOME at all of the above and I never have to ask her twice. I love it when things work out that way. Anyways here are the pictures of the way cute room that I was worried about.

This is the wall perpendicular with her bed.

This is the view walking into her room from the stairs.

This wall and the bookshelf walls were paneling and I love how the stripes worked out. They help to break up the pink.