helping papa

We helped papa in the garden between sessions. its awesome to see my boys get their hands dirty in the garden, I need to do more of that with them.

also I made a grapevine wreath, and then forget it outside... pretty ssure my dad dumped it- its kinda one of his things. Not that I'm judging him, remind me to tell you about "the great purdge" that took place when I was nesting....

poor bird flew right into the window

Baby Calves

My parents took the kids out to see a few baby Calves!
My understanding is that the boys had a grand ole time!
Also they came home covered in dirt, which made me proud! (also it helped me appreciate my fabulous washing machine!)

New Carpet!

Guys don't hate me for this because its just a post Full of pictures of empty rooms but i am just SOOO excited!
We bought our house knowing we needed new carpet but it was below a lot of other expensive fixes on our list of home repairs (our house was a short sale) but we finally got new carpet!
I love my whole house more,
Also it is cleaner... basically I love the carpet

We took out that carpet ourselves and moved the furniture to save some money and my fabulously amazing brother and Father helped Mitch with that process. I did not get a single picture because I was banned to my moms for that. Thank you thought to all of you, especially Michael who drove down from college to help- Mike, seriously, you rock!- also Thank you Mitchell my man!

PIne top 2016!!

This year we went to Pinetop again!
 It is almost a yearly tradition, although some years we missed because we could not travel from Rexburg, and some years we didn't go because...? But I think the first year we went I  must have been in the neighborhood of ten or twelve. I was little. SO it has been a fairly consistent West family tradition for about 15 years now, crazy to think about. They already reserved it for next year too! cousins from far out of town will be here so they went ahead and scheduled us a year in advance. This year it was a last min schedule because several people (my smart mamma included) asked on the right day if we could,  but it was perfect. 2 ft of snow everywhere with higher drifts in places. Perfection!

We got there first out of all the families- that has never happened before, so we got a big ole corner and set up our stuff. Rebecca and family came too and Jessica for the first day, so we had a big bunch of us together like old times.
We played in the snow and sled on the hills and hiked and played games and ate junk and yummy meals and let the kids play hours of air hockey and ping pong.
The snow was just wonderful!
Pictures say it best. It was 3 days and 2 nights. the 29th-31st.
Emily and Jessica went on a snowshoe hike, Eli and  Emily played in the snow for hours, Emily made a dragon in the snow, Mitch and I both played in the snow, Mitch and Caleb played many rounds of Ping Pong, the kids watched movies on grandpas projector, and we all had fun visiting together.