Bad Mommy!

YES we are all still alive! :0) I really need to keep up with this blogging thing..playing catch up can be tedious! :0) SO lets start with the most important event that has occurred semi recently ;0) Our sweet little Easton turned ONE!!! ( i feel like such a bad mommy for not posting about this sooner!)

I cant believe it...he is growing up so fast!..When i look at him now i dont see a baby anymore..i see a sweet little boy ♥ its sad and exciting at the same time! Who woulda thought that one year olds are so much FUN?! Easton is also WALKING now...all over the place in fact :0)  Its pretty much his favorite thing to do :0) We had some family come up to celebrate Eastons birthday with us! It was a blast spending time with them..here are some pics from Eastons big birthday bash ;0)

As you can tell, he was a BIG FAN of the cupcakes and he got some pretty cool stuff for his birthday :0) He got his first wagon (thank you grandma and grandpa ;0) and a little radio flyer tricycle! Along with other awesome goodies! The next day we went to the fair! Easton loved watching the animals and crazy people ;0) Here are some pics of our fair adventure!

We were sad to see everyone leave! Here are some pics of our guests (mom & dad Gates) the only pic i got of youguys was dad pulling Easton in the wagon! So sneaky how you always manage to stay out of the pictures ;0) Heres Grandma Bulkeley having fun with our little bear!

Thanks for coming and making Easton feel special on his big day! We love you ♥ Come back soon!

Easton really is the sweetest boy..i am grateful every day for our little family ♥ I love my boys! :0)

Easter Happenings

Last week we had some visitors for Easter! Andrew (Matts brother) Yana (his wife) and Dariyan (their cute little boy) came up and stayed with us for a few days! It was SO nice to see them/have them here! We didnt want to let them leave when it was time for them to go home ;0) Easton and Dariyan are only 5 days apart so its always really fun to see them together. They became fast friends and spent alot of time playin around..so cute! ♥ We spent alot of time just relaxing and chit-chatting. We went to the park and went on a short hike. Then we played with our cute little men and watched them walk/crawl around on the grass :0) We took about a million pictures while they were up here (we couldnt help ourselves!) so bear with me ;0)

While they were here, we all went out on the boat (Yana and Dariyans first time!) The babies both did surprisingly well and it was fun to get out on the water!

I wanted to take pictures of our little men together for their first Easter so i made them matching bow-ties for the occasion :0) Ive been trying to learn how to use my camera in manual mode and was pretty bummed because all of the pictures turned out really dark! (i think the ISO needed to be higher)  but I managed to fix up a few for your viewing pleasure ;0)

 On Easter Sunday, we all went to church together and had fun wrestling with our little guys and trying to keep them quiet during Sacrament (no easy task!) It was refreshing to have someone there in the same boat as me for once! (Our ward doesnt have alot of young ppl ;0) After church the boys opened their presents from the Easter Bunny! ;0)

...Easton was in to it ;0)

Our wonderful guests had to get going so we took a couple more pictures with our sweet little boys before they left..

We were very sad to see them all go but so happy that they got to come up for a visit! Hopefully we will have more visitors soon! :0) The End.

Bathroom Re-do!

So weve been in our house for almost two years now...and weve re-done almost every room...every room, that is, except for our downstairs bathroom. To tell you the truth, it was just SO UGLY i didnt know where to start, so i left it alone. So there it sat for two years, frightening our guests and causing much embarassment for me! A few weeks ago as i walked by our hideous bathroom i decided then and there that i would finally DO something about it! So i did!...Well, Matt did help a little ;0) I tried to make the re-do as inexpensive as possible and i think we were able to pull it of for a very reasonable price! Hooray! :0) We basically ripped everything out (vanity, BROWN toilet and sink, gold sliding shower door..3 layers of ugly vinyl flooring and transformed it into something bright,happy and fabulous ;0) And it only took us about a week to do! :0) Here is the (im so embarrassed to even show you!) before picture of the bathroom!

...AFTER!...

SO there you have it...our new and improved bathroom! It is still tiny,but im so happy with how it looks now :0) The End.

DETAILS:
The paint color i used is called 'Surfer' and its by BEHR :0)
The shower curtain/trashcan/soap dispenser/rug are all  from Target! (LOVE that place! ;0)
The wood flooring is from Lowes. The brand is Swiftlock and the color is called 'Fireside Oak.' (Super easy to install!)
Let me know if you have any other ?'s! :0)

Visitors and the New Toy!

So last week we had some visitors! Well...they didnt really come to see US but a certain cute baby boy ;0) Easton loved spending time with his Grandma and Grandpa Gates ♥

While they were up here we played around on our new toy! Matt and i recently got ourselves a 15foot fishing boat and are having a blast with it! Heres Grandma and Easton on the lake :0)

...and here is our new toy! We decided to get a fishing boat because we thought it would be a fun family friendly activity for us and little Easton ♥

We explored the lake a little bit and had a picnic on a little grassy island in the middle of the lake. Here are a couple picks of Easton..

This one cracks me up..grouchy face ;0)

The grandparents were nice enough to watch Easton on the island while Matt and i took the boat for a spin and did a little fishing..heres Captain Matt! ;0)

That was a fun day! Matts parents were here for a few days and we had a great time with them! We played games, relaxed, ate some good food and watched little Easton being his cute self ♥

I made him his first 'fort' out of his car seat box ;0)

Here he is hangin out with momma...who has paint all over her hand from a project ;0)

Here he is sleeping on me in the boat a couple days ago..so sweet ♥

Love this boy...

Easton just cut two more teeth! Now he has two on bottom and two on top..SOOO cute! He is eating more 'people food' now which has been messy fun :0) He is also crawling and i think he will be walking soon! He is such an amazing little boy and its been so fun to see him progress and change everyday! He is starting to look more and more like a little boy! Where did my tiny BABY go?! :0)

Recent Memories

So i was looking through the pictures on my camera and realized that i should blog about some of this stuff that weve been doing! Here are a couple little trips that we took a few couple months ago that got overlooked somehow ;0) We took Easton on a little hike in the mountains.

We used our Kelty backpack and he did great in it!Our little man sure loves to be outside ♥ He must get that from his mommy and daddy ;0) It must have been lady bug season because there were thousands of them everywhere! Here they are crawling all over my arm!

These pictures make me feel a little itchy...it was cool but kinda gross at the same time ;0)

Matt and i brought our fishing poles along with us but neither of us did much fishing...we were having way too much fun with our CUTE baby boy!

We also took a little day trip to the snow...

well..we were on our way to Bucks lake but the roads were too snowy and we couldnt make it there so we stopped and played in it for a while!..Easton loved his first snow experience :0)