The Piano

This is our new piano! Guess how much we paid for it, $0 yeah that's right... it was FREE! My sister got it from a past relationship but she was moving to a smaller place and needed to get rid of it. I offered to buy it but my sister is awesome and decided to just GIVE it to us! I LOVE it! It is not perfect, there are a few chips a bruises but who cares, we got it for FREE! Two of the three pedals are broken off so we need to get those fixed but that's really all we need to do. It's AWESOME! It's Lily's new favorite toy!

Cricut

So I've never really been huge on crafts but I've always enjoyed doing scrapbooking! After we got our tax return I was able to talk Todd into letting me get a Cricut! I am so excited about it! I'm also part of a card group and I figure I'll make all my money back by how many cards I'm gonna make with this thing! I don't have to buy stickers anymore either! Woo Hoo! I really want to find some vinyl you can cut out and put on your walls so I can do some decorating... Anyone know where I can find any of that around here?

What has been happening in our yard

This is what it looked like when we moved in, we did some work by hand and put a lot of it in piles. You can see that picture on Facebook.
Backyard before we got the machinery.
After! Frontyard
Backyard after! It took a good solid 7 hours on the bobcat to make it look like this. Doesn't it look so much better?!

How our week has turned out so far!

We're definitely going to be getting that bed rail going here soon!

Guess who's a big girl!

Today is a day that will live in infamy. Today is the day that I took down Lily's crib and set up her big girl bed. I can't believe that she's old enough to have a regular bed, but I'm not going to lie I'm pretty excited about this! Yet with that excitement, I'm worried about how the next week will go with her sleeping schedule. Tonight went well but she had also fallen asleep in the car on the way home. Wish us luck!

Easter Weekend

This weekend was definitely a busy one! It started for us on Thursday when Todd's sister April drove to Cedar to surprise her mom. Friday we headed to Milford to go visit more family. Friday started out GREAT because we got our tax return!!!!! So we got to pay off all of our debts except our house of course. Then we got to go shopping! The TV we had at our house was Todd's mom's so we decided we should buy one for ourselves. Then we needed a new vacuum as well so we bought one of those too, plus our camera pooped out on us a few months ago, so we went ahead an purchased one of those too. It was a busy day, but man was it great to finally have things to call our own.
Saturday as filled with Easter goodness. We had an Easter Egg hunt just with the grand kids (Lily, Robbie, and Taylor.) Robbie is just 10 days younger than Lily and Taylor is 5. Lily and Robbie caught on to the easter egg hunt rather quickly. They had a blast! They were enjoying the candy as well. Then we were able to dye some eggs and then enjoy a nice birthday dinner for Todd and April. Their birthdays aren't until next week but since we were all together, we thought we might as well celebrate it!
Sunday we woke up to the Easter Bunny's gifts. Lily thought that was amazing. Then we said goodbye to all the family and decided we should probably get home to watch some General Conference. Luckily we have DVR and were able to record it all weekend. We weren't able to view it as well as we would have liked with all the family here, so we're going to concentrate on it when we can actually listen to what is being taught. All in all it was a fabulous weekend and we had a blast!