I've got you beat!

I've seen a few posts of other peoples laundry woes. It always makes me laugh because usually their weeks worth of laundry equals just one days worth in my house. I don't hate laundry, I usually have a pretty good system going but occasionally it does pile up. I like doing a little everyday, then it doesn't seem so overwhelming. This is what happens when we return home from vacation with 5 days worth of dirty clothes:

Do you feel better now? This is just a few days worth, there was still more in the washer & dryer. So just remember to think of me on your worst laundry day and know that I've got you beat!

Disneyland!

We had an awesome time sharing Disneyland over spring break with the Bailey's and about half a million other people. Yes we do a lot together because that's the way we like it! I still can't believe how crowded it was but I guess it was too be expected. This year we took my niece/nanny Kari with us to help with the kids and give Randy & I a little time to ourselves. It was great, I hope she still wants kids after spending 6 days with us. I don't think we will go back for about 4 years, maybe by that time we can ditch the stroller and the baby rides. I love Disneyland, even though all the good rides kept breaking down but at least we scored some VIP passes which made our last marathon day a blast. Here's a little slide show of some of our fun, enjoy!

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Snow Day!

The last weekend in February we took our annual trip to the snow with the Baileys. There wasn't a lot of snow left where we went last year so we drove to the top of the rim, then down the bumpiest dirt road ever, until we found a spot suitable for our sledding. We still wish we would have found a bigger hill but the kids made do and had fun anyways. I could never imagine actually living where it snowed and having to bundle my kids up everyday just to go to the bus stop! You would seriously have to add on another hour in the morning just to do that. Trevor informed me he was going to use the bathroom after I got him all dressed, sorry son, it doesn't work that way! We played for about 3 hours, enjoyed hot chocolate and frozen krispy kreme doughnuts before we were all cold enough to pack up and head home. I'm glad the kids look forward to this every year but I'm even more glad that we live in sunny AZ! Here's a little video of the fun Lyndi had. It really made her happy just to stick her face in the snow, funny girl!

The grass isn't always greener

When we bought our house it came with a front yard full of dead grass and a dozen dead juniper trees. We are just too busy to spend every weekend doing yard work so we decided to go the easy route and do your classic desert landscaping. I really had to talk Randy out of even leaving a little of the grass. Now that we live in and HOA we are required to keep everything green and lovely or risk a fine so no grass it is for us. We spent 2 weekends with the help of a bobcat removing all the old grass and dead trees, planting new plants, adding landscape lighting, and 10 ton of new rock. We love the way it turned out, and knowing that it is very low maintenance is even better! Of course we can't do any project without some mishap so this time we decided to break the main water line to the sprinklers and flood the whole yard which then turned to a muddy mess. The funny thing is that living on a main street into our neighborhood, everyone can see what is going on, I think everyone slowed down to watch us as they drove by. Now that that's done, it's on to the next project-anyone want to paint a house?