Proof Positive!

Super duper cute fabric!

Ikea and being distracted.

I took Sheyla up to Salt Lake City today and on the way home we dropped by Ikea to buy the fourth and last chair (of those funky white chairs---which makes two on each side of our table with the wood chairs on the ends).

We spotted this amazing expandable table and I drooled.
It can hold fourteen people comfortably.
We have had twelve people for dinner but more frequently, we have 8.
And our family is growing.

I gasped when I saw this cool and funky light.

But it's made of paper.

I bought 1 yard of super cute fabric at Ikea and a pillow insert to make a pillow for the window seat to replace one that I just recovered that has an old and very lumpy pillow in it.
And that brings me to the distracted part.
I have more than three big walls I need to paint and I have been easily and often purposely distracted.
And last night I planted some flowers.
So, what do I do today?
Other than several other errands out of town and laundry and organizing and the kids that are at home need attention and taking Davis to guitar lessons that were canceled last week but we found out after he went to the door and no one was home and then he remembered what his teacher told him last week and planting the rest of the flowers and watering flowers and plants in the house and working on the book I'm making for Britni and doing the dishes and reading the paper and watching American Idol (as if all I did was work) and family scripture and prayer and life!
I find more projects to add to my multiplying list of projects.
It's frustrating and fun all at the same time!
I don't know how other people get so much done!
I'm even a stay at home mom with the youngest being a teenager.
In my defense, I have had much to do with my family which takes precedence over projects.
And some times I am just too tired.
Or there is laundry.
Or I like to read the paper.
Or I want to read a book (I just finished The Help by the way and it's fantastic).
Or there is a movie I have to watch.
Or I am just too tired.
Or there's something else to do.

There's always tomorrow to put off projects.
(I really am lucky, by the way, to do all the things I do and all the things I don't.)

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Sunday dinner.

This cute couple brought this cute little dog (they are babysitting her).
She has an adorable squeaky, almost non-existent bark.
Chris is leaving soon for Kentucky to try his hand at selling pest control and as soon as he can, will send for his adorable 15 week pregnant wife.

I took this silly girl up to Salt Lake last week to sign up for school.
We drove around to look at the apartment and job potentials.
Once again in a matter of one month (well two years ago it was actually 1 1/2 months) 3 of my four kids are moving on or out to the big big world.
Although, this time, two of them are now married and already out (but they have lived close by).
I will still miss them all.

Yes, that is painters tape on the walls.
Still not done.

This one didn't want her picture taken and pouted.
She has been quite sick for about a month.
They ruled out Lupus and are still trying to figure out what's wrong.
The last few days she has been worse with what they are treating with antibiotics because they thought she had strep throat but now they think she may have Mono.
She is one sick girl.
How I ache to take care of her.
I am grateful she married someone who is so thoughtful and kind.
He is taking such good care of her.
They are leaving soon for Alaska so he can try his hand at selling alarm systems this summer to save up money for school next year.

This silly one, had meetings much of the day.
Luckily he was able to come home for dinner.
I'm lucky he is such a good guy.

This one is now obsessed with skate boards.
He fell on Saturday and skinned his hands and knees.
He now has protective pads for most everything without being wrapped up in bubble wrap and he still looks like a cool skate boarding teenager.

I LOVE Sunday dinners.

Shiny new bike!

Look at my cute new bike!
I just love it!
Jeff insisted that we buy it (from K-mart) while we were in St. George.
I just went on a little bike ride (I had to walk up the hill a while too).
I'm going to have to ride on flat roads for a while because I was breathing so hard I could have easily called someone and have them think it was an obscene phone call!

Daffodils and little purple pansies.

I love daffodils!
I think of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and the scene where Willy Wonka eats the teacup that looks like a daffodil.
Did that really happen?
And it makes me happy that Spring is here and daffodils are everywhere.
Anyway.
We have a few scattered daffodils and I love it!

I bought a few pansies from the grocery store.
I really wanted to buy a flat of little purple pansies from a garden nursery but I didn't have time.
The grocery store had some and I went to the grocery store.
I love purple pansies.
Did you sing that song about the little purple pansies when you were young?
I did.
It was one of my favorites.

There are signs of green on some of the trees.
Some don't even have buds yet.
But I nearly gasped when I saw this tree.
I know. I am easily surprised and delighted.

There is still a lot of brown from the winter.
The snow just barely melted.
Yesterday was the most beautiful day yet.
I even did some work in the garden.
I just couldn't resist.

Seagulls and Utah like peas and carrots.

We were driving down the road and we saw a million seagulls flying around a field.
The picture doesn't even begin to show how many bird there were.
I've never seen so many seagulls.
Really.
I wonder if there were a million crickets?

Last Bryce Canyon pictures....promise.

My favorite picture from the whole trip.

How cool is this!

How silly is he!

This area is way below Bryce Canyon which didn't have any snow. So, naturally we hiked and had an adventure.

On Friday we drove to St. George.
We went through Zion's National Park.
The back way.
There is a 1.1 mile long tunnel.
In the rock with a few open areas to see the sky and rock.
It is spectacular.

We spent some time with Jeff's parents, brother and his family.
We had dinner with my cute oldest sister and her family.

It was perfect weather in St. George.
Just in time to come back to a little bit of snow.