Five Year Anniversary Getaway!!

We celebrated our five year anniversary and my 24th birthday this month! We got a hotel for two nights in Tempe and dropped Jeter off with some family for the first night. My first night away from my little guy in a year and a half...yikes! A break was much needed but I will admit I teared up a little when I got him back that following afternoon.

My little jeter (FYI doctor check up 32 inches long, 23 pounds, 47 inch head, 20 months old)

 Once we dropped Jeter off we went to the temple, then found our hotel and finished the night off with a delicious dinner at Denny's. I know Denny's we are high rollers. It was right there and we were starving! It was surprisingly good too! The next day we had a healthy breakfast of QT toquitos and So be drinks, we are on a tight budget and nothing sounded good until we passed a couple of QT's and decided eh what the heck! Once again surprisingly delicious! We went shopping and kind of just took our time being just us, nothing too exciting but the shopping was successful I might say!

Yummy QT toquitos!

Once Noon rolled around we met up with my sister and we were reunited with Jeter! Oh happy day! I know motherhood can be amazingly demanding, but this little guy is my world and has me wrapped around his finger! We went back to the hotel and went swimming and just kind of hung out. We headed out for dinner and Jeter fell asleep within minutes so I went shopping, again, while we waited for him to get a little power nap. We had a most spectacular meal at Red Robin complete with an ice cream brownie desert I wish I had taken more pictures but once again I was too busy stuffing my face with delicious bacon guacamole burger goodness!

 Jeter at the pool! We went swimming three times...this kid loves to swim!!!

                                                                        Happy 5 years to us! There have been low lows, and high highs, and I can't imagine going through them with anyone but Kameron. He is amazing, putting up with me all the time and being such a wonderful husband and dad. I love you Kam!

DIY pin projects June

I always love the month of June. And this month Pins I loved too. I've been pretty busy with a paint brush these days and here are a few projects that I have been working on:

 This is a measurement board the Pin looks like a giant ruler but, I just couldn't get myself to make a million little measuring lines. I grew up with a height board except ours was a wooden door for the ironing board, and we still have it! I love it and I want this to last for years and years! I am loving barn-wood right now my dad does a lot of projects with it and I was helping him build a table and this piece is from that pile at his house. price of this project $0

Next really isn't a pin but it was one of my super projects! I saw a desk at the salvation army for $20 and I went back a few times, thought about it, I am a big thinker when it comes to purchases. Had Kameron look at it and he gave the okay. It needed two new runners for the drawers, a little sanding, knobs and a paint job. So now there is an awesome desk in my carport, probably going to sell it one of these days. I love it though, kind of want to keep it, but I will resist.

 Finished!

my last Pin was these crock pot fajitas... http://www.stacymakescents.com/fix-and-forget-friday-crock-pot-chicken-fajitas Oh my were they yummy! Of course I didn't follow the recipe exactly, I added some actual fajita seasoning along with other spices, but I really think I will never make fajitas the same. Crock pot all the way! (This isn't my picture, it's from this gals blog) I was too busy stuffing my face to remember to take a picture!

Some fun times!

We went to Lake Roosevelt a weekend ago, kind of spontaneous. We had to drop the boat of to get worked on and the guy lives by the lake so we decided to make an overnighter out of it. Fun part was Natalie and Jacob were able to come! So fun! It was a little hot but the water was perfect!

 Oh Jeter :)

 Grandma Ginny got Jeter a lawn mower toy that blows bubbles, this kid loves to "mow the lawn" even in the afternoon heat! We are trying to gear him towards push toys rather then scoot toys!

 Thanks Nat for all the peanut butter! Jeter had a great time stacking them!

 Emily and Trent's amazing reception/celebration was last weekend (more pictures to come) but her awesome friend from California came and spent the week in Thatcher. Katrina and Stephen are so much fun! I hope they can come again soon!

 Jeter got a hair cut by auntie em, Thanks!!

 Not a great picture, I use my phone now instead of a camera, much more convenient but the picture quality isn't as good. But this is the monster swing in my parents back yard. Fun fun!

 Jeter loves putting on his dad's hats, Go BYU!

A trip to the Phx Zoo!

We had a very successful Memorial Day weekend! We went to mesa the Friday and Saturday to spend time with some Johnson fam! We went to the Phx Zoo! I haven't been there in years and it was so much fun and it helped that the weather was perfect! I would have to say the prairie dogs were the most fun!

 We had fun at the petting zoo. Jeter wasn't crazy about petting the goats though, he wanted to slide down a bench that had curved sides...hm.

 Looking at the baby calfs....so cute when they're little!

 The giant tortoises. And I have to document the story, I guess right when we moved on the rest of our group stayed behind and got to see the zoo worker scratch the turtles neck and it raised itself up and stretched out its neck and it was quite a sight! And we missed it, bummer! Funny part was we heard the story three times I think, it must have been A-mazing!

 The three little boys (Jeter, Logan and Ryan) all fell asleep at the same time! Ryan is Nikki's (Kameron's cousin) little boy. She and her two kids came down from Utah for the weekend too! Very fun to see them!! Next time I need to take some pictures though, they are adorable little kids! There is a Tiger under the tree...very cool!

 Monday came and Kameron worked so he can get an extra day off for our Utah trip the end of June, so that afternoon we went out to the lower salt river, we must have went after the crowd because we were the only ones there! Grilled some hot dogs, went swimming, threw rocks in the water and caught a carp!

 Jeter didn't want to touch the fish, I don't blame him carp are gross! And below just a random picture of Jeter in some tires...Jeter has finally discovered climbing. A bittersweet, I don't have to help him off the couch anymore, but now there is more opportunity for falling! What's the saying? "Moms work from Son up to Son down!" Never a truer statement! But we love it!