The prettiest fruit contest

We saw this interesting but very flashy fruit at the grocery store the other day and despite its steep $3.50 price tag, decided to try it. It's called a dragon fruit and is by far the prettiest fruit I've ever seen.

David cut it up. Still pretty on the inside!(There is probably an important life lesson in here somewhere...)

We and the kids stuffed our faces. The texture was like a kiwi but the taste was suprisingly bland. For all it's flashiness on the outside, there wasn't all of the sweetness and pleasant fruity tast on the inside (another life lesson can be inserted in here.) But it does win the prettiest fruit award because I would probably buy it just to look at it's lovely colors. I know....Shallow

And this is just a cute picture that I snapped as David was working on the computer, all of the kids wanted to snuggle up to him. A little Daddy goes a long way. Not that David is little, it's just that there is only one of him and three of them......anyway........

David's project

One of David's bigger projects early this spring was expanding our garden and building some garden boxes. He did three and plans to do more next year. He did an amazing job and it looks awesome. We even have one full of some raspberry starts that we got from my sister. Thanks Carla and Scott for digging them out in the semi-dark and cold. They are all poking out little tiny leafs already! I'm so excited! We also planted our cool weather plants in another one. We planted sugar snap peas, snow peas, red wing lettuce, and spinich. Hopefully they decided to grow even though its still pretty chilly some days.

Doesn't it look awesome! David is so talented.

Beautifying

I've suprisingly been able to get a few things done around here. I've mostly been working on my room. Last summer I got the dresser refinished, put up some temporary curtains etc. This spring, I was able to get a bedspread that I love, a few pillows, (I need one more from Hobby Lobby that I've got my eye on.) get a few lamps and re-cover the lamp shades. I finally got the bedside table finished and a cute basket to put under it, I just barely got done with the cedar chest that David got for me the second Christmas we were married. I still need permanent curtains, paint the walls, a headboard and, of course, new flooring. You know, the BIG stuff.Here is what the cedar chest and our bed looked like before. Nice orange color. Warms up the room right?

The finished product. The top says: Palmer and Company, est. 2003.

Here is the little waterfall bedside table that Carla gave me last year. I refinished the dresser that matches it last summer but this has sat here for months.

yeah! I finally finished it! plus the lamp I got off of craigslist and re-covered the lampshade. It's harder than it looks when you first see it an think: " I could totally just recover that lampshade so that it matches the room!"

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Here's what we've been up to. We go snow, and then we played in it and made snowmen. This one is a construction guy.

Then Hyrum threw snowballs at me. I go him back. We had a snowball fight which I won. BOOYAH!

After that it got sunny and warm and we played on the swings.

Clare got a haircut which looks super cute on her. Look at those adorable missing teeth. Love them.Hyrum had a birthday and turned 4. He is such a fun little boy and what a tease! He is getting much better at listening and being soft with the baby.

What the?

Yeah! I can post again! For a long time, I would write something and then go to publish the post and it just... wouldn't. I don't know why, but now it will let me so here we are! That's why the previous two posts seem so random... they were written months ago! So here are a few things to catch up on. My Dad broke his femur a couple of days before christmas and was in the hospital so we couldn't go to my parents house to celebrate christmas like we had planned. It was really disapointing but we had a good christmas here. Unfortunately, my Dad's christmas could have been better.

Fallon loved drawing on Clare's art easel that she got from santa

Clare had tons of fun playing the guitar from Santa.

Hyrum loved riding the electric Hummer that Santa found on Craigslist for super cheap. Esther enjoyed stuffing her face full of delicious goodies. And David had fun playing with all of the kids' fun toys.

Now we are just waiting out the winter so that David can start work again and I can start working in the yard. It is snowing for the first time this winter. Yaaaaah! Hopefully we will be able to go sledding before it is all rained away tomorrow.