Brandon hard at work!

While I was at my sisters watching the five children, Brandon was up to something fishy at the house. Every time i called he seemed to be a tad distracted and would tell me that he was making somethings special for coleton and i! Unsure of what he could be doing when we came home this is what we had found....Upstairs in the nursery he put up some greenery, made the pictures on the wall (from scratch may i add!)Hung the monkey back on the wall, found the rocker glider on craigs list for a sweet deal...and hung the clock and shelf. I love it! It was just what i wanted it to look like! Though i love the nursery, Brandon is most proud of Coletons room....He wanted to make it have a car theme so once again he found a great deal on craigs list and got the car bed..Found a car mat at Target and went online to find some real street signs.. He also redid some of our old furniture to make some really cute bool shelves along with getting some old license plates to hang up!
Everything looks adorable and Coleton absolutely loves it. He put alot of time and effort into designing everything and the pictures just dont do it justice! Thanks honey!!

Carleen Comstock Halle!!

I had a chance this past week to try out having five kids! My sister Cristeen, was hitting her ten year anniversary and her husband planned an amazing cruise so i agreed to watch their four children while they would be gone! She has Spencer, 7, Jenna, 6, Breanna, 3, and Benjamin, 18 months, so with Coleton, 18 months, it was quite the adventure!They left on a thursday and return a wednesday and with no way to get a hold of them or talk to them through out the week we had some interesting moments.Along with the normal daily activities of breakfast, getting ready for school, homework, dinner, naps, bedtime(with practically twin 18 months olds)and keeping things cleaned up, we had alot of fun. We went to chuckie cheese one of the days, Mcdonalds one day, they had their primary program(which was adorable), had Spencer home sick one day, played some games, played the wii, watched cartoons, and played outside (when the weather was nice). Though i absolutely love my neices and nephews there were moments during the week when i wondered to myself "what have i gotten my self into" but in the end everything turned out great. Cristeen and Brian came home to four safe kids, not really so healthy (just barely missed them all getting sick when i left), they were glad to have both parents back.The week went great and i decided that having five wouldnt be bad if they were as good as these ones are!!

Fun in Hurricane!!

It has been really fun adjusting to our new life in hurricane!
#1 We love the weather!!
It always seems warm we have great summers, great winters (consisting of no snow) and great weather in between!
#2 We love our backyard!
With the great weather, having a back yard with grass is great to go out and play or just sit out and chat at nights, we love it!
#3 We love the activities

We have had a chance to be part of a lot of activities because Brandon works at he school. The seminary teachers do the chains at the home high school football games. The picture of Coleton was right before we went to the high school home coming parade which he really enjoyed

#4 We kind of enjoy little projects?This one i am trying to convince my self that we enjoy them...We have been spending most Saturdays working on projects and though Brandon likes being a handyman, i think Coleton likes the projects more!

#5 We love visiting Brandon when we can!

Coleton really likes heading to the seminary and seeing Brandon. Coleton really loves drawing on the dry erase board.

Some draw backs are...

We don't enjoy the wind..

Brandon put up my fall scare crow and the newt morning it was gone! The wind blew him away but no need to worry we found him!!

Another thing I don't enjoy are the bugs like this one....

it is huge! really bad picture of it but we found it outside of our garage!! I think it was a young tarantula but Brandon just thinks it was the biggest spider he had ever seen!!

General Conference!!

I just love general conference!! This session, we stayed home and watched it on TV! We had a lovely array of snacks and ate as we listened! There were a lot of great talks and i learned alot about things i needed to be better at! Coleton loved hearing the choir sing and he would dance to them every chance he got! It was a great two days and we cant wait for the next session in six months!!

Update on home repairs!

With things changing so much, here is where we are at, at the moment! We have been trying to do saturday projects when we can and are getting closer to finishing but we have a ways to go!

Please excuse my little comments:)