Grandma Cline turns 80!!!!

On Sunday, we celebrated Grandma Cline's 80th birthday.  We had all our family that was in town over to help celebrate.  Here she is blowing out the candle on one of her cakes.

Jenny offered to bring the cake, and wasn't sure how many it would take to feed 30 people, so she brought 3 different kinds.  They were amazing!!!!

Mike helping with cutting the cakes

 We set up 3 tables on our patio, and with our shade canapy, it was nice and cool.

The kids had a great time playing in the back yard.  (the little girl in the green, is Steven's girlfriends daughter Dani, she is turning 8 this summer)

 Abbie swinging in our tree swing

Katie

and Aida on the swing set

3 monkeys on the monkey bars

Molly and Gabbie on the trampoline

Lynn, Steve's girlfriend, and Colleen, checking out some of her birthday gifts

Paula and Bob

Jamie and Emily

Me and Kelsi 

Jenny and Eric

Josh and Merijane

Matt and Sophie

Steve and Lynn

Krista and Sophie

Our middle girls

and our Big Girls!

Everything turned out so nice, the food was all delicious, thanks everyone!!!!  We all had a great visit, and the kids had lots of fun playing outside, so glad the weather cooperated!

Sleepover room almost complete!!!!

We got the room all painted and everything moved back in.

Now all we need is the carpet, but I think we will wait until school is out since we are going to recarpet the whole basement, and that will be quite a job to move all the furniture around.

I originally painted this little end table blue, but decided that was really the color I wanted for the wall, so I repainted it white, and painted the walls blue.  

I found the lamp at DI yesterday, and painted it pink and put the ruffles on the lampshade.  It turned out pretty cute I think. (Not bad for $5)

I repainted the bookshelf that I had originally painted blue too.  

Now all we need are a bunch of little girls, hopefully this weekend!

Happy Mother's Day 2013!

This past Sunday was Mother's Day.  I am so thankful for the wonderful mother that I was blessed with.  She has more than supported me in anthing I ever wanted to do.  She showed me how to be a good mom, and a fun grammy, for that I will always be grateful.  

Our kids all went in on my Mother's Day gift this year.  They printed my blog for the last 4 years!  One book for each year.  Jamie and Krista put them together and had them printed off, what a treasure!!!!!  I have loved looking through them and remembering what has gone on, so many things I have forgotten, it's fun  to have the memories come back.  Thanks so much,     I LOVE them!!!

On Sunday, Jamie and Emily invited us to a Mother's Day dinner at their house.  

They fed us a delicious dinner and then we LOVED watching tiny 3 1/2 year old Abbie ride her two wheeler.  (sorry I sound so dumb being the comentator)

They had us watch a sweet video on LDS.org about mothers.  What a fun night, thanks Jamie and Emily for the invitation.  We love spending time with your sweet family!

A few weeks ago, we found out that Stacy and Pierce were going to be in town, so we planned a family dinner so we could all get to see them.  We were going to do it at my house, but I ended up with a kidney stone that week, and was flat in bed for 3 days.  Lani was sweet enough to reserve the park by their house and did all the preparations for the awesome evening.  (She is the BEST!)

Even some of the tiniest cousins were so happy to see each other!

Carrisa sure likes being an aunt!

Cierra and Hailey had matching outfits!  Love that hot pink!!!!

Me and Mike

Lani had fun projects for the girls to do!

Josh and Gabbie

Jeff and Jen

Krista, Matt and Sophie

Riley, Cierra and Lucy

Lani, Hailey and Aida

Mom and Dad

Adorable Sophie 

Ric had been working, but took time to come and visit too!

Jeff and Aida

As we were getting ready to leave, Hailey wanted to try out Jeff's motorcycle.  

When he asked her if she wanted to go for a ride, she said, 'Yes, but YOU drive!"

What a great evening with so many great people that I love so much!!!

Good bye missionaries, Hello, sleepover room!!!!

After over two years of having missionaries in our home, they are moving on to greener pastures.  Elder Wilson went back to Dallas Texas, and Elder Conley got transferred to work with the Taylorsville Single Adult ward.  We have LOVED having them in our home!  

I have had fun the last few days preparing their room to be a "sleepover room" for our granddaughters and soon to be grandson!!!  I found these fun bedspreads on sale at Kohls, and with a 30% off coupon, and $20 bounce back money, they ended up being pretty reasonably priced.

When the missionaries were moving in, one of my neighbors I was over visiting, was getting rid of this end table.  They had a load of stuff going to DI, and I asked her if I could have it.    It was made of pressboard, covered with that paper finish, and wasn't in the best shape.  It worked great for the missionaries, but by the time they left, it was in worse shape. The finish on the top was nearly all off and it looked pretty awful.

I put a thin layer of sheet rock mud over the entire top and lightly sanded it, and with a little spray paint, it turned out very cute!

I also had this printer stand that was out of the same stuff, and painted it up for a little bookshelf in the room.

I found 3 of these shelves at a yard sale yesterday and thought they would work great in there.

We havent decided yet what color to paint the room, but things are moving along.  We have a trundle to put under one of the beds, since we often have 3 girls at a time.  We are going to put  this crib in there, since I put a white one in the nursery upstairs, and then we'll be all set when Logan comes to visit, or when we have several tired granddaughters here at the same time.

Here's what it looks like so far, I can't wait for our first sleepover in the new room!!!!