Oh praying for spring!

I can not wait for the warm weather to arrive and stay for good! Normally I love winter but year has been to dry and with to many people ill. Ugh!
However, It was gorgeous yesterday so I took the boys out to play for the afternoon!

While we were out I looked over most of the trees and found this...

One of our cherry trees is already putting off buds! It so pretty but we think they are coming out to early and we may not get any fruit this year.  But fingers crossed all will be fine!

Hope you are having a great week! 

With Love, 

Alex, Luke, Christine and Evan

Back to work!

Theres nothing like the warm weather sneak peeks to get you ready for Spring! and around here its been anywhere from 80 to 30 in the same week! Ok well maybe not that dramatic but it sure feels like it! So to help on the cold days we've started an early spring cleaning from the ceilings to carpets and all the cabinets in between and Evan has returned to his honey do list.. He started with the under cabinet lights! 

and wow do they work wonders! If you do not have any I greatly recommend them! These are on a touch dimmer and produce very little heat but tons of light. 

I've also started sewing again but this time its for a bigger project that I can not give away to many details on...

but lets just say it is full of sparkles and flowers!

(something to do with a boutique!)

Well im off to get some more work done. Hope you have a warm and wonderful week!

Happy Valentines Day!

For our holiday craft we made heart shaped sugar cookies that look like the conversation hearts you get for valentines!

The boys wrote their own messages (squiggles) with piping gel and edible markers!

Simple and sweet! 

Hope you have a beautiful Valentines day!

Good bye January

What a month we had!  It's hard to believe January is over. We were so busy and It flew by so fast! 

We took a trip to Red River NM for a few days and Alex learned to ski!

 He was so proud of his Orange Boots!

 Pointing to the Lifts

 Theres Mommy!

Time for a break!

Daddy and Luke all bundled up

 Evan and his brother Cameron going for up for a run while Alex was resting

 Going on up!

 Evan flying back down

 Apple doesn't fall far from the tree...

 Luke decided it was too cold!

We all had a great time and cant wait to go back again next year! Maybe then Luke will get to learn and will have more fun!

We also took a trip to Dallas! Evan's Grandpa was honored with the Farmer's Union Pioneer Award.

 During the slide show Evan's mom played a song for both Granddad and Grand-mom. 

Grand-mom's song was Handful of weeds. The daughters brought her a bouquet of weeds and then roses. It was so sweet! 

 Granddad receiving his award

 View from our room that night!

 So Pretty!

We were also blessed to have some very dear friends come stay with us for a couple of days! Mr. Taylor and Mrs. Jessi Norvell

Theres no better way to get to know someone than lots of Wii Mario, home cooked food and late nights!

Myself and little Natalie 

Alex already loving on her! 

Taylor was awesome at coming up with random games to do with the boys!

This was "Flashlight"! So simple but Alex Loved it!!

We didn't get as many pictures taken as we would have liked, but we did end up with tons of memories and a wonderful friendship! We are so blessed that god has placed such an extraordinary couple in our lives! I cant wait to see our kids grow up together!