Summer

I love summer! I love hanging out with family enjoying the sunshine. We've been gone the last 10 days to Payson and New Mexico. But here are a few things we've been up to.....

Samuel has been playing T-ball/coach pitch, his first year, and loves it! In a moment of weakness I said I'd be his coach... which has acutally been alot of fun. It is so funny to watch all the first time baseball players, what a HOOT!! Samuel is so proud that he can hit the ball clear out to second base even when I Pitch it to him.

Anytime we go to Payson we get together with all the cousin and have a water day in someones backyard, here are all the Mitchell Cousins at Beccas. They have so much fun together and us moms have a great time visiting.

My dad, me and the kids drove to Albuquerque to see Lisa last week. The ride wasn't to bad the kids did really good. We had the best time with lisa and the kids. We miss seeing Garrison and Darren more often. We went to the zoo, swimming, shopping, and rode on the worlds longest tram to the top of a mountain. It has been a very busy last ten days but we've loved every minute of it. Now I need to stay home a few days and get all our laundry done:)

Ditch

I'm not sure why but I love this shot I took of this old irrigation ditch and thought I'd share.

Warm Shadows

Last month I decided to paint my kitchen. I painted my previously white cabinets black, which took forever, but I love them, they look so much better. I have the hardest time picking out paint how are you supposed to in vision what a 1 inch square of paint is going to look like on every wall in your kitchen?? Well Anthony's brother just painted his house in "warm shadow" and we both loved the color so after we left his house we went strait to the paint store to get "warm shadows".....oooops did I say warm shadows??? well huge mistake a 2 hour drive latter we had our paint home and we're ready to go. Well my first swipe on the walls was followed by a panicked call to my sister in law Elise, "Did your paint kind of look purplish when you first put it on?" :) Of course she said no but our walls were green before so I figured it was just the green showing through, anyway after 4 hours of painting, and two coats latter Anthony and I successfully painted our kitchen Mauve, that's right mauve, white trim and black cabinets. It was quite the sight. You might be asking yourself "why did you keep painting once you saw it was the wrong color?" I've asked myself the same question a hundred times. The funny thing is that the entire time we were painting we keep saying, "this doesn't look pink does it?? No, it looks more grayish brown right?? " Well kids always can be depended upon to tell the truth and sure enough when Samuel saw it in the morning he said, "Why did you paint the kitchen pink??" Anthony and I just looked at each other and laughed guess it isn't grayish brown. Anyway long story but a month latter we made it back to Provo and looked at Scott and Elises "Warm Shadows" again and find out it is in fact "Warm Shadow" no "S" the paint store was really good about exchanging the paint. Who would've thought a "S" could make the difference between a mossy brown and mauve! What a hoot, needless to say our kitchen looks MUCH better!

Old Friends and Graduations

I'm going backwards but Samuel graduated from Preschool and is so excited about Kindergarten, Mom not so much he will get on the bus at 7:40 am and get home at 3:45 pm....:( I'm going to miss the little guy!

We have been able to hang out with friends from High school which has been so much fun and so cute to watch all of our kids hit it off so quickly, they love to play with each other and have a great time. Mel and Brad came up for a weekend, it was great to have visitors!

I'm still here.

I have a feeling that the blogging is going to be kind of sparce during the summer months. We have been enjoying the beautifull spring weather and try to be outside as much as possible. The lawns are finally green and I have new little leaves peaking out of on my trees. I have finally gotten all my spring cleaning done ....except windows those are this week......Katie you were right it is always so nice to be de junked and clean!

Anyway we spent this last weekend 4wheelen with family and camping, it was so much fun!

This is me and Savannah crossing "Dry Lake"