End of School! Start of Summer Yee Haw

The last week of school was half days and fun. we got to ease into having Conway at home more and loved it. Elle and Conway have officially become the best playmates! (this is why people have more then one) The primary team through a super hero party and invited the fire truck to the playground to spray all the kids down. It was awesome! Conway refused to hug Mrs. Littleton goodbye, but she wrestled him down for a hug, she really was perfect for him and he loved her lots.

 

My handsome first grader.

Summer has kicked off in full swing and it has been awesome.

We bought a boat with my parents that we LOVE! It is so much fun being on the lake. So far we have made it to Navajo, and Abique, Lake Powell soon!

We went to the Kite Festival! Our favorite White Rock activity each year.

 

We have been to the pool a few times Wyatt did not enjoy the first few times, it was too cold, he is tolerating it better each time we go

And enjoyed the parks and a going on hikes, the did half of blue dot and did great, we will try the full trail when we can take Dad. 

We got our garden in. We are excited to try the 3 sisters, native american strategey for gardening, we will keep you posted how well it goes for us. We planted a few watermelon, tomotoes, peepers, then lots of squash varieties, the beans and corn.

We love summer!

 

Anniversary trip get away

Britton had a work conference in Rhode Island, and after looking at the map he realized he was only an hour away from Boston, MA, Almost ten years ago we went to Bostong together for our Honeymoon. We thought this would be a good opportunity to go back, especially since work would be paying for the hotel and rent a car it would be awesome!Britton flew out first for a few days of classes while I held down the fort at home. then Wyatt and I flew out on Wednesday to meet him. Wyatt did pretty good for a 4 hour flight with not melt downs, and it is always easier to go from 3 to one kids, even if he is the baby ;) The hotel was a very expensive Marriott in Providence, RI we had valet service and an amazing view of the State Capital building

Wyatt and i did some shopping while Britton was in class Thursday. 

Then picked up Britton and drove to Newport, RI, Britton had planned a surprise for me. He scheduled us a tour at an old Mansion from the gilded age of America, in the 1920's the Vanderbilt family, who built Railroads in America built some summer homes on this little island off Rhode Island, they were amazing, the artistry of the buildings and the rooms, It was Downton Abbey, awesome.

the bath tub in this picture woudl be filled and emptied 4 times before the marble was warmed enough for a guest to enter.

  The weather was super rainy and chilly for May, but it did not stop us from enjoying the tour and beautiful area in Rhode Island.

The next day we did our second tour after Britton finished class and was amazed that they would only use these home for a few months out the year and would travel to their other homes all of the country. I just couldn't even imagine that kind of lifestyle, it was so fun to look at all the pretty things though. Full libraries and kitchens just for  6 weeks of entertainment, the tour did say they would rent them out when they were not using them though, can you imagine scoring that kind of did on AirBNB?

One my favorite things on any vacation is trying new food, we enjoyed lots of yummy seafood,

Wyatt loved it too! We tried a couple different variation so clam chowder and loved it all! I think Wyatt really enjoyed have both of our full attention for 5 days more then anything, the food was a close second for him.

The rest of the weekend we spent in Boston, we went to some of Britton's old stomping grounds, stepped in the Atlantic ocean. Loved Papusas in Britton's favorite area in Lynne, attend church at his favorite branch in Boston. we walked up the Monument at Bunker hill

 that Britton had done a number of times on his p days but we didn't get to do when we went for our honeymoon, it was fun to do that part of Freedon trail this time

 

It was so fun to spend time together visting beautiful people that so strongly influenced Britton 12 years ago, and see the love the still had for him so many years.


The flight home was so nice to had Dad around, I even got to read a book on the plane it was so great!

Thanks Mom, Dad and Cooper for watching the big kids. It was was an awesome trip.

Spring Break

We had a quiet spring break. The first weekend we went on a bike ride a celebrated EasterThe only way I can keep up with Britton is to give him a 80+ pounds in his trailer and make him keep track of the dog. It was good to be on the bike again, just need to decide what race to do this year.

Easter was really fun, I got to speak in Sacrament meeting, and then my parents had the missionaries over for lunsh so we hid easter eggs for them. Conway and Elle loved helping them find them, it was pretty adorable, we love our sister Missionaries

The rest of the week we would tried going to a park every day until we would get to cold, then we would come home and do some kind of art project

For the last weekend of Spring Break we went to Ramah for a few days to play with cousins and watch Conference with Mimi and Grandpa. One of the highlights was helping Grandpa milk his new cow, we enjoyed trying his first homemade cheese too.

After ten years of driving passed El Morrow national monument, we finally made time to go. It is an inscription rock with signatures back to the 1700's It was really cool to see and I am so glad I finally know what is there, I want to go back and walk the 2 mile trail this summer sometime if anyone wants to go with me.

Thankfully when we got home the snow was melted and it warmed up in time to go back to school and work. Not spring break of beaches and sunshine, but we loved doing fun things with people we love.

 

 

Makeover

Paint and shelves.
We have been making over our new home it has helped us feel less like renters and more like homeowners.

The kitchen was first. The off pink color did not fit the cupboards and counters. So we went with a tan color that we really like. Britton made me a beautiful barn wood floating shelf.  When I switched out my China hutch for this buffet I was really missing a place to display my dishes.  Problem solved!

The kids bathroom was a very soft pink and again not our favorite we went with a light gray. This is probably my favorite color in the house now. Britton made me shelves here for over the toilet since the toilet has three walls around it we got to make them nice and big, I see them being very useful in the future when each kid will have a whole counter full of stuff. I thought it would be fun to add a accent wall here and wall paper behind the shelves. When I mentioned this to my Dad he asked how strong our marriage was. I was confused at first but after wallpapering with my husband I understand even a small wall can drive you crazy. I went with a simple  one step stick on paper that we only had to do two columns of but when it didn't stick and the first piece fell all the way off when we started the second piece... there was a whole lot of anger in that bathroom! But doesn't it look great now? And we are still married so it was not a complete  disaster. But let's just say the shelves are pulling double duty, holding their own stuff and keeping the paper on the wall.

Last project was our bathroom. It was a sea foam green, pastel and absolutely my least favorite color in the house. We wanted to highlight the awesome tile in our shower and make it a little more retreat feeling. So we used kale green. It is dark but we are really liking it. Here we did floating shelves above the toilet and next to the vanity. I LOVE these shelves. Britton did such  a good job on them, I could not have found anything more perfect for this bathroom. We are hoping to keep our counter cleaned off from here on out now.

Both bathrooms got some other adjustment with the lights, mirrors and towel racks. Nothing new just moved around to be more functional.

We are officially homeowners with a list of house projects, but it was fun to get these three knocked out. Still waiting for a little warmer

weather to tackle the garage, but that will be next.

Love from your Los Alamos Lambsons