Bruiser

Bruise is ready for Pirate football!!

( this is the only piece of "clothing" he will own)

Lehman Caves!

This weekend we took Zack, Whitney, Kenzie & Trevor camping up to Mt Wheeler/ Lehman Caves. We had a blast. We got there on Friday afternoon and started setting up camp and I got really sick. We think that I might have had slight altitude sickness. Headache, dizziness, nausea, vomiting etc, it was not fun. I wanted to die and come home. I felt so bad that I was laying in the tent and not doing anything. After about 3 hours I told Brandon I felt like we should leave. It started to rain and Brandon and the kids hurried and packed everything up, but the tent and air mattress I was on. I didn't want to leave because everyone was so excited and we drove 4 hours to get there. I was crying and all of the sudden I was started to feel better! I told Brandon I was feeling better and didn't want to leave. We went back and forth on whether we should leave or not. Brandon felt we should leave, but I was being a brat. I sat there and wouldn't get out of the tent so they couldn't take it down. Finally, I convinced Brandon that if I wasn't better in the morning we would leave. I'm SO glad I was better in the morning because we ended up having a fun time. I love spending time with my siblings and this time Trevor too.

If you look close you can see a double rainbow. Zack took this while Brandon was trying to get me out of the tent.

This is the campground we stayed at. I forgot to take pictures of our campsite.

We did the Lehman Cave tour. Not going to lie I was scared at first when they shut the door into the cave. I have a fear of being trapped.

We went on a hike to lake Teresa. It was a nice little hike. We wanted to do a longer one but didn't have time before our Cave tour. Friday Brandon also took everyone on another hike but they didn't know where my camera was so no pictures of that.

Saturday was also Kenzie's 12th Birthday!!! We had a little party for her.

All in all it was a great trip. Nice to get out of the heat and had a great time with family. Cant wait until the next camping adventure.

Bruisers new trick and Grandma Gainey's Visit

I went in to my room and found Bruiser has a new trick. He waits until you put a brand new roll of tp on then takes it off the roll for you. Next he hides half of it under the bed. I was so mad! But he is so cute.

Grandma Gainey came to visit for a weekend to plan Zacks graduation trip and we took a break from planning to play the Wii. Grandma was so funny to watch. She was getting way into it. I had to make sure she had the wrist strap on so I didn't have to buy a new TV.

My new Kitchen

In June I had this CRAZY idea to redo my kitchen. I couldn't rip everything out and start over so a few gallons of paint would have to do. We painted the walls yellow and I didn't like the look of the cabinets so thanks to all the DIY blogs I decided to paint them. Let me just say next time I'll will be more then willing to pay the thousand of dollars and have them done by someone else. Brandon told me I was crazy before we started and half way through I was believing him that I was. But I LOVE how they turned out. Pictures don't do it justice. I have always loved the old country look so that's what I went with. I forgot to take pictures of the whole kitchen before I started.

This is what all the cabinets looked like to start with.


Looks like I need to organize.

Paint drying then it started to pour and only lasted 5 minutes. I was so mad.

The finished project!

Probably one of my favorite thing. I found this way cool frame at an antique shop but it was broken. I took it to Grandpa and he fixed it for me. Now I have a cute magnet board to put pictures and you all know how much I LOVE picture! If you send me one this is where it will be displayed.(hint hint, send'em my way!)

Next project: the guest bathroom!

June Vacation

Brandon and I took a trip down to Santa Monica to hang out by the beach and hit up a Dodger vs Braves game. All in all it was a way fun trip except for the stupid drunk Mexicans at the ball game who perfected the "f" word and spilt beer on Brandon (lets just say Lacey wasn't to happy with that). Our good friends the Francoms and the Phillipenass went down too. Its always fun going on vacations with good company. Hopefully this was the first of a few trips this summer. Maybe we'll go camping next.

Wedding weekend

Brandon's sister Brianne married Robert this weekend in Vegas. It was a very beautiful wedding and we are so happy for them. We also decided to make a weekend get away out of it and stayed at Harrahs hotel in a nice suite. Congrats Brianne and Robert!!!

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day to all the amazing Mothers out there!

This is a day that I dread every year, but I am thankful to all of you Mother's who are wonderful examples to me and I know one day I will get to enjoy the title of Mother.