happy easter friends!

He lives.

Stay a while won't you? Guest Room

This room is the home to everything thrifted, gifted and where the heck should we put this?  Oh and the room for my beloved friends and family when they pay us a visit. I love having space for our guest and dream of one day having a guess suite! Actually I daydream of living closer to mine or Kylers family. We have lived in Utah for 3 years and I often wonder when the home sickness will wear off? But ever so slowly I am starting to make friends (I am very shy...if you meet me in real life you might think someone ghost writes this thing...ha) 

and the veil of loneliness is starting to lift! My soul is rejoicing. 

 In some ways I envy the mothers of the past where you see photos of them all doing laundry in the river together....Not that I would be willing to give up my washing machine for anything. I simply envy the closeness they must of had with each other. Motherhood can be isolating at times. And as much as I love talking to my sisters and Madre multiple times a day on the phone (I really, really do) and peeking on the lives of my BBF (best blog friends) The distance makes  It is super hard to give you hug or make you lunch ;)

 Side note my friend (and I love saying that) is baby sitting the pillows I normally have on that bed and so I stole those little numbers off of my sofa and regretted it when I uploaded the photos...haha I should have just kept it simple...lesson probably has not been learned :)

So The Husband and I have been flirting with some pretty drastic decision for a few years...More like we have beaten them to death, put them to rest only for one of us to resurrect them again! It is so hard to sort out what is best with my strong will. I am the type of girl that If I want it bad enough I will try to make it happen. Take that brief case for example, I just knew it would make the perfect photography prop for a snugly newborn. It wasn't for sale and to make a long story short now I have it holding up a lamp that I still need to make a shade for. But I am really trying to listen to what our Heavenly Fathers plans is for our little family of four. I pray that I can be in tune and smart enough to simply listen.

cheap vase + spray paint = double thumbs up

By Cate.

There is something that makes me deliriously happy about fresh cut flowers (Kyler this is me totally, completely and very publicly hinting ;) After those lovely flowers have reigned with beauty I am always stuck with a cheap clear vase that I never can seem to part with.....In my cupboard they sat just collecting dust waiting for the day for me to bust out some ecru spray paint and see them for what they had...potential! I went through my home collecting twine from the garage, nail polish, scrap fabric, a broken baby bracelet, an old Urban Outfitter magazine, glitter glue.....and I have know idea where those wooden swans came from (now I am living in fear someone is going to claim them and question me on why I glued them on to a vase.....?)  Off to work I went....so simple and yet so rewarding....it feels like a more personal way to deliver flowers and cost only cents to create....double thumbs up!

Speaking of things that make me deliriously happy.....

Here is to a Thursday that is nothing but happy! 

oh and brickyard buffalo is having an auction for those sweet angels from Sandy Hook elementary school!

p.s. this snow session I did for my cousin makes me smile....you can hardly tell we never left my driveway thanks to all the white stuff!

The best kind of day...with the birds

Sometimes you can only read and sing about farm animals so much before your children are ready for the real deal (well sorta the real deal;) You might be asking yourself ...How as a parent do you know when your child is ready? Well you really don't....We came last year..that was a bit soon..But when Dallas (my sweet nephew) was mooing at every cow and Jett has been chasing me around our home with his stuffed swan yelling "bawk- BAWK- bawk!" We thought it just might be time!

 Oh and we were right! After being cooped up with sick babies for a seemingness endless winter the sunshine and fresh air were more than welcomed! Our souls feel rejuvenated.  Good things are starting to happen....I can just feel it! My spirits seem to lift and fall with the sun. Thankfully the sun has been shining!

Jett kept on poking his little fingers through the chicken wire to feed the birds. He shocked us when he turned and said "Tur-tey?"  A few of the very happiest kind of tears were shed over that seemingly simple word. 

That little boy of mine has taught me (in the words of my older sister) that "love is not always heard but felt" Oh but when he does speak my soul rejoices. I can't wait to hear what he has to say! More often than I care to admit I lay awake at night imagining him saying that he loves me back :) Which really is quite silly....I mean he isn't even Three. I just can't help but wonder what is going on in that beautiful mind of his....I am hoping that someday soon he will tell me what he is thinking.....I would love that.

People (as in complete strangers) are starting to ask me questions....in not the kindness way or manner about my Jett.

I am having a hard time not hating (it makes me a bit queasy that I am dropping the "H" word so loosely) them for it.....I sometimes wish it would be socially acceptible  to simply punch them in the face....;) I just don't feel like my eyebrow shooting up and telling them to go to H -E- double hockey sticks with the look in my eyes... stings quite badly enough..;) Especially because it always seems to be followed with me smiling sweetly at them .....and  talking overly cheerful....I blame my Mom for teaching me to always be kind....HAHA

On a happier note------I can't help but love myself some cute little cowboys in training!!!  They were the sweetest! And Winnie made the best cheerleader!! I think I would rather have a Shetland pony than a Dog...who wants to talk Kyler into that for me? any takers?? I will let your children come over for rides anytime you like! I promise.

 My hair is going from dark chocolate to carmel and hopefully this week I will be a "Blondie" I speak dessert fluently ;) Kyler saw this photo and said "Cate look at the kids"....anyone else guilty of only looking at themselves in photos??? haha

 I never anticipated seeing my child behind bars making my heart melt....oh but it did! And what type of mother laughs as hard as I was??

It is safe to say today was the best kind of day....

It truly was! Thanks Mike and Candi for inviting us!

Here is to remembering it :)

*For anyone who was worried about my very pregnant  lovely twin sister getting nauseous with all the different animals "aromas"  that we encountered....It was making me sick so naturally I was concerned for her....She said she LOVED the smell it made her feel at home ...But Candi was a former shepherd turned dental hygienist  HAHA so the verdict is still out if she was kidding about wishing they had a candle in the farm animal scent...!!
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