Desert Dwellers

I finallly had a great trip to St. George (mostly surrounding areas of St. George)! I love the Desert and my soul is happy to return to fabulous, reliable, HEAT!
It was just me and the kids on this trip. On Thursday we had a quick swim in St. George with my Bro and his girls who were in town, then that evening we visited my Pop and Debra in Virgin. I have no photos of the evening as Debra was the photographer for the night!

Friday we drove to Overton, NV to my Aunt's house to celebrate High School Graduation with my cousin Kallie! It was a full day, including lots of family, food, swimming, sun, and an almost-speeding-ticket from Officer Johnson (who let me off with a warning because he knows Kallie! Whew!)

Most of the Lawhon cousins together in Overton!

After leaving fairly early from Overton to get our 2 hour drive started, (we were headed back to Teed's house in Sprindgale) we got stopped on the freeway due to a terrible accident. both sides of the freeway were stopped and we were the lucky ones to have been stopped for only just over an hour! This is my sister and I having a very nice truck driver take our photo hanging off his trailer! Its not often one gets to play in the freeway! *We finally got home at 2:00 am*

Saturday was spent at Quail Lake. My cousin Mason found us a great swimming hole and shaded beach.

Me and my kids enjoying the fabulous mix of Sun and Water!

Sunday my siblings, my mom, and the kids took a hot trip into Zion National Park (yeah for free National Park Day!) Daxon, Zayla, Shaylynn and McKynley were happy to be together again!


Zayla, Daxon and Shay playing around after we got done eating. It was so hot that we then had to go find a river and cool off.

It was a fun trip with each day thoroughly exhausting my kids! What more could one want?!

Our Recent Doings...

Someone mentioned to me that I was really slacking on my blogging efforts (thanks Mandra!)...I am sorry! Much has been happening, so here a few shots of whats been going on!








Daxon is in TBall! Its one of the most entertaining things ever!



Zayla playing with her baby and a hole in a box...(I just threw this in here cuz she is so cute!) We are also prepping for potty-training!


I just got back from my annual "Girls Weekend" This year we were abducted by Aliens!


Daxon just graduated from Pre School!

And the best news of all: I now have a kitchen sink and countertops! The remodel is coming back to where things are livable again! I will get photos posted as soon as I clean it up a bit! Ha!

Love to all!

IS THIS EVER GOING TO END?

On May 10th it will have been a month of living with a torn apart kitchen.

I still don't have counters or a sink...

But the Tile is beautiful.
The walls are mostly done with the new color of paint....
The stairs are carpet-free and the woodwork that Blue is doing on them will be fabulous (but currently there are no steps...)

Clearly, the project has spread from just the Kitchen floors to the kitchen cabinets, the Front Room, stairs down to the living room, the stair banisters, and the back part of the living room...

I have not enough energy to get my camera and hook it up and wait for a photo of the chaos to upload. So, you'll just have to be patient...as will I.

We Were Held in the Hands of the Lord Today.

In a fit of rage, Daxon fell from his bedroom window into the bushes below today.

His bedroom is on the second floor.

He is covered in scrapes and cuts, very shaken, but otherwise okay.

I am okay too...

I am so thankful for daily blessings. It could have been so much worse!

Moral of the story: Lock your kids up tight and never let them out of your sight!

String up the Caution Tape and don your Hard Hats!

WE ARE UNDER CONSTRUCTION!!!

Five years we have lived in this house.

Five years we have "planned" on ripping out the gross carpet and replacing it with tile. (Carpet in the dining room - really?)

One year ago Hubband took out the bar/counter that closed off the kitchen from the dining room. (while I was out of town no less!)

If any of you know my hubband, then you understand that his grand scheming brain cannot just stop at a simple tile job...where is the challenge in that?
Which is why we are now re-arranging the entire kitchen plan! We have been talking about it for a while, and Hubband has planned and re planned what he wants to do over and over again. Finally I said "Lets do it!" So we took a trip to IKEA on Friday evening, and got all ready to start ripping apart our kitchen! When we got home and dumped the kids in bed (truly, they were so tired!) we came downstairs and suddenly stopped in our tracks and stared at our kitchen silently for about 10 minutes...

We didn't start anything until the next night!


One final shot of my small, peaceful kitchen (peaceful because it was actually clean!)


End of Day one kitchen-carnage! (Saturday night.) Who rips their kitchen apart at 11:00 pm?! Amazingly, the kids slept through all the noise!



Day two of kitchen-carnage! Daxon is in heaven with all the "helping" he gets to do!!!
Good riddance ghetto linoleum!!!!

Can life be any more exciting???!!!

Girls Trip 2010

This year's girls trip took us to San Francisco!! This place is such a great city and full of many "world famous" things! Some highlights include:


World Famous HAIGHT & ASHBURY Baby!!
I have always wanted to come here and recommit to my grooviness - and so I have!


All my sexy ladies (Lisa, Andrea, Melly, Nat, Leslie, and Milissa) on the boat to "World Famous" Alcatraz. (I never did get a photo of the 7 of us together - for that I am relying on the other gals!)


"World Famous" Fishermans Wharf
This is my favorite photo taken (from my stash). I am thinking I will have someone photoshop me in there....


A fabulous random shot from riding on the "World Famous" Cable Cars! (Try it in the rain too, so fun!)


We went to "Wicked" the first night, and I LOVED it!! Please notice: the SEQUINS!!! We planned a year ago that one evening on our next trip we would bedazzle oursleves with sequins, and so we did! All 7 of us in our Sequins was quite a site to behold!

Other "World Famous" bits: Sears Fine Food "World Famous" for little pancakes, "World Famous" Head Shop near Haight and Ashbury (but I already forgot the name of it!), "World Famous" everything in Union Square!, "World Famous" Coit Tower, and our very own "World Famous" Sir Frances Drake Hotel!

He Knows What He Wants....

Daxon got some new glasses, and these were the only pair he would try on or even consider. You want to know why? Because now he looks "just like Daddy"!


Some Serious Handsomness.....