It's in the Bag!

We had a few people tell us about the "It's in the Bag" food storage system.  It sounded like a good idea, so we decided to give it a try. I bought the book at Seagull. Mike went to work building shelves in the cold storage. He also did most if not all the shopping, he's better at that then I am.

We've liked almost everything so far.  There were couple that we tried before we decided it would be one of our meals.  We picked about 16 recipes and made 6 bags of each recipe. 

This is what happened to our house, while we worked the kids destroyed.  We were pretty focused and it took us all day!

This is our finished product.  It is so nice to be able to go down and just grab a meal, have everything I need, and be done in 15-20 minutes. I love it.  Your supposed to restock your bag as soon as you use it, we've decided to wait for case lot sales to restock...just to save a little money.

Anyway, I highly recommend "It's in the bag".  We love it.

Jaycee's Room Makeover

Before I start with Jaycee's room I have one more picture of Wesley's.  Now his room is all done except for one wall...I'm thinking of doing his name and a 11x14 picture of him. We'll see.

I've been wanting to decorate Jaycee's room for a long time.  I knew exactly what I wanted. Jaycee didn't exactly agree with me, so I did end up changing the bedding I was going to get.  It still matched with the other things I wanted to do and it is her room after all.  She has been begging for an owl bed.  So that's what we did.  Here are a couple before pictures.  We really hadn't done much but hang her name and the cross stitched fairies.

Here's the bed Mike made right after I painted it.  The night stand is one I had when I was little, just added a little paint.

And the finished project.

It turned out better then I had imagined and Jaycee loves it!

I painted the bigger tree.  The smaller tree and all the owls and other things are stickers.  I got them at Target, so worth the money.  They were easy to put up and the best thing about them is you can remove them and put them somewhere else easy.  Not like vinyl.

Now the only room I have let is mine.  I have found several things I want for it, either they were to expensive or I couldn't fit it in my car to bring home. In California at Old San Diego there was a guy selling watercolors with dried flowers in old frames.  They were beautiful but big and our car was already really stuffed! I'm so sad I wasn't able to get one, they were a really good deal too! :(  If he had been in Utah I would have bought several. 

Happy Birthday Jaycee!!!

Jaycee's birthday was yesterday and we had such a good  day!  When she woke up I tried to talk her into going out for breakfast...all she wanted was toast!  So we stayed home and had toast.  Then she wanted to ride bikes and go to the park.  So, we rode our bikes to the park.  Then we went to Chick-fil-a and the kids played on the toys...not something we would normally do.  I'm not a fan of fast food toys. Yuck.  Then we came home took a nap.  We'll the kids took a nap, Mike worked on getting the yard and house ready for guests and I frosted the cake.

Then it was party time.  We had all our families come over, with the exception of a few, and had such a good time.  Jaycee was all about the presents this year, it was pretty cute.  We had pulled pork sandwiches, fruit, chips and patato salad.  Then ofcourse cake and ice cream. Yum.

We are so blessed to have Jaycee in our lives.  She is so sweet, she loves to help...with everything from laundry, cooking, yard work.  You name it she wants to help.  She loves dancing, singing, riding her bike, playing with her cousins, swimming and she is a really big teaser! She teases everyone all the time! Sometimes funny, sometimes not so funny. 

For her birthday she wanted an owl bed.  This is what she ended up with.

Mike actually made the bed, then I painted it.

I think it turned out really cute and she absolutley loves it.  Wesley likes it too.

We love our sweet baby Jaycee and are so grateful to have her in our lives.
Oh, and by the way, she turned 4.

Jaycee's Dance Recital

The day before we left for our California trip Jaycee had a dance recital.  She's been taking dance since October.  The first few months I went crazy watching her, she was so naughty and didn't listen. (I'm going to be one of those horrible sideline moms!) The last couple of months she did really well.  I am so proud of my little dancer she did such a good job!

CANCER

We found out a month or so ago that my mom has cancer.  Plasma cell myeloma is what it's called, basically it makes tumors that grow in/on her bones and breaks them. It is incurable and life expectancy is 2-10 years.  They are hoping, with her being younger then the normal person that gets this cancer, that they will be able to treat her more aggressively. This type of cancer is rare and usually causes kidney failure. 

In November she was having rib pain but couldn't remember doing anything to hurt them. Theirs not much you can do for a broken rib but give it time, and so she did.  In February when it was still hurting her they did an x-ray and found that she had two tumors. So this is how we found out she had cancer.  After a lot of tests and scans they found that she has tumors from her head down to her feet.

She started Chemo on May 17th and because she has so many health problems (tracheotomy, acid reflex stuff) she has to stay in the hospital so they can monitor her carefully.  It's hard because she is at the U of U hospital, kind of far away, and we all have kids that can't go to the hospital.  So I've only been to see her twice.  We take turns watching each others kids so we all get the chance to be with her.  She's been doing fairly well, they have her pretty drugged up. She's hoping they will let her come home in the next week or two for about a week, then she'll have to go back for stem cell injections and more chemo. Yuck!

She has had the best outlook and has been really positive. I think she's just happy to finally know what is wrong with her.  She's been in so much pain for so long.

Anyway, cancer sucks!