Dresser updated

I have been corrected. This dresser was not made by my grandpa Ellis, it was my great grandma Standers and before that I don't know. I may need to refinish it back to it's original look someday!

I have had a dresser in my garage(s) for over two years and have finally found time to repaint it. This dresser was made by my grandpa Ellis for my mom when she was little and my mom painted it fuchsia pink and black to match her bedroom when she got married. I wish I would have taken a picture of it but didn't think about it until after it was done. After shortening my life by inhaling the lead paint that I sanded off, I feel pretty good with the outcome. Sorry it is so dark. I have it all painted but will need some help getting it out of the garage and into the house.

BRINLEY REALLY IS GROWING!

Today we (Brinley and I) jumped the gun a little and bought Brinley a big girl car seat. We thought she would be in the front facing baby one until she was 10 years old. Turns out we were wrong!

Height is great Weight- 2 smidgeons off perfect - Give her a glass of water!

Rules for Doug's info
New fancy chair that Brinley says is awesome and she can't believe that she gets to have it.

I found one that is just her size WOOH-HOO!

Family pictures

Thanks Jan and Shad for managing to get all of us in the pictures. We appreciate you both.

School work

When you have kids in school, it seems like they come home with about 15-20 papers a week. I pretty much have stopped looking at them because basically, it's annoying! Well I have a stack of them on the cabinet that is about 2 inches high. I decided I had better do a quick look through today before I throw them all out.

Looking through them I noticed that Lincoln's teacher has had them doing a weekend news page where they write and draw a picture of what they did on the weekend.

These were actually kind of cute and I could tell exactly what they were. I thought I would share them and I guess I will put them in his photo album so that he can see how cute they are when he is older. But let it be known that I am not going to be doing this with every page that is sent home. UUUGH!

Lincoln hiking Angels landing with his dad and uncle Steven.

Lincoln playing soccer

Lincoln at Grandpa Bob's on Labor day with all the grandkids making stepstones with their hand and footprints. I like how he showed them all standing in the cement and the colored stones as well as (I believe) Monique bent over on her knees helping out at the bottom or could that possibly be the ever famous Ayvri that wanted to do it over and over and over again.

Arizona

Well, it's official. Doug will start working as of this next Monday in Arizona. What does this mean for us?

1. A Job
2. temporarily short/long term family seperation
3. thoughts about our house - sale
4. moving - when - where - how
5. Again, much appreciated answers to our prayers with as usual, questions of "What is really next for us?"
6. We do love Arizona and hope that this works out for us, however, we also love Utah and the people that live here.
7. Is this deja vu?

Wish us luck!

Growing up

These are all the grandkids from the Aguilar family. They are growing faster than we can keep up. We have starting from the left, Dallas, Hilary, Shenay, Josh, Ayvri, Caleb, Davin, Denny, Shandra, Lincoln, Anna, Holly, Brinley and Addy. We usually get the grandchildren picture at the Spruces every year but missed this year.

We took advantage of Labor day to have this picture done so that we wouldn't miss a year. Dallas the oldest has just received his mission call to Guadalajara, Mexico and so we will not have another year with them all together for a couple years.

We love the kids and their great individual personalities that they each bring to the family parties.

Great Saturday Fun!

We had a really fun day yesterday out a Jordanelle with Aunt Jan and Uncle Rod playing at the lake. We have the funnest relatives and I love that we are able to socialize for hours and it never gets old. Sadly enough, I took my camera but left it up at the truck when we were down at the lake.

My kids were able to go on a boat for the very first time and they both rode the tube behind the boat. They had a blast. Doug did a little water skiing and also rode the tube. I enjoyed watching them all.

Terrah, my cousin brought up some dark blue frosted sugar cookies so that was an added bonus to see everyone with blue teeth, lips and even a couple noses. Jan was able to get a picture of Brinley and Cora after the cookie. It's a classic.









On the drive up we were able to see the hot air balloons flying right above our truck. I was able to take a few pictures until Lincoln became to panicked thinking that I would fall out the window of the truck.












On the way home, I got a picture of a great sunset over the Great Salt Lake. It just so happened to be a very scenic and fun filled day.









Thanks to everyone that came and especially thanks to Jan and Rod for sharing your day with us.