Happy Birthday, Sara and Trey!

Boy. I suck.. Happy Belated Birthday to my sweet sister, Sara and the best brother, Trey!

We'll start with Trey:
Trey turned 24 years old on April 16th! Good heavens! When did that happen?

Here are 24 memories and things about Trey:
1. Trey is only a year younger than me. This meant we always had someone to play with!
2. Trey use to play baseball. His position was catcher, believe it or not.
3. You wouldn't know from looking at him now, but Trey was always the shortest in his class.
Always on the bottom row in class pictures.. I was so jealous!
4. Trey is SO sweet to his sisters and mama. He'd do anything for us.
5. Trey is always the favorite. All the cousins love him.. the family pets.. teachers.. parents.. etc.
6. He is SO good at building things! Seriously! If you every need some costume furniture,
frames, etc he's the man to call!
7. Trey had beautiful blond curly hair when he was little. And a mullet for much of his
childhood.
8. Trey taught himself to play the guitar. And he is amazing at it.
9. I like telling people he's my brother.
10. He's in an awesome band, God's Revolver.
11. He calls me "Chelly-Belly" and I love it!
12. I wish he'd live with me.
13. We use to play "RV" when we were little. (We shared a room and had bunk beds.. we
pretended the bunk bed was an RV.)
14. Trey is really funny! He likes to make up laffy taffy jokes..
15. He gets along great with all his sisters husbands.
16. He use to wear a Kangaroo hat. AND a Captain Hook hat.. nerd.
17. He use to know all the words to the Bart Simpson rap.. I bet he still does.
18. Trey is REALLY smart. But he's modest and if you asked, he'd say no.
19. He has a great singing voice.
20. He loves OtterPops.
21. He also loves Ramen.
22. His first CD was Tag Team. Whoop There It Is!
23. He is good at everything he does.
24! He is the best brother in the whole world! And I love him SO much!


Now for Sara Jane. She just turned 29 yesterday! Oh my! She's almost 30!

1. Sara was the first born.

2. Sara doesn't have TV or a cell phone.. She barely has the internet. She is such a hippie.

3. She lives in house that is or is almost a hundred years old.

4. Have you heard of "Crazy Cat Ladies"?? Well, Sara is a Crazy Gecko Lady.. but in a good way.

5. She is an amazing art teacher at Dixie High!

6. She loves her puppy dogs. They are her babies!

7. Sara is a Yahtzee Champion.

8. She makes beautiful pottery.

9. She always smells SO good! (I know I tell you that you stink, Sara.. but I don't mean it!)

10. Her hair always looks GREAT and her eyebrows are naturally amazing!

11. She doesn't have a facebook or myspace or blog.

12. Sara will get up way early and do Black Friday with me. I know she hates it. But she does it cause she loves me.

13. Sara use to try and scare me when we were little.. I would pretend to be scared and yell for my mom.. just to get her in trouble! .. sorry Sara.

14. She has a "special" relationship with Halsie.

15. When I'm in need of good laugh, I know I can call her. She makes me laugh SO hard!

16. Sara gets up way too early on the weekends.

17. She would always get "smart kid" presents at Christmas.

18. I'm so proud of who she is. I'm so lucky to have her as my sister.

19. She sends me awesome stuff in the mail.

20. Sara always has the best movies.

21. I love that she asked for a peach tree for her birthday last year.. and this year it was money for flowers.

22. Sara once puked on our play chalk board... I was so upset.

23. Sara, Brynn and their friends made up a club called "The Red Hots" when we were little. They wouldn't let me be in it. Until, mom made them. :)

24. Sara, like Trey, has a beautiful singing voice.

25. She is a great baker!

26. I love that she not only teaches art, but I believe she opens these kids minds. She plays "new" music for them (like The Beatles, Yellow Submarine) during class.

27. She has perfect skin. I'm jealous.

28. She would go out of her way to help anyone.

29! She is a beautiful wonderful person! I'm so lucky to have her as an older sister!

Easter Time

Brandon and I went to Lyman, Utah (AKA Wayne County) for Easter. His Mom is from there and her family still lives there. We had a really great time with everyone! His cousin, Brock, just returned from his mission for the LDS Church and spoke in sacrament meeting on Sunday. He did a really great job! We are happy to have him home, safe and sound. :)
While down there, I found a field FULL of sheep with their baby lambs! Ah. SO cute! I had to take pictures!

Look at his cute little black knees! It makes me melt..
This ewe was pissed that I was taking pictures of her.
She stood up straight and snorted at me.

I just thought this was funny..

I call this one: The Sisters

Or: Sara, Brynn, Chelsea

Ahhhh..

Ahhhh... again.

Too funny! All the little lambs were so hungry!

They would run and ram the ewes.. right in the boobie!

While on our little drive, we got stopped by cows crossing.

This one just stopped. Stood there. And wouldn't stop looking at me.

So I did what anyone would do.

I mooed and took her picture.

This is Brandon's Grandpa's workshop.

I loved it.

Peace loving hoodlums.

Kitler

Hitler the cat? This website is really funny :)

Long time.. no bloggy

I haven't blogged in awhile, so I thought I give it a whirl.
Not much has been going on here at the Childs' home. Brandon has been working hard in Parawon, UT all week.. every week.. He comes home late Thursday night and leaves again early Monday morning. It's really crappy not having him around (Iraq flashbacks??), but at least comes home on the weekends :)
It was just Halsie's birthday. We had a fun time shopping and eating Super Grinders on her super special day! It was really fun! Last night we had her birthday party. It was a lot of fun too and everyone seemed to have a good time!
Salem has officially moved up in the world!! We have 2 stop lights now and.. get this.. a GROCERY STORE!! I love it! I don't have to drive 10 minutes to get milk any more! I really do love living here. We are excited that it's getting warmer. I can't wait to get started on the landscaping! We are going to be building my garden boxes next weekend, I hope.
Well, not much more going on. I'll have to post some pictures from Halsie's bday party.. later. :)

Sydney Pictures

Can I just that I LOVE SYDNEY??!! She is such a cute little girl! Halsie came over yesterday and we took some pictures of her. It was a great time (and I must say, the blue room takes AWESOME pictures!), Halsie and Trent were singing and dancing behind me.. They were doing anything to make her laugh!

If anyone is interested in some pictures, just let me know! I'd love to take them :)

Da House..

Well, part of it. :)

I really don't want to put pics on here of my dirty house! I swear I clean it and turn around only to find it in shambles again. So props go out to all you ladies out there! Cleaning house is a pain in the butt!

First Room: HALL BATHROOM

Your first tour is of my hall bathroom.. First room finished. :) Brandon was a little worried when I told him I bought PINK towels for the hall bathroom, but he admits it turned out REALLY good! We still might hang some beadboard, but we might not as well. What's your opinion on that?

Cute Pink Towels. Cute Toilet Bowl Cleaner Holder, Mr. Cat.

Shelf Above Toilet. Most of that stuff came from D.I. and I crafted it up.

(Yes. I know. "Crafted" isn't a word)

The Sink. There isn't a lot of counter space, so we added the cute shelf above. Ikea, $15.

Ignore the white spot on the wall.. my Husband decided to hang the towel rack really high. :)

Looking in from the hall. I really do love this bathroom!

Second Room: LIVING ROOM

The living room is coming together. It's not done, but it's still cozy and we enjoy watching TV in there. I need to get a rug and some kind of art to go above the fireplace. The fireplace, by the way, is our FAVORITE! It's SO awesome! Also, please disregard the mess.

I really should have fixed the pillows before taking this picture. :)

Also, Notice in the dinning room area (Top Right), NO KITCHEN TABLE!!!

I have decided to paint the one we got from his Grandma.. And I've been a slacker.

Got to love random speakers everywhere.. I really wish Brandon would find them a place SOON!

Our Front Door.

Well, I hope you enjoyed your mini tour of my house. When I get more things cleaned and put together, I'll post more. Our room is coming along too, but Brandon is asleep in the bed.. That would make for a great picture! :) I'll post pictures of it soon. I want to show the end tables we got (Thanks Mom and Bryce!). They were old and not very cute.. but I slapped some black paint on them and they look GREAT!

The House is done! hooray!

Yes. The house is done. And no, I don't have any pictures yet. My bad!
It's all in a shambles right now. With Brandon and I both working, it's hard to get the place together. But it is coming along!
When we get the internet hooked up (another reason why I haven't posted any pictures) on the 18th, I'll post some pics.
I REALLY REALLY LOVE IT!!! It is so nice to be there. To come home and be able to make dinner with an oven and stove!!! It's great!
Oh, and the house warming party is in the works!! I'll let you all know, so you can mark it in your calendars! :)