Valentines & Violin

 Just can't get over how cute this little 3 year old girl is!!!

 Elle just started to play the violin 2 weeks ago! Her and I get along very very well when it comes to a student teacher relationship, so I have decided to start out teaching her myself and continue having Riley & Sunny stay with their awesome violin teacher and just help them practice everyday! Elle can tell you all of the parts of the violin, hold her violin up for 3 minutes, and play tucka tucka stop stop on the a and e string! She loves that she can finally play with her older brother and sister!!!

 2 cute little violin girls

 Happy Valentines Day! Chocolate & books!!!

Violin Recital & Ward Talent Show this weekend! Riley played Humoresque at the talent show and recital, Sunny played Allegretto, and Regan and I performed the Devil went down to Georgia {our signature we leave in every ward we have been in} I love the fact that my kids are really good at the violin, and they actually enjoy playing!!!

Before Picture

This is the before picture of our family room! Pretty, but just no color! The rug was taking up the whole room!

New Family Room

 Why can't I just be content with the way things already are in my house is the question, but for some reason I have this design bug in me and I don't even have real experience in design! All I know is that whey I see an idea and like it, I kinda feel like I have to do it! I sold 2 rugs on ksl and used that money to start this project! I was super nervous about painting a stencil on to a rug, and Regan was too, but he never said no so I went for it! I ordered a houndstooth stencil online, painted it onto an ikea rug and this is what you get! I saw this idea on vintage revivals website and LOVED it! I brought some blue and yellow's into the room as well! It was fun to feel like I was going shopping in my own house because we have not used that coffee table, end table and lamp for years!

 I am making a cute wreath to go above the double doors!

 Love the distressed look of the table and rug! Love that I found cool books to go on my table!

 My cute Sister Ashley made me this flower pillow and the F pillow below for Christmas! Aren't they awesome! I got the cool blue pillows from my amazing friend Manon!

 K-fell in love with this chair from the 1st time I saw it! I honestly think it pulls everything together!

 Love that my bookcases don't look cluttery anymore! I still wish that tv was not there but hey, it was free and was already mounted to the wall when we bought the house!

On top of the piano-the pray, read, obey and smile are a young women thing but Love that it can help our family out too!!! I still need to paint the lamp shade and put a few more extras in, but this is it!

Happy Valentines Day

 When things are too large to put in Sunny's school book, I take a picture of them and then throw them away! I know that is harsh, but I can't keep this huge valentine and Lincoln hat forever right?

 I don't know what was going on with Elle, but big Sis Sunny was right there to comfort her during our routine twinner outfit pic!

 I was in charge of Riley's class Valentines Party and the craft in Sunny's class party! Rounding up 48 cans for this crafts was not easy but a lot of my friends came through for me and gave me what they had, and we ate progresso soup and green beans for a week!!! I made up this idea of making valentine robots with the cans because boys and girls would like it and it turned out to be a hit! I had parents and teachers coming in the classroom to check out how cute they were and the kids loved decorating them!!!

 These are the extra cans that we made on Valentines Night!!!

Welcome Home Elder McKell

 Middle of January was a shock because we found out that my cute brother who is serving a mission in Mexico had to come home for surgery because of some pain he was having! It was fun to wake the kids up at midnight and go to the airport to welcome him home from his mission! My kids were SO excited to see their uncle! Emery had never met Robby, so that was fun for them to see each other for the 1st time!

 Elle says. "bless uncle wobby on his mission" in every single prayer she says which is 5 times a day! She loved seeing her uncle!

                        Emery has really taken to Robby and loves to be held by him! Robby had surgery and is now just recovering and working at the MTC while waiting to go back on his mission!

 I organized a Book of Mormon Read a thon with all of the youth in my ward in January and Robby was my surprise guest!!! It was cool to hear him read the scriptures in spanish and I could just feel the spirit as he read.

 Regan was the hit of the read a thon! He did voices for the people in the book and made the scriptures exciting! He helped wake up the youth!!! I will say that telling 20 teenagers to read scriptures for 2 days straight is NOT EASY!!!! Even though there was a lot of complaining and kids not wanting to be there, I just hope that they got something out of this amazing accomplishment!!!

 Here we are after reading the last chapter out loud together!!!

Riley really got into reading the scriptures out loud!!! He loved this experience and he is 7!!!