One year older! and wiser too?

Happy Birthday honey!! We started Brandons birthday off with some surprise balloons and a decorated car! Which he loved! (not) Then we had his family over for some celebrating: Vaughn took most of the pictures of the celebrating.

Then I surprised him again on Sunday when we were on our way up to my mothers for Sunday dinner. My brother and I had gone and put Happy B Day Broox up on one of the walk way! I know he secretly LOVED all the little surprises! I hope you had a great birthday hon! We all LOVE you!!

I caged the wild monkey's!

A day out with grandma!

My mom took her Utah grandkids to the petting farm over in the valley. The kids had a great time. Marshall did really good with the animals coming up to him even tho they were the same size as him. Here the boys are feeding the goats:Marshall with the goats following him around:checking out the cows:feeding the pigs:Man what a fat pig:Petting the bunny's:Throwing food at the ducks:The kids, especially Lizzie, LOVED to sit on the tractor:Then we got to go on a horse ride! Vaughn we up first:Then Lizzie:Marshall rode the horse too but I was walking by him so I didnt get to take a picture. The kids sitting in the buggy:

Grandma being the horse on the buggy:We had a great time on the Farm!! After we went and got a cool treat at Zeppies! YUM!! We had a great time with grandma!!

Appraisal

Well we decided to try and refinance our house to a better interest rate and to a 20 yr term instead of a 30 yr term. I can easily say that it is 10 times more stressfull to refinance then to just buy the house. First there is locking the rate you want. Well rates are changing all day every day. Then of course the paper work. BUT worst yet I think is the appraisal!! UGH! We had the appraiser come out today so hopefully we get the value we want! I did a few touch ups to our house to try and make it look a little nicer so we will see if that helped at all! Here is the front livingroom. I tried to spruce it up with the fireplace and curtains in the window:Master bathroom, I took down the giant 1 piece mirror and put up 2 cute separate mirrors:I hung curtains in the Master bedroom:AND cleaned and scrubbed the kitchen and tv room so that it would look nice:Well wish us luck! I hope it all works out!

Daddy's shoes

They almost fit.

Pirate training:

They had Pirate training today at the Tree house museum. We learned all kinds of valuable pirate info. We learned to sword fight with balloon swords. We made pirate hats, we even learned that all pirates say ARRH!