My Paige is 2 years old!

Oh where has all the time gone! Last Saturday we had Paige's birthday party because it was on a Sunday this year. We decided to just have a family party and invite some cousins it was a good thing, because our short party turned into a 3 hour plus party. I had a really hard time coming up with a theme for her party this year so there really is not one. Hear is Paige's Pink and Brown Pirate, Backyeardigans party I know I know but I really could not just stick with one thing! This girl loves boy and girly things!



Paige loves to play Pirates so I found this cute hat and other things at the Dollar store. 





Shay Lytle Paige's cuz having fun!




My Mother-in-law's house all ready for the party.




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The Birthday Girl eating her cup cake she decorated. I made her number 2 shirt this year and it only took me one try!




Paige playing put the glasses on Uniqua




All the kids getting ready for the treasure hunt!




Everyone found there treasure!




After there hunt we just let the kids have fun playing in the dirt that's all Paige really wants to do.




Alice, Scott & Paige Oh what cute kids:)




Oh how I love dirt!




Paige always ask at least once a day to go play in the dirt so we go to grandmas to play.




Paige's birthday cake this year I had a really hard time trying to pick  one to make so this is what i came up with.




OK last year I let Paige smash and destroy her cake I wanted her to do the same this year but she was such a nice girl she let everyone have some of her cake.



Paige loves her backpack thanks grandma Wharton, I think Paige got a lot of gifts that she really loves she plays tea party every day and play cooks on her new stove I haven't took a photo of that yet because her gift was late.



Our Family Garden!

Ben's parents have been so kind to let us have our own garden space in there back yard, I have been wanting to have a garden for a long time my mom always has had a garden and I have missed that living hear in Vegas I've been in apartments for 10 1/2 years now and counting its getting really daunting so this is a nice break for me and Paige to get out of the apartment and go outside and water our plants and enjoy our bounty! I forgot to take photos of our artichoke plants sorry we just planted our sprouts but there starting to grow. I hope this helps anyone that would like have a garden hear in Las Vegas but thought you can't grow anything hear in Vegas. There are lot of places to get information about our growing season's there are different then most we have a spring and a fall season but you can have a winter garden if you do it like Ben and I.
 
 

This is a full view of our Family Garden we just added three new plots this year the first three that you see. the one on the right side with hoops on it is Ben's and mine winter plot we cover it with plastic and we have had greens all winter. And we need to by shad cloth for the summer. The first deep plot we just planted new gold potato's and more carrots.


   



This is a photo of our Red and White onion plants I hope they do a lot better then last years so fare they are looking really great!

 



This carrot was picked Saturday from our winter garden it took them along time to grow but they are really long and taste amazing!

 



The big green plants is our Kale man does this grow like a weed! We have been eating on this for ever it never dies maybe when it gets hot. Next to it is our new sprouts for roman and spinach.

 



Our Garlic plants

 



This is our carrots and strawberries and romaine lettuce

 

Happy St Patricks Day!

Today has been a long day for me well this whole week has been long I guess. I have been nannying again for the past two weeks and man is my house a wreck. I never get home before 5pm most of the days and then I've got to make dinner and try to wash dishes, but I do have to say Ben has been a really big help. I can't wait to get home and make corn beef and cabbage with some Irish soda bread. I started making this when we had lots of friends and family that lived by us hear in Vegas but they all have graduated from collage and moved on. I hat being the one left be hind! Oh well I don't mind Vegas that much Ben's parent live hear and my parents and other family members are only an hour away. Oh I hear Paige up from her nap well happy St. Patrick's Day! I hope it's a good one.

Thanksgiving In Alamo

Thanksgiving in Alamo this year was a lot of fun, I had the opportunity to take photos that same day and run home and make my Martha Stewart recipe for cranberry cornbread stuffing which I burnt the pecans so we had to roast them again and then we did a half Bach so when we took off the covering to brown the top it got to dry! :( oh well I thought it still tasted good. All in all we had a great thanks giving dinner at my brother Derek's house. Cheyenne and Bianka spent the day cooking up a storm as well so that everyone would have a wonderful thanksgiving and we did!  They even made a small roasted chicken that looked like a Turkey and side dishes for the kids table so that they could have there own miniature thanksgiving dinner and Cheyenne cooked it! After words we ended up downstairs dancing for three hours! I didn't gain any weight this year Ye Ha!

Hear is a Highlight of what we did the rest of the weekend. Ben went duck hunting and got two ducks a teal and a shoveler oh and one goose but it landed in the middle of the lake and it was frozen and on way to get it poor Ben it was his first one ever! I guess no Goose dinner for Christmas this year :(. I helped my mom decorate the tree and Sunday morning we had about 3 in. of snow fall it was so pretty we had to take photos and try to see if Paige would play in it, but she didn't like it poor thing.

 Oh I forgot we played games with friends and Ben did his fair share of playing basketball which cosed him lot of body pain hear is a nice bruise he got from a knee to the leg poor guy.

Young Women in Excellence

This is our Invitation

For all that might not know this, I was called to be the 1st councilor in YW a few months ago. I'm over the Mia Maids it’s been 10 years since I've been in YW, and it has been fun and challenging to learn everything again. This month we are having our YW in Excellence night and I got to make you program and invitations I hope you like them I was up till 11:30 pm last night making this word collage in Photoshop and it was totally worth it!



This is the cover for the program



Our Summer Vactation to WY 2010

OK I have been putting this one off because there is so much that we did while in WY I have just been over whelmed just thinking of writing it all down. So Hear I go! This is our first real vacation we have taken since Paige was born so we were ready to get out and explore and fall for tourist traps & hick; we did! We bought cowboy hats in Cody WY which was lots of fun, we went to a photo gallery of a local photographer husband and wife team their photos were amazing! We Hiked to medican wheel mountain I think that's what its called its a very spiritual place for the native Americans. I'm always fascinated with the Native American because my mom in 1/16th Navajo Paiute and that makes me 1/32 not much but I have some in me. If you have ever read the book To Soar With The Eagle it is about my family will from my mom side. After that We stopped at a camp ground and had our lunch there is a few photo's of Paige sinking her teeth into some elk sausage it so good I can't waite to go back and buy some more! We spent time at the Hopkin Family farm and we went to a small town kind of like Alamo so to fare from Powlle to watch fire works and man did they put on a show I love it it we almost had front row sites no the grass it was to loud that my body was shaking Paige was a champ she slept threw almost all of it till the grand finally it was crazy loud then no one could sleep threw that all in all it was a great summer trip the only down part of it before I left on vacation my brother could got really sick and was in the hospital and they didn't know what was wrong with him when we left so I was on my phone a lot and texting Lucy his wife to see what the new update was. He was told he had MS but then went to a neurologist the went over he's paper work and it said they suspect he has MS to make a long story short he is all better now he has all of his movement back in the left side of his body! OH and while we went fishing as a family Ben's dad appendix and burst and he didn't know it at the time he was just in a lot of pain so he insisted on taking the kids fishing but he couldn't do anything he just lade on the seat of his truck in pain. So we finally talked him into go to the emergency room the next day and they said if he would have waited on more day he would have died! It was a very eventful summer I hope you  enjoy the photos and the little captions!

Our fist Stetson hats we bought in Cody WY.



Playing at the park in Cody WY.



Paige helping clean up the nuts that spilled the we put in a feeder so we can watch the squeal's eat them in Great Grandma Wharton's back yard. Powlle WY



Paige playing with Conner her cousin Tyler and Rachel's kid and Ben's Aunt Carrie we love you guys cant waite to go back this summer.




Ben pushing Paige on our walk to medican wheel, their is still snow in July!




OH what a view but would not like to be hear in the winter!




Medicine Wheel at Big Horn Mt WY




Paige and Ben enjoying the views you can see for ever up there.





Paige and Ben (she is so cute!) having fun on our little lunch by the river at a camp ground in the Big Horn Mt




Every time I look at these photos it makes me think why do I live in Las Vegas? It's so pretty.




My fat baby oh so cute




Paige devouring our Elk sausage she was loving it!




Ben Fishing I was a good wife and let hem fish for a few hours while Paige and I got Eaton alive from mosquito's but it was a really pretty view.




Paige playing in the river She got all wet so I had to put her in her swimming suite later I should have done that first oh well




Oh my little cow girl! wearing Mommy's new hat.



Swinging with daddy out at Grandpa Hopkin farm



Ben got to dive this and was having so much fun he really want to be a farmer :)




Paige having fun in the tracker




The Hopkin Family Farm I love this view