My Little Cook

For Paiges birhtday I had found her a rose petal cottage kitchen by playskool on ebay for a really good deal she loves it! One night in June Ben left to go on splits with the missionary's and I was working hard making dinner in the kitchen while Paige was playing and I heard her say she needed to go potty. So off she ran to her bathroom, after a while I hear her playing in her room cooking. My first thought was oh how cute she is pretending to cook like mommy, but then the thought came to me Waite she just went to the bathroom and she has no pants on, then the thought I had would if she is cooking with her pee or worse her poop! I ran into the room and this is what I found was a cute little girl cooking with this!

 Bath oil and mouth wash and lotion, I had to take a deep breath to not get mad and ran and got my camera. I was not mad she was cooking with this expet that two of these bottles I got from our stay at A Cowboys Dream a Five star Bed and Breakfast in Alamo. I was planning on enjoying the bath oil for a really long time. but I guess it was not ment to be.

 While I was taking photo's in the bathroom Paige picks up her pot with her hot pad and takes it over to her colander and poured it perfect into it. One problem it was on the floor and it's a colander it has holes! Needless to say is  I had a very nice smelling floor, I tried to clean to clean it up it  but the soap keeped bubbling up so I just had to put a rag over it and waite till I had to get my mother in-laws carpet cleaner.

"In The Dog House"

Ben has been working for Loftco Framing as their estimator for little over a year now and he had a change to help build this dog house it is up of auction on June 3rd at Town Square there are more dog house that you can pay $5.00 for a raffle ticket and you will be put in the drawing to get one. This is to help a non profit company hear in Southern Nevada called HomeAid.

 No one really new how to build it so Ben was the one to come to the rescue I think it turned out great!

 Ben did the wood work on it as well as putting on the red siding on the back. It was a fun outing for the family that ended with us eating at the pizza factory!

  Paige loved this dog house she was very sad to leave :(

Ever day I would text Ben and ask hem how the dog house was coming along and he would send me a photo on my phone so hear is the first one I got of the dog house.

 This is the next photo that Ben sent me he was all done with it and it had to go off to another company to get the brick and inside things and windows.

this is the last photo that i got from Ben  He did not to the brick but he did the back siding of it I think it turned out well I guess I should have but this up at the top oh well.
Hear is a facebook link for the auction https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=146306865442521

DIY Upholstery

 I just wanted to share a project that I have been wanting to get done for a long time know and I finally did it! I re-upholster my dinning room chairs I have a little girl named Paige that has been reeking havoc on my white upholstery. I know your thinking why would you have white chairs! Will they were cheap and I new some day I could cover them. Also back when I had bought them I was not married and did not have a kid. Well hear is the before Photo with Paige in it.

And this is after a long day working hard trying to get out all the staples so that I could reuse the bottom coverings.Paige was loving all the tools that I was using she keep stilling them and then trying to do what I was doing, not always a good thing! I hope you like them it was hard trying to pick out a fabric but i love it know that its done!

Paige's first Trip To Red Rock!

Saturday We decided to take a little hiking trip with Paige her very first yeah for Paige! Red Rock is not to fare from out apartment maybe a 15 to 20 Min's. We had never stopped to look at the visitor center when we go so that was the first thing we did. Paige got to touch a turtle shell and see live lizards and play outside in a few fun exhibits. Next we headed to take our nice short hick to see the water fall it seemed a lot longer hick with Paige she doesn't walk very fast and poor Ben had to carry her for a lot of it.  

Paige making her pose by the turtle's





Ben's Dream house he wants to build





Work it Paige she is so much fun! this was a litte cave like thing for kids to play in





having fun!




Not to sure she wants to play in the water




It took a while but she got in and even was having fun!





Oh little feet i just love them and there so cute! She has always crossed her legs like this I'm not sure why but she does it a lot.




What a fun day outside and she cried when we had to leave poor thing.

This trip was lots of fun and took most of our after noon but we ended it with a stop at IN-OUT so that was well worth the trip!

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.