We are Home

We are home. We have been since Sunday night. I am tired. I am trying to get my house organized from being away for a week and its taking me awhile. The great news is that we were able to attend all of our family events that were on our list while out in Utah. Here is a small Photo recap.Families are Forever for Andrew and Carly

All the Reeves siblings were there for it
(not an easy task)

We randomly saw the Taylor's while we were there
with Andrew and Carly!!
(from Iceland)

Ralph and Kathryn Reeves Family Reunion
everyone in attendance

Family Photo's for the Reeves

Melisa's Special Day
Henele, Melisa, Miriam and Hera
Daniel was also there :)
Tuimana Turned 9 and we were able to be there!

Oh and we were able to see ALL of the Reeves Family while there and then almost all of the Toutai Family (we were missing Willie, Maliana, Melanie and soon to be Eythor) It was a great time.

The only thing I would have changed would be having more time out there and definitely more energy. I was so tired from not being able to sleep that I was grumpy half the time. Wait that is I lie I would have also changed the fact that Daniel and I got pooped on twice by seagulls on two separate occasions!

I have WAY more photo's but I might just upload them to facebook.

Miriam

What would you do with these chairs?

I bought these two chairs at a garage sale a few weeks ago (I got covers with them too but I don't like the covers) It was a retirement type community and the nice older gentleman wanted $5 for both. UM SOLD. They are solid and older and I really liked them and I figured it would be an easy quick 2 hour tops project. Well its at least a month later and all i have done is sanded them down and removed the material. I bought these thinking I could use them for the kitchen table. Well they are pretty BIG chairs so I decided I wanted them in the living room as just two pretty sitting chairs. Here is the dilemma Daniel and I cannot agree on a paint color for them OR a material. They are just two simple chairs but neither of us will budge so I need help. I wanted to paint them White and use a nice patterned material on the chairs (A two colored pattern) He said NO to the white. Ok then I wanted Black. I like the classic black or white. He said NO too dark. Um what else is there? He wants a dark brown. Uh they are already dark brown!! I think I would be ok with dark brown if I could figure out a good material to put on the seats but what goes with dark brown and grey walls I don't know? So any ideas? I am all for ANY ideas because I want these to be done as soon as I get back from Utah. He teased with the idea of sanding them to the wood and staining them UM DO YOU SEE THOSE BEAUTIFUL YET COMPLICATED FRONT LEGS? yes that means NO to the sanding of those it would take me years.

They are pretty old chairs the stamps say Sheboygan Wisconsin and it also says Philadelphia so the shellac is very old dark and THICK meaning hard to sand all the way down. Anyway I need help on what to do here. Should l go with a completely different color? This should be easy but well it hasn't been.
Oh the one to the left has the original material, its falling apart. I am guessing it used to be beautiful colors but now its all brown with age, a flowery pattern, the one to theright is the fake leather yellow material I would guess 60's? It was the second layer. I love how you can see the age with the material layers.

3 DAYS

Only 3 days until we leave for Utah. What does this mean for us? Lots of cleaning and packing and freaking out. We are pretty excited to go to Utah because its a vacation and we get to see family. We aren't really going to have any free moments but we are still excited. Out schedule is jam packed. My only true wish is to go to IKEA once. Just once to get the stuff on my needs list. I am dreading the drive there because I am already huge and uncomfortable. I get really antsy lately sitting in the car too long and it will be too long. We drove back from our hike on memorial day and hit some traffic and drove for 2 hours and I was ready to rip my hair out because well I have a short temper pregnant so i am a little worried about the drive there. Maybe I will drive most of the way until it gets dark then I won't have to sit and fidget. I usually worry the kids will have tantrums on the drive but this time I am worried they will outlast me. Any pointers on driving for hours while pregnant and huge? I have flown many times pregnant and huge but thats a whole different ball game.

One of Daniel's favorite pasttimes

That's right taking a nap on Sunday afternoons. He loves snuggling with Eva and she actually fell asleep too. Yay for Me not so much for Bubba though

Evas B-day

I am going to post some pictures and a video of Eva's b-day. Hopefully it will all work on one post. We went swimming then ate dinner at Rudys and came home had Birthday cake (the kids have been looking forward to that all week long) and opened presents. I will try and post pictures and the video chronologically for the day.Bubba and Eva after swimming. Eva didn't swim too long, it was hot but windy so the wind made it seem colder.

Bubba on the way back from Rudy's BBQ. We went to Rudy's right after swimming he was so tired on the way home. Every time he dropped his Sprite or Cheetos he would wake up grab them and go back to sleep.

Eva took blowing out the candles on the Birthday Cake very seriously, after all she had been preparing for this moment all week.

Happy Birthday Eva

It's Eva's 2nd Birthday today! We are going swimming for the big day and later she will have a snickers cake. Pictures to come later.

The perfect Midnight snack

So its not really a midnight snack because I rarely stay up past midnight. Its more of a 10oclock movie snack instead of popcorn. I love living here because we get every kind of fruit fresh! My favorite fruits were all on sale nectarines, apricots and bing cherries. YUM!
Oh and don't forget your glass of ice water with a straw. I always crave fruits when pregnant. I LOVE fruit.