Adventurous Dramma (Grandma)!

My Mom is great! She is always willing to help any of us kids out, but this time when I say "She Rocks!", I mean it literally.

Mom works at the Clearfield Library. She often brings home books, dvds and CDs especially if they look new. I was looking today at three such CDs she had brought home. One was Natalie Cole, good Grandma fare, one was some group from the 60s, and the final one was... Bon Jovi! Yes my Mom selected Slippery When Wet for her listening pleasure this week. What a lady!

Fun with a stick

Today we were outside pruning the fruit trees to get ready for spring. Hyrum loves to play with branches that are cut off. He was carrying a couple around when he said to us, "Now it is time for a performance, it will be called Fun with a Stick." Then he proceed to do a 'musical number' with two sticks. It was very funny.

Las Vegas Adventure

This last weekend we had the opportunity to have a small adventure with Kaydee and Paul down in Las Vegas. We really enjoy visiting in the spring and fall because the weather is gorgeous and there are lots of fun hikes to do right out of vegas. We hiked on Mt. Charleston and had a fun time tromping through the snow. Hyrum kept telling us we had to follow him, because he was the "instructioner". The next day we went with little different biome, and hiked around the Calico hills of Red Rock. Hyrum loves "hiking in the mountains!" We also enjoyed hanging out in Kaydee's beautiful home and being outside in the sun, I miss the sun in the winter.

The other day Brian and I were talking about something and Hyrum asked us if we were just joking, we said we were, Hyrum said, "Daddy next time tell a funnier joke."

Eli was the biggest adventure of our family in 2008. He was a much prayed for little baby and we are so happy to finally have him. He has a very happy smile and is such a fun baby. He started army crawling a couple of weeks ago. He loves to crawl and roll around, but he does not like to sit up, he knows how, but he does not like to do it. He has three little cousins that are his same age and it is fun to see him and Charlie (who lives near by) crawling around together.

I snapped this picture of Eli the other day, he was being a real stinker all day, but I think this is the cutest picture!!

Newest Adventure

The Buck family has expanded by six today...six chicks that is. A few years ago Brian and I were watching a pbs gardening show, the spotlighted garden had chickens running around, the host said that Chickens give a garden "whimsy." Brian and I always enjoy a little whimsy, so we knew that when we "grew-up", we wanted some whimsy of our own. For the last couple years Brian's been reading backyard chicken rearing books and for the past month he's been constructing a great chicken coop in the garage. Today six little baby chicks arrived in the mail. I'm not really an animal softy, but they are so cute! Chick mortality rates are apparently a little high, and every one is warning me not to get to attached, but they are so soft and sweet!

New Chairs

It seems that our family is always working on some type of project, It's like HGTV around here. A couple of weeks ago someone gave us some old chairs. The chairs were comfy and in good shape, but didn't match my house, so I decide to give recovering them a try. I looked into slip covers, but can you say ugly and expensive. I decided to use the fabric that I had used to recover another chair in my front room and that I had also made the drapes out of. Luckily I was able to still find it and I found a matching solid upholstry fabric in the two dollar a yard table. I used an old bed skirt and old white shirt to make pattern pieces and with my mom's help I was able to cover the cushions in the stripe fabric, and make a fitted slip covers out of the solid fabric for the bodies of the chairs. I think they turned out pretty nice! Mom sewed the piping which I think really helped them look finished.