the countdown has begun

Well the countdown has begun and it's a very bittersweet one. We have less than three weeks until we'll be down in Arizona. We're really excited, but really sad too. We're going to miss Idaho and all our family so much. We both love doing things with both of our families. I'm glad that Tyler is so happy and willing to spend time with my family and that I like being with his family too.

We've been busy working on some projects for our new apartment. These are things I've been wanting to get done for a long time. It's been great to have Tyler be able to help me. I will post pictures of everything when we move. When we get there, we're going to put Jacoby in a bed and so my mom helped me make a duvet cover for his new bed and Tyler painted his bed for him. We have been working on a bookshelf for him and need to paint it and do a few things to it still. I'm really excited about it because I have all the stuff to put in it already like baskets and pails. We also painted a rocking chair pear green; I love it.
I'm pretty excited to be able to decorate our apartment since I haven't been able to do much of that at this house we're renting.

Jacoby loves baseball now too. He likes to take his mitt and ball to Tyler's softball games. Also, he brings me his mitt and wants me to play catch with him. I'm pretty sure he would do it all day if I didn't quit, but I guess I'm not that nice of a mom.
I found a frame that was a 10x10 that I painted to go in Jacoby's room. I'm going to put a scapbook page in it and occasionally switch it out.

reunion fun

We had a jam-packed week and it was great. These pictures are out of order, so they're starting with the most recent...oh well.

My handsome little boy. I love this outfit! Steph and I took Eden and Jacoby to the park and they were nice enough to let me take a few pictures of their darling faces.
Jacoby is going to miss all his cousins when he moves away.

I planned a little reunion with my family last weekend and it was so fun to spend time with them. Becca's family is getting ready to move and my family will be moving in a month. I love my family. We are so close. it's going to be terribly hard to be away from them. Anyway, the weather wasn't very nice on Saturday so we just went swimming at the Aquatic Center and came back to my parent's for dinner and a sleepover. After church the next day we had lunch and spent the afternoon playing croquet(my favorite sport. Ha ha.), volleyball, and crying as we said good bye to Becca's family. I hate when people leave, first Thomas, Becca's family, and now my family soon. I don't know how people do this, we have been so spoiled thus far, but we will make the best out of it; that's what my mom keeps saying, but she's also the most optimistic person around.

These two sweeties enjoying a very messy candy necklace.

I love you girlies+Annie+Mom.

We also had a family reunion with Tyler's extended family at Lagoon. It's always fun to see everyone there. It was super, super cold this year, but we still had fun. I'm glad I packed Jacoby's coat though. Jacoby didn't like the rides one little bit, even the ones we could ride with him. He was crying pretty hard, so we only made him go on a few. :) Maybe in another year.

He was content until the ride started. :)

Mint Oreos, they will make your whole day better. Recipe here.

Giveaway

The month of June marks two years since my family started our recipe blog, Make Your Taste Buds Dance. To celebrate, we are holding a giveaway.
Up for grabs is:
♥ a cute apron my Mom made
♥ Jangles Jewelry watch face with beaded band
♥ String and Bling large crocheted earrings
♥ standard muffin/cupcake pan
♥ jumbo heart sprinkles
♥ cupcake display stand
Check out a picture of the goods down below.

There's lots of ways to enter the giveaway more than once so make sure and take a look at it.

Man, I love these girls.

Take a look at what you could win.

baseball and things

Tyler was able to play in a couple Hillcrest alumni baseball games. It was really fun to watch him play since he loves baseball so much and I was never able to watch him play in highschool. He even pitched and I loved watching that. It was fun to see him with all his old buddies. He said he's pretty sore today though. :) I've been wanting to make these fabric flowers I saw here, but have been searching high and low for the perfect, cheap vase. I finally found it at D.I. I love this line of fabric by Riley Blake and searched several fabric stores to find this pattern in every color so that it would match our room. I'm a little obsessed with this fabric, eh? I also used to for three basket liners in Jacoby's room in orange, turqoise, and green, and I'm going to make some bunting for his room with my scraps too.

These are better than real flowers. I originally had them on Tyler's nightstand and he sarcastically said, "Those are just what I wanted on my side." I decided to move them to my side because I would definitely appreciate them. :)

I wanted to share a couple of my favorite new recipes I've discovered. This lemon cream pie is awesome. It's very fresh and summery and light and oh so tasty. I made it Wednesday and already want to make it again.

These ribs are so moist and tender and have such a great, classic flavor. Tyler really liked them.

We're also having a giveaway on Make Your Tastebuds Dance soon, so stay tuned. It's gonna be a good one.

My good buddy Lyndsi came over last week to have me help her make an invitation for her sister-in-law's bridal shower. It was so fun to see her and her little girl, Maecie. Jacoby was pretty sweet with her and just loved looking at her and saying, "Baby." He looked so huge next to her. Lyndsi always has her dressed so cute. Little girls are so fun.

Jacoby has loved going on bike rides around our neighborhood, but I wish the weather would cooperate so we could get out more. Come on summer, where the H are you?

the great bambino

Well I had a special request by Tyler's Aunt Rozie to update our blog, and I was happy to do it. It's always nice to know people read your blog, even if they don't leave any comments. :) I admit I'm guilty of that too, I enjoy reading other blogs, but sometimes don't get around to leaving a comment.

Just some pictures I snapped of Jacoby as he was running away from me because I had my camera out. Jacoby, you are handsome. My dad got the grandkids a little four-wheeler that they've been having a ball on. It doesn't go very fast, which is perfect for them. Johnny can even ride it by himself. Ha ha. That's funny to watch because he seems way too small to be able to ride it.

Jacoby has never really been interested in any shows or movies, but we finally found a winner. Naturally it has a ball and dog in it so he loves it. Sandlot. Now, isn't that movie a classic? I sure love it; it was always a favorite at my house. He will seriously watch the whole thing without making a peep and doesn't even move a muscle. It has been nice to turn it on while I make dinner or clean the house. He has started to do some really funny things that he's learned from the movie like sliding, like he's sliding onto a base, tapping his bat on the ground before he hits it, and hitting the ball off the tee and taking off like he's running to a base. He's a very observant boy and it makes me smile to watch him discover things. I have realized that there are some not so good things on Sandlot that I hope he won't start quoting such as: scab eater, butt sniffer, pus licker, fart smeller. Ha ha.

Jacoby needed a haircut the other day so we just turned Sandlot on with his personal DVD player and it was a real breeze, quite the opposite of how it usually is. Funny kid.

Favorite show.

Room Redo

Well I'm really excited to finally have our room the way I want it. I've been spending a lot of time searching for certain things and trying to find great deals. I spent hardly any money on these projects and it was really fun. I picked up the canvases at Michael's quite awhile ago when they were having a great sale and hadn't been able to figure out what I wanted to do with them. I searched tons of blogs trying to find ideas and finally found a blog home show where a lady did a damask design on a wall hanging. Not sure why I didn't think of that before since our bedspread is damask. :) I ended up painting them all the different colors I wanted in our room and had my Aunt Deanna cut out the damask design in vinyl. I just got it finished up yesterday and wanted to hang it up so bad, but we aren't hanging up anything at this house because it's for sale so I used blue tack; it worked like a charm.
I picked up the orange pillow at Target, but added the polka dots with felt. The green pillow I got at Ross and I added the ruffle with leftover fabric from Jacoby's chair my mom and I recovered. For the third pillow I had such a hard time figuring out what I wanted to do, but I finally decided to use some robin-egg blue ric rac I had and make that pillow.
I wanted to add little bits robin-egg blue, orange, red, and green throughout the room, so I wound up my earring yarn into balls and picked up the green alarm clock and orange lantern. There are still a few things I'm planning to do, but I'm finally happy with my room for once. This definitely proves that you redecorate a room for hardly anything.

Mother's Day

I'm usually not this horrible about updating our blog, but I just haven't been feelin' it lately, but I'm hoping to post more regularly now.

So I had a wonderful Mother's Day, but the highlight of my day was talking to Thomas. It was so great to hear his voice, he's still very sarcastic and funny. He's doing great and I'm so proud of him. I love him so much.

The guys all helped make dinner and we had dutch oven food which is always awesome. My dad cooks some pretty great chicken and potatoes, but I think my Grandpa Cliff still has him beat. :) His were always so good.

Anyway, Tyler spoiled me this year and got me something I've been dying to have: a quilting mat, ruler, and a rotary cutter; I was super excited. Before he went shopping he asked me for five ideas so that I would still be surprised; I liked that game. I've already used it so much this week.

It was great to spend time with my mom on Mother's Day. I love her so much. She has always been such a great role model for me. One of her greatest qualities is her ability to ALWAYS give people the benefit of the doubt. She is always saying kind things about others, and I can only count on one hand people like that. I love her for that because she's really stressed that in our lives and I rarely even notice negative things about others. She's a beautiful woman and so very talented. I love you, Mom!

We also got to spend time with Tyler's mom on Mother's Day. She's a great woman and we love her!

Jacoby has been loving this nice weather we've been having. Dang it, it's about time!

Isn't he handsome?

He loves going on bike rides with mom, but hates the helmet. Tough, kid. I've loved having a neighborhood to ride bikes in. It's lots better than Rexburg with all the hills because man I'm not in good enough shape to plow up those.

This is Jacoby's cheeser smile.

Loved this outfit on my little man.

I've been working out a lot of projects lately, but the most exciting has been redecorating our bedroom. I'm pretty much done, so I hope to post some pictures in the next few days. I've been decorating Jacoby's room more too, but we can't hang up anything at this house we're renting, so I'll wait until we move.

We're getting ready to have a big giveaway on our recipe blog because our 2-year anniversary is coming up, so I hope you'll check it out: Make Your Tastebuds Dance.

one year, baby

Well it's been awhile since I posted, but nothing too exciting has been going on...except for THOMAS HAS BEEN OUT FOR ONE YEAR YESTERDAY! I'm so excited to get to this point. Wow. In a lot of ways it's gone by fast, but only because his letters are so awesome and he is loving his mission. I think that makes it so much easier for your family when they know you are happy and love what you are doing. It has been really hard though because I know that in a year when Thomas comes home, we won't be living there. It's hard to think about that. You bet I'll be there at the airport to see him though, but I will miss out on being around him a lot.
He has been such a great example to me this past year. I'm so grateful for the sacrifices he is making. I know it's not easy, but it's worth it. I love him so much.
This is quite an ugly picture of me, but I didn't get ready that morning he left, instead I followed him around and watched him. It was a really emotional morning for all of us; wow, that was a really hard day. I love my family, and I'm so grateful that we are close and have so much in common. We have our parents to thank because they are the best. I love you, Tom! Keep up the hard work! Recently my mom helped me recover this papasan chair for Jacoby's room. It was really fun to do, and I'm really glad my mom was so willing to help me. She has great taste, and I hope to have a beautiful home like them someday, but I know I'm not as good as she is. I definitely am really interested in decorating right now and look for ideas all the time. I will have to post pictures once we move and can hang things up on the wall because the house we're renting right now is for sale so we don't hang anything.
Jacoby has really liked this chair so far. I found him "reading" books in it the other day all by himself. He looked like such a big boy. I love being able to read him books in there before he goes to bed.

Easter

We had a great Easter this year. It was really nice to have conference the same weekend of Easter; it just made it even more special. I always enjoy hearing from the prophet. Tyler's mission president is in the seventy now and he spoke in the last session of conference. His name is Gregory Schwitzer. Tyler was really excited to hear him speak.
Easter was also extra fun with Jacoby this year. We had several Easter egg hunts and he loved them because he thought they looked like balls. Ha ha. I even found some eggs that were sports balls. He got The Princess and the Frog, some books, and a bunch of candy. He ate way too many sweets on Easter, and so did I. Isn't Easter candy the best?
We had an Easter brunch with my family on Saturday in between sessions. We had lots of yummy food: brunch rolls, sour cream pancakes, fruit parfaits, hashbrowns, and eggs. (links to the recipes)
Later that day, us girls and our kids got together during the priesthood session. My mom had the idea to do a pizza party, so we ate pizza of course, made pizzas out of paper, made treat pizzas out of Rice Krispies, and read stories about pizzas. The kids loved it.
My parents got all the grandkids basketball hoops for Easter. Jacoby was thrilled to have another one, but Tyler's parents had just given us one, so we decided that we should switch it for something else. Thanks, dad, our apartment in Arizona will just be too small for 3 basketball hoops. :)
On Sunday after conference we went to Tyler's parent's to eat dinner. The food was really yummy. Jacoby got to do another Easter egg hunt and he loved getting more treats. We watched Sherlock Holmes with his parents and I highly recommend it.
I hope you all had a fun Easter/conference weekend.

Jazz Game

My dad is pretty much the coolest dad I know and got me, my sisters, and our husbands tickets to the Jazz vs. Celtics game. I'd never been to a Jazz game, but I have been to a Starz game. Ha ha. Anyways, I felt like I was really missing out, so I complained/teased a little.

My parents watch all the kids for us and it was wonderful. I was a little afraid to leave Jacoby because he had just gotten his stitches a few days before and I was super paranoid, but supposedly they did great.

We had such a fun time together; I love my sisters and their husbands. I'm so sad that Becca and I are both going to be moving away soon, so we better have lots of fun before that happens.

It was a really good game and the Jazz ended up winning by quite a bit. I feel very special to be able to say that I've been to an NBA game instead of just a WNBA game. :)

We did a little shopping at Gateway and went to one of my favorite places to eat, Crown Burger.

Thanks, mom and dad, we had the greatest time!

Toys R Us Sale: Movies & Books

Toys R Us is having a great sale today and tomorrow. I was most excited about all DVDs and books being buy one get one free. I thought these would both be perfect for Jacoby's Easter basket. My mom, Steph and I met there and paired movies and books together because I only wanted one book and one movie, and I ended up getting The Princess and the Frog and a set of books(including a ball book that Jacoby will love) for $10. I used the coupon below for the movie too, so that's why it was such a steal. I just wanted to let you guys know because I was so excited!

$5 off The Princess and the Frog

You're not going to believe this...more stitches

The journaling on this page tells the whole story, so just click on it. It was another very sad day and I'm debating on whether to have more children after all the tumbles Jacoby has been taking. The cut was so deep and it really scared us. Poor guy!

When he had his first stitches I did another scrapbook page and this one above will go alongside it. The other one says, "bonk on the head," so this one finishes it with "times two."

First Stitches

Wall Hangings and House for Sale

Awhile back Steph posted her wall hanging on her blog, and my dad just finished putting mine together, so I wanted to post some pictures of it. It's not hung up because we can't hang up anything in this house we're living in because the house is for sale. Dangit, I miss my decorations. :)
They were really fun to do and pretty inexpensive. Steph, my mom, and I all did one and they are all so different, but I really loved them all. Leave it to my mom to come up with great decorations that noone else will have; she is so talented at decorating. My parents were so nice to get a lot of the supplies and put them together for us.
The picture below is Steph's and the next one is mine. I will have to have my mom send me a picture of of the one she did which is awesome.
I will hang it up in our family room which is decorated in red and robin egg blue.

Steph's

Mine
Becca and Lonnie are getting ready to move away for Lonnie's rotations and they are selling their townhouse they lived in while they were in school. It's a great place, very well kept, good location, and a perfect starter home. It's close the the I.S.U. campus and many shopping areas. If you know anyone living or moving in Pocatello, they could get a great deal on this place. Check out her house blog if you are interested right here!

Basketball State

We were able to go to state last week to watch Taylor's team play. I have always loved going to Boise for basketball, and even though it's still sometimes hard to sit on the Hillcrest side, it was a lot of fun to watch them play. :) They had a great team this year and it's been so exciting to watch them play this season.

At the first game they played Skyview and won by six, the second game they played Twin Falls and lost by four, and the third game they played Bishop Kelly and won by like fifteen. They ended up taking third!

Of couse they all were all very intense games, and man I love a close basketball game.

The whole Roe fam after the last game.

Jacoby loved swimming at the pool and playing with Jaime's beach ball.
Taylor and Jacoby after a game.
Debie and I took Jacoby to Pojos. He had lots of fun!
Jacoby loves his new shirt with the basketball on it and is constantly pointing to it.

Very blurry pictures, but I had to show off my cute brother-in-law warming up!

The weather was great over there; going to Boise for basketball state always makes me realize that spring really is coming soon.

It was really nice to spend time with Tyler's family, too.

We loved watching Taylor's team play, and will really miss watching him next year during his senior year. Hopefully we will be able to catch a game during the holidays because we will definitely be missing it. :)