I'm So Glad

I'm so glad that people won't pick up their dog's poop, so that when my daughter is outside playing in the grass,
she can find it,
then touch it,
then say "ewwwww".
It's my favorite.

Because I Can

This is Hayden.

She makes me smile. All the time.

She likes to be cute.

And she likes to read. A lot.

But mainly she just likes to make me smile.

This is her, being really cute and making me smile:

I'm Owning It

This is for Heather.

I have always known that my face is very asymmetrical, well, my whole body for that matter. If you were to draw a line down my body and look at both sides separately, you would not even know they were supposed to be together. I'm serious.

I always had issues with my nose and lips in particular. My nose is crooked and my lips are very thin and shapeless. Also, when I was 2, I was attacked by a cat and received this awesome scar running from the inside of my nose to the inside of my lip. BUT...I came to terms with these imperfections a while ago. I know who I am, and I like what makes me who I am.
Hopefully you can see the scar in this photo. It's much better in real life!
There you have it. What are your imperfections?

Dear BYU Cougars,

I'm sorry you had such a rough night.
It was rough for all of us.
Keep your chins up, though.
We are still rootin' for ya.

Still Your Fans,

The McCains

My brother, Spencer, and his girlfriend, Wendy, came for the game....

RAHRAHRAHRAHRAH RAHRAHRAHRAHRAH RAHRAHRAHRAHRAH GOOOOOOOOOOOO COUGARS!!!!!!!!!

Could I be any more obsessed?

I couldn't help myself.
I wish I was 15 again to justify my infatuation.
But I'm not.
Get over it:)
(Sorry about the commercial before hand. But it does add that much more to the anticipation.)

Movie Trailers - Movies Blog

It will be fun.

Some exciting things are going down in the McCain household. Carl and I have finally jumped the gun and actually signed on a house. Like, a for real house. With a yard and everything. Well, there is no yard YET...actually there is no house yet for that matter, but you get my drift. We are actually buying a (soon to be) house!

We have been looking for about 6 months and every time we thought we were ready, we realized we just weren't. The finances wouldn't work out, or we would run out of time to qualify for the grant that Utah was issuing. Anyway, you understand, timing and money wasn't right. So we gave up.

Then, our realtor, Jim Cannon, informed us of some amazing deals going down in Spanish Fork AND the Utah grant for buying a brand new home was back! So to make a long story short, we looked at the house plans, figured out a budget, talked to our lender and realized we could handle it. Voila....we signed some papers and here we are in the waiting game. They can get these houses up in 60 days (fingers crossed) and if we close before Dec. 1 we will get an additional grant from the government for being first time home buyers!!! We are really counting on these grants to help us through, so you better cross your fingers too!!!

Since I am an excited home buyer, I can't help but put up some pictures of our lot that will have our house on it soon(supposing all goes well) and the surrounding area. I drove around today with Hayden while Carl was recovering from his root canal, and snapped some shots of our future residential area. Here you go:

Our lot
(tractors are not included)

What we will see coming out the front door
( There will be houses built in front, but we should still see the Mts. pretty well. That building is an elementary school on the next street over.)

What you see on the way to our neighborhood.

And another shot of what you see when you leave the neighborhood to the south.

I LOVE it! So you there you have it. I'll keep posting pictures as it progresses. Wish us luck! Here is the FLOOR PLAN if you are interested in seeing it. :):)

Now, onto other news...

Why do brownies have to be sooo good and easy to prepare that I make them all the time?

I know, it's so Hayden can help me make them and remind me how cute she really is, in case I forgot or something.

At Last...

Here we are!

Finally, we have family pictures! It's only taken us 18 months with Hayden and, ohhh, almost 5 years for me and Carl. What's our problem? I know, we were waiting for the right photographer, but we found her! Carl's sister, Heather Lewis, did an amazing job and it was so much fun. I would highly recommend her to anyone looking for beautiful pictures.

Thank you, Heather! We love you!

Now, onto the goodness! Click HERE to see our pictures! To see other photo shoots from Heather go to: arizonalewisphotography.blogspot.com

Enjoy!

The End of Summer Days

Ahhhh, Kennewick. We love visiting you.

Have you ever had one of those trips where you can't seem to get enough pictures of everything and when it comes down to deciding what to post you can't decide so you put them all up? That's me. Hi, I'm Devin, and I am a mosaic junky. Oh well, at least I admit it. Moving on.

Again, Ahhhh Kennewick, we love visiting you, probably more than we should.

One of the main reasons we wanted to go up to Carl's hometown is to see family, of course. But the second main reason was to check out the Benton Franklin County Fair! Yee-haw! We were stoked about Hayden being able to see all the farm animals up close and personal, since those seem to be her favorite. But the excitement quickly turned to eyes rolling in the back of our heads when Hayden wanted to walk over the little bridge of a duck pond for the 11th million time(as seen in the photo to the right-->), instead of wanting to pet the animals. We came to the realization that she is still fascinated with things like boxes and rocks more than actual toys and farm animals, but I think she still had a great time. I, on the other hand, couldn't get enough of the animals. I should have been a veterinarian...

Now, you can't go to the fair and not get you some delicious, deep fried goodness! It is heavenly (and probably the best part)! All in all, it was a pretty successful trip to the County Fair.

We were able to spend some time with not only Carl's parents but also his sister and her family. I love when Hayden can play with cousins. We were also able to get some family pictures taken by the great Heather Lewis, but that will be on a whole separate blog, but I am so excited to see how they turn out. Anyway, here are some cute shots:

One thing we have really liked doing is going to the Farmers' Market, so off we went. The fresh produce and bread are to die for, and it's nice to just get out of the house and walk around these things. The people are super friendly and you can usually taste anything they are selling. Awesome.


On a list of 'things to do', Carl's dad had asked the boys to help trim down some branches from a huge tree in their front yard, so trim they did! They were all business and even little Brooks got in on the action and helped out. Way to go! Carl has a flesh wound to prove his hard work. What good little workers!

Some of my favorites, Hayden with her Great Grandma and Grandpa Kesler. Priceless, even though Hayden looks like she is having a bad day, which she was, but we won't get into that. I LOVE these pictures.


We absolutely love being with our families and we appreciate everything they do for us. Like I said, I would put even more pictures in here, I'm just that crazy. But I won't. Not now. Now, I think I might go take a nap. This mosaic stuff just wipes me out:)

p.s. I still haven't cut Hayden's hair, if you haven't noticed. The time just isn't right for me. Someday, though someday. Actually, I'm just praying the rest of her head catches up with the back then I won't have to worry about it!

Happy September!

We have been gone to Washington for almost a week and I have fallen behind in my blogging world. Not to worry, I plan to post something with substance soon and all will be well!

Enjoy the 1st of September!