Yeah I know it has been way too long since my last blog entry. What can I say I suck at blogging.
But I had to write this one down today. Colin has been getting 8 cavities filled, one root canal, and a crown put on in three separate dental visits over the past month. He has had to take a Valium pill one hour before his appointment to help him relax. Anyway, so today I picked him up from school early so he could take his pill, and on the way to the car we were talking and I said " Colin we need to hurry and get home so you can take your pill" he said "What pill?" I said "The one you always have to take before the dentist" he then said "Nooooooo! I hate taking that pill IT TASTES LIKE SPIDERWEBS AND DUST" I said "SPIDERWEBS AND DUST? How do you know what spiderwebs and dust taste like?" He said " I don't know, but I KNOW that's what the pill tastes like SPIDERWEBS AND DUST YUCK!"
I started laughing. He is so cute and smart and weird all it one. I love him, and I love these precious moments in my life because of Colin.

P.S. The appointment went well, we had about a dozen crying spells throughout the rest of the day as the Valium wore off, and hopefully he wont have to taste "SPIDERWEBS AND DUST" ever again:)

Finger Painting

This little stinker decided to use Colin's toothpaste to do some finger painting all over my house on the eve of his second Birthday. I was upset, but he is too, too cute to be mad at, so I took pictures instead :)
He just had to remind me that he is 2.

He is 2 and I love him!


Oh yeah. The toothpaste did come out of the carpet (thank goodness).

Swing Picts

My basement after the first day of work.


Grammy, Pops, Jodi, Chase's head, Eric and Colin at our traditional Christmas eve Italian dinner.

The Hansen family in Sun Valley Id for Christmas

Me, Becca, and the cute, cute kiddies.

Gettin into the swing

Has anyone else had a hard time getting back into the swing of things this year? Man I feel like i'm creeping along. Though if I think about it I have done a lot in the last month or so.

We went to Sun Valley Idaho to be with Eric's sister Becca and her family for 4 days... as she is a caroler up there at Christmas time.

Then we went to Utah for E's littlest brother Daniels wedding on the 19 the of Dec. So we have a new sister in law named Rachel.

And E's Parents and Sister Jodi came back to Colorado with us for Christmas. We had a great holiday, and I actually was able to rest for a few days after Christmas bacause Chase got sick shortly there after.

I have spent two saturdays down in my basement chopping wood, hammering nails, and framing the walls in an effort to add more square feet to our house and a guest area for family.

I also cleaned our carpets last night with my parents bissell cleaner.

So I guess I have gotten it to the swing of things a little. Maybe my problem is having too much swing for my own good. Thats ok...... one step at a time right?

Halloween 2008

Halloween 2008 was fun. We had my niece Josie with us and I was able to make her a butterfly costume. She was so cute. I also tried to get chase to wear the lion hat that went with his costume,but he refused so he trick or treated as half a lion. And of course Colin had to be Bumblebee from transformers. He is obsessed with transformers.

It is a tradition that we have a Spooky Halloween dinner before we go trick or treating, and this year we were able to have my parents and the missionaries over to join in our spooooky dinner.
On the menu:
Mr. Bones Ribs (baby backs)
Eyeball salad (grape salad)
Witches fingers (yam and regular fries)
Pirates teeth (corn)
orange goo (orange punch)
Quite delicious if I do say so myself...And the missionaries agreed.





Cutie pie butterfly.

We hiked St. Mary's Glacier the first week in July with my mom, dad, and sister Diana. We were above 10,000 ft. and the temp. was in the 60's. Not bad for the middle of summer.

My mom in front of the Glacier and lake.


Our family On the trail going up.


The Mullen boys resting on a rock.

This is for Krys

I' ll start by sharing the pictures of my house that my sister Krysta has been waiting about 8 months to see. When we moved into this house it was very 1984. This room was a dingy blue-gray with a border of country houses around the room. The couch and chairs are "hand me downs" that I recovered about 5 years ago. I'm not about to recover them again, and it will be awhile before I will get new furniture, so I decided to paint and decorate the room around my existing furniture.

This room is my living room. It was dingy white with a midnight blue accent wall when I moved in. I thought I'd go a bit more neutral. My parents sold us their old furniture so once again I thought I would decorate around what we had. It has turned out pretty nice so far... I still have some touch up work on the paint, and a chair rail to put up.



I made the curtains for this room, my dining room, and recovered the dining room chairs in the same striped fabric. I will send pictured of my dining room at a later date.

I hope you enjoy these Krysta, this post is dedicated to you. I think the house has come a long way. Though it has even further to go. My next big project is finishing our basement.