4th of July...

We went camping in Pine Valley for two days during the week before the 4th of July.

I'll just let the pictures speak for themselves on this one...

Watching the fireworks...

Our New Place...

I've been meaning to post these pictures for a while, so here they are! We love our new place! We LOVE having a garage, and love all the extra storage space, and everything about our new place.

So, here is the entry way. As you open the front door, there's the stairs to the upstairs on your left, and then the hallway that leads to the living room and the kitchen. One of the doors on the left that you see in this picture is a half bathroom, and the other is storage space under the stairs. The kids really like the little door that is just their size.

Here is our living room complete with hand-me-down couches that surprisingly match each other really well. (We got them from two different people.)

I love how our kitchen and living room is open, as well as the big space for the dining area...

Here is our kitchen. The only bad thing about this place is that there's no pantry, so on the right you can see that we bought a cabinet from good ol' Wal-Mart...

Our front door and stairs...

Stairs and upstairs hallway...


Upstairs hallway... The door on the left is a closet. (Currently holds most of my art stuff and also board games.) The door on the right is the laundry room. (and it has shelves!) You don't see it, but around the corner and next to the kids bedroom is a linen closet, and the kids bathroom with ANOTHER linen closet in the kids bathroom.

And here is the office/sewing/craft/art/storage room... I LOVE this room!

And this is the kids room, and there is Max hiding again... And there you see the ballerinas above Elora's bed. (They used to hang in my bedroom growing up, and they used to belong to my Mom.) And Elora wants to become a ballerina, she can't wait until her ballet class starts! (Yes, I signed her up, and we're both very excited.)

Here is the master bedroom...

And master bathroom... I love actually having our own bathroom connected to our bedroom!

Well, there ya go Mom! This post was really for her since she probably won't see our place for a long time.

Lilia's Baby Blessing...

On the first weekend of June, we took a little trip up to Tremonton to see my brother and little family. It was Lilia's baby blessing, and I had to go back to see my eye doctor in Ogden. (But that's a whole other annoying long story that's still not resolved...) So here are some fun pictures of Jen's side of the family and baby Lilia'a beautiful blessing dress that my other sister in law made out of the train of Jen's wedding dress. It was awesome!

Elora and Max enjoyed holding their new cousin...

I couldn't believe how big Lilia had gotten in just the month's time since the last time I saw her! Oh, and by the way, Lilia is named after my grandmother on my Dad's side.

Venice Prints For Sale...

I just put these linocut prints up for sale on Etsy yesterday...




"Towards Gelato," Linocut, 21.5 x 12.5 in, Cynthia Gough, For Sale: $60

"Before Gelato," Linocut, 13.25x24.5 in, Cynthia Gough, For Sale: $80

"After Gelato," Linocut, 12x6.25, Cynthia Gough, For Sale: $40

I made these prints in college by carving out the white on a soft clay-like surface. Then I rolled ink on them and put it through the press with paper. The finished product is the ink on the paper. I'm selling the rest that I have, which isn't very many...

Date Night

I forgot to add this in, but I still wanted to document this night on here. A week after Travis graduated on May 9th. I had a big night planned to celebrate Travis being graduated. He had no idea what we were going to do, but it was so awesome! We dropped the kids off at Mom G's (Thanks Mom and Dad G! and Jan and Dan for pinch hitting for a little while!) We don't get out much together without the kids. So it had been a long time since we last had a date night out. But anyway, we went and had a delicious dinner at Outback Steakhouse. And then I just told Travis each direction to go, and we ended up at Tuacahn. Travis still had no idea who/what we were seeing there, but the place was jam packed with people! We sat down and right before it started, I showed him a program, and he saw the picture of Brian Regan and got really excited! He was just like, "Are you serious?!?"


So yes, we saw Brian Regan. He's a hilarious and clean (no dirty jokes) comedian, he's awesome! Check him out here. And just so you know, he's coming back to Tuacahn May 14th and 15th, 2010. But anyway, we had an awesome night just laughing and being able to relax. It was the perfect way to celebrate Travis' graduation, and just be together.

Looky! Looky!

Ok, so I've joined the coupon movement.... Look what I got for $9.55! (including tax!)


So for a total of $9.55 I got:

6 boxes of Total-10.6 oz each
4 boxes of brownie mix
2 boxes of Fiber One bars
2 Wish Bone salad dressing

But I think what I got yesterday was an even better deal! For a total of $9.50 I got:
2 boxes of Total-10.6 oz each
2 boxes of Golden Grahams- 12 oz each
4 boxes of Trix-10.7 oz each
All liquid laundry detergent-32 loads
1 brownie mix
1 cake mix
1 small Skippy peanut butter

It's very nice to stock up my pantry, and getting so many things at a great price!!

We are SOOOOO Excited...

That Travis is done with school!!!

We (me and the kids and Travis' parents) drove up on Thursday, April 30th to meet Travis at a hotel in Ogden. We were soooo happy to see him after being apart for two weeks! The kids ran into his arms when they saw him, it was awesome!

The kids had a hard time going to sleep sharing a bed, so Travis had to lay between them for a little while.

So the next morning on May 1st, we went to the first ceremony. Needless to say, we were all a little excited! Elora kept giving Travis kisses, and they would not leave his side!

In between ceremonies we killed time by going to the Treehouse children's museum. We had a lot of fun!

We had lunch and then went to the next ceremony for the College of Science and Technology. Travis received his Bachelors of Science degree in his major of Automotive Technology.












I actually had teary eyes sitting through the ceremonies and thinking about the long road we've had in the past 5 years.

To say that I was happy was an understatement. I mean, we've been looking forward to this day for a long time! We haven't known anything different since we got married almost five years ago. So it is very nice to have Travis come home after work, and not have to worry about night classes, homework, tiredness, online classes, deadlines, both working and going to school full time.... Everything! We can actually spend more time together as a family.

We could not be happier! I am so proud of Travis and all that he has accomplished!

Happy Family...

Proud parents...

Proud graduate in beautiful Ogden...

Elora liked Daddy's hat...

I just liked this photo of Max with the lighting...

And now we can breathe a big sigh of relief! Phew! Travis is DONE with school!