I am finished!

I have finished Breaking Dawn! I knew that since school is starting I wouldn't have time for reading so I stayed up until 1 am last night to get it done. Now I can focus on school. I really liked the book. I will say that I thought it ended almost too perfectly, but at least the story had closure. Now what are we all going to read?!

I promised pictures of my red wall in my room. The picture doesn't do it justice. The other walls are beige. I still need to put up some curtains so the blinds don't look so stark white! Anyway, Nate did an awesome job, and so far we haven't been fighting! (Some people say red in a bedroom makes you fight more)
I also have to add this cute picture of Allie. I took her out and put her in the swing while I was pulling weeds. After a while she got tired of swinging so she pulled her feet up and was just taking it easy. I had to have a picture!

What's new

Wow, where have I been? It seems like I have stuff for 3 or 4 posts all at once and then I go a couple of weeks without much going on. Also, now that it is August I'm starting to get back into 'school mode' so I probably won't be posting as often.

Let's see...We had a fun family reunion with the Kirkland side of the family on Saturday. My cousins came from Idaho and California so it was fun to reconnect with them again. I took my camera but I never got it out of the diaper bag so I'll have to get some pictures from my mom.

Nate also painted our room, we now have a red wall! I will make my bed and take a picture to post later! He is so great, the girls and I went and stayed at my parents' house for 2 days so he could move all the furniture and paint. It was a pretty sweet deal for me!

I haven't started Breaking Dawn, but I am patiently waiting for Karen to finish it. Hopefully that will be in the next couple of days!

That's the quick update of the Throops, I'll try to get some pics on later this week!

New Pets

Okay so I know I have blogged a lot today, but I am trying to catch up! Yesterday Karen called and invited us to go with her and Payton to buy a pet hamster. We tagged along for the ride, but when we got to the pet store Claire really wanted to get a pet too. I decided to go for a pet that would be fairly low maintenance so we bought some guppies. Karen already had a fish tank that she wasn't using so it was a fairly inexpensive purchase. The kids love them, Allie stood in front of the tank for a half hour doing her fish face. It was super cute. Claire decided since there were 4 fish we could each have one. You can't see them very well in the picture, but there are 4 guppies!

Another Adventure

Last week Karen and I decided that we would make the trip down to Salt Lake to take the kids to the zoo for their weekly adventure. We knew that the zoo only takes a couple of hours to see (especially with small children) so we decided to check out the "This is the Place State Park" too. Neither of us had ever been there so it was an adventure for all of us! The kids were really good and they had fun. The park is a little like a miniature Nauvoo. They have all sorts of old cabins and stores that you can go in. Some of them have crafts for the kids to do and others have people talking about how they printed newspapers, blacksmithed, etc. in the olden days. The kids knew what they wanted to do...they rode a horse, loved the petting farm, played on the playground, and we rode the train. They weren't really interested in the historical stuff. It was fun. Then we headed to the zoo. It was a hot day but it wasn't very crowded, which was good. The zoo also has quite a bit of shade and water misters so we didn't cook. The kids had fun and Karen and I were happy because we got lunch for free! (We went to a Red Robin that we didn't realize wasn't open to the public yet, but they let us come in and eat for free so they could practice on us!)