Thanksgiving Madness

Yay! I'm super excited to head to Idaho for Thanksgiving! We first were trying to surprise my parents showing up in Boise by saying Clay couldn't get enough days off of work, but somehow it leaked through the grapevine and they knew we were coming. So, I'm pumped for running around like mad, letting Clay relax, making Thanksgiving dinner, craft time with my seester, watching NEW MOON, getting up super early for Black Friday (my first time ever! so I figured it'd be best to do it with Janelley!), big family breakfast, do a Temple session, have family pictures, leaving Boise and heading to Burley for a night, seeing my friends, driving to Salt Lake, go to the JAZZ game, seeing the Christmas lights on Temple square, watching Janelle and Tom perform with their Institute choir for Music and the Spoken Word, and then finally flying out of Salt Lake to come back home! I'm so STOKED!!!

magnet board

So I finished another craft of mine :) I was wanting to do more to this one, but decided against it so I could use more things I have for other projects. This all started at this craft show my friend and I went to. There were a ton of great things but over priced and I could have bought a lot of the things, but thought, oh my heck, I could totally make that. So we saw these magnet boards and Alisa was wanting a big one for her kitchen and I wanted something similar to that so we decided to just make them ourselves! Well, we were just going to get big frames from the Goodwill and spray paint it and add the steel but everything was over priced there too so our hubbies were chillin' after work, waiting for us to get home for dinner so we just had dinner and then dragged them into helping us shop for everything. We ended up at Lowe's, getting 2x4's and the steel and everything else. Got back to our house and they cut everything out for us while we just sat back and watched. :) :) Anyway, it was quite a fun date night! Here's my ending product!

Christmas Crafts Sneak-Peek

Alright, here are some more projects I've been doing for super cheap. The "Joy" blocks were created, well, for me, and for a Relief Society craft night! The other day my friend and I went to a traveling chic boutique home show which features awesome vendors and you can check it out here. One vendor had a bunch of these blocks selling for around $15 or so and I kind of chuckled inside because I can make them for super cheap BUT I understand the price because hey, well that's just business and it does take your time and labor :)

Anyway, so just a quick tutorial...
All you need is an 8x2x4 that you can get for like $1 at Home Depot, cut that into the size of blocks you want (I usually do no taller than 7" and then just alternate the sizes), paint or spray paint for the block, scrapbook paper or material, mod podge, and di-cut letters! That's basically what you need to decorate it, but I cut, then sand all sides/edges, then paint and let dry, apply mod podge on front, place scrapbook paper down, then mod podge again ontop, put letter on, then mod podge the letter. I like to set it in front of a heater to dry quicker. Now you're basically done, other than the little decorations! I like to put ribbon around the blocks, add a flower or whatever here or there. For this Joy one, I got the snowflake at Michaels and just painted it and added glitter to it. That's it for that! These sometimes take a long time for me though because unfortunately I don't have a cricut (hopefully for Christmas :) so I just print out the letters on whatever paper I want and cut them out with scissors. SO, this next one took a lot of time cutting out all the numbers.

I did the same steps with the scrapbook paper and mod podge. I had to figure out how many numbers I needed to get all the countdown for 25 'til Christmas, so I had to use 3 blocks, so I just added that bulb cutout to show what it was. Clay put that little "stand" together real quick just so I could put the blocks in something. I added the ribbon around it (mod podge it) and then put more glitter. The ribbon on top is just for decoration purpose. Anyway, use your own creative mind to come up with your type of countdown blocks! There's plenty more projects coming ahead so stop by again!

Anniversary Weekend Getaway

We went to go whale watching, but unfortunately we didn't see any, but the cool thing with the company we went with is that they guarantee it, and since we didn't, we got vouchers to come back anytime for life! We just happened to be in the unlucky 10 tours that don't see whales for the whole season so hopefully next time! We did see some awesome wild animals though, gorgeous mansions on the islands, and a beautiful view out on the wild sea! Now I understand the meaning of getting sea sick! You know when you drive on hills and go up fast like it left your guts behind? Yeah, it felt like that being at the front of the ship :) It was a great weekend though and there's so much to Washington that I am beginning to love!

The Best Two Years

...And a zillion, kajillion, bazillion, quadrillion more to come!



Wow, I don't know where the time has gone! It seems like it's been more than 2 years! Sometimes I feel like we've just been lazy bums since being married, gaining that "marriage 15" or whatever you want to call getting fat. :) But we've done so much it seems like, that our life together is only getting better.

We've both been able to play on sports teams in college, go to Vegas a couple times ;), have to live away from each other for 3 months :(, gain new friends, move 6 or so times, start P90X over about 7 times, be one of the 40 married couples that graduated together Summer 2009 semester, move away from our families to the great northwest, hit reality after no more school to go to and the real world awaiting us, try the new adventure of clamming and loving it, and the list just goes on and on!!! I couldn't have asked for a better husband who compliments me, is the better half, and makes me become a better person because of him. Here's to eternity...!