Early Christmas

I can't tell you how much I was like a little kid waiting for Christmas for this day to come. Last week we planted my TREES!!!! YEAH. I guess it comes from some deep seated non Las Vegas roots or something but I need trees around me to be happy. I need to look out my windows and see greenery. I love it. I bought these trees back in July and have been waiting for the HOA to approve them.....which they never did. But I was done waiting. So, here they are. I spent WAY more than I should have, but they came out and planted and them and they come with a year guarantee. We bought two 32 in boxes and a 24 in box to start with. A little over the top for what people usually start with, but these are my shade trees and so it was important to me. They are already 15 feet tall and should be super full in the spring when they have had some time to get established. I might add one more eventually and hopefully some citrus in the future. We will see.

Conference and fall at the cabin!

Our Hike up to Strawberry Point

Tinfoil Dinners and the love of a good campfire!

Cute kids

I did a little photoshoot with Audrey and the umbrella, I just thought they were all too cute!

Charles being an awesome dad and making dinosaur bones for Audrey to dig up out of the muck (Dr. Seus) and find. She loved it!

Halloween kids

So I found these super cute glow in the dark pj's at Walmart for $5. Love that they can match for once. So cute. When the lights go out Audrey says, "Mommy, my shirt is blinking"

So this is a new thing. I am about ready to strap Ethan to my hip all day just so she will leave the poor kid alone!!!

"seriously mom, another picture..." ( you can see it in her eyes right?)

But it is moments like these that she totally redeems herself and takes care of him. Innocence is pretty key!

Oh yeah and being cute!

Projects in the fall

The last several weeks have been run amok with much fun, MUCH work, and the love of fall in the air! Nothing gets me motivated for a great life like fall does. I guess that has paid off. We have gotten much accomplished.

I FINALLY got my den 90% organized. There is now enough carpet showing to actually warrant vacuuming in this room. You can sit on the couch and actually use the coffee table if wanted. There are still a few messes (mostly neatly contained) waiting other projects to get done.

Charles and I did our first official home owners "renovation"type project. We built shelves for our garage. I consider this a HUGE leap forward in our marriage that we actually did this project together and didn't kill each other. I swore a few years ago that I would not EVER work with Charles on a project again. This one was good for me though I guess. He got his way and I "learned" to compromise, and it all worked out really well. Oh yeah, and I got to use power tools! It isn't completely organized and we still need to tackle the tool mess and install our pegboard and accessories but hopefully this weekend! Is it weird that the smell of wood and sawdust makes me pine for fall? Always has, ever since my dad built our own haunted maze out of old scenery backdrops. LOVE IT!






I have finished a couple home made Halloween decorations. I like homemade stuff because it isn't quite so commercial.






I put up a photo collage wall in our kitchen. The big pic will hopefully be for a "not so overdone" nice piece of church artwork.





I made some fun accessories for my bathroom from DI finds, with a little metallic spray paint and glass adhesive, I love them Let's pray my kids listen to me when I ask them to not touch!




Mostly done with the chore charts. They are up on the wall and I just need to add names to each and vinyl to Audrey's. FYI----- Don't buy vinyl from a store!!! It is a super rip off. I just bought 27 sheets (all colors and the same size as you would buy in the store) for $30! off amazon. They sell 2 sheets for $10 at Walmart or Michaels. EW!





Made a slot memo board like this one. Thought this was a nice change on the traditional "WAY overdone ribbon memo boards that I hate.




I have also refinished our kitchen table and made my first KNOCK OFF WOOD build! Unfortunately no impressive pictures yet. I made two Hyde end tables from Ana's site for my dad for his birthday to go up to the cabin as outdoor end tables. It was not exactly an expected gift. LOVE THAT!

Daddy Toes

So the other day I was sitting with Audrey and I looked down at her feet and realized that she has inherited not my feet. I told her that she had her daddy's big toe.

Some tome laYer that day she was doing something on the ground at ky feet and made a comment about my feet and my 'daddy' toe.

Haha. Love the things kids help you realize don't make any sense.

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Ethan 9 months

Ethan is actually close to 10 months now, but when we took these pics he was 9 and his cousin Jacob is just 6 weeks older. Cassidy had the idea to go out to Boulder on the train tracks. I think we totally scored and they were so nice. There were guys working out there and we totally thought they were gonna kick us off but didn't. YEA! Here they are. They aren't worked on, but if I wait to get that done, you will never see them...but just imagine them with cute sepia tone and really aged or roughed up look. POTENTIAL

Cheryl Prenatals

One of my oldest and best friends in the whole world (like been friends since before preschool). Is pregnant. Not only is she pregnant , but having twins. EEK! right. Well, it was perfect. She is gorgeous and loves me enough to let me put her through this crazy photography idea I have been wanting to do for THREE years now! It was one of those moments where creative genius could be in the works, but it didn't happen right away. That poor girl was in the pool at night for like 2 hours while a fiddled, messed, moaned, and made her change position about a hundred times. Finally right at the end when I was about to throw in the towel we mostly got it to where I wanted it! Tell me what you think.

Sorry these are totally unedited, just wanted to at least get them up!