Tree Skirt

Yesterday I completed this tree skirt for our Christmas tree. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

Craft Night

Tonight I had a craft night with my friend Marci. Brian had to be at school until very late and her husband was on call, so we decided to spend the time together rather than alone. It was great!

I got one more set of blocks done for my "Home" sign. September (acorn) is very boring. But I had fun with the others. I feel so creative when I finish things like this. I know it's probably small beans compared to what others do, but I feel good about it.

Randomness

So usually after something happens, or we go somewhere, I'm too tired to post about it right away.

This then leads to me procrastinating posting.

Then I get overwhelmed thinking about "catching up" the blog.

So eventually I do an overload of posts and start all over.

But I just realized, I keep a regular journal. It may not have pictures or fancy fonts, but I keep it pretty up to date. So why am I stressing about the blog?

So I'm not going to anymore.

I'll get to things when I get to them.

Hence, the following:

Spring Break was awesome! I loved being in St. George and the weather was beautiful.

Brian got to ride his bike lots, I got to do crafty stuff with my sister and cousin, and we talked A LOT. :)

We got to hang out with my sister and brother-in-law, and my cousin and her husband. Always fun.

We got to hang out with my grandparents, who I think are amazing and so cute.

One morning when we were still in bed and my grandpa was leaving to play golf he said to my grandma, "See you later. Love you." She said, "Love you too, love you more." He said, "No, never." She said, "Yes, always." That is the True Love Elder Holland talked about. 50 years and going strong.

I got to have my teeth cleaned by my sister, who's in dental hygiene school. Yes, it took all day, but it was worth it. And now my teeth feel so nice again. Sadly, I haven't been to the dentist since before we got married. That's what happens when you get married and have no insurance.

I also chopped off my hair! (I'll post a pic of that soon.)

It's a bit shorter than I planned but I like it. Brian likes it too.

Sadly, we had to come home to this awful cold. blech.

I really wish it would stop snowing. I'm ready for it to be spring.

Speaking of, we also did lots of crafts in St. George so I'll post pics of mine soon.

My whole family went back down to St. George for Conference weekend. I missed being with them.

I loved Conference! Amazing! As always. I can't wait until then Ensign comes and I can read the talks all over again.

I've decided I hate public restrooms. I just hate the whole idea of sitting next to someone while you take care of business. Gross.

I also have an irrational fear of toilets. I'm always worried they'll overflow after I use them, just because they don't like me.

Gross, I know, but the title is "Randomness".

I got to help my little brother-in-law dye eggs on Friday night. I don't think I've done that in years. It helped me get into the holiday mood a little more.

While we dyed eggs, Brian, Derek, Paul, Nancy, and Nathan, all worked on Nathan's physics homework.

I'm glad I chose the egg job.

Only a few more weeks of school. I can't believe it's gone by so fast.

The first two years of the Architecture program DID NOT go by that fast, while we were in them.

Brian says it's because we were awake for more of them. This year we've gotten more sleep. :)

I still can't believe that we only have one more year left of school.

Kind of scary because I have no idea what we're going to do after he's done. I guess we'll figure it out when we get there.

Brian said his favorite talk in the Priesthood session was Pres. Uchtdorf's about Patience. He rushed home to tell me all about it.

I get it, I get it.

I liked a lot of the talks, but I can't pick just one favorite. But I did love Elder Holland's talk. He's hilarious and so strong.

I also love Elder Bednar because he can make his talks flow so smoothly and he gives practical applications on whatever his subject is.

I love that I always leave conference feeling like I should, and will be able to do better.

Happy Tuesday! Here's to the snow melting quickly!

Fall Break '09

In what has now become a tradition (because we did it last year and decided to go again this year) we headed down to St. George for a long weekend during Fall Break. We go so 1) I can see my sister Nat, and 2) Brian can go do some end of season mountain biking.

This year we had the chance to stop in Cedar City & see my friend Meg. She's one of my best friends from USU and we hadn't been to her new house. Her husband made us dinner but then couldn't be there because of work. Next time Kyle. :) But it was still fun to catch up with Meg and see her cute house.

This year, my cousin Marci stayed in town. She usually goes somewhere else every time I come down so I never get to see her. But I'm happy she stayed. We got a chance to all play together while the boys rode their bikes.

Marci, Nat & I decided to be crafty so Marci took us shopping for all the supplies and to find lots of other good deals. We went to the dollar store where I got some cute Christmas decorations, then Michael's for scrapbook paper, and then to Robert's for block letters, and then to a store call Krumpet's, which sells way cute decorations for cheap. I got WAY too much stuff, but because Marci is such a good deal-finder, I didn't spend as much as I usually would.

After spending most of the day Friday shopping we just relaxed when the guys got home and got some pizza. Then for some reason we were all really tired and went to bed early.

Saturday we decided to get up early and go to the garage sales around town. Nat and I hadn't done that before but Marci's a pro at it. :) So we had to try it. I wasn't planning on getting anything because I got so much the day before and because we didn't really bring a truck or anything to take stuff home. Boy was I wrong.

The second house we stopped at I ended up getting a bookshelf. It was $10 but I only paid $7. I was so proud of myself for haggling. I also ended up getting two books for $.75, because I had to have something to fill up my bookshelf. :) Luckily Brian wasn't too upset and he and Adam worked for 15 minutes to make sure it would fit in the trunk of our car. :)

After garage sale shopping, we worked on our crafts.

Here's Marci, our deal finder and craft instructor.

Here's Natalie, sanding her letters. She doesn't like sanding very much.

Here's me working diligently on mine.

And here's me and my cute sister Nat, so proud of ourselves for being crafty.

Here are my finished letters. Unfortunately, I've gone a little crazy packing so I've already packed them up, along with the other cute Halloween decorations, so I might not get them out again after we move but before Halloween. :)

Here are all of our finished letters. Nat did the other Boo! and Marci did the Fall. I think we did a good job.

Saturday night after the boys got home from riding we all went to dinner. Brian's cousin Jason had come down as well (sans his wife) so he came out with us.

From Left to Right: Jason, Matt, Marci, Adam, Nat, Me, Brian

I had so much fun with the girls and Brian had so much fun riding with the guys. I'm glad we've made this a tradition. But I was still sad to come home to rain and cold.

Crafts

Remember this?

This is what I made for my sister.

Also, this is the finished project of the cross-stitch I worked on for a year. Brian helped me frame it for my birthday a while back.