Meet Aspen!!!!
We just got her last night, and our boys have not stopped smiling since
(except for when she bites them). Ever since our other dog died Brandon has been on KSL
every night trying to find one that he liked, but he has been so picky because our last dog was so good, it's funny how attached you get to the things, and I was not in a hurry to start potty training one all over again so I stayed out of it, but when he showed me Aspen I just thought she was so cute so I said Yes, and so we drove up to Brigham City and got her!
So now all I do is clean up messes, gotta love it!!

Here is the finished product! I loved how the blue really lightened
up their room. It was a two tone brown before and it was
really dark so this blue worked out good. And I love that the curtains are really
heavy so they block out any sunlight and then they sleep in on Saturday mornings.

It's getting closer to Christmas I was starting to get nervous so we sent
the boys over to their Grandmas so we could start getting their room
put together, this is their homework and reading area, I didn't know how the colors
would look all together but I think they work. My boys are obsessed with star wars
so I knew that they would love anything from yoda.

I keep hoping that the sewing gene that runs very strong in my family is just hidden in me. My mom is amazing at sewing even though she has since given it up, she used to sew our clothes and Halloween costumes, and my Grandma sews the most amazing quilts, so I know that the potential for me to sew is there is just hasn't gotten developed yet. I can not sew a straight line to save my life and I just bought 10 yards of material to sew cutains so hopefully the more I try to sew, the straighter the my line will get. I decided to start with something that doesn't require a straight line, Christmas Stockings! I know they are a little girly for a family that consists of mostly boys but until one of them actually says something I'm just going to go with this.

I saw these in a magazine and decided to try and copy them.

Bridger just got glasses!!!


We went to eye Dr. on Wednesday and Bridger got glasses, he doesn't really like to wear them, but I can't blame him I don't like mine either. Everyday he wears them a little more, but I think he looks so cute in them, but he is a stinker because he uses them against me when ever there is something that I won't let him do, like eat cookies for breakfast, or play they wii all day he just says," fine then I'm not going to wear my glasses". When he first got them he was so embarrassed, and his older brother was so jealous of him, but now he wants to show kids that he doesn't even know that he has glasses, he's funny.

This is my first attempt at refinishing anything, this is a dresser that is in my boys room that I wanted to stain darker to match their bunk beds that they are getting for Christmas. It wasn't too hard just time consuming since I needed this dresser to dry in 34 degree weather.
At this point I was very nervous, since there was nothing wrong with this dresser it was in perfectly good shape and I stripped it. I had called my brother in Georgia to ask him how to refinsh this and he just tried to talk me out of doing it but I was determined and................

TAH DAH!!!

I think it turned out pretty good the color is a close match I think it will work, now it's on to the next project!

My boys are such stinkers to get pictures of and i am redoing their room for Christmas and I wanted some new pictures of them I just decided to let them do whatever they wanted and just be silly and these were the outcome, I think they turned out pretty dang cute for not really knowing what I was doing. I think I love them because they are real smiles in the pictures not the fake ones I am used to getting.

Brandon took the week off work to help his dad get this buck! It was taken from the Henry Mountains but it had to only be a three point on one side so that made it tricky for them but I think they ended up with an awesome buck!