Here are the results of my week of craftiness. I am not very crafty by nature and haven't really got the skillz. But it was a fun week nonetheless.

1) Menu Board.

This menu board cost next to nothing. It's a frame from Dollar Tree - the area with all the diploma frames. All my kicthen stuff is red so I chose a red one. Then you just use scrapbook ( Read more... )

Today is my kind of day. Husby has the day off work for the Fall holiday. I've been feeling cheated out of my summer. I love love love to hike. I love to do anything outside. I love to eat outside, sleep outside, play outside, read outside, walk everywhere, I just love the outdoors. I love the smell, I love the sights, I love the breeze. I just ( Read more... )

Who knew you could love like this? Sometimes I look at him, like a moment ago as he was falling asleep, and I love him so much that my stomach twists into knots and it hurts in my stomach and in my chest because I just love him in this overwhelming way. When he was born I didn't know I could love him like this. Yesterday I didn't even know I could ( Read more... )

1. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE?
Lola after my maternal grandmother, and Renee (with an accent mark) after my Aunt Renee (who is technically my cousin, because she's my mom's niece, but she's older than my mom so she's always been "aunt" Renee).

2. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED?
Yesterday watching General Conference when the Mormon Tabernacle Choir ( Read more... )

Warning: This post contains an abundance, yea, perhaps even an overabundance of Cute.

Weighing in at over 14 pounds at his two month appointment, putting him in the 93rd percentile for weight, and measuring 25.5 inches, meaning he grew 4.5 inches since he was born and is now in the 99th percentile for height, we're not quite sure where this ( Read more... )

I woke up this morning, rolled over, said hello, and received this:


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Sometimes I'm afraid to even walk outside, just because my life is so full of irony. It just is. I feel like it always has been this way. It's just how I unintentionally roll. But really. I got married on July 11. It's National Cheer Up the Lonely Day. Fitting for a wedding, fitting. Then I spend nine months saying my baby better not arrive early ( Read more... )

I was watching this, a regular Sunday ritual of ours to watch these little videos, and thinking I didn't like it. Too cheesy for me. Especially the couple talking about the rocks. Please. Hahaha. But then Elder Scott started speaking, and INSTANTLY I started crying (so did Ry, haha), remembering this talk and how hard I cried when I heard him give ( Read more... )

Sometimes I have, "So this is my life" moments. Like when I open the freezer and see frozen breastmilk stuffed in every available crevice...this is my life. Or when I get waaaay too excited about how my kid looks in a cloth diaper. This is my life. When I find myself, with my husband, examining our son's poop and discussing it like it's totally ( Read more... )

"No one else will ever know the strength of my love for you. After all, you're the only one who knows what my heart sounds like from the inside."


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