Playing Catch Up

I have been a complete slacker and have lots to catch up on! First off though, I should really be cleaning the house right now, it is such a mess. It really looks like we just moved in again. We brought up my aunts love seat to add to the living room, and we haven't had time to arrange things how we like, and it doesnt match our couch so I've been trying to find slipcovers.. And with me doing so many remodels the extra bedroom is a mess. So needless to say I have a to do list a mile long, but I decided to start by wasting time blogging :).

I Love My Days Off

Today was a crafty day (my FAVORITE). I made some cute bows for our canadian Gert and her new baby girl, got half way done painting a dresser, and started to prime our night stands from our bedroom! I can't decide with the night stands though if I should paint them black or white? Our bedspread is mostly black with a white design, and I painted our bed frame white. I think the white would help make the room look brighter, but the black would be more striking. So it may take me a couple of days to finish them if I can't decide soon!

should i paint it black or white?

A Change Of Heart

As I was cleaning our room yesterday I took a look at the desk I painted the other day, and thought I wonder what that would look like with a little distress? So with a little sandpaper and 20 minutes.............

TADA! It looks awesome, and is so much more my style. Like my dad kept saying the whole time we were doing wedding decorations "Why do you have to take something new and perfect and turn it into a old peice of junk?" Why? Because it is AMAZING! I will have the whole thing done tomorrow (hopefully), and will post  better pictures

Family Camping

This last weekend we went out to Sawmill Canyon with the Littlewoods for Connors last weekend at home.

 By the time I got off work and Friday, and we got the trailer packed and functioning in Shelley we didn't pull into the campsite until 11:30 that night. Luckily Pres took a energy drink to keep him awake because by the time we got half way there I was out like a light. We just left everything hooked to the truck and went to bed in a very un-level trailer, that was FREEZING. Luckily the heater kicked on in the night and warmed it up a bit, and we had a couple of blankets. We got to sleep in on Saturday (something we NEVER get to do together), and then headed out on the wheeler to look at the gorgeous trees. I took my big camera with me and decided I was going to shoot the whole weekend in Manual. I try to use manual, shutter, and aperture as much as I can, but I chicken out a lot and switch it to auto. So needless to say I took a lot of bad pictures, but I learned a lot and got a few good ones!

When we got back from our ride Kade was up and about, and as soon as he heard the fourwheeler he had to go for a ride. Of course the wheeler wouldn't start until he sang the hakuna matata song. He his so dang funny! "If the world turns your back on you, you turn your back on the world" He's getting very good at performing he starts out loud, gets even louder in the middle and at the end of the song he says the last word very quiet and drags it out. He uses his hands a ton too. I think everyones favorite part was... it's our probem free hilosophy hakuna matata.

The boys needed to sight in their rifles so they could go hunting so we all jumped in the trucks and found a good spot, with a bunch of muddy puddles. Kade loves muddy puddles. You could tell he wanted to jump and splash in them so bad, but he was good and just threw rocks in them.

Microwave Smores

I love to bake, a little too much actually, because I bake sweets all the time! With no family around to share them with we eat them all. It's not too good for our waist lines. So last night when I wanted to make brownies Preston came up with the idea to make smores over a candle. Well we don't have big marshmellows or chocolate bars so we made them in the microwave with mini marshmallows, and chocolate chips. It was so much fun just being our goofy selves.

Preston doesn't  wear a shirt in Pocatello so that he can fit in with all the other high class people here :)

High and Tight

Preston likes his hair very short (I blame Basic Training), if I would do it I think he would have me cut it once a week. So somehow his hair got very long, so this last time we cut it he had a major bowl cut! I tried to talk him into leaving it for a day but of course he wouldn't! I think he can pull it off pretty dang good!

Wedding Pictures

just a few of my favorites

Michelle Fowler Photography

ROTC Family

Preston has been doing ROTC since he started school a few months ago, seeing if that is what he really wants to do within the army. Well today he contracted so we are in for the long haul. After this semester he has four more to go until he graduates. When he graduates he will commission as an officer. Once he commissions, he has to serve for 8 more years. We are almost to the year mark since he joined the army so he will be in for 11 years. It's kinda scary thinking our lives our committed to this for so long, but I know Preston is happy and that he really enjoys being in the guard, so I'm happy. He has already accomplished so much, being platoon guide in basic, getting excellent markmanship at basic, being platoon leader for ROTC, competing in ranger challenge, and more that he forgets to tell me about because he acts like it's no big deal, even though it is. I know that he is going to go far in this carrer and I couldn't be prouder of my solider. It will definitely be hard I know. We will spend a lot of time apart, but we already did that once for four months and I still can't believe how much we grew and how strong that made our relationship. I never in my wildest dreams being an Army wife, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

Halloween Clothespins Magnets

Well I joined the rest of the world and started using Pinterest... I LOVE IT! I wish I would have used it when I was planning our wedding, there is so much to find on there. The only problem is I am really bad at having great ideas, and never doing anything about them. So I decided if I'm going to pin all sorts of things that I love, I have to actually do some of them. So...............

I made Halloween magnets! They honestly took about 20 minutes max to do! Just start with a few clothespins, acrylic paint, scrap paper, and mod podge. I painted all of the clothespins except for the front and back. Then cut out strips of papers and used mod podge to adhere them to the pin. Once that is dry apply mod podge ontop of the paper to give it a finished look. I didn't like how it looked with just the straight edges of the paper so I went around the sides with paint to make it all look more connected. I bought magnet tape at walmart (it has adhesive on one side to stick to your object) and just cut a strip into four pieces and stuck it on the back! Easy Peasy, and now after two months of marriage we finnally have magnets for the fridge!

My New Addiction

COUPONS! It felt so good today going grocery shopping, and saving $28.52! Everything I bought was stuff that we actually use too. I hate how on extreme couponing they buy 10 bags of croutons just because they can get them for 25 cents. I think I'm going to do most of my couponing at Albertsons, they have the best deals and I had 3 of there double coupon things!  I saved 63% there (no I am not physco and figured that out on my own it tells you on your receipt)! It only took me about an hour last night to cut out all my coupons and I would say 28.52 a hour is pretty good pay, so I'm definitely going to keep at it! As long as my grandma will let me have her sunday coupons!