Oh the treats you can eat :)

Don't worry, they are totally healthy, we don't eat unhealthy things at our house ;) these sweet treats were Libbie's birthday treat for her class. I was pretty excited she just wanted mini cupcakes and didn't want me to build a unicorn out of cake or something crazy :)

Harvest :)

Yay more crafts :) if you hate crafts, sorry, I love them!
( A note to Katie, I just use regular wood stain, whatever color you want. I think mine is walnut. I just brush it on and wipe it off. If you put paper on you have to make sure that you mod podge the edge of the paper so the stain doesn't get on the paper and make it look nasty. And also make sure you don't get mod podge on the wood, if you do sand it off or the stain won't stain and it looks funny :) HAPPY FALL!!!!!

We remember

Last night our little family had the opportunity to set up flags for people around town in remembrance of 9-11. I am grateful we were able to do so. It was so cute to see the kids running around with Matt. What a blessing it is to live in this country! I always cry when I hear or sing the national anthem. I hope my children will always be proud of where we live! I am thankful for all those who have given their lives for our country.

Oh how I LOVE fall!!!

I love to decorate for fall!! It is my favorite season. Last trip to Salt Lake Matt let me go crazy in my favorite craft store. (thank you Lisa for telling me about it, Matt on the other hand, does not thank you ;o) I have lots of fall paper so I cut it all up.

Then I used mod podge to stick it to my pumpkin. It kinda took a while, but time goes by so fast while I'm in my craft room. The kids were all so good while I worked (that never happens :o)

I did one with some glitter, I think this is my girls favorite pumpkin! I stained the sides and back, just the way my awesome friend Lyndsey showed me :o) (I have great friends!!)

Here they are all done. Bring on the fall weather, yummy baking, and fun holidays. In a few weeks I'm planting 300 bulbs, wish me luck!!

New flooring

Well it's about time, but I've been busy :o) So here are some pictures of our kitchen/living room redo. This picture is where it all began. After a year of putting it off, and two guys who quoted us for carpet telling us we would not be able to remove the tile without replacing the sub-floor, it's done! We did not have to replace anything, but the removal of the tile did take 5 days. Well the tile was up in a few hours, but the plywood glued to our sub floor that took awhile!

We were feeling pretty good at this point. Things were going so fast, we were so excited to see the end of this yucky tile!

Then Matt went to see how the plywood was attached, and bad news. About 1,000,000 nails ;o) and lots and lots of glue. The kids were a big help (they helped the most when we said it was bed time. But Matt and I were so tired we didn't care how long they stayed up!)

We even got Levi working. Child labor, maybe, but he seemed to have fun!

I was feeling pretty bad that I had spent a year telling Matt that we needed to do this project and pretty much forcing him into it :o), so the kids and I removed the carpet in the living room. Man that was some sick stuff. There were piles of sand on the sub floor. Not just a little, A LOT!! Sick. Then we spent the next few hours picking staples out of the sub floor. Noah was a pro!

In the end it was all worth it. I can truly say, blood, sweat, and almost tears went into this project. I am so happy with the end result, and so is Matt! YAY he still loves me ;O)

Here is a picture before we got our carpet ( it was pretty funny to bring an 8x10 carpet back from salt lake with 2 months of groceries and school clothes and supplies) full car for sure!!!

Here is another before. Yuck, I am so glad that we never have to touch that horrible carpet again. And my feet are so glad that I don't have to stand on that sick tile!

Here is another before. Don't mind the breakfast still on the table. Or the ugly light in the kitchen. I'm glad that's gone too!

The end! We have lots more projects, but this was for sure the hardest one we had to do!! I am so glad we can move on to the easy stuff, like redoing the kids rooms :o)