Big Ol' Church Bag...

I am the Young Womens secretary for our ward and along with this particular calling comes lots of...stuff to carry around on Sundays. So to make things a little easier I decided to make a bag to carry all of this...stuff in. I have had bags in the past for Sundays that I would carry all of my teaching materials in when I was in Young Womens and Primary before but was never fully satisfied with their carrying ability. As of late I have become completely OBSESSED with Amy Butler's patterns/fabric/stationary/scrapbooking supplies, etc. Pretty much all of her products are amazing to me so when I found out that a store in Castle Rock sold her patterns and fabric I hurried over to check it out. I found this pattern for the Birdie Sling and asked the owner a few questions about it and decided to try it out. Her patterns are super easy to follow and there are lots of instructions which is EXACTLY what I need to get through some of these things so I really really like her patterns for that fact. She has gorgeous fabrics and I can't wait to get another pattern and start another project!

I LOVE sewing! I am not great at it and I definitely need to work on my straight lines but it gets my mind off of the stress of work and is a fun way to just let my mind wander to another place...

Scot was kind enough to be my model...

Here is the inside. It looks kind of weird from this angle. There are two pockets on the inside in there...

Ta-da!

Glenwood Springs!

Earlier in the week I had asked Scot if he wanted to go up to Glenwood to swim in the hot spring or go walk around Vail and Aspen on Saturday just to get away for the day and hang out. He said "sure." So that night we kind of forgot to talk about it and the next day we talked about it in passing but by Thursday we had pretty much decided not to do it and get some things done around the house instead. On Saturday morning I had gotten up before Scot and was downstairs working on some things when he came down surprisingly early. He asked me if I was hungry and I said "Sure." We decided to have French Toast and Scot asked me to get out of the eggs. So I walked over to the fridge and got out the eggs and when I opened the carton our itenerary for our hotel in Glenwood was in there. What a fun surprise!! So we hurried up and put everything we had gotten out away and went up stairs to pack and get ready to go. We were out of the house an hour later and headed up to Glenwood for a great weekend getaway! We only had one set back with a flat tire which we were luckily able to get fixed for free just in the nick of time and we were good to go.

Here we are with the hot spring in the background. It was sooooo COLD!

And here is Scot in the Pool...

Thanks for a great weekend Scoty!!

Happy Birthday Mitz!

Happy Birthday Mitzi Bitzi! Mitzi and I met at BYU-Idaho. We were roommates and hit it off instantly. It was totally meant to be that we would live together and I am so glad that we met! I hope you have a fabulous day!! I love ya and miss you tons!

B-B-Q in November!

On Saturday we had a couple of Scot's friends from High School over for a B-B-Q. We had a lot of fun talking about when they were in high school and all the weirdy things they used to do. Here are a couple of pictures...

Grayson (Jody's son), Jody, Scot and Andy

US!

Happy Halloween

Here is Scot wishing you all a HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Yee Haw!!

We hope you all have a safe Halloween with LOTS of good treats!

It's a Boy!

This lady at Scot's work told him that she had a dream one night that we were going to have twin boys. That got us thinking and we decided to go to a website that fuzes your pictures together to show you what your future children will look like. Here is what we discovered:












After careful consideration we have decided that it would be a horrible mistake to ever have children. We will save mankind by not bringing these sweet spirits to the earth.

(In all honesty we do wish to have children someday we just sincerely hope that they are cuter than these two little angels)

Happy Birthday Erin!!

Today is one of my best friends in the whole world's birthday! Erin was one of my first roommates at good old Royal Crest Apartments when I went to Ricks College for my first semester and at first I was a little intimidated by her but once we got to know each other better we became instant friends! She is one of my favorite people. We usually try to get together at least once a year or so and do fun things like go to Las Vegas and Disneyland! Erin, I hope you have a fabulous birthday!! Miss you!!

Picture Tag...

Amber tagged me a while ago...my instructions were to go to my pictures folder, then go to the fourth file and select the fourth picture in that file. Here you go:

We went on a tour of the Stanley Hotel a few years ago and this is a picture of us in one of the ballrooms. The Stanley is in Estes Park and it is the hotel that Stephen King was staying at when he got the idea for the movie "The Shining." SPOOKY!

Now I tag:
1. Anyone
2. who
3. wants
4. to

Our Friend Christian!!

Last weekend we had the opportunity to drive to Ft. Collins a couple hours North of us to go see our friend Christian in a play called "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee." We had such a great time! It has been FOREVER since we have seen Christian so it was so good to see him again! Christian and I grew up together in good old Elk Grove, CA and then we all three ended up going to BYU-I together. The play was fabulous. We loved it and laughed the entire time!! So we saw the play on Friday night and then afterward we were able to hang out with Christian and catch up. They had been in Ft. Collins for most of the week and so he took us to this FANTASTIC cafe that was dedicated entirely to chocolate. It was heavenly. We even got to dring milk out of these fancy cups! Don't mind that awesome reflection on my chin from the milk...

We even had a toast with our milk...aren't we classy? After the wonderful chocolate experience we went back to Christian's hotel and met a couple of his other castmates who we really enjoyed meeting. He is really traveling with a talented group of people. We had a great time chatting with them and catching up with Christian. On Saturday morning we met up with Christian again and had lunch with him at the Mongolian Grill. It was really good. We had never been to a place like that before, we are the most uncultured and unadventurous people you will ever meet in your life when it comes to food. Ridiculous. But anyway back to the food, basically you get to choose whatever you want to put in your bowl. So you have meat (Chicken, sword fish, crab, etc) then you choose some noodles and vegetables and then your sauce. Finally once you have chosen everything you take it over and they cook it there in front of you. It was super neat. After dropping Christian off so he could catch his bus, Scot and I walked around Ft. Collins and I talked Scot in to going on a scrapbook store adventure. There is always this scrapbook store listed in my all of my magazines that is in Ft. Collins so we went and found it. What a wonderful husband I have. The store was HUGE and soooo worth it! Woo hoo.

Last night Christian's bus came through Colorado Springs on their way to Texas and of course we wanted to meet up again. So we went and picked him and his friend up and we took them to Colorado Springs' claim to fame, Garden of the Gods. It was pretty dark and hard to see but I think they still enjoyed it. Afterward we took them back to our house for dinner.
Christian, we had such a great time seeing you and catching up! We loved meeting your new friends and cast mates and we thought you guys were fantastic in the play! Can't wait to see you in New York when we go on our next vacation!!!

Fall Decor...

I LOVE Fall decorations! Absolutely love them. I think they are the best of all the seasons/holidays. I don't know what it is but they really appeal to me. It's like when I have to take down my fall decorations I am kind of sad to see them go, when I have to take down my Christmas decorations, I can't get them put away quick enough because I am so sick to death of them. I am a weirdy I know. Last year we wanted to do one of these displays really bad on our porch but never got around to it. A lot people in our neighborhood have similar displays and so this year we FINALLY did it. Isn't Winifred cute? That is the name of our scarecrow. Don't worry, Scot named him/her...I don't know if it is a boy or girl, hmmm it's a mystery... That's why we gave it a unisex name, wini for a girl (pronounced like "Winnie" for all of you Wonder Years Fans out there) and Fred for a boy...Got it!
P.S. I definitely need to get another pumpkin for that left side. It has been noted...