Buttons, Wonderul Buttons...

Here is my button tree creation that I finished up last night. I saw the idea in a magazine a while ago and decided to try it out. It is just a styrofoam cone that you find in the craft/floral department at craft stores or Wal Mart (the green kind are the best). Then you need straight pins from the sewing department and a bunch of buttons (probably around 600ish varying upon what size you make)! I got my buttons from Archivers which is a scarpbook store. Most scrapbook stores sell bags of buttons.

I had so much fun working on this little guy. It was very theraputic and we all know I need a little therapy once in a while...

So if you are looking for something fun to do when it is so stinkin' cold outside (-9 degrees here in The Springs this morning...BRRRRR) try this! It very easy and goes pretty fast!

P.S. The lighting is pooptastic in these pictures and they are super grainy, maybe if I knew how to work the camera I could fix that but since I don't...

Does anyone else hate it when...

... their husbands get on the freaking ROOF??????
Because I DO! Just look at how happy he is up there...

But the end result was worth all of the nervous reckedness...

Yay for beautiful Christmas lights and this beautiful time of year!

Happy Thanksgiving and Twilight!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! A little late yes, but happy none the less! Scot's sisters and their families were all here for Thanksgiving this year which was so much fun! We love getting together and spending time with them! Among other activities (see Katie's blog) one of the things we did was to go see Twilight on Friday afternoon!
I was a little unsure about whether or not I was going to like it. I had heard mixed reviews about it so I was kind of on the fence. Honestly I don't really know a whole lot about who is a good actor or actress and if the filming was good, I just know what I like and I LOVED IT! Obviously they had to cut a lot of things out and a movie doesn't give you all of the detail and emotion that a book can but I thought the movie was great. I thought the characters were cast well and I was thoroughly entertained and that's all I really care about.

After the movie we went back to our house for Pizza because it is so close to the theater. The boys also had a tie swap which was fun. They picked ties from their closets that they don't wear anymore and brought them and they all swaped ties...

I hadn't taken any PICTURES while they were here so we did a little photo shoot before they had to go home that night.

Here we all are:

I guess we were feeling a little cheerleaderish...Here are the sisters and brother (shouldn't Scot be on the bottom?) I love this picture! So cute!:

And this last picture is just...ri-donk-ulous and funny...here are the IN - LAWS (- Christian who couldn't be there) we were just feeling silly...and cheerleadery again (see above picture):

GO TEAM!

I am thankful for so many things this year. I know I act extremely UNGRATEFUL most of the time but I have so many blessings in my life. Here are 27 of them since Thanksgiving was on the 27th (clever, I know) in no particular order:

1. My Heavenly Father and Savior Jesus Christ
2. My wonderful and caring husband
3. My families (both my own and Scot's)
4. My job, even though I hate it 99.999999999% of the time I am grateful to have it
5. A house. We were very blessed this year to get this home.
6. Food to put on the table each day
7. Books, I love to be able to get lost in a good book!
8. Good friends, lots of them are far away and I don't see them very often but I am thankful for them
9. My sewing machine, my newest friend. Love it!
10. My car, who without I wouldn't make it through some of these Colorado winters
11. The Gospel
12. My Camera, I love pictures to scrapbook and I love the memories they hold
13. Gas prices being so low, it has been a life saver these last couple weeks
14. My iPod, it totally gets me through my day at work
15. Mine and Scot's education
16. Clean water for cooking, bathing and drinking
17. Pajamas! I would live in them if I could
18. Vacations!
19. Eternal marriage and the knowledge that families are forever
20. Toothbrushes and toothpaste
21. Ice Cream - especially Peppermint
22. My new white down comforter thanks to Black Friday!
23. A garage so I don't have to scrape my car windows
24. Temples
25. California - Elk Grove in particular. It is where I grew up and learned and played
26. Wal Mart - we have a love hate relationship. It saves me lots of money but NOT lots of time
27. The Red Box. I love the Red Box. I would WAY rather spend $1 on a movie instead of $5. Booo Blockbuster....and Hollywood Video...Boo.

We hope everyone had a wonderful THANKSGIVING!

We loved seeing you guys! We miss you already! Come back...K?

Snow, Glorious Snow...

It has snowed SOOOO much today! This morning we got up and got ready to go to church. I was really dragging my feet because of how much it had snowed in the night and it was still snowing. I loath going out in the snow, especially in a dress! However, we pressed forward and got ready BUT just as we were literally walking out the door Scot decided to check his messages and lo and behold there was a message from a man in the ward saying that church had been canceled because of the "deteriorating weather conditions." WOW! That never ever happens! We were shocked to the say the least but a little relieved that we wouldn't have to go out in the snow and risk our lives, even though we did miss getting to go to church this week of course! Here is what we are looking at:

This is the tippy top of our 12 inch ruler about to be covered in snow! The weather guy on KKTV says that we could see at least 2 feet before the snow stops this evening. They are usually SOOOO off so I don't really believe him but lets face it if we woke up to 2 feet of snow I wouldn't be too heart broken if I couldn't get out of my driveway and not have to go to work tomorrow!!!!!

Here is Scot urging the clouds to break lose and let 'er rip so we can stay home and be couch potatoes tomorrow!! Oh the bliss it would be...(It's nice to dream...)

COME ON MOTHER NATURE, DO WHAT YOU GOTTA DO!

It's that time again folks...

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I HEART MAGAZINES!!
i LOVE magazines. all kinds of magazines. scrapbooking, do it yourself, home decor, gossip, exercise, fashion, craft magazines. i am addicted! i have a big HUGE basket full of magazines just like these next to the couch in our living room! the first step towards getting help is admitting you have a problem...right?? i think i need to go to magazine buyers anonymous...

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!