BORING!

Just though I'd let everyone know that we are B-O-R-I-N-G! We haven't really done a whole lot of anything lately except for work. Althought on a side note the floor is practically done and we couldn't be happier with that fact! Scot just has to finish the base boards and we will be golden. Pictures to come!

My Chaotic House...

Here is what I get to come home to everyday for the next little while...

Could that foam crapola be any grosser? Seriously!!

...My oven and my fridge in the living room, no carpet and a sexy husband.

I am really going to be sad when we get to the living room and the T.V. isn't hooked up to the cable! Oh the humanity!

But it will all be worth it in the end. Thanks Scot! You are doing a great job!! Love you!!

So, here's to hand washing dishes!

The Undercover Crate...

OK, if you have been looking for different ideas for storage I have a seriously cool project for you to try....seriously...cool...seriously. Did I mention I was serious? Alrighty, now...This is what you do:

1. Go to THIS link and print off the directions.

2. Go to your all time favorite fabric store (such as this one, this one, or this one) and pick up some awesomly awesome fabric. I chose some that goes in my living room because I was in desperate need of some storage in there for all of my yarn. I have quite a bit. Scot couldn't believe I filled one of these things up with all yarn. I'm obsessed. What?

4. Unfortunately you will have to go to this store to find the best deal on the crate. Sorry. The pattern does show you how to customize this project to any kind of open storage crate like this but I just like these crates because they are sturdy and a good size...

3. Come home and follow the directions and in about an hour you will have one seriously CUTE storage crate! I plan to make more of these for all over the house. I LOVE it!

Go from this:

To this:

Happy Sewing!!!

Scot The Builder...

Bob's got nothin' on Scot. Check out what he made us for our living room!! I think he's pretty great!

Here he is in the process of staining...
And here is the finished product!
Thanks Scoter for a beautiful new coffee table!

Sac Town Where you Don't Back Down...

A few months ago Southwest was advertising that they were selling air plane tickets for 50% off out of Denver. Wooo hooo. We jumped right on that and bought tickets to go see my parentals in February. We had a great time spending time with them this last weekend, we just wish we could have stayed longer! On Friday they took us to the GREATEST store on earth...IKEA. I officially Heart IKEA.

I bought so much stuff that I had to leave a lot of it behind for my parents to bring with them when they drive over in June. Yikes! I have no self control! Why doesn't Colorado have one of these stores? That is RIDICULOUS! I might have to write a letter.

After IKEA we went back to the homestead and relaxed a bit and then I decided to take Scot to some of my old stomping grounds. We went down to the Sacramento River and walked along the dock where the Delta King and the Spirit of Sacramento is...Here we are with the bridge in the background.

After we walked along the water for a while we decided to go back up and walk around Old Sac. We took a seat along the way that overlooks the river...How Romantical...

We wandered around for a while and of course had to go to Evangeline's the only store really worth going to in Old Sac (you other sac town people can vow to this) and I also always have to go to the store with the barrels of Salt Water Taffy and Jelly Belly's because I am chubby like that.

On Saturday my mom signed us up to take a scrapbooking class where we made these super CUTE desk calendars while my dad and Scot played darts:

Here is how March turned out...I still need to get some pictures in it...:)

That night my family came over for pizza and we had a nice visit with them. No pictures though! DOH! Sunday we had to go home. BOOOOO. It was really rainy and nasty on Sunday so we just kind of hung out at the house and visitied before we had to go to the airport. SAD!

We had a great visit and can't wait for you guys to come see us in June! We are going to have so much fun!

Fabric Basket

And...another project. Aren't you sooooo excited? I can feel the excitement. So I was browsing online one day and ran across this tutorial on Pink Penguin and I fell in LOVE! I was thinking of all the wonderful things I could do with this basket. I was going to do all kinds of organizing and make 3 or 4 of them for the living room for all of my yarn and magazines, it was going to look soooo fabulous! So I printed it off and went out and bought this SUPER cutie fabric and started working right away as soon as I got home never really paying that close attention to the dimensions on the tutorial. Well as I started cutting I thought, man this is pretty small but I just kept on going thinking it would get better. Finally as I was cutting out the last piece I was like this is going to be one SMALL fabric basket...and it is...and that's OK...I am still in LOVE. My next goal is to tweak it so that I can make a much larger one for organizing. Should be pretty easy. I will let you know....

Hockey Game!

Scot and I don't share A TON of the same interests but one of the things that we do love equally is hockey! A couple weekends ago we went to an Air Force Hockey game up at the Academy. They played Holy Cross college. It was PACKED because it was $2 ticket night. We had such a great time hanging out together and watching our team play! They did really well and there was a lot more fighting than usual which is why I like to go. Woo hoo!

Here is a B-U-T-T ugly picture we took at the game. STOP looking at my double chin...I said STOP...Seriously don't make me come over there...

Here is the team...Just look directly above the lady with the ginormous bangs!

Go Air Force!

"A" is for Apron

Here is Apron #2. I found the pattern in this book:

"A" is for Apron.

I modified the pattern a little bit by just doing three pleats instead of gathering it at the waist, that's just easier to me. Anyway, If you like to make aprons or just like to sew quick/easy projects this book is ultra fab! You can buy it at JoAnns, Hobby Lobby, and I am pretty sure I bought mine at Barnes and Noble. There are about 22 different patterns and basically how it works is the patterns are in the very back of the book and you just take them to a Kinkos or Office Depot or some place like that and have them englarge the pages to however big it instructs. For this one I took it to our FedEx/Kinkos and had them enlarge the page 400%. It cost me about $7 per page but you can reuse the pattern pieces so it's not too bad. Then you just cut out the pattern and follow the instructions like any other pattern. Bada Bing, Bada Boom...

(BTW Where are my feet? That looks weird. Oh well, I am too lazy to fix it.)

6th File, 6th Picture Tag

Rachelle tagged me soooo here is what you do: open your pictures, go to the 6th file and pick the 6th picture, then post it and tell about it...so here you go:

I opened my pictures and went to my 6th file and the 6th picture was a picture of an Operating Room that Scot had to take for work and I just thought that was no fun so I decided to open my scans and go to the 6th file and the 6th picture was this one. The night this really bad picture was taken was an interesting one.

Some of you may have heard this story, some of you may even have been there (Mitzi Bitzi) and some of you are in for a little treat...So Scot and I were dating and it was the week that everyone was leaving for Christmas break 2003ish (2 whole weeks! Oh to be in college again!). Of course Scot and I wanted to have one last date before we had to part for that eternally long break so I came up with this brilliant idea that I was going to cook dinner for Scot (you know to show him that I was prime wife material and would be able to take great care of him if we were to get married...wink, wink). I called my mom (thanks a lot mom! You almost cost me my eternal future. j/k) and she told me to cook this chicken/rice/broccoli ensemble. She told me it was really easy and everyone likes it, you can't go wrong. So I go to Broulims and by all the ingredients and start whippin' that bad boy out. I'm just goin' along and getting pretty cocky because this is starting to look really good if I do say so myself. Suddenly I realized it was getting really late and I should probably get in the shower and get ready before my man gets there and sees me looking scraggly (gasp). As I was getting ready I was going back and forth between the bathroom and the kitchen, twirling and skipping around. So happy. I should also mention that I decided to make an apple crisp for dessert (I know, I know so Paula Dean of me) because it will be important to the story in a minute. Fast forward a little bit to Scot arriving for the big meal. Scot, Mitzi and I were like the three muskateers so we invited Mitzi to eat with us. We all sat down and said a little prayer to bless the food (little did we know were were going to need that more than we thought) and then we dug in. Well, Scot was the first one to find a big LOOOOONG blonde hair. Mortification! I could NOT believe it. Even though we were all kind of gagging a little we decided to forge ahead because of course there couldn't be more than one hair. We were wrong, Mitzi found the next hair. GAG. Then we get to the middle of the chicken...it was PINK. YAK! I had pretty much had it at that point. Just when I didn't think it could get ANY worse Scot reveals that he doesn't even like broccoli. NICE. OK so when dinner doesn't go well there is always dessert to bring up your spirits right? I opened the oven to check on my apple crisp but the top wasn't turning brown so Mitzi says "oh just turn the oven to broil for a couple minutes." So I decided that that sounded like a good idea so I cranked it over. While we were waiting we decided to watch a little T.V. After a few minutes it kind of started to stink a little...kinda burnt...I went over to check on my delicious dessert and lo and behold it was no longer a golden brown yummy apple crisp but an extremely black and charred apple crispy. That was the end of it for me. I looked at Scot and told him that he could take me for Ice Cream after the movie in Idaho Falls and we left. That's the last time I got ready while cooking. GROSS! Apparently Scot isn't really that in to eating because he still decided to marry me and I can't honestly say that my cooking skilss have gotten any better, don't even get me started on the time that I made sheppards pie...I think I just threw up in my mouth a little thinking about it.

Now I tag: Mitzi, Lisa, Devon and Lindsay

Another Project

So since we really haven't been going on any trips or doing anything involving pictures and we don't have any cute kiddos to talk about I am forced to show you another project.

Right before Christmas I bought this super cutie pattern from this Etsy shop: Little Projects (Love it!)

So I made one...

and then I couldn't stop, so I made three more...(That dark grey one looks funky just cause the brim is folded under, come to think of it they all look sort of weird but they are really cute on)
and I have the yarn and buttons to make about 4 more...

There we go with the self control thing again. I have come to the conclusion that I like multiples. That's probably why I ended up in Colorado Springs. Did you know that Colorado Springs has 9, count them 9 Wal Marts, 3 targets, more churches than you ever though could have existed and 2 malls (3 if you count the Promenade Shops at Briargate). That my friends is nutty especially for the size town it is...but I like it. OK?