Thankful

I feel like I have been so blessed in my life. Here are 26 things I am thankful for in addition to LAST YEARS list!

1. Prayer, I am so grateful to be able to talk to my Father in Heaven and know that he is listening whenever I want.

2. My Kindle. Could there be a greater invention?

3. Fabric. There are a couple reasons. It makes it so that we don't have to walk around naked and it brings me hours of sewing
entertainment.

4. Gum, it curbs my cravings when all I want to do is eat ALL day at work!

5. My husband who is going back to school to get his masters degree
so he can take care of our family.

6. My calling at church, it is teaching me and I feel like I am learning from it.

7. My treadmill. We have a love/hate relationship but it is good for me.

8. Pentel gel pens. I use these all day at work and they write so well and smooth. Bliss!

9. Email. I NEVER have to talk on the phone at work. It's Heavenly!

10.Airplanes. Even though the thought of a metal tube shooting through the sky at a zillion miles an hour is a little frightening, it's pretty amazing that I can see my family in California from Colorado in a matter of a couple hours instead of a 2 day drive!

11.Google. I Google EVERYTHING!

12.Those serving our country.

13.Our DVR. My security blanket. I can freely go to the store on Thursday nights without having to haul butt back home so I don't miss Grey's Anatomy.

14.Excedrin MIGRAINE! Enough said.

15.Being able to do service. I know I need to do more but I am glad that I am able to help those in need when the opportunity arises.

16.My 20 minute drive to work in the mornings. I can talk to my
Heavenly Father, reflect on the day ahead or just belt out songs
on the radio and pretend like I can sing better than Taylor Swift.

17.Cell phones. What in the WORLD did we do before cell phones? I
tremble at the thought. Seriously sometimes Scot and I walk around for 2 hours looking for each other at Target if I
leave my phone at home. Soooo annoying!

18.The Sun. I love everything about it. Warmth, growth, happiness!

19.The song "Fireflies" by Owl City. The tune just makes you
happy.

20.Calendars/Day Planners. I love making lists and writing down the things I need to do and places I need to be.

21.HUGE purses. I like to be prepared so I am always carrying around my kindle, at least two magazines, a day planner (see #20), lotion and body spray, calorie books, etc, etc, etc so I am glad that big bags are in!

22.Going Green! I love that people are so in to protecting our planet and not being so wasteful. I can't say that I have completely jumped on the bandwagon but I am glad that there are
people who care. I am working on it.

23.THIS blog. She inspires me.

24.Fax machines. Seriously who comes up with this stuff?

25.Those little nail polish remover wipe things. The funny thing
is that Cutex makes them but the Equate ones at Wal Mart work
WAYYYY BETTER!

26.January, to me it means new beginnings and 9am church, no more
1:00!!!

So there you have it, 53 things I am grateful for!

Happy...

...New Moon Day!

(Don't even act like you all aren't excited!!)

B - Town

Last weekend Scot and I went to Boise to visit my bestie friend Mitzi. I can honestly say I feel like we are kindred spirits. We met in college about 8 years ago and we were definitely meant to meet and become friends. For a more detailed account of our friendship go HERE to Mitzi's blog!

Mitzi posted a whole bunch of fun old pictures from when we were in college so I thought I would post a few more just for old times sake!

We loved running around in these amazing wigs and visiting friends. OK, we only did it once but we thought it was really funny.

Here we are with a sexy beast hockey player in Jackson Hole.

Kayaking on the American River in Sac Town where you don't back down!

Mitzi took me to her home town of Arco, Idaho. Here we are at Swingin' Tree.

Playing airplane or something??...

Here is what a typical evening at our apartment looked like on any given night of the week...Three Amigos!

Mitzi and I after she had moved to Salt Lake! That was a sad sad day!

Love this picture...it's hilarious!

It was so great to catch up and just hang out with good friends. We loved getting to know Mitzi's husband more and meeting their adorable son Corbin! Here are a couple pictures. I can't believe we didn't take more! We were picture taking fools in college. I had a hard time widling them all down to do this post!

Here we are on our short hike Saturday overlooking Boise...

Mitzi helped me make this SUPER cutie apron over the weekend. I told her I was making it just so I could have something cute to hang on my hook in the kitchen. Ha ha ha!

Thanks so much for a fun weekend! Can't wait to see you guys again...SOON! Not 4 years from now!!

Mod Podge Rocks!

I think I have found one of the best blogs ever, especially because the name of it is true...Mod Podge DOES Rock! If you haven't already you need to go HERE!

A while ago there was a post on how to revamp a stool and I loved it so I decided to try it out. The stools at Michael's like the one on THIS post seemed a little unsteady so I went ahead and did mine with one like thisish (only shorter and the legs are more curvy so it really isn't like this one at all...so)...

Here is how it turned out. It was so easy and just adds a little excitement to our downstairs area...I may even go back and get one like the one on that post because I think it so dang cute. There is also a step stool at Ikea that is so dope. If we had an Ikea anywhere in the vicinity I would totally go get it and do THIS to it. Or you could try THIS too, everyone has a step stool like this! Ours is out in the garage though so I doubt Scot would appreciate me girlying it all up. I will have to just go and pick up a new one for me inside. So many options!

Once you've tried Mod Podge you will never want to stop...I guarantee it! (Just like the Men's Warehouse guy says)...

A Brithday and A Celebrity Sighting

For the long Labor Day Weekend Scot and I were able to fly back to California (my most favoritist place in the world) for my dad's birthday. We had a great time hanging out with the fam! Although our trip did start out sort of rough having to keep our big old carry on suitcases at our feet on the plane and having to empty fuel from our plane in order to make weight it all ended up working out and went smoothly from there on out (Side Note: I do NOT like to fly, it scares me and it especially scares me when they want to empty an essential element such as fuel from the plane. HELLO!)

Anyway, while we were there I was able to work on a project with the help of my mom.
She made a cute little roll up similar to this for all of her knitting needles and crochet hooks so I decided that I needed one too! My mom is a great seamstress and was able to tell me what to do from memory! Here is how it turned out...So neat and organized!!

On Saturday we celebrated my dad's birthday by having a picnic in the Elk Grove Park with friends and family. It was a really fun afternoon. It wasn't too hot either which was really nice.

On Monday we flew back home :(. Sadness. When we got to L.A. for our 2 1/2 hour layover we started walking down the terminal to find something to eat. We stopped so Scot could use the facilities and when he came back out I said to him "let's just go back to California Pizza Kitchen over by where our gate is." Scot was like "Ya, that sounds good." So we walked back over and ordered our food. After ordering I walked over and filled up our cup and started scanning the restaurant for a place to sit and that's when I saw him. NOW, I know you all are going to be like YA RIGHT. You are way too obsessed! But this is true. OK back to my story, so I'm scanning and I see him. I of course did a double take and he looked up and I am pretty sure he saw the recognition in my face but I decided to be dignified and not say anything to him even though I wanted to run over and ask him for a picture. People were leaving him alone and I didn't want to cause him any problems. Well of course there happened to be seats right next to him so we sat there and now I am able to say that I ate lunch next to Emmett Cullen (Kellan Lutz) from Twilight. Booo ya!

For those of you who don't know who in the heck I'm talking about here he is:
I should have been more brave and gotten a picture I know, I know but I'm sure they get sick of the craziness so I thought it better not to embarass myself. Know what I mean?

Even though it was a super quick trip we were glad we were able to go. It's always nice to get away and spend some time with the fam. Love you guys!

Here are the happs...

{That's short for the happenings...}

So I can't believe how long it's been since we've posted anything! That's probably because we have been super BORING this summer! Oh well, what can you do? Anyway earlier last month we went on a bike ride...BAD idea. It was probably one of the hardest things I've ever done...OK maybe not but pretty dang close. I couldn't even walk the next day. We rode from a little town called Silverthorne up to another ski town called Breckenridge. We figure from the car to Breckenridge was around 10 - 12 miles UPHILL the entire way. When we got to the last hill I literally stopped my bike got off and started to cry. Scot was being very supportive and telling me I could do it. I told him to go on without me and that I would just live there next to little stream forever. After eating a cliff bar though and a few swigs of water I was rejuvinated enough and we DID IT! Woo hoo. Here is a before picture when we still thought we were going to have a fun day. Sexy, I know.

Anyway other than that not much else...I have been working on a few projects some of them are gifts though so no posty...
Seriously, this project was seirously sent straight from heaven. I have been looking for a place to keep all of my jewelry where I could see it all and not have it get all tangled up and low and behold I found the perfect solution. All you need is a frame, chicken wire and your husbands big old staple gun! Oh ya!

I've seen it done with really gorgeous, ornate frames but seriously where do those people find stuff like that? I don't know, so I just went with Michael's frames. Works great and I had a stinkin' coupon. HECK YA!

Here is another somethin' somethin' I FINALLY finished. I started this project way back when and finally decided it was time to finish it. I was a little off on my measurements but it will do the job.

Anyway that's about all from us for now. We hope everyone is doing well!!

Hiking Pikes Peak

Last Saturday Scot hiked this big white mountain...

...called Pikes Peak. I think he's crazy for even wanting to do it but I was impressed that he was able to accomplish this goal that he has always wanted to do...

Here are some pictures from their trip...

Starting out at Barr Trail in Manitou Springs at 5:00 in the morning! Yikes!

The sun is just starting to come up...

At timberline...here is where the air really starts to thin out...

Taking a break...not much more to go...

The trail...

I met them up at the top so that I could drive them back down. It takes an HOUR to drive to the top and some of it is dirt roads and really steep, kinda scary.

Great Job Scot! I'm very proud of you!...And no, I definitely will not be doing that with you anytime soon! I think my way of driving up is much more leisurely :)...

Pincussion Organizer

Another website I heart visiting is Sew Mama Sew. They have a ton of really cool tips and free tutorials. While my mom was in town we decided to make these really cute pincussion organizers from this free tutorial that I found on Sew Mama Sew.

Now I can have all of my little sewing supplies right next to me on the couch and throw all of my scraps away in the garbage bag. Pretty neato!
I heart free tutorials!

South Dakota!

A couple weeks ago we were able to go to South Dakota with my parents to see Mount Rushmore and other various parks and attractions in the area. We left after work on Friday and met them in Cheyenne, then drove up the rest of the way on Saturday. We had a great time and it's definitely one of those things that everyone should see at least once in their lifetime! Very cool.

Here we are at the South Dakota sign...I guess Scot couldn't decide if he was hot or cold...

One of the first things we did after eating the WORST lunch of all time was go to Custer State Park and see the beautiful scenery. The loop we were on had a bunch of one way tunnels which my mom was totally hating so we had to pull over so she could catch her breath. Ha ha ha. Funny lady.

We stayed in this really nice suite in Hill City but it was really funny because there was this huge hot tub right in the middle of the living room. We just thought it was hilarious so we had to take a few pictures.

The next day we went to Mount Rushmore which was the best part of the trip by far...

On our way back from a town called Deadwood where Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickock are burried we ran in to these guys in Custer Park! Wild Donkeys and they surely were wild...and scary....

Scot's lovin' it...

The next day we went to Keystone, South Dakota and walked around the town and after that we went to Bear Country USA which was really awesome. Here is Scot in the car with his creeper face...

The baby bears were soooo cute climbing in the tree...

Later on that night we went back to Mount Rushmore for the lighting ceremony which was really cool. They do a little program and then light up the mountain while everyone sings the national anthem. Really neato.

The rest of the weekend was filled with swimming at the hotel, taking naps and enjoying each others company. Oh and eating CRAPY food. Small town eating...not for me. After that it was time to head back to Colorado Springs. My parentals were able to come back and spend the week with us which was really cool. We got to take them to the Flying W Ranch for dinner one night and they went and did some cool things while we had to work. It was a great couple of weeks and we were sad to see it end! Love you guys!