Well it has been a little while since i posted about my amazingly exciting life. I guess I am a picture- poster- kind of girl and without a camera it is depressing to post, but here is my update anyways. Barry and I spent Thanksgiving in good 'ole Eagar. Many games where played and there was lots of snuggling-up for a good movie. It was a durn good time. Kari, Tami and I
worked out a LOT. Every morning we did some form of
kick boxing. Kari is a certified instructor. Places of body were sore that I never knew could be. I was sore to say the least. It felt good to work out especially when you know you will be consuming many, many calories. Yes, my mother is a bomb diggity cook and I thoroughly enjoyed her
food!! hoot hoot!! Friday after Thanksgiving, we played football at the annual
turkey bowl. The boys got rough and I threw a great pass!
THEN SATURDAY Barry, I, Kirk, Kari and M&D piled into Whitey Tighty (Barry's White Nissan Titan-get it?) and headed for the mountains to find the PERFECT
CHRISTMAS TREE!! It had been a few years since I have went Christmas tree hunting. It was sort of a rush to be in the snow-capped mountains in the chilly air- burrrrrr- bundled up stomping around the hard ground, hoping that just ahead of you awaits YOUR full and lovely Blue Spruce to make your Christmas oh so very festive. I didn't find my perfect tree. MY MOM DID. She found the best tree in all of the forest. I don't know how she did it, but there it was after a mile hike into the wood, through a small clearing just on the edge of the deep forest had grown a tree just for us. AHHHH soak in the moment. D and Barry chopped it down and hauled it back. I was so in love with this tree I didn't want Barry to drive his truck (loaded with our tree) to church Sunday in case of little punk Christmas tree VANDALS!! FOUND THESE PIC on my PHONE!! YAY!!
Barry loves our tree too!!
Kirk and Kari found this little Christmas tree- just the right size for the their car.
Bret and Becki tricked us all into thinking there weren't coming at all this year. But they did. They snuck in the back of the house and hid. While hiding, they sent Kingston in the house through the back door. I was napping on the couch and in my dream- like state hear this classic Kingston- "tuck, tuck" (kingston saying TRUCK) I sit up and there is my nephew who appeared from what seemed to be thin air. A few moments later in crawls little London. It was such a good surprise. They are so sneaky.
That night My Mom had a Watch party with Mellissa Hamblin. I have two new amazing chunky beaded watches. A GIRL CAN ACCESSORIZE .
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other details: lots of eating and BEADING!!
I am so very thankful for all I have. I am so very blessed. I have a wonderful life. I have a loving husband and supportive family. I have the truth of the restored gospel. I have it all. I am sure grateful for this free country we live in.
#2. Part of the cabinet side. This piece had to be cut to size to fit the extra space on the left side of the cabinet and painted $ 5.oo at goodwill
#3. the original cabinet. this started as an 18'' deep floor cabinet that I saw potential in being a good hiding place for all of our electrical components and wires to be hung on the wall. It was so heavy. We were afraid it was going to fall off the wall. Barry put lot and lots of screws to hold this baby up.
#4. originally a piece of a bathroom cabinet. to be the desk drawers- sanded, painted, new knobs and shortened. I took a hack saw to the kick board to make it desk height.
#5. desk top started as a blue HUGE laminate counter top which needed to be custom cut to fit our space then it got a great decoupage treatment. The nice guy at habitat for humanity gave me all three of these pieces for $50.00 (believe me custom cabinets are WAY WAY more expensive.)
ADD these all together with a table saw, sander, paint, glue, paper, screws and a lot of elbow grease and get something LOVELY!
started as #4
this started as #3 and #2
started as #5
