New Contest.... Baby Blankets...

I love these contest!  I love seeing what other people can create with their talents.  This blog mother just had a baby a few months ago and has a great talent.  She is making minky baby blankets, the perfect size for car seats.  Check out her Etsy shop HERE.   She is doing a give away, and with babies in the house you can never have too many blankets.  :) 

Tic Tac Toe!

I am pleased to announce that Don has started his company.  He is working for Aquaveo full time and in his spare time he is programing applications and games for the Android phones.  He started back in November, so a simple project has been perfected and RELASED!!!  He has a website for his company... to check it out go HERE.  The company name is Crystal Studios... the website however is that name without the U.  One day maybe we will have the correct website, but for now help spread the word.  I am so proud of my hubby for such an accomplishment.  He is a wonderful programmer and has a talent to be proud of.  I look forward to the many more projects that he chooses to create with his talent! 

Bathroom Mysteries...

WARNING:  There will be some unpleasant pictures in this post.  If you don't like that stuff view at your own risk!

Before I get started there will be more to come, but here is the start.

When we moved to our home in Orem last January, we made a list of things that we would like to change and update... some of those updates have had to be moved up to a more recent date because of the mysteries. 

The perfectly knowledgeable person... HA, that put in the bathroom, decided that it would be a great idea for the shower to put laminate over partical board!   Needless to say that didn't last.  We found this wonderful surpirse....

Ok so it may not be all that gross, but showering with it is not very pleasant.  We also found some black mold growing and feared it was growing in the walls, so we decided to update the bathroom.

There will be before and after pictures posted but right now we are down to the bare minimum.  We have insulation, and the drywall is being put in tomorrow, tile comes in on Tuesday, and Wednesday they are starting to lay the tile.  I am way excited to see how it turns out.  We are still trying to see if we can replace the floor, but if not, at least we will have no fungi growing in the bathroom anymore! 

Girls Room Finished!

Recently I posted about the girls room with repainting and all that.  Well I have finished all that I can think of for now.  So here are the updates.

I took this fabric:

And made curtains for the closet.  With having a dresser in the closet we are unable to have the closet doors on.  So this was the solution that I came up with.

Also I finally got Rebecca's name done for the wall.  So now both of the girls have their names on the wall.  I really love this simple, yet decorative accent to the room. 

The last thing was a bow holder for all of the girls bows.  We have so many and the bow holder that I had, just wasn't cutting it.  I have had my eye on this type of bow holder...  

...but haven't figured out a way to do it yet, so I came up with this cheap and frugal solution. 

I think it will work for awhile... until I get tired of it and think it isn't working.

The First Part of April.

We started off April celebrating with our friends Jon and Crystal, their youngest turned one conference weekend.  We are very blessed to have many friends that have kids the same age as our kids.  It makes getting together with people easier… because we all understand the many distractions that can happen in such a short time.  Anyway, during the birthday party Rebecca had only had a VERY short nap before we arrived, and we ended up being there long enough that she was tired!  Don started to keep her attention with a balloon… and this was the result: (this is a still picture, but if I can get the video uploaded I will share it)

I can’t believe how blessed I am to have two great kids that are so easy going. 

We also got to go bowling with some other friends one weekend and the kids had a great time.  Here is B and Aubrey.  They are only a month apart in age so it makes for some great times when we get together.  Just the other night they came to our house and Aubrey was tucking B into bed.  It was so cute to watch them interact.  I loved seeing them play together in roles.  

We had taken Aubrey bowling a few weeks before so she was a “pro” at bowling.  When we started, I went up to help her carry the ball, and she would put her hand out at me in the “talk to the hand” position and tell me, “Mom, stay back.  I do.”  And then when she got the ball up, she would look back just to make sure I was still standing back.  I love how she is growing up and becoming more of a big girl every day. 

Here are some fun pictures of the girls… I love spending time with them.