Before and Afters

Last night Anna and I did a craft night, but not just a craft night a dollar store craft night. We each made a topiary, little magnetic frames, and I made a large frame. We had a lot of fun, and it was great to just hang out and visit. Hopefully craft night will become a monthly event. Next month she is going to teach me embroidery stuff, I'm excited. Here are some pics.

This first one is the topiary, the little bead ball, foam, and rocks are from the dollar store, sometimes you can find some cute containers there too, but these ones are from other places. Mine is from Micheal's, and it ended up being about $1.50, the twigs are from a tree in my back yard, and the spray paint an ribbons are from leftovers of other projects, so all in all this project was about 4 bucks, with extra materials left over, and it only takes about 10 minutes to make.

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This next one is a really ugly like corked inside frame I found at Honks Dollar Store. The frame part was super cute, so we just changed the inside. The materials for this were simple the frame, scrapbook paper, modge podge and ribbon. It took about 20 minutes, but now that I know what I am doing it will not take as long. The cost for this was about $2.50 when all was said and done, not bad.

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We had a great night, and we got some super cute things done. It's always fun to think out of the box and save money, especially when it comes to decorating.

Lots of Fun

Our little family has had a lot of fun this past little while. I guess it started last Thursday when we had a dinner party with friends. It was great to get together and spend some time with more than just our kids, even though we were probably acting like kids. We had pizza and salad and some Oreo pie, it was kinda a potluck thing and it turned out really well.

After, Leigha headed to bed, or rather floor. When we went in to turn off her light she was asleep on the floor surrounded by toys, almost as if she had done a toy angel. We took some pictures and then Don put her and her pillow into bed, she mumbled "I want that one", and then some other super random stuff. When we went in, in the morning, she was in the exact same spot and position that we had found her in the night before, silly girl!

Friday we ran errands and took pictures of the kids. They are so cute!

Then later Friday we headed down to Provo for the weekend, and we had a great time. Don introduced his family Ticket to Ride, and they really enjoyed it. It is always fun to try new games.

While they played on Saturday my mom mom and I went up to South Jordan and met Kara for a mothering convention. Although a lot of the classes did not apply to my mom, she enjoyed holding Conner. The convention was great. I felt really uplifted and was impressed to make some changes, some were suggestions, and some were my own (actually impressions from the Spirit). I have been doing that this week, and it has been a lot of fun. I am finding the joy in mothering again, and my house is clean. Those things rarely go hand in hand, either I'm a good mom, or I have a clean house (or neither), but this week it was both. I have felt great and we have had a lot of fun.

Saturday night, we played games and visited, it was a lot of fun! It is so good to see family and get to talk to them in person rather than just on the phone.

On Sunday we went and saw my Grandma in the hospital, it was really good to see her. She is one of my hero's, she was so up beat and positive, wheat a great example to me. And then we ventured back up to Logan in the snow, it took a long time!

Then all this week we have just played. Tuesday Conner got the flu, so we took him to the doctor, and he is a chunk! He measured in at 16 and 1/2 pounds. That is one pound less than Leigha was at one year! It will be amazing to see what the next 9 months bring. He started coughing for the first time Tuesday night and it was so cute because it was a new sensation for him, so after he would cough, he would smile.

Thursday Don went and played basketball with the wars, and last night I had a girls crafty night with Anna (next post). It has been a great week.

Out, Out on the Ranch, Where the Kids and the Elk Roam.

This weekend the Hill family came up again, and once again we had a blast! Friday night we were up late playing games, and hanging out, it was great. Saturday morning we went out to Hardware Ranch. It was so cool, we learned a lot and had a lot of fun. We got to ride on a sleigh behind some huge Clydesdale's, and it was so nice and warm out side. The museum was so cool too. Here are some fun pictures:

Here is Leigha with antlers coming out of her head. I knew sometimes she acted like she had horns! (except horns and antlers are very different, very different! in deed)

I think Don is a little afraid of the taxidermied elk, but not Leigha.

Don as the elk whisperer....Ewww! Stinky Elk Breath!

When I said I wanted a Bob, I didn't mean a bobcat! Oww!

They had a wingspan measurer. My family as birds: Conner- Grey Flicker, Leigha- Mallard Duck, Don- Turkey Vulture. We didn't think to check me typical mommy stuff.

Here we are on the sleigh, it was so fun to be outside and to ride.

Isn't Leigha cute? She had a lot of fun. We were behind 2 huge Clydesdale's names Nikki and Molly and Leigha would say, "Go Nikki, Go Molly!" When they took off it would jerk us all, it was great. We got to pet them after the ride, and they were HUGE!!! (too bad I'm a bit allergic to horses)

Here are some of the elk. There were a ton, and I had better pictures, I just didn't put them on, sorry :(

We had Conner so bundled up so that he would stay warm. He was so good, he slept the whole time. Which is starting to be very unlike him. He was wearing 2 different kinds of coats!

After Hardware Ranch we went to lunch at Old McDonalds (as Leigha calls it).

We really did have a great time, and we are so glad we took the opportunity to go, especially with such great friends! We would recommend it to anyone! I have also decided that I am a bit of a cow. They really run the show, but they let the Bull think they are the best! If I am a cow my bull is the best!