Nebo Loop

Once again we were on a quest to have a fun relaxing weekend. So on saturday, instead of watching the BYU football game we set off with Erica and Spencer to drive the nebo loop! It was a grand old time! Tell us what you think!

Brents favorite picture of the weekend

I forgot my camera in the car! Erica is snapping a picture of spencer who is on the log brent is taking the picture from!
Unfortunatly, Brent and Spencer can both be a little overadventureous! aka "I don't care if there is a barrier I am going over it!"

There were a lot of white barked trees with great neon green leaves, here is a favorite picture!

We couldn't find any bolders so we threw rocks off the side of the cliff instead! Brent loves throwing things! I bet him and Braden will get along great!

Taking pictures of taking pictures?!?!? Crazy!

We weren't the only ones out and about that day... others chose to do it insytle... one day!

Wild Cow?!?! Yup we saw them... and there herders who were right behond them! I would have never guessed people actually walked their cows!

Well we had a great adventure and BYU won so no harm no foul right?! Does anyone know any other noteable outdoor adventure we should take while we are here?!

Cute Kitty Clubhouse

Ok, it is time again for my cute little kitty. She recently found a new hang out that she enjoys!

Can you find her?

Even when we took all the clothes out she continued to stay! She just live the hominess of it all!

BONFIRE!!!

So Brent and I live pretty busy lives, which are uneventful also. To keep ourselves happy and really enjoy this time in our lives we really make an effort to do something fun every weekend to create some good memories! Last weekend we went up to vivian park and had a bonefire with friends! It was definatly a good time! We made s'mores, hot dogs and roasted twinkies! It is always an adventure here in provo! I thought everyone would enjoy some pictures!

This is all the boys trying to get the fire started... It took them quite a bit of time but it definalty got going big by the end of the night

Yeah for friends! This is Caitlin and Seth. Seth is a friend from Freshman year who just got back from a mission in Seattle ( I think it is technically Puget Sound). Since he is originally for Missouri he was a little hesitant but he did fully admit that the Portland Oregon temple is AMAZING!!!

Brent chopping up a pallet to burn, he is really handy and loves the outdoors!

Just hanging out around the fire! Spencer has a really funny look on his face but that is pretty normal!

This was our fire! Brent and I both love flames and so it got a little big at times but hey that is part of the fun right?!?!

I thought this picture was cool because it definalty looks like horns, a little scary and a little demonic but no worries because nothing scary or demonic was happening at the bonefire!

Seth and Jeremy are both big movie buffs, I am not exactly sure what they are talking about here, but I could probably guess it has something to do with film. Jeremy said he would let me star in his first film!

One last picture! It was a really fun night and we had a great time! Keep checking the blog because I have pictures from this weekend uploaded and ready to be blogged! Let us know if you have any fun weekend activities you think we should embark in!

The process

So I have had a lot of questions from people asking me how I did and and someother stuff so I thought I woil;d walk you through the process via pictures and answer questions along the way.

Step one: Cut 6" long stripsand then iron them out... The gooves in our coffe table worked perfect for a tracing line

Step two: Sew a blue strip to a yellow strip. Until you have four strips
Step 4 &5: Cut the long blue and yellow strips into 6" x 12" flip one and sew them together to a criss cross patter, I did each of my four long strips individually I was really surprised how they all lined up!
Step 6: Sew to of the strips together! (I didn't iron these yet that is why there is a really big crease down the middle!)
Step 7: Show the two haves together! The finished quilt part! I finished this on Sunday
(the day I started the project!)
Step 8: cut 8" of blue fabric and sow it to the top and bottom
Step 8: The finish the border. The repeat with a ten inch yellow border
This finishes the front of the quilt. Then I went and pick out bamboo batting for $16 and some green flannel to accent the green in the little farm scenes. I finished all of the border on Thursday.
HOW DID THIS GET IN HERE?!?!?! Brent and Caliah just snuggling while mom is hard at work!
This is how the corner of the finished top looked
Step 9-end. Then I sewed two green pieces together layers the quilt (top batting back) then I saftey pinned it toegther. From there I cut 3" strips to make the binding ironed those in half sewed them to the back, then folded them over the to the front side of the quilt and used a decorative stitch to sow them on the front. From here I removed all the saftey pins and tied the quilt using green yarn! And that is how I got this!

I thought it was going to be pretty small when I started but it is big enough to fit a twin sized bed with room to spare. And we finished it just in time seeing that we go out first snow last night, and that means miserable winter is on his way! Well that is how I did it, and I did it in a week, while I also finished three term papers took four quizzes and work for forty hours! I really enjoyed it all, towards the end I just wanted to tell someone so I got pretty grumpy! It is probably not the best quilt ever made but I am pretty proud of it! Oh, I still have no idea what to do with it so if you have suggestions you should let me know!

SURPRISE!

ok here is my surprise... I made a quilt... I started it last sunday and finished it today... I will actually do some of the process tomorrow, but for now I just want to sleep! tell me what you think!

This is the full quilt with me!

This is a close up, my mom gave me the fabric over memorial day
It folds like a real blanket and everything

Conference Breakfast

For Sunday conference moring we decided to go over to our friends, sam and terri annes for an omelet breakfast. Here are some pictures of the process!

We let the boys take care of the cooking, terri annie is rearranging her bouquet of flowers she recieved a few days ago!

Here is what the table looked like, we have omelet fixin's sausage and backon and waffle mix there is the back! How fun is that!
Sam was our chef throughout the whole process, this is his fancy omelet maker and it actually works! It is very nifty, and now brent really wants to get one!
And the final product! It was so yummy I had to split the last one with sam it was so good!

Conference breakfast was a lot of fun and the messages presented at conference was also amazing, I plan to start a quilt next conference session, so unless I fail miserably there should be some pictures!

PHASE TWO!

Hey everyone! I recently posted a blog on trying to make my apartment more organized so we can utalize the low rent for longer. Well my first phase worked out wonderfully and our closet is working wonders. Phase two howeever was finished today. I noticed that the majority of clutter around our house was acctually loose papers. Where to put these papers has been driving me crazy! but today I came up with a great idea inspired by my childhood, well at least something I had growing up! A cubbie! Growing up each of us had one and so I decided to invest a little money in a clean house! Here are some pictures of the process!

This is the tools I plan to us, it was about 11 dollars total, but I think it is well worth it!

Here is what it looks like! How nice does it look like!
And here is it full of the loose papers aournd the house!
Keep looking for phase three. I am not sure what it is yet, as soon as I notce another problem that can be fixed I will be on it! If anyone has any other ideas about little things I can do just let me know! Thanks!

Brents Tooth

For all of you who have not met brent up close he had a tooth that was pretty far up the gum and was ontop of another tooth. Brent had never been fond of, but thought it couldn't be removed... well I poo pooed that idea. Last year we went to look at getting him braces and the orthodontist confirmed my belief that we could have it removed. Well today we did just that! Enjoy some of the pictures

This is the hole the tooth left, it should seal up in about a month, but it really grosses me out!

This is the tooth they extracted! I just can't believe how big it is!
Another close up. Brent said it only took the dentist about 10 minutes to acctually pull it out and he did it with a wrench and his bare hands! I can't believe I touched it!
This is brent after the matter. He is a little drugged up right now, but is pretty happy with the results. We plan to give it a month or so and then decide if we should invest in braces or not!