Before and After

I have been wanting to redo my bedroom ever since we bought a new bed 2 years ago. Caleb told me I could get whatever I wanted, but I have never found anything I love enough to spend a lot of money on. Then I went to Pottery Barn Outlet with my sister and found this cute white duvet cover for $30. It seems like those kind of deals never come up for me, so I just went ahead and bought it. I was excited and a little nervous because it was white. When it finally hit me that I could do so many different things with this duvet, my wheels started turning. I went through color schemes over and over again in my head. Finally I came up with pink, black, and green for my colors.

This is the before pictures. Kind of sad I know. I have a queen sized quilt on my Cal. King bed. Looks pretty awesome huh? Now you know why I wanted to redo my bedroom so badly.



This is what it looks like now. I love it!!!





I made the pillow shams, and the decorative pillows to match. It was really fun picking out the fabric for them. My friend helped me with the patterns which was fun cuz then I got some girl talking time in while making them. I also sewed the ribbon on the bottom of the bedskirt. There was no bedskirts out there with fuchsia pink out there, so I bought a cheap one with sage green on it. Then I sewed the pink ribbon on it later to make it match. I think it turned out super cute.

Close Call

This past weekend Caleb flew to Salt Lake City for a JRC Conference. He really enjoyed being there and hearing the speakers, just like last year. He was able to visit a little bit of family, as well as go to his first live session at the Salt Lake Temple. He left on Thursday night and was to come home on Sunday afternoon. His flight arrived around 3:15 at the Kansas City airport. The plan was for me to leave around 2:00 to pick him up from the airport. The plan quickly changed when we got out of church at 12:00 because there was a blizzard outside. The roads were straight ice and you really couldn't see that far in front of you. I almost wrecked on the way home from church because the roads were so slick; it was like my brakes weren't working.


We decided we would have to leave as early as we could to go to the airport. The earliest we could get away was about 1:30. With a prayer to keep us safe, we left in the terrible weather to see if we could make it to the airport in time to pick up Caleb. (For those of you who don't know, the airport is 1 hour and 15 minutes away from our house.) The weather was awful, and we were going about 30 miles an hour on the freeway. There were cars off the road everywhere.


We had been on the road for about an hour when we had to stop and pay the toll along the way. The lady at the toll booth told me there was a bad accident ahead, and that we should turn around and find a different way to our destination. With no map, and no GPS, I didn't have a clue how to get to the airport any other way. So we just hoped for the best, and thought maybe it won't take that much longer. Continuing forward, we braved the traffic. The weather had also improved quite a bit now, and the roads were mostly just wet so I hoped for the best. After driving for about 3 miles past the toll booth, we came to a complete stop, and stayed there for about 2 hours in the exact same spot. The police weren't letting any traffic through on either sides of the freeway. When we were finally let through, we saw 21 cars off the road that we counted just on our side. About a mile past all the wreckage, we counted another 29 cars piled up on the other side of the freeway. That side of the freeway was completely closed down.


I finally arrived to the airport at 5:30, a good 4 hours later. On our regular route home the freeway was closed, so we had to find a different way. We didn't get home until 8:30 that night. A trip that should have taken 2 and a half hours, ended up taking 7. After seeing all the wreckage, we were just so grateful that we weren't among all the accidents.

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When we got home that night, we learned there was a 40 car pile-up on one side of the freeway, and some pretty bad accidents on the other. If I would have left my house about 15 minutes earlier, I'm afraid I would be among those numbers. We are still counting our blessings.
~There were fireman on top of cars cutting out windows to get people out.

Magformers

I don't know if any of you have ever heard of magformers, but they are soooo cool! Here is my face transformed into a magformer face. My mom had these at her house and all the kids of every age played with these the whole time we were there over the holidays. Even the adults loved to play with them.


Here is the engineer of my magnificent magformer face.

Everybody should go out and buy these magformers. They are kind of expensive, but a good investment.

Blood Brothers

It all began when two cousins decided to become blood brothers. One was jumping off the window seal while the other was jumping up towards him off the floor. Neither of them saw each other in time. This is what happened when the they collided.
At least they got to share a hospital room!

My sister had a baby in late October, but since she lives in Ohio, she waited till the holidays to bless her baby so that family could be there. Well, this little incident just happened to be on Sunday morning, the day of the baby blessing. Needless to say, we had to miss the blessing. Sorry again Cin, we wished we could have been there!





Glad you boys are okay, and sorry to Cin for missing the baby blessing.

Food creations

I'm eating my dinner when Cruiz turns to me and says, "Look mom, "L." I guess he bit his food into the shape of a L and thought it was pretty sweet.


Then two seconds later, Aiden says, "Look mom, the United States." Aren't my kids so awesome? It's funny that they can be creative even at the dinner table. HaHa

Aiden turns 6

Aiden had a Star Wars Birthday this year. He loves Star Wars, and likes to tell me that he knows much more about Star Wars than I do. He recieved a couple of Star Wars items for him birthday, and asked for a Star Wars cake too.


Since Aiden's birthday is the day after Halloween, we kept with the theme. I made him spider cupcakes for his birthday treat at school.


When I asked Aiden what kind of cake he wanted for his Birthday, he told me he wanted me to make him the Death Star. I didn't really know what I was doing, but I was able to wing it.


Cruiz looking cute.


Here are the boys on Aiden's birthday. We had a fun day! I love you Aidey-guy!!!

Fright Night

This is Caleb and Aiden's skills at work. For those of you who are not Star Wars nerds, this jack-o-lantern is carved into Darth Maul from Episode I.


Here we are as Ken and Barbie this year.




The boys looked so cute in their Lego costumes. Cruiz was actually a trooper wearing that big box around, even though his speed of walking was cut in half.


Cruiz loved trick or treating this year. Once he found out that he was getting candy AND he could eat it too, he was in heaven. After each treat he received, he would turn to me and say "Open it" over and over again. I love Halloween, especially when I end up eating all the treats!