Experimental Dinner

The other day I was watching Man vs Food on the travel channel. We don't have cable right now and it's the closest thing I can watch to the food channel.. Well Adam the show's host was in a restaurant in Hawaii and the best dish that everyone loved looked so easy I thought I would try it for myself. Luckily John is so easy to cook for so I wasn't afraid to try something a little different. All it is, is white rice, two ground hamburger patties, two eggs over easy, and brown gravy. It was good! But I forgot to take into consideration that restaurant dishes are always two times the food then you need. So if I ever make this again I will only do one of each. Neither one of us could finish it and it has been a couple hours since dinner and I'm still way full!

Our Happy Halloween

On thursday me and John went with my brother-n-law Andy and his daughter Mady to our ward's "Trunk or Treat". It was a lot of fun and Mady was so cute! She was dressed as Snow White. My sister Anna had to work so she wasn't able to go. So I did Mady's hair and makeup. It was a lot of fun for me and I think she felt like a true princess. In the picture she was being a little shy because everyone was looking at her. She was so cute after we got her all ready and done taking pictures she gave me the biggest hug! :)

At the trunk or treat there was a chili cook off and a little children's parade to show off the kids costumes. Mady got to tell everyone in the microphone what princess she was. She loved it. When we were running car to car she would say "trick or treat!!" and "thank you!!" it was the cutest thing.

John and Andy decorated the back hatch of the jeep with glow in the dark spider webs and a black light. Everyone thought it looked really spooky! I sat in the back behind the spider webs and held the candy bowl for everyone because it was so cold and windy. All any one could see of me was my teeth and my jacket. I looked like the cheshire cat.

On saturday we went to my parents so we could see everyone in their costumes. My sister Michelle and her husband Shawn dressed as Sumo Wrestlers. There costumes were so funny we all couldn't stop laughing. They barely fit in the living room!

Norah was a cute little pumpkin! She is the most adorable baby! In this moment that the picture was taken John, Michelle, and my dad were all taking her picture at the same time and she just sat there and posed for everyone it was the cutest thing ever! I love her!

Ruben was the awesome Spider Man! He had some pretty sweet moves! He is our little entertainer!

Heidi and Clara were princesses as well so we had to get a picture of them all together. Heidi is Ariel, Madyson is Snow White, and Clara is Rapunzel. Such cute girls!

Pumpkin Contest

Carving/painting pumpkins is one of my favorite things at Halloween time. I love the squishiness of carving pumpkins and I love using my creative side painting them. Every year my work, which also happens to be John's work, has a pumpkin contest. Only painted pumpkins because the carved ones go bad fast. Well we all bring in our pumpkins one week before Halloween so the customers and other employees can see them and vote which one is the best. The winner of course gets a prize! The last year I did one, I did a clown with a wig and nose! It was awesome! I so thought I was going to win but... I didn't.. But this year one of us is totally going to win! haha John will probably win for the most original! He is so artistic it amazes me sometimes. Well this year I made a girly mummy with fake eye lashes! John did a Tootsie Pop sucker! We're both perfectionists so it took us two days to complete them, but I think they turned out great!

John putting another coat on his pumpkin. I think he did like 15 coats.. Seriously!

I gave John the idea of speeding up the process. On top of being perfectionists we are both very impatient. Me more then him...

See I told you he's very artistic! I definitely wouldn't have the patience to paint something so detailed.

Sorry the picture is a little blurry I took it with my phone.. I love how he even included the registered trademark on there. You know the little R in the circle...

Didn't he do a great job!? I think so!

Here's the start of my scary mummy...

I think I did a pretty good job on the little details especially because I'm not at all artistic. The eye lashes added just the right touch to make my little mummy super girly and cute!

I think the bow makes it look a little like a cheer leader mummy! haha Cute right?!

I think we did a great job.. We're so going to win! ha

Fall Decorations

So I have this list of things that I want to make and I FINALLY finished the "fall decoration" part of the list. It was so fun and way cheap! I took these pictures with my phone so they aren't the best quality.

I made the wreath with leaves from the dollar store. I think the whole thing cost me less then $10 which I think is pretty good.

John made the letters. He's so creative and so much better then I am at drawing and coming up with his own designs I just copy others ideas.. :) This was my first mod podge project and now I love mod podge! Its so easy! This project cost me about $5 including the six candles.

Either I'm daring or just stupid.. haha So the other day I decided I wanted those cute swoop bangs I use to have when me and John were dating. I use to cut my bangs all the time on my own, but I don't know what happened this time but something went wrong... :( I blame the scissors they must have been really dull cause my bangs were all sorts of crooked.. So I asked John to fix them.. I know what your thinking HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!!! But John had told me that he use to cut his little brothers hair all the time and that he was really good at blending. Well bangs are different then little boys hair! Trust me! It didn't work he only made it worse. I almost cried and wanted to call in sick the next day. But I somehow fixed them enough that no one could even tell. Thank goodness!

Well it hasn't even been a week yet and I've already decided to change my look again. On my own! Now I don't have swoop bangs I have BANGS!! Crazy maybe but I think it actually looks good. Well for now before I change my mind again... haha I should put a better picture up when the rest of my hair is done and cute but this will have to do for now.

What do you think!?

Crazy or Cute?

Coed Champions

This summer John and I played on a co-ed softball team in Orem with our good friends Morgan and Josh. Well John did.. It was a lot of fun and as the season came to an end the games got even more intense and exciting. The team ended up in the losers bracket in the tournament, but on the last night of the tournament we played 3 games in a row and won the winners bracket! I am so proud of them! They did such a good job and it was such a fun game to watch!!

Good job you guys!

My new shirt out of rags

So last night I was making my wish list of things that I want to make when I have a sewing machine and the money to buy fabric all the time when I came upon this. I'm not sure what the blog was now it was like 1am when I found it...

What you do is take a t-shirt you don't want anymore cut it up into a shrug,

make a couple of rosettes

and thats pretty much it.
cute huh!?
I can't wait to get a sewing machine! I think I'm gonna go crazy when I get it haha!

New Hobby!

So I've become addicted to this blog "Make it and Love it" it's all about sewing and cooking. I want to do all of the things she puts on there, but I don't have a sewing machine. The other day she made something that was way cheap and easy to do without a sewing machine. A table runner! I just added a few little touches of my own..

I went to Joann's to get the vinyl that she said to get and everything "fall" was 50% off. So I got this container of plastic veggies for my center piece. It was only $5!

Then I went to the dollar store and got some colored leaves. Just like she did I spent $5 bucks there too and had way to many leaves! Then I just hot glued them onto the vinyl.

Then I put the center pieces in a bowl I already had that went great and there! It is now fall in our kitchen!

Thanks to John for getting me all this fun stuff to do! It was fun and took me about an hour..

Now to just unpack my boxes from moving.. ugh...

Sadie..

My dearest friend passed away..

I'm going to miss her!

Old post..

Back in July my sister Michelle and her husband Shawn hiked the Uintas. So me and John stayed at their house and watched their kids for 4 days and 4 nights. It was quite the adventure haha we had a lot of fun! I found some pictures we took with our phones and wanted to share.

Saturday morning I took all the kids to McDonalds for breakfast and got them pancakes and smoothies. They thought it was great! Ruben wanted chicken nuggets really bad until I told him he could get pancakes!

Lucky for us the whole weekend was the Wilson Reunion so we had plenty to do with the kids. So we drove up Santaquin canyon everyday. The kids were able to do crafts, play games with their cousins, and they even had a carnival!

John helped Ruben make a sail boat to float down the river.

Look how excited he was!

Sunday (our last day up the canyon) it started to pour ran! And because we didn't bring our own tent or trailer we locked ourselves in the van for a couple of hours. To keep them busy we played princesses with the girls with the prizes they won from the carnival. It was really cute. I think it turned out to be more like a fashion show.. :)

They had so much fun!

I really planned on taking more pictures but ya know how it goes having 4 kids all at once for the first time.. It takes some getting use to! haha just kidding! We love those kids and would do it all over again in a heart beat!