Another Girl's Trip

I had such a blast with my sisters and my mom in Salt Lake! We went to the show "Thriller", a dance compilation of scary/Halloween dances at Kingsbury Hall by the Odyssy dance theatre.

Here we are with one of the zombies from the show.

The next morning we got to go to a question/answer session with Elder Bednar. It was absolutely incredible. I couldn't believe how simple and prompt his answers were. He spoke to us for two hours! Half-way through the session, he asked, "How many people here came with a question, haven't asked it, but have received an answer?" Tons of people raised their hands including my mom and I. He said, "This is the spirit speaking to you, and teaching you the things you need to hear right now." It was a very spiritual and uplifting morning for all of us. I am so grateful to have prophets and apostles on the earth today that teach us EXACTLY what each of us need to hear and do to return back to our Father in Heaven.

Trip to Buhl

Chase and I took a trip to Buhl a few weekends ago, which was very fun/eventful, like usual. We celebrated Chase's birthday with some poppy seed cake.

We watched the weirdest, most dumb movie I have ever seen! It's called Coraline.. and it was so creepy. I'm surprised the boys didn't have nightmares. The bad parents have button eyes, so when the boys were in the bathroom brushing their teeth, my dad put these buttons on his eyes and scared the boys. We all were laughing so hard :) haha

We went to my parents rental house in Buhl to help do a little yard work and burn some of the weeds. Well, my mom was in a rush because we only had an hour in between the boys' soccer and flag football games. She was pushing the garbage can, with the lid open I might add, and it ended up tipping over and pulling her over with it. She hit her face pretty hard and was dripping blood all down her face. We helped her up as quickly as we could and called my grandma (doctor maryl :) She came and helped but some super glue in the cut.. Fortunately my mom is doing much better now but it was a little scary at the time.

Here we are at the boys' soccer and flag football games.

That night we came home and had a bonfire of our own..

My brothers also showed us their fort/clubhouse that they have been working on. It's down by the pond on my parents property and they basically just cleared it out so that you can hang out in the trees and have a club :) They are so cute.

Jean Makeover

Here are some cute jeans I got and thought I would stitch around them to make them look a little cuter. I used embroidery thread and just stitched over all the stitching on the jeans and....

Look how cute they are now!

Lamp Makeover

Here is what the old lamp looked like. Totally cute, I know, but me with my crazy sleeping habits, knocked one over in the night and busted the base. I was left with one working lamp.. until I picked up these beauties below at a yard sale for $8 total.

I primed and spray painted the bases white.

Then I made these fabric flowers that I was planning on hot gluing to the shades from the old lamps, since I liked the size and shape better than the ones that came with the yard sale lamps. I sewed down a strip of fabric on the widest stitch length setting.

Then I gathered them up to make these cute flowers.

I ripped off the old trim on the lamp shades

Then I started hot gluing on the yellow fabric flowers I made... and then I decided they needed a pearl in the middle of each of the flowers so I glued those on too.

And here is the final project! I am totally in love!