Viva Las Vegas

Me and Doug took a little trip to the fabulous Las Vegas a couple weeks ago so that Doug could check out a dental school and I decided to tag along. Neither of us had been there and it was amazing. I've never seen so many sparkling lights, amazing hotels, or drunk people ever.:) It was so nice to get away just the two of us.



This was our hotel it was off the strip a little ways so we definatly got our exercise in walking a bit.

In front of the Bellagio Hotel there is a BEAUTIFUL fountain that goes off every night it was awesome!


Us at a cute little river. . . nearing the end of our wonderful trip.


When all was said and done Vegas was fun but there just wasn't a whole lot for us to do :) We don't party and by the end all I wanted was to come home and see my baby. It was SO nice to get away together and it was much needed but when it comes down to it I would trade living in good ol' Idaho Falls with my family.

To bone and back!

Me and a bunch of my friends at work ran the "To bone and back" race a couple of weeks ago. It was so much fun to train and really work for something! It made running so much more enjoyable. For anybody who hasn't heard of this race its a 40 mile race, each team has 8 people or less and each person has to run at least 5 miles. We had 7 on our team including: Me, Annie Cooper, Tiffy Sargent, Emily Sargent, Melanie Furniss, Lyndsay Nulph and filling in at the last min. Kim Ence. We all ran five miles except for Melanie who ran ten. Our Boss Sherry, her husband Bruce and daughter carly came and drove our support vehicle and cheered us on. Sara Sanders came and rode with us to thanks Sara! Sherry chased us around with the water sprayer all day and boy was I glad because I ran my leg right in the heat of they day. Here's some pics:


This pic. was right before I ran . . . so nervous!


When we crossed the finish line we were so suprised to learn that we took 3rd! Out of 13 teams! We were not expecting to place at all we were just excited to do it so it was really exciting that we all did so well. I even got a medal out of it :) I had so much fun! Thanks to everyone who cheered us on and helped us out!

Catchin up!

Ok so I'm really sorry about this huge long post but I've been so behind lately. . . You don't have to read it. . . really!
On the Fourth this year me and Doug decided to the the "firecracker fun run" before the parade. It was a 5k along some of the parade route. We had fun doing it. My parents offered to watch Krew that morning and needless to say he was quite spoiled this morning. :)

Krew and grandpa. . ..

This was Mitch and Jack's fav. part of the parade :) MONSTER TRUCK!!! Hope everyone had a good 4th!

My B-day was the other day and I had the best birthday I've ever had! Seriously! My parents must have thought that I've been quite cranky lately or something so they gave me a gift certificate so that I could go get a massage which was DIVINE! My sister megan came in and worked for me all day. . . happy birthday to me. My sister Abi watched Krew for me all day . . . happy birthday to me!!!! This really meant alot to me I guess because I don't ever really have "me" time. Here are some pics I got of Meg Abi and Krew that day.




Me and my mom also took Krewa and Mitch and Jack to the zoo! I had to include this pic. This monkey was Krews fav. animal at the zoo! It came and sat righ in front of Krew and just stared at him. It was so cute! To bad I didn't get a pic.! . . .At the end of my most amazing wonderful day I was telling Doug all about it and got a little choked up because even tho I absolutely loved all my gifts, it meant so much to me to get such a genuine wonderful gift from my sisters. I love them so much and I'm going to miss them when we move away one day. I know that no matter how many "things" anyone has in life real joy comes from your family. Thanks so much Meg and Abi, I love you guys!

I also missed fathers day. Happy Fathers Day to all the dads in my life! This is Doug on the bike I gave him for fathers day. . . ok not really. He wishes. Its my dads bike and Doug drives it home for lunch almost every day and loves every min. of it!

This pic. is on of my fav's! Its the first time that doug held Krew. Krew's pretty fresh in this pic. but it just warms my heart to watch Doug with Krew he is such a good dad and I'm so so so glad that he is setting such a good example to Krew in every aspect of his life.

Bathroom re-do

I've been re-doing this bathroom for quite some time and I finally decided that I just need to git er done! I didn't have any before pics. but here are some afters: . . . I started with my shower curtain. Plain and boring brown. I got the idea from one of the craft blogs I was looking at one day, can't remember which one, but all I did was just sew on a strip of fabric and wa la. Drab to Fab.

I snagged this old shelf at a garage sale for .25 painted it up, made a string of pearls, found an old perfume bottle from hollister that I had and of course had to add some smell goods since its the bathroom. Notice how I wrapped some scrap fabric that I had left over from the shower curtain around the glass? I thought that tied it in pretty good. I had two pretty frames left over from our reception that I love but didn't really know what to do with so I used one here and antiqued a pic. of me and doug.

I made a couple more strands of pearls to put on the hand towels (which I thought would also be a cute idea for napkin rings), used an old frame from our wedding which had some pearls on it and antiqued a bum shot of Krew :)

All in all I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out . . . even tho Doug complains about the "girly-ness" of this room. I'm working on a couple projects right now so more projects coming soon . . . ok maybe not so soon.

15 months!

My "baby" is 15 months this month :( He is growing up so fast! When I look at these pics it makes me a little sad because he is a little boy now! . . .but, he will always be my baby lol. He is saying new words everyday but right now his vocabulary includes: momma, hey dad, hi, that hot?, abba (abi), and no. He can say a few other ones but I really can't count them yet. He is running all over the place (usually away from me) he loves unloading all my cabinets and he is enfatuated with the sprinkler and the toilet. I also have some really good news a couple times lately if I put Krew on the toilet right when he wakes up he goes potty on the toilet! He loves watching the toilet flush! I'm sure it will be a while before he is potty trained but I'm really glad that he is already excited about it! Oh and I'm pretty sure that Krew is going to be a lefty! He colors with his left hand and eats with it also! Even if I put his spoon in his right hand he changes it to his left to eat. I'm pretty excited about that because so far I'm the only lefty in my entire family so I think its pretty cool that Krew is joining the severely left handed club :) I've heard that you can't tell for sure until they are two so we'll see if anything changes. We were out at my parents the other night after it rained and Krew LOVED playing in the puddles! At first I was trying to keep him out of the water but I finally gave up and decided it would be ok if he looked like a little rag muffin. My mom took these pics. aren't they good? I'm so glad that we live so close to my family right now. Its been so fun spending time with them and I love that they help me with Krew so much. He loves his grandma, grandpa, aunts and uncles!

Summer time? fuR real???

Oh man I LOVED the nice weather we had this weekend! We just wanted to spend all day outside! Krew loved it to . . . he is such an outside boy! I turned on the sprinkler and let him play in it. He just kept tryin to drink it haha! The later we went for a bike ride and had a bbq at the park. I hope this weather lasts! I'm sure ready for summer!






All that playin in the sun wears a little guy out! Gotta love the going to bed at 7 part! Wahoo!!

I also wanted to post this cute pic. of Doug bein such a good daddy :) Since he's not in school right now he gets to watch Krew while I work on Mon. and Wed. nights. They sorta have a new tradition . . .(I think thats its just because doug doesn't want to make dinner) Doug takes Krew to Mcdonalds every mon. night. Krew loves playing on the toys and of course eating the exceedingly unhealthy food :) I love watching Doug with Krew. He is so cute with him. Oh, and I hope everyone had an awesome mothers day! I sure did! I'm so lucky to be a mom. I love my little man! I have so many amazin moms in my life that set such great examples for me! I love my moms!

Look what the stork brought!

We have been patiently awaiting the birth of two little babies and me and Doug woke up this morning and we both had texts on our phones . . . They were born the same night! How exciting! There is nothin like having a new baby! Its such a special experience and it was so so so fun to go hold these two little cuties tonight! I love BABIES!! This first one is my new niece Josie. . . or maybe Payton? The name has not been decided yet. But I do know one thing; this lil girl has the CUTEST attire on earth! She is adorable! I can't wait to have a girl! Congrats Dan, Tracie and Presley!

This is baby Maddex his mommy and daddy are our friends Kevin and Sara Sanders. He is so cute :)He is the exact same size as Krew when he was born! I think that he looks just like his daddy! Congrats Kev and Sara we are so happy for you!!