Cutest video ever!
Monday, February 20, 2012
~ValEnTiNeS 2012~
Our friends invited us to be a part of a progressive dinner with them for Valentines Day-- which we thought was a brilliant idea! We went to one house for amazing appetizers, and then another couples house for a tasty salad, and then had our main meal--lasagna-- at another's home. Our house was last-- we were dessert~
Fuzz and I have been trying to be really healthy, and have been doing very well at avoiding sweets. . . we just made sure there weren't any in the house. . . cuz once we've got em, there's no holding back, we just eat em! So we decided to make all of our favorites for our party and then just give away any of the left-overs. We kinda got carried away. . . but all of our favorites were there;) We had tons of leftovers, but no worries, we found homes for em.
We made Rice Crispy treats all hearted up;)
Mini Cheesecakes. . .
Brownies. . .
Chocolate covered strawberries. . .
Lemon Poppy Seed Cake. . . with a pink twist . . .
and my favorite. . . Sugar cookies! Made to look just like (well as close as ya get without mom makin' em) the ones mom made every year for our special valentine treat.
Note, my most recent thrifty creation. . . my $2 cake stand-- it's just a plate and goblet I found at a thrift store that I washed, glued together and spray painted. . . tada!
We made Rice Crispy treats all hearted up;)
Mini Cheesecakes. . .
Brownies. . .
Chocolate covered strawberries. . .
Lemon Poppy Seed Cake. . . with a pink twist . . .
and my favorite. . . Sugar cookies! Made to look just like (well as close as ya get without mom makin' em) the ones mom made every year for our special valentine treat.
Note, my most recent thrifty creation. . . my $2 cake stand-- it's just a plate and goblet I found at a thrift store that I washed, glued together and spray painted. . . tada!
Progressive dinners are the way to go! No one get's too overwhelmed, because they only have one course to prepare, there's no waiting in lines at restaurants, no rush, and so much fun! Hope y'all had a wonderful Valentines Day too!
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Welcome 2012
We're so excited for what's in store for the Iversons this year of 2012! We'd planned on starting this year out with a half marathon in Dallas, where we were going to meet up with some of our friends, however life happens-- and sometimes doesn't work out just how we might have planned. We decided instead just to run the race here in Lubbock. We chose a different place than where we'd been training, just for fun, and to maybe change up the scenery a little bit. We decided to run around Buffalo Spring's Lake (which is just about 5 min out of Lubbock).
We made our way out there early Saturday morning, and then chalked up our route and mileage-- twice around the lake was just less than 14 miles, and since a half is 13.1 we figured it would work out perfectly. We started our run just as the sun was still coming up-- it was gorgeous-- the entire run was gorgeous, the scenery, the houses around the lake all so creative and unique. We'd trained in Lubbock, where there aren't any hills at all-- and were surprised to find several pretty good sized hills in this run around the lake-- our knee's hadn't received sufficient training for them, so they were kinda sore, but we were able to run out most of the soreness, and just enjoy our run. We were surprisingly not too sore after the run, we'd stretched really well-- that always helps;)
There were random buffalo statues in front of many of the lake houses-- this one was so chubby and cute we had to get a picture with it!
We'd trained for a half last year and then Fuzz and his friends in the army that were going to run with us had a surprise training that they had to leave for -- they were gone for a few weeks, and then we had a funeral in UT, Brittans farewell... etc. needless to say, the race got lost somewhere in there-- We're happy to have finished what we'd trained for this year! It was a great experience for us to do together, and a great way for us to begin our 2012.
We made our way out there early Saturday morning, and then chalked up our route and mileage-- twice around the lake was just less than 14 miles, and since a half is 13.1 we figured it would work out perfectly. We started our run just as the sun was still coming up-- it was gorgeous-- the entire run was gorgeous, the scenery, the houses around the lake all so creative and unique. We'd trained in Lubbock, where there aren't any hills at all-- and were surprised to find several pretty good sized hills in this run around the lake-- our knee's hadn't received sufficient training for them, so they were kinda sore, but we were able to run out most of the soreness, and just enjoy our run. We were surprisingly not too sore after the run, we'd stretched really well-- that always helps;)
There were random buffalo statues in front of many of the lake houses-- this one was so chubby and cute we had to get a picture with it!
We'd trained for a half last year and then Fuzz and his friends in the army that were going to run with us had a surprise training that they had to leave for -- they were gone for a few weeks, and then we had a funeral in UT, Brittans farewell... etc. needless to say, the race got lost somewhere in there-- We're happy to have finished what we'd trained for this year! It was a great experience for us to do together, and a great way for us to begin our 2012.
Sunday, January 15, 2012
*Our White Christmas*
It's been quite some time since my last post-- but we've been busy doing lots of good things;)
We weren't able to go home for Thanksgiving so we just celebrated it with a few of our friends, it ended up being about 4 couples. We all made sure that our favorite dishes were there. . . needless to say, we had way too much food! We all made several desserts which almost ='d about a pie per person ;) We experienced our first black Friday ever that night--- it was amazing! We kinda went a lil crazy but found some awesome deals-- so worth staying up all night for;)
I experienced my first holiday season in retail--wow that's when all the scaries come out! I loved all the holiday decorations, shipments of new clothes for my department on almost a daily basis, increase in sales-- I dare say I quite liked it;) However, I don't miss working the long holiday schedules, that and seeing the scrooges come out in people- must just be the stress that inevitably comes with that time of year.
We were invited to our first ever Hanukkah party this year.
We have a friend in our ward whom Fuzz has actually been shadowing for physical therapy, who's mother was raised Jewish, but then they were converted to Christianity and joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. However, they continued to celebrate the tradition of Hanukkah ever since. I've never known much about this holiday, but it was one of the neatest parties ever! We were invited to bring a Jewish dish, so we googled "Jewish recipe's" and found this yummy looking apple crumb cake--- I took advantage of this great opportunity as a awesome excuse for me to splurge on a funnel pan ;)
We had their potato pancakes, essentially glorified hashbrowns--which tasted amazing! And then homemade applesauce, some challah bread---oh I'm so in love!, some soda, chocolate money, and of course our apple crumb cake. We played games, no not dradle;) read the story of Hanukkah and even got a present because that's part of their tradition. Fuzz got a way rad pocket knife which was awesome because his just got stolen when his truck got broken into, and I, ironically for my Hanukkah gift got a beautiful nativity set;) so neat! Super cool experience, we've already rsvp'd for next years party.
We made our very first gingerbread house this year! Super fun;)
We had the opportunity to help out with the Stake's Nativity event. I had no idea what exactly to expect, but it was incredible! It's an exhibit of about 400 Nativity sets that people within the stake donate for this special week. There's a children's room, and an international room and then the main cultural hall with all of the others! It took about a week to decorate for it-- and all year to plan. It's an interfaith event where we invite other choirs etc. to perform at it, and invite everyone we know to come and view it. I was a part of the decorating committee and was just floored at how incredible it all turned out! I was asked to perform with my friend Shelly from my ward, we both play harp;) we were able to perform for about 45 min one night just as background music, and then on Sunday just one song for the sing along, Silent Night. Fuzz filmed us when we were back ground music, here's a little clip:
We were stoked to wake up Christmas morning to a WHITE CHRISTMAS!!!! Never before have we been so fortunate;)
And Santa found us!
It was our very first Christmas just together, not with any of our family. However, Grandpa Sevy had suffered a severe stroke just about a week and a half prior to Christmas, and consequently, Christmas Eve right as they had just locked up M & S-- his business-- for the day, they received word that he'd passed. He truly was home for Christmas, he had a white Christmas too, but I'm sure it was even so much better than ours. Because of this, we were now able to go home just after Christmas, as I was given 6 days to go home for the funeral.
I know that Grandpa knew what he was doing, He just wanted us all together for the holidays, and that's what he got. My cousin flew in from Afghanistan, another from Japan, and for the week and a half that he lie in his hospital bed, my family all sat together and sang and performed and played their instruments together. What a tremendous blessing that was for them, and for Grandma to be encircled by her loved ones standing by her through that trial. Grandma was a rock, I couldn't believe her strength. What an example to me she is of such courage and endurance.
Plane tickets were insane-- almost quadruple what they'd normally be, so we made the 15 hour drive home. I knew our families were praying for us to have a safe drive and especially for us to stay awake-- just as it was starting to get late, out of nowhere I told Fuzz I was totally going to puke! No-- I'm not pregnant. I couldn't even get anything to come out of me but I felt awful! It was that horrible feeling we've all felt at some point in our life, where ya know you'll feel better if you can just puke your guts out. . . but it won't come out! Oh, I just felt soooo sick, I kept moaning, and whining, and crying. . . but oh what a blessing that was, because now me and Fuzz were SO awake-- eventually it came, and I litterally puked my guts outs-- and felt better for a second then just sick again--- we eventually found a hotel parking lot and fell asleep in our truck for a couple hours-- I felt too sick to sleep, but eventually surrendered. I woke up and Fuzz was just beginning the rest of our drive home, the sleep had worked wonders on my upset stomach-- I felt a trillion times better. As much as I complained about how horrible I had felt-- I knew that it really was one of those blessings in disguise;) We safely made it home early December 28th, Mckenna's 11th Birthday! We were there for her Birthday breakfast-- and we even got to watch her open her birthday present that we'd sent about a month prior in the mail with all the Christmas presents. It was a dress;) and I'm pretty sure she loved it-- it looked ADORABLE on her! We were so happy we were able to be there to share that special day with her. That night was Grandpa's viewing. It was bittersweet-- I looked at him in the casket-- it wasn't him, just his body, without his spirit his body was just a body-- that wasn't my grandpa. It was so neat to see all of my cousins and their new little familes there! It was a special time for us to all be together and catch up on our lives.Viewings and funerals can be so sad, it's sad to know that it will probably be a while before we see our loved ones again, but I know that someday we will! And I take so much comfort in knowing that. I know that I'll see Grandpa again! I know that he's probably riding around in heaven with his race horses, for sure with Whinney-mick. He's been blind for about the past 5-10 years gradually getting worse, but now I know that he can see again! He's wanted to so badly for so long. I use to work for his eye doctor, and I saw sooo many eyes, but his macular degeneration was sooo bad. I just about died when I had to pull up his pictures I'd taken of his macula and whitness the actual bleeding and scar tissue, I knew that there was no treatment available to fix it. He's seen so many doctors, and tried so many different treatments, but just continued to suffer. Whenever I get sad thinking about him, I just remember that now, finally, he can see again!
I was asked to play a beautiful arrangement of I Stand All Amazed with Tara and Tiffany at the funeral, it was actually written for voice and piano, and we changed it into a harp, violin, and viola ensemble. It was beautiful. While playing we were all so overcome with emotion we had to just play through our tears, but I know Grandpa liked it. He has always been so supportive of us and our music. I know that I wouldn't be where I am with my music today without his help. At the funeral, my cousin Melissa read all of our favorite memories of Grandpa, what a beautiful celebration of his life! I would have liked to added one of mine, and that is simply that grandpa always called me princess, and made me feel like I was one. He always made us all feel so special, and that he was proud of us.
We met over at the grave site and were all astonished to see what spot had been selected, it was right near the corrals where all the horses were. This was the most perfect place for Grandpa.
Here's Mylee with her second cousin Ryden--they love spending time together.
It was so good to be home with my sisters, and my cousins, funerals can be so sad, but we were so grateful to be together and to cherish the relationships within our family.
We weren't able to go home for Thanksgiving so we just celebrated it with a few of our friends, it ended up being about 4 couples. We all made sure that our favorite dishes were there. . . needless to say, we had way too much food! We all made several desserts which almost ='d about a pie per person ;) We experienced our first black Friday ever that night--- it was amazing! We kinda went a lil crazy but found some awesome deals-- so worth staying up all night for;)
I experienced my first holiday season in retail--wow that's when all the scaries come out! I loved all the holiday decorations, shipments of new clothes for my department on almost a daily basis, increase in sales-- I dare say I quite liked it;) However, I don't miss working the long holiday schedules, that and seeing the scrooges come out in people- must just be the stress that inevitably comes with that time of year.
We were invited to our first ever Hanukkah party this year.
We have a friend in our ward whom Fuzz has actually been shadowing for physical therapy, who's mother was raised Jewish, but then they were converted to Christianity and joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. However, they continued to celebrate the tradition of Hanukkah ever since. I've never known much about this holiday, but it was one of the neatest parties ever! We were invited to bring a Jewish dish, so we googled "Jewish recipe's" and found this yummy looking apple crumb cake--- I took advantage of this great opportunity as a awesome excuse for me to splurge on a funnel pan ;)
We had their potato pancakes, essentially glorified hashbrowns--which tasted amazing! And then homemade applesauce, some challah bread---oh I'm so in love!, some soda, chocolate money, and of course our apple crumb cake. We played games, no not dradle;) read the story of Hanukkah and even got a present because that's part of their tradition. Fuzz got a way rad pocket knife which was awesome because his just got stolen when his truck got broken into, and I, ironically for my Hanukkah gift got a beautiful nativity set;) so neat! Super cool experience, we've already rsvp'd for next years party.
We made our very first gingerbread house this year! Super fun;)
We had the opportunity to help out with the Stake's Nativity event. I had no idea what exactly to expect, but it was incredible! It's an exhibit of about 400 Nativity sets that people within the stake donate for this special week. There's a children's room, and an international room and then the main cultural hall with all of the others! It took about a week to decorate for it-- and all year to plan. It's an interfaith event where we invite other choirs etc. to perform at it, and invite everyone we know to come and view it. I was a part of the decorating committee and was just floored at how incredible it all turned out! I was asked to perform with my friend Shelly from my ward, we both play harp;) we were able to perform for about 45 min one night just as background music, and then on Sunday just one song for the sing along, Silent Night. Fuzz filmed us when we were back ground music, here's a little clip:
We were stoked to wake up Christmas morning to a WHITE CHRISTMAS!!!! Never before have we been so fortunate;)
And Santa found us!
It was our very first Christmas just together, not with any of our family. However, Grandpa Sevy had suffered a severe stroke just about a week and a half prior to Christmas, and consequently, Christmas Eve right as they had just locked up M & S-- his business-- for the day, they received word that he'd passed. He truly was home for Christmas, he had a white Christmas too, but I'm sure it was even so much better than ours. Because of this, we were now able to go home just after Christmas, as I was given 6 days to go home for the funeral.
I know that Grandpa knew what he was doing, He just wanted us all together for the holidays, and that's what he got. My cousin flew in from Afghanistan, another from Japan, and for the week and a half that he lie in his hospital bed, my family all sat together and sang and performed and played their instruments together. What a tremendous blessing that was for them, and for Grandma to be encircled by her loved ones standing by her through that trial. Grandma was a rock, I couldn't believe her strength. What an example to me she is of such courage and endurance.
Plane tickets were insane-- almost quadruple what they'd normally be, so we made the 15 hour drive home. I knew our families were praying for us to have a safe drive and especially for us to stay awake-- just as it was starting to get late, out of nowhere I told Fuzz I was totally going to puke! No-- I'm not pregnant. I couldn't even get anything to come out of me but I felt awful! It was that horrible feeling we've all felt at some point in our life, where ya know you'll feel better if you can just puke your guts out. . . but it won't come out! Oh, I just felt soooo sick, I kept moaning, and whining, and crying. . . but oh what a blessing that was, because now me and Fuzz were SO awake-- eventually it came, and I litterally puked my guts outs-- and felt better for a second then just sick again--- we eventually found a hotel parking lot and fell asleep in our truck for a couple hours-- I felt too sick to sleep, but eventually surrendered. I woke up and Fuzz was just beginning the rest of our drive home, the sleep had worked wonders on my upset stomach-- I felt a trillion times better. As much as I complained about how horrible I had felt-- I knew that it really was one of those blessings in disguise;) We safely made it home early December 28th, Mckenna's 11th Birthday! We were there for her Birthday breakfast-- and we even got to watch her open her birthday present that we'd sent about a month prior in the mail with all the Christmas presents. It was a dress;) and I'm pretty sure she loved it-- it looked ADORABLE on her! We were so happy we were able to be there to share that special day with her. That night was Grandpa's viewing. It was bittersweet-- I looked at him in the casket-- it wasn't him, just his body, without his spirit his body was just a body-- that wasn't my grandpa. It was so neat to see all of my cousins and their new little familes there! It was a special time for us to all be together and catch up on our lives.Viewings and funerals can be so sad, it's sad to know that it will probably be a while before we see our loved ones again, but I know that someday we will! And I take so much comfort in knowing that. I know that I'll see Grandpa again! I know that he's probably riding around in heaven with his race horses, for sure with Whinney-mick. He's been blind for about the past 5-10 years gradually getting worse, but now I know that he can see again! He's wanted to so badly for so long. I use to work for his eye doctor, and I saw sooo many eyes, but his macular degeneration was sooo bad. I just about died when I had to pull up his pictures I'd taken of his macula and whitness the actual bleeding and scar tissue, I knew that there was no treatment available to fix it. He's seen so many doctors, and tried so many different treatments, but just continued to suffer. Whenever I get sad thinking about him, I just remember that now, finally, he can see again!
I was asked to play a beautiful arrangement of I Stand All Amazed with Tara and Tiffany at the funeral, it was actually written for voice and piano, and we changed it into a harp, violin, and viola ensemble. It was beautiful. While playing we were all so overcome with emotion we had to just play through our tears, but I know Grandpa liked it. He has always been so supportive of us and our music. I know that I wouldn't be where I am with my music today without his help. At the funeral, my cousin Melissa read all of our favorite memories of Grandpa, what a beautiful celebration of his life! I would have liked to added one of mine, and that is simply that grandpa always called me princess, and made me feel like I was one. He always made us all feel so special, and that he was proud of us.
We met over at the grave site and were all astonished to see what spot had been selected, it was right near the corrals where all the horses were. This was the most perfect place for Grandpa.
Here's Mylee with her second cousin Ryden--they love spending time together.
It was so good to be home with my sisters, and my cousins, funerals can be so sad, but we were so grateful to be together and to cherish the relationships within our family.
My cousin Ryan who films for the Amazing Race-- among other things, has been working on this documentary for the past few years. It's called Goolds Gold-- this has been entered in film festivals all over the United States, and we were fortunate enough to be in UT when his premier in Zion National Park took place. It was on the IMAX screen which is like 6 or 7 stories high! It was awesome! We were so excited for him and that we were fortunate enough to be there for such a neat event!
Here's me with Ryan my cousin, and his sister Melissa and his wife, Jenny.
We got our autographed posters, and free CD's from the band that played in it-- super sweet!
We were so blessed to be able to go home for so many days! We enjoyed eating, shopping, and just hanging out together! We spent New years with all of our family, Fuzz's first, then mine.
Santa found Mylee-- even at Grandma's house, and while he left most of her presents at her house in Indiana, she was thrilled at the few he left in St. George--- she loves Hello Kitty!
The best thing about our trip home is always spending time with our family! Especially our brand new lil Ellsie and Kai-- they'd already grown so much since we were home in September!!! They've got the most adorable little personalities, and so know and just love their uncle Fuzz and aunt Channing! Oh, we just love them SOOOO MUCH!!!
Here's me with Ryan my cousin, and his sister Melissa and his wife, Jenny.
We got our autographed posters, and free CD's from the band that played in it-- super sweet!
We were so blessed to be able to go home for so many days! We enjoyed eating, shopping, and just hanging out together! We spent New years with all of our family, Fuzz's first, then mine.
Santa found Mylee-- even at Grandma's house, and while he left most of her presents at her house in Indiana, she was thrilled at the few he left in St. George--- she loves Hello Kitty!
The best thing about our trip home is always spending time with our family! Especially our brand new lil Ellsie and Kai-- they'd already grown so much since we were home in September!!! They've got the most adorable little personalities, and so know and just love their uncle Fuzz and aunt Channing! Oh, we just love them SOOOO MUCH!!!
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Out With The Hot, In With The Cool~
Happy Fall everyone-- so our leaves don't totally change colors here--- crazy Huh?! They just turn brown and die. We're so excited though for the change in the seasons-- it's been a record hot summer and now that we're in November, we're finally feeling a change in the weather;) Here's the Iverson's first "We heart Autumn in Lubbock" pic.
Notice leaves green-- or brown, no pretty inbetweeners-- I took the autumns in New York and UT for granted. . . they were GORGEOUS!!! Now that we know different we'll never take them for granted again.
Wow it's been another month filled with all kinds of lil adventures;)
So we've been debating for a while about whether we should invest in a lawn mower. . . we knew it would only need a couple more cuts before the it was too cold to grow much more, however, it was getting pretty hairy. Because it's the end of the season, we figured that we could get a sweet deal on one though-- hmmmm. We continued to rationalize our way out of needing one right at the moment. . . but then a stranger showed up at our home one Sunday afternoon. He lived two doors down and noticed our yard could use a lil help. . . so he kindly offered to mow our lawn for us, of course his services wouldn't be for free. . . I asked him if this is just what he does for a living, he said, "Nope, just saw your yard, and thought you might need someone to take care of it for you." This was the day when we knew-- it was time to get a lawn mower. Fuzz found one for like a hundred bucks and went to pay for it and it was actually on sale for much cheaper than that!!-- another sign that we were making the right decision:)
So here's our hairy before and after pics:
So worth it:)
Funny story-- So I was just headed out the door a couple weeks ago and as I opened our front door, there behind the glass storm door were two full grown pit bulls anxiously awaiting in-- literally standing on my front door mat. I didn't know what to do-- LUCKILY I recognized the bigger of the two as my neighbors dog, only because he along with his buddy had gotten out the night before and had stirred up some ruckus in the alley behind our house and we went and told our neighbors that Midnight had gotten loose. Fuzz is Midnights, buddy but only through the little cracks of the fence. Fuzz will stick his hand or fingers through and Midnight gets so excited! He's a lil mischevious dog-- Fuzz is always telling me that he is tied up again, to the tramp on like a 3 foot chain because he is always in trouble. One time it was for tearing up a styrophone box covering their entire backyard with little pieces of it, another time--- was for sneaking over the fence and having a sleepover with Rose, his other nextdoor neighbors pitbull, another time he got in trouble for getting Rose pregnant, but most the time he just gets in trouble for sneaking out and getting loose, going wild in our neighborhood. I seldom see him and with so many pits in our neighborhood I would have never been able to tell him from them had I not just seen him that night before. -----k, back to the story. . .
So what do I do? I'm imagining the phone call to work. . . "Um yea, I can't come to work today because I can't get past the two pit bulls guarding my front door." Yea. . . there was no way I was going to call that in. So I just said I quick prayer that I wouldn't get eaten alive and grabbed my banana, purse and keys and tiptoed in my heels out my front door right through them. They jumped up on me but I think it was just to say, "Hey where's Fuzz? We wanna play!" I still got nervous, I knew Midnight was Fuzz's buddy but I had heard that this other dog was not so friendly and didn't know if he'd peer pressure Midnight into turning into a people eater--- I didn't know--! I tried to talk nice and playful, but that just made them jump up and get that much more excited, so then I talked stern,"Sit down DOWN!!! DOWN!! -- off-- oFF-- OFFFFF!!!!! then I thought that maybe I was sounding more like a "bad guy" and that would make them angry, so I panicked and asked them if they wanted my banana and got ready to throw it---- and then remembered that it was my breakfast, and I was hungry and I'd be starving because my lunch break wasn't for another 4 hours, so instead I just kept my banana, forced my way into my car, pushed their heads out of the doorway, slammed the door shut and hoped that they would get out of my way so that they didn't get runover--
So I'm driving to work and call mom to tell her about how lucky I am to be alive and while I'm in the middle of doing this, while stopped at the front of a line of cars at a red light, I get rear ended. Surprised at the sudden unexpeted jolt,---without thinking, I said, "Mom I just got hit-- gotta go!" Luckily it was nothing really- just scared me for a second. I got back in the car to call and tell her everything was fine-- I think she's been my mom long enough to know when I'm in serious trouble, and that this wasn't one of those times, but regardless-- she answered the phone by saying, "I was just kneeling down to say a lil prayer for you!!"-- another tender mercy on my way to work that morning, just another sweet reminder that I'm the luckiest kid in the world to be blessed with my mother.
Another fun adventure for us this month was going out with the missionaries and meeting this adorable couple that live just down the street from us and being a part of the missionary discussions in their home. The man had been baptized into our church as a child but somewhere along the course of his life had fallen away and become inactive. I don't think he had anything ever against the church, just didn't do anything to stay active. His girlfriend was very interested and had agreed to get baptized, but in our church you have to be married to be living together to be eligible for baptism, so at about 8 months pregnant she decided to put on a wedding dress, and walk down the aisle. The baptism date had been set, but the couple was nervous about asking permission from her parents to be married, let alone baptized. They asked for us all to be prayerful with them that their parents hearts would be softened and allow them to be able to get married, and for her to become a member of our church. We all were so prayerful for them, and then we received word that her family was so excited and more than willing to allow both services to take place, and all said that they would drop everything and come support them at their wedding, which was kinda short notice because the baptism was just over a week away. -- and they were from out of town. They decided to do them on the same day, wedding first, and then the baptism. However, the couple didn't even have enough money to afford their marriage license, because now they were paying tithing, let alone money to pay for a wedding, but they had faith that it would all work out. Some girls in my ward and I got together-- two of which were 9 months pregnant ready to have their baby at any moment-- we went shopping together and split up the costs, and because I work, that was about all the contribution that I could make, the other girls were so awesome, and divied out responsibilities and coordinated everything. I wasn't sure how this wedding would turn out with food and everything with hardly any money, I knew that my friends were putting so much into making this the most beautiful wedding they could for her. Luckily she fit in her prom dress still which was white, and had some blue roses on it, so she used that for her wedding dress and they themed the entire color scheme around it. I was asked late the night before if I could play the piano for the wedding, though I'd never played anything but the harp at weddings before, I figured that I could make it work.
I rushed there early Saturday morning-- I was driving behind some maniac driver that was totally speeding, so I figured it was ok if I spead too as long as he still was driving faster. He pulled up to church-- it was the groom;) he was running late too. The wedding was at 8am-- it was about 10 till, I had a mandatory meeting at work at 8:50 so I was nervous to find out that the bride wasn't even there yet. She got there at about 8, not even dressed yet-- I was starting to panic. I didn't want to leave early --- I knew she had to have music while she walked down the aisle of the Relief Society room, but I was so limited on time. Bishop was sweating bullets with me because he had a flight to catch in an hour so we both were nervous together. I walked into the room where the wedding was to take place, it was beautiful. I went into the kitchen and found it filled with beautiful trays of gourmet food I swear taken right out of Martha Stewart Living Magazine! It was amazing!!!! There was a gorgeous wedding cake that someone in the ward-- who I don't even think had ever even met the couple-- had made for them! The cultural hall was decorated simply but beautifully. So many people in the ward had volunteered to make food and contribute their services into making this such a special wedding for them.
8:25 Everything was ready for a go---- they gave me the green light and I played the infamous Canon in D as the brides maids walked in from the hall, and the best men aka the missionaries;) walked in from the kitchen and then stood behind the bride and groom for the service. It was short and sweet;) they did it! Bishop made his flight, I made it to work on time with time to grab a plate full of their amazing brunch food. It was unbelievable. I couldn't believe that this wedding had been planned in a week. It was just so neat that so many people sacrificed to make it so special for them-- It was a neat experience for all those involved.
The Wednesday of that week we'd had our Housewarming Party with a bunch of our friends. We had set the date a while back in hopes that we'd have all of our lil around the house projects finished by then-- we took care of the bulk of em:) Here's a couple pics of our most recent project, stenciling in our bathroom.
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I was super intimidated by the video's I watched of stenciling online. . . but it actually turned out! YAY-- I was so sure we'd be needing some more blue paint to cover my stenciling failure.
We thought it would be fun to invite our friends over for a fun house warming dinner party in our backyard. We sent our invites and were so glad that so many could make it! They were all so sweet-- it was so much fun!
We wish we'd been able to take more pics, but once our friends started arriving we were just so busy doing all the last min preparations for the dinner.
Here's some of the prep though:
We got the food ready . . .
and then hurried and got us ready. . .
We were just setting up the last few things-- we filled the mason jars with water topped with floating candles-- and then brought out a few more candles--- We knew that we'd need plenty of candles because by the time our guests arrived it would already be dark.
Our shed was our backdrop;) so we figured it needed some sparkles--
Here is the actual menu:
It was a little chilly, so we brought out some quilts and blankets for everyone to keep warm-- everyone was such good sports-- that made it so much fun!
The clean up was so amazing;) we had to take a pic of it:
For Halloween this year we decided to be Maid Marian and Robin Hood-- yep-- fuzz got to wear tights! Ha no, actually just some of my leggings. We went to the church for their annual Trunk or Treat-- and dressed up our trunk as Sherwood Forest with Robin Hood wanted posters-- kinda fun;) There were a million kids!!! They went from trunk to trunk collecting their candies. I was told to bring about 300 pieces of candy because there would be that many kids, I felt bad only giving them each one piece, but after I started noticing how fast it was going. . . and how full their bags were getting. . . I didn't feel quite so bad anymore. It was fun to see all of their creative costumes, they were darling!
So here is a link to the funniest video ever-- here's what happens when parents tell their kids that they ate all of their Halloween Candy-- hahaha soooo funny~!
http://youtu.be/_YQpbzQ6gzs
(it may need to be copied and pasted into the browser)
We are so excited to announce the arrival of our brand new adorable niece, Whitlee Karma Platt. Fuzz's sister's new lil girl, 4th girl in a row:) we have so many adorable nieces! She was born Friday morning-- isn't she so cute?!
We sent her a few outfits and some cute lil leggings we made her--- new babies are just sooo tiny;) hope they fit!
Can you believe it's already that time of year again?! They're already putting up Christmas decorations and tree's all over at my work-- I love it! Though we're not ready to put up our decor yet. . . we're taking it one holiday at a time;) they'll probably go up the day after Thanksgiving.
Well that's about how far our adventures have brought us up till now, sure there'll be some more blog-worthy ones to come -- until next time!
Notice leaves green-- or brown, no pretty inbetweeners-- I took the autumns in New York and UT for granted. . . they were GORGEOUS!!! Now that we know different we'll never take them for granted again.
Wow it's been another month filled with all kinds of lil adventures;)
So we've been debating for a while about whether we should invest in a lawn mower. . . we knew it would only need a couple more cuts before the it was too cold to grow much more, however, it was getting pretty hairy. Because it's the end of the season, we figured that we could get a sweet deal on one though-- hmmmm. We continued to rationalize our way out of needing one right at the moment. . . but then a stranger showed up at our home one Sunday afternoon. He lived two doors down and noticed our yard could use a lil help. . . so he kindly offered to mow our lawn for us, of course his services wouldn't be for free. . . I asked him if this is just what he does for a living, he said, "Nope, just saw your yard, and thought you might need someone to take care of it for you." This was the day when we knew-- it was time to get a lawn mower. Fuzz found one for like a hundred bucks and went to pay for it and it was actually on sale for much cheaper than that!!-- another sign that we were making the right decision:)
So here's our hairy before and after pics:
So worth it:)
Funny story-- So I was just headed out the door a couple weeks ago and as I opened our front door, there behind the glass storm door were two full grown pit bulls anxiously awaiting in-- literally standing on my front door mat. I didn't know what to do-- LUCKILY I recognized the bigger of the two as my neighbors dog, only because he along with his buddy had gotten out the night before and had stirred up some ruckus in the alley behind our house and we went and told our neighbors that Midnight had gotten loose. Fuzz is Midnights, buddy but only through the little cracks of the fence. Fuzz will stick his hand or fingers through and Midnight gets so excited! He's a lil mischevious dog-- Fuzz is always telling me that he is tied up again, to the tramp on like a 3 foot chain because he is always in trouble. One time it was for tearing up a styrophone box covering their entire backyard with little pieces of it, another time--- was for sneaking over the fence and having a sleepover with Rose, his other nextdoor neighbors pitbull, another time he got in trouble for getting Rose pregnant, but most the time he just gets in trouble for sneaking out and getting loose, going wild in our neighborhood. I seldom see him and with so many pits in our neighborhood I would have never been able to tell him from them had I not just seen him that night before. -----k, back to the story. . .
So what do I do? I'm imagining the phone call to work. . . "Um yea, I can't come to work today because I can't get past the two pit bulls guarding my front door." Yea. . . there was no way I was going to call that in. So I just said I quick prayer that I wouldn't get eaten alive and grabbed my banana, purse and keys and tiptoed in my heels out my front door right through them. They jumped up on me but I think it was just to say, "Hey where's Fuzz? We wanna play!" I still got nervous, I knew Midnight was Fuzz's buddy but I had heard that this other dog was not so friendly and didn't know if he'd peer pressure Midnight into turning into a people eater--- I didn't know--! I tried to talk nice and playful, but that just made them jump up and get that much more excited, so then I talked stern,"Sit down DOWN!!! DOWN!! -- off-- oFF-- OFFFFF!!!!! then I thought that maybe I was sounding more like a "bad guy" and that would make them angry, so I panicked and asked them if they wanted my banana and got ready to throw it---- and then remembered that it was my breakfast, and I was hungry and I'd be starving because my lunch break wasn't for another 4 hours, so instead I just kept my banana, forced my way into my car, pushed their heads out of the doorway, slammed the door shut and hoped that they would get out of my way so that they didn't get runover--
So I'm driving to work and call mom to tell her about how lucky I am to be alive and while I'm in the middle of doing this, while stopped at the front of a line of cars at a red light, I get rear ended. Surprised at the sudden unexpeted jolt,---without thinking, I said, "Mom I just got hit-- gotta go!" Luckily it was nothing really- just scared me for a second. I got back in the car to call and tell her everything was fine-- I think she's been my mom long enough to know when I'm in serious trouble, and that this wasn't one of those times, but regardless-- she answered the phone by saying, "I was just kneeling down to say a lil prayer for you!!"-- another tender mercy on my way to work that morning, just another sweet reminder that I'm the luckiest kid in the world to be blessed with my mother.
Another fun adventure for us this month was going out with the missionaries and meeting this adorable couple that live just down the street from us and being a part of the missionary discussions in their home. The man had been baptized into our church as a child but somewhere along the course of his life had fallen away and become inactive. I don't think he had anything ever against the church, just didn't do anything to stay active. His girlfriend was very interested and had agreed to get baptized, but in our church you have to be married to be living together to be eligible for baptism, so at about 8 months pregnant she decided to put on a wedding dress, and walk down the aisle. The baptism date had been set, but the couple was nervous about asking permission from her parents to be married, let alone baptized. They asked for us all to be prayerful with them that their parents hearts would be softened and allow them to be able to get married, and for her to become a member of our church. We all were so prayerful for them, and then we received word that her family was so excited and more than willing to allow both services to take place, and all said that they would drop everything and come support them at their wedding, which was kinda short notice because the baptism was just over a week away. -- and they were from out of town. They decided to do them on the same day, wedding first, and then the baptism. However, the couple didn't even have enough money to afford their marriage license, because now they were paying tithing, let alone money to pay for a wedding, but they had faith that it would all work out. Some girls in my ward and I got together-- two of which were 9 months pregnant ready to have their baby at any moment-- we went shopping together and split up the costs, and because I work, that was about all the contribution that I could make, the other girls were so awesome, and divied out responsibilities and coordinated everything. I wasn't sure how this wedding would turn out with food and everything with hardly any money, I knew that my friends were putting so much into making this the most beautiful wedding they could for her. Luckily she fit in her prom dress still which was white, and had some blue roses on it, so she used that for her wedding dress and they themed the entire color scheme around it. I was asked late the night before if I could play the piano for the wedding, though I'd never played anything but the harp at weddings before, I figured that I could make it work.
I rushed there early Saturday morning-- I was driving behind some maniac driver that was totally speeding, so I figured it was ok if I spead too as long as he still was driving faster. He pulled up to church-- it was the groom;) he was running late too. The wedding was at 8am-- it was about 10 till, I had a mandatory meeting at work at 8:50 so I was nervous to find out that the bride wasn't even there yet. She got there at about 8, not even dressed yet-- I was starting to panic. I didn't want to leave early --- I knew she had to have music while she walked down the aisle of the Relief Society room, but I was so limited on time. Bishop was sweating bullets with me because he had a flight to catch in an hour so we both were nervous together. I walked into the room where the wedding was to take place, it was beautiful. I went into the kitchen and found it filled with beautiful trays of gourmet food I swear taken right out of Martha Stewart Living Magazine! It was amazing!!!! There was a gorgeous wedding cake that someone in the ward-- who I don't even think had ever even met the couple-- had made for them! The cultural hall was decorated simply but beautifully. So many people in the ward had volunteered to make food and contribute their services into making this such a special wedding for them.
8:25 Everything was ready for a go---- they gave me the green light and I played the infamous Canon in D as the brides maids walked in from the hall, and the best men aka the missionaries;) walked in from the kitchen and then stood behind the bride and groom for the service. It was short and sweet;) they did it! Bishop made his flight, I made it to work on time with time to grab a plate full of their amazing brunch food. It was unbelievable. I couldn't believe that this wedding had been planned in a week. It was just so neat that so many people sacrificed to make it so special for them-- It was a neat experience for all those involved.
The Wednesday of that week we'd had our Housewarming Party with a bunch of our friends. We had set the date a while back in hopes that we'd have all of our lil around the house projects finished by then-- we took care of the bulk of em:) Here's a couple pics of our most recent project, stenciling in our bathroom.
\
I was super intimidated by the video's I watched of stenciling online. . . but it actually turned out! YAY-- I was so sure we'd be needing some more blue paint to cover my stenciling failure.
We thought it would be fun to invite our friends over for a fun house warming dinner party in our backyard. We sent our invites and were so glad that so many could make it! They were all so sweet-- it was so much fun!
We wish we'd been able to take more pics, but once our friends started arriving we were just so busy doing all the last min preparations for the dinner.
Here's some of the prep though:
We got the food ready . . .
and then hurried and got us ready. . .
We were just setting up the last few things-- we filled the mason jars with water topped with floating candles-- and then brought out a few more candles--- We knew that we'd need plenty of candles because by the time our guests arrived it would already be dark.
Our shed was our backdrop;) so we figured it needed some sparkles--
Here is the actual menu:
It was a little chilly, so we brought out some quilts and blankets for everyone to keep warm-- everyone was such good sports-- that made it so much fun!
The clean up was so amazing;) we had to take a pic of it:
For Halloween this year we decided to be Maid Marian and Robin Hood-- yep-- fuzz got to wear tights! Ha no, actually just some of my leggings. We went to the church for their annual Trunk or Treat-- and dressed up our trunk as Sherwood Forest with Robin Hood wanted posters-- kinda fun;) There were a million kids!!! They went from trunk to trunk collecting their candies. I was told to bring about 300 pieces of candy because there would be that many kids, I felt bad only giving them each one piece, but after I started noticing how fast it was going. . . and how full their bags were getting. . . I didn't feel quite so bad anymore. It was fun to see all of their creative costumes, they were darling!
So here is a link to the funniest video ever-- here's what happens when parents tell their kids that they ate all of their Halloween Candy-- hahaha soooo funny~!
http://youtu.be/_YQpbzQ6gzs
(it may need to be copied and pasted into the browser)
We are so excited to announce the arrival of our brand new adorable niece, Whitlee Karma Platt. Fuzz's sister's new lil girl, 4th girl in a row:) we have so many adorable nieces! She was born Friday morning-- isn't she so cute?!
We sent her a few outfits and some cute lil leggings we made her--- new babies are just sooo tiny;) hope they fit!
Can you believe it's already that time of year again?! They're already putting up Christmas decorations and tree's all over at my work-- I love it! Though we're not ready to put up our decor yet. . . we're taking it one holiday at a time;) they'll probably go up the day after Thanksgiving.
Well that's about how far our adventures have brought us up till now, sure there'll be some more blog-worthy ones to come -- until next time!
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