Curtains!!

So the way that our house is set up the kitchen and family room are in one room together so decorating is going to be a tricky one in this house. but the walls were looking a little bare so i thought i would make curtains. Curtains can be expensive and I'm all about saving money anywhere i can so i decided to make them!! I went to Ross and found some really cute sheets and thought i could make all of them from one sheet. you cant tell by the pics but they are satin and have little squares all over them. So that's what I did all day sat. Since Aaron work on sat now i have to find things to do! OOOOOhhh but get this I left at like 12 o'clock to go get some curtain rods, and being my frugal self i went to 4 different store to find some cute yet cheep ones. anyways so i get back home and go inside the house to put my bags down and open up some of the little hooks that i got, they were not the right color so i was going to go outside to spray paint them. i get done with that and i go bake inside and i noticed the back door was opened. I almost had a heart attack I'm not kidding so i go up to the door and both dogs are just relaxing and Nike the puppy must have snuck inside and he took one of the curtain off the couch and he was chewing on it. I wanted to yell at him but i could not help but think how in the crap did the back door get open. So now i think I'm just freaking my self out and i go into the closet and go into the safe to find the gun (if someone is in my house i think i would have shoot him) but there is not gun, so now i am in panic mode and so i look behind some of the clothes were i thought that Aaron had put the shot gun and its not there and so the only thing i can find is a riffle that is not even loaded and it weights a ton to me and i start walking around the house with a weapon that i could not ever use but it made me feel better only to not find anyone. So i called Aaron and he is in the middle of a job and said just to relax and told me were the useful guns were at, and that he would be home as soon as he could. So i go into the closet and he put the hand gun on the very top self to were i could hardly reach with a chair. So get it down and i go out into the family room and i start yelling "if anyone is in here. i will shoot you" and know one came out and all the windows were locked and so the only way i can think is they came in through the service door from the garage it was the only door not locked. but the freaky thing is, is the person must have been in the house when i first went inside because that door was not opened. Then finally Aaron get home at like 6 pm and he noticed that i put the hand gun on the end table to were i could easy get to it and he told me that it was on safety and not even ready to go, so I felt retarded and so now I'm thinking that we need to go out again and re-learn how to use one of those things. But in the end of the day i got my curtains done!!

Food Storage!!

So Aaron and I decided that it was time to get our food storage done. Once we started we could not stop we got everything piled up in our guest room then rented the caner from our ward then within 24 hours we had everything canned. I was so proud of us for getting is all done and would recommend everyone start it!! It was a little costly but we saved for a bit and just did it. An you do not have to do it all in one month because that's hard to do and we did not get everything from the cannery Sam's Club is great because i priced checked and for a lot of stuff they were cheaper! I think it also helps that I work like 2 miles away from the cannery. I feel like we have been blessed because of it in so many ways and just knowing that it is done is such a stress relief!! If anyone needs help in any way even if it just going to the cannery for the first time i would love to help out, i know for me going for the first time was the hardest thing just because i have never been there before. So here it is piled up under beds. In the guest room it is stacked up 3 rows high and 3 rows wide and 5 rows deep, and in our room it is under our bed and holding up our t.v. and its cool you cant even tell because it has material over it so it looks like it was made to do that!

V-Day

Aaron had to work on V-Day how lame is that, but it kinda turned out good because I was able to surprise him with dinner when he got home.

My loving hubby got me wonderful flowers!!

And I since I had the day to my self I made cookies!

And Strawberry Short Cake for desert!Yummy!

We decided to stay home this year so I made a nice candlelit dinner. It turned out so cute.

Happy B-Day Wade! (& car trouble)

So my younger brother just turned one year older and Christie wanted to have a surprise b-day party for him over at my house. So we were supposed to get off work at 4 pm then get home by 4:30 pm. Well I should have known that the night was not going to turn out all peachy when Aaron on his fist day at his new job did not get done till 5 pm and since we car pool I had to wait around for him to get off. So he got back to the office at 5 and we headed home, we got about half way down the I10 freeway and we heard a noise from the back of the truck. Aaron pulled over to check it out and the tread on our tire was starting to come off. I wanted to get home so I told Aaron to just drive really slow and he said okay. So we put our hazards on and we were on our way. Well about 2 miles later we heard it again but 2x as loud and it moved the truck a little bit, so here we go again we pulled off to the side of the road and Aaron got out to take a look at it and the tire did not pop but there was no tread on the tire at all. (so weird) So I said again lets just drive slower and we can get a little farther, and he said not to that and I don't blame him, that would have just been asking for trouble. So Aaron get out of the car to change the tire and turns out when we got our truck it did not have the long thing that you have to use to lower the tire down so we were in a pickle. So we call the guy that found us the truck and he is up in phoenix and cant get to us any time soon. So I call Wade and turns out he does not have that thing to lower the tire down, so now it is like 6 pm and its getting dark and really cold out side. Well at least Aaron said it was cold I did not get out of the truck!! So I called Adam thinking thinking that they were all still up at a doc appointment in Scottsdale hoping that he could help us out when he was on his way home, but once again it was not our night and he was already over at our house along with my parents and all my other brothers and Sarah. But being the helpful handy guy he is he said he would come help us. So now he is on his way and Aaron gets back in the truck and said that the tire iron that we have does not fit our tire bolts, so I call Adam back and let him know and he does not have one with him so he has to turn around and go back to his house and get all the stuff to help us out of this jam(and during all of this Korina gives me a call and asked me how to get salsa out of carpet!! I was going to lash, but not really). So its now 6:30 and Adam arrived. 30 min later we are on our way back home!!!!!! We finally pull in at 7:15 pm and Freaking Wade and Christie are already there. (so much for a surprise party) So we got in and mom already had dinner ready so we all sat down and eat a good dinner, and yummy desert and everyone left. So our night was crazy and lazy at the same time(well i was lazy Aaron and Adam not so much) hahaha!! But over all it was a good night and a story to tell so ya sorry its so long I am board at work and like to ramble sometimes!




Look at that tire, doesn't that just look weird, that is some shotty work done by the tire making people.

The BIG 22 (he gets so exited that for one month he is only 1 yr younger than me)

Look how cute his little face is (o ya did u know that he is crawling, he is only like 6 months)

Anden and me reading a book!

Some of the gang waiting to sing Happy Birthday!

Anden could not wait to lick of the candles.

Anden won!Sorry baby u are on the bottom of that pile.

Look what I did!!

So I have been needing for a while now a place for all of my shoes, so Aaron and I went to Home Depot and got some wood and it has been sitting in our garage for about a week or so. So on sat Aaron when to look at a new truck with a friend and I got board so I decided that I would try to make it my self. And I do think I did a fabulous job on it. It looks like it came with the house and my shoes fit perfect on it!! To bad Aaron's did not fit but o well he can have one of the shelf's that are on top of the clothes, since he is tall he can reach them with out a problem!!

Lights Lights and more Lights!!

So yesterday we decided to get ready early this year and went to get our tree. I love real trees the smell so much better and they do not itch my arms as much when I am putting up the lights! SO over the past weekend Aaron my loving hubby put us all the lights on the outside of the house for me. And I found my wreath that I made a couple years ago. (something about me I love to do crafts so I make a lot of stuff all the time) and we got some garland to put around the door and it already had lights on it so I did not have to do that.

This is my cute little snowman that I have made!! He was so much fun to put together and decorate!

Gingerbread House's

Sarah Working on her house

Christie and her crazy house (i think its a church or a barn)

My beautiful house (jk, but not really)

Wed night I went over to my moms house and we all made gingerbread houses and had a blast. I'm not sure if we spent more time talking and eating them then actually making them either way we all had a blast.