Happy (late) Mothers Day

We love our awesome moms!

Kyle's Mom


My Mom



Mandy (step-mom)


This is the present I made for Kyle's mom on Mother's Day! She loved it!



As I was looking for pictures of our moms I found these two pictures from our reception. They are pretty funny!

Projects

Since I finished school and have a lot more free time I have actually been able to finish a few projects. Here are a few of them and more to come!



This is a sign for the laundry room (duh) when I finished Kyle said "well if you think it's so much fun you can do the laundry all the time!



Some HOME blocks...I hated how all these cute decorations are so expensive so I have been trying to make my own :)



I made these for Natalie's birthday. She took the pictures of her kids (aren't they so freakin cute!) then I edited them and did the "My favorite things" vinyl. I love these! Oh and I have to say thanks to Jamie and Wade because they cut the wood and without the wood this wouldn't of been possible! THANKS guys your the best!



I wanted something cute to countdown Derek's mission so I came up with this idea and was really excited. Actually, the first idea I had consisted of Kyle drilling 700 holes into a piece of wood. He wasn't too thrilled with this idea so I decided to think of something else. These are for my mom (yes mom you won't be getting this 2 weeks before Derek comes home like you thought, I actually finished something on time) I still have to make mine... I still have 2 months right?!?



I really liked this, but I felt like it was missing something. I tried to get creative and pretty much ruined it. I am hoping to make another one that will be much better than this one.

Well that's about it for now. I finished Kyle's mom's mothers day present tonight, but I'll post that tomorrow just in case she looks at this tonight :)

The Pine View Quilt

Ok so i had to post this because it has taken me sooooooo long to finish it. Probably a little more than two years. I have the habit of starting projects and not finishing them in a timely manner. When I first started college I had all my sweatshirts from playing basketball and soccer in high school just tucked under my bed because they were all just getting worn out and dirty. I didn't want to get rid of them because let's face it, I have a hard time getting rid of anything that halfway resembles a memory. So I decided to make a quilt because then I could still have the memories, but they wouldn't just be old sweatshirts under the bed for the rest of my life. However, I could never find the time to just sit down and finish the dang thing. Kyle finally had to put his foot down and demand that I couldn't start another project until all of my old ones were finished. So without school taking up all of my time I finally finished it and am so excited. It didn't quite turn out as good as I wanted it to, but it was hard and I just wanted to get it done! On to the next project!

Mandy's Baptism

My step-mom Mandy got baptized Saturday March 27th. It was really fun to be there and experience it with her. In January my dad was gone for three weeks for work and the sister missionaries knocked on her door. She invited them in and started taking the discussions. A few months later she decided she wanted to be baptized. During the baptism Kyle realized that the sister missionary who gave Mandy the discussions was the sister of a missionary companion he had in Argentina. Sorry I don't have any pictures. I am kind of a bad picture taker.

Derek's Mission Call

My little brother Derek got his mission call. He was called to serve in the Nicaragua Managua mission. He had been getting teased forever about where he would end up going so I was glad that he was going to get to go foreign and Spanish speaking like he wanted. After he read where he was going he had to sit and think about where it actually was. It took us awhile to finally figure out that it is in Central America. It's close to Costa Rica so we now know where our next family vacation will be in 2 years (hopefully). He leaves for the MTC on July 7th, which means he has three months to let it all sink in. It's going to be really weird having him gone for 2 years, but I'm really excited for him. I keep trying to upload the video of him opening it, but it's just not working. Maybe i'll keep trying.

My latest creation

I had figured out how to make these a few weeks ago so for Tiffany's (sis in-law) birthday I made her one for her and her family. Then I made myself one. I think they are pretty cool!

Dangerous APPS

My wonderful husband got a call saturday night from what appeared to be the bank, but when he answered it it was really his friend Jake. It's a new app for cell phones called bluff my call. It is really quite clever actually. You can call anyone in your phonebook from your phone, but it shows up on their caller id as anyone you want it to. Well after he learned about this app he downloaded it right away and decided to call his brother pretending to be mall security and telling him that his store got broken in to. His brother was pretty calm about the whole thing and just said "ok i'll call the owner." If pranking one person wasn't enought Kyle had to get someone else. He decided to call his old boss at Foot Locker from Foot Locker's number. This time he pretended to be some guy named Jeffrey and convince Marty that he had broken into the store and was going to steal everything. One problem though....instead of Marty answering the phone, his wife did instead. Kyle (in his disguised voice) starts saying how he has broken into the store, etc. Well she starts freaking out a little and hands the phone to Marty. While Kyle is still pretending to have broken into the store we hear her in the background talking to someone. I look at Kyle and say "she is calling the cops!" And sure enough that is what she had done. She had called the cops and was telling them that someone was breaking into the mall. When Kyle finally came clean and they told the cops that it was just a prank the cops said they were going to have to call kyle. We thought he was going to get in so much trouble, but the cop just had to make sure it was actually a prank. I was so glad that nothing else came of it. To make things worse HE WANTED TO CALL ANOTHER PERSON! This app could be bad...very bad!