Home stuff

 

I made some updates to our master bathroom forever ago, but I didn’t realize that I hadn’t posted any updates about it on the blog! When we moved in the bathroom (like the rest of the house) was dirty and the paint was horrible. But it was really big and had TWO SINKS. I was sold.

Dan painted the bathroom the same color as the lighter gray in our bedroom. I added a yellow stripe to coordinate with our bedroom and I love it. I also added a frame around the mirror using moulding. 

The frame makes a huge difference and makes the entire room look finished even though it’s not yet. I still need to add a clock and I’m working on putting the same moulding frame around the window in the bathroom and the bedroom. We just glued the moudling right onto the huge mirror like we did in our powder bathroom.

I made these simple shelves and I still need to put some “real” pictures in the frames on the bottom. i framed fabric for the top frame.

  One more look at our bedroom. We still love it!

I have also done some Halloween decorating. I really only decorate for Halloween and Christmas and this year I added some more fun things to our house for Halloween. Ignore the game on…I was watching my Utes finally win!

I got the spider cut outs from Michaels. They are from the Martha Stewart line which is awesome! There were a lot in the package and they were cheap too. I put them around our window mirrors and on our french doors. I made the spider web myself. I’m really hoping to get a Silhouette craft cutter this year so I can do a lot more crafts like this and not have to cut things out by hand or buy them!

I saw this ghost idea on another blog and copied it! I used frosted window film. I already had some because I used it to cover our bathroom window so we can open it more often without sacrificing our privacy. I love the ghosty on the mirror.

The bats are another fun idea I saw on a blog and they were easy and cheap. It just took a few nights of cutting out bats while watching our shows on TV. You can see Mr. Ghosty in the mirror as well :)

I made the spooky banner with bats using paper and twine and I added more spiders to the french doors.

This little table is in our kitchen and I want to paint it but I can’t decide what color! I love light and bright white to patch our window mirrors and TV stand, but white is also boring so I don’t know! Dan probably wouldn’t go for a bright crazy color because it doesn’t “match”…so any ideas??

I used cheesecloth from Lowes for the creepy white cloth and the skull on the stand is now silver and there is a silver pumpkin there too :) I have already changed things since I took these pictures!

  I just put stickers on the front of canning jars filled with candy corn. I have electric tea lights from the dollar store inside but I forgot to light them for the picture! Whoops!

September to Remember

 

These are old pictures, but better late than never right?? Dan and I took a long weekend over Labor Day and went to Yellowstone. We were just there in July with Dan’s entire family but Dan wanted to do something with just us to celebrate his graduation! I can’t believe I haven’t mentioned it, but he got his bachelor’s degree in Business Administration! He started his MBA a few weeks later so there wasn’t much of a celebration, but I’m so dang proud of him! He is incredible and I have watched him go from his first semester to finishing and now going on to his MBA. He is amazing and I’m lucky to have him!

We had a ton of fun together and the weather was awesome. We have so much fun together and he is my very best friend. I love going on vacations with him. It still amazes me how much he makes me laugh even after over 4 years of being together!

         Looking back at the pictures, we saw a lot of waterfalls! Yellowstone is Dan’s favorite place (that and the beach). We were able to see tons of wolves while we were there! One day we just sat and watched and waited for a wolf pack to come into a valley and when the finally did, it was so worth the hours of waiting! We enjoyed the view and the weather was wonderful. Another day, we saw wolves in a different valley and we watched them eating a buffalo carcass! Seriously amazing. We got sweet matching wolf shirts to celebrate.

Dan is a huge BYU fan (WHY?!?!) and I’m a huge Utah fan, so when football season comes around, our marriage can have some turmoil. One of the first weeks of the season, both games were on at the same time! Tragedy! So Dan had the great idea to bring our bedroom TV downstairs so we could watch both games at the same time! Loved it.

Dan and I ran a 10K race together in Layton a few weeks ago. I was slow as usual, but we had fun running together and we got some sweet shirts!

I also ran in the Dirty Dash with my gal pals from work. We had a blast and it was an intense race! It was basically a huge obstacle course through the mud. It was way harder and crazier than I could have expected! There were mud pits, huge wind blowers and everything else you could imagine.

  We even had to wade through the nasty marshes of on the shore of a lake for about 1/2 mile! I was so grossed out and may have dry heaved a few times. The smell was something I won’t forget. I was sure the swamp monster was trying to pull me under! But we laughed a lot and had tons of fun.

I work with Jennie (far right), Maryann (to the right of me), and Rolene (right in the middle of the first pic). They are so great and I have gotten so close to them over the past year! I love having good friends at work. We run together on our lunch break, go shopping, to lunch, and just vent when we need to! Some of their family members ran with us too.

These pictures have a water mark on them because I didn’t want to pay $18 to buy them! I don’t really look that dirty but I was! I wasn’t trying to stay clean at all, but I didn’t get much mud on my face. I was a little worried about my contacts with all my eye problems so I was careful not to get mud in my eyes. But I was still pretty filthy.

This was the final slip-n-slide at the finish line. I went down on my stomach most of the way but this picture was right at the end. It was such a blast!

                                           September was a great month for us. We are blessed.

Jackson 2011

 

We went to Jackson Hole in August with my family and had a great time. Steph took all the pictures and I just barely got them from her so that’s why I’m so late posting about it! We stayed at a little cabin at the KOA and it was awesome. Dan and I had the “loft” and we could touch the ceiling with our feet when we were laying in bed. It was sweet. Very small, but perfect for our family and my parents spent a few nights before we came and spent two nights there.

We went on a hike to a jumping rock on Phelps Lake with Steph and Andrew. It was gorgeous. We love it up there.

We had to wade across a small pond/lake and it was FREEZING. Steph and I were just screaming and squealing across it even though we were planning on jumping into the lake a little later! Luckily it was really warm outside.

  Dan and I on the sweet jumping rock with such a beautiful view.

Steph took some amazing shots of us jumping off the rock. Dan busted out the toe touch on this one. The water was so freezing, and I was more scared to jump into the ice water then from the height of the jump!

Precious.

I love this picture of Steph from the hike.

Here is my jump off of the rock. It was a little scary but really fun and I did it a few times after the first jump. We warmed up in the sunshine afterwards on the rock.

  On Sunday we went to watch the rafts come through Big Kahuna. We had a nice lunch and enjoyed the water before we drove home.    

This is the best picture of my Dad. I seriously love it.

     The whole fam with the river behind us. We had a good time together and loved enjoying being outside and it was so beautiful there!

My blood hurts

Dan is a beast. When I decided I wanted to run the Top of Utah half marathon, he signed up for the full marathon! I don’t know what he was thinking but he wanted to do it. The race was 2 weeks ago and he killed it! He slept in Logan and only got about 3 hours of sleep so I was pretty worried about him. On top of that, it poured rain for about 7 miles of the race!

I drove up to Logan with Julie and the boys and as we came into Cache Valley and saw the black clouds and drove the pouring rain, we were pretty worried about our boys. We waited for them at mile 17 (In our Ute gear of course) and cheered and held signs that Julie had made.

Dan was looking awesome at this point and still feeling pretty good. I thought he might want to stop to change into a dry shirt or get some meds but he just showed me his sweet muscles and kept running!

We drove a few miles ahead to look for Jon and Wellyn got distracted by the worms everywhere because of all the rain. He is a total boy and loved the worm. Everett was terrified of it at first but quickly became obsessed with looking at it and he kept entertained by throwing rocks. Love those boys.

We saw Dan coming up again and still looking strong. This was about mile 22 and he said “everything is starting to hurt right now”. But he kept going and so we went to the finish line to wait for them to cross.

I was so excited to see his cute face come running to the finish line and he looked amazing (a little wet, but still great!). He finished in an amazing 4 hours 18 minutes! He didn’t have tons of time to train and didn’t get a lot of sleep but he did it!

I was seriously so proud of him, I got teary eyed! I’m kind of an emotional person and I cry easily, but this was such a neat moment! He worked so hard and pushed himself so far emotionally and physically and I just wanted to squeeze him!

Julie with her cute signs for the boys and Dan trying to look happy even though he was pretty much dying. He was sore for a while and told me his blood hurt. Funny.

The boys after the race in their matching outfits! Loved it. Take note of Jon’s bloody nipple! Yikes…

These boys are so cute and Everett was just happy as a clam chowing down on his ice cream sandwich. He was a mess but still adorable.

 

Congratulations to Dan my man! I love this boy and I’m so proud of his huge accomplishment!