10 on Tuesday

1. On Saturday we drove to Drumheller with three other families. It was fun and gross (the reptile place). And a long drive. I'll post a whack of pictures from our adventures on Wednesday. Here's twp for now. Yep that's a big snake around our necks. And Roman and Finn standing/ sitting next to some huge turtles.


2. Can't believe it snowed again.

3. Guess who FINALLY got new boots??


4. Love this shot I caught of Regan and Eli playing train one morning in the kitchen. Regan was shooting it on his iPhone too.


5. Speaking of his iphone he had to get a new one since Alden dropped his last one and the WSD couldn't be fixed.

6. We had a lot of kids over this past week and Eli loved it every time.All these boys were over to play for a while and they convinced me they needed to watch one tv show so I let them and then they came upstairs and told me they wanted to play with that thing with colors - and I could NOT figure out what they were talking about.... so they took me downstairs and pointed to the Twister box. They had seen commercial and wanted to play it. They played with it for like 40 minutes!


7. Loved this shot I caught of Eli sitting on the kitchen stools.


8. Playing doctor with dad before church Sunday morning.


9. I am tired.

10. I love this man for putting up with me trying my photo class assignments when I need someone to be in a picture (especially when I KNOW he doesn't like pictures!)

Oliver at 6 months

Can you believe it? This little man is 6 months old already!!!


In the first week by Devyn at DB Images


And then a week or so later by Kinsey at Kinsey Holt Photography


At six months Oliver:

• is sleeping mostly on a schedule, goes to bed around 730-8pm sleeps until 5 am, feeds and goes back to sleep until 730 or 8am, awake until 10am sleeps until 1130am, sleepy around 1pm again and sleeps until 3ish (if we are home which often it seems we aren't, awake until 6 where he has a cat nap and then bed again

• is the happiest baby! Smiling all the time and loves attention from anyone anytime
• puts up with constant affection from Eli quite well
• rolls all over the place
• sleeps on his tummy
• loves his soother
• slobbers A LOT

• has tried rice cereal, barley cereal, prunes, parsnips, applesauce, strawberries, bananas, water
• likes parsnips the most and really could do without any of the rest
• makes a real mess when he eats
• is VERY grabby

• loves to make "b" sounds and talk
• blows out his diapers a fair bit still
• wears 6-9 month clothes

• loves his jolly jumper a LOT
• loves to stand and will even move his feet like walking sometimes
• still spits up a bit

• is such a calm relaxed baby
• thinks his siblings are hilarious
• is quite snuggly
(Eli took this one)

• likes being rocked to sleep
• loves to play with my hair
• really brings so much love and happiness into our home. He is ajoy to have around!

Spiritual Sundays

"As we ask these questions, we realize that the purpose of our life on earth is to grow, develop, and be strengthened through our own experiences. How do we do this? The scriptures give us an answer in one simple phrase: we “wait upon the Lord.”12 Tests and trials are given to all of us. These mortal challenges allow us and our Heavenly Father to see whether we will exercise our agency to follow His Son. He already knows, and we have the opportunity to learn, that no matter how difficult our circumstances, “all these things shall [be for our] experience, and … [our] good.”" - Elder Robert D. Hales.


For more about facing trials with faith, read, watch, or listen to the rest of this talk “Waiting upon the Lord: Thy Will Be Done” by Elder Robert D. Hales.

Foto Fridays: Our Year in Photos

Month 2 Week 3: Free Week

For the third week of each month we'll focus on time of day or season.

Well this week is a bit of a free week so I am going to post my 15 on the 15th. It's our family and it's this year so I think it still applies :) 15 pictures from yesterday, on the 15th. (You can see the other months here. )


















You can see all my other entries for this project here

Go check out Brooke's over here!

Please tell me if you have a link somewhere for playing along and I'll add the links.

Listography: List 63

Places I'd like to spend the night:

1. All night in my own bed.

2. Paris, France

3. Hawaii

4. Texas (for the Country Living Fair in April)

5. Seattle

6. Utah

In the Craft Room: Love is Spoken Here

Above my stairs I have a photo wall that I love. But I have a few empty frames that need to be filled. Funny thing is most of these old frames are not regular sizes so I've had to get things printed and then cut them to size. But they also have no backings and no glass. Yep in some ways it's a pain. (But my mom gave them all to me free so that is good!)



Well I was thinking about my frames one night and thought of making something to fill one of them. And this is it.


I made it with my fancy Silhouette Cameo machine .

My supplies: an old painted frame, a pile of 12x12 chipboard pieces, and some cardstock in colors I didn't like.


First I cut out 12x12 whole background sheets on my Cameo.

I used background_double_chevron_C01271_19547, large_eyelet_lace_C00057_19547, a scalloped background (I couldn't find to link again) and a moroccan background (also couldn't find).


After I cut them all out I glued them onto my chipboard pieces and fit them together to make the size of my frame.


Like this (my color is all off on this picture.... whoops)


The I painted the whole thing with my favorite gray from Martha Stewart called Driftwood gray


Coat one - the paper started to buckle a bit so I had to press it down after...


Coat two


Then I added my vinyl letters. I don't have any vinyl for my Silhouette or else I could have just cut this part out too but instead I had to ask a lady who cuts vinyl to cut it for me.


And this is the end result again.


Here it is on my wall...


(one more frame to go... and lots to straighten :) )

And this little man laid beside me while I worked on it :)


My art that a few of you have asked about was done similarly.

Except i bought a 24x36 canvas and painted it (the same gray) and then put my vinyl on top. I also got it cut by the same lady. She doesn't have a website but she has an email that you can order from her if you want. Email me and i'll forward it along to her if you'd like.

Linking it up here: