can't even sleep

It's 1:02 AM...I am waking up at 4:15-ish to get all dolled up to go meet John at the Military airport at 5:45. I am so freaking excited. This is more exciting than any Christmas has ever been. I can't believe it! My very best friend will be back in my arms in a matter of a few hours. I AM SO EXCITED!!!!

Okay so since I am wide eyed, I am posting my remodel pics of our bedroom and some of the bathroom. I am so pleased with how the bedroom turned out, i love it! I made the curtains, and I love them!


This is the bedroom before I started anything major. I scrubbed the walls and filled the holes


Painting...now I had to post this picture to show my ridiculous outfit...i had 1 bag of clothes at the house, all of them were skirts and dresses, so I didn't want to paint in them, but I found this road trip skirt (My roomies and I made these silly skirts to wear on a spring break road trip years ago, if you cant tell it has license plates on it.)

TADAAAAAAH!!!

The bathroom

I just got these baskets today..theres not a ton you can do in a tiny bathroom...

Got this frame at Target for like 2 dollars, and just made this out of some scrap stuff, i love it. Anyway, now its 1:34...I am getting sleepy, just a few hours!!!!YEAH!!!

Update and stuff

Okay I had a birthday a week ago, on the 18th. Quite honestly I think it was the WORST birthday I have ever had. I'm not being pouty, just stating the facts. I rung in my 25th year barfing my guts out at 4 in the morning, and diarrhea too, so lovely. You know I was just so excited about turning 25 that I wanted to make the most of it, starting in the wee hours of the morning. The day continued just as lovely as its beginning with my fever spiking back and forth between 100.9 and 103.7. I lay on the couch alternating cold sweats, chills, and hot flashes, managed to drink 2 glasses of orange juice and some strawberries in lui of cake.

On the plus side...Dylan and Kaci were also sick so they were home from school, keeping me company on the couch (I was at their house). They are really funny. Kaci doesn't "blow" her nose, she just holds a tissue at the end of it to catch the runniness, all day she's holding a tissue up to her nose...its funny especially when she eats. Dylan was SO sweet, I need to explain the latest rage with my nieces and nephews: LITTLEST PET SHOPS. They are these little animals that have big heads, huge eyes and they bobble. All of them have these littlest pet shops, and they are obsessed with making little houses for them, using little accessories etc. They just LOVE them. Well on my birthday Dylan was working really hard on something, and being so quiet, and asking me how to spell my name etc. So I get this little jewelry box taped shut all the way around, and inside i find my own littlest pet shop!!! WITH littlest ski-goggles and ear muffs! Now this my friends is a true gift of LOVE from Dylan. He was beaming! SO cute! Also William and Lily made me a big poster with stickers and drawings. I am so loved.



I was also pleasantly surprised to receive FLOWERS from my heart-nugget! They were gorgeous! I loved them, I just wished they lasted longer! They really were exquisite!



We went to Rexburg on Friday for Steph's bridal shower, it was the FUNNEST bridal shower I have ever attended! And I think we sufficiently embarrassed our little bride to be :)

Danielle Steph and Jenni
Jenni made this bride Cake! It is SO cute, and she even made the dress to look just like Steph's! Jenni did an AMAZING job decorating and planning the shower! The cupcakes are also so cute, wrapped in thulle and polka-dotted!

We played a game where we asked the groom questions beforehand, things like whats your shoe size, fav book etc, and if Steph got it wrong, she had to put on a peice of lingerie, and if she got it right, the girl who asked her had to put on a piece, it was really fun and funny! (There were cheap dollar store undies passed around beforehand, so it's not like they were actually stretching out or wearing her nice new lingerie, just FYI)
The whole gang, we had a great turn out.
It was so fun to have Kylie there, our cousin!

All of her "FUNDERWEAR" lined up on a clothesline :)




Sadly I had to spend Friday evening at the Urgent Care in Rexburg. Yuck. But I am now on the mend I think :)

John's come home date is a day earlier!!!! I get to see him Friday morning at 6 AM! WOOOOO HOOOOO!!!! I can't even believe it!

Also, I am joining the coupon craze. I watched all these tutorials on youtube, and joined a few couponing sites and I made my first K-mart purchase with coupons!!! I bought 70 dollars worth of stuff for 24 dollars. That's good, but I just know I'll keep getting better. I think I am going to tackle Walgreen's today! YEAH!!! I'll keep you posted, my new motto is: Cheap is good, but free is better!


And lastly, my dad sent me this today. I am notorious in my family for accidentally looking really ugly and stupid in some pictures, like the flash catches me off guard and makes my eyes look "special" so I'm being really brave posting this pic as it is not cute, and I look pretty ticked. Dad took this when I was home at Christmas time and I was just being the stand on to get the lighting right for his photo shoot, this glamour shot was one result. Also in my family there might not be anything as funny as farts. As gross as it is, we just think it is so funny. it doesn't take long for any conversation to turn to sharing a fart story etc. So gross as it may be, it's funny. SO enjoy this photo :) THANKS dad!

LOVE FEST!

So obviously I didn't spend love day with my valentine, but only 13 days left! How exciting, I can't even believe it~!

You know how every memory from your childhood is a cherished treasure? Well I feel like I have a lot. I remember a lot of things a lot of people don't, reminiscing is one of my favorite past times, because I can remember a lot of details about things.

Well I have these memories of halloween when I was little, or just family night, and my family playing carnival games. It was SO fun and required NO money to be spent. We played penny toss where you toss a penny from one end of the table and try to get it to land in a cup or bowl at the other end. Anyway, all the games were like this, you can make it easier or harder depending on the kid and anyway, it was so fun.

Well I though it would be a blast to have a carnival with the kids, so I called Ben and Kristen and Nate and Amy and told them they could go on a date and i would watch the kids and have this super fun carnival. They were grateful for the offer, but both of them didn't want to miss out, so they opted not to go on a date, but to join in the festivities! It was such a blast, the kids LOVED it!

Here are the games we played:
-Penny toss
-Bean drop
-cake walk (actually a cookie walk, we decorated sugar cookies later)
-ring the bottle (don't know what its really called, but it is hysterical, and near impossible to do!) -musical chairs
-sniff the broom
-fishing (you know prizes hooked on the end of the pole, simple but so fun for the kids)
-LOVE dice roll (each number on the die represents something you have to do, like if you roll a 3 you have to tell 3 people I love you, if you roll a 1 you have to sing a love song etc)
-and we decorated sugar cookies.

It was so fun, and all the adults played all the games too, which was hilarious for the kids to watch their parents doing silly things. It was SO easy to plan for and ended up to be such a fun time spent together, I want to make it a new tradition! Here's some lovely pictures of the festivities!
papa murphys had heart shaped take and bake pizza's!!! (I of course had a GF version ;) )
Playing corn drop, you can kind of see the jar at the bottom of the pic, it was more challenging than I expected, the kids were really good at it though!
THIS is the ring the bottle game, the picture doesn't do it justice, it was so hysterical to watch Ben, who is 6'4" try to squat low enough to get the ring to go around the pop bottle, I was laughing so hard I was crying!
Playing the cake walk, can you read my ultra special shirt?! So festive! (I got it for a dollar last eyar @wal-mart and have been saving it all year to wear! Good for me for remembering it right?!)

Nate's number was called for the cake walk, he looks like a winner if you know what I mean! ;)
LILY was so funny to watch do the bottle ring game, she was cracking herself up so much she could hardly breathe, it was so funny!


KACI on the cake walk, yes she is wearing a ballet leotard, one of her many glamorous ensembles. This girl changes her clothes a good dozen times a day, no joke, and it seems the less it covers, the better, silly girl!
A favorite with the kids, musical chairs!
Ben helping the kids go fishing

Best pals, Dylan and William, these two are some of the most creative boys I have ever met!
Amy might kill me for posting this photo, even though I think its a glamour shot, she was just being funny and I couldn't resist a picture, sorry Amy but you're just SO cute!
The whole gang (minus ben, don't know where he snuck off to.)
Amy also brought strawberries and chocolate for dessert, who needs a gluten-death-cookie when you can have chocolate covered strawberries?!
Kaci showing off her treasures from the fishing game...she is such a doll, and gladly obliges to have her picture taken any day any time, so cute!

Siriusly a rill dill!

Okay, I get a seriously huge high off of amazing deals, and boy oh boy did I find one today!
I have been looking on craigslist and KSL classifieds looking for a dresser, various furniture items, home decor etc, when I came across this black fancy mirror. The ad said it was brand new, still in the box, retailed over 300.00
LOOOONG story short, I drove an hour out to the boonies where these people lived who were holding this mirror for me, and when I get there they say..."which one did you want to look at?" I am thinking, um the mirror. That's what I called about, so I say, the black mirror. so they lead me into their gorgeous house, and I come to find out that they have about 5 different styles of huge, beautiful mirrors. The black one I was looking it was HUGE, lI'm talking like 4 feet by 5 feet or something hunormous like that! It was SO big, I had to put the seats down in my subaru. I love big things on the wall, I feel like putting one tiny thing on the wall doesn't make much of a statement, I would way rather have one big peice, even if it means spending more sometimes. So I am shocked at the asking price from the add (which I haven't revealed to you yet, get ready to be blown away). I mean the quality of these mirrors was amazing, the typr of thing you would never find at a target or ikea, more like those firniture stores in the mall or some such place. SO I get nervous like um, did they just post that price hoping people would come and see it, then reveal the real asking price? so I ask to confirm and they reassure me that's the real price they want for this FANCY pants mirror. So I am stunned! Plus they have Oak mirrirs, cherry antique looking mirrors, a few gorgeous varieties. SO i jumped on the offer, and honestly if I had more cash, i probably would have bought a few of the other beauties (they had multiple quantities of some of them. So I ask, wow, how are you able to sell these for such a great price? They simply say, they got them for a great deal, so they're passing along a great deal. Boy oh boy, okay here are the pictures of the beauty:

These pictures are kind of small, but this is what it looks like out of the box :) LOVE IT!

Now are you ready to hear how much I paid for this?????

35 dollars!!!!

I can't believe it myself, it's like 90 % off the retail price, so gorgeous, brand new in the box and heavy real solid wood, and everything...now I just have to figure out where to put it, I was imagining to put it on top of our dresser, but its too big! I'll let you know where I decide to put it :)