I Love to see the Temple

I am just so super excited about these that I had to share! You always hear that you should display images of the Temple in your home. I've always wanted to put some in my kids rooms especially but have this OCD complex with decorating. I could never picture one in their rooms as part of their decor...until now. I have been addicted to Etsy lately, because I went to a boutique fair called 'Oh Sweet Sadies' and saw a stand with these adorable temple prints on them. The best part is that they are a printable file. So for $6, I chose my color and got the digital files to an 8x10, 5x7, and 4x6 print of this:



This is printed in the 4x6 and because of the color I chose It is slightly hard to read in the picture. It says "I love to see the temple, I'm going there someday". Isn't it adorable!? This particular one is from the Etsy shop Paper+Pip.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/PaperAndPip

Now this was was so adorable I had no trouble picturing it in Bella's room. And she also offers it in boyish colors which look cute as well. But I couldn't help but think that it was a little feminine and the style wasn't quite right for Liams room, so I did a search on Etsy for Temple prints and found this one by Momo Prints.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/MomoPrints?ref=seller_info

They also offer a boy and girl version. (This shop actually costs $8 and only allows for one size. I got the 8x10) The girl version is cute but I preferred the Paper+Pip detail for Bella's room.



Once we are in the new house I am planning on printing these in either a 5x7 or an 8x10 print so that they are more easily read. But for now, aren't they super cute?! :)

Happy Valentines Day!

A few things I'm grateful for today!

Yesterday morning was our home appraisal. So of course the night before, even though I was feeling rather under the weather, I bent over backwards to get my house spotless and in ship shape, spring clean, for the appraiser! The next morning (which was yesterday) I woke up with an extremely messed up neck and shoulder!

Thank goodness for this guy (yes I realize this is the most random, strange, picture of him ever! I have never seen it, I pulled it off of his facebook lol)



And thank goodness for his flexible job, that allowed him to work from home. He was able to take Bella to and from school which was essential since I can't move my head, so driving is out of the question! And he took care of all the neediness of our children so I could take it easy.

Then this morning I woke up and it was feeling slightly better, so Ryan went to work and I went about my day with the kids and whoops! Too many lifts of Liam, I'm now bed sent! I can't really move at all without pain shooting through my neck and shoulder. Actually it hurts no matter what I'm doing.

So today I am grateful (again for Ryan cause he took a long lunch) for my sister in law Sydnie who has offered to come and watch my kids!



My great neighbors who are always so helpful, let Bella come and play with her girls while Liam was napping before Sydnie got here and now Bella is still playing there!



My computer and phone of course, for making communication and entertainment possible, and for the TV, which I have yet to watch, but soon will because I am running out of things to occupy me on my computer and phone! :)







Thankfully it is almost the weekend as well, so hopefully by Monday I should be in ship shape! However I'm sure my house will not!

Some cupcakes I made!

I just thought these turned out pretty cute. I made them for my MIL's birthday. We got her these cute cake plates so I decided to put some treats on them! :) I think I need a set too! They are lemon flavored, and no I didn't make them from scratch. Duncan Heins all the way. :)
The cute cupcake toppers are a free printable I got from www.thetomkatstudio.com
The have the cutest party shop on Etsy and occasionally she releases free ones!

Christmas!

We had a very good Christmas this year! It was a little strange to have church at 9:30am kinda cut into the festivities, but it was great to get a good reminder of why we have Christmas in the first place, on Christmas day!

Of course Christmas is the only day of the year where Ryan and I can't sleep because we are too excited for the kids reactions in the morning, and then the kids sleep in! This year we had to wake them up, although I'm pretty sure Bella was wide awake in bed. Even though it was light outside she had this idea that if Santa hadn't come yet and she got up, then he wouldn't come if she was awake! lol! Poor girl had probably been awake since 6:30am.

So anyway we finally went and got the kids up at 7:30 and got the Santa stuff done and over with. But we were rushed to get there for 9:30 Sacrament meeting, which we missed the Sacrament part....sorta the whole point in going! :) Then when we got back we started opening gifts from Eachother and then did a video chat with my family. I was very tempted to put a picture up that I took while on video chat with my family. It is a picture of the screen. It turned out quite detailed and I'm pretty sure my mom would die if I put it up since she is sitting in her Zebra snuggie! :) You can thank me later mom! Then after Lunch we went to Ryan's sisters house to do presents with them. It was a busy day!

So for the rundown, Bella got the vanity/salon she was wanting, with play makeup and play hair things. Mom and dad threw in some fake nails and clip on earrings for her to get all gussied up. Then Liam got a firehouse that is so cute. Unfortunately as you see in the picture below, he preferred Bella's Vanity to his firehouse! lol! He looks up to her a little too much I think! :) Everything she does is already so cool to him! He needs a brother! He also LOVED the tool set I got Ryan for Christmas. He wouldn't leave it alone. Guess I should have picked him up one at Costco!

Moving...hopefully...

I see I have failed to mention that we now have our house up for sale! I know I mentioned it on facebook so a lot of you already know. We love our neighbors, they are great, but we are looking to move somewhere with growing families such as ours and we have a lovely lot chosen in a community here in South Jordan called Daybreak. The lot is located right across the street from the lake and it is down the street from the Oquirrh Mountain Temple! We are super excited but nervous we won't sell our house in time. They will reserve the lot for us for 3 months at a time (depending on the market) and they will not begin building until our house has closed. We have now been up on the MLS for almost 2 months and we have had a ton of showings but no offers yet. We have 9000 South behind our house and even though we have a privacy fence, and the noise is very minimal, it still hangs most people up.

Anyway I just thought I would post a few pictures of our current home now on the market, and also one of the exterior of the home we plan to build (shown first), if all goes well. Also the wrap around porch faces the lake, which Ryan is stoked about! :) He has big dreams of sitting out on the porch gazing at the view. lol!

DISCLAIMER: I did not take any of these pictures, my realtor did, and while I don't love them, they do the job and I'm way too busy to get spotless pictures of my house...as he took these I was one room ahead trying to tidy up what my kids were one step ahead of me messing up! :) Hopefully before we move I will get some really good shots because I'm always sad I have none of our Rexburg home and we put a lot of work into this house so I want to have pictures to remember it by!

The Nutcracker Ballet

I love this picture as she looks SO dramatic! lol! Bella took a ballet class this fall and the end goal was a part in the annual Nutcracker ballet! She was SO so SO so excited and she absolutely loved EVERY performance...all 60 seconds of them! :) It was a super small part, but so adorable! They got to be the little dolls and it was chaos and wrong moves all over the place but she did great! A few times she even led the others! She is a true performer. She didn't get nervous one bit, and she was ecstatic to be able to wear a ton of makeup and get her hair done up for each performance.
In the end it seemed to be a lot of work for mom, to have to do all three performances in a 26 hour period. And we pretty much had to pay for everything. We had to pay to get her into the class, pay to get her into the recital, pay to rent the costume, and pay to come watch! Awesome! Needless to say we have discontinued dance class and will begin a nice tumbling class until we can find a more up front studio to put her back into dance. I hate hidden fees. Oh and my favorite was that Decembers' tuition was required to perform and then they CANCELLED all the december classes! Awesome...

Halloween!

How about I finally post about Halloween! What do you think? Good idea? Well for starters I have had these pictures all ready to blog for a while now with the exception of some pictures of Liam in his costume. I wanted to take some good ones, but that would have required time and help from Ryan, so these will have to do! :) I love the first one where his face is so 'this is so lame'!

This year for Halloween Bella decided to be Cinderella (her favorite princess besides Rapunzel), and I think she made a dang good one for sure! Liam was a dragon, or a dinosaur as I called him, since he knows what they are! They both had a lot of fun trick or treating, and Bella went out for quite a while this year since the weather was very nice!

On to pumpkin carving. Liam loved the goop from the pumpkins. He played in it for so long, and we could hardly get Bella to touch it for a second! Don't get me wrong, it grossed Liam out at first too, but he quickly warmed up to how fun it could be! We had a great Halloween and we have TONS of candy to show for it! Too much if you ask me!