home sweet home

Surprisingly this is no post about our projects.

:) 

But instead about how grateful we are to be blessed by a Heavenly Father who loves us and gives us way more blessings than we will ever deserve.

This is the latest.

This is our new house in Layton! :) We are so grateful to move into this new neighborhood and join a new ward! Even though we already are missing our old one dearly... But we are super excited and life is so happy right now! (just waiting for the storms to move in now..haha) We are also so grateful for family. They have really blessed us so much by helping us out with the house. Especially our brother in law and sister in law Bryan and Jenn. We really love them and appreciate all they've done for us. 

Right now we are living in the unfinished basement with all of our boxes. It's super fun. haha We are just getting carpet and paint this week so we're only half moved in. We are sooooo excited for the finished product though! 

Everyone come over soon!!!

Update Bench

 Well... our bench is done. :) 

I'm not gonna lie, this one was mostly my husband. He told me not to tell people that, but I have to give him the credit because I hardly worked on any of it. I just told him what ideas I had at times. 

Here are the cute legs. We spray painted the white. 

You can see the padding we used in this picture. Under the padding we used some backing from Lowes so that we could secure the fabric under there. 

We also decided to try something new on this one. 

We used buttons and did some tufting. We found a kit at Walmart for the buttons so they would match the fabric, and made about 15 little buttons. It wasn't too hard, but my fingers hurt by the third one. haha.

I don't have a good picture of it on here, but Mike measured it out and drilled holes through the backing and the top of the table in order to put the buttons on. He then threaded fishing wire through to secure the buttons and stapled it on the bottom.

Here is the finished product!!! It's a terrible picture so I will post a new one on here shortly! Good job to my sweet Mikey!! I'm excited to put it in our room!

And here is the better picture, although still not that great...

Maybe I will promise yet another better picture...haha these are pretty bad. Taken with my phone at night. Sorry about that.

Table Turned Bench

So I'm kind of really excited about this project. 

Because I don't have any clue what I'm doing. If it works out how my mind is working it out though it is going to be fabulous!! 

So meet this awful coffee table. Got this beauty for $15 at a garage sale. My husband has this fetish with the bench that sits at the end of beds. So when I saw this, I had the perfect plan for it. 

The lady who sold it to us made this huge deal about the top being "real leather." I couldn't bring myself to tell her that I was actually going to be sawing holes through that "real leather" or that I thought it was awful and I would be covering it immediately. haha but she was sweet and we got this little treasure packed up in the car. 

The legs are my favorite!!

I'm thinking white with the top padding with this fabric...

We'll see how it goes!! 

First Oops....

Well, we've got sort of bad news. 

Remember this?

Well Mike fixed the bottom up real nice. He added some trim, and sanded everything down.

...painted her up a bit....

We also added a backing to the top, so that it would show through in the back.

And so excited to get the two together. It was going to be such a happy reunion!!

Until they came together....

and they didn't match.

Don't say, "oh you can't even notice" or "you can't tell unless you look close." I can notice. And I'm a freak about matching. 

And they really don't match.

Exact same spray paint too...I was so confused. 

Well here is what happened. 

My sweet husband decided to help me, (because he basically does with every project) and he didn't know I used a primer on the top. So he didn't use one on the bottom. (He says he asked me and I said no, but I have to recollection of that conversation...) So...bottom line is that they don't match. And I really don't want to do it over again...

So I may just use the bottom for something else and find a new partner for the top. :) 

We will see.

But hey at least we know what the difference is between priming something and not priming it...

Are you sick of projects yet!?!

If you are, probably don't read this blog....

If not though, we've got lots more!! I am trying to keep things a little more organized with these projects, because I have noticed that when I am looking at someone's blog and I want to see something they did, it's super annoying if the post is part of five million other things they had to say that day. I'm going to try to keep things separate and organized. We'll see how it goes. :)

The Twins

Remember these guys?

Well...we painted them yellow. 

(oh and ps someone asked me kind of disgustedly the other day if the pic above was at my house.....I assure you it wasn't...it was at the thrift store. Promise)

Do you feel like our house is going to look like a rainbow?

Because it might. But I'm trying to have a plan for each piece of furniture, so I'm hoping once we move in and get things where I am picturing I will prove you wrong.....hopefully.

We used an ugly gray primer, because the finish on these guys didn't make friends with the paint easily. But then we just used yellow spray paint and painted them up.

We didn't use much glaze, but we did use it in the detail there in the middle. I think it worked great in there. :)

Ps....I know, I know gray and yellow is what everyone is doing right now.

But I love it so much.

So I'm just going to jump on that bandwagon anyway...sorry.

Plankers

So this year we did the Ragnar. I will keep this short because I feel like there had been Ragnar overload all over facebook and pretty much everywhere else. It's really not that cool since half of Utah was there.

Anyway, when I say "we" I mean mostly just my team. I woke up with the flu. 

Awesome.

Have you ever tried running with the flu?

If the answer is no, keep it that way.

I woke up at about 4am that day with a fever and feeling horrible. Determined to kick the sickness and run as planned, I still went. After registering, I puked on the side of the road. After that I felt great!! (you know that feeling right after you throw up...) haha So I thought I'd run my first leg. About two miles in I really wished I hadn't.

Above is proof that I ran the first leg. haha although after this, I puked again. Gross. So this was the last leg I ran.

I stayed with the group though and took part in the festivities. After the first day, I felt pretty good. I was grateful for that. But not stupid enough to try running again.

There is this new thing....that's super weird. And really actually dumb. Which makes it pretty funny. It's called "planking." Some have heard of it, and others haven't. Bt the point is to find random stops and lay face down and take a picture. These boys decided to make it the the main highlight of the race.

I have to admit, it's kinda funny.

We did the race with the Whetton Family + my mother in law, Dawna. It was a great time and I sure loved the peeps in our van. I am really happy I got to know them better! Hopefully we will do it again another year. :)