Yet Another...

You guessed it. Another project. 

Sorry our life is so boring. 

Anyway, I've been looking for a long time for something to put under the TV. We finally found something on Saturday morning at a garage sale that was pretty much exactly what I had in mind. :) Gotta love that. 

So here it is..

These are the drawers, I had already started taking them out when I remembered I needed a before picture, so sorry about that. 

And Wahla! (how do you even spell that word???) Here is the finished product.

The glaze is a bit light, I might go over it one more time, but I just loved the way the drawers are all the same size and the detail on them. It turned out just perfect. (Except for those dumb cords gr...too bad we have to pay at least $100 to get rid of them)

So that's that.

I love Sat morning garage sales. I'm going to be so sad when the warmth leaves and so do the garage sales. :( 

A Few Favs

In the recent weeks, I've wondered why so many sad things happen here on earth. I worried and wondered and thought and prayed and then just decided....

I don't know why.

But that's okay, because someone else does. And He's much better at making the calls than I am.

And some day we'll all know and all understand. Maybe not today, but probably tomorrow. Or next month. Or next year. Or maybe not,  and we'll just find out when we're done here. :)

And then I decided

I'm a lucky girl.

And I've felt pretty grateful lately. Here are some reasons:

Great Husband.

Loving Family.

Awesome Friends. 

No-bake cookies in the fridge.

Garage sales every Saturday.

Awesome job with silly co-workers and caring bosses.

Good smelling clothes. (Thank you Michael for the new laundry detergent)

Church every Sunday.

2-year olds galore.

Sweet neighbors.

Sunny days ahead.

Bright future.

And last but not least, I'm most definitely grateful for this place 

and how much going there makes me happy.

(not to mention I got to marry my sweet husband there so he's mine forever)

I think we're all pretty lucky if we count our blessings.

Plus it's Friday and that is always a reason to be grateful. 

Especially since the hubs is finally off for one weekend of his life! 

Woohoo!

So here's my new resolve:

I'm going to try my hardest to keep this (below) in mind and do my best to be happy and grateful. 

Thank you President Hinckley. :)

Random but Happy!

Well today is August 23rd. I can't even believe the summer is almost coming to an end. It makes me so sad! But excited for Christmas of course. I sure love that time of year. And our anniversary. And Thanksgiving. And Halloween. Okay so maybe the end of summer won't be too sad after all. We have lots to look forward to. 

We don't have much new to report. We love our new neighborhood and ward. It's been so fun getting to see all the good examples of parents and families in our ward. Mike was called to the young mens. (big surprise) and I get to spend my Sundays with 20 little 2 year olds!! haha They are all super cute and it's been really fun. Quite the change though. I'm gonna have to say that teaching 17 2-year-olds is not an easy task. I always thought that nursery is all about babysitting and snack time, but we have some great nursery leaders in our ward who really try to make sure to get a good lesson in. Last week, I was asked to teach and I'm gonna say that I maybe got 5 words in and they started screaming and chasing each other around the room. 

The lesson was on "I will say I'm sorry." I kept asking this cute little boy, "Okay so when do we say I'm sorry?"

He kept replying, "I'm sorry."(probably like 3 times and I kept repeating the question)

Me: "But do you know WHEN we say I'm sorry?"

Him: "I'M SORRY!!!!" with a pouty face so frustrated with me. 

haha I think he thought I was implying that he needed to apologize. 

As you can see, it's a pretty good time.

Mike has been working a ton at the hospital, so I was pretty much on my own for most of the weekend. So I re-did this table. 

And surprise! I forgot to take a before picture. 

I'm pretty sad I did because this thing was pretty hideous. It was a really bright orangish wood color and was scratched up like crazy. I did get a pic of the chairs, but it's on my other camera so I will add that soon.

But here is the result!!!

 Here's a chair. 

Oh and by the way, I didn't do the whole thing this weekend. Mike had been staining the top one layer at a time all week and he had painted most of the chairs too. I just did the antiquing and put the seat covers on. 

But it's been a really fun project! One more thing to check off my list! 

And the best part is that we bought the whole table for $50 (with 6 chairs..there's only 4 out though) and we sold ours for a lot more than that!! So we actually made a little cash and got a table I like much better. 

Oh and one more thing!

Who knows this cute girl?

Isn't she a beauty? 

(yeah, sorry boys she's off the market for a few years....wait, do guys even look at blogs?...)

Five random things I love about her:

1. She has peed her pants more than any person I've ever known from laughing too hard.

2. She is always up for anything as long as it's fun.

3. One time in high school on the way to wendy's (for lunch of course) she came up with this idea (from a magazine) that we all had different roles in our group of friends and she self proclaimed that she was the one "who was supposed to be born a boy, but was born a girl."hahaha (I just had to put that in because I remembered it just barely)

4. Her mom. Seriously, anyone who has met her mom has to agree! So funny, love her.

5. Her loyalty to her friends. She's such a great friend and I just know I can always count on her to make me smile or help with anything I need.

(okay just one more..sorry)

6.   Her love for the gospel. She has always  been one to share the gospel with those around her and talk about how much she loves the church. I remember when I was baptized, she was so sincere about how excited she was for me. Her joy in the gospel will spread to so many other people. I'm just so excited for the people she teaches!

Anyway, this pretty little gal is going to be leaving on a mission in a few weeks. 

SO....I think she deserves a proper goodbye. 

UPDATE: DATE HAS BEEN CHANGED
Saturday, September 3rd is the new date!!!

My Casa!

We are gonna have a little get together to celebrate her and the new adventure she is going on! Everyone can come over whenever really, but let's say 7:00pm and we'll have a little BBQ with some different treats. So bring your own meat and maybe a side to share. (Definitely not required) Invite whoever! We love to see faces we miss!  

Hope to see everyone there!

If you need directions or an address just send me a little facebook message and I'll make sure to get that to you. Or you can text or call me 801-663-0677.

(is it bad to put your phone number on your blog??? If so someone hurry and tell me before I get kidnapped or something!)

Gratitude

I'm feeling pretty grateful today. I'm so grateful for the knowledge of the gospel and that I am sealed to my amazing husband. I'm grateful for the plan of salvation and to know that Heavenly Father will take care of us no matter what happens in this life. 

I am very blessed.

That's all for right now.

Miscellaneous

We've still been working on some projects. Nothing too crazy, but here are a few of them.

 I totally forgot to take a before picture of this guy, but it was just wood. 

I just painted the legs and stained the top and added a glossy coat of my bf, polyurethane. 

This little chair I got at a yard sale for free. It was pretty ugly.

But just a little paint, and a new seat cover did the trick. :) 

I just posted a few pics of Big Red to show where it ended up in our house. There was actually a perfect little wall for it. I have no idea what to put in it though.....I am up for anyone's ideas. Right now, it's basically any frame I didn't know what to do with.

 Below was just a quick side project. It's not my fav, but it's an improvement from the boring wood. We just painted it ivory and then backed it with textured paintable wall paper. We sprayed the wall paper green and it will do for now. You can't really see the pattern on the paper, but trust me that it's a cute one. :)

Small side note: Has anyone this stuff yet? 

It's super awesome! It goes on really really even and looks great. Plus takes less paint than normal.

If you want to know more about it click  

HERE!

24

We had a fantastic 24th of July weekend. 

Especially because it was a long weekend with Monday off...well mostly off. haha I did end up working just a little bit. Anyway, not the point.

We went to the Ogden parade. Stayed for about 15 minutes--just enough time to find a gas station and get a diet coke AND see these guys walking by. I loved it so much. They were singing hymns as they passed. That's what every parade needs!!!!

We also got to spend lots of time with this cutie. He's just starting to talk a lot and kept saying "hot. party." because the parade was so hot. Which is also the reason we were only there for 15 minutes.

He and Breckan thought the app on my phone that added antlers to any picture was just the best thing ever.

Then Mike taught the boys how to do "their style" which is basically just striking a pose. Pretty cute if I do say so myself. 

We sure love these little guys! They make everything a little bit more fun. 

Plus they've got some serious moves.

Lions!!

So remember this dresser?

It's named Lion because it has these weird little lions on the sides of the top drawer. It's not very cute...haha but I didn't think it would be easy to get those things off so I am leaving them. Every time Mike and I would talk about the dresser, we always referred to it as "lion" because of those weird little heads. 

Even though it has those weird heads, it still turned out pretty well. 

It's probably my favorite. I know I say that every time but I'm serious. This one was awesome.

I'm really not very good at taking "during the process pictures" so you'll have to deal with my before and afters. 

This project was really nice because it didn't take much time or effort, and I was kind of winging it with the idea I had, but it turned out to be a success. 

Here were the supplies:

I basically just covered the top while I painted the drawers and the desk. I went through about 4 cans of Primer because I was going from such a dark color to white. Primer became my best friend.

This is the part where I suck doing the "during" pictures. Basically I covered the top and painted the bottom and then uncovered the top and did about 4 coats of stain with a black stain. It worked really well. I had never stained anything before so I was so glad. After I did the stain, I did a single coat of polyurithane which is practically the best thing ever and it made the top shine like crazy. 

And here is the end result in our bedroom!!! 

Oh and a few side notes:

I put a better end picture on the bench. It's still not the best, but you can see it here.

Also, I have some sad/happy news. We moved all our stuff in our house and regretfully, the twins just really don't match with the other yellow colors in our room. They are soooo cute but I'm a freak about matching so...I think we are going to sell them....(this makes me nervous because we've never sold any of our furnitire) sooooo...if anyone is possibly interested, please let me know. I don't know a price yet, or even if we will be able to find them a home, but we will see. You can look at them here. If anyone is interested, you can email me at kristin.b@aggiemail.usu.edu. We'll see how this goes.