Recent Projects

While Randy is at school and studying all hours of the night, I have found doing projects helps me get through each day. Here are a few of the recent things I have done. Both of the projects are from old window frames.

This is a picture frame I made out of an old widow. I put our family pictures in each window!

This is a window frame that I use as my white board. With a weekly calendar on it and a TO DO list.

Perfect Halloween!

I thought I better put up some pictures of my cute kids! They were so much fun this Halloween. My Wyoming Football Player was so excited to go trick or treating and then go to a PARTY!! My little alligator had a hard time walking in his costume but at least he stayed nice and warm. Randy dressed up as Doug (from Nickeledeon) and I was Doug's sister... SORRY DON'T HAVE ANY PICTURES OF US!!

OUR CRUISE!!

Being a mom is of course the most wonderful thing in the world... but I don't think anyone would disagree that sometimes a little break is not a bad thing!! A little time to enjoy your husband and great friends. I almost forget what it is like to do things without the little ones around!

For Randy's fall break; Randy and I, along with our good friends, Jordan, Elena,Chris and Summer; we went to Nassau,Bahama on a cruise. It was a blast to have a few days of relaxing in the sun, on the beach. I was so EXCITED to get back to my boys, and back to being a mom again!!

8 Hours of Triathlon

This summer I have exceeded all expectations for myself. I never in my wildest dreams would have ever thought that I was going to do a triathlon, a half marathon, three 5K runs, and an 8 hour triathlon. My final race was the 8 hour triathlon. The race was so much fun and a one of a kind event. The race went for 8 hours. In the 8 hours each team completed as many triathlons as possible in this amount of time. My team was my brothers Matt and Tony, also my good friend Elena was on our team. One triathlon was 1/4 mile swim, 2.6 mile run, and 11 mile bike ride. Again,we just kept going for 8 hours.

A Bedroom Set for Now

For 5 1/2 years now I have been wanting a cute little bedroom set. I just couldn't bring myself to spend the money on something that NO ONE would ever see. I was doing my daily craigslists search when I saw this bedroom set. I immediately got it for a great deal. I came home and by the end of the week I had myself a bedroom set. I know it is simple and nothing fancy but it was a great project and it did not cost much at all. I guess it is everything I have been looking for.

Jace Is One!!

On Sept. 15 Jace had his first birthday! We didn't do anything super fancy but it was still fun to see him eat his chocolate cake and open his presents. Randy's cousin, Chris, just moved here to Omaha and their little girl, Kaisley, is one day younger than Jace. We had a little birthday party for both of them. Summer made both Kaisley and Jace the cutest little shirts! It is fun to watch as Jace has grown over the year, but yet I was so sad thinking of how big he is. I am not ready for my little baby to grow up yet.




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Simplify!

This Sunday I am speaking in church about simplifying our lives. It has been the topic on my mind all week long. The topic seems so easy to "talk" about but it is a harder thing for me to actually put into practice. I have had 2 major thoughts and am wondering if they somehow can be tied together to use in my talk, I am also interested in getting more insight on the topic to help me so please share your ideas:

1. I know we are suppose to simplify and get rid of the unnecessary things in our lives. The problem, I see, is how do we choose?? Our lives are filled with so many good things... how do we take away the good? What should be our priorities? It is hard to know where to draw the line of what is too much in our lives.

2. The song that keeps coming to my mind is that "Don't Blink" song... Have any of you heard it? I don't want my life to be so busy that I miss out on the precious little moments. The moments where Jace climbs his first stair... or Tyler making his first basketball shot. There are so many great little things in life and if we aren't careful we will miss them. Life goes way too fast to be stressed about the unnecessary things.

So I am sorry for my rambling but I will get back to the point.... I am convinced we need to simplify our lives so we can make memories and make the most out of every day.

I need more insight on SIMPLIFYING!!